Wandering in the world of martial arts

Chapter 22 Making Bows and Dressing

It is best to use yew for bows.

Old English longbows were all made of yew.

But the crux of the problem is that Wu Chen doesn't know what a yew tree looks like.

This is indeed embarrassing.

Like he could recognize the yellow hibiscus before, because he had seen this kind of wood in the video he watched before.

Yew, he only knew these three words, and he didn't know anything else.

So he didn't deliberately pursue perfection. It took about 10 minutes to find a kind of wood with good flexibility, and he used a simple stone ax to cut a section about 1.25 meters long to make the bow arm.

In the mobile phone he seized, there happened to be a ruler app that could be used to measure.

The next step is processing, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

Wu Chen basically cooks, eats and works at the same time.

He split this piece of wood in half with a simple stone axe, selected half of it, cut it roughly flat first, and then gradually thinned it towards both ends.

Finally, there is a 12.5 cm long bow handle in the middle for holding, and notches for hanging strings are carved at both ends.

This is the general process of making the bow arm.

Of course, it is not easy to put a few words into practice.

Been busy all night and haven't finished yet.

This night, what Wu Chenkong ate was kebabs.

He remembered that when he was a child, he ate that kind of kebabs on the street, and he was very happy.

At that time, with some pocket money, I might just buy a few skewers. I was reluctant to eat more, but I felt very good when I ate it.

When I have a salary in the future, I can afford to eat dozens of skewers, but I will never feel like I was a child.

However, there is a laborious place for mutton skewers, which is not easy to make.

Wu Chen didn't have time to cut into small pieces, and he didn't have a knife, so he could only eat a big skewer, which probably weighed a catty of meat.

In modern times, such a large mutton skewer would cost at least 50 yuan.

After practicing Jinggong, he just made a bow while stringing strings.

By the way, I took a short shot of this scene, and then turned off the phone to save power.

Since he got a power bank before, his mobile phone still has sufficient power.

It was almost nine o'clock at night before he roughly finished the arms of the bow.

After the bow is finished, the arrows have to be made.

When he went to the forest before, he had already picked up some small branches.

He split these twigs into 60 cm long, scraped off the bark, and carved grooves for the bowstring at the end.

He made the arrow feathers out of palm leaves.

Peel off a part of the leaves and tie the tail with a strip of bark, which is an arrow feather. According to legend, this is a skill of the Amazons.

He made a total of five arrows.

Then very sleepy.

Looking at the mutton hanging from the roof of the shed, which had been torn into strips and being roasted by smoke, he fell into a deep sleep.

Seventh day.

He woke up early.

The task is heavier today.

Because at night, the storm will come.

He must set out at noon to find and rob other people's shelters.

So there is a whole lot of heavy work that has to be done in the morning.

He went to the seashore and brought back the whole sheepskin soaked in the shallows.

He tore off three strips of the sheepskin from the edge, plucked the fur, and set it on the fire to dry.

If it were yesterday, this process might have been quite strenuous, but fortunately, his hand strength has improved significantly now.

For the other whole piece of sheepskin, he simply cleaned the inner layer, then mixed the sheep brain and fat and simmered it, applied it on the inner layer of the sheepskin, then spread it out, and hung it over the fire to smoke to dry.

The effect of applying this mixture is to make the fur soft and smooth, making it more comfortable to wear.

For breakfast, he drank mutton soup and ate lamb kebabs roasted overnight in the underground stove.

No matter how busy you are, the dynamic skills of the "Shi Ming Jing" must not be left behind.

Fortunately, he is now at the early stage of Shi Jing, and his physical fitness has greatly improved, so he is not so tired after practicing this skill.

Before the sheepskin was dry, he went to work on another matter.

He removed some of the bark he found, leaving only the soft and smooth inner skin, and cut out the clothes and fabrics he had captured these days, and sewed them into a full-body cloak.

Then he fastened the smooth bark to the surface of the cloak with string, and it was done.

This is a bark waterproof poncho.

When the rain falls, it will flow down the smooth bark to the ground, and will not seep into the clothes.

The excellent evaluation of "food and water" gave Wu Chen a lot of sweetness.

Therefore, in order to raise the evaluation of this "shelter" mission as much as possible, Wu Chen also took great pains.

After the poncho is done, the sheepskin is almost dry.

He took one of the three long strips torn from the sheepskin and hung it on the two ends of the bow arm. This is his bow string, the sheepskin string.

The other two are spares.

After the bow was set up, he tried to pull it, and scraped some parts of the bow arm to make the two sides more symmetrical. This process is called bow adjustment.

After practicing for a while, he put it down first.

The remaining job is to deal with the whole sheepskin.

He's going to make this into a sheepskin coat to keep him warm.

In this case, there is a waterproof rain cape on the outside and a sheepskin coat on the inside. Even in stormy weather, it is no problem to stay outside for a short period of time.

Including in the shelter, with this set of equipment, his mission completion rate will definitely increase.

Of course, due to time constraints, this sheepskin coat cannot really be made into the shape of clothes.

He just cut it, made a hole in the shoulder so that the arm can be stretched out, and then ironed a row of holes in the skirts at both ends of the sheepskin.

In this way, the bark rope can be passed through the hole, and it can be tightened and fixed, and put on the body.

For lunch, Wu Chen started binge eating mode again.

Because the next time he comes back here, he doesn't know when it will be, and he plans to eat as much as he can.

It is also lighter when carrying.

Too bad he can't ruminate yet.

In the early stage of breaking through the diet, his stomach became bigger, but the newly grown part has not yet fully formed.

This is similar to the principle of rumination of some animals of the mammalian artiodactyl order.

Wu Chen's stomach is now gradually forming a new ruminant stomach. Once it is fully formed, food can be stored in it, and can enter the original stomach for digestion at any time, or go retrograde to the mouth for chewing again.

At this time, you will wonder whether this stomach can store other things.

The answer is, absolutely yes.

However, in the early stage of cultivation, only some small ones can be stored. On the one hand, the volume of the ruminant stomach is not large enough;

Wu Chen can use the power of "qi" to speed up the formation of the ruminant stomach, and he can also eat more animal stomachs, preferably ruminant animals, such as camels, deer, cows, sheep, etc., which are great tonics .

(End of this chapter)