doomsday survival

Chapter 48 Bow Making ([-])

Xia Qing was also very happy when he heard Shi Jian's excited shout, but he still shouted to Shi Jian: "Brother Jian, be careful!"

"I see." Shi Jian replied, and began to chop the tree trunk with an axe.

This tree trunk is not the main trunk, but a branch that grows from [-] centimeters above the root of the tree.Although it is branched, it has a diameter of fifteen or six centimeters, and the thickness is very uniform, and the whole is close to straight without any big bends. Branches only start to appear at about two meters away. Shi Jian checked carefully, and there is no boil in the whole body, which is very Meet the requirements of the bow handle.

Shi Jian cut off the trunk with ease, and then chopped off the branches. While cutting, Xiao Wei suddenly rushed out, followed by Xiao Meng.

Shi Jian heard Xia Qing shouting anxiously: "Brother Jian! Go away! The wolf is coming!"

Shi Jian turned his head and saw that it was a gray wolf that had sneaked up from nowhere. He never expected to be spotted by Serena and Xiaomeng, who had very sensitive senses of hearing and smell, and now it was being besieged by two lynxes.

The wolf was a bit bigger than Xiaomeng and the others, but the canines were obviously not as flexible as the cats. No matter how it attacked, it didn't even touch a single hair of Xiaomeng and Serena. Wei took a bite while it was attacking Xiaomeng, and it happened to bite the right hind leg.The wolf didn't dare to attack anymore, it just put on a defensive posture and growled there.

Shi Jian was worried that there were still wolves following behind, so he quickly cut off the upper part of the trunk, lifted the trunk and carried it on his shoulders, and hurried back. When he was outside the defensive circle, he called Xiaomeng and Xiaomeng Way back.

Xiaomeng and Xiaowei heard Shi Jian's call, although they still wanted to fight the wolf, they still listened to Shi Jian and retreated.However, they also retreated very skillfully. Instead of turning around and running back, they faced the wolf and moved backward bit by bit.

Seeing that the two lynxes were about to leave, the wolf tried to rush over to attack them several times, but they were easily repelled by Xiaomeng and Serena. After several attempts, the wolf also realized that it was impossible for him to stay The two opponents let them go.

As soon as Xiaomeng and Serena retreated back, Shi Jian immediately removed the single-plank bridge on the ditch, and told Xiaomeng and Serena to stay here. At the same time, he called Langya over. After all, dogs barked louder.

"What the hell, wait until labor and capital have a bow, I see you can still stroll here!" Shi Jian spat hard, and said harshly.

Shi Jian knew that it was useless to speak harshly. After setting up the defense, he and Xia Qing hurried back to the room to make bows and arrows.

Seeing Shi Jian and the others come back, Xia Rou came over and asked, "Brother Jian, why did you call Langya out?"

"It's okay, a wolf is here." Shi Jian pretended to be relaxed.

"It seems that these wolves are after us." Xia Qing said worriedly, "Brother Jian, can this bow work?"

"It works! Take it off!" Shi Jian joked casually, "It's not a problem to shoot a wolf to death, but we don't know how to shoot an arrow. I don't know if we can shoot it, but we have to wait until we have a bow first." After speaking, Shi Jian began to deal with this section of tree trunk.

Xia Rou squatted aside curiously, watching Shi Jian saw the trunk lengthwise with a hand saw, and asked, "Brother Jian, have you ever made a bow?"

"Where did I make this thing?" Shi Jian said with a smile, "But I have a way to make it. By the way, Qing'er, go and get me the piece of birch bark paper I just found."

Xia Qing took the birch paper according to his words, saw Shi Jian was busy, and said: "Brother Jian, you are busy, I will cook." Seeing Shi Jian nodded in agreement, he said to Xia Ju, "Xiaorou, you Watch honestly, don't make trouble for your brother Jian, you understand?"

"Understood." Xia Rou replied absent-mindedly, her eyes never leaving the saw in Shi Jian's hand.

Shi Jian sawed the trunk in two, then picked up one half and inspected it carefully to see if there were any boils hidden in it.Sure enough, there was still a wood boil that was sawn open, half of one side, but Shi Jian looked at it and thought that this wood boil should be avoided.

Next, Shi Jian scraped off all the bark, and began to experiment with the first half of the trunk. He first sawed the trunk into three parts, and the middle part was about ten centimeters wide, just to avoid the boil. opened.

"Brother Jian, why do you need to saw it again?" Xia Rou asked puzzled.

Shi Jian didn't stop, and replied casually: "What I want now is the middle part to make a bow blank. It can't be too wide, otherwise how can I hold it."

Xia Rou nodded to show that she understood, and kept silent, watching Shi Jian continue to be busy.

After the saw was finished, Shi Jian picked it up and checked it again. After confirming that there was no boil, he said to Xia Ju: "Do my brother a favor, go and get the knife I gave you just now."

When Xia Rou heard that she could help Shi Jian, she happily went to get the short samurai sword.

Shi Jian took the knife and weighed it, scraped the bow blank twice, shook his head and said: "No, when the bow is ready, this knife should be scrapped."

When Xia Rou heard that the knife would break, she was so frightened that she reached out to snatch it back.But Shi Jian handed it to her first, and said to Xia Qing, "Bring me the kitchen knife and let me try it."

Xia Qing didn't know which kitchen knife Shi Jian was talking about, so he took them all.Seeing that she had brought so many knives, Shi Jian couldn't help being amused, and picked out the one with the thickest blade, indicating that Xia Qing could take the rest.

Shi Jian scraped the bow blank with a knife, and then began to repair and shape it.This process was very troublesome, and the kitchen knife was not strong enough. At the beginning, Shi Jian stood the bow blank on the wall to sharpen it, but it fell down as soon as he tried hard, and Xia Qing had to come over to help him.

Xia Qing had already stewed the meat, and told Xia Rou to take good care of the pot, so she came to help Shi Jian fix the bow.Shi Jian left [-] centimeters in the middle and used it as a handle.Cut off the excess part downwards from the handle, and the two sides are a little more than half thinner than the handle, and gradually narrow in an arc shape, so as to prevent the bow from breaking when drawing the bow.The outside is flush with the handle, and half of the wood needs to be scraped inside, so the top and bottom of the handle are treated the same.

After both ends were cut, Shi Jian took a thin rope, hung a stone, and hung it to the side of the bow to check whether it was straight, and trimmed the inappropriate place again. Done.

Xia Rou has come to urge her several times, but Shi Jian couldn't keep the two sisters waiting for him, so he had to finish the meal before continuing.As soon as he finished his meal, Shi Jian threw himself on the bow. Because it was a trimming detail, he didn't need Xia Qing's help. After Xia Qing cleaned up the bowls and chopsticks, Shi Jian finally finished the bow handle.

But this is not over yet, Shi Jian still needs to trim the handle into shape.He took a knife to shave off the excess wood bit by bit, so that the handle formed a smooth arc on the inside, which was easy to hold by hand, so that the bow basically took shape.

Now this bow looks a lot like the same thing. It is about 1.5 meters long overall. The handle is [-] centimeters long and [-] centimeters wide. The inner side is a concave arc. It gradually narrows in an arc shape, and it is only one and a half centimeters thick at the end. ,

"Is this all right, Brother Jian?" Xia Rou asked, staring at the bow that Shi Jian was holding in his hand.

"It's basically enough to polish it a little more, and then we have to move on to the next step." Shi Jian said.

Xia Rou pursed her lips and said, "It's not over yet, how long will it take?"

"What? Are you in a hurry?" Shi Jian smiled and said, "Do you know that slow work comes with careful work?"

"I'm anxious to see you archery." The little girl felt embarrassed.

Shi Jian shook his head with a smile, picked up a stone that was used as a whetstone, and carefully polished it on the bow handle. While doing it, he said: "It's a pity that we don't have fine sandpaper, otherwise it will definitely be more beautiful."

The current conditions are such that all work can only be done by finding substitutes. Shi Jian replaced several stones with different textures in order to achieve the goal of making the bow as smooth as possible. Keep rubbing back and forth to remove the small wooden thorns on the bow.

After polishing the handle of the bow, Shi Jian came outside again. It was already dark at this time, and the wolf teeth kept barking into the depths of the trees, while Xiaomeng and Serena stared there unblinkingly. hairs stand upright.Shi Jian knew that the wolves were coming, so he hurriedly built several bonfires to strengthen the defense of the camp.Through the light of the fire, Shi Jian could vaguely see the flashing green light in the depths of the dense forest, and Shi Jian knew that those were wolves.

Shi Jian pointed out the wolves to Xia Qing and Xia Rou who came out, and said, "It seems that my judgment is correct. The wolves are after us."

Xia Qing asked nervously, "Then what should we do?"

"Don't worry about them, they won't be able to get in anyway, let's make the bow first." Shi Jian said decisively.

Shi Jian didn't pay attention to the wolves, but asked Xia Rou to appease the wolf teeth, and then went to do the rest of the work.He coated the quarters of both ends of the bow handle with some animal fat, and then lightly roasted it on the flame for a while, and then immediately put the roasted part into the horse's tripod, and bent it lightly to form a shape. one radian.

After both ends were handled in this way, Shi Jian put the center of the bow on his hand and held it flat. He carefully observed whether the arcs of the two sides were consistent with the campfire, and made fine adjustments several times. Finally, both ends were on the same plane and the arc unanimous.

Back in the house, Shi Jian carved a small groove diagonally downwards, left, and right two centimeters from the two tops of the bow, and the angles of the four grooves were all consistent.

After finishing all this, Shi Jian let out a long breath and said, "The handle of the bow is finally finished, only the string is left."

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