Chapter 63 Soft Armor, Horizontal Training Talent

It is much more difficult to make soft armor than swords, spears, and halberds. The black silver needs to be forged and tempered many times, and finally liquefied, poured into a mold, and finally drawn into silk threads.

At this step, the forging of soft armor is considered to have begun.

Zhang Ben then relaxed his brows and came to instruct Li Yuan in forging. The forging of soft armor is quite delicate. The toughness and hardness of each silver thread have requirements. If one is missing, it will not be a top-grade product.

The master and apprentice were talking about the forging steps. When they were about to start, the sound of blacksmithing in the forging room suddenly stopped.

Yu Zhen didn't know when he came to the door of the forging room. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he coughed lightly and said:

Inside the house, there was a sound of hammers falling to the ground, and the faces of all the blacksmiths and helpers were a little unhappy.

After years of blacksmithing, they are much more sturdy and strong than the inner courtyard apprentices, and their hammering skills are not bad, but they have no experience in fighting with others,

let alone going out of the city to fight with bandits.

Zhang Ben bowed slightly, his face was not good either.

The forging room was under his control, but in name, Yu Zhen was the head of the inner courtyard now.

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 also paid attention to the forging shop.

Apart from the old apprentices who graduated from the inner courtyard, the group of people with the highest hammer skills and the greatest strength in the forging shop were in the forging room.

If there were really a few people who had hidden skills, they might be able to sneak attack and kill Qin Xiong with hammers.

Even more, he thought of Nian Jiu who was smashed to pieces in the dense forest...

Zhang Ben's eyelids jumped, and he spoke in a cold voice, but did not move.

Yu Zhen dared to come to the forging room to transfer people. Who meant it? How could he not know?

Li Yuan held the forging hammer, alert in his heart.

He remembered how good this man was at using poison, and he could also figure out something from the fact that the white ape's fundamental map that should have been in his hand appeared in Qin Xiong's hand.

This ghostwriter must have other intentions for staying in the forging shop...

Yu Zhen sneered, looked at everyone in the room, and started pointing without paying attention to Zhang Ben's sullen face.

Finally, he turned his eyes and looked at Li Yuan.

Zhang Ben grabbed the hammer on the forging table, but Li Yuan was quick to stop him.

Yu Zhen smiled, and he looked at the apprentice in the corner. He always felt that he was familiar, but he didn't think much about it:

Zhang Ben stopped in front of Li Yuan with cold eyes.

Yu Zhen smiled gently, not as aggressive as before:

Li Yuan bowed his head slightly:

Yu Zhen nodded and didn't ask any more questions. He just waved his hand and left the forging room with a group of people who were named like they had lost their parents.

Zhang Ben was so angry that he trembled all over.

Li Yuan held the forging hammer.

Yu Zhen seemed gentle, but in fact he was very dangerous. His words changed the look of the blacksmiths in the forging room towards him and Zhang Ben.

You only protect Li Yuan in a room full of apprentices?

Only half of the blacksmiths were left forging iron in silence, but Li Yuan felt their emotions and felt a little scared.

Pulling the trembling old Zhang, Li Yuan was calm:

Zhang Ben took a while and gritted his teeth:

It's useless to look for him!

Feeling the eyes of other brothers, Li Yuan hammered the iron heavily, making clanging sounds.

...

Cao Yan acted vigorously.

That morning, he and Lin Qingfa of Changyuan Escort Agency had led hundreds of people out of the city in a mighty manner.

Li Yuan took a look and saw that the momentum was quite huge. There were also familiar faces who went to Fajiu Mountain together last time, such as Yue Yunjin and Wu Ming.

When Li Yuan turned to leave, he glanced inadvertently and saw Lu Bailing and others watching from afar on the top of the city, and the woman with a sword on her back was also there.

Li Yuan muttered in his heart.

But this time he didn't look at it for long, just glanced and hurried back. He came out to find a tailor shop to measure the size.

The size of the soft armor must naturally be based on his body shape.

...

On the city wall, Lu Yunqing snorted coldly.

Glancing at the mob going away, Fang Yunxiu didn't care much, just stared at Lu Yunqing:

Lu Yunqing's expression became serious, and he sighed again:

Fang Yunxiu turned around and left without comment.

Lu Bailing stood aside and dared to speak at this time.

Lu Yunqing shook his head and smiled slightly:

Lu Bailing had no doubt and nodded:

...

...

Six days later.

Wow!

The red inner armor was immersed in the icy water, and a lot of smoke and water vapor rose.

Just hearing the sound of quenching, Zhang Ben became nervous.

Although there are still quenching and polishing processes to come, the grade of the soft armor has been determined at this stage.

Compared to Zhang Ben's trepidation, Li Yuan is certain in his heart. He has already seen the light on the soft armor.

Barely the second grade!

Li Yuan breathed a sigh of relief. It was his first time to make a top-grade soft armor, and he was really unsure.

There are too many steps in forging.

Any step that goes wrong will affect the final quality. Fortunately, it has reached the second grade and is not inferior to the one in the warehouse.

And...

Li Yuan was happy to make an inner armor by himself. After taking Zhang Ben out of the ice water and carefully examining it, he couldn't help but feel very happy:

Li Yuan thanked from the heart.

All the steps of making soft armor were participated in by Zhang Ben throughout the process, and he almost taught him step by step.

Zhang Ben laughed and scolded, looking at the soft armor that had not been tempered and polished yet, and he liked it more and more.

Except for the difference in material selection and firing temperature, this soft armor really looked like it was made by him personally, and even the corners and edges had his shadow.

Before Li Yuan finished speaking, Zhang Ben cursed with a smile and threw the soft armor back:

Things worth two or three hundred taels, of course, cannot be made in ten days or half a month.

However, Li Yuan did not care. He only needed to control it. Semi-finished products and finished products did not make much difference to him. After soaking for a month or two, the appearance would only be slightly different.

If you don't mind, it is not unusable even if it is black under the eyes.

But of course, he could not say this to Zhang Ben, otherwise he would be scolded.

After tempering skillfully, Li Yuan looked at the iron sand used for grinding knives in the corner. If ordinary people rubbed it, the skin would be rotten, right?

...

Li Yuan was reluctant to let go of the semi-finished inner armor. He carried it out of the forging shop and put it on the gray stone platform that was already quite crowded.

Although there was a rule in the shop that the first weapon of different qualities made by hand could be bought at half price, he was not at ease.

If a rare thing worth two or three hundred taels was intercepted, he would be afraid of vomiting blood.

According to the rules, Li Yuan felt at ease. He was not unwilling to pay money.

In the forging room, there were many people who secretly took some scrap iron and pig iron to sell. Li Yuan was more convenient than them, but he also paid money for a bag of iron sand.

It was not worth it to give others a handle for such a small thing.

Li Yuan planned to take the iron sand home first, and then go to his second brother's house for dinner. Unexpectedly, when he pushed the door, he saw Fatty Sun.

And, a table of wine and food.

Fatty Sun was pouring wine.

Li Yuan glanced into the room and saw that three beds were brought with bedding.

Fatty Sun was frowning.

Since returning to the city, he dared not sleep alone. In his dreams, he either dreamed that his brother-in-law and sister were killed, or that he was caught by bandits again.

After ten days, he really couldn't bear it anymore.

Li Yuan pulled a chicken leg to eat and agreed to let Fatty Sun stay.

Iron sand rubbed on the body, one person couldn't spread it evenly.