Chapter 61: Arrows and quivers
After dragging these bamboos back, the two of them were ready to start continuing the work that had not been done yesterday, Xu Qiang went to tame the bow, and Luo Fatzi went to sharpen yesterday's semi-finished products, and then made tail feathers with Xu Qiang.
Speaking of Xu Qiang alone, he took down the two bows separately, and adjusted the bowstring down a scale again after a little modification of the bow arm, and the two bows were gradually approaching the limit state, and the pulling force of the bow had reached about 20 kilograms at this time. The bow is beautiful, with a handshake five centimeters wide and a rapid transition to both sides until the bow arm is only about one and a half centimeters thick. The whole bow has begun to have some natural bending, and the red and white colors are distinct on it, each taking up half of it, and the clear growth rings are like the beautiful marks left by the waves on the sand, gradually shrinking from the edge of the white bow arm to the tip of the bow. Although it is made roughly, it is very rare to make it without more delicate tools.
After another night, the two bows would finally take shape, becoming the first weapons the two of them would ever make in this world. After hanging the bow on the bracket again, Xu Qiang came to the campfire again, and took out a lump of pine resin from the back basket wrapped in leaves, and placed a handful of koji vegetable roots next to it. Together, these two things are ready to make a binder that sticks feathers to the tail of the arrow.
Pine resin itself is a good binder, which can be used by heating and stirring evenly on the fire. But Xu Qiang wanted to strengthen the stickiness of pine resin, and prepared to add the white liquid from the roots of koji cabbage. This liquid appears after breaking the koji root, and it will be very sticky when twisted with your fingers.
Xu Qiang took out a cleaned slate and put it on the bonfire, the fire was not big, and the flames just touched the bottom of the slate. The pine resin was put on, and as the temperature of the slate gradually increased, the pine resin slowly melted, and after it was all melted, Xu Qiang poured the liquid of the koji root that had been prepared at hand into the pine resin, and stirred quickly until it was fully fused, and the slate that still had residual heat was taken aside.
Holding the arrow cut by Luo Fatzi in his left hand, holding a thin bamboo branch in his right hand, picking up a little pine resin mixture and smearing it on the tail of the arrow five centimeters upwards, and then taking out one from a pile of longitudinally cut in half of the tail feathers and gently sticking it to the pine resin, pressing tightly; After attaching the same two tail feathers, an arrow is made. Then use the small scissors that come with the multi-purpose Swiss Army knife to trim the feathers to ensure that the tail is basically balanced.
One of the two of them sharpened arrows, the other made tail feathers, and they did it very quickly, and the two of them talked and laughed softly from time to time, telling interesting stories about the two of them in the past, as well as those good memories.
When concentrating on one thing, time flies quickly, and so does Xu Qiang. By four o'clock in the afternoon, the two had finished making more than 180 bamboo arrows, and also selected a few suitable branches from the birch trees they pulled back, and made more than 30 birch heavy arrows. This kind of heavy arrow Xu Qiang deliberately made a thick circle at the position of the arrow, and carved it into an arrow with a barb, which looks sharper.
After dividing the arrows into two parts and placing them in the corner, Xu Qiang took out a sun-dried wolf skin and a roll of vines that had been picked back two days ago, and said to Luo Fatzi:
"Come, fatty, let's make two quivers now, and make these preparations while the bows are not tamed. Tomorrow morning the bow will be ready to use, and neither of us will have time to make quivers. ”
Luo Fatzi stood up and stretched a big lazy waist, returned Xu Qiang's contemptuous look, and said with a smile:
"Brother Qiang, I found that if you were in the original era, you would definitely become a hated boss, you are almost a week, don't you know how to let your employees take a break?"
"Haha, no way, far away from modern society, if we can't discipline ourselves here, we are likely to be eliminated by this society. So, let's work harder, you cook the meal first, I'll go and straighten the wolf skin, you slowly rub the rope, and try to get these two quivers before dinner. ”
"Okay, I've got to add a meal, a calamus pork heart soup, and a roast grouse, yes!"
Looking at Luo Fatzi, who was happily preparing dinner, Xu Qiang was also uncomfortable in his heart, but he could only let the two of them immerse themselves in this busy life and reduce some memories of their previous lives. The small talk between the two this afternoon is a kind of catharsis of their inner feelings, and they may be a little selfish, but this is the motive or excuse for the two to continue. Survival is one of the goals of the two of them at the moment, and to live better. Come on!
Before dinner, Xu Qiang had already cut the tanned wolf skin into two pieces of suitable size and shape, and waited for the rope sewn into a cylinder and made of vines to use. And Luo Fatzi was also in the gap between cooking, and rolled out a two-meter-long rope.
After Luo Fatzi lightly pinched a little salt and put it in the hanging pot to taste, he put the hanging pot on the simple table, and a grouse was cut in half and placed on the table, ready to eat.
The pork heart soup with a light salty taste made the two of them full of praise, chewy and chewy, with a strong wild taste, which has an endless aftertaste in the mouth. The grouse tasted unsatisfactory, the barbecue was very thorough, but it lacked some seasonings, and it felt like it couldn't be swallowed until the end, but in order to replenish energy, it could only be eaten with the pork heart soup. In the words of the sixties and seventies: some are good to eat!
The soup is full and the food is full, and the heart is satisfied! This is a true portrayal of the two at the moment, in such a dangerous ancient world, there is such a warm nest, brothers who support each other and are like siblings, and the two will not seem lonely.
After dinner, the two of them beat the vines, extracted some fine fibers from them, and then kneaded them into thin threads, took a Swiss Army knife, folded a quiver in half with the conical knife on it, and pierced some small holes in the edges, and threaded the threads through these dense cones, sewing the edges of the butt firmly.
Then a round piece of leather is used as a base for the bottom of the quiver, and then the eye is pierced with a conical knife, and the fine thread is sewn; Finally, a piece of rope was sewn onto the quiver, and a simple quiver was made. The two of them tried the feeling of carrying them on their backs, well, there was a bit of a hunter's taste in it, and if they were paired with bows and arrows, then they would be more like hunters in the mountains.
With the first experience, the second quiver was also completed quickly, with the two quivers hanging together under the eaves of the shed.
Seeing their work, the two looked at each other and smiled, raised their right hands and high-fived them in the air
"Yay!"
Luo Fatzi was very happy, like a child, jumping up, almost touching the bamboo pole lying horizontally above his head. He raised his hands to stretch again, but his movements stopped abruptly, and his right ear kept shaking in the direction of the edge of the forest.