Chapter 34 Bow and Arrow

Xu Que then cracked all the wild eggs on the ground into a horn cup and stir-fried them with the pot of beef.

While he was stir-frying, he called Ha Gang over to help!

Ha Gang held a wooden board as big as a door in his hand, stirring it skillfully in a large iron pot.

Xu Que watched Ha Gang stir-frying and reminded him with some concern, "Try to stir gently when you're stir-frying! Too much force will break the pan!"

After hearing Xu Que's reminder, Ha Gang naturally reduced the intensity of his stir-frying!

Xu Que served the stir-fried wild eggs and beef into the wooden plates of each primitive man.

The tribal members found it difficult to pick up the long, thin strips of beef with chopsticks made of twigs! So they simply threw away their chopsticks and started eating with their hands on the spot!

After eating and drinking their fill, the primitive people of the tribe lay on the bare ground outside the cave, rubbing their bellies and cooling off.

A group of malnourished tribal children chased and played, laughing and joking as they passed by Xu Que.

Looking at these emaciated children, Xu Que felt a pang of sadness in his heart!

He personally visited the fenced enclosures used by the tribe to raise wild animals, where many cows and goats were producing milk.

“Eh? The children are all so sick, why don’t we milk the wild buffalo and wild goats and give it to the elderly, the weak, the sick, the pregnant women, and the malnourished children in the tribe?”

Thinking of this, Xu Que excitedly slapped his thigh and ran over to discuss it with Ha Gang again: "I'd like to ask you for a favor later! Is that alright?"

"I can help you with ten things, let alone just one!" Ha Gang patted his chest and said to Xu Que.

"Could you help our tribe's malnourished children by milking the wild buffalo or wild sheep in their enclosures so that all the malnourished children can grow up strong and healthy?" Xu Que said to Ha Gang.

"I'm mainly afraid of the milking bison. They might kick me when I'm not paying attention while milking! If you were the one going in to milk, I doubt these bison and wild horses would dare to make a move!"

Ha Gang asked Xu Que curiously, "What is milking?"

"Did you see that? Holding onto the wild animal, and then rhythmically stroking it back and forth against the ground! This stroking technique deeply stimulates cow's milk, mare's milk, or goat's milk! Various milks will flow into the wooden bucket! This process is called milking!"

As Xu Que spoke, he took out all the wooden buckets he had made earlier and handed them to Ha Gang.

Ha Gang, carrying a bucket of water, leaped once more into the herd of milk-producing bison.

He found a cow with a large milk collection device and started expressing milk, following the technique Xu Que had taught him before!

Before long, the wooden barrels under the bison were filled!

After Ha Gang had filled all the barrels, he jumped out of the bison herd once again.

Xu Que poured the freshly squeezed milk into a large iron pot to warm it, then added a certain proportion of water before distributing it to the malnourished children. The rest was distributed to every member of the tribe.

Xu Que took a sip of the milk, which had a rusty taste. Apart from the less-than-ideal taste, its quality and nutritional value were top-notch!

A few men and women in the tribe had a sudden inspiration: they thought milking was too troublesome! They could just sneak into the cow's pen, find a milking buffalo or sheep, and simply crawl under the cow's belly to nurse—how convenient! There was no need for all this trouble!

To prove their theory was correct, those men disregarded the danger and secretly climbed into the enclosure of captive wild animals, found a buffalo with milk, and began suckling it!

Just as they were feeling smug, an old cow kicked him twice, pushing him out from under the buffalo's belly.

The others were all injured; some were kicked by cows, and others were gored by sheep! Fortunately, they all only suffered minor injuries, and none of them were seriously injured or disabled!

These young people, who had been gored by a bull, have undergone subtle changes after learning their lesson. For example, they have become less arrogant and less prone to acting on their own without understanding the situation.

Seeing the group of young primitive people with bruises around their eyes from being kicked by the cow, Hou couldn't help but burst into laughter.

She joked with the young people from the tribe, "Those who don't heed the advice of their elders will suffer the consequences. Now you know how powerful the elders' words are! You're all getting on in years!"

After being lectured so tactfully by the roar, the young tribal members listened attentively and agreed that what the roar said made sense!

After eating and drinking his fill, Xu Que really didn't know what to do! After thinking it over, he took out a logging saw, a multi-functional power drill, a boning knife, and other items from the system's inventory.

Taking advantage of the lull in the work, he went to a pile of firewood, used a lumber saw to split the wood into planks, then took out a multi-functional power drill from the system's inventory, changed to a suitable drill bit, and started working on the block of wood in front of him!

A few minutes later, a bow with an antique charm was finished!

Xu Que used cowhide to tie a bowstring to the bent bow, adjusted the tension and the length of the bowstring, found a stick on the ground, used the stick as an arrow, drew the bowstring taut, and shot forward!

The arrow fell to the ground after flying fifty meters. The bow was perfectly fine; the arrow, without an arrowhead or fletching, flew fifty meters. If it had an arrowhead and fletching, a fully drawn bow would have covered at least a hundred meters!

Xu Que quickly made ten bows in no time, secured the bowstrings, and distributed them to the Black Deer Tribe's elite hundred-strong armed force.

Hagang held a bow and stood by, teaching the tribe members how to draw and shoot arrows!

Xu Que was truly a master craftsman. The instant Ha Gang took the bow from the tribe member, he had already crafted five four-sided pyramidal wooden arrowheads!

Ha Gang took the arrows, eagerly attached one, drew his bow, and fired an arrow at a spot he hadn't hit before. He ran over to look and muttered to himself, "My God! This is truly a divine arrow! The arrowhead deserves all the credit! Without it, we probably wouldn't have broken the previous record!"

"From now until next month, all members here who have received the bow will undergo fifteen days of grueling training!"

"You must learn to use a bow and arrow first, no matter what! Because in this primitive society, the bow and arrow have a long range and great killing power, so they are distributed as advanced weapons!" Hagang said to all the tribal members under his command!

“Every member of our Black Deer Tribe’s elite armed forces will be equipped with a bow and dozens of arrows from now on! So those who haven’t received their bows yet shouldn’t feel guilty! Everyone will have a bow; it’s just a matter of time!” Ha Gang said to the elite armed forces members.