"Dad, I'm back."

"Just come back."

Ge Jianguo replied absently. Some of the irritability and lack of concentration in the early days of quitting smoking have all appeared. This is still very difficult for a smoker of 20 or 30 years. Without external help, he is likely to fall short.

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The father and son were just sitting in the hall watching TV. The Guixi Variety Channel replayed "The Extraordinary Blacksmith". As a popular program, it was founded by Guixi itself, so it is normal for it to be played in turn.

While watching "The Extraordinary Blacksmith", Ge Xiaohua suddenly said: "Dad, do you still remember the glorious days of blacksmithing when you were young?"

Ge Jianguo's heart skipped a beat, and many scenes of blacksmithing in his youth flashed through his mind, some of which were hard and some were happy. After getting an iron job, he forgot how he started his business. This craft is not something that can be lost easily.

Lost it, the older I get, the more I miss it, and I enter a state of trance without realizing it.

"Xiaohua, let's strike iron together when we have time..."

"Really? Dad, if you want to blacksmith, we can do it together during the weekends, and I plan to invite you to be a special resident guest in the second episode of "Super Blacksmith"."

"On the show?"

Ge Jianguo thought about it and said, "Okay, but I have to report to the superiors."

As a civil servant, it is normal to say hello in advance for such things, but generally it is not a big problem. After all, he is just a small county director, not a big official. There is nothing wrong with appearing on these programs that promote traditional crafts.

Appropriate.

Ge Xiaohua did not expect it to go so smoothly. It is probably because Ge Jianguo himself wanted to continue blacksmithing. During the painful stage of quitting smoking, he could have something he was interested in to move on to, so the probability of success would be much greater.

Over the weekend, Ge Jianguo came to Ge's Blacksmith Shop as scheduled. Seeing everything that was familiar yet unfamiliar, Ge Jianguo didn't know what to do.

"Dad, you control the heat, and I'll beat it." Ge Xiaohua plans to leave the physical work to himself, and then leave all the things that require experience to Ge Jianguo, similar to the collaborative forging that I saw Yamamoto Yuji and the others at RB last time.

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To enter the state, the only way is to actually start forging. Ge Xiaohua directly forged an ordinary long knife this time, which is what Ge Jianguo is best at.

The high-carbon steel burned red in the furnace. When Ge Jianguo saw the color of the flame change, he instinctively pulled out the iron block and shouted: "Smash it!"

Ge Xiaohua received the order, swung the big hammer and hit it with one blow. The iron flowers scattered all over the sky, and ordinary people had no time to dodge, but Ge Jianguo smiled, smiling from the bottom of his heart. This was the first time Ge Jianguo quit smoking and drinking.

, the first time I was so happy, my dependence on nicotine disappeared immediately

Now, Ge Jianguo, who was getting more energetic, concentrated on controlling the temperature. When Ge Xiaohua was almost beaten, the folding continued to heat. During this period of time, Ge Jianguo and Ge Xiaohua communicated and talked about their own experience in making long knives.

This true inheritance has benefited Ge Xiaohua a lot.

When the heat was reached, Ge Jianguo continued to take it out and let Ge Xiaohua forge it by hand. Over and over again, today was spent in forging.

At night, Ge Xiaohua was exhausted. He had to complete the next work tomorrow. This long sword was a war sword from the Ming Dynasty. The effect of making it is good.

"Xiaohua, although our cooperation has not reached a tacit understanding today, we have already mastered the rhythm. Let's continue tomorrow!" Ge Jianguo seemed very excited. Although he hasn't made iron in so many years, he still has experience and knows how to handle the fire.

His control is comparable to Yuji Yamamoto's.

"Okay." His father, Ge Jianguo, was tired from working for a day and rested in his hometown. Early in the morning, Ge Jianguo got up and called Ge Xiaohua, which seemed a bit like a supervisor.

"Get up, the day's plan begins in the morning!" Ge Jianguo's mental state has undergone earth-shaking changes from before. After regaining his blacksmithing skills, those bad habits were forgotten.

Ge Xiaohua got up in a hurry and started the day's forging. With Ge Jianguo joining in, Ge Xiaohua's daily forging was particularly energetic, and he gained new ideas every time. His ingenuity value was also constantly improving, and there were faint signs of breakthrough.

Heating, beating, folding, continuing to heat and beat, the cycle started over and over again. By noon, Ge Jianguo saw that it was almost done, the knife blank was formed, the preliminary forging was completed, and then the quenching process began.

Ge Jianguo also used paper to wrap the cutting edge, and then smeared clay and ashes on the cutting edge, which was exactly the same as the quenching method of Yamamoto Yuji that Ge Xiaohua saw in rb.

"Dad, is this our ancestral tempering method?"

"Yes, it has been passed down from generation to generation. I will tell you the ingredients..."

Ge Xiaohua didn't know whether this quenching method was used first by RB or China, but since there are similarities, it means that the exchanges between the two countries are still very close.

Ge Xiaohua knows the quenching secret recipe passed down by the Ge family. He doesn't know the secret recipe for rb yet, but it is estimated that it is not much different.

Ge Jianguo smeared the clay and ashes and put them in the stove to heat them. He observed the temperature of the flames and moved his hands close to the stove from time to time to sense the surrounding temperature. There was no need to close the windows or doors.

"The time has come!" The blade burned red, and the flame changed from red to blue, reaching about 800 degrees, the optimal quenching temperature. Ge Jianguo decisively took out the blade embryo and put it into the water tank for quenching.

"La!" The tool blank is rapidly cooled, the high-temperature austenite zone reaches the martensite low-temperature zone, and quenching is declared complete!

"Dad, why do we all quench with water? Instead of quenching with oil? When we were in the factory, we used special quenching reagents and oil for quenching, and the effect seemed to be better." In fact, Ge Xiaohua didn't understand either, but he just felt that it was the same in the blacksmith shop.

Water is used for quenching. Even when he was in Japan, Yamamoto Yuji transported spring water called "Holy Spring" from a very far away place for quenching.

"Water quenching cools down quickly and produces strong hardness. Oil quenching is very slow and cannot meet the hardness requirements."

"So what are the benefits of oil quenching?"

"It can prevent the steel from deforming, so it is more used for mechanical alloy quenching."

"I see."

Although Ge Xiaohua majors in engineering materials, his practical experience is not as strong as Ge Jianguo's. He is an old blacksmith with a serious academic background and has inherited the skills passed down by Ge's Blacksmith Shop for hundreds of years. Ge Xiaohua only learned a little secretly when he was a child, so

It would be good for the two of them to blacksmith together on weekends and study this kind of professional knowledge. It would be extremely beneficial to Ge Xiaohua's skills.

The next step is the polishing and grinding stage. Ge Xiaohua used belt sanders, angle grinders, knife sharpeners and other machine aids. It took half a day to complete the grinding. Then came the production of the handle and scabbard. All the subsequent tedious matters were done by

Ge Xiaohua completed.

It took another two days to complete the Ming Dynasty long sword jointly created by Ge Xiaohua and Ge Jianguo.

Because it was the first time we cooperated, this long knife just burst out with white light, and had the attributes of Exquisiteness +2 and Sharpness +3. Ge Xiaohua gave it to Ge Jianguo for collection. This was also the first time Ge Jianguo had truly used it in recent years.
Chapter completed!