Chapter 8 Practice

Although the Lu family is not one of the top local tycoons, it is still a well-known large family in Xiaohuang Village. It controls the surrounding slaughtering business and has a group of butchers under its family.

On weekdays, the Lu family buys pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep from the surrounding areas, slaughters them and sends them to butcher shops in the town market for sale. Sometimes they also supply them to various restaurants in the county. They can make a lot of money from going back and forth.

Xu Yang spent money to get this job, firstly to practice skills, and secondly to obtain meat.

By slaughtering pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep, you should be able to develop skills related to "slaughter". No matter how bad you are, you can also practice knife skills, just like the "flying stones" made by washing water, and develop related offensive skills.

As for meat, although there is no hope of good meat, it is not a problem to get some offal and so on. If you have money, you can buy some meat in rations at the internal employee price.

With a stable source of meat, coupled with the money from selling his body and the dietary skills supported by his body, Xu Yang was able to quickly strengthen this thin young man's 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.

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Money can make the world go round, and under the arrangement of Zhang Fu, the great butler, Xu Yang successfully completed the entry procedures as a butcher.

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, smelling bloody and smelly, returned home carrying a bunch of pigs into the water.

This is not a share of profit after killing pigs. Newly hired apprentices are not qualified to compete with those old butchers for food. 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 him. Just as he was about to get closer, he was smelled by the smell of Xu Yang's body. He quickly pinched his nose and asked, "What is this smell?"

"Eating 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.

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

"Um!"

Xu Yang nodded: "Go and see if you can hit anything."

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 lengthened his voice and seemed very disappointed.

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

He not only wants to be a butcher, but also an hunter. After all, bows and arrows are a very sharp long-range attack method. Not to mention the time-travelers who have experienced the information explosion, anyone with a little vision and experience knows how much advantage long-range has over melee combat. Of course, if you have the opportunity, you can practice as long as you can.

Such and such...

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 and looked at the full bamboo basket on Xu Yang's back, their eyes full of confusion.

"What are you doing after cutting down so much bamboo?"

"Didn't you say we were going hunting?"

Facing the two people's questions, Xu Yang smiled and put down the bamboo basket: "Whether you sharpen your knife or chop firewood!"

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

You obviously said you were going hunting, why did you come back with a pile of bamboo cut down?

It's simple, because he is in the Air Force!

Although he inherited the memory and identity of "Li Qingshan", Li Qingshan was not a powerful hunter to begin with. His hunting skills were quite average. It was normal for him to be unable to catch prey. He even sold his hunting bow and hunting tags before and concentrated on hunting. Plans to start farming.

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, he just needs to practice. There are no skills on the attribute panel that he can't practice.

So, Xu Yang came back after cutting down a basket of bamboo, ready to use it to practice his "archery" skills.

I saw Xu Yang taking a piece of green bamboo, cutting off all the forked branches and leaves, and cutting two circles of dents at the first and last ends. Finally, he bent the entire bamboo into a half-moon shape, and then used a vine that was also chopped back. Tie up.

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 only a few times of play, and its lethality is almost non-existent, Xu Yang still nodded with satisfaction to express 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. If you do it well, it is the icing on the cake, but if you do it poorly, it may not turn decay into magic.

When he first practiced the disguise skill, didn't he just smear some mud on his face, hunker down, and suppress his voice? But in the end, he developed the disguise skill, and it also has the powerful skill feature of condensing breath and shrinking bones?

Therefore, whether we do it well enough is not the key. The key is whether we do it enough and for a long time.

The bow was ready, but it still needed arrows. Xu Yang took a few thin bamboo twigs, and without any need to balance the feathers, he simply sharpened the front end of the bamboo head, and a similarly crudely made arrow was ready.

"Brother, what are you doing?"

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

"Whatever this bow and arrow can hit, the slingshots of the two dogs next door are better than this."

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

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

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

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 bow arm. As the main body, it requires good wood and determines the bow's pulling force, range and killing effect.

The horns and tendons are the horns and tendons of animals, attached to the inside and outside of the bow arm, enhancing the elasticity and power of the bow.

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

The bamboo bow Xu Yang is making now has nothing to do with the word "good". I'm afraid it will be damaged after just a few pulls.

But it doesn’t matter, the quality is not enough, just make up for the quantity. If one doesn’t work, then ten. If ten doesn’t work, then a hundred. Anyway, bamboo and vines cost no money. They are free materials. You can do whatever you want, and you can always show your skills.

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 could make bows and arrows were war preparation resources. I dare not say anything else. They were definitely enough to support a family.

Xu Yang's hands and feet were nimble, and the bamboo bow and arrows did not require any fine skills, so he made them very quickly. Before nightfall, he had made all the bamboo bows and arrows out of a basket of chopped bamboos.

"Brother, it's time to eat."

"Um!"

Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu also prepared dinner. Xu Yang put down what he was holding, got up and sat down at the dining table.

"Brother, it's yours."

Li Hongyu held 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 pig offal on the table was not very attractive to be honest, especially to Xu Yang.

Even so, Li Qinghe and Li Hongyu still stared at the bowls, unable to stop swallowing their saliva when they saw the oil floating on the soup surface.

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

"Uh-huh!"

After receiving permission from him, the head of the family, the two little guys couldn't hold back and immediately started using 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 cleared away the dishes and Xu Yang returned to work.

He picked up a simple bamboo bow and started practicing archery against the earthen wall of the yard.

target?

There is no target.

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

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

Therefore, he did not set up a target, or in other words, this earth wall was his target to help him complete the procedures of "shooting the bow", "shooting" and "hitting".

At this time, it was already dark, the moon was rising, Xiaohuang Village was immersed in a quiet darkness, only Li Lu and a few other households still had their lights on.

Lamp oil and candles are also expenses. Ordinary people can save whatever they can. Plus, there is nothing to do at night. Except for those who make people and spank 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 remembered by "Li Qingshan", then opened the bamboo bow and shot at the earth wall in front.

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 his bamboo bow, and fired another arrow.

This time it was a little better. The bamboo arrow flew five or six steps and landed at the foot of the earth wall.

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

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