Chapter 40: Ore 2

  "That's one hundred coins! Here!" Xīu Yáo counted out a hundred copper coins and handed them over to the stall owner, then took the crystal ore and left.

  Nangong Suzi felt that something was wrong, the more she thought about it, the more problems she found, and it seemed like she had been fooled by Xiao Jia Ding again.

  Look at Xiao Jia's attitude just now, it seems that he is rushing towards that crystal mine stone, rather than the thing in his hand.

  Then she followed him carefreely!!

  "Miss Nangong, are you also going in the same direction?" Xiao Yao asked back.

  This time, Miss Nangong didn't say she was a fellow traveler like before. She said directly: "No, this time I'm here to ask you, what is this?"

  Nangong Suzi placed the things she had just bought in front of Xiao Yao!

  "I'm telling you, this is trash, it's just an ordinary magnet, you can throw it away directly!" Xiao Yao replied.

  "...you didn't deceive me?" asked Nangong Suzi.

  "How dare I cheat you, you're the young mistress of the Nan Gong family!! This thing is truly worthless, I just took it so that the old boss wouldn't discover my true intentions. What I really want is this." Xiang Yao said helplessly.

  "...Nangong Suzi wanted to pinch herself, why did she keep making a fool of herself in front of this little thing again and again, and the other party seemed to be fine, she had already reminded herself."

  Could it be that this little Ding is my nemesis? No way, I must find a fortune teller when I get home to calculate it.

  "One last question, what is that thing in your hand?" asked Nangong Suzi, she was very interested in the things that Xiao Yao had managed to get by any means, and knew it absolutely wasn't an ordinary crystal ore.

  "This thing, actually it's just a relatively rare mineral, can be used to forge a pretty good weapon for my boss." Xiao Yao casually responded, without going into specifics, but still giving an answer.

  "A good sword can be worth over a hundred taels, or even several thousand taels. You've made a profit," said Nangong Suzhen.

  "It can't be said that I've made a profit either. I still need to collect other materials and add labor costs, it's very expensive." Xiao Yao shook his head and said.

  "That's also true, but you're from the Mo family, and the labor costs aren't even your own. Although, the weapons that the Mo family is currently crafting are no longer top-notch, they're still not bad." Nangong Suzi didn't forget to step on the Mo family's foot, and she even took out her own sword to prove something.

  This sword is crafted by the world's top craftsmen, and its material and workmanship are both of the highest level in the world. The Mo family can't even make something of this grade.

  "This sword is sharp and sturdy, but it lacks a bit of flexibility. If it encounters a stronger weapon, it will definitely be damaged!" Xiao Yao looked at the sword, "It's too rigid and easy to break, it seems that the person who made it didn't think much about it, or this is a defective product!"

  Nangong Suzi wanted to chop people, her sword was not top-notch, but it was not a second-rate product either.

  "However, it's hard to come across a sword of equal level, so there's no need to consider those." Nangong Suzhen said coldly.

  "It's also certain that there isn't any in Qingyun State, but maybe there will be soon!" said Xiao Yao.

  "What does it mean?"

  "What I made for my boss is definitely more durable than yours!"

  "Oh, then I'll wait and see your results!"

  Nangong Suzi was very dismissive, because she didn't believe that Xiangyang could forge a better sword. The Mohist school didn't have this technology, and if they really did, their top-level weapons wouldn't be someone else's.

  She just didn't know that the forging mentioned by Xiao Yao was done by himself, and it wasn't the Mo family. He still knew a thing or two about casting swords, yeah, he knew a bit!!

  Content Introduction:

  With a small piece of Nine Heavens Xuan Iron obtained from the auction, combined with his own learned crafting techniques, he forged a unique eight-faced Han sword that hid another sword within!

  At the same time, because of the Lantern Festival, I was pulled out by the elder sister to guess lantern riddles. Unexpectedly, I played a magnificent piece on the yangqin, stunning the whole audience...

  ...and Longmen competition is still in progress...

  Cover person:

  Nangong Suzi, a proud and talented young girl, dressed in palace attire, set against the backdrop of the Lantern Festival night...

  Chapter One: The Moon Above the Willow Branches

  The 15th day of the first month, Lantern Festival!

  This evening is a great time for "the moon is above the willow branches, and people are invited after sunset!" Big sister wants to ask someone out today, to be precise, she's looking for an opportunity to ask someone out.

  Before finding an opportunity to ask someone out, Big Sister needs to find someone to help her. Today, she feels that this person's importance is especially prominent and must be found.

  According to recent rumors, this person has been helping out at the Sword Casting Workshop for some time now. From dawn till dusk, even after others have left, he remains inside, but nobody knows whose orders he is following, and neither does anyone bother to find out.

  After all, this person is doing something and doing it better than many others, so naturally no one has any opinions.

  So, the young lady directly rushed to the Mo family's sword casting workshop and then directly grabbed Xiao Yao who was adding fire to the furnace. At this time, Xiao Yao was looking at several furnaces, and there were large and small furnaces here, naturally, the crucibles inside were also large and small. According to different conditions, use different furnaces to smelt iron water.

  The molten iron here is a general term and does not mean that it is all liquid iron after melting, or rather, it is not pure iron.

  Casting different weapons, different levels, and different requirements will have different proportions of ingredients. The so-called ingredient is to put in raw materials such as iron and copper according to the proportion.

  In simple terms, this is alloy manufacturing!

  This continent is a land that uses cold weapons and is also a world where the strong are respected, so the craftsmanship of casting cold weapons has also reached its peak.

  Generally, the casting of cold weapons is collectively referred to as sword casting, because swords are the most commonly used and have the largest number of users, and they can best represent cold weapons.

  Therefore, the so-called sword casting workshop is not just for casting swords, but also for many other weapons, and the iron water needed is also different.

  During this period of time, he stared at the stove every day. If someone paid close attention, they would discover a strange thing - one of the stoves had been burning continuously since he started helping out here, which means that the things inside had not come out yet.

  If someone were to notice this, they would be surprised at what kind of material for a weapon requires such a long time to smelt. Smelting is just one step in the process of casting a sword, and if it takes so much time just for this one step, how long will it take to cast the entire weapon?

  The most successful weapon made by the Mo family so far is the ink sword worn by the Mo family master. According to records, this sword took 100 days to cast at that time, but the smelting time was only 10 days, and most of it was spent on forging, with a small part of the time being quenched and polished.

  It's just that this ink sword is not very advanced in the ranking of weapons, and at the same time, Mo family has never had any purely weapon-based martial arts since then.

  That's right, it's just a simple weapon, and if you add some mechanism to the weapon, there are still a few pieces. Don't forget that Mo's family is a casting tool family, not a casting sword family.

  To put it simply, the main business of the Mo family is casting vessels, while casting swords is just one of many side businesses that can supply some middle and lower-level warriors, as well as equip their own Mo family disciples.

  Now, the materials that Xiao Yao threw into the furnace for smelting have already been seven days, which is almost as long as the time it took to make the Ink Sword. The Ink Sword was completed with the full financial and human resources of the Mo family, but Xiao Yao's is private, can he keep up?

  If you say let people choose the answer, it's definitely impossible, after all, he is just one person!!

  So either Xiao Yao made a calculation error or he doesn't know how to cast swords, but it seems neither is possible.

  Xiaoyao had once forged a few decent weapons for the Mohist school, all of which were top-notch and although not as powerful as the Arms Scripture, at least they could make many strong practitioners fond of them.

  However, the caster of these few weapons was a carefree thing, and no one knew, because everyone didn't notice who cast these few weapons. Occasionally, such high-level weapons would also come out in the Mohist Sword Casting Workshop, so no one went to investigate anything.

  Many times, casting swords is a matter of luck. Sometimes when good fortune arrives, it's normal for several good weapons to appear. At those times, the people of the Mo family just thought that this period of time was lucky and didn't suspect that it was due to individual effort.

  It's no wonder that others didn't notice, first of all, Xīao Yáo himself didn't plan to let people know, he did it very low-key, secondly, the work in Zhù Jiàn Fāng is divided and cooperative, each person is responsible for their own part, unless it's those few main craftsmen, but generally they just supervise and won't actually go and forge.

  Xiaoyao in the Sword Casting Workshop is an exception, he is not inside, he just came to help. He can appear at any position, so he can cleverly arrange himself to complete a process and make a weapon from start to finish with his own hands.

  Just like this time, he suddenly ran to Zhu Jian Fang to help for so long, just to forge a sword for Gu Xing, the most important material used was that crystal ore he bought.

  Just as Nangong Suxin had guessed, the thing that Xiangyao had gone to such great lengths to obtain would naturally not be something ordinary!!

  If he knew what the rubbish was that he had sold to Xiao Yao for one hundred coins, the boss would have certainly scolded Xiao Yao as shameless, a cheat and a thief, and whatever else he could think of. Even if he had made ten taels from selling the magnet to Nangong Susu, it was far from being enough to make up for the value of this ore.

  In this crystal ore, there is a small piece of meteorite iron from outer space. This kind of meteorite iron is hard to come by and very valuable. Even if it were ordinary meteorite iron, such a small piece would be worth hundreds of taels of gold.