Chapter 4 Hand crossbows

"Brother Da Niu, your furnace can't get into the air, the furnace temperature can't rise, and naturally you can't make good iron!"

Zhao Hengyi has already seen that the iron made by Zhang Daniu is not durable, and there are many reasons, the most important one is that the furnace temperature is too low, and the quality of the crude iron bought is too poor.

Fortunately, Zhao Hengyi had expected these circumstances, and bought the mineral powder to improve the iron quality in advance in the county town, and then remodeled the furnace, which should be barely enough.

Zhang Daniu was not good at words, and was fooled by Zhao Hengyi for a few words, so he changed the stove, and finally found that the fire was really much more prosperous than before!

Hey, Silly Hengyi went to a big prison, and he really got the hang of it!

Pulling Zhang Daniu to work in the blacksmith shop all night, and when the east turned white, Zhao Hengyi finally got what he wanted!

Hand crossbow.

A hand crossbow that is extremely rough and even rudimentary in Zhao Hengyi's opinion, and the most critical part of the whole hand crossbow is a soft iron bar made from various mineral powders that he bought with copper plates!

Under Zhang Daniu's inexplicable gaze, Zhao Hengyi pulled the trigger on the earthen wall twenty steps away with a rough hand crossbow.

Duh!

The crossbow bolt actually burrowed into the earthen wall by a large section!

This...... It's really something that he and Silly Hengyi spent a night working on?!

Zhang Daniu half-opened his mouth, and looked at Zhao Hengyi who carefully pulled out the crossbow arrows in a daze, only feeling that he was dreaming!

Zhao Hengyi did not deliberately conceal it in the process of making the hand crossbow, after all, his hands-on ability was still not as good as Zhang Daniu.

The most critical secret of the whole hand crossbow is the mineral powder he matches, and the others are not worth mentioning.

But even so, this is a big advantage for Zhang Daniu!

Although he didn't recognize the hand crossbow, Zhang Da Niu looked at the earthen wall that was almost pierced by the crossbow arrows, and knew in his heart how valuable this ugly thing was!

It's a craft that can be passed on to future generations!

"Hyungyi...... Your craft has taught me this, what a thing! ”

Zhao Hengyi didn't care, Zhang Daniu was in a hurry first! "Hengyi, I didn't mean to steal learning, but I saw it all and couldn't forget it...... Shall I give you back the wheat? ”

Looking at Zhang Daniu, who was at a loss, Zhao Hengyi was a little funny and a little sad.

If in the previous life, someone inadvertently obtained someone else's trade secrets, I am afraid that they will turn around and start anew and make a lot of money, right?

But the court of this Great Yan Kingdom is unreliable, the officials are not in tune, but the common people are unexpectedly simple.

"Brother Niu, what are you talking about? I wouldn't have been able to make this thing without your help. ”

Because he is stupid Hengyi, Zhao Hengyi can see some things that other people in the village can't see, such as people's hearts, "This thing is not a rare craft, and when I make money from this, I will continue to improve it!" ”

But this time, Zhang Daniu was particularly stubborn, and finally even proposed to use the blacksmith shop on which his family relied to pay off his debts.

That's right, it's debt.

Zhang Daniu felt that he had learned enough to live in peace and make future generations eat, but he owed Zhao Hengyi a debt that he couldn't afford to repay!

"Why don't you worship me as a teacher?"

Zhao Hengyi couldn't cry or laugh when he was entangled by Zhang Daniu, so he made a joke by the way.

"The master is on top, and I will worship Zhang Daniu!"

Zhang Daniu solemnly knelt on the ground and kowtowed......

The joke is big!

But the stubborn Zhang Daniu recognized the reason for death, and Zhao Hengyi would take him for a while.

Forget it, let's get the money first, maybe in a few days, Brother Niu's brain will turn around.

Telling Zhang Daniu to keep it a secret, Zhao Hengyi wrapped his hand crossbow and five crossbow arrows in rags and quietly returned home.

Miao Xiaoyu stayed alone in the broken thatched house and didn't sleep all night, but the six little ones slept sweetly.

"Eldest sister, don't want me...... Brother-in-law, fight the bad guys! ”

The sixth sister Xiaoying was talking in her sleep, and Miao Xiaoyu quickly patted her sister's thin back gently to let her sleep more peacefully.

With a husband, I will have something to rely on in the future, and my sisters will no longer have to live a frightened life with her.

When Zhao Hengyi's figure appeared at the door of the house, Miao Xiaoyu only felt indescribably relieved.

"Cook some porridge, I'm full and go into the mountains, shoot some prey, let's exchange food."

This time, Zhao Hengyi did not give in again, swallowed a large bowl of wheat porridge with a sigh, carried a crossbow and a firewood knife, and entered Daqing Mountain with a broken sack containing prey.

Elm Bay and several nearby villages, there are hunters.

It's just that the efficiency of those hunters is not high, the bows and arrows used are even less powerful, and they can't afford to raise hunting dogs, so they can catch very little prey.

This is the way Zhao Hengyi came up with when he was in the county.

A bow with sufficient range is extremely complicated and valuable, and ordinary hunters can't afford it, and most of the weapons in their hands are made by themselves.

Zhao Hengyi was different, he was very familiar with crossbows in his previous life, and although the hand crossbows he made were rough and rudimentary, they were enough to crush the bows in the hands of the hunters in terms of range and accuracy.

"Yo, Hengyi, I just got married yesterday, why don't you spend more time with your daughter-in-law at home?"

"Hengyi, don't you know the reputation of your daughter-in-law's Kefu?"

"It's not that the aunt is too talkative, Hengyi, you have to be careful in your life!"

On the sunny southern slope of Daqing Mountain, there are big girls and little daughters-in-law who dig wild vegetables together early in the morning, and there is no shortage of aunts who are not afraid of the sky and the earth.

Although the aunts talk a lot and don't like it very much, they are for the good of Zhao Hengyi after all.

"Xiaoyu is very good, the previous reputations were all made up by people who had enmity with her family, and they were not in the way."

With a smile on his face, Zhao Hengyi explained calmly, as the days go by, naturally no one cares about Miao Xiaoyu's reputation, "I'll go into the mountains to see if I can hunt some prey, and the aunts will be busy first." ”

"Hengyi, you don't dare to enter the mountain alone, there are wolves inside!"

"Yes, I heard there are bears!"

"It's not easy to hunt, I heard Wu Lao Liu say, the rabbits and pheasants in the mountains are all fine, he is also an old hunter, and if you can catch prey in one of the three trips into the mountain, it is good luck!"

"Well, why don't you listen to persuasion, you boy? Forget it, let him suffer a little loss and remember it for a long time. ”

"Yesterday I said that Hengyi was enlightened, it seems that he is still stupid!"

The aunts were digging wild vegetables quickly, and chatting noisily about the shortcomings of their parents, and they were forgotten by Zhao Hengyi after not working hard.

The sun slowly moved in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, it was evening.

Miao Xiaoyu panicked at home, and when she thought of her Kefu life, she couldn't stop worrying about Zhao Hengyi who entered the mountain.

Let the younger sisters stay at home and don't run around, Miao Xiaoyu inquired all the way and found the southern slope of Daqing Mountain, as soon as she opened her mouth, the aunts who were digging wild vegetables surrounded her.

"Your man has never hunted before, I don't know what kind of wind he smoked this time, and he can't stop it!"

"Yes, yes, Xiaoyu, don't worry, Hengyi will definitely not dare to drill into the old forest, he can't catch the prey outside, and he will come back."

"Men are like this, one by one, they are dead, and they will only give in when they suffer losses."

The aunts pulled Miao Xiaoyu, you and I said a word, Miao Xiaoyu's heart was even more panicked.

At this time, the sun was about to go down, but on the way into the mountain, Zhao Hengyi still didn't see Zhao Hengyi's figure, and Miao Xiaoyu was anxious to burst into tears.

"Hyung-yi can't be lost, right?"

The sixth aunt's unintentional words completely made Miao Xiaoyu unable to hold back, and her tears were like beads with broken threads, falling uncontrollably.

At this moment, there was an extra figure at the intersection of the mountain, it was Zhao Hengyi!

And the broken sack he carried on his shoulder was bulging, and there were blood stains constantly leaking out, oh my God, Silly Hengyi not only came out of the mountains safely, but also seemed to have hit the prey!

Everyone is talking about it, what kind of prey can a fool like him hit?