Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 53: Boring Trinkets

Villicro introduced this blacksmith shop in the south of town called Big Iron Hammer, said to be the nickname of the first generation of the blacksmith shop owner. A few decades ago, in order to escape the war, he moved to White Deer Town. When he didn't have the money, he set up a stove to help the fishermen in town build some fishing equipment. Over time, people used the boss's nickname Big Iron Hammer as the name of this blacksmith shop.

The current boss is already the grandson of the first generation of bosses, this is a five big, fat, crude man, who speaks loud as thunder, his name is Mike. In that year, the place where the open-air stove was placed also turned into a large yard with a forged iron stove with a four-story high chimney and a row of large tile houses. The sound of iron striking in the tile room was constant, and it had become a busy little workshop. The yard was full of iron ore and coal, charcoal and other miscellaneous objects, apprentices and porters came and went...

Vericulo called out Mr. Mike, couldn't help it, the yard was too loud, the voice was lower and he couldn't hear anything, had to yell.

Claude gave him a drawing with a star sight, and took out a fireline gun for a purpose. He was not interested in what Claude was going to build or where it was going to fit, and Mr. Mike simply questioned whether Claude could legally hold a firerope gun and expressed his concerns and doubts.

However, when Mr. Morsan, the White Deer Town Administrator, was Claude's father, Mr. Mike's attitude suddenly became somewhat enthusiastic. He sincerely apologized and explained that if Claude's identity was not clarified, what would happen to the firewire gun would have involved him because of what he had built on the gun, so he had to ask clearly to make a decision and not accept the shooting of this star sight...

Now that Mr. Morsan's paternity with Claude is known, it's perfectly fine to build this thing. Then Boss Mike checked the drawings that Claude had designed very carefully, took the tools, carefully re-measured the gun's muzzle diameter, and again calculated all the data and thought it was OK, and the star sight could be built.

However, due to the small size and complexity of the object and the difficulty of creating a complete profile by hand, Boss Mike decided to make a mold with plaster and pour iron water to get a molding and hand repair and polishing. It will take about a week and cost seven riazos for Silver Tall, which still depends on the price in the face of Mr. Morsan. It would have cost about two silver Talls as per the circumstances...

When Claude came out of this big hammer blacksmith's shop, he found himself a poor man again, and he had spent three polysilver tallers coming back from Bailuanzhou, leaving him with more than three riazos left. Without spending too much money, in less than ten days, Claude spent almost all of Mr. Morsan's adventurous earnings a month...

The next day, Claude took a chance to have a private chat with Bok Al and revisit the old proposal, so he could find a way to sell that Sullivan gold coin. Claude took out five Sullivan gold coins for his adventure to Bailuzhou and found a perfect excuse to go underground. And then everybody split one, and Claude took one more because he was fighting to kill the python.

Now Claude is trying to get Bok Al to sell this extra Sullivan gold coin privately, and a souvenir like everyone else. Of course, there were 30 Sullivan gold coins hidden under the bed in his attic.

“You don't have the money to be a coward!” Claude exclaimed, "I didn't know what would happen if I didn't have the money, but when I had the money, I felt like I had a lot less nerve. I didn't even dare look at the lamb roast cake stall a few more times in the morning. I was afraid that I would be unable to resist the fragrance temptation to buy one...”

Bok Al turned a white eye: “Who told you to have money and like big foot shopping? I reckon, it doesn't make sense to buy three pieces of crap from a silver tower you spent at the Vakurina store, not to mention the fishbone dagger. The door tag and the big fish pencil barrel are not worth three riazos at all, and you just bought three pieces from a silver tower that you ignored.

Also, yesterday evening you asked Vero to take the big hammer blacksmith to set up what sight to do, spent a silver taller seven riazos, now there's no money around... I don't even know how to say you, spend money to have a plan, can't see what you like to buy, think about whether this thing will work for you before buying... ”

Claude covered his mouth: "All right, just a few words, don't keep nagging like a bitch. Where the money is spent is in my own mind. You won't understand until my sight sight is finished, and with that thing, you don't need to do any sighting distance error adjustments when the gun is fired, and then you can hit wherever you want. ”

Bok Al shoved Claude's hand over his mouth and looked at him suspiciously: "Really? You didn't lie to me...”

“Why would I lie to you...” Claude couldn't cry: “I used it myself, first I built one for testing, so I'd be happy to spend more money. When something is done, you'll know. Think about that target. Didn't you complain at first that it was too simple? ”

And think about it, too: "Well, if that star sight you're talking about works, I promise to sell your Sullivan gold coin for a high price. ”

Now that this sight will take seven days to complete, Claude will not be ready to go to school in the afternoon and practice shooting in the woods outside the town to waste guns and powder. Equestrian training classes can't be wasted for nothing. Even if you can ride horses already, you will pass the assessment program. From time to time, you will have to ride to sneak out.

Verricolo was a little angry, and he thought it would be bad behavior for Claude to give up shooting practice like this. Because only more shooting exercises can enhance your body's memory and make each of the shooting steps of a firearm an instinctive response so that you don't get busy and it helps you become familiar with the performance of the firearm...

And of course, Verricolo was kind, and he thought Claude had a gift for shooting, so he had to work harder. As for Bok Al, Velikro has given up treatment. The guy wants only to know, not to be proficient. Thanks to the Obash 2-type fireline gun his father bought for him, the Kingdom's newest army equipment gun fell into his hands is a secret throw of pearls...

But Claude wouldn't go for the shooting exercise. He is awkward to say and has a good temper, even though he is tall enough to force his partner to do what he wants, which is one of the reasons why they have always had a good relationship.

So after school, the four of us went to Ericsson's private pier. At the pier, Claude found the ocean fishing boat called the Red Sea Shark out of the sea, and the whole pier seemed unusually cold. At the corner of the pier, however, a row of fires was lit, and the Ericsson family wore them in the waves resting on the pier and are now baking them on top of the fire.

This is supposed to be shipbreaking, right? Claude thinks that Verricolo has already said that there are grooves between the boards that stick up and down to prevent leakage, so bake them with fire to melt the adhesive to separate the two boards, but don't you worry about burning the board wood with fire? No one is watching...

Claude walked up to the fire and found that there was a thin sheet of iron underneath the board that had been burned by fire, about two or three centimeters from the board, the flame licked underneath the board, the hot air rising smoking the board, a clear gap between the temperature of the board and the board, and occasionally a drop of gluey liquid dropped onto the top of the board.

No wonder the ship dismantling is a door technical job, otherwise a good boat can't stay. Didn't Velikoro say that hard work was wasted, and the place where the boards were broken into two pieces of that gel solidified was still a big piece, very strong.

This gel has good, if not strong, coagulation, and the only downside is the fear that the temperature will melt by itself. However, there is no need to worry about using it on the boat board. The sea is not a big pot of fire below, it is impossible to have a high temperature of 70 to 80 degrees...

“Claude, come here.” Erickson stood in front of the flip that had removed the boat. Bok Al and Vilikson stood beside him, watching Uncle Pegg take the tools and do the repair work on the rest of the bottom beam.

Claude walked over and measured this flip with only one frame left.

“You help me clean up the glue and paint on this gangway, there are scrapers and contusions in the crate on the ground, and then you help me figure out how to position the cabin. By the way, one more thing, I was going to put a moving mast in the wave on this sea tumbler, but the hull of this sea tumbler is shorter, and the other is the head and tail of this sea tumbler are attached to the beam underneath, high and high, unlike the stern of a low-flat bow in the wave, there's no way to fit this moving mast, see what you can do? ”

Eriksson gave us a problem.

The waves are more than seven meters long and the moving mast above is more than four meters high, placing it down and flat on the bow. And the sea tumbler is only about five meters long, and the stern of the bow is raised high, even if the mast is mounted two-thirds of its hull, it will still highlight the bow about one meter, so that the boat is not convenient to dock on shore or anything.

But if you cut the mast by one meter, then the sail will have to be lowered. If you don't want to eat, the living wind will tell you that the sight of the helmsman who blocked the position of the cabin behind the ship is absolute. You can't see how to ask someone to drive the boat...

Finally, Claude said, since it's a small fishing boat, let's just not do a mast, let's just fix it, so it can also strengthen the whole boat and connect it together. You don't need to put the mast up and down again, it also saves you trouble...

Ericsson frowned for half a day and thought, he really wanted to put the active mast worn in the wave on his little fishing boat, one for waste utilization and the other for a cool one. The mast of his little fishing boat is able to move...

But the mast was worn in the wave to reduce storage space on pelagic fishing boats and to sail safely at sea. And this tiny fishing boat with a sea tumble modification is operating on Lake Beringa, and it's really unnecessary for the mast to be inactive.

“Well, just like you said, still fix the mast.” Finally, Eriksson accepted Claude's suggestion somewhat reluctantly.

Over the next few days, Claude and the four of them were helping at the Ericsson pier, not even on Sundays. Until school was on its way to the pier, Vericulo suddenly cautioned, "Oh, Claude, it's been seven days. Aren't you going to the hammer to get your little star sight? ”