Starting Off With A Blacksmith Workshop - Chapter 7
Chapter 7: Fatty
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Li Zhenhua picked up the phone and heard a voice. From the voice, he knew who was calling.
“Liu Xiaodong, you’re so well-informed. Did you put a spy near me?”
How did you know I was back? I didn’t tell anyone.” Li Zhenhua’s tone was very familiar.
“Do I need to have a spy? I just came from Liangxiang.
I took the car to Liu Zhuang before dawn. There is a section of road there that needed to be hardened.
I am using my family’s business. I always had to follow when I went over to deliver it for the first time, in case anything went wrong.
Alright, stop talking about me. Wait for me at home.
I’ll go back to the factory with the car to explain first, then I’ll come back to look for you immediately.”
Liu Xiaodong hurriedly hung up without waiting for Li Zhenhua to speak.
Li Zhenhua shook his head slightly when he heard the busy tone.
“This fatty is still the same. He won’t let me speak and he’s hanging up now. How impatient. It doesn’t match his figure at all.”
Li Zhenhua didn’t care about this after that and continued with his work.
Yesterday morning, he had sold a sickle. Today, he would make up for it.
After finding a piece of pig iron from the storeroom and raising the stove, he began to strike the head of the sickle.
Li Zhenhua, who was already forging, did not notice that the many neighbors who were originally gathered in the blacksmith shop had already gone somewhere. In any case, there was no sign of them in the blacksmith shop.
Under Li Zhenhua’s hands, the iron was heated and forged.
Gradually, the shape of a sickle appeared. Just as Li Zhenhua was about to quench the sickle, a hearty laugh came from outside the door.
“Hahaha, you weren’t happy when I called you little blacksmith before. Now you’ve really become a blacksmith.”
He arrived before the voice. Then, Li Zhenhua saw a figure appear at the door. As he walked, the flesh on his body trembled as he walked.
“You fatso, call me whatever you want. Anyway, I’m just a little blacksmith now. By the way, we haven’t seen each other for more than two months. Why do I realize that you’ve gained weight again?”
Li Zhenhua answered Liu Xiaodong’s question and threw the sickle in his hand into the furnace to boil.
“Wait for me at the side for a while. We’ll talk after I quench this sickle.”
As Li Zhenhua spoke, he did his thing again and threw Liu Xiaodong aside.
The sickle was made of very little material, and the blade was not wide. It quickly burned to the temperature of quenching in the furnace.
Li Zhenhua fished out the sickle with pliers and inserted it into the sink beside him. The sink emitted waves of mist.
After staying in the water for more than ten seconds, Li Zhenhua took out the sickle and placed him on the bed with a clamp.
Only then did Li Zhenhua have the time to turn around and go to Liu Xiaodong’s side.
On the workbench, Liu Xiaodong saw the watermelon knife that Li Zhenhua had forged yesterday.
Liu Xiaodong directly grabbed the knife in his hand. As soon as the knife was in his hand, Liu Xiaodong sensed the difference in this knife.
This was nothing like the knives he usually saw. Just from the weight, it felt like a hatchet.
Moreover, Li Zhenhua had polished the watermelon knife into a mirror effect. It was very eye-catching.
Li Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiaodong and asked him with a smug expression,
“What do you think of my watermelon knife? It looks good, right? I spent the entire day yesterday making this.
The quenching and backfiring process is very strict.”
“Zhenhua, did you suffer any grievances outside?”
Liu Xiaodong looked at Li Zhenhua seriously and asked him.
Li Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiaodong in surprise. He was still puzzled.
Had the fat bastard heard something?
Why did he suddenly ask this? No one should know that I had dropped out of school.
Li Zhenhua looked at Liu Xiaodong with a trace of doubt. There was no other expression on the fatty’s face.
Just as Li Zhenhua thought that he knew everything, the fatty’s expression changed.
“Did you get robbed of your love in school? You came home to forge weapons. You can’t die with your love rival!”
There was a hint of teasing in that fat face and wretched smile.
At this moment, Li Zhenhua finally realized that this fatty didn’t know what had happened to him. He was just joking with him. He was just too nervous.
“Why aren’t you saying anything? I didn’t really guess it, did I?”
Liu Xiaodong immediately revealed a sympathetic expression and patted Li Zhenhua’s shoulder to comfort him.
“Calm down. I’ll find you a better one in the future. Why don’t I bring you out to find a girlfriend for a night today? It’ll relieve your fatigue.”
Li Zhenhua came to Liu Xiaodong’s side and kicked his fat butt.
“I realize that you’re getting more and more shameless. A girlfriend for a night. You’re really slutty.
Speaking of which, does Wang Mei know that you’re like this now?
Don’t forget that she had practiced Taekwondo until she had a black belt.
I’ll kick one of your legs into the wall. You won’t be able to take it off.”
Liu Xiaodong’s heart couldn’t help but tremble when he heard Li Zhenhua’s words. Even his expression changed.
“Hua Zi, Zhenhua, Brother Hua, Master Hua, you must not tell Wang Mei what I just said.
If she finds out, my life will be gone.”
“Alright, don’t worry. I’ll definitely buy you an extra pile of fire paper to burn for you.”
I’ll let you have money to spend over there. As for the servant girls, I won’t burn them. I’m afraid Wang Mei will send me away to accompany you.”
Li Zhenhua chatted with Liu Xiaodong in a teasing tone.
“Donzi, stay here first. I’ll go and put out the stove over there first.”
After I’m done cleaning up, let’s go for a drink or two.
“By the way, who’s at home at this time? Call them out too!”
Li Zhenhua thought of something and walked towards the stove as he spoke to Liu Xiaodong.
Li Zhenhua went to the stove and picked out the burning carbon.
It was placed in a very small airtight paint bucket. An iron lid was placed to close the lid with a small hammerhead to prevent air from entering.
Just as he was dealing with these matters, Liu Xiaodong continued the topic of Li Zhenhua.
“We can have a drink or two, but we’re the only ones at home at this time.
The rest of them were out at school, eh? That’s not right! All three of them were in school.
Why did you come back? There’s something fishy about this. Hurry up and tell me what’s going on. You must have something on!”
Li Zhenhua, who had already settled everything, heard Liu Xiaodong finally ask this question.
He didn’t know what to say in his heart. After all, this matter wasn’t easy to say.
Just as Li Zhenhua was thinking about how to answer this question, Liu Xiaodong took out his phone and searched for recent news about Hujiang Science and Technology on the Internet.
This was because he knew that his childhood friend had never been a troublemaker since he was young. He must have suffered a loss this time.
