The Western Continent is home to a lush natural environment far greater than the Earth's, with abundant sunlight and high temperatures that nourish abundant vegetation, which in turn supports a variety of large and robust animals.

To live well on this continent, whether it is a noble lord in the city or a tribal savage who can be found everywhere in the countryside, you must know a trick or two of archery with a bow or two, and no one can guarantee that a saber-toothed beast will pounce on you and try to have a roadside picnic. The most dangerous thing is not only that, the tribal wildlings will also attack the cities and villages, trying to live a little civilized life. By the time they had eaten and drunk and left, there would be only charred bones left over from the ruins.

Yuncun has been building a village near Mara City for more than 100 years, during which it has had ups and downs, and finally survived, and its foothold has been stable and growing. Especially in the last 20 years, most of the births have been sturdy boys, and very few have died young. To be able to purchase a whole team of beasts, it all depends on the strength of its own force.

However, as the boys got married one after another, and the age of marrying a second wife, the issue of the dowry began to worry families. Yuncun lives on animal husbandry, has the most animal skins but is worthless, and the work of transporting river sand and wood can only be mixed with food and clothing.

Fortunately, in recent days, a cheap merchant often came to the village, and in addition to the shoes and clothes of the workmanship, he also brought a lot of practical things, such as burning matches, salty spices and sweet spices, with these things, Yun San finally married a third wife, and Yun Si also married a second wife, that is, Yun Wu fell in love with the most beautiful girl in the neighboring village, and could not get a dowry.

Therefore, these days, Yun Wu is almost all hunting, and the blue cow alone has killed three, pulled out tendons, and prepared to dry the next year to make bowstrings. He also gave the meat and leather to a friend in the wooden village next door, and bought several wooden hearts from him, which were left for a year or two, and he could make a bow next year.

Yun Wu secretly calculated that in two years at most, he would be able to make 10 bows, and if he sold them all to merchants, he would definitely be able to make enough for the dowry. Within the boundaries of Mara City, every household has leather and meat, but it is rare to talk about light and durable clothes and spices, and ordinary girls are usually willing to let go of these things when they see them at home, and they must not suffer if they marry into the family, at least they don't have to eat tasteless things.

When I entered the main road of the village, I saw that the children who had not yet married their wives were sweating like rain to build the gate of the village, and the wood as thick as a bear's waist had to be built until it was two people high, and then tied up with hemp rope, and then piled up soil on both sides until it was submerged to the top.

"Grandpa, what is this for?"

"Yun Wu is back, and he beat another blue cow? Terrible! The village chief Yun is looking up at Yun Jiu on the gate of the village, laughed twice and said: "Yun Ba Yun Jiu they don't know how to make bows and arrows and armor, they have reached the age of begging for a daughter-in-law, I think about it, it is better to pay a few of them to ask for a daughter-in-law, they work to repair the village gate." ”

"Does the village need to find a village gate? There are hundreds of people in people's villages. ”

"If that Chen Xingshang still comes, let alone the villages, we will build the villages and towns." Of course, the village chief is confident. He was a man who had gone to Mara City to see the market, had fought in Aachen, and knew the price of those spices, and it was very cost-effective to be able to exchange them for bows and arrows and armor made by himself.

And those papers, which can be exchanged for a lot of money in Mara City. It's a pity that the trade routes are not open now, and it is too dangerous to go to the inner city.

Yun Wu nodded as if he didn't understand, and continued to carry the cangniu back, taking tendons is also a technical job, and there are only a few people in the village.

Yunba looked at him enviously, shrugged his shoulders and threw a log on the ground, and said, "Grandpa, when will I be able to learn to make bows and arrows." ”

"Didn't you learn before?"

"I used to have a knife."

"It's going to take two or three years to learn now."

Yunba lowered his head and walked away. He also wants to marry a beautiful girl and go home, but he can't afford to wait for two or three years.

Yun Yi was sitting under the big purple leaf tree in the center of the village, making the surrounding smell, but he smacked his lips and said, "I think you might as well learn to make armor with me, one armor can be exchanged for 4 pairs of shoes." ”

"Bows and arrows are quick to make."

"Stupid, grandpa made it fast, that's the materials saved a few years ago, do you have it? Yun Wu will be able to marry a daughter-in-law as soon as next year, can you wait? ”

Yunhachi immediately hesitated.

He is actually a good hunter in the village, and when the merchants used to come, he also gained the most. Originally, if he saved up for another year or two, it would be enough to marry a daughter-in-law, but he didn't expect this Chen Xingshang to be surprisingly good at talking, but he only needed a bow and arrows and armor, not leather and meat, but as a result, the two guys had saved enough money for two daughters-in-law, but he earned less.

"Do you really want to learn how to make armor? Then you have to sit in the village all day, and you have to go to the dung pit to scrape the nitrate, it's disgusting. ”

"Yunhachi, what do you want?" Yun Wu carried out a blue ox, put it on the stone case in front of the village chief's door, and said with a smile: "Do you want to get some meat and go back to eat?" I took out all the tendons. ”

The extra meat from the hunting in the village is placed in front of the village chief's door and is allowed to be taken by each family. Due to the lack of spices, the hot weather can turn the food into rotten, stinky water in two days. A cangniu weighs 5,000 pounds, which is enough for the village to eat for several days.

Yunba happily cut off the tail and most of the cow's buttocks, where the meat was the fattest, and then asked, "Don't you want the skin?" ”

"The skin of the blue ox is too thick to make armor and clothes."

"Yes...... Yun Hachi thought, moved the knife, and said, "Then I'll get it." ”

"Okay, do you want to make a shield again?"

"I'll make a few more, maybe Chen Xingshang will ask for it." Yun Ba said and took off the whole blue cow skin, went to Yun Yi to make it, and said, "I'll help you fix the leaky house, with stones." ”

Yun Daxi simply gave him two good blue cow skins, and said: "Yun Wu has been hunting a lot lately, but you are too lazy." ”

Yunba thanked him sullenly, moved the skin home, and began to make shields. This is the simplest leather making method, every child in Yuncun will, he also learned it when he was a teenager, and he is quite proficient in using it. Because after learning how to use a shield, he was given a short metal knife left by his father, which was so sharp that it could cut the skin of the saber-toothed beast, so he only used it as a shield to hunt, and he gained more than the young people in the neighboring village. Since then, he has specialized in strength, trying to pierce the skin of animals. The making of armor, bows and arrows, etc., was almost never learned again.

Now, he carries a shield with him every time he goes out, and only changes to the other side when it is broken. Although there are two spare shields in the house, they seem to be a little rougher. The generous Chen Xingshang liked delicate things, and the better the bow and armor, the higher the price, and everyone would now be able to polish and tune the strings. In the past, there would have been such a requirement only when the tax collector came.

Yunba didn't sleep all night, made a shield for a day and a night, completed 2, and then moved to the center of the village with his own.

At this time, the village chief, Yun Yi, Yun Wu and others had already come out with newly made bows and arrows and armor.

Everyone set up a stall there and waited earnestly for Chen Xingshang. He came every five to ten days, and last time he set a special time, saying that he would come today, and asked the village to get ready.

The village chief likes to set the time, and although he, like everyone else, has a hard time keeping the time, they do like the one who keeps the time.

The light began to dim, and just when everyone was impatient, Yun Shi shouted on the gate of the village that had just been built: "He's coming, he's coming." He walked so slowly. ”

Chen Yi, who was carrying five cubic meters of goods on his back, of course couldn't go fast. He was carrying custom-made goods.

"Hello." The old village chief handed out a konjac first.

"Thank you." Chen Yi handed out a leather shoe, and the two sides laughed tacitly.

The two walked to the center of the village in parallel, sitting under the shady tree, and Chen Yi took out the goods from the super large backpack one by one. If he hadn't built his own hypermarket on the subway station, he wouldn't have dared to carry goods the size of four people in a crowded place.

"This time, I've brought something new, see if you like it." As he spoke, he pulled out a modified version of his liberation shoes. Similar to the ordinary rubber shoes produced in China, this high-top European product is comfortable to wear and close to the ground surname, but in order to improve the special surname of rubber shoes, the liberation shoes named ospop have improved the raw materials to make them more reliable, and the price has risen to 70 US dollars, which is 50 times that of the liberation shoes.

Chen Yi doesn't care about this little bit of investment, he still hopes to create a cheap and sturdy image. In his vision, the village should continue to attract new immigrants -- to do this, the first thing is to make the people of the village rich and generate the flow of goods to the outside world.

Because of this, he will take the trouble to carry a huge super bag every time to be a trader. Seeing the newly built walled gate, he already smelled the smell of success.

"How much?" The village chief spoke Chinese in a slurch. Chen Yi repeated this sentence countless times, so that most of the villagers remembered it.

In fact, they are all very smart, but they have too little knowledge in storage.

Chen Yi thought silently and said with a smile: "5 pairs, a bow and arrow." ”

It's cheaper than leather shoes, and it's definitely better to wear than leather shoes.

He had long noticed that the villagers bought leather shoes to wear at home, on the one hand, for comfort, and on the other hand, for beauty and showing off.

And when working, the people of Yuncun are barefoot. Chen Yi felt the need to improve their spending habits.

The village chief was probably a little distrustful of cotton and rubber soles, he pinched it for a long time, and said, "Like clothes." ”

"yes, the material is the same as the clothes." Chen Yi took out a set of camouflage training uniforms from his bag and said, "Clothes with special functions." It is also 5 sets of one bow. ”

He had 60 cadets and needed a lot of bows and arrows and armor. It's also important to build habits.

The villagers all watched the big luck, and the decision on the price and whether to buy or not was made by him.

After thinking about it for another 30 seconds, the village chief finally nodded and said, "I believe in you." ”

The crowd cheered.

They only care how many things a bow can be exchanged, as long as they can get it, it doesn't matter if it takes more time to make it.

Chen Yi smiled and took out another iron pot and said, "Do you want this?" ”

The men, women and children of Yuncun were drunk in an instant.

It turned out to be a metal pot!

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(To be continued)