Chapter 6 Do you think I'm easy to bully? As the saying goes, now that we have come, we should make the best of it. If you want to live a good life in the future, you have to survive now. Gu Chan could only think this way at the moment, so she gritted her teeth and endured it for the time being. Handing a steamed bun to Zhang Wanshan, she said sensibly, "Grandpa, I'm still young and can't finish two buns. Please help me eat one." Zhang Wanshan stretched out his wrinkled old hands to take the steamed bun, and looked at Gu Chan with tears in his eyes. Gu Chan waved her hands quickly, "Grandpa, don't think too much. I really can't finish it. Come on, let's eat together. After we finish, I will learn how to forge iron from you." "Well, okay, good boy, let's eat together." Zhang Wanshan turned his head away and secretly wiped away his tears. Then the two of them happily ate the white flour buns together. Gu Chan took big bites of the food, but she had a different feeling in her heart. Before she traveled through time, she stayed in the store all day, with no one around her except cats and dogs. Her parents at home didn't care much about her and gave all their love to her younger brother.
Now that she had come here, she unexpectedly met a grandfather who gave her the only two steamed buns he had left. She felt the love and affection she had been missing. "Maybe time travel isn't all bad!" Gu Chan said to herself while eating. There was finally a smile on her face, a smile that came from the bottom of her heart, because she felt loved. After eating the steamed buns, Gu Chan began to learn blacksmithing from Zhang Wanshan. The craft of blacksmithing looks simple, but it is difficult to learn. How long does the iron block burn in the furnace? How many times does it need to be hit with a large hammer when it is put outside? How many times does it need to be hit with a small hammer? How long does it take to return to the furnace? How to hammer it after it is formed? Every process has its own requirements. Gu Chan learned it quickly, but for her, a girl with thin arms and legs, this was not a job she could do, or perhaps this skill was not suitable for her. But in order not to make her grandfather sad, she persisted. Half an hour later. "Old Zhang, the village chief wants you to come over." Just as Gu Chan was hammering iron and sweating profusely, a deep middle-aged man's voice was heard in front of the door. The man was called Zhao Erniu, he was in his forties, and he used to be a famous hunter in the village. However, due to the war, most of the mysterious beasts were captured for fighting, and the mysterious beasts in the mountains were too fierce and difficult to hunt, so he had to change his career and work as a blacksmith. "Okay!" Zhang Wanshan responded in a hoarse voice. Putting down the hammer in his hand, he looked at Gu Chan and said, "You learn slowly first. I'll be back soon." "Grandpa, the village chief called you, it's not because of me, right?" Gu Chan's face was full of worry. "It's okay. Grandpa will hold it up even if the sky falls. Just focus on your ironmaking." Zhang Wanshan laughed and hurried out of the door. Zhao Erniu looked at Gu Chan while slowly walking in from the door. When he came in front of Gu Chan, he touched his chin with his right hand and kept staring at Gu Chan. Gu Chan would occasionally look up at him, and she discovered that although this man was dressed in ordinary clothes, a coarse linen shirt and patched trousers, he was different from most of the villagers.
He had well-developed muscles, especially his chest muscles. He had a square face, a full beard, and bright eyes. He was definitely not a weak person. "Boy, do you know why everyone is so mean to you?" The two looked at each other for a while, and Zhao Erniu finally spoke coldly. Gu Chan shook her head. Zhao Erniu sneered, "Everyone in every village in our Tiancang country has to pay a head tax every month. If any family can't pay, according to the law, everyone in the village has to collect money to pay for him. Old Zhang has a hard time paying his own head tax every month, and with a burden like you, he won't be able to pay the tax, and everyone in our village will have to collect money for him. Do you understand?" "Humph! Isn't it just a poll tax? I can earn the money to pay it myself. There's no need to trouble you." "Oh! Boy, you are quite arrogant, aren't you? Let me tell you, I am entrusted by everyone to ask you to get out of here. Go back to where you came from and don't drag us down, otherwise I will make you pay." Zhao Erniu said, deliberately rolling up his sleeves to reveal his muscular arms as thick as his thighs. Of course, he couldn't possibly attack a child like Gu Chan, but he could still scare her. Whenever any child in the village was disobedient, he would usually teach them a lesson and always be able to scare the child into submission. But he obviously underestimated Gu Chan. How could Gu Chan be one of those little naked kids with their bare butts and exposed skin in the village? Thinking that Zhao Erniu was really going to punish her, Gu Chan held the hammer in her left hand and grabbed the raw iron in front of her with her right hand, which had just been forged into the shape of a long sword, and shouted at Zhao Erniu, "What, you still want to attack me? Come on, try it, do you think I'm easy to bully?" "..." Zhao Erniu was stunned, and immediately looked at Gu Chan with his mouth wide open, his face full of shock. It was because the pig iron that Gu Chan was holding in her right hand at this moment, which had just been forged into the rough shape of a long sword, was still red and had not cooled down at all. Even if this kind of pig iron cooled down and turned dark, its temperature was still very high. Who among ordinary people would dare to just reach out and pick it up like Gu Chan did! Not to mention, at this moment, Gu Chan held the red pig iron in her hand, as if she couldn't feel its heat at all. This...how could Zhao Erniu not be shocked? Gu Chan was furious. She glared at Zhao Erniu and shouted, "Come on! Do it! Believe it or not, I will kill you with a knife." "You... aren't you hot?" Zhao Erniu held it in for a long time and finally uttered these words while staring at Gu Chan. Gu Chan came back to her senses and looked at the pig iron in her right hand. She was frightened and trembled on the spot, "Oh my God!" Then Gu Chan loosened his grip, and the red pig iron fell to the ground with a plop. "Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle..." When the pig iron touched the water stains on the ground, it emitted a series of burning hissing sounds, and white steam quickly rose up and floated into the air. Zhao Erniu was so stunned that his eyes almost popped out of their sockets. Gu Chan looked puzzled, staring blankly at her right palm, "No injury? It's not hot either! Why can't I feel the heat?" "It seems that you are a talented kid! You really have some talent." At this time, Zhao Erniu came back to his senses and shouted excitedly. When he looked at Gu Chan again, the look in his eyes had changed from disgust to overjoyed as if he had found a treasure. The next second, before Gu Chan could react, Zhao Erniu had already rushed forward, stretched out his arms and pinched her armpits, picked her up from the ground and lifted her into the air, "Boy, I underestimated you, you seem to be a person with a very strong physique, with a strong talent for physical training!" "..."Gu Chan. Gu Chan was hanging in the air, completely stunned! What is this? How come she has such a strong talent for physical training? (End of this chapter)