"That's it! No problem, how many bows and arrows do you want? My father used to be an old hunter. Before he bought a shotgun, he used bows and arrows to hunt in the mountains to make a living. Of course, there are no more shotguns now, so I turned them in."

Lao Chen, the village chief, is less than 50 years old now. Their father has just entered his seventies, and his body is still very strong. It is no problem to make a few bows and arrows.

"We need 10 bows and arrows."

"10 handles?"

"I have 6 handles at home, all of which my father does when he has nothing to do. I will make 4 handles later."

"Okay, you guys eat first, we'll talk about it later."

Then Huang Lei said to the old man: "Master, I will trouble you later."

Huang Lei went out, joined the crowd, and waited there.

Another 10 minutes passed, and the village chief Lao Chen came out with his father, still holding a large hatchet in his hand.

First he greeted everyone, and then the village chief Lao Chen said: "Mr. Huang, we need to chop a piece of bamboo first and use it to make bows and arrows."

"Okay, let's go together." A group of people followed Old Chen to the bamboo forest on the mountain behind his house.

"Old Chen, is there anything special about the bamboo used to make bows and arrows?" Huang Lei asked Old Chen on the way.

"There is particularity here. Bamboo on shady slopes is generally used to make bows and arrows. It is tougher than bamboo on sunny slopes. In terms of bamboo species, moso bamboo is mostly used. There is also the age of bamboo. Old bamboo should be used, which is better than new ones. Young bamboo is tougher."

"That's it! I learned another knowledge." While walking and chatting, everyone soon came to their destination, a moso bamboo forest on a shady slope.

The people accompanied the old man to search for suitable bamboo in the bamboo forest. After searching for a while, they finally found moso bamboo suitable for making bows and arrows in a cool place.

This moso bamboo is about the size of a small bowl, with a straight stem and two-thirds of the bamboo body has turned light yellow. It is an excellent material for making bamboo bows.

The village head Lao Chen chopped down with a big hatchet, only cutting a small cut in the bamboo, which shows the hardness of the old yellow bamboo.

Li Linfei stepped forward and said to Lao Chen, "Village Chief, let me chop! I am stronger."

Old Chen didn't know Li Linfei, so he looked at Huang Lei.

Chapter 330 Making Bows and Arrows

"Old Chen, let Xiao Fei cut it! His strength is indeed relatively strong."

Old Chen handed the hatchet to Li Linfei, and reminded him: "Little brother, you have to be careful not to jump into your hands, and move your feet away when chopping. Moso bamboo is relatively hard, so that the hatchet will not slip and hurt yourself. ""Okay village head, I see."

Everyone retreated, Li Linfei raised the hatchet and chopped at the moso bamboo with [-]% of his strength. With a soft sound, half of the hatchet was embedded in it.

Pulling out the hatchet, Li Linfei pointed at the edge of the knife, and continued to cut with the knife. First, a knife was cut above the knife edge, and then a knife was cut below the knife edge. A large amount of bamboo chips could be cut out by the knife knife. After the 10th cut, the moso bamboo was separated from the bamboo root. , Straight to the ground.

However, because the bamboo branches and leaves on it intersect with other bamboos, it supports it and does not fall down.

Li Linfei picked up the bamboo and pulled it back. The friction between the bamboo leaves made a "squeaky" sound, and countless bamboo leaves fell from the sky.

Luo Zhixiang looked at the bamboo leaves flying all over the sky, and stretched out his hand to clamp a bamboo leaf like a teaser, practiced martial arts moves indiscriminately there, then stretched out his hand, and said to Huang Bai: "Look at my 'finger finger'."

Then he threw the bamboo leaves to Huangbai, and at the same time, he also had a dubbing, 'instigating'. "childish!"

Huang Bai said childishly, but suddenly pushed his hands towards Luo Zhixiang and said, "Haha, look at my Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms."

Luo Zhixiang didn't resist, and let Huang Bai's palm fall on his body. He stood upright, with his hands and palms facing each other, standing on his chest, and shouted: "Golden bell shield, iron cloth shirt, I block it!"

Huang Bai entered the play in a second, and said: "I didn't expect you to practice the iron cloth shirt covered with golden bells, which resisted my Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms, and then take my move, the Seven Injury Fist!" "You also catch me!" One move, Ha Toad Kung Fu!"

"I'll change my move, Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms!"

"Golden bell shield, iron cloth shirt, I block it!"

"Seven wounded fist!"

……

The two had a great time playing there, Huang Lei said with a smile: "Are you two stupid!

Move away, the bamboo is about to fall! "The two did not stand under the bamboo, but in order to prevent accidents, it is better to stay away.

Seeing Huang Bai and Luo Zhixiang walk away, Li Linfei pulled hard, and a long moso bamboo fell in the middle of the bamboo forest.

The old man stepped forward and signaled Li Linfei to remove the bamboo branches, and then cut off the top of the bamboo.

After finishing everything, Li Linfei returned the hatchet to the village head, carried the bamboo on his shoulders, and walked out of the bamboo forest.

When he arrived at the village chief's house, Li Linfei put the moso bamboo on the ground, and the old man took out a wooden saw and sawed the bamboo into several sections.

Then pick up a section of moso bamboo, put the hatchet on the saw edge, lift the bamboo and smash it on the ground, and the hatchet blade is embedded in the bamboo.

Then he picked up the bamboo and threw it on the ground, half of the hatchet was embedded in it, and cracks appeared in the bamboo.

The old man smashed again, 'Oh. With the sound, the hatchet quickly broke through the middle bamboo joint from one end of the bamboo, reached the other end, and directly divided the bamboo into two halves.

Huang Bai watched from the side and said: "This is the real 'power like a bamboo'. Sir, can we learn how to make a bow and arrow?"

The old man was not good at words, his son Lao Chen said: "No problem, but the edge of the bamboo is a bit sharp, you have to be careful not to cut your hands."

Then he went into the house and took out a few knives and distributed them to everyone.Li Linfei got a knife, looked like an old scholar, and split the bamboo from the middle, then picked up half of the bamboo, and broke it in half again.

Holding a piece of bamboo, Li Linfei cut off all the knots on it, and then smoothed the sharp outline of the bamboo piece.

After he finished, he saw that Zhang Zifeng didn't know what to do, so he made another bamboo slice for her.

At this time, the old man took out a tape measure, measured a length of 1.2 meters on it, and then sawed off the excess bamboo.

Li Linfei and the others followed suit.The old man stopped and waited for them to see that they were all done before he went on to the next step.

The old man made a mark in the center of the bamboo slice, and then began to cut it with a knife, thinning the bamboo with a length of about 5 cm from the center of the bamboo slice, and narrowing the width on both sides.

"Village chief, why did you do this?" Li Linfei asked.

"This is to make the power more concentrated and increase the accuracy of the bow and arrow.

"This is not finished yet, we need to add a piece of bamboo in the middle, but now the next step is to roast the bamboo piece with fire, one is to eliminate the moisture of the bamboo piece, and the other is to set the shape." After the village chief finished speaking, he went to hug Some dry firewood came and lit, and let the people roast their bows and arrows.

The real roasting takes time and specific tools, and everyone is just experiencing it.The baked bows and arrows are black, but a little bent, not like bows and arrows.

Among them, Zhang Zifeng was the most solid, and he burned it directly on an open flame. As a result, the middle of the bamboo slices was carbonized, and it was useless.

After roasting, the old man took another 15 cm long bamboo slice, overlapped it in the middle of the bow and arrow, thinned it out, and tied it with a rope to increase the strength of the bow and arrow.

After the bow body is finished, the last step is to wind the bow, cut grooves at both ends of the bow, and connect them with strong strings.

The bowstring should not be too loose, nor should it be too tight.It is easy to break if it is tight, but it has no strength when it is loose.

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