Chapter 28 Promotion! Occupation [Blacksmith]
Borris put a nearly half-meter iron bar into the fire to heat it. When the middle was burnt white, he took it out to brush off the impurities on it, and then immersed it in water for quenching. Ryan knew this process in his previous life, which can make the iron bar harder.
Soon, after repeated forging and heating, the iron bar gradually turned into a crescent shape.
Seeing Ryan come in, Drus, who was pulling the bellows, greeted him eagerly: "Ryan! You are here to help again today. Do you want to continue pulling the bellows?"
Ryan smiled and said, "Druth, I'm sorry, I may not be able to pull the bellows today!"
Under Drus' surprised gaze, Ryan walked up to Boris, pointed to the horseshoe that was being forged and said, "Uncle Boris, I want to learn this. How much is the tuition?"
The blacksmith Boris looked at Ryan in surprise and said, "Ryan, do you have money? You are not my formal apprentice. If you only learn the technology of making horseshoes, the tuition is not low. Although you helped for free, I can't give you a discount on the price I should charge."
Ryan couldn't help but secretly complain after hearing this. It turned out that the rumors were true. The blacksmith Boris had good skills, but he was extremely stingy!
"Of course, Uncle Borris, how much is the tuition for learning to forge horseshoes?"
"I'll teach you horseshoe forging for a month, 12 silver coins! If you can't learn it after the expiration, I can't do anything, but the tuition is not refundable."
Hiss! Hearing this price, all the blacksmith apprentices around looked at each other, as if to say that Ryan was afraid of asking for trouble this time!
After all, this price is too high for most people, not to mention Ryan, who is not from a good family.
Ryan was also speechless.
This price!
Just one month, and it doesn't include learning!
You know, the income of an ordinary adult male working in Shining Gold Town for a month is roughly 2 to 3 silver coins.
The currency system of the Dragun Empire is a bit similar to the United Kingdom in Ryan's previous life. 1 Imperial gold coin can be exchanged for 12 Imperial silver coins, 1 Imperial silver coin can be exchanged for 20 shillings, 1 shilling can be exchanged for 12 pence, and the purchasing power of 1 penny is about 1 pound of rye bread.
But you still have to learn!
Ryan pretended to be distressed, took out an imperial gold coin from his arms, handed it to the slightly surprised Boris, and said:
"Deal! Uncle Boris!"
"This time my family signed me up for the child servant training of the Habsburg Manor. The goal is to be a blacksmith apprentice, so my family specially prepared some money for me to learn the common blacksmith skills."
Ryan said half-truthfully, explaining the origin of the money.
"It seems that old Ryan has high hopes for you. Come on, kid! Don't learn from my stinky boy, who goes to the county town every day to fool around, and now he can't even find anyone!" Boris suddenly patted Ryan on the shoulder and said with emotion.
This made Ryan have a different view of Boris in his heart. Even if Boris was as stingy as he was, he still wanted his son to become a dragon.
"Come on! Ryan, give me a hand!" After saying that, the blacksmith Boris handed Ryan a heavy blacksmith hammer.
Just as Ryan grasped the hammer that Borris handed to him, suddenly, a row of system prompts appeared, which made Ryan slightly stunned!
[Ding! Detected that the host touched the medium item for the promotion of blacksmith apprentices - the blacksmith's hammer! ]
[The prerequisites for promotion to blacksmith are: 1. Blacksmith apprentice lv3 full level; 2. Strength above 6 points, physique above 6 points; 3. Forge any ten qualified blacksmith products! The current conditions are not met! Promotion to blacksmith failed! ]
Ryan was immediately overjoyed. It turned out that the key to the promotion of blacksmith apprentices to blacksmiths was here!
"Ryan! What are you still standing there for?"
"Oh, okay, Uncle Borris!"
Ryan quickly came to his senses and immediately began to help forge.
Ryan, who had just started learning, only needed to complete one process, which was to beat a groove on the U-shaped iron bar.
After the iron bar used as a horseshoe was beaten into a crescent shape, the following process required the cooperation of two people.
The blacksmith, Boris, held the iron bar in his left hand and heated it again, while in his right hand he held a sharp tool, shaped like an axe, and moved it quickly on the iron bar.
Ryan, on the other hand, followed the rhythm and swung the hammer vigorously, hitting the slightly wider top surface of the "axe". The "axe blade" was relatively narrow, and under the heavy blow, it would leave a long and narrow groove on the hot iron bar.
This horseshoe groove is to accommodate the soil on the ground and enhance the grip of the horseshoe.
Although Boris's fee was very expensive, his teaching attitude was good. While guiding Ryan's strength rhythm, he also explained to Ryan the full set of horseshoe forging experience.
This benefited Ryan a lot.
Not long after, the system prompt appeared again:
[You have forged horseshoes, and the relevant understanding has been improved! ]
[You have understood the new skill - forging horseshoes]
[Your skill of forging horseshoes has been improved, experience value +2]
[You focus on forging horseshoes, blacksmith apprentice professional experience value +5]
Obviously, after participating in the horseshoe forging, the professional experience of the blacksmith apprentice has risen rapidly, far exceeding the previous bellows.
This may be the meaning of 'krypton gold'!
At the same time, one qualified horseshoe after another was forged by Ryan and Boris.
But unfortunately, it seems that because most of this part of the work was completed by the blacksmith Boris, the system did not recognize that these horseshoes belonged to Ryan's forging.
Naturally, it cannot meet the condition of forging ten qualified blacksmith products.
This made Ryan a little disappointed.
He still wanted to be promoted to blacksmith as quickly as possible.
However, besides horseshoes, what else could be learned quickly?
Hey! Got it!
That's the iron nail for horseshoes! This thing is relatively simple to make. Logically speaking, horseshoe nails should also be considered blacksmith products.
Ryan still remembered a proverb in his previous life: "Lose a horseshoe nail, lose a horseshoe; lose a horseshoe, break a warhorse; break a warhorse, lose a king; lose a king, lose a war; lose a war, lose an empire."
So horseshoe nails are small, but they are also very important.
Taking advantage of the break, Ryan asked the blacksmith Boris that he wanted to learn the forging skills of horseshoe nails first.
Although Boris was very surprised why Ryan insisted on learning the forging skills of horseshoe nails first, instead of the more important horseshoes, he agreed readily after a little thought.
Because horseshoe nail forging is also part of Ryan's tuition. After all, after the horseshoe is made, it needs to be used with horseshoe nails, and the order of the two is irrelevant!
Ryan calmed down his excitement and began to forge horseshoe nails seriously according to the instructions of the blacksmith Borris.
Although at the beginning, the horseshoe nails made by Ryan were crooked and none of them could be used, but slowly, qualified products began to appear!
Sure enough, as Ryan had guessed before, the horseshoe nails were identified by the system as any qualified blacksmith products.
Suddenly, Ryan was overjoyed, and he was like chicken blood, swinging the hammer vigorously, sweating profusely to forge horseshoe nails.
The blacksmith Borris on the side looked at Ryan, who was passionate and forging horseshoe nails, with a puzzled look on his face, shook his head and said, "What a quirk!"
Finally, before lunch, Ryan achieved both goals.
Any qualified blacksmith product (10/10), achieved!
Blacksmith apprentice lv3 (500/500) full level, achieved!
(End of this chapter)
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