At night, I shoveled my yew sticks with sappers.

First, half of the sapwood is cut off to make a raw material of half sapwood and half wood core, the size is two fingers and a half square, the head and tail are carved into the line groove with a dagger, and then taken to the fire and roasted.

My cousin also sat next to me and joined me in the fire.

I wanted to get close to her, so I handed her the bow wood made for Kexin, and said, "Come on, come on, do me a favor and roast it!"

My cousin took the hand, and did my example, and stretched the bow over the flame to allow it to be roasted by the heat.

She asked me a little curiously, "Does this have to be dried before it can be used?"

"Yes!" I looked like an expert: "Not only do you have to bake it, but you have to tame it while roasting, this wood is too straight to build a bow, you have to tame it before you can use it, you have to do it like this for days, this process is called bow taming." ”

My cousin broke the wooden strip in her hand: "What is this tree called, it looks very elastic!"

I said: "This is yew, also known as yew, this tree was used to make bows and arrows in the European Middle Ages, and I heard that it is very powerful, and the effective range can reach one or two hundred meters, which is faster than ordinary pistols." Fighting a wild deer and a wild boar is not a difficult task. ”

The cousin will be suspicious: "The wild boar skin is so thick, this bow and arrow is so powerful, can it penetrate it?"

I said, "Don't believe it, as long as you use a good arrow, what skin can't be nailed into?"

My cousin said, "But what about your good arrows? The arrows of your arrows should be made of iron, right? Where do you go to get iron?"

"Hey, hey!"

I learned from the tone of the star master and said, "This is not difficult for me, as an excellent agent...... No, good survival expert, I'm not in vain. An experienced master like me will make the best use of everything, and know why I kept picking up cartridge casings and bullets when I used a gun before? These steel bullets, pointed, that is the best arrow material, put a bullet case on the arrow body, and press the bullet into it, it is a top-level sharp arrow!"

My cousin gave me a blank look: "You're quite good at calculating these little days!"

I said, "Of course. ”

I compared the bow wood in my hand, a little proud: "When I'm done, I'll show you what is called a hundred steps through the poplar, just the whitebark tree in front, if I can nail it three inches deep, I will break this thing into two pieces myself!"

The cousin raised her eyebrows and said, "A hundred steps through Yang?"

I said, "yes." A hundred paces away, about a hundred meters or so, pierce the trees! The ancients could do it, don't you think your cousin can't do it?"

My cousin said: "But I seem to remember that the meaning of piercing the poplar in a hundred steps means that a person's archery skills are very skillful, and he can hit the leaves of the poplar tree at a distance of 100 steps." You didn't say you were going to pierce the trunk of the poplar tree, did you?"

"Huh?" I said, "Is that what you mean?"

"Well, that's what it means!" my cousin nodded with certainty!

I couldn't help but look embarrassed: "I...... I always thought that a hundred steps through the poplar is to penetrate the trunk of the tree, how can it be a leaf, so why is it not called a hundred steps through the leaves, which is misleading?"

"Hahaha!" Su Wu, a few women sitting opposite me, saw my foreign appearance and laughed at me mercilessly.

With a black line on my face, I silently turned around and took my hot bow wood and did the bending work.

Who invented such a deceptive idiom and made me embarrassed.

My image of being wise and martial is ruined!

……

Along the river, the further down the river, the more tributaries are gathered, and the flow of the small river becomes larger and larger, and the wider the river surface becomes, which is enough to be called a large river.

By noon on the fourth day, on a wide and flat river beach, we finally decided to stay for the time being.

We're all tired from walking.

And it's a long way from that dangerous snake mountain, so we don't have to worry about the panicked snakes. The nearby vegetation is flourishing, there are many wild things, and it is full of life, so we don't have to worry about eating or drinking.

I set up camp on a high beach.

It is close to the river, so it is convenient to get water, and at the same time, the high terrain is not afraid of flooding. I have seen the traces on this earth, and there is no river sand, so I can be sure that even if it rains heavily and floods, the water will not be able to flood here.

On the way here, we happened to find a bamboo forest, so we turned around and cut a few bundles of bamboo to build a bamboo house.

Since you have decided to stay here temporarily, you must build a decent bamboo hut to protect yourself from the cold and rain, and you can't sleep in the wilderness every night like before. If you have the conditions, you have to improve the quality of life!

Oh forgot to mention, mainly because I saw that the sky had changed today, and it seemed that I couldn't help but want to rain, so I stopped here.

It had not rained for a while, and I heard from my cousin that it was time for the autumn rains, and I was afraid that there would be a long period of rain.

It may be cold and rainy!

In this case, it is impossible to walk, so it is better to stop as soon as possible and get through this period of time.

The bamboo hut was built into two rooms, next to each other, one for me and one for the five women.

Of course, I also want to just take one and forget it. But I just thought about it secretly in my heart, and I wasn't thick enough to really do it.

After all, men and women are different, their physiology is different, and it is inconvenient to sleep together. In the past, there were no conditions for rushing, just sleep together, but now that there are conditions, we have to show the quality of our decent gentlemen, don't you.

Alas, the main thing is, I can't find an excuse!

The room of the five women was made very spacious, with a fence against the wall, and a deep trench was dug behind the house to prevent insects and snakes.

Two large canvases were put on the women's roofs, and when it was my turn to make my own house, there was nothing but some raw thatch, so that if it rained heavily, it would be impossible to prevent it.

But I can't control it, let's make plans then, it's great to squeeze with the women, and the reason will be smooth at that time.

After building two bamboo houses, I thought about it and decided to spend some effort to build a large shed in front of the house with ventilation on all sides.

What is it for?

Used to start a fire, with a reserve of dry firewood.

Since God wants it to rain, it will be wet everywhere, and there will be no dry firewood, so we will have to die of cold.

It took a day and a half to finally build the camp.

Next, it's time to go into the mountains to hunt and stock up on food.

If we really encounter a continuous rainy season, the most important thing for us is the problem of eating.

In the past two days, we have seen birds and animals everywhere near this river beach, and there are river fish in the river.

Ke Xin casually set up a few ground bow sets, and one set can have at least two harvests a day!

Fat rabbits and fat chickens, we eat so much that our mouths are full of oil.

Oh, and my bowwood, which I had been taming for three or four nights, should come in handy.

(End of chapter)