my magic industry

Chapter 12 Bessie
After settling the sundries, Xia Lin asked her mother and Hurley to go to a nearby market to buy the necessary rice, oil and salt.

In order to prevent her mother, who is used to saving money, from saving money, Xia Lin specially told Hurley that he was not used to the kind of brown rice with chaff and stones, and he brought the painting he made last night. Blueprint went to the pier to find his father and elder brother.

Unlike his father who was a mechanical worker at the pier, Xia Lin's eldest brother got a chance to become a blacksmith's apprentice because he was lucky enough to save a blacksmith's daughter who accidentally fell into the water by the pier a year ago.

Although the apprentice has no wages, his master provides food and lightens the burden on the family.

And after leaving the teacher, it is equivalent to breaking away from the poor class. Even among the common people, blacksmithing can be regarded as a decent profession. It is no wonder that the Karl family is called "the lucky Karl family" by the people in the slums.

Xia Lin's past trip just happened to allow the blacksmith to build the centrifuge.

Anyway, the simple centrifuge he designed has a very simple structure. It is just an iron pot with a thickened bottom, and then a rotating shaft is added in the middle.

The upper part of the rotating shaft is a crank structure, which is matched with a wooden frame and a pot cover, which can fix the centrifuge, and then manually rotate the rotating shaft to separate the molasses and brown sugar solution.

As for other power sources, Xia Lin can't think of any suitable ones for the time being. Fortunately, they are produced by small workshops, so they simply use them for a while, and then consider subsequent upgrades when they earn money.

Xia Lin had never been to the blacksmith shop where Anthony was an apprentice, so he first found the members of the Bronze Hand organization on the pier and explained his purpose of coming, but he did not expect that Old John and Anthony were already waiting for him at the pier.

It turned out that Roy and the others went to the pier to tell Old John and Anthony about Xia Lin's news after they returned, and let them wait for Xia Lin to come over at the pier.

Unexpectedly, Roy is still so careful. Xia Lin found that this former playmate is indeed a talent. If he needs it in the future, maybe he can help him and give him a bigger platform for him Use his talents.

"Xia Lin, shall we go back now?"

Seeing Xia Lin, Old John looked relieved. He patted Xia Lin on the shoulder without saying anything, while Anthony rubbed his hands and asked with some hesitation and confusion.

"No, I still have something to go to the blacksmith shop to forge. Brother, you can lead the way, and we will go to the blacksmith shop where you are an apprentice."

Xia Lin was a little puzzled by Anthony's reaction, he thought about it, and quickly came up with a guess.

Could it be that... this guy and the blacksmith's daughter are really on good terms?

"it is good!"

Hearing Xia Lin's arrangement, Anthony immediately grinned heartily.

The bloodline of the Karl family is not bad. Although Hurley is not well nourished, she can vaguely see the appearance of a future beauty.

Anthony has a tall and thick frame. He didn't eat well before, and he looked a bit empty when he wore clothes. However, after eating a year's apprenticeship at the blacksmith's house, he showed a strong appearance, and he was as rickety as Old John. The thin body forms a stark contrast.

Xia Lin sometimes doubts whether Anthony is her own elder brother. After all, he is only about 1.6 meters now, but he has grown tall and burly several years ago.

It's a pity that this elder brother has a gentle personality. If he and Hurley hadn't been bullied when he was young, he would have kept his face sullen and kept silent. Even Bronze Hands would have looked down on him. To be a porter all his life, like old John.

As for Xia Lin himself, he had never seen his own appearance, but judging from the feeling of touching the bones, his facial features were pretty good in this life, and there shouldn't be much difference.

"Anthony!"

The three of them walked to the blacksmith shop where he was an apprentice under Anthony's lead. Before reaching the blacksmith shop, Xia Lin saw a petite figure in a linen shirt and men's coarse trousers squatting at the door of the blacksmith shop, not knowing what he was doing. something.

Seeing the three of Xia Lin, the figure immediately got up and shouted in surprise, and ran over impatiently.

The girl who is said to have been rescued by her elder brother was less than 1.6 meters tall, with short red hair tied into a short ponytail, some freckles on her face, and a vibrant smile that easily aroused a good impression.

"Bessie, I'm back again! This is my brother Charlene Carr!"

Facing the enthusiastic girl, Anthony scratched his head shyly, stretched out his hand and introduced.

"I know, you have told me many times, you have a younger brother who became a master mage!"

Bessie looked at Xia Lin curiously, lowered her head and took out a somewhat strange iron object that looked like a mess of grass from her trouser pocket and handed it to Xia Lin:

"Hello! Xia Lin, I'm Bessie Barker, your brother's future wife!"

"Ok?"

The father and son on the field suddenly turned their heads to look at the big man.

"No... no, well, I admit that I like Bessie, and Bessie likes me too! Dad, I want to marry Bessie!"

Anthony blushed. Seeing that the three of them were staring at him with piercing eyes, it took him a long time before he confessed dejectedly.

"Congratulations, brother! And sister-in-law, thank you for your gift. What is this?"

Xia Lin accepted the gift with a smile. He felt quite interesting about this strange couple. After congratulating him, he looked at the strange iron object and curiously asked his future sister-in-law.

"This is the fire dragon badge I made based on a legend. Although my craftsmanship is a bit poor, but believe me, this evil dragon will protect you for me and Anthony!"

Bessie was not at all embarrassed about her craftsmanship, and she smiled and took Anthony's arm as she spoke.

"I see, then I will keep it carefully!"

After being reminded, Xia Lin vaguely recognized that the weeds seemed to be a giant dragon with spread wings. Although he was a little curious about why the dragon played the role of patron saint, he still nodded and took the badge into the mage in the pocket of the robe.

"Bessie is a good boy. Since you like each other, I'll talk to Blake about it later!"

After Xia Lin and Bessie finished talking, Old John put his hands behind his back, looked at the two sweet children, and said with a smile.

"Then thank you dad!"

Having been approved by Old John, Bessie immediately said happily, and then she seemed to remember something again, and turned her gaze to Anthony.

"By the way, Anthony, didn't Xia Lin buy a house in the North District, and Mom and Dad are going to move there soon? Why are you back?"

"It's because I have something here that my uncle needs to build, so I asked my elder brother to bring us here. Why don't you see if there is any difficulty in building it for me, sister-in-law."

Xia Lin took out two blueprints from his sleeve pocket and handed them to Bessie.

"Hmm...it looks weird, but with my father's skills, there shouldn't be any problem."

Bessie frowned slightly looking at the drawing, and said after thinking about it.

"Is this thing? I can probably build it tomorrow night, but what's the use of this thing?"

During the conversation between several people, a burly man with a beard walked out of the blacksmith shop. He was naked from the upper body and wore a stained leather skirt on the lower body. Thick hair was exposed on his chest. Bessie's red hair, which was almost as long, was tied into a sky braid with a rope, and he looked like a Spartan-style burly man.

"Oh, by the way, I agree to your marriage with Bessie, but you guys have to show me some strength. Your younger brother bought a house in the North District at such an age. If you let my daughter live a hard life in the future , don’t blame me for smashing your head with a sledgehammer!”

The middle-aged strong man took the blueprint and looked at it carefully, while stroking the bushy beard on his chin, he suddenly pretended to be casual and said.

"father!"

Hearing her father's slightly threatening words, Bessie glared at him with her hips akimbo exasperated.

"..."

"Tsk! I have raised my daughter for more than ten years, but I didn't expect that I am not as good as a brat now! Forget it, I won't bother you. I took these two paintings away. Remember to come and get them tomorrow night."

Bessie's father and Bessie stared at each other for a few seconds. In the end, the old father was defeated by his daughter's dissatisfied gaze. He waved his hands boredly and walked towards the blacksmith shop with his head down.

"Then I'll help too, Anthony, you and your brother go back to celebrate the move first! See you tomorrow!"

Seeing this, Bessie grinned, waved goodbye to the three of them, and went back into the blacksmith shop.

(End of this chapter)