Pig Killer

"Be good and wait for me to bring you some delicious food." Shen Changsheng looked at his eldest nephew tenderly and said, then his eyes fell on his niece and said, "Listen to your mother."

"I know." The big tiger brother and sister nodded obediently.

Shen Hui'e and her two daughters sent Shen Changsheng away and said to the big tiger, "Let's go find a bricklayer."

"What are you doing?" Da Chong looked at her in confusion and asked.

"Let's build a clay stove for the family! We can't cook inside when the weather is hot." Shen Hui'e looked at them with a smile and said, "Let's build a stove that can hold a big iron pot so we can boil water for bathing."

"Take a bath?" The raccoon slave scratched his head.

"Yes! Take a nice hot bath." Shen Hui'e raised her arm and sniffed, "I feel like my body smells, it stinks."

"Eh..." The raccoon pinched his nose with a look of disgust.

"You are so disgusted! Let's take a shower." Shen Hui'e looked at them with eyes as bright as spring and said, "Now are you going to come with me to find your uncle, or continue laying cobblestones at home."

"Paving cobblestones!" The big tiger looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "Mother, what are you going to do with your uncle?"

"Does your uncle know where the bricklayer is?" Shen Hui'e said to them with clear eyes.

"I know where he is?" Da Chong said enthusiastically, looking at her with his round eyes and said, "Dad knows him."

"Is there anyone your father doesn't know?" Shen Hui'e shook her head and chuckled when she heard this.

"There must be a lot of people taking care of the stove now. If you ask your uncle, it will be faster." Shen Hui'e said to them with a smile.

"That's right! Uncle makes iron pots, and Uncle Liu makes benches. There are more people." Da Chong looked at her with his bright eyes and said, "If they weren't very familiar with each other, I don't know how long this line would end."

"Yeah!" Shen Hui'e nodded slightly and said, "If you don't want to follow me, I'm leaving and will be back soon."

"We're not going." Da Chong said obediently and sensibly.

Shen Hui'e took lard and pork, carried a vegetable basket and went to her brother-in-law's blacksmith shop.

Tiefeng's blacksmith shop is just like his own butcher shop, with a front shop and a back store.

It must be hot in the summer! Shen Hui'e complained in her heart.

Before I got close to the shop, I heard the sound of iron being hammered.

Shen Hui'e stood outside the shop, looking at Tie Feng, who was shirtless and smashing iron with a big hammer, without saying a word.

Shen Hui'e waited patiently for him to finish forging iron, put the iron into cold water, and white smoke came out, then she said, "Brother-in-law."

Tie Feng turned around and smiled at her, "Second sister, why are you here?" He looked at the basket in her hand and pointed to the yard inside and said, "You are here to look for Yun'e! She is not at home now. She went to see Doctor Li." He said embarrassedly, "My place is messy. Please come into the yard and sit for a while."

Doctor Li? There is news, Shen Hui'e thought to herself.

"I came to find you." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear and bright eyes.

"Looking for me? Tell me what's the matter." Tie Feng turned around and faced her, took the clothes from the rope, put them on, wrapped them up and tied them up.

"Tell the two people who built the stove for me that I need to build another stove at home." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her glassy eyes and said simply, "That's it."

"Didn't you build one?" Tie Feng asked in confusion.

"Build one in the yard. When the weather gets hot, we can stop burning fire in the house." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and clear eyes and said, "This earthen stove needs to hold a big iron pot!"

"No problem." Tie Feng understood and responded readily, "I'll go when Yun'e comes back."

"Okay!" Shen Hui'e nodded and smiled, "It'd be better to hurry up, I need it urgently."

"Okay! I'll urge them a bit." Tie Feng looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "Business has been good recently, I'll ask them to squeeze in some time."

"Thank you for your help." Shen Hui'e looked at him gratefully and said.

"No trouble, no trouble." Tie Feng said embarrassedly, "Without you and my brother, my blacksmith shop business wouldn't be so good."

"Is this lump of iron still okay to use?" Shen Hui'e asked again with concern.

"It's easy to use, with few impurities and high iron content." Tie Feng said with a bright smile on his face, "It's very good, and it's much easier to fight."

"That's good." Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear and bright eyes.

"Second sister, is there anything else you want to fight for?" Tie Feng said enthusiastically.

Shen Hui'e thought about it carefully and said, "Not at the moment."

Some things require chance and a legitimate reason.

"Second sister, come in and sit down. Yun'e will probably be back soon." Tie Feng said enthusiastically.

"It's okay, I'm fine." Shen Hui'e looked at him with her glassy eyes and said, standing at the door and looking at the blacksmith shop, "It's not easy to heat up your charcoal fire!"

"Well! If the temperature is not high enough, the iron cannot turn into water." Tie Feng nodded vigorously when he heard this, and introduced his blacksmith shop incessantly, showing off like a child.

But there are also some very regrettable things...

"It would be better if the temperature was a little higher! It would save time and effort." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes.

"Of course it is, but it's very difficult." Tie Feng said a little frustratedly, "I have tried many ways, but none of them worked." He shook his head slightly.

"It's just to make the fire burn brighter!" Shen Hui'e said in a deliberately exaggerated manner.

"Second sister, second sister, it's not that easy to make the flames burn brightly. It's not like cooking where you can just fan the fire with a big cattail leaf fan." Tie Feng explained quickly, "This stove also needs to be well sealed. It's not like a cooking stove where it doesn't matter if there are drafts on all sides."

"Can you think of any other way?" Shen Hui'e looked at him with her deep eyes blinking.

"I thought about it, why didn't I think about it, I even made charcoal myself." Tie Feng said anxiously, "But burning wood, the heat seems to be the top." He pursed his lips and said, "I use a leather bag, but you can't keep pressing it! I only have a pair of hands. As long as you stop pressing, the flame will go down immediately."

"Skin?" Shen Hui'e looked at him puzzledly and asked.

"This is it." Tie Feng took a look and took the leather bag. He pressed it down like a ball and puff... the air blowing out was quite obvious.

Just keep pressing it continuously.

"You can try stepping on it." Shen Hui'e looked at him with deep and penetrating eyes.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the ancients invented leather bags. By compressing the leather bags to expel air and blow fire, the temperature of the fire could be raised from 800 degrees to 1200 degrees, reaching the melting point of bronze.

Bronze weapons such as the Sword of Gou Jian, King of Yue, came into being.

Tie Feng shook his head slightly when he heard this and said, "No, the stove eye is too high."