Chapter 18 Fangshi
While the old man was helping Li Qing pack the jade, Li Qing suddenly focused his attention on one of the jade slips.
"Old man, what is this?" Li Qing pointed at the jade slip, which was about the size of two fingers put together, and asked.
The old man just looked up, shook his head and said: "The things left by our ancestors should be jade amulets for protection or the like."
He didn't know very well, after all, these things The time passed down was too long, and I don’t know how many generations were separated from him.
If it weren't for the lack of food, he would never have sold it for rye mushrooms.
Li Qing took the jade slip in his hand. He squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully. There seemed to be faint lines on it.
The jade slip has a smooth color and is very warm and moist after being purchased. No matter where it is placed in the world, it can definitely be regarded as the best jade.
As his father-in-law finished packing the jade stones, Li Qing also took more than three kilograms of rye mushrooms from his cloth basket and gave them to the old stall owner.
The transaction was completed, and Li Qing continued to wander around the city.
In the polar night world, he was familiar with many things, except for a few of the specialties that grew here, which he could not recognize.
For example, the shape of the fungus looks very much like a piece of meat. The hyphae on it are mixed together, and the white flowers look like fatty meat!
The name is quite appropriate, it is called white meat mushroom, and its value is much higher than that of rye mushroom. It takes three kilograms of rye mushrooms to exchange for one kilogram of white meat mushroom.
Of course, Li Qing has no interest in the food of these fungi.
He came to Obsidian City's market this time, intending to exchange the rye mushrooms in his hands for some refined iron, and to see if there were any other special ores.
Ever since he learned the Ancient Mystic Hammer Skill, he had an urgent need for a handy hammer.
The hammers used for blacksmithing now were used when I was a blacksmith's apprentice, and they were specially used for blacksmithing.
If it is used for fighting and killing, then the hammer for blacksmithing will definitely not work, and a new one must be cast.
Thinking of this, Li Qing touched a piece of cold metal that was as textured as ink jade deep in his arms.
It was the school officer Li Gui who gave it to Li Qing to smelt the ink gold into the mountain axe!
Because of the sudden attack by horse thieves, Li Qing, who was in the camp at the time, would definitely not be able to complete the forging of the mountain axe.
But he was extremely surprised to find that the piece of ink gold he threw into the forge had not yet melted.
You must know that it is the area with the highest temperature. The color around it is so red that even the hardest metal should melt.
And this piece of ink gold is still intact.
So before he fled to the granary, he didn't forget to take this piece of black gold with him.
After taking it in his hands, he also discovered that after such a long period of high-temperature smelting, the piece of ink gold not only showed no signs of melting, but even the surface temperature only increased a part, from being cold and moist before, to being slightly hot to the touch.
‘Horse thieves attacked the military camp, and Colonel Li’s ink gold was an advantage for me, but since everyone’s surname is Li, Colonel Li probably wouldn’t mind too much. ’
Thinking of this, Li Qing’s mood inevitably became happier.
He plans to buy some good quality refined iron, and then continue to try to see if he can smelt this piece of black gold. If he can, he plans to use this piece of black gold as a hammer head to make a textured hammer. Excellent warhammer.
After walking around the city twice, Li Qing quickly found a blacksmith shop.
There was no tinkling sound inside, and the surrounding temperature wasn't as hot as expected. It didn't look like a normal blacksmith shop at all.
When Li Qing walked in, a young man who looked like an apprentice sat next to the gray anvil and said feebly: "Sir, what do you want to pack? Weapons or farm tools?"
< br>Hearing this, Li Qing's mind moved.
Just taking this opportunity to find out how the blacksmithing market is in Obsidian City now, he asked: "How many cutting knives do I want to make? How should I calculate this?" As soon as these words came out, the apprentice's eyes froze. When the light came on, he stood up and said: "If you bring your own iron ingots, two cutting knives count as half a catty of rye mushrooms!"
"If I provide the materials, a cutting knife and half a catty of rye mushrooms, if you want a large quantity, then we can discuss it again!"
Sure enough
The Yan family asked them to forge it themselves. The price of the cutting knives is indeed high. I helped them forge cutting knives before, and only gave them half a pound of rye mushrooms for three of them!
But this blacksmith shop is located in a city after all, so it is normal for it to be a little more expensive.
"Ahem, I came here to buy some refined iron. How do you sell this refined iron?" Li Qing coughed and asked.
"One pound of rye mushrooms and twenty pounds of iron ingots. How many do you want?" The apprentice in the blacksmith shop suddenly lost interest.
However, Li Qing’s next words made his eyes widen.
"Then give me three hundred catties!" Li Qing said solemnly.
"What? Three. Three hundred pounds?"
"Well, is there a problem?" Li Qing observed the man's expression carefully and said with a smile.
"No, of course not. I'll go look for you!" The man's steps suddenly became numb.
Buying three hundred kilograms of iron ingots at one go is equivalent to the business of fifteen kilograms of rye mushrooms. This is not a small sum.
For his blacksmith shop, which has not been open for a long time and is almost starving to death, that is so important!
There are actually many mines around Obsidian City. If you want to obtain iron ore, you can mine it outside the city and then smelt it into iron ingots.
The few blacksmith shops in the city do this. According to the current laws, no one will control them at all. Whatever you dig is yours.
Unlike Maple Country, the control over salt and iron is very strict and will not allow the sale of private salt or the outflow of iron tools, so that the price of iron has always remained high.
After a long time, the blacksmith apprentice finally walked out of the warehouse at the back, looking disgraced.
"Sir, the inventory is over. I still have more than 300 kilograms of iron ingots. I will give you a total of 15 kilograms of rye mushrooms!" He rubbed his hands and stared at Li Qing closely. , for fear that he came here to amuse himself.
Bang!
Li Qing threw down the basket on his back. There were about fifteen or six kilograms of rye mushrooms in it, all of which were inside.
The blacksmith's apprentice's eyes widened when he saw it. He swallowed his saliva and said, "I'll pack it for you right now!"
Soon, three hundred kilograms of iron ingots were all packed into a new container. In the stronger and larger backpack, the blacksmith apprentice pushed the basket into the shop with difficulty.
"Huh! Sir, do you want me to help you send it back together?"
However, Li Qing shook his head and rejected his kindness.
“No need, I’ll just carry it myself.”
After speaking, Li Qing squatted down and directly carried the iron ingot carrying more than three hundred kilograms on his back, looking very calm.
After feeling the weight and the limit of his own endurance, Li Qing breathed a sigh of relief.
It’s not bad, I can barely bear it, it’s not very strenuous, just think of it as a way to exercise your body.
Li Qing is very satisfied with his current physical strength. He can still walk steadily on the road with more than 300 kilograms of iron ingots on his back. This was something he would never have dared to imagine before.
Under the horrified eyes of the blacksmith apprentice, Li Qing walked out of the blacksmith shop and prepared to leave Fangshi.
(End of this chapter)