Chapter 12 - 11: Visiting the "Artifact Refiner

Chapter 12: Chapter 11: Visiting the "Artifact Refiner

Grandma said, "Take this piece of steel over to your Uncle Jiang at the edge of the village. Ask him to add a bit of it to your chopping knife. In the past, whenever we needed to repair our hoes or axes, we’d just take the old tools to your Uncle Jiang’s house to add a little iron and have them reforged."

Normally, just adding a little iron and reforging the tool would have been enough. But Grandma saw how roughly Li Xiang used his tools, constantly dulling or chipping the blade of his chopping knife, which was why she remembered this piece of high-quality steel they had "treasured" at home.

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