Chapter 5 Bow Making
If the people around him are ranked on a list of 'mysterious people', Zhang Jian believes that Lao Zhu must be the most mysterious one in his heart.
Wrapping his hair around his fingertips, Zhang Jian thought thoughtfully: "This silk thread is extremely tough, many times stronger than any bowstring I have seen in my previous life, if only I could use it to make a bowstring......
Eating corn, Zhang Jian turned the bonfire in the stove vigorously, pondering the use of his own magical powers in his mind, countless dreams of soaring and flourishing appeared in his mind, and I don't know how long it took, Zhang Jian slowly fell asleep in the dark.
There was a roar of fierce tigers in the mountains and forests, the roar of the bears spread for miles in a radius, and the black silk threads wrapped around Zhang Jian's fingers in the room emitted a pitch-black light like ink, and all the bears screamed dumbly, and the mountains and forests were restored to tranquility.
Zhang Jian, who was asleep, turned over, accidentally kicked down the bedside kettle, then added firewood to the daze and continued to lie on the bed to sleep.
The autumn rain is murmuring
Zhang Jian was woken up by the sound of rain dripping at dawn, looking at the dim bonfire, Zhang Jian filled in the wood casually, and then looked at the water droplets dripping from the eaves, the drizzle outside the door, Zhang Jian casually picked up the bedside coat and draped it on his body, pinned the firewood knife to his waist, pushed open the door and stepped on the mud, and ran towards the mountain.
He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had eaten meat.
The fallen leaves in the mountains were full of stagnant water, Zhang Jian looked at the hundred miles of mountains and forests, and couldn't help but feel careful about the Shen family's financial resources.
In the entire Zhenjiang County, the Shen family is definitely one of the few powerful families in the local area, and it is said that these hundred miles of mountains and forests are already worth a lot of money.
What is the concept of 100 miles?
You drove the car, running a hundred miles per hour, and the straight line you walked in half an hour rotated into a circle, all of which were the places of the Shen family.
When he went, his palms were empty, and when he came back, Zhang Jian already had two pheasants and a rabbit in his hands. Even if it was just a trap made of the simplest hemp rope, and it was made by Zhang Jian, but in the materially rich ancient times, and with enough experience and knowledge to survive in the wilderness, hunting was simply easy for Zhang Jian.
This hundred miles of mountains and forests is his hunting ground.
"I've been eyeing this mountain for a long time, but it's a pity that it is the owner's thing, and I haven't had the opportunity to go up the mountain. It's still the old lady! It would have been nice to send me to the mountains earlier. ”
In the humble house, Zhang Jian stewed chicken and barbecued rabbit.
At the same time, I began to think about making bows and arrows.
The first month
Zhang Jian has a firm foothold in the mountains, and he is not happy every day, and the oil and fat on his body accumulate at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he will no longer look thin and thin as before.
And Zhang Jian used the trap dug out of the pit to successfully hunt a wild boar and a tiger.
He also made the meat he couldn't eat into jerky, and went to his home at Yamashita to improve the food for his younger brothers and sisters.
The second month
Zhang Jian used the bones of the beast to polish the arrow.
At this time, Zhang Jian began to make a bow, and consciously searched for the tough bark in the mountains, and pulled out the big tendons of the beast to concoct and refine the bowstring.
The third month
In the cold wind, Zhang Jian made the bowstring.
Fourth month
Zhang Jian worked hard to chop wood, devised more traps, began to collect the teeth of wild beasts, and prepared the lean meat he had hunted.
Fifth month
The second bubble in Zhang Jian's mind burst, and a stream of information poured into Zhang Jian's mind, at that moment, Zhang Jian's pupils widened as if he had been struck by lightning, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
6th month
Spring
Zhang Jian took a thirty-year-old bamboo in the spring moon and began the formal steps of bow-making.
In order to make a bow well, it needs the strongest organs of various animals of all sizes, such as snakeskin, shark skin, horns, and antlers, and it has gone through 200 crafts, large and small.
The first process is to cut the bamboo tire and make the place where the lookout handle is installed.
Then the bamboo slice is thinned, which is very harsh on the workmanship, and the bamboo will be scrapped if you are not careful. You need to be apprenticed for at least one year before you are eligible to get started.
Then boil the fat with pigskin/deerskin, snake skin, etc.
Then it's time to make the pins.
Then the horns are mounted to create the skeleton.
Then press the horse and walk the rope, assisted by nine layers of beef tendon, the pulling force can reach 160 catties.
Then hang the bowstring.
……
A bow requires more than 200 processes, and an arrow feather requires dozens of processes.
Zhang Jian uses the production method of Mongolian bows, which is even more complicated to the extreme.
From the grass growing and the warbler flying, to the autumn wind in September, the third bubble in Zhang Jian's mind began to break, but at this time Zhang Jian's gaze became more weird.
The third skill is time slow.
At this moment, the long river of time in Zhang Jian's body began to grow at an incredible speed with the rupture of the blister.
In less than a year, the growth rate is five times that of his three years.
Zhang Jian lives freely in the mountains alone, but people are social animals after all, and he faces jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains all day long, which is inevitably a little too lonely.
Despite this, for the sake of life, Zhang Jian is still enjoying it.
Loneliness is scary, but hunger is even more terrifying.
In the past year, Zhang Jian has eaten meat all kinds of wild boar, pheasant, and roe deer meat, and Zhang Jian's body has begun to develop rapidly, and the whole person is as strong as a calf.
In the blink of an eye, it was already winter, and the empty world did not know when snowflakes fell, and in an instant, they turned into goose feathers and snow and sprinkled on Zhang Jian's shoulders.
At this moment, Zhang Jian was fourteen years old.
Although the bow and arrow are not yet ready, Zhang Jian has no worries about food and clothing, just looking at the sparrows chirping in the sky, and drooling greedily.
The cold wind was biting, but it couldn't penetrate the tiger skin on his body.
Zhang Jian put the firewood knife on his shoulder, then carried the basket and walked out: "This heavy snow came suddenly, I'm afraid it's not going to be closed before winter, I have to put away all the traps to see if there is any gain." ”
The snow was white and vast, and people couldn't see the scenery clearly.
Zhang Jian made another round in the mountains and forests, and when he returned, he carried three rabbits, four pheasants, and a stupid roe deer that he staggered behind him with his head in his hands.
Time flies, and it's been another three months in the snap of a finger.
On a big mountain thirty miles outside Zhenjiang City.
In an old wooden house, a child of thirteen or fourteen years old, now wrapped in thick cotton skin, has a stove in front of him, constantly swaying in the north wind.
The house was leaking, only slightly warmer than outside, and the children were so cold that they kept moving around in front of the fire.
"Can't get sick! Don't get cold! In this 30-mile desolate mountain, once you suffer from the cold, you will definitely die. Zhang Jian picked up the dead branch, threw a handful of wood into the stove, then put away the spring palace map in his hand, and continued to walk around the room.
"What is the secret in this spring palace picture?" Zhang Jian's heart was full of puzzlement.
He has been studying for a year, but unfortunately he hasn't even figured out the details of the Spring Palace diagram.
Today is Zhang Jian's first year and eight months as a ranger of the Zhou family, and the whole person eats fat and foot shape.
After walking for a while, he felt a little warm in his body, and Zhang Jian sat down.
Zhang Jian sat in front of the fire, holding the picture of the Spring Palace in his hand, and his eyes showed contemplation, thinking about the days to come.
He would never be willing to live a life of mediocrity.
Looking at one-third of his own rice, as well as ten taels of silver under the bed, Zhang Jian scratched his head after half a ring, and looked at the wind and snow outside: "This snowy day is suitable for chasing rabbits." ”
The silver was saved by selling skins.
I just want to go to the martial arts hall to learn art, but ten taels of silver is far from enough, so I can only learn a trick on the periphery.
However, Zhang Jian has his own ideas, as long as he is called into the martial arts hall, he will have a way to obtain the true inheritance.
"The silver is still a little short. It's so cold in the house, it's better to go outside and chase the rabbits. ”
He was going to go for a walk in the mountains, and the snow was the best time to hunt, and it would be best if he could catch some rabbits.
Pick up rabbits on snowy days, one by one.
Pushing open the door, the cold wind poured into the house, lowering the campfire in the house.
The snow was heavy and the snow was vast, and the air fell to the ground and turned into ice beads.
Zhang Jian took the firewood knife and slowly disappeared into the ice and snow.
He found that there were many rainy and snowy days in this world, and at least half of the 365 days in a year were rainy or snowy.
Inside Zhenjiang City
Five Elements Boxing Gym
The casserole was hot, the stove was blazing, and the heat was rolling down the cracks in the windows, melting the snow on the eaves.
Inside the house
The Wang steward of the Shen family was drinking wine at this time, sitting in front of the casserole and gulping down the meat.
On the opposite side, Shi Long, the owner of the Five Elements Boxing Gym, stopped throwing his cup at this time, with a sad face.
"Can you do it? This year, it has been urged seven times. If you don't do it well, I really won't be able to handle it when the time comes. Eight years ago, you lurked into the Shen family, and now things are still not done properly, how to deal with the above questions? ”
"The day before yesterday, the Qinglong envoy has already come, in three months, there will be great changes in Zhenjiang County, countless people have waited for this day for a hundred years, the Shen family and the Sanjiang Gang are the luck of Zhenjiang County, the most important thing is ......" Shi Long kept urging.
"Afternoon! Someone brought it to you. The king's steward said unhurriedly.
"What?" Shi Long was stunned when he heard this.
"The old fox of the Shen family started to rob people three days ago." Steward Wang sighed leisurely: "Facing that old fox, you don't know how much pressure I have. The entire Shen family was in the hands of the old fox. If you take down Miss Shen Family, you can uproot the Shen family little by little. ”
Hundreds of miles of mountains and forests
The snow is white
The rabbit in front of Zhang Jian jumped and stuck in the snow and refused to move.
Zhang Jian pulled the rabbit out of the ice and snow with a smug look on his face, and there was a touch of pride in his eyes: "Little rabbit, you are going to run again!" ”
Zhang Jian was carrying a rabbit in his hand, and was proudly pulling the rabbit's ears, when he suddenly heard a crisp cry in the cold wind.
"Hmmm! Why is someone crying in the cold wind? This deserted place can't be a monster! ”
Following the desperate cry, through the vast snow, Zhang Jian saw a vague figure crying heartbreakingly in the ice and snow.
"Brother!"
Zhang Jian saw the little girl, and the little girl also saw Zhang Jian, and then pulled out her calves, and in the cold wind, a little fat group covered in snow and mud smudge, staggered from the top of the snow-white mountain in the wind and snow, hugged Zhang Jian's thighs, and cried heartbreakingly.
"Brother!" The girl staggered to her feet, her stiff body swaying in the cold wind, and finally fell to the ground heavily.
Zhang Jian looked down at Xiaoxue Tuanzi, and then couldn't help but be stunned.
Looking at the little milk baby who hugged his trouser legs and kept crying, his age was almost the same as that of his little sister, but he was wrapped in a fox fur coat and wearing a fox fur hat, and he didn't look like an ordinary child.
"Brother!" The age difference between the female baby and the little sister is like, and at this time she is holding Zhang Jian's thigh and keeps calling her brother.
"Whose child is this?"
Zhang Jian hurriedly stepped forward and held the girl in his arms, as if he were holding a big ice egg.
Zhang Jian carried a rabbit in his hand and hugged a cute baby in his arms.
"What kid are you? I'm not your brother! ”
Looking at the pink and tender little bean in front of him, the boots on his feet were made of deerskin, the robe on his body turned out to be tiger skin, and the hairpin on his head was shining with gold, which turned out to be made of gold and silver, Zhang Jian's heart suddenly moved: "Rich children!" ”
"I don't know! I knew that Steward Wang said to take me to the middle school to hunt, but who knew that he wanted to tie me up to someone else, so I took advantage of his unpreparedness and ran out. ”
Zhang Jian was stunned when he heard this, it is not an ordinary family that can afford to hire a housekeeper.
"And what's your name?" Zhang Jian asked.
"My surname is Su, Su Xiaoxiao."
"What about your father?" Zhang Jian didn't come up with any useful information, so he asked again.
"They all call my father Master Su." Su Xiaoxiaodao.
Master Su?
Zhang Jian was stunned when he heard this, and looked at the little bean in front of him with a pair of eyes, there was only one Master Su in Gusu City.
The entire Cold Mountain, as well as the hundred miles of mountains and forests, belong to the Su family.
"You went to my house before the winter last year, and I saw you!" Xiao Douding stared at Zhang Jian nervously with a pair of big eyes.
Zhang Jian was stunned for a moment, remembering the pigtail that helped his family out of the siege three days ago.
It's a real hammer, Miss Su!
"God help me."
The opportunity to change her destiny fell on the girl. As long as he saves Miss Su Family, big families such as the Su family can use it for a lifetime if something is exposed between his fingers.
"You just said you were sold to kidnappers by the housekeeper?" Zhang Jian seemed to think of something, and hurriedly asked.
"Uh-huh." The little girl nodded.
"How did you escape?" Zhang Jian was surprised.
The girl shook her head, but refused to speak.
Zhang Jian groaned slightly, stuffed the rabbit into his arms, and then pulled Su Xiaoxiao to turn around and leave.
This place can't stay for long, since it's a kidnapper, of course, the kidnappers won't give up easily.
"Brother, where are we going?" In the snow and ice, Xiao Douding's face was red from the cold.
"Sending you home."
It was only halfway through the walk, Zhang Jian's footsteps had to stop, and at this time, the wind and snow stopped suddenly, and he saw more than a dozen figures on the top of the mountain in the distance.
"It's Steward Wang!" Su Xiaoxiao's face was pale, and her body trembled again.
Zhang Jian saw them, and they also saw Zhang Jian.
Can't leave!
It only takes a cup of tea for those people to catch up.
He's carrying a burden, how can he run?
Even if he loses the girl, Steward Wang will never let him go, and he will definitely kill people.
Steward Wang was found to be a thief, and he would definitely kill him at all costs.