Larkin took Boqiang Surdak to the front of the blacksmith’s shop and just saw a burly man dressed in a leather apron with a hammer in his hand forging a red-hot iron bar. Next to him, a young man squatted next to the wind box and yanked the pusher. Every time he pushed the wind box, there would be a blue flame soaring out of the stove.
When the iron bar was burned red, the burly man took the iron bar in the furnace to the chopping block and forged it.
Bo Qiang watched for a while, and the blade of a knight’s sword slowly broke out of the blacksmith’s hand.
Outside the tent, there is a row of wooden frames casually, but there are a lot of iron blanks and some half-finished swords. In addition to these, there are iron tools such as picks, hoes, horseshoes and iron pots
At this time, the burly man saw a talent at the door to insert the chilled iron bar back into the tempering furnace.
He put the hammer in his hand and wiped his face with a towel. He went straight to Surdak and said to Surdak with a simple and honest smile, "What can I do for you, sir?"
Surdak took the Roman sword blade pattern with some rolled blades from Boqiang, which was soaked with purple blood, and the whole blade was full of blood smell.
Surdak put the Roman sword in front of the blacksmith and said
"I want to repair this Roman sword. Can you cover the blade of Roman sword with a steel blade?"
The burly man reached for the Roman sword, scraped the blade of his thumb, and rubbed it back and forth with an oilstone blade. Seeing that the blade was not worn, he handed the Roman sword to Surdak and said
"If you want to wrap the blade again, of course, but although the blade of your sword is rolled up, it is not badly hurt. It will take a long time to wrap the blade again and polish it well."
I said that the oilstone in my hand kept rubbing the Roman sword back and forth for a few times, and sure enough, the place where the blade rolled was no longer so ugly.
Surdak took one look at Boqiang and then compared the Roman sword.
I’m going to lengthen this Roman sword. This Roman sword is not only a little short, but also a little too light for me.
He said these words on behalf of Boqiang. When the blacksmith heard Surdak say this, he nodded and agreed to come.
"Well, I understand. As you wish, I can increase the length and weight of the Roman sword, but I’m afraid there’s no way to keep the pattern on the blade. I’m not good at carving the pattern on the sword. Can you accept this by forging the blade with steel?"
Surdak said very simply, "Yes!"
Soon the blacksmith Surdak discussed the specific details.
If it is simple to repair such a Roman sword, it needs at most three or five pieces of silver coins, but Surdak asked the blacksmith not only to re-clad the original Roman sword, but also to lengthen and increase the weight of this Roman sword, so that this Roman sword needs to be added with some iron works. The maintenance of this Roman sword soared to fifteen pieces of silver coins.
Such expensive repair will almost catch up with the apprentices’ salary for half a month for the common people.
However, Surdak seems that it is quite reasonable for the blacksmith to collect it, so he gave Boqiang’s Roman sword to the blacksmith and made an appointment to pick it up the next evening. Surdak also paid half of the deposit very cheerfully.
Then Surdak asked the burly blacksmith, "Do you sell fine iron shields here?"
The blacksmith gave a simple and honest smile, pointing to a shop next door and said, "Sir, if you want to buy shields, you might as well go to the shop there. There are several different styles of shields in the shop, and the price will not be more expensive than what I have made here …"
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The blacksmith’s burly blacksmith smiled heroically, and Boqiang followed Surdak into the third shop next to the blacksmith’s shop.
It’s a shop, that is, there are two rows of weapon racks in front of the tent
There is a kind of armor in the weapon rack, which is a shield of various shapes, from yellow pine wrapped with a thin sheet of iron round shield to hard oak wrapped with a sheet of iron square shield. The dwarf chain shield is solid and light, and the knight’s light shield is wide and narrow, showing a half-shuttle kite shield, and even the evil spirits’ chest ribs are cut into bone shields and bronze shields are made.
This is a shield merchant who specializes in selling shields. Among these shields, bronze shields are the most expensive, but it is the bone shield that attracts the attention of Boqiang and Surdak. That bone shield is actually a solid metal bracket behind the sternum and rib shield of evil spirits, so this bone shield is very delicate in design.
Two people gather together in front of the bone shield Surdak said with a face of wonder, "The original evil spirits’ sternum can be like this …"
It seems that he regrets that he didn’t fully raise the body of the former evil spirits, but he can saw the sternum of those evil spirits to make this strange-looking bone shield.
The shield merchant is an ordinary-looking old man. When he heard Surdak’s sigh, he quickly came out of the interface and said
"Then what else is there? The leg bones of evil spirits are made into broken bones and sticks. The bones of evil spirits are as hard as fine iron, and this kind of shield battlefield is extra wonderful."
Surdak asked curiously
"What’s wonderful?"
Bo Qiang’s heart says that if you hold someone’s companion’s sternum, what else can you bring with you?
If not, the shield businessman said
"Soldiers with bone shields will become targets of evil spirits wherever they are, which is more likely to provoke them than ridicule. Buying this shield is mainly to attract evil spirits to hate their peers and create some opportunities to slay evil spirits. But if you dare to take this bone shield warrior, you must be an elite in the team, otherwise it will be directly beheaded by evil spirits on the battlefield. This bone shield shop has not sold ten sides in total."
"Ah, there is this statement … but it seems quite reasonable." Surdak showed a surprised face after listening to it, but he pulled Bo Qiang decisively away from the bone shield weapon rack and asked Bo Qiang, "Which one do you like?"
Bo Qiang glanced over the small round shield and the square shield and stopped in front of the dwarf chain shield
However, he has nothing to say that the shield merchant lifted a dwarf chain shield from the frame and could see that he had some difficulty in lifting it.
The shield merchant said to Surdak and Boqiang
"If the two are infantry warriors, there is no need to carry a heavy dwarf chain shield. The whole dwarf country is made of fine iron. Of course, there is nothing to say about the firmness, but its only drawback is that it is too heavy."
He went red with anger and put the dwarf chain shield back on the gallows and said
"The heavy armor of the infantry regiment is very heavy, and it is too heavy to carry the Roman epee without the burden of horses. It is a little too heavy to choose the dwarf chain shield. It is not as good as this oak square shield covered with a layer of iron, which is strong and resistant. There are so many Woods here that it is easier to repair …"
It seems that the shield merchant has rich experience in making that kind of shield suitable for different professional fighters. He does not recommend Surdak to buy dwarf chain shields.
But before Boqiang came, he already told Surdak that he didn’t want a wooden shield.
Because this shield root can’t stop the sharp thorn in the hand of evil spirits.
Surdak knew Boqiang’s idea and said to the shield merchant, "Forget the hardwood shield."
I asked Boqiang later, "Which do you prefer, the dwarf chain shield or the knight light shield?"
Bo Qiang tends to have a beautiful knight light shield, but the knight light shield is obviously a cavalry, and he is hesitant to design it. At the same time, he thinks that the dwarf chain shield may be more practical
Just when Bo Qiang was struggling, the shield businessman leaned in at the right time and said
"Well, if two guests want to choose between these two kinds of shields, they can buy either one first. The two officers might as well try it for a few days because the price difference between the two shields is not much. If they are not used to it, they can bring it back to me for a return."
Surdak’s eyes lit up and asked, "Is that okay?"
"It’s …"
Shield businessman face confident smile said to Surdak
Soon after, Boqiang and Surdak walked out of the shield shop, and Boqiang had a heavy dwarf chain shield behind him …
Surdak also wanted to stroll around Boqiang in the market to find a suit of overlapping armor suitable for him, but he saw little Gaby with curly hair running breathlessly around them and whispered that Larkin had found a buyer for four evil spirits’ heads …