Chapter Eighty-Nine: Boredom Makes Arrows

"Divine messenger, when will this rice ripen!"

Since Shi Meng and them came back the day before yesterday, Song Xuan had detained them in the tribe, because looking at this situation, the rice would only mature in two or three days, and it was close to the harvest time, so they would definitely have to stay in the tribe.

If they all run away, there will not be enough people in the tribe, and it won't be long anyway, more than a hundred people are busy working together, and they should be able to recover all the time in half a day.

Considering that the harvest was too fast, Song Xuan still didn't implement the idea of building a shed in the field in the end, but next year it must be very necessary, and it is not very useful now.

"Don't worry, sharpen the stone knife first, and you can collect it the day after tomorrow at the latest, and then you will set off after collecting it!"

Song Xuan said this, and Shi Meng naturally could only agree.

In addition to harvesting rice, in fact, Song Xuan also intended to let them rest for a day or two, everyone has been busy for more than a month, and they will run without touching the ground, like Shi Meng, their time in the tribe may not add up to two full days.

Although it is said that summer is suitable for exercise consumption, this kind of physical labor is still too much, and the food stored is enough to eat for more than two months.

Bow 1 They made two new batches of bows during this time, a total of ten, so far all the Teng Snake people have been divided into a set of bows and arrows, and the extra ones have also been distributed to Shui Yun and them, except for the two leaders, the rest of the people are ranked according to their ability, which is not much different from the Teng Snake tribe at that time.

There are many bows and arrows, and the only disadvantage is that the loss is also increasing, and at least ten arrows are damaged or lost in each hunt, and these dozen arrows have to keep them busy for two or three days.

This is still in a relatively idle situation, like when I helped make baskets and sharpen stone knives before, one person made one or two at most a day.

Although the materials are a little more abundant now, the difficulty has not dropped too much, and the original set requires very fine polishing and very delicate operations to make a relatively easy to use arrow.

After receiving Shi Yu's feedback, Gong Yi even brought it, and the other two improved the current arrows a little.

Before, the feathers were tied to the tail of the arrow, although the effect was also good, but after a long time, the gum was not very sticky, and only the thin hemp rope could not be very strong.

It's good to find it before shooting, sometimes it is found that the arrow feathers behind it fall off directly, which is naturally not found, and it is difficult to shoot the arrow directly to the target, there are some deviations, not only to startle the snake, but also to let the prey run away.

So now the three of them are holding the bone behind the arrow and opening three small grooves, the size of the small grooves is about the same as the feather, and when the time comes, the feathers can be directly stuck in this small groove, and then brush some gum, and then tie the outer layer with hemp rope A few times It will be very firm.

And some notches are very suitable size, and they can be stuck very firmly in them without even adding anything, of course, it will not take long, but it is very difficult to make them fall off after reinforcement.

And the arrows made in this way, the tail is also very flat, not like before tied to the back with a rope, a few laps, it looks very bloated, the overall use is a lot easier, and according to Shi Yu, the accuracy of the head has also improved.

It is easy to use, and it will naturally shoot accurately, and if you take an arrow, it will feel very annoying, and the result of shooting it can be imagined.

As the number of arrows gradually increased, it became easier for everyone to hunt, and the prey increased slightly compared to before.

More than half of the people in each squad use bows and arrows, and after finding the prey, they shoot a few arrows first to reduce his combat effectiveness.

According to the current progress, there are still four or five months until winter, and if you want to save enough food for the winter, there should be no big problem, and you can even challenge Song Xuan's desire to have half a year of food storage.

However, even if Song Xuan left them in the tribe, everyone was not idle, in addition to repairing their weapons and making stone knives for harvesting rice, they also went up the mountains and went down the water near the tribe.

It was circled in the river again, and several pieces of land were reserved for fish farming, although the fish ate more during this time, but a few were put in every day for a long time, and a small fence that was vacated before was also full.

Just take advantage of this time to circle a few more pieces, there are no lazy people in the tribe, Song Xuan feels that in addition to being a little idle, everyone is quite hardworking, even if it is their own work, they will take the initiative to find something to do after they are busy.

Just when everyone was grinding the stone knives in every possible way, the water cloud not far away suddenly loudly suited the person beside him:

"Don't say that again!"

“……”

It was suggested that everyone gather their eyes over, and Shui Yun also had a very unsightly face and did not continue.

Although he didn't know what they said, it was obvious that he had touched on the issue of Shui Yun's principle, otherwise he wouldn't have been so angry.

Song Xuan saw that the situation had calmed down quickly, and he didn't ask much, after all, it was very normal for the tribe to occasionally have some small conflicts.

Everyone is a normal person, and they are already strong, the weather is so hot, and it is understandable that the anger is big, as long as things don't make a big fuss, or two days, everyone will still be born and die together.

Shuiyun they joined, Teng Snake has been two months, I have to say, with the cooperation of both sides, the integration is still very fast, now Shui Yun they can basically understand what Teng Snake's people are saying, although there are still some difficulties in expression, but the two sides communicate, it is much more convenient than at the beginning.

And the relationship between everyone is also very good, there is no strangeness at the beginning, Song Xuan was worried at first that after the river receded, there would be people clamoring to return to the tribe, but no one seemed to have this idea, at least in front of him, these people were working very hard to do it.

However, this is also a good thing to say before, even if someone brings it up, Song Xuan is unlikely to agree, come if you want, leave if you want, it's not so easy.

Just as everyone continued to sharpen their knives, the person who was angrily reprimanded by Shui Yun glanced at Shui Yun not far away with some resentment, and everyone didn't seem to notice.

It was suggested that everyone was really bored, so Song Xuan brought some small wooden sticks, which were carefully selected by the bow and one of them, and they could be used as arrow shafts after a little polishing and smoothing.

It was to ask Shi Meng and them to help too, usually hunting has no time to do these things, and they all rely on one or three people with bows, so the pressure on them is indeed greater.

Because in addition to the daily consumption, new bows are made every once in a while, and according to the current standards in the tribe, a bow must be accompanied by at least ten arrows.

For example, the last ten bows have to be matched with a hundred arrows, and the three of them have to work for more than half a month to make these hundred arrows alone, plus the usual consumption, most of the time in the month is spent on making arrows.

At the same time, they also had to make new bows and help with some other tasks, so even though they were working in the tribe, the bows were no easier than the others

Now let everyone help polish the arrow shaft, grind out some arrows, and also speed up the speed of making arrows, as there are more and more bows and arrows, the consumption will only get bigger and bigger, and now archery is not as cautious as it was at the beginning, even if it is three people, no matter how hard you work to make it, it is just a situation that can be put out.

Shi Meng and the others knew that this was prepared for their own bows, and they worked much harder, unlike the boring grinding stone knife just now, and they looked very careless.

If everyone can prepare all the materials, the assembly will be relatively much faster later, and the current knowledge in the tribe has seen that it is enough, and it is still a little unrealistic to let go of their hands and feet, Song Xuan's requirements for everyone are not just a little bit.

The bow and arrow will definitely be a sharp weapon to defend against the enemy in the future, and the knife selected on the head of the Teng Snake tribe, Song Xuan has never forgotten, so he has always been very concerned about the production progress of the bow and arrow, and even extended to the upstream and downstream of the entire material supply.

They also have certain requirements for Shi Meng, and they must bring back at least two larger animal tendons each time, and at the same time, the more feathers, the better.

Shihua and they are also not idle, hemp rope as a necessary material, although the amount used with an arrow is not very large, but the number is still a little difficult to get.

So if they don't find it when they go out, after a while, Song Xuan will let them go out to find some to bring back, in addition to this layer found around the tribe, they also found stone flowers in the wild, three or four pieces of hemp with a relatively large area.

Each piece has dozens or hundreds of plants, although there are not many of them alone, the number of these pieces together is still very considerable, just like rice seeds, when the seeds are ripe, the seeds will be harvested, I believe that if they are planted next year, there should not be too much shortage in the tribe.