The creation of soft armor is much more difficult than that of swords, guns, swords and halberds. The black silver needs to be forged and tempered many times, finally liquefied, poured into a grinding tool, and finally drawn into silk threads.
At this point, the creation of soft armor has just begun.
"Okay, this is what it looks like!"
Zhang Ben then relaxed his brows and came over to give Li Yuan instructions on how to make the soft armor. The creation of the soft armor was quite delicate, and each silver wire had requirements for toughness and hardness. If one of them was missing, it would not be top quality.
The master and apprentice were talking to themselves about the forging steps, and when they were about to get started, the sound of forging in the forging room suddenly stopped.
"Masters, please stop for a moment."
Yu Zhen didn't know when he came to the door of the forging room. When he saw everyone looking at him, he coughed lightly and said:
"I believe you all know why Yu is here, right?"
Inside the house, there was the sound of hammers hitting the ground, and the faces of the blacksmiths and helpers were a little ugly.
After years of blacksmithing, they are far stronger and stronger than the apprentices in the inner courtyard, and their hammering skills are not bad, but they have no experience in fighting with others.
Not to mention fighting with bandits out of the city.
"Shopkeeper Yu, there are only thirty-two people in the forge, and the daily blacksmithing is not enough. If we transfer more, I'm afraid there won't be enough weapons shipped to the city!"
Zhang Ben slightly arched his hands, his face not looking good.
The forging room is under his control, but in name, Yu Zhen is now the head of the inner courtyard.
"What are you talking about, Mr. Zhang? You are a well-known forging master. With you here, are you afraid that you won't be able to produce enough weapons?"
Yu Zhen half leaned against the door frame, his eyes slightly cold.
In the days after Qin Xiong's death, he had been looking for hammer masters from Gaoliu County over the years, and at the same time, he was also paying attention to the weapon forging shop.
Except for the old apprentices who left the inner courtyard, the group of people with the highest forging skills and the greatest strength were in the forging room.
If there are a few hidden tricks, they may not be able to kill Qin Xiong with a sneak attack.
What's more, he thought of Nian Jiu who was smashed in the jungle...
"I'll go find the big shopkeeper now!"
Zhang Ben's eyelids twitched and he said coldly, but did not move.
Yu Zhen dared to come to the forging house to transfer people. Whose idea was it? How could he not know?
Li Yuan held the forging hammer and was wary.
He remembered how skillful this man was in using poison, and he could figure out something from the fact that the fundamental map of the white ape that was supposed to be in his hands appeared in Qin Xiong's hands.
This sword catcher must have an ulterior motive for staying in the weapon forging shop...
"Why doesn't Mr. Zhang go?"
Yu Zhen laughed and looked at everyone in the room. He didn't care about Zhang Bi's livid face and started pointing.
"You, you two, and the three over there, yes, the young one..."
Finally, he turned his eyes and looked at Li Yuan.
"Yu Zhen!"
Zhang Bi grabbed the hammer on the forging platform, but Li Yuan's quick eyesight and quick hands stopped him.
"Mr. Zhang misunderstood."
Yu Zhen smiled. He looked at the apprentice in the corner. He always felt that he looked familiar, but he didn't think much about it:
"This little brother is Mr. Zhang's beloved disciple, the most talented apprentice in our forging shop, Li Yuan?"
"what you up to?"
Zhang Ben stopped in front of Li Yuan, his eyes cold.
"The big shopkeeper specifically told me that he is Mr. Zhang's beloved disciple and there is no need to go into this muddy water. Yu was too curious, so he came to take a look."
Yu Zhen's smile was gentle, not as aggressive as before:
"I don't know, how is your Qi and blood practice, little brother?"
Li Yuan lowered his head slightly: "Back to the shopkeeper, under the care of the master, the disciple relied on the elixir to barely push the blood to a small level..."
"Xiaocheng?"
Yu Zhen nodded and asked no more questions. He just waved and left the forging room with a group of those who were named like mourning concubines.
"This person is hateful!"
Zhang Bi was so angry that he was trembling all over.
"This is a poisonous snake!"
Li Yuan held the forging hammer.
Yu Zhen seemed gentle, but in fact he was very dangerous. His words changed the way the blacksmiths in the forge looked at him and Zhang Bi.
In a room full of apprentices, you only protect Li Yuan?
Only half of the blacksmiths were working silently, but Li Yuan felt their emotions and felt a little cold in his heart.
"Hateful, hateful!"
After pulling the trembling old Zhang's head, Li Yuan felt calm:
"Master, let's forge the armor first!"
"You prepare first..."
Zhang Bi calmed down for a while, then gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to find the big shopkeeper!"
It’s useless to look for it!
Feeling the gazes of other brothers, Li Yuan pounded the iron hard, making a jingling sound.
…
Cao Yan acted vigorously and resolutely.
That morning, he and Lin Qingfa, the long-term escort, led hundreds of people out of the city in a mighty manner.
Li Yuan went to take a look, and saw that the crowd was quite large, and there were also some familiar faces from the last trip to Fajiu Mountain, such as Yue Yunjin and Wu Ming.
"The Viper Gang..."
When Li Yuan turned to leave, he glanced casually and saw Lu Bailing and others watching from a distance on top of the city. The woman carrying the sword was also there.
"I'm afraid this woman is not a guard. Is she Miss Lu's aunt who worshiped at the inner gate of the Divine Weapon Valley? But she seems too young..."
Li Yuan murmured in his heart.
But this time he didn't look much. He glanced at it and hurried back. When he came out, he found a tailor shop and took measurements.
The size of the soft armor naturally depends on his body type.
…
"The Viper Gang has gone too far. Commander Qiu dared to rob and commit crimes just now when he was not here. He deserves to be killed!"
On the city wall, Lu Yunqing snorted coldly.
Glancing at the crowd going away, Fang Yunxiu didn't care much, just stared at Lu Yunqing: "Brother-in-law, are you really not aware of the murder of Senior Brother Qiu?"
"On the day that Commander Qiu's accident happened, Master Kongding and I were sitting and talking. How could we have known that such a tragedy happened? If I had known earlier, I would have gone with Commander Qiu!"
Lu Yunqing's expression became serious, and he sighed again:
"After that day, I ordered all the government officials to search day and night, but so far there are no clues. On the contrary, Qiu Da's head was also included, and his whereabouts are still missing..."
"I hope it has nothing to do with you."
Fang Yunxiu turned around and left without comment.
"Auntie?"
Lu Bailing stood aside and only then dared to speak out.
"It's nothing."
Lu Yunqing shook his head slightly and smiled:
"Your aunt just suspects that the 'god worshiping method' practiced by her father went astray and worshiped an evil god... However, the Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva is a righteous god who was enshrined by the imperial court thousands of years ago."
Lu Bailing had no doubt and nodded:
"The Thousand-Eyed Bodhisattva is indeed a righteous god."
…
…
Six days later.
Wow!
The red inner armor was immersed in the biting ice water, causing a large amount of smoke and water vapor to rise.
"Is it done?"
Just hearing the sound of quenching made Zhang Ben nervous.
Although there are still processes such as quenching and polishing after that, the grade of soft armor has been set at this point.
"It's done!"
Compared with Zhang Bi's uneasiness, Li Yuan was certain in his heart. He had already seen the light on the soft armor.
[Black Silver and Blue Water Inner Armor (Level 2)]
[Based on black silver, supplemented by jadeite sand, white secret mud... it was forged by the master of the weapon himself, and he put a lot of effort and expectation into it, the first inner armor]
[Conditions for control: Proficient in horizontal training]
[Control effect: Hard to damage light soldiers, horizontal training talent]
Worthy of second level!
Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It was his first time to build high-grade soft armor, but he was really unsure.
Forging steps
There are too many and too complicated, and any step of the trip will affect the final quality. Fortunately, it is on the second level and is not inferior to the one in the warehouse.
and……
"The control conditions have been greatly reduced!"
Li Yuan felt happy when he made an inner armor with his own hands. Zhang Bi, who took the inner armor out of the ice water and looked at it carefully, couldn't help but feel happy:
"Good boy, the most difficult top-grade inner armor has been beaten out!"
"It was the master who gave guidance throughout the whole process, otherwise the disciple might not be able to succeed in the first attempt."
Li Yuan thanked him from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Bi participated in all the steps of creating soft armor and taught him almost step by step.
"What nonsense are you talking about? Just keep praising you!"
Zhang Ben laughed and cursed, looking at the soft armor that had not yet been tempered and polished, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it.
Except for the slight difference in material selection and heat, this soft armor really looks like it was made by him himself, and even the habits in every corner bear his shadow.
"It's rare that you are always so happy. What's the price of this soft armor?"
"Happiness is happiness, business is business."
Before Li Yuan could finish speaking, Zhang Ben had already laughed and cursed, and threw the soft armor back:
"It only takes two days to temper and polish, but it takes at least a year and a half to soak it. It's still far from the finished product!"
Naturally, something worth two to three hundred taels cannot be completed in ten days and a half.
However, Li Yuan doesn't care, he only needs to control it. Semi-finished products and finished products have no impact on him. After soaking for a month or two, the appearance will be different.
If you don't mind it, it's still dark, but it's not that it can't be used.
But naturally, you can't say this to Zhang Bi, otherwise you will be scolded.
"Proficiency in horizontal training is not so fast..."
Skillfully tempering, Li Yuan looked at the iron sand used for sharpening knives in the corner. If an ordinary person rubs it, the skin will rot, right?
…
Li Yuan didn't want to let go of the half-finished inner armor. He carried it out of the forging shop and placed it on the already crowded gray stone platform.
Although there were rules in the shop, the first weapon of different quality that he made by himself could be bought at half price, but he was not worried.
It was a rare thing worth two to three hundred taels. If it was cut off, he would probably vomit blood.
"Everything needs to be safe."
According to the rules, Li Yuan felt at ease, and it was not like he didn't pay money.
In the forge, there were many people who secretly sold scrap iron, pig iron, etc. Li Yuan was more convenient than them, but he also paid money to carry a bag of iron sand.
It's not worth giving someone a handle on something like this.
"Why are you here?"
Li Yuan was going to put the iron sand home first, and then go to his second brother's house for dinner. Unexpectedly, he opened the door and saw Fatty Sun.
And, a table with wine and food set out.
"Fatty Zhong is doing a good job at the work in the middle courtyard. I have nothing to do, so I'll come stay with you for a few days."
Fatty Sun poured the wine.
"How many days will you stay?"
Li Yuan glanced at the room and saw that there were three beds with bedding.
"Oh, I'm afraid."
Fatty Sun frowned.
Since returning to the city, he has not dared to sleep alone. In his dreams, he either dreamed that his brother-in-law and sister were killed, or he dreamed that he was caught by bandits again.
After carrying it for ten days, I couldn't bear it anymore.
"It's good that you're here."
Li Yuan pulled a chicken leg and ate it, and agreed to Fatty Sun staying.
Iron sand rubs the body, but one person cannot wipe it evenly.
