Chapter 273: Buying a Bowstring
Li Qing felt the taste of poverty for the first time, in the Qin Dynasty, Li Qing met Meng Yi very early, after that, he never lacked money, after waking up this time, he didn't even have a piece of clothing on his body, and the Tai'a sword was also taken away by the tomb robber, of course, Li Qing didn't know that the person who took his own things was called Zhang Jiao, otherwise he would have to snatch the Tai'a sword back.
Looking at the various items on the market, Li Qing couldn't afford anything, and the little money left by Zhang He could only barely enough for Li Qing and Xiao Zhang Liao to eat and drink, not enough to buy other things at all.
"Hey, there it is."
Li Qing saw a hunter selling roe deer, and had an idea in his heart, since he has no money, then find a way to make money, hunting is the best way to make money.
Li Qing remembered that Zhang He had an old bow at home, and as for the feather arrows, Li Qing felt that he could make them by himself, after all, in the past, in this Yanmen, Li Qing had personally watched Zheng Qiu's process of making feather arrows, and Li Qing thought that it was not a big problem to build a few feather arrows.
"Boss, how do you sell this pheasant?"
Li Qing took a fancy to a pheasant and was going to buy it back to make up for Xiao Zhang Liao, and the pheasant's feathers were just used as arrow feathers.
The pheasant seller was a simple old man, and when he saw Li Qing asking, the old man smiled and said, "Two pennies." ”
Two pennies, this price is acceptable, Zhang He left more than 100 pennies in copper coins, Li Qing decisively took out two pennies to buy the pheasant, and then handed it to Xiao Zhang Liao to hold.
Xiao Zhang Liao hugged the pheasant, his mouth was already drooling, since Uncle Wang was dismissed from the camp because of his age, Xiao Zhang Liao has not eaten meat for a long time.
After buying pheasants, Li Qing spent a few pennies to buy a hammer and a piece of pig iron, which he was going to use to make feather arrows.
Back at Zhang He's house, Li Qing plucked the feathers of the pheasant one by one, which are all good things used to make arrow feathers.
"Wen Yuan, you go and bring some firewood to the courtyard, and the master will make you skewers to eat today."
Li Qing looked at Xiao Zhang Liao who was standing next to him and said with a smile.
Xiao Zhang Liao didn't know what a skewer was, but he was still very obedient and went to carry firewood.
Although he hasn't made a skewer for hundreds of years, for Li Qing, the time when he was asleep seemed to be skipped directly, Li Qing felt that he just fell asleep, and for Li Qing, it was just a dream in Nanliang, and it wasn't even a dream, because Li Qing didn't dream at all.
"Ah, it's so fragrant, Master, this skewer is so delicious."
There was Xiao Zhang Liao's immature laughter in the courtyard, Li Qing's skewers conquered Xiao Zhang Liao, Xiao Zhang Liao liked the taste of skewers very much, just like everyone in the past, Li Qing could always conquer them with food.
Sharpening the shaft of the arrow, creating an arrow cluster, and then trimming the arrow feathers, Li Qing was busy for two or three days, and finally succeeded in making ten feather arrows.
"Master, what are we doing with arrows?"
Xiao Zhang Liao looked at Li Qing, who was fiddling with the arrows, and asked curiously.
Li Qing waved his hand and said, "Hurry up and practice the sword, you will know later." ”
Xiao Zhang Liao pursed his lips, picked up the wooden sword and continued to practice beside him.
"Hey"
"Hah"
Xiao Zhang Liao took the wooden sword, chopping and stabbing at the straw man that Li Qing had tied, looking at the serious Xiao Zhang Liao, Li Qing nodded with satisfaction, and then walked back to the house.
On the wall, there was a longbow wrapped in cloth, and Li Qing grabbed the longbow with his hand and took it off.
"It's quite heavy, it's a bronze bow."
Li Qing was a little surprised, he didn't expect that this bow was actually a copper bow, most of the bows were made of wood, only a few were made of horns and metal, feeling the weight on his hands, Li Qing could conclude that this was a good bow.
Tearing open the strip of cloth wrapped around the bow, revealing the original color of the copper bow, the bow was actually made of brass, and there should be some dark iron mixed in it, making the color look a little strange.
"Hey, there's no bowstring."
Li Qing found that there was no bowstring on the bow, which gave Li Qing a little headache, the bowstring was basically made of the tendons of beasts, a good string can be said to be difficult to buy, and if you want to pull the string of this bow, it is definitely not something that ordinary beast tendons can do.
Li Qing asked Xiao Zhang Liao to continue practicing swords at home, while he took his bow and walked towards the market, ready to buy a bowstring.
Bingzhou is the border, the people are fierce, there are naturally many places to buy and sell weapons, and Li Qing soon found an weapons shop.
"What would you like to buy?"
The owner of the armory shop is a strong man with a dark complexion, it is obvious that this is a blacksmith, and the weapons in this shop should be made by this strong man himself.
Li Qing handed the bronze bow in his hand to the strong man and said, "I need a bowstring, I don't know if you have it here?" ”
"Bowstring? You have found the right place, the entire Yanmen County, the bowstring belonging to my Zhao blacksmith's house is the best, guest, you come with me, your bow is not worthy of the general string, I have a good string in my backyard, which was originally used to make a three-stone bow, but I have not found a good material to match your bow, which is just right. ”
Li Qing followed Blacksmith Zhao to the backyard, and in the backyard, "crackling" was Blacksmith Zhao's apprentice who was striking iron.
Blacksmith Zhao brought a stool for Li Qing to sit down, and then walked towards a hut.
Li Qing walked towards Zhao Blacksmith's apprentice, only to see that the apprentice was building a kitchen knife, as the blacksmith apprentice's hammer fell, the kitchen knife gradually took shape, and to Li Qing's surprise, the method used by this apprentice was the forging method he had taught Zheng Qiu in the past.
Seeing Li Qing staring at him, the blacksmith apprentice glared at Li Qing with some dissatisfaction, as if he was afraid that Li Qing would steal his skills.
Li Qing had a wry smile on his face, turned around and returned to his seat, and at this time, Blacksmith Zhao walked out holding a wooden box.
Blacksmith Zhao came to Li Qing's side and opened the wooden box, which contained a brown bowstring, which revealed a little golden light in the brown, which was worth a lot of money at a glance.
Blacksmith Zhao took the bowstring to Li Qing and said, "Guest, my bowstring was pulled out of Jiaolong's body and wrapped around a circle of gold wire, which can be described as a first-class bowstring, are you still satisfied with it?" ”
Li Qing nodded and asked Blacksmith Zhao to help him put the bowstring on the string.
Blacksmith Zhao hesitated for a moment and said: "Guest, this bowstring is something I got with great difficulty, it is worth three thousand Wen, do you see if you have paid the money first, I am also good at working for this......
"Three thousand Wen?"
When Li Qing heard this, he was taken aback, at this time, all the money on Li Qing's body added up to more than 100 Wen, and he originally thought that a bowstring would be at most a few dozen Wen, but he didn't expect that it could be sold for a sky-high price of 3,000 Wen.
Li Qing's face was embarrassed, looking at Blacksmith Zhao's suspicious eyes, Li Qing's heart suddenly moved, and he thought of a way.