Start with a blacksmith shop.

The shape of the knife has emerged; it looks like a kukri.

Li Zhenhua's final blow landed on the blade blank, and the entire blade blank was completed.

"Hua Zi, what's the next step with this knife?"

Guo Shugui, holding a camera, pointed it at the blank knife in Li Zhenhua's hand and asked a question.

"The next step is quenching. After quenching, we sharpen the blade, attach the handle, and polish it until it's shiny. That's when the patterns on the blade will be revealed."

Li Zhenhua grabbed the blank blade, swung it around in the air a couple of times, and tested the blade's comfort.

"Quenching? Then will it need tempering afterwards? The last batch of knives didn't need tempering, so will this batch need tempering?"

After hearing this, Liu Xiaodong asked Li Zhenhua a question.

"This knife will only be quenched, not fired. I plan to use a special method to quench it."

Li Zhenhua looked at the two puzzled people beside him, but didn't tell them what method he used.

"Alright, you guys just watch, I'm going to find the ingredients!"

After saying that, Li Zhenhua placed the knife blank in his hand on the anvil next to him.

Li Zhenhua went into the warehouse next door, leaving the two behind.

They all crowded around the blank knife on the chopping board, including a chubby man doing odd jobs.

I grabbed the knife handle and it was in my hand, while the thinner one looked regretful.

Li Zhenhua went to the warehouse, took out the iron powder he had collected while blacksmithing, and put it in the yard.

Then he took the borax that was placed next to the anvil, a basketful of carbon powder that had been ground into powder.

Most of the raw materials have been gathered, but two more are still missing: charcoal powder and raw soil.

Charcoal is easy to obtain; blacksmith shops have no shortage of it.

Find some good quality fruitwood charcoal, put the charcoal in a stone mortar, and the charcoal will soon be ground into powder.

Now we're just missing one thing: raw soil, which is proving to be quite difficult to obtain.

Li Zhenhua picked up a shovel and a Luoyang shovel that his grandfather had made from the corner of the yard.

He took the two things and walked towards the door.

"Guoba, grab your camera and let's go. We're going to the woods by the river to find some raw soil."

Guo Shugui was holding a knife blank in one hand and a camera in the other, filming Li Zhenhua faithfully.

"Hey, you're here, Hua Zi, what are you doing?"

And is that a Luoyang shovel you're carrying?

Are you going to raid tombs?

"Are you a blacksmith and also a tomb raider on the side?!"

Guo Shugui, who has a very vivid imagination, asked Li Zhenhua a question after seeing his appearance.

"Get lost! I'm a perfectly good person, okay? Do you think I'm Hu Bayi?"

The tomb raiders are just characters in novels, okay? My Luoyang shovel isn't for tomb raiding.

Hurry up and follow me, you'll find out what this thing is for in a minute!

After Li Zhenhua finished speaking, he walked out of the courtyard, and Guo Shugui followed behind, carrying the things.

Liu Xiaodong, who had been playing with the half-finished knife blank, hurriedly followed after seeing the two of them leave.

Li Zhenhua led the two men, carrying tools, all the way to the riverbank.

There was a small grove of trees by the river, and Li Zhenhua stopped near the riverbank.

He placed the two tools he was holding on the ground, and then, based on his experience...

Reaching the ground between the two trees, Li Zhenhua used his feet to sweep the fallen leaves to one side.

The soil was exposed, and Li Zhenhua picked up his Luoyang shovel and began working on the ground.

He grabbed the Luoyang shovel with both hands, lifted it high, and slammed it down onto the ground with force.

The Luoyang shovel was very sharp, penetrating three-tenths of an inch into the soil, and then Li Zhenhua pulled it out.

The Luoyang shovel was filled with soil when it was inserted into the ground, and then the soil inside the shovel was emptied to the side.

He picked up the shovel again and smashed it down into the hole he had just hit.

They dug downwards little by little. The handle of the Luoyang shovel was originally two meters long, but now only about fifty centimeters of the handle was exposed.

In other words, the hole that Li Zhenhua dug was 1.5 meters deep.

Li Zhenhua pulled the Luoyang shovel out again, emptied the soil from it, looked at the soil, and shook his head in disappointment.

Yellow clay: The content of microorganisms and humus exceeds the standard, which does not meet the standard for raw soil.

"Sigh, what a bad start. It's not here. I've dug so deep for nothing."

Li Zhenhua put the Luoyang shovel aside, picked up the spade, scooped up the excavated soil, and poured it into the hole. In no time, the 1.5-meter-deep hole was covered.

"Hua Zi, what are you doing!"

We can't understand your actions at all. In my eyes, you're a living, breathing master tomb raider.

Guo Shugui, who didn't understand what Li Zhenhua was doing, finally couldn't hold back his doubts and asked Li Zhenhua.

"Screw your tomb raiding master! I'm looking for burial mounds. Have you been reading too many novels? There aren't that many tomb raiders in real life!"

Guo Shugui was displeased upon hearing this and quickly retorted.

"Look how ignorant you are! Didn't Third Uncle dig into Sanxingdui? And that novelist named Wang, weren't they both tomb raiders?"

Hearing this, Li Zhenhua, who was tired of digging, became interested and threw his shovel aside.

He didn't mind that the ground was dirty, and sat down on the ground to speak to Guo Shugui.

"Come on, when Uncle San was writing the novel, Sanxingdui had already been excavated, okay? It was the existing Sanxingdui, and then Uncle San's novel came about."

And that Wang guy, he really is a tomb raider by trade.

As for me, I'm just here to dig up usable soil, raw soil.

The soil dug from deep within the soil contains no humus and almost no nutrients.

After hearing Li Zhenhua's explanation, Guo Shugui understood. He had previously thought he had encountered something extraordinary!

After finishing his casual conversation, Li Zhenhua found another spot and once again picked up his Luoyang shovel and began digging downwards.

When Li Zhenhua dug the fourth hole, he finally found soil that met his requirements.

At this point, the shovel, which had been of little use until now, came in handy. Using the hole as the center, they dug downwards.

They quickly dug a large pit, about one meter square and one and two meters deep.

Li Zhenhua squatted down, picked up a small pinch of soil, and rubbed it between his hands.

A smile finally appeared on his face. All his efforts hadn't been in vain; the raw soil had finally been found.

He picked up a shovel and started digging, filling the soil into the woven bag he had brought with him.

He threw the dirt on top, climbed out himself, and threw the shovel at Liu Xiaodong, who was standing idly to the side.

"Fatty, the rest is up to you. Take the shovel and fill this big hole."

But I'm exhausted; I can't lift a single muscle now.

Seeing how exhausted Li Zhenhua was, Liu Xiaodong grabbed a shovel and started burying the soil.

The pit was quickly filled in, and Li Zhenhua carried the woven bag, while Liu Xiaodong took two tools and called Guo Shugui to go back together.

"Let's go. We've collected all the ingredients. Time to move on to the next step. Guoba, did you get the footage from earlier? If you did, we'll send it to the organizing committee later."