wind and rain scissors shop

Chapter 63 - 63. The Secret of Seeing Through Steel
Tian Erya explained: "Normal coarse cloth is piled up in several layers. Although it is thick, it is easy to unfold in parallel. Today, when the yamen servants opened the cloth, I saw that their movements were a bit laborious, and the folded marks of the cloth were obvious. And the curvature is too big. The most strange thing is that there is some luster on the cloth. The coarse cloth is not silk, how can there be light?"

Zheng Yuansheng nodded: "What you said makes sense, and my father thinks so too. I have already sent someone to inquire, and I believe there will be news soon."

Tian Erya clapped her hands happily: "I'm just thinking wildly, Mr. Zheng is a man of insight, I didn't expect that my thoughts are the same as his!"

"You are very smart. My father just thinks that the cloth for trial cutting is different from the past, but you can see the problem better than us."

"Come on! Young master, don't praise me. You can do whatever you want, I'll go to work." Tian Erya took off her apron from the rope and walked outside.

Zheng Yuansheng was puzzled: "What are you doing?"

"Go to the Iron Institute. After this incident, your family has to provide high-quality scissors to the Armed Forces Institute, and I want to help."

"I will go with you."

Tian Erya looked at him suspiciously: "Master, can you forge iron?"

Zheng Yuansheng answered as a matter of course: "No. I can pass the tools by the side and make a start."

Tian Erya laughed, followed him to the iron courtyard, and found Zheng Yuanfei in the courtyard, angrily knocking on the floor tiles with iron pliers.

Zheng Yuansheng hurriedly asked, "Third brother, what happened?"

Zheng Yuanfei pointed to Zheng Yide who was snoring on the recliner: "Second Uncle drank too much, and he still hasn't woken up yet! In two days, our family has to hand over the high-quality scissors, and time is running out."

"Second uncle doesn't know about it yet, I'll go and wake him up."

"I called him for a long time just now, and he opened his eyes and told me to get out. I made such a big commotion, but he didn't move."

"I'll try." Zheng Yuansheng pushed Zheng Yide: "Second Uncle, wake up."

Zheng Yide fell into a drowsy sleep, opened his eyes and saw him smacking his lips: "Fourth brother, I will play chess with you later, and now I have to catch up on sleep."

Tian Erya muttered: "What are you doing with so much wine in broad daylight? You don't have to work hard."

Zheng Yide glanced at her: "What do you stupid girl know? I'm not interested in blacksmithing now, I just want to drink well and enjoy the feeling of being a master. You were imprisoned and beaten in prison, and you didn't learn to be smart. It's really useless Can be saved."

Zheng Yuansheng begged: "Second Uncle, I will enjoy the feeling of being a master in the future. Something happened, and the order for scissors from the Imperial Armed Forces Institute was issued ahead of time. The scissors handed in by my father did not meet the requirements. The new adults were very angry and punished them severely."

Zheng Yide raised his eyebrows: "Really?"

Zheng Yuanfei leaned forward: "Of course it's true. Father, eldest brother, and second brother have all been beaten twenty times, and now they are lying on the bed unable to move."

After Zheng Yide got up, his eyes were still thinking about it in a blink of an eye.

"Second Uncle, hurry up and forge the scissors. Master Zhou of the government said that after two days, if the qualified scissors are handed over, my father and my brother will still have to be beaten."

Zheng Yide suddenly started laughing: "Okay! Your father Zheng Zongde is all about making money, and doesn't take the ancestral craftsmanship seriously. Now you have suffered a lot! You deserve it. I don't care!"

"Second Uncle, how can you say such heartless words?" Zheng Yuanfei was angry, "My father is your elder brother after all, and he hasn't treated you badly these years. ?”

"Stinky boy, are you still teaching your second uncle a lesson?" Zheng Yide took a big mouthful of tea and sprayed it on him.

Zheng Yuanfei took a step back and left as soon as he thought about his father and brothers waiting for help, so he had to stop, "Second uncle. My father said that we must attach great importance to the craftsmanship of forging scissors handed down by our ancestors. From now on, Let our brothers learn how to forge scissors from you, and you will show mercy and help dad get through this, okay?"

The smile on the corner of Zheng Yide's mouth began to widen: "Your father really said that?"

"Of course. If you don't believe me, ask the fourth brother, he won't lie."

Zheng Yide looked at Zheng Yuansheng, saw him nodding, and then stood up and put on his apron in satisfaction, "If you want to pass the imperial court's trial cutting standards, you just need to follow the techniques passed down by our Zheng family ancestors, and it's a piece of cake."

Zheng Yuanfei flattered: "Second uncle will definitely be extraordinary if he takes action."

Satisfied, Zheng Yide started forging scissors.

Tian Erya watched his behavior carefully from the side.

Zheng Yide concentrated on it, and soon, he made the formed scissors, began to sharpen the blade, glanced at Tian Erya who was staring at him, and snorted disdainfully: "Have you learned it after reading it so many times? "

"No."

"Tch, if Second Master's craft is so easy to learn, and the street is flooded with good scissors, how can my Zheng family's scissors be famous?"

Tian Erya didn't refute, and looked at the tools fixedly: "Second Master, did you quickly add a small piece of steel to the iron bar that was just red hot?"

Zheng Yide was shocked, and then he was vague: "It's nothing. What nonsense, I have been sitting here and beating, and I didn't look for steel at all."

"You didn't move. The secret book is on your hammer. Once you press the handle on your hammer, a small piece of steel will come out from the side and quickly attach to the red-hot wrought iron bar."

Both Zheng Yuanfei and Zheng Yuansheng were taken aback, they looked at Second Uncle's hammer.The second uncle told them before that the key is the protrusion on the back of the hammer handle. Once you press it down, you can push out the cut steel piece. I didn't expect Tian Erya to see it right away.

Zheng Yide's secret was guessed, and he was flustered, and the hammer in his hand fell to the ground.He hurriedly picked it up: "Nothing, don't think about it."

Tian Erya grinned: "Second Lord, your scissors are so good because you used the technique of pasting steel, right? After you took out the red-hot wrought iron bar, you quickly put a piece of high-quality steel on the burner. Put it on the red wrought iron, and then beat it quickly. Because the speed at which you place the steel sheet and the action of hammering the hammer are very fast, so, under normal circumstances, it is not clear that you used the technique of sticking steel."

Zheng Yide's face was tense: "Just thinking about it, this red-hot iron bar has a narrow plane, how can I stick steel on it? Don't worry about sticking it crooked?"

"You put the red-hot iron bar in the groove of the iron block, the groove is slightly higher than the iron bar, and you quickly turn the hammer so that the steel piece falls from the end of the hammer with a gap, and then put the hammer Turn around, and at the same time, step on the pedal with your feet to close the groove, quickly move the wrought iron bar onto the iron block, and hit the wrought iron bar continuously. Am I right?"

"What nonsense!"

Tian Erya pointed at the hammer: "Don't dare to admit it? You pursue the ultimate in blacksmithing, and the tools you use are very high-end. How can you use a hammer with a gap? Besides, you don't always use this hammer with gaps. , except for beating the iron bars that have just been red-hot, you don’t use the hammer with gaps at other times. The steel pieces are placed in the hammer, and this is also your research, right?”

Zheng Yide's face was tense, and he had studied the secrets of his whole life, but was seen through by a country girl, his thoughts were rolling up and down, and the hand that hit the hammer began to tremble unconsciously.

Zheng Yuansheng was shocked: "Second Uncle, what's wrong with you?"

(End of this chapter)