Start with a blacksmith shop.

When Li Zhenhua returned to the blacksmith's shop after his meal, it was already close to eight o'clock.

It was still early, so the clanging and banging sounds from the blacksmith shop at this time were normal and not considered a disturbance.

If it's past nine o'clock, Li Zhenhua absolutely refuses to make anything anymore.

Li Zhenhua first found a few angle irons in the warehouse. He didn't even need a ruler to measure them; his eyes were the ruler, and they were even more precise than a ruler.

Holding the angle iron, Li Zhenhua began cutting it on the cutting machine according to the previously drawn blueprint.

Li Zhenhua cut the angle iron pieces to the specified dimensions, then drilled holes and welded them together.

Li Zhenhua managed to get everything he needed ready before nine o'clock; all that was left was to load it onto the belt sander.

Li Zhenhua made the clamp and installed it on the belt sander.

Li Zhenhua kept adjusting the position and angle of the clamps until finally, he could no longer see any error indicators.

After Li Zhenhua finished arranging everything, he returned to his bedroom on the second floor.

He glanced at the time while lying in bed, then closed his eyes. Soon after, Li Zhenhua's breathing became long and deep.

The night passed quickly, and the next morning, before dawn, the roosters began to crow.

Li Zhenhua woke up again. Looking at the still dark room, he knew that he had woken up again around 5 a.m.

Ever since he obtained that virtual laboratory, besides his dexterity and analytical eye,

He didn't receive any physical cheat codes!

Why is his body so healthy now?

Especially during sleep, I wake up at this time every day for the past two days.

From the moment he opened his eyes, Li Zhenhua knew he wouldn't be able to sleep.

Since he couldn't sleep, he decided to get up and exercise.

Li Zhenhua didn't move around in the yard for very long. He just stretched his body a bit to make sure he wasn't too stiff so early in the morning.

As Li Zhenhua continued his activities, the sky gradually brightened, and the sun rose.

Just as Li Zhenhua was about to go upstairs to change into a new pair of clothes, he heard someone knocking on his door.

"Hua Zi, are you up? If you are, open the door for me!"

Li Zhenhua knew that the voice belonged to Guo Shugui as soon as he heard it.

Upon reaching the roller shutter door, Li Zhenhua pushed it open and saw Guo Shugui standing outside.

"Guoba, why are you here so early? It's only 6:30, you didn't sleep last night, did you?"

Li Zhenhua looked at Guo Shugui in front of him, who seemed to be half asleep.

Looking sleepy, Li Zhenhua was worried that he might accidentally fall asleep.

"How could I not sleep? I just don't sleep much, okay?"

Hehehe, actually I couldn't fall asleep once I lay in bed, I kept thinking about the kitchen knife.

This is the first time, besides racing, that I've ever been interested in something on my own.

It's something I really wanted to be involved in, so I was quite excited.

I lay in bed for a long time before I could fall asleep, and then I woke up very early this morning and couldn't fall back asleep, so I came straight here.

Listening to Guo Shugui's words, Li Zhenhua knew that this was the outward manifestation of having something on one's mind in one's sleep.

"Hehe, alright then, you've come so early, haven't you eaten yet?"

"Come on, let me take you for a walk around town and have some breakfast."

He then led Guo Shugui on a long tour of the town. By the time the two of them returned to the blacksmith's shop, their stomachs were already full of food.

"Hey, Hua Zi, look at that car parked at the entrance, isn't that Liu Xiaodong's car?"

Li Zhenhua then looked towards his front door and saw a pickup truck parked there.

"No, Fatty's car is a Royal Emperor, but the one in front of my door is a pickup truck."

I wonder who it is that came to my house so early in the morning. Let's go check it out.

The two walked to the door and looked into the car. They saw a large, fat man lying in the driver's seat, who turned out to be Liu Xiaodong.

When the people inside the car saw that someone had finally arrived, they quickly got out of the car.

"Damn it, where have you two been? I was wondering why I couldn't get anyone to open the door no matter how much I called."

Before Li Zhenhua could even speak, Guo Shugui spoke first.

"Fatty, Hua Zi took me to breakfast, why are you here so early too!"

"You're the only one who can come? Why can't I? I just want Hua Zi to master the skills quickly so we can forge the sword for the competition as soon as possible!"

Liu Xiaodong also explained why he arrived early.

Li Zhenhua opened the door and saw that his two helpers had arrived, so he decided to start work as soon as possible.

Liu Xiaodong returned to the car, took out a stack of A4 papers, and followed him inside.

Li Zhenhua led the two to the backyard and lit a fire.

Then he took the papers from Liu Xiaodong, flipped through them, took out two copies, and handed them to the two men, asking them to look at the procedures first.

"Fatty, why did you bring a pickup truck? Weren't you driving the Emperor Bathhouse?"

Liu Xiaodong held the instruction manual in his hand but didn't look at it; he had already read it last night.

"With the terrible roads in town, my car's chassis would have been torn to shreds. I thought you might need a truck for hauling goods, so I drove a pickup truck over."

Guo Shugui was watching attentively, and he even specifically looked at his part of the content.

After Guo Shugui finished reading, Li Zhenhua led the two of them to officially begin mass production of dinner knives.

They also encountered a problem: the old-fashioned blacksmith's forge was just too slow at firing steel.

Li Zhenhua ordered two more electric heating furnaces from Taobao. With these two furnaces, their efficiency finally improved.

All the steel was forged into knife blanks by Li Zhenhua and his two colleagues. A thousand kitchen knives were neatly arranged in the courtyard.

Of course, there will be defective products among them. Those flawed knives were set aside separately, and there were probably about twenty or thirty of them.

Li Zhenhua and his two companions stood beside the blanks of the knife, looking at the neatly arranged blanks in front of them, and a sense of pride welled up in everyone's hearts.

This is the result of their hard work over the past ten days. They worked very hard during these ten days and finally finished making all the blade blanks.

"Hua Zi, did we really fight our way through this? So many knives piled together, it's quite a sight!"

Guo Shugui looked at the blank knife and said to Li Zhenhua beside him.

"Yes, it's spectacular, but we're not finished yet! There are still two major steps to go!"

Guo Shugui, who was initially quite pleased, immediately fell silent after hearing Li Zhenhua's words.

He has suffered terribly in the past ten days, more than he had ever experienced in the previous twenty-odd years.

But he persevered; he was able to stick with what he truly loved.