Chapter 8: Hunting
After eating and drinking enough for dinner, Gu Guo handed over the skills of bow and arrow and archery to his second uncle, whose name was Hua, and the vocabulary in the tribe was very scarce, and the people's names were strange, such as Gu Guo's cooing was some kind of onomatopoeia for bird calls.
When Hua saw Gu Guo's test shot, he looked frightened and confused.
A piece of wood with a rope can throw a branch so far, oh! No, his nephew told him that it was called archery, and that arrows were shot, not thrown.
But how did this piece of wood come about? He thought about it for a while and didn't come up with a result, but he saw Gu Guo holding a bow and arrow and smiling at him.
"Uncle, you can try it too."
Hand the bow to Hua and let him hold the bow in his left hand and the tail of the arrow between the index and middle fingers of his right hand, while Gu Guo taught him hand in hand. Birch was a man, and a good hunter in the tribe, and he saw blood almost every day, and was much more courageous than the women of the day.
Draw the bow to the fullest.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of bowstrings and arrows rubbing against the air reached the ears of the two of them, and Rao was so bold that he threw away the bow in his hand in fright.
Gu Guo laughed, picked up the bow on the ground, checked it carefully, and found that it was not damaged, he turned his head to Hua and said, "Let's look for arrows!" ”
For the hunters of the tribe to accept this weapon, it is necessary to demonstrate the power of the weapon.
The two of them carried torches and groped in the woods for more than ten minutes, and finally found the arrow shot on a fallen rotten tree. Gu Guo looked back, the straight-line distance from the shooting point of the two people here was at least thirty meters, and unlike his projectile during the day, this arrow was basically shot flat, and it was easy to get the performance of this bow according to the calculation.
The initial velocity is 60 meters per second, which is quite a good result, and the falling distance of direct shooting within 20 meters is no more than half a meter, and it basically refers to where to hit within 10 meters.
But this simple formula for calculating the flat throwing motion is impossible for Hua, who is a primitive person, to know, so Gu Guo can only tell him that if he wants to shoot far, he can only lift the arrow upward.
Then Gu Guo was speechless and saw Hua shoot an arrow into the sky.
"it!"
He hurried over, grabbed Birch's hand, and ran wildly into the cave.
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The sun rose the next day, and the moisture in the early autumn mountains and forests formed a thin white mist under the condensation of the cold air of the night.
Birch practiced archery all morning, and two arrows were broken, one was the one that was shot into the sky the night before, and I don't know where it was blown by the wind, and the other got stuck in a crack in the tree and broke when it was pulled out.
Now Hua is very confident in his archery skills, and he can basically hit five or six out of ten within twenty meters, and he can also hit two or three arrows out of ten within thirty meters.
The cooler the weather, the more the people relied on broth, and it was two great things of the day to have a bowl of hot and fragrant delicacies in the morning, and of course, the other thing was the broth in the evening.
After eating and drinking, the men brought stone spears and knives, but Hua carried bows and arrows on his back. The men had already seen the power of bows and arrows when they drank the broth in the morning, and they were full of confidence in today's hunt.
The air was filled with the smell of humus from the earth, unknown birds chirping in the treetops, and the occasional hare or two in the bushes flashed away with an alert gaze.
The group was quiet, a tacit understanding they had maintained for a long time, as the sound of conversation was likely to alarm the prey.
"Shhhh
The sharp-eyed birch put his finger to his mouth and made a silent gesture, and the group slowly squatted down, ready to attack at any moment.
Not far away were three animals that looked like roe deer, grazing with their heads down, their ears fluttering to drive away small insects, and from time to time they looked up in the direction of the group.
They are not afraid to see humans, keep a safe distance, and bury their heads in the grass.
Normally, it takes a lot of effort for men to hunt this animal, they run so fast that they have to compete with them for endurance, often chasing them all morning before they can stab one to death with a spear.
Just as the group was about to discuss the hunting plan of how to encircle from both sides, Hua lightly approached more than ten meters away from the roe deer, mounted an arrow, drew the bow full, and aimed at the neck of one of the roe deer.
Gu Guo had told him that if the distance was too far, the arrow would have to be lifted upward, and he very much agreed with his clever nephew's proposal during this morning's training.
"Whoosh!"
A small cracking sound interrupted the whispered exchanges, and they all looked towards the place where the sound came from, and found that Birch was pulling a second arrow from the quiver behind him, ready to aim and shoot.
Looking at the three roe deer not far away, one had been shot through the throat, and without even screaming, he fell straight to the ground. The two remaining ones, who had seen human bows and arrows, came up to smell the dead roe deer's corpse.
"Whoosh!"
There was another sound of arrows being fired.
Another roe deer was shot in the abdomen, sinking a finger deep into the skin and piercing the roe deer's internal organs. The roe deer that was shot screamed and writhed wildly on the ground, trying to stand up but because of the movement of the body caused the agitation of the arrows in the body, the injury was even more serious.
The last roe deer saw its kind screaming on the ground, and ran away without a trace.
"Oh!!"
The men behind Birch exclaimed, they had only seen Birch shoot a stake with a bow and arrow, but they had never thought it would be so simple for hunting! These two roe deer are enough for the whole tribe to eat for a day!
"Birch, why is this thing called a bow and arrow so powerful, I'm going to let Goo make one for me!"
After a group of people finished mending the knives of the fallen roe deer, they gathered around Hua.
"yes, yes, that way you can hunt more food!"
Hua puffed up his chest in front of everyone, although the bow and arrow were made by Gu Guo, but the first result of the bow and arrow was shot by him. He was very happy and admired his shrewd nephew, because Gu Guo had told him what he was talking about.
"Goo told me that it will take two days for the sun to rise for him to make this bow, and unless you help him cut down trees, peel bark, and weave ropes, he will have to wait."
Out of the crowd came a man who was half a head taller than the others. He was the captain of this hunting party and basically the leader of the tribe, and his name was Stone.
Stone said, "Let's hunt some more food today, let's go back later, and then help Goo cut down the trees, peel the skin, and weave the ropes!" ”
"Oh!!"
The enthusiasm of the people was high, and the birch was a good start to today's hunt, I don't know if it was the advanced weapons or the goddess luck was favoring this team, the men brought back the food of the tribe for a whole three days, if this record had been placed before, it could only be thought about in a dream.
In the evening, almost every man carried a game of prey on his shoulders, and they gathered around the birch and stones, talking and laughing. When the women who had returned from gathering saw so much food, they rushed up to inquire about it.
Birch took the bow from her back and showed it to the women, who withdrew their hands and leaned back.
Hua Haha laughed and said, "Today's food depends on it!" ”
The surprised and happy women looked at the bow in Hua's hand, and then at Gu Guo who was braiding the rope in the distance, and they all excitedly went to prepare dinner.