Xiuxian: When you do things to the extreme

Chapter 8 Exercises
Although the Lu family is not the kind of top-notch local tyrants, it is also a well-known big family in the ten miles and eight townships of Xiaohuang Village. It controls the slaughtering business in the surrounding area and has a group of butchers under its door.

On weekdays, the Lu family buys pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep in the surrounding area, slaughters them and sends them to the butcher shops in the town for sale, and sometimes supplies them to various restaurants in the county.

Xu Yang spends money to get this job, one is to practice skills, and the other is to obtain meat.

Slaughtering pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep should be able to develop skills related to "slaughter", no matter how bad it is, you can also practice knife skills, and develop related offensive skills like "flying stones" trained in water.

As for meat, although there is no hope for good meat, it is not a problem to get some internal organs into the water. If you have money, you can buy some meat at the internal staff price.

With a stable source of meat, plus the money from selling his body and the eating skills supported by his body, Xu Yang will soon be able to grow this thin young body into a strong body.

By then, they may not be able to deal with those martial arts instructors, but it will not be a problem to deal with a few nursing home servants and rogue idlers like Li Laojiu.

……

Money can turn ghosts around. Under the arrangement of Zhang Fu, the big housekeeper, Xu Yang successfully completed the butcher's entry procedures.

Of course, Xu Yang's own performance is not bad. After all, the key to things like slaughtering is strength and courage. Xu Yang is not bad in either of them and has a lot of "work experience", so it is not difficult to join the job.

At noon, Xu Yang, who was smelly of blood all over his body, returned home with a hanging pig into the water.

This is not a profit after slaughtering pigs. The apprentices who have just joined the job are not qualified to compete with those old butchers. They can only buy some at a relatively favorable price, which is barely considered an employee benefit.

"elder brother!"

Li Hongyu opened the door to greet her, and when she was about to get close, she was overcome by the smell of Xu Yang's body, and quickly pinched her nose: "What is this smell?"

"Meat tonight."

Xu Yang smiled, said nothing, handed the hanging pig into the water to Li Hongyu, then went into the house and picked up the bamboo basket, a short axe, and a hunting bow.

Little brother Li Qinghe came over: "Brother, it's already noon, you still want to go into the mountains?"

"Ok!"

Xu Yang nodded: "Go and see if you can get something."

Li Qinghe's eyes lit up: "Can I go too?"

Xu Yang shook his head and smiled: "When you are a few years older, I will take you there."

"Oh……!"

Li Qinghe elongated his voice, looking very disappointed.

Xu Yang left home without saying anything, carrying the bamboo basket and preparing to go hunting in the mountains.

He wants to be not only a butcher, but also a hunter. After all, bows and arrows are a very sharp long-range attack method. Let alone traversers who have received the information explosion, anyone with a little vision and experience knows how much advantage long-distance has over close combat. The opportunity is naturally to practice if you can.

so and so...

In the evening, Xu Yang returned home. The bamboo basket behind him seemed quite heavy.

"Brother, what did you hit?"

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu trotted out, then stood still, looking at the bamboo baskets on Xu Yang's back, his eyes were filled with puzzlement.

"What do you do after cutting so many bamboos?"

"Didn't you say go hunting?"

Facing the doubts of the two, Xu Yang smiled and put down the bamboo basket: "Sharpening a knife is not the same as cutting firewood!"

After speaking, he sat down and began to sort out the chopped bamboo.

He clearly said he was going hunting, but why did he come back with a pile of bamboo?
It's simple, because he's in the air force!

Although he has inherited the memory and identity of "Li Qingshan", Li Qingshan is not a very good hunter. Farming plans.

Now that Xu Yang has traveled through time, this situation has not changed. After all, he can only fish but not hunt.

But it doesn't matter, just practice, there is no skill on the attribute panel that he can't practice.

Therefore, Xu Yang came back with a basket of bamboos and prepared to use them to practice his "archery" skills.

I saw Xu Yang took a green bamboo, cut off all the forked branches and leaves, cut two circles of dents at both ends, and finally bent the whole bamboo into a half-moon shape, and then used a vine cut back from the same tie on.

In this way, a bamboo bow that is so crude that it can only be used as a toy for children is ready.

"Yes, Not Bad!"

Although this thing will be scrapped after a few times of playing, and its lethality is almost zero, but Xu Yang still nodded in satisfaction, expressing his appreciation for his work.

It doesn't matter if it's crude, and it doesn't matter if it's scrapped, as long as it allows him to complete the "shooting" thing.

The key to practicing skills is to do it. It is icing on the cake if it is done well, but it may not be impossible to turn decay into magic if it is not done well.

When he was practicing disguise skills, didn't he just smear some mud on his face, shrink his body, and press his throat? In the end, he practiced disguise skills differently, and he also has such powerful skill characteristics as restraining breath and shrinking bones?
Therefore, it is not the key to doing well enough, the key is to do enough and for long enough.

The bow is ready, but the arrow is still missing. Xu Yang took a few slender bamboo twigs, and he didn't need to do anything to balance the feathers. He simply sharpened the front end of the bamboo head, and an equally crudely made arrow was ready.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

"This is... a bow and arrow?"

"What can this bow and arrow hit? Ergou's slingshot next door is better than this."

Looking at Xu Yang's shoddy work, Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu were even more confused.

"Don't worry about it so much, go and cook."

Xu Yang smiled, sent the two little guys away, and continued his bow-making career.

Bows and arrows were a high-precision industry in ancient times, requiring extremely high craftsmanship and materials. Among them, there are six materials, namely stem, horn, tendon, glue, silk, and lacquer.

The stem is the arm of the bow. As the main body, it needs high-quality wood, which determines the pulling force, range and killing effect of the bow.

The horns and tendons are the horns and tendons of beasts, which are attached to the inside and outside of the bow arm to enhance the elasticity and power of the bow.

There are also glue, silk, and lacquer, all of which are extremely important for bows. Only good materials must be selected to make a good bow.

The bamboo bow that Xu Yang is making now has nothing to do with the word "good", and it is afraid that it will be damaged if it is not pulled a few times.

But it doesn't matter, the quality is not enough, the quantity can be combined, if one is not enough, then ten, if ten is not enough, then a hundred, anyway, bamboo and vines don't cost money, free materials, whatever you do, you can always get your skills out of it.

In addition to bow and arrow skills, making bows and arrows may also generate skills, allowing Xu Yang to add another income-generating craft.

You know, in ancient times, craftsmen who knew how to make bows and arrows, but resources for combat readiness, dare not say anything else, it was definitely enough to support a family.

Xu Yang's hands and feet are nimble, and the bamboo bow and arrow don't require any fine skills, so the production speed is very fast. Before nightfall, he made all the bamboo bows and arrows from a basket of bamboo he felled.

"Brother, it's time to eat."

"Ok!"

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu also finished dinner, Xu Yang put down the things in his hand, got up and sat down at the dining table.

"Brother, it's yours."

Li Hongyu held up a large bowl in front of him. The bowl was filled with steaming hot brown rice. There was also a large bowl of offal soup as a side dish. It looked appetizing... well, it was not that big.

At this time, the pigs raised by the village farmers were basically uncooked and had a very fishy smell, especially the offal. Without enough spices, it was very difficult to cook these offal offal into delicious food.

Therefore, the bowl of pork offal on the table is not very attractive, especially to Xu Yang.

Even so, Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu still stared at the bowl, watching the oil floating on the surface of the soup, they couldn't help swallowing.

Xu Yang smiled, picked up the bowls and chopsticks: "Eat!"

"Uh-huh!"

With the permission of the head of the family, the two little guys finally couldn't hold back, and immediately moved their chopsticks.

With the money from selling his body in his hand, Xu Yang would not treat himself badly. Although the meat was only fishy pig offal, there was enough brown rice and a lot of vegetables. The combination of meat and vegetables was already a good choice for Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu. Quite a hearty meal.

Not full of wine, but full of food, the two little guys cleaned up the dishes, and Xu Yang also returned to work.

Picking up a simple bamboo bow, facing the earthen wall of the yard, he began to practice archery.

target?

No target.

After practicing skills for so many years, Xu Yang has also figured out a set of rules and experience for practicing skills.

When you first start to practice, it is best to focus on quantity first, practice to a certain level, or develop skills, and then gradually focus on quality to generate high-quality feature entries.

Therefore, he did not make a target, or this earth wall was his target, helping him complete the procedures of "opening the bow", "archery" and "hitting".

At this time, it was already night, and the moon was at the tip of the moon, Xiaohuang Village was sunk in a quiet darkness, only Li Lu and a few other households were still lit.

Lamp oil and candles are also expenses. Ordinary people can save money if they can. In addition, they have nothing to do at night. Except for those who make people beat their children, everyone else is basically asleep.

Under the cold moonlight, Xu Yang held the bow, straightened his body, corrected his posture and movements according to the skills and instincts in the memory of "Li Qingshan", then pulled the bamboo bow and shot towards the earth wall in front of him.

result……

"Snapped!"

There was a soft sound, and the bamboo arrow hit the ground. It only flew forward two or three steps and did not touch the earth wall at all.

Xu Yang didn't care, he continued to correct his posture, drew the bamboo bow, and shot another arrow.

This time it was a bit better, the bamboo arrow flew five or six steps away, and had already landed at the foot of the earthen wall.

Xu Yang smiled, and continued to draw the bow. His posture and movements gradually became standard, and he had completely mastered the bow and arrow skills of the original body.

In this way, under the cold moonlight, a thin young man bent his bow and set up an arrow, shooting at the earth wall one after another. The light bamboo arrows shot out, from the beginning flying randomly, to gradually hitting the earth wall and leaving traces, Then the bamboo arrows pierced the yellow mud and stuck into the wall...

(End of this chapter)