"Brother Qiang, I don't feel like this, could it be that you didn't pay attention when you saw it before, but you only saw it recently?" The fat man also spoke his understanding.

"No, I'm sure it only appeared in the past two days, don't worry about it for now, it's not a bad thing anyway, let's think about it when there is a change in you."

The two of them resisted the bamboo back to the camp, the water in the pot had already boiled, but the chicken was not cooked yet, and there was still a lot to wait, the two simply began to busy themselves with their own affairs, Luo Fatzi went to weave the bamboo back basket, and Xu Qiang went to make the bow.

He prepared to make the English longbow, an easy-to-make bow and arrow, which he had learned in the army to make a simple bow.

He chose a two-meter-long yew branch, ten centimeters thick, which had been simply treated to remove the branches, leaving a little knot.

Xu Qiang first tore off all the bark, and then used a hand saw to remove the two ends, and it can be seen that the cross-section is composed of red and white, with the white one being the sapwood and the red one being the core material. Using his fist (about ten centimeters) as a ruler, he intercepted a wooden stick of about 1.85 meters. The back of the bow must not have knots, and in order to maintain the fibers of the bow, the only way to split this piece of stick is to use an axe or a straight knife with a wooden wedge. Next, the half of the wood without knots is slowly cut with an axe, the cutting method is to cut to both sides at the center point, gradually thinning and thinning, the whole bow body is cut into a D shape that is constantly smaller to both sides, the straight edge of the letter "D" is the sapwood, that is, the bow arm, and the curved part is the core material, that is, the bow belly.

The final shape is about 4 centimeters square in the central section, and the two ends are gradually thinning and narrowing until the end, and a dent is carved at the bow head to bind the bowstring, at which point a longbow is about to take shape. Xu Qiang took the longbow to the earthwork dug out of the latrine, and inserted the two ends of the bow into the loose soil and kept going back and forth* until the bow walls on both sides were polished smooth and free of burrs, and the shape was more perfect.

At this time, the fat man had already come to call Xu Qiang for the third time.

Putting down the bow in his hand, feeling very satisfied in his heart, Xu Qiang hummed a song and came to the bonfire to wipe out all the pheasants stewed in the hanging pot and the soup and meat.

The fat man had already eaten lunch, and now he was weaving a bamboo dustpan, which was halfway completed, and there was a braided bamboo basket next to him, which was as delicate and sturdy as Xu Qiang's.

Xu Qiang didn't bother Luo Fatzi, walked to the place where the pine wood was placed at the edge of the camp, chose a piece of wood about one and a half meters long, and chopped it into a rectangular piece of wood with an axe, with a cross-section of about 10×5 centimeters in length and width. Then take out the hand saw and cut a rectangular notch at the top, about five centimeters wide, so that you can put the middle of the longbow body. Finally, a slot is made under the wood every three centimeters or so to place the bowstring.

Xu Qiang did this job to prepare for bow taming, something he had heard of but had not done.

In fact, there is no need for him to do this work, and when he is engaged in field training, the longbow that can be made quickly can already meet his needs for hunting small animals. But now he has time, and it's not just small animals like rabbits, but other large animals like wolves, or even ancient humans who may be hostile.

After making this wooden frame for taming the bow, Xu Qiang took out a section of umbrella rope, cut off a two-meter-long rope, and after pulling out the rope cores from it, he braided these rope cores into a strand of rope as the bowstring of the longbow, which was ten million times better than the rope that Fujiman kneaded.

Tie knots on both sides and slowly tie the bowstrings to the ends of the longbow, and the vertical distance from the center of the bowstring to the handle is determined by the height of your fist.

After doing this, Xu Qiang hung the bow on the bracket and began to tame the bow, adjusting one position at a time to place it for a while longer, and checking whether the shape of the bow arm was reasonable and smooth.

Unconsciously, the sky was getting dark, and a drop of rain dropped on the back of Xu Qiang's hand, waking him up who was immersed in it, and suddenly realized that it was actually raining lightly. The rain was not heavy, only three or five drops for a while, and it had not yet formed a dense formation.

Xu Qiang picked up the longbow and carriage and put them in the compartment of the off-road vehicle, and beckoned the fat man, who was also addicted to basket weaving, to clean up the things on the ground so as not to get wet. They swept over the camp, only to find that there was still a rain shelter missing from the campfire, and if it rained heavily, they would have to nibble on raw meat.

Luo Fatzi has completed the bamboo dustpan weaving, is making bamboo baskets, dexterous hands fly up and down, a finger-wide bamboo scorn in his hands as soft as a rope, quickly interspersed between his fingers. He did it very carefully and meticulously, the eyelets were similar in size and fine, and each bamboo stick was very compact, which not only saved materials, but also looked strong and durable.

"Fatty, don't do it yet, it's going to rain soon, we have to build a rain shelter quickly, I've been busy making protective fences for the past two days, and I forgot about it."

Hearing Xu Qiang's words, Luo Fatzi raised his head and looked at the sky, it was still gloomy, black clouds rolled, and occasionally two drops of rain fell and dripped on his hands.

"Okay, Brother Qiang, it looks like it's going to go down!"

Luo Fatzi put down the work in his hand, picked up the bamboo spear and * on the ground, and followed Xu Qiang to rush to the lush saxifrage by the stream. After making sure that it was safe as usual, the two of them took lancets and * and quickly chopped the stalks of saxifrage leaves, and pieces of wide saxifrage quickly piled up.

After cutting down enough saxifrage, the two tied up large stacks of leaves and returned to camp together. After two trips back and forth, all the collected saxifrage grass was piled up next to the campfire to form a small hill. The raindrops were a little denser and more intermittent than before, and the ground was not yet wet.

The two of them ran to the bamboo forest with axes, cut down more than a dozen thin bamboos about ten meters long and the thickness of eggs, and resisted them after removing the branches and leaves, cutting each bamboo into two pieces and putting them aside, ready to build a shelf.

First, a four-meter square was carved out around the campfire, and six pits about 20 centimeters deep were dug at the four corners and two points of the middle line. Then tie a 4-meter-long bamboo pole to the top of two 3-meter-long bamboo poles, and bury the two 3-meter-long bamboo poles in two pits in the middle line. Two other 4-meter-long bamboo poles and four two-meter-5-meter-long bamboo poles were also tied and buried in the pits at the four corners, and the basic framework was built. I was afraid that it would not be strong enough, so I tied three 4-meter-long bamboo poles to the two ends and the middle on the crossbar on the lower floor, making the skeleton of the whole house stronger.

Then tie one end of the 2.5-meter bamboo pole of the eight group heads to the middle crossbar, and the other two ends are tied on the lower two crossbars, and the bundle is firmly tied to form the skeleton of the roof of the shed. Next, the leaves of saxifrage are passed through a four-meter-long crossbar one by one, and after being evenly placed, they are put up layer by layer from the bottom of the roof skeleton of the shed, and tied firmly until the top of the shed, sharing four four-meter-long crossbars.

In order to build the blades at a high place, the two urgently made an A-shaped ladder made of pine wood, which made the construction faster. In the end, a simple shack with a roof height of three meters and a height of two meters and a half meters of eaves was completed in a hurry.