Chapter 11: Bow Making
This news has a nose and an eye, and this news quickly caused a sensation among the students in the whole school, because the three brothers Wang Ming are also famous in the school, the kind that walks sideways, but they were beaten by a third-grade child, it can be seen that Zhang Tao must be very powerful, and Zhang Tao is still a student with good grades, so the sensational ability of this kind of news can be seen, and the wilting appearance of the three brothers Wang Ming also proves the authenticity of this news. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
At this time, all the students in the school knew that Zhang Tao was not only good at reading, but also good at fighting, which made the students of the whole school, whether senior or junior, more and more in awe when they saw Zhang Tao. Even Wang Zhongqiu, who has always been arrogant in the class based on his family relationship, knew that Zhang Tao beat the three brothers in their village alone, and he looked at Zhang Tao with more scruples, he never thought that his little friend, who used to play well, would have such a hand.
What about kung fu, the legendary martial arts, you must know that the most popular movie at this time is martial arts TV, how many teenagers have such a heroic dream of going to the world in their hearts, but unfortunately what they lack the most is martial arts, so at this time, their yearning enthusiasm for people with martial arts can completely melt the ice, and Zhang Tao's eyes are full of fear and admiration.
Zhang Tao didn't feel much about this, but this effect was what he wanted. If you want to be a village tyrant, you have to be scared, afraid that this thing will be grabbed from the doll. Let the whole school know that they can fight, let them all be afraid of themselves, and in the future, as long as they are angry at the crown, these guys will grow up and see their instincts and respect, that is the best policy. So the spread of this news represents the first step of the village tyrant, and he has begun to take it.
Because the final exam is coming up tomorrow, all the students will rest in the afternoon to prepare for the exam, and at the same time, the teacher will arrange for the senior students to rearrange the desks in the classroom. So there isn't much content in today's lesson, and the teacher won't let all the students memorize the text.
At the end of the last class in the morning, the head teacher will come and send each student's student number, because their exam here is a unified examination in the city, and the invigilator will be replaced by a teacher from another school, and the teacher from their school will also be transferred to another school to invigilate, so each student has a unified student number, which must be filled in the test paper.
Under this kind of exam, the position of the students will also change, and it is not like sitting in a row of two people as it is now. At that time, it will be separated by a separate column, and the student number will be seated according to the published student number. The results at this time are very important, it is related to whether you can get a certificate, whether you can upgrade to get a red scarf, and whether you will be beaten when you go home, whether you will be praised for the New Year, and whether you will receive more red envelopes or something. Therefore, at this time, students still attach great importance to their grades, and teachers and parents are also like this.
Zhang Tao received the exam number and just returned to his position, and all the surrounding bear children came over to ask him about the exam number, all of which were worried about failing the final exam. Although they know that the exam is very strict and they want to copy it difficult, there are always a few people who commit crimes against the wind every semester, or purely because they want to sit close to Zhang Tao and get a little comfort. Zhang Tao smiled and immediately said his exam number, those who sat with him were very happy, and those who didn't sit together felt a little depressed, so they hurriedly flipped through the books and went to sharpen their guns.
At this time, the third grade of primary school in the countryside only took two subjects, Chinese and mathematics. It will take a few years to test what nature, history and ideological character, but now it is still simple, and the test will be completed in one day. In the morning, I will take the Chinese language test and in the afternoon I will take the mathematics test. Zhang Tao only sat in the classroom for more than half an hour for an hour and a half when he took the Chinese exam, and then ran away in advance regardless of the stern eyes of the Chinese teacher who was inspecting, and the invigilator teacher would not care if he finished leaving the students early, but his own teachers would take care of it, and each school would leave one or two teachers in their own school to inspect the examination and entertain the teachers who came to invigilate the exam.
In the eyes of the Chinese teacher, after the test is completed, you should carefully check your test paper several times before leaving the examination room, such a student is a good student, maybe you can get a few more points after a check. It's a pity that Zhang Tao doesn't have this concept at all, it's stupid to sit stupidly in the classroom in such a cold weather, such a simple question, he just checked it, and when he goes back, he can make lunch in advance.
The same is true for the math exam in the afternoon, Zhang Tao still ran ahead of time after completing the inspection, although the Chinese teacher was still on patrol, he still seized the time to threaten Zhang Tao, "Why are you running so early?" I'm telling you, if your grades drop in this final exam, I'll have to ask your mom to come to school, it's too unusual, I'll warn you if you run so fast in the morning, and you will come again in the afternoon. ”
Zhang Tao didn't seem to hear it, and when the Chinese teacher didn't pay attention, he ran away, making the Chinese teacher angry enough, but he was secretly planning to settle the account with Zhang Tao when he received the report card. Their teachers at this time also have to look at the students' grades, if the average score of all the students in the class is at the top of the school district, they will also have a bright face as a teacher, and there are some practical rewards, so he will care about the students' grades very much.
To say how responsible the teachers in their school are to their students, Zhang Tao has never felt it. He studied in primary school for six years, junior high school for three years, and high school for two years, and met a teacher who was responsible for his students, or in the sixth grade of primary school, but unfortunately he lived up to the expectations of that teacher, as for the performance of other teachers, Zhang Tao could only hehe.
Zhang Tao returned home quite early, and there was no TV to watch at this time. After being bored in the room, he simply found some shady old bamboo from the room, and prepared to make a bow and arrow by himself. This plan has been there for a long time, so the old bamboo pole was also prepared by him in advance, and he cut it back from the kind of old bamboo that has grown for several years directly from the bamboo forest in the village, and now he has time to make a bow after the exam.
What Zhang Tao planned to make was a simple compound bow, this kind of bow and arrow Zhang Tao had made himself in his previous life after he was discharged from the army, when he stayed at home for a while, and he felt bored and made one. If the craftsmanship and materials are excellent, the bow he makes can reach a range of 200 meters.
But now Zhang Tao doesn't need such a long range, and he is satisfied with the lethality of a 100-meter accurate range, because the materials on his hands are limited. Remove the bamboo branches that are taken out, then cut them from above, cut them in two, then cut them flat, remove some details, and cut the bamboo pieces into several symmetrical and beautiful pieces. Then select a piece and narrow the middle end of the bamboo piece, and use this place as a handle. Then take a bamboo board that is wider than the narrower but slightly longer, and also do the tapering treatment, superimposed on both sides, and then use glue to dip the rope wrapped around it to prevent the handle from deforming.
Time passed quickly in Zhang Tao's busyness, and it began to get dark in a blink of an eye, Zhang Tao looked at the sky and immediately stopped what he was doing. Anyway, it is impossible for him to make this bow today, and then he will have to roast the bamboo pieces with fire and bend them with ropes, and it is not easy to make arrow shafts and arrows, and it is estimated that it will take more than half a day to do it. And the time of the second snow is not so fast, it is estimated that it will not come until after I receive the result notice, so I am not too anxious.
After packing up his own things, Zhang Tao began his daily routine after returning from school, carrying water, feeding chickens, feeding pigs, and then bathing in hot water and cooking. However, these days, as long as Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yan come back, they will also do some separately, not exactly Zhang Tao is busy alone, which makes Zhang Tao's mother feel very happy, and her own children are finally sensible.
After the final exam, he didn't have to go to school the next day, Zhang Tao still got up early as usual, ran and exercised, then swept the floor, cooked, and helped the family cook porridge and rice - Zhang Tao and their family cooked porridge in the morning, and then fished out most of the half-cooked rice, and kept it for steaming at noon and eating, and the rest of the rice was boiled directly into white porridge, or put some green vegetables, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, beans or something, boiled into various porridges and eaten for breakfast, Zhang Tao's family only liked to eat pickles with white porridge, so Zhang Tao only boiled white porridge out.
Daniel Zhang and Zhang Yan took advantage of the winter vacation to sleep, which was much warmer than lying on the bed, and it was wet and cold outside. And there are not many things to be busy at home during this kind of time, except for some dirt things and pigweed, there is nothing else to do, so they can rest assured that they can sleep for a while.
"You're still up so early after winter vacation today? Didn't you like to sleep like them before? Zhang Cuihua didn't expect her youngest son to get up so early after the winter vacation, a little surprised, when she got up, Zhang Tao had already come back from exercising outside, and she also boiled the hot water for washing her face in the morning, and now she is cooking porridge with rice.
Zhang Tao didn't explain, and after finishing his daily routine, he plunged into his homemade bow and arrow. All the bamboo chips that were cut yesterday were soaked in tung oil and dried, which was to prevent the bamboo pieces from getting damp and affecting the effect of the bow and arrow. He used the same thin wire with insulating skin to tie the rope of the bow, and the direct current wire used to detonate the detonator in the mine. The bowstring is made of winding thick fishing line, which has good elasticity, and this kind of line is the most suitable thing for Zhang Tao to make strings.
Zhang Tao straightened and rounded the shafts of the arrows, which were made of their own dry tea tree poles, a kind of hard-wooded tree with good toughness, and then put on iron arrows, which Zhang Tao himself had polished with finger-sized steel bars, and then put bamboo pipes on top of the shafts. These are all careful work and require patience, and it took Zhang Tao more than a day to make thirty arrow shafts.