Going through ancient farming to engage in infrastructure construction

Chapter 17
Yao Xiaoqing said with a smile: "Father, you should be faster with the sawtooth, be careful!"

"Okay." Yaohu nodded, took the engineer shovel, and went up the mountain with the mountain and boulders.

At this time the sun had come out, Yao Xiaoqing took a bamboo pole, washed it and tied it to a firewood stick while everyone was away, took out the underwear in the bag to dry, and then started to shave the bamboo knots with a dagger.

Shave off the bamboo burrs on the bamboo, split the bamboo, and cut the excess part into a shape that is thick in the middle and thin at both ends.

Shave the bow shaft smoothly, without any burrs to the touch, and carve grooves on both ends of the bow shaft to facilitate bowstring binding.

In the end, two pieces of bamboo that were about one foot long and as wide as the middle part of the bow were cut, and they were still cut into thinner ends and thicker in the middle, and put aside.

After finishing the stems of the two bows, Yao Xiaoqing began to reinforce the stems.

Tear off the rattan skin on the rattan, rub it a few times, and twist it into a thin rope.

Walking to the edge of the platform, I found a big tree with resin flowing out, picked out some sticky resin, went back and applied it on the short bamboo piece, and wound the short bamboo piece to fix it in the middle of the bow.

After the bow was finished, I went into the hole and took some rattan skins left over from the braided straps, and twisted them into a few thin ropes. Two strands of thin ropes were combined into one, and twisted into two strong bowstrings.

Take the bow into the cave, set aside the ash-covered fire, put firewood on it, and start to bake the two ends of the bow. While roasting, press the two ends of the bow until the bow is formed.

Take a bowstring and wrap it around the groove at one end of the bow shaft, and pull it tightly to make a dead buckle.

Then step on the end of the good bowstring, wrap the bowstring around the groove at the other end and tie it tightly, and a simple long bamboo bow is ready.

Yao Xiaoqing pulled it, and felt that this bow was very powerful for her current arm strength.

After the two bows are finished, the arrow shafts can be started.Remove the leaves and bark from the small shrubs that are seven or eight inches thick.

Cut the straightest part into a piece about sixty centimeters long, and scrape it off with a dagger.

A bundle of small shrubs, only twenty or so are useful after selection.

One end of the arrow shaft is cut into the shape of a bullet, and the other end is grooved. It is not completed until the feathered wooden arrow is glued on.

All that's left is the feathers.Having nothing to do, Yao Xiaoqing wove a quiver out of vines.

The warm sun makes people lazy.It was past noon and no one came back.

Yao Xiaoqing put the dried underwear into the bag, looked at the cave, and thought of the situation where more than a dozen people crowded inside last night, the smell was really sour.

The four elements of human existence: clothing, food, housing, and transportation. Although this body is uncomfortable and unattractive, it can also cover up shame. Then there are food, salt, and housing... If you calculate it like this, you really have nothing what!
Is there any time-traveling woman in the history of time-traveling as difficult as herself?Not even a chance to earn money to buy things.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation have to be solved by yourself.

Yao Xiaoqing frowned and walked around the entrance of the cave, standing on the edge of the platform and looking down the mountain.

I began to plan in my heart: first surround the platform with wood, and then build a few simple bamboo sheds next to the hole, so as to save a dozen people from crowding in the hole, and even the lice cannot be cleaned.

After the trees at the foot of the mountain are cut down, first find some stones to build a wall, and then build a row of houses next to the mountain. The materials for building houses can be made of stones or fired red bricks.

After the house below was built, a step was dug along the gentle slope to reach the platform. The platform was used as a drying ground, and the cave inside was used as a warehouse to store food.

Yao Xiaoqing said to himself, "That's right! Let's do it this way, first solve the problem of food and housing, and then take the rest slowly. There will be food, salt, toilet paper, and everything else."

Shan Amu climbed up with a basket on his back, saw Yao Xiaoqing circling on the platform, and smiled happily: "Look, Xiaoqing, he picked up a lot of duck eggs!"

Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly took off the basket, and half of the basket was full of duck eggs. It seemed that there were at least 100 duck eggs.

"Did Yaya and Hua come back? Have you finished picking up the duck eggs?"

"It's in the back! There are so many wild ducks, how can I finish picking them up?" Shan Amu smiled and pointed to the foot of the mountain. "The flower jumped on a wild duck that was laying eggs, and even crushed a nest of duck eggs."

Yao Xiaoqing thinks about that scene and finds it a little funny. Turning around, she sees Yun'am holding a wild duck, and holding wild vegetables, leading Yaya up the mountain.

Seeing the wild duck, Yao Xiaoqing laughed: "It's all right now, there is no need to look for feathers."

Seeing Yao Xiaoqing looking at the wild duck she was holding with glowing eyes, Yun'am thought she was greedy for meat, and said with a smile: "Xiaoqing, there will be meat to eat when Amu cleans it up. It's a pity that there are so many ducks by the river. Wild ducks, we can't catch a single one."

Yao Xiaoqing took the wild duck with a smile, plucked some feathers and said, "I can catch it when I make a bow and arrow."

Yun Amu didn't understand what it was.

Hua said at the side: "Xiaoqing, where are the leaders? We saw wild boar droppings by the river, and some wild boars have come to the river."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at Hua in surprise, "Really?"

"Really." Both Hua and Yun Amu nodded.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at several people, "Father and Uncle Shan have gone to cut down big trees. When they come back, let them dig traps."

Yun Amu nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go and pluck the wild duck feathers."

Yao Xiaoqing hurriedly said: "Mother, you pack up the duck feathers and tie them with rattan skin, it will be useful in the future."

Yun Amu nodded and went to work.

Yao Xiaoqing took out the scissors from the bag, cut the feathers, buckled some resin on the tree trunk, spread it on the arrow shaft, glued the feathers to it, and wrapped it with a thin rope made of rattan bark to fix it.

Yaya looked at those wooden arrows and asked curiously: "Qing Gu, what are these for?"

Yao Xiaoqing took a look at her sallow face and thinning hair, "It's for catching wild ducks, Yaya will have meat every day from now on."

"Oh! There is meat to eat!" Yaya smiled and narrowed her eyes, "Qinggu, where is the golden retriever?"

"The golden retriever went to find something to eat." Yao Xiaoqing was a little worried: Why hasn't the golden retriever come back yet?
After gluing all the wooden arrows with feathers, Yao Xiaoqing counted them, and there were 25 in total.

Picking up the bow and putting an arrow on a small tree for a test shot, the arrow left the string and missed the tree he was aiming at, but hit the next one.

Yao Xiaoqing looked at the missed wooden arrow and patted his head, how could a three-legged cat hunt anything!You have to practice hard, this is the ability to eat to save your life.

Shan Amu came out of the cave with two packs of seeds, saw the bow and arrow in Yao Xiaoqing's hand, and exclaimed: "Xiaoqing, the thing in your hand was also in the hands of the giant bear tribe last time. Shan's legs I was stabbed by this thing before I was chopped."

Yao Xiaoqing looked at her in surprise, "Mum, this is called a bow and arrow, does the Giant Bear Tribe also have one?"

Shan Amu nodded, "Yes, the man with the bird feathers on his head is holding something like this. It's not as big as yours, but it looks about the same."

It's no wonder that the giant bear tribe can dominate the area. Their brains are really easy to use, and they have already made bows and arrows.

(End of this chapter)