Chapter 6 Do you think I am easy to bully?
As the saying goes, when it comes, make peace with it.
If you want to live well in the future, you have to survive now.
Gu Chan could only think this way at this time, so she gritted her teeth and endured it for the time being.
Handing a white flour steamed bun to Zhang Wanshan, she said sensibly, "Grandpa, I'm still young and can't finish two steamed buns. Please help me eat one."
Zhang Wanshan stretched out his wrinkled old hand to take the steamed bun, and his eyes moistened as he looked at Gu Chan.
Gu Chan waved her hand quickly, "Grandpa, don't think too much. I really can't finish eating. Let's eat together. After we finish eating, I will learn to blacksmith with you."
"Well, okay, good boy, let's eat together." Zhang Wanshan turned his back and secretly wiped away his tears.
Then the two happily ate the white flour steamed buns together.
Gu Chan took big bites, but felt a different feeling in her heart.
Before time travel, she stayed in the store all day long, with no one else around except cats and dogs. Her parents didn't care much about her, and gave all their love to her younger brother.
Now that she came here, she unexpectedly met a grandfather who could give her the two remaining steamed buns. She felt the missing love and affection.
"Maybe time travel is not all bad things!" Gu Chan said in her heart while eating.
There was finally a smile on her face, a smile that felt loved and came from the bottom of her heart.
After eating the steamed buns, Gu Chan started to learn blacksmithing from Zhang Wanshan.
Blacksmithing is a craft that looks simple but is quite difficult to learn.
How long does it take to burn iron in the furnace? Put it outside and give it a few hits with a sledgehammer? How many hits with the hammer? How long does it take to reheat? How to temper it after forming, etc., every process is very particular.
Gu Chan learned it quickly, but for her, who is a girl with thin arms and legs, this is not a job she can do, or this craft is not suitable for her.
But in order not to make her grandfather sad, she still persisted.
Half an hour later.
"Boss Zhang, the village chief asked you to come over."
Just as Gu Chan was hitting the iron with a hammer, sweat dripping from the hammer, a rich middle-aged man's voice sounded in front of the door.
The person who came was called Zhao Erniu. He was in his forties. He used to be a famous hunter in the village. However, due to the war, most of the mysterious beasts were captured to fight. The mysterious beasts in the mountains were too fierce to hunt, so he just I changed my career and started working as a blacksmith.
"Okay!" Zhang Wanshan raised his voice and responded.
Putting down the hammer in his hand, he looked at Gu Chan, "You learn slowly first, I'll be back soon."
"Grandpa, the village chief is calling you, isn't it because of me?" Gu Chan looked worried.
"It's okay. If the sky falls, Grandpa will be there to carry it. Just feel free to hit your iron." Zhang Wanshan chuckled and rushed out of the door with hurried steps.
Zhao Erniu slowly walked in from the door while sizing up Gu Chan.
Arriving in front of Gu Chan, he touched his chin with his right hand and kept staring at Gu Chan.
Gu Chan also raised her eyes to glance at him from time to time. At this glance, she discovered that although this man was dressed in ordinary clothes, including coarse linen clothes and patched trousers, he was different from most of the villagers.
The muscles on his body are very developed, especially the pectoral muscles on his chest are bulging. He has a Chinese character face, full beard, and eyes that look embarrassed and lively. He is definitely not a weak person. "Boy, do you know why everyone is so angry with you?" The two looked at each other for a while, and Zhao Erniu finally spoke coldly.
Gu Chan shook her head.
Zhao Erniu sneered, "In every village in our Tiancang Kingdom, everyone has to pay a poll tax every month. If a family cannot pay it, according to the law, everyone in the village has to chip in to pay it on their behalf. Mr. Zhang It’s hard to pay your own head tax every month, and if you’re such a sluggish person, he won’t be able to pay the tax, and we’ll still have to raise the money for him from the whole village, do you understand?”
"Hmph! Isn't it just a poll tax? I can earn the money and pay it myself, so I don't need to trouble you."
"Oh! Boy, you are quite arrogant, aren't you? Let me tell you, I was entrusted by everyone to ask you to go away. You go back and forth wherever you go. Don't drag us down, otherwise I want you to look good." Zhao As Er Niu spoke, he deliberately rolled up a pair of sleeves, revealing his bulging muscles and arms as thick as his thighs.
Of course, it was impossible for him to attack a child like Gu Chan, but it was still possible to scare her.
Usually when a child in the village is disobedient, he will usually teach the child a lesson and scare the child away.
But he obviously looked after Gu Chan too little.
How could Gu Chan be like the little brats in the village who exposed their bare buttocks like little elephants?
Thinking that Zhao Erniu was really going to deal with her, in desperation, Gu Chan held the hammer in her left hand and grabbed the pig iron in front of her with her right hand, which was still the prototype of a long knife. She pointed it at Zhao Erniu and shouted, "What's going on? You still want to do something to me, don’t you? Try it, do you think I’m easy to bully?”
"..." Zhao Erniu was stunned and immediately looked at Gu Chan with her mouth wide open, a look of shock on her face.
Just because the pig iron that Gu Chan was holding in her right hand, which had just taken the shape of a long knife, was still bright red and had not cooled down at all. Moreover, even if the pig iron cooled down and became darker, its temperature would still be the same. Very high.
Ordinary people, who would dare to reach out and pick it up like Gu Chan!
Not to mention, at this moment, Gu Chan held the red pig iron in her hand as if she couldn't feel it being hot at all.
This... how could Zhao Erniu not be shocked?
Gu Chan was furious and glared at Zhao Erniu and shouted angrily, "Come on! Do it! Believe it or not, I will kill you."
"You... aren't you hot?" Zhao Erniu held it in for a long time, and finally stared at Gu Chan to say this.
Gu Chan came back to her senses, looked at the pig iron she was holding in her right hand, and was frightened on the spot, "Oh my God!"
Then Gu Chan let go of her hand, and the red pig iron fell to the ground with a thud.
"Bah, bah, bah..." When the pig iron came into contact with the water stains on the ground, it erupted into bursts of burning squeaking sounds, and white water vapor quickly rose into the air.
Zhao Erniu was dumbfounded, his eyes almost fell out of their sockets.
Gu Chan looked puzzled and looked at her right palm blankly, "It's not hurt? It's not hot either! Why can't I feel the heat?"
"It seems like you are a talent! You really have some talent." At this time, Zhao Erniu came back to his senses and shouted excitedly.
When he looked at Gu Chan again, his eyes had changed from disgust just now to overjoyed as if he had found a treasure.
The next second, before Gu Chan could react, Zhao Erniu had already rushed forward, stretched out his arms and pinched her armpits, picked her up from the ground and lifted her into the air, "Boy, it's my little one." Look at you, you seem to be a very strong person with a strong talent for physical training!"
"..." Gu Chan.
Gu Chan was hanging in the air, completely stunned!
What is this?
How come she has a strong talent for physical training?
(End of chapter)