Salt woman and white lotus

1. Double Hammer

There are many branches under the Forge Master, Lingxiu is just one of them.As the undisputed number one blacksmith in the world, Baiyan has reached the pinnacle in all aspects.

The understanding and utilization efficiency of materials, the types and detailed effects of finished products, the speed of manufacturing and transformation, the innovation of forging methods...

Of course, it also includes the mastery of countless forging methods.

Chi Zhongying intends to make achievements in forging like her, so she told Baiyan about her plan.

"At present, I only know a small part of the spiritual embroidery. Although the rest of the spiritual embroidery is only a special technique, I will learn it gradually, but I don't want to be left behind too much by you."

"Then what else do you want to learn?"

"Such as... a caster?"

Casting, when Chi Zhongying was in Wuzhen Forging, she had seen it in the casting pavilion, but she didn't know how.Spirit Embroidery also uses melting and casting methods, but the difference between the two is quite large.

As a direct result of such a mention, Chi Zhongying saw a very rare scene: Bai Yan showed a dignified expression, and nodded cautiously.

On the second day, Chi Zhongying faced Baiyan in the well-equipped Forging Pavilion in Shuanghan Peak, showing an indescribable expression.

"There are interlinkages between the various methods of forging, casting is one, nothing else, the first thing to practice is to know how to use a hammer."

Bai Yan was wearing a waistless yoga vest and wide-leg boxer shorts, with a double-headed shaped hammer starting at three catties in his right hand and a wall-destroying octagonal hammer starting at thirty catties in his left hand. He stood in front of the casting furnace with his face slumped and She explained.

Chi Zhongying has a vague sense of vision, and Bai Yan also said that at the beginning: "Ling embroidery technique, if you know how to use needles, you can master [-]% of it. I will teach you [-]% of it within a month..."

However, it is different from the delicate fairy needle embroidery at that time, when Bai Yan showed his muscles and carried two gleaming sledgehammers, the whole picture became Spartan.

Chi Zhongying: I am confused, surprised, and unable to understand.

"Let me show you first. The most common Jingheng gold in the furnace is now, and I want to use it for casting."

Chi Zhongying watched Bai Yan raise the sledgehammer in his right hand with one hand.

Her figure suddenly grew two feet taller, her originally well-fitting muscles swelled to three times its original size, and a devastating hammering intent was unknowingly attached to her spiritual power.

She slammed the hammer hard on the heated Jing Hengjin.

"Clang!" There was a loud bang.

Chi Zhongying's head hallucinated a pain, as if the hammer hit her head just now.

Afterwards, Chi Zhongying watched Bai Yan smash it for half an hour without haste, passing through multiple processes and the double hammers... Finally, it smashed into a nice little shield.

"The formation is hammered in with a special-shaped hammer during the casting process, and the shaping is also..." Bai Yan put the small shield the size of a palm on Chi Zhongying's hand, "Jing Hengjin was only used in the forging. And its quality is not high, so I simply drew two formations to raise it to three times its original hardness and twice its toughness..."

It's pretty good that Jinghengjin, a basic material like rotten street, can be made like this.

Chi Zhongying looked up at Bai Yan with muscles like a little giant: "..."

The tone and face are still gentle and lovely, but it's a pity that the impact of the scene just now was too strong, and Chi Zhongying still vividly remembers it.

"Why does the caster use this appearance?"

"Because I haven't finished improving the casting secret method, a larger body is better for adjusting the details of the materials and techniques used in the forging process."

"..."

"Do you still want to learn now?"

"……study."

2. Piano

Chi Zhongying occasionally misses the days when she could play the piano very much.Lyrics are really great.

It's a pity that there is no piano in this world.

But it doesn't matter, all the musicians in Qingling have a good relationship with her because of Yun Wuque.Those musicians can't play any piano?

Qin, both musical instruments, must be more or less interoperable.

She can find another way,

to learn-

Make a piano!

Chi Zhongying has never disassembled a piano, but she infers that the structure of the piano should be similar to that of dulcimer and marimba. The strings are struck by a lever composed of keys to produce sound, and then the strings are amplified by something called a soundboard or a speaker.

Anyway, give it a try, and it won't delay you if you fail.

So here comes the question, a piano needs a case, strings, keys, pedals...what else?

After thinking about it, Chi Zhongying decided to take a step at a time and make the shape of the piano first.

She is quite familiar with the grand piano.It's a pity that in the past, she only cared about playing the qin, and the qin was prepared by the family. She tried the feel at most, not knowing if the material was particular about it.

Try it!

Her memories in the Chaos Realm are gradually integrated, which makes her understand all the materials in the world more and more.Just do it, she made a bit of wood that looked good, and stacked them neatly.

Knocking on this, hammering on that, and picking and choosing for a long time, she picked out a kind of wood and made it into the shape of a grand piano.

The power of creation allows her to melt the wood like metal and fix it into the desired shape.Now at least the case looks piano.Modern pianos need metal skeleton support. I don't know if she can directly replace it with wood.

In addition to the wooden case, the keys are also made in the same way.Chi Zhongying recalled the touch of the keys in the past and chose some materials that were roughly the same, and painted 88 keys in black and white and put them away for later use.

Then, here comes the biggest problem.What about the strings?

Chi Zhongying only knows that the strings are metal.

"The world of Yunshu used to make string materials, and there are a total of 72 kinds..." Seeing her distressed look, Bai Yan reported a bunch of data to her, and finally said, "In summary, you The first batch of attempts can be made from these thirteen kinds.”

Chi Zhongying made more than a dozen kinds of strings according to Bai Yan's suggestion, and was about to try, only to find that she seemed to be missing something.

——I can't try the strings yet, she hasn't made a percussion instrument yet.

In her concept, the "key" of the piano is a structure similar to a lever, and the keys, percussion instruments and strings together form a sound-producing whole.

Chi Zhongying tried to fiddle with it.

Time flies, Chi Zhongying silently put down the parts in her hand, planning to go to the kitchen to make some dessert to calm down.

Tapper won't do it!

In other words, it was done, but it was obviously wrong.

This leverage structure seems to be much more complicated than she expected.And when she thought that this structure would be related to the pedal, she felt a headache.

"Forget it, don't care if it's right or not, let's install it first."

Chi Zhongying's piano research has gradually embarked on a strange path, and her research goals have also dropped again and again, from "I must build a good piano" to "I want to build a usable piano" , and now "as long as it can ring"... It really makes those who hear it sad and those who see it cry.

"Ahhh—forget it!! It doesn't matter if it can ring or not, as long as it looks right!"

Time passed day by day, after a series of adjustments by foreign aid such as Ruan, a musician, Ying, a mechanic, Bai, a blacksmith, etc., one day after a month, Chi Zhongying finally worked out a machine that seemed to work. piano.

Chi Zhongying sat in front of the piano and tried to play a ditty. The noise and reverberation that was louder than the melody made her burst into tears.

"Failed!"

Sure enough, the chances of getting a good result from whimsical messing around are very slim.

But the piano is barely playable.

Chi Zhongying jumped off the piano bench.

"Yanyan, let's play the piano!"