Wang Kun reached out and picked up a rusty big knife. He exerted force with both hands, and there was a "pop!" sound, and the knife broke so easily.
He took the two halves of the broken knife, looked at it carefully in the light of the torch, and said to Li Hao: "There are no patterns or marks on it. It should not be left by some big family or squire who had a guardianship, and it is buried here." The years have gone on."
Li Hao nodded, "It seems that it was at least several decades ago. I don't know who it belongs to, but it was buried in such a remote place."
Then they picked up the pieces of wood from the wooden boxes where the weapons were stored and looked at them to see if there were any marks on them.
Looking at these weapons and jewelry, they don't look like they belong to a big family. They are most likely hid by some squires with bodyguards at home to avoid the war.
However, Wang Kun and Wang Qiang looked through all the wooden box debris and found nothing.
Qingyan looked at the rusty blades, frowned and said, "These knives should all be useless, they are all rotten."
Yang Dashan echoed: "You can't even see the original color. It shouldn't be possible, right?"
Wang Kun said with a smile: "That's not the case. If you send it to the blacksmith shop to melt it, you can still build it again, it will just be more loss."
"Then we can't build it ourselves?" Qingyan looked curious.
Wang Kun shook his head, "It is not that easy to make iron tools, especially to melt them into molten iron. Not only do you need a special furnace, but you also need coal and stone. Ordinary wood cannot melt it."
Yang Dashan slapped his thigh and said: "We melted a batch before and picked up a few Khitan swords. Of course, we didn't melt them that day, we just softened them and beat them into iron sheets.
Now it is placed on the wheel of the donkey cart. At that time, the iron in the wheel was gone. We used coal. The coal was compensated by the coal mine when Liu Sanli injured his leg. Now it is still on the car. There is a sack. "
Li Hao and the others looked at him in surprise. They knew that Liu Sanli had an injury on his leg, and there were some things in the car that were rarely taken off. They always thought they were the property of these people, but they didn't expect it to be coal and stone.
However, Wang Kun still shook his head and said: "Coal and stone alone are not enough. It can only be heated red and softened in an ordinary stove. If it is melted, it will not work. A special stove is needed."
Seeing the disappointed expressions on Qingyan's and others' faces, she continued: "Although this knife is already rusty, it would be a pity to throw it away, but it would be too heavy to take away so much scrap metal."
Yang Dashan and others felt the same, and this was also a problem. They were about to hit the main road, and they couldn't stay here for long. There was no water here, so they couldn't stay long.
Qingyan looked at the iron swords that seemed to have been scrapped, and said to Chou Chou in her arms: "This sword has become like this, can it really be remade?"
Chou Chou shook his head, "I just know how to soften the iron and change its shape. As for the rusty and corroded iron, I really don't know if it can be melted into molten iron. The melting point should be higher, right?
In the past, when we were in Yangjiaping, we just red-roasted the iron until it was soft. An ordinary earthen stove could do it. But if we really wanted to melt the iron, it probably wouldn't work. The furnace would have to use special refractory bricks. , otherwise the first one will burn down the stove. "
Qingyan felt that Chou Chou's words made sense, but she didn't say much. Just now Wang Kun also mentioned that there were professional blacksmiths, so he should know this.
She doesn't understand this thing. It's wrong to say it's not good, and it's right to say it's a bit weird. It doesn't make sense for a little girl like her who can even make weapons.
Finally, everyone discussed it and decided to take these rusty knives with them and destroy them into pieces so that no one can see their original appearance, so they are not afraid of others seeing it.
When you get to the city, you can find a blacksmith shop and make other iron tools.
What Li Hao thought was that it would be best to make more weapons. If there was nothing wrong with the second brother when he arrived in Handeng, he could just give these to the second brother.
No matter how small a fly is, it is still meat. It would be good to add some weapons to the soldiers under the second brother.
In fact, there are not many knives, only two boxes, about fifty or sixty. After the rust, a layer of them was corroded away, and they are not that heavy anymore.
However, there are some problems with these gold and silver jewelry. If they are not hidden well, if they encounter Khitan people or robbers on the road, it will really be fatal.
It is possible to survive without these things, but having these is a reminder of life.
