What's there?

Edgar sniffed, followed Todd's hand to look behind him, and replied casually, "The workshop."

The latter stared at the smoke and dust in the air, lowered his head, and secretly made a plan in his mind.

Two hours later, it was three o'clock in the afternoon.

This is also a rare time of rest during the day at the San Sidlow Monastery.

After catching his breath, Todd wiped the soles of his feet clean, put on his cloth shoes, glanced at Edgar, who was still following behind him, and went to the workshop built on the outskirts of the monastery.

While it's called a workshop, it's more accurate to say it's a smelting facility.

Two rows of stone-built workshops, where four or five craftsmen and a dozen apprentices are busy working around a kiln.

A square furnace, resembling a stove, is about 2 meters high. In the center is a huge pit with a vertical baffle. Below are three openings: the feed inlet and air inlet are located together, separated by the baffle; the remaining opening is the discharge outlet. During smelting, iron ore is put into the feed inlet, and charcoal powder is loaded into the air inlet. Water is sprinkled while air is blown in.

The most primitive smelting device in medieval Europe was not even a cylindrical furnace in shape; it could only be called a bowl furnace.

Todd had no recollection of where this type of furnace was originally invented in the world, or when it was introduced to Europe.

He could only vaguely recall that this type of stove seemed to have been used in the early Middle Ages in the northern European countries.

Its name is memorable and hard to forget.

Farmer's stove.