Chapter 034: The Eye of a Thousand Miles
"Yes!" Yong Xiao replied in a low voice, not saying a word.
Patriarch Kang Wei looked Yong Xiao up and down again, and only after half a sound did he regain his composure and said: "I can't imagine that there are still people who remember the things of my ancestors, it's just the past." Since you are all from the old Chu country, this hunting skill can be regarded as being passed on to the family, Kang Quan, you can keep them to live, and you can teach them later. I still have something to do, so I won't accompany me much! ”
"No!" Kang Quan agreed. It's just that as soon as the words fell, I saw this Kangwei walking back to the house on the first floor, and didn't even say hello to Mi Tong and Yongxiao, leaving them to look at each other in surprise.
Kang Quan looked at it, smiled faintly, and said, "Hehe, our patriarch is like this." I was introduced by me just now, and I went out to see you in person, and I was quite polite to you. Sometimes people come to see them, and they have to wait for half a day to barely come out. ”
Mi Tong listened, pursed his lips, and really felt helpless about this Conway's habits. However, he had heard about it before he came, and he had made adequate preparations. Alas, it was really a matter of learning the art of hunting from him, and it was just an excuse for them to get close to Conway. Shaking his head, he pretended to be excited, and said without giving up: "Well, didn't the patriarch personally teach us this hunting technique?" ”
Kang Quan turned his head and looked at Qi Tong's words, and said lightly as if mocking: "Teach it personally?" Hehe, you think too highly of yourselves. Our patriarch doesn't have that much to work on, he's only been working on how to better hunt big beasts lately. You can learn from me, and you will be able to beg for food in the future, and you will not go hungry......"
Mi Tong frowned, and he was helpless, so he had to leave with Kang Quan.
When they arrived in front of a small house, Kang Quan took them and took a short sword and a small bow, handed them to them, and said, "These can be used, right?" Take self-defense. ”
The two had to take it easily, and then followed this Kang Quanquan and went to the mountains, forests and fields to learn hunting......
Kang Quan first taught them to hunt mountain rabbits, only to hear them tirelessly say: "Hunt mountain rabbits!" The first thing to look at is the paw prints, and the second is to look at the feces. Because the hare is active every night, it is judged whether it is still active in this range by looking at the mountain path to see if its paw prints are clear, and if there are no fresh paw prints, it is not active in the near future. The feces it pulls are like tadpoles, black, and after a long time, they become light-colored, if they are fresh and black in this activity, if there are many paw prints, and the feces are many and black, it means that there are more mountain rabbits here......"
It's just that Mi Tong and Yong Xiao are not here, so they didn't take it to heart what Kang Quan said about entering the left ear and going out with the right ear, and naturally there was no progress in this hunting technique; For this reason, until the evening, they did not even find half of the mountain rabbit hair.
Mi Tong sometimes thinks that it is really a waste of time to learn to hunt like this. He came here purely to seek support, and at this time, he couldn't even occupy the side of this Kang clan chief, when would he be able to persuade this Kang clan patriarch to support his own liberation of the slaves?
No, he had to find a way to get the attention of the patriarch Conway; Or make something and do what he likes and impress him......
After having dinner for this reason, Mi Tongbian found Kangquan again and asked him about the patriarch's situation, joys, sorrows, and sorrows, in order to understand better.
After all, Kang Quan is also a young man, he likes to chat with his peers, and he has been with Mitong for a day, and he is really familiar with it, and he has a good feeling. When he saw Mi Tong coming to find him, he laughed and said, "What? This hunting technique looks simple, but it's not that easy! ”
Mi Tong nodded in approval, and pretended to be bitter: "Hey, I really don't know how you can do it!" That little animal has long since run away without a trace when it sees a person, how can it be captured? Yo...... You also have a few mountain rabbits in this cage, can't they all be caught by you......"
As he spoke, he walked over to a wooden cage and pointed to a few mountain hares in surprise.
Kang Quan was naturally proud, and said proudly: "This is nature, one day I caught a rabbit nest, and saw that the mountain rabbit was still small and couldn't eat any meat when killed, so I caught all the nests and raised them......"
"Can you find the rabbit nest?" Mi Tong pretended to be even more surprised, and continued: "Your hunting skills are probably first-class in the Kang family......
Kang Quan was praised by Mi Tong and was happy, but he still knew how capable he was, so he said honestly: "I really don't dare to claim to be big with this skill, I don't know how much better than me?" Especially when the patriarch led our clan to hunt, you will know what a god and man are when you see that scene......"
Mi Tong smiled in his heart, what he wanted was to guide Kangwei to the topic, and only continued along the topic: "You always said that the scene of the patriarch hunting hurt me and I want to watch it now." I just don't know how the patriarch is so powerful, and what are his preferences? ”
Kang Quan shook his head and said lightly: "What is the patriarch's preference...... It seems that our patriarch has no preferences other than hunting. However, our patriarch usually likes to delve into this hunting technique, such as this mountain hare trap, bird trap, wild boar trap, etc., all of which were invented and improved by our patriarch...... However, our patriarch is now very old, and he has some problems with his eyes, and he has been somewhat affected in this hunting......"
Mi Tong listened to it and sighed secretly why he didn't think of it? In this hunting, eyesight is the most important, and if there is a slight difference in the pool, the prey will run away, and sometimes it may bring danger. How to improve Conway's eyes? This problem is probably difficult for ordinary people to solve, but for themselves from the next generation, it is much simpler, just make a pair of glasses, and this problem can be solved!
However, is this old patriarch presbyopia or myopia? And it's hard for him to judge how many prescriptions these glasses have. He can't just build a pair, that will only be self-defeating and outweigh the losses!
After thinking about it, in the end, Mi Tong still thought that it would be better to make a "telescope". First, this telescope is not only available to the old patriarch, everyone can witness it, and this telescope has no power problem, as long as the focal length is well controlled, it doesn't matter how many times the sight distance is. The most important thing is that he just wants to make this telescope so that it can attract the attention of the patriarch and get close to the patriarch!
As soon as he thought of it, Mi Tong hurriedly said goodbye, he had to take advantage of the night to catch up with work, because he had to pretend to learn to hunt during the day.
The cylinder outside the telescope is made of local materials, and it is the most ideal material to find some bamboo of the right thickness, cut off the long joints, and polish them smooth. It's just that the lens of this telescope is really in a hurry. Because there was no glass at this time, he didn't know how to make this glass, hey, he didn't pay much attention to it when he was in chemistry class before. But even if he knew how to make this glass, he wouldn't be able to make it hard at this time!
He had to look for something else, and Mi informed him that the item with the same light transmission as glass might be crystal, but at this time, where did he go to find crystal? Think about it carefully, hey, that day in Xianyin Doubobby's house jade, the waste stone is generally gray and white, only one side has a thin layer of emerald green, although the emerald green is not the best in the jade, but it also has good light transmittance, but it is much worse than transparent glass or crystal, but it may be possible to temporarily make a substitute for telescope lenses......
What's more, after that day, in order to warn himself, Dou Bobi actually gave him the waste stone; It's just that he didn't think it was useful at that time, so he just handed it to Yong Xiao and asked him to keep it well.
Hurriedly found Yongxiao and told him. Yong Xiao also hesitated how this son remembered this almost waste jade again, but fortunately he didn't throw it away at that time, but he just stayed in Jingshanyi and didn't bring it with him; If he wants to go back and get it, I am afraid that he will not be able to get it until tomorrow morning, depending on his foot.
Mi Tong did not hesitate, and asked Yong Xiao to set off quickly overnight, and be sure to rush back before dawn the next day. At this time, in order to be able to create a clairvoyant eye and please the Kangwei patriarch, he had to let the mediocre suffer once.