Warring States Survival Guide

Chapter 28 Maybe I can not only make back my investment, but also win a few more coins from him!

Aman has been saving money. Although she cannot save a lot, she has been saving money. She performs and begs every day, and she also steals and cheats occasionally. She does not let go of every penny and is extremely greedy, but the results are not great. She is still a pauper. If she can win a large sum of money from Yuanye, it is impossible for her to be merciful.

She really wanted to get Yuanye's three strings of cash for free, but she was also a restless person who acted on her whims. She pressed Aqing's head, insisting on borrowing her brain regardless of whether she was willing or not. She also kept nagging Yuanye and provoking him in various ways, forcing him to make the bet with her, otherwise Yuanye would have to admit that he was bragging and was a big fool.

This wild child who has no rules at all...

Yuanye couldn't stand her anymore, so he agreed casually. Then Aman became more and more excited. He stopped dozing off and running around on the street every day. He started to run around for Yuanye, wanting to help him make the bow quickly. He even used his own connections and went to the castle town of Kuno in the cold wind with the drawings to find an expert blacksmith to make clay molds to cast parts and hand-make wrought iron sheets.

After the parts were cast, she was willing to use the grindstone to help him polish them all day long. Even when Yuanye went to see a doctor, she would continue to polish the parts, for fear that Yuanye would be slow in making the bow and affect her speed in making money.

To be honest, she was almost going crazy wanting to save money. She had tried to turn her bicycle into a motorcycle with the little she had saved before, but failed and didn't get a penny back. She had lost everything and was like a monk holding an umbrella, with a lawless personality. If you gave her ten strings of money now, she might even dare to assassinate the emperor.

This time, she must win big!
Yuan Ye didn't care about her, she could do whatever she wanted! He leisurely selected wood, oil, paint, keratin materials, and fish glue in the village, and unpacked the box of fishing line he brought with him when he traveled through time, and made a wooden string twister to slowly twist five or six bowstrings - carbon fishing line is not very suitable for bowstrings, but that is in modern times. In ancient times, it must be several times stronger than the hemp lacquer bowstring used for the five-vine bow.

Well, if he didn't have this box of high-strength fishing line, he wouldn't dare to make the pulley-assisted compound bow. The bowstrings of this era are not up to standard. He might be killed after shooting an arrow.

After the bowstring was finished, he carefully cut the carefully selected bow material, and asked a few villagers who knew some simple carpentry skills to help him make a wooden bow trainer. He hung the bow string on it and began to train the bow, hanging it one scale at a time, adjusting the string every few hours until the maximum draw length was reached, allowing the bow to gradually adapt to the deformation state and correct the deformation problem of the bow at the same time.

By this step, the bow is actually almost done, with only the assembly process left. After all, the bow is really just a very simple mechanical tool that has been used since the Paleolithic Age. It is nothing special at all - it may be sacred to bow and arrow enthusiasts, but to an engineering student like him, it is just so-so.

He took the parts that Aman had polished and knocked them for a while to calibrate the bite, then used fish glue to glue the wrought iron and keratin sheets to reinforce the bow material, and used paint and oil to make it waterproof and moisture-proof. He also installed the eccentric wheel, balance bar, main string, secondary string, and split string, arrow rest, naked-eye sight, string stop, and release device, and used soft cowhide as gaskets in various places to reduce shock. By the way, he also asked the villagers for some duck feathers and made ten long arrows with shuttle feathers. According to his experience, peacock feathers are the best, followed by duck and goose, but goose feathers are more wear-resistant and can be used longer than duck feathers. Rooster feathers are the best. He has never used other feathers because they are not available on Taobao.

Finally, he got an ironwood carbon pulley compound bow.

In other words, get a poor version of a modern compound bow.

After Yuanye finished, he looked at the finished product carefully and nodded slightly. He felt that apart from being a bit heavy, other aspects were pretty good and should be able to basically meet his needs. There was nothing he could do about it being heavy, as he didn't have any modern alloy materials. It was already very good to be able to make it like this, so it didn't matter if it was a bit heavy!
And there is no need to worry about leaking modern technology. Without the carbon fishing line, this bow would be useless - if the Japanese could synthesize carbon fiber in the 16th century, then they are awesome, he would admit it!
Aman was also very satisfied when looking at the bow.

Originally, she saw Yuanye paid someone to cast and create so many strange little iron tools, and also made a large wooden frame for training bows. He was very serious and came up with some new tricks she had never seen before. She thought he was really a legendary bow maker with some secret family method. But when she saw that he was done, that was it?

This doesn't look like a bow at all, with four wheels of different sizes hanging from both ends and a round-headed pole sticking out from the front. Where in the world can you find a bow like this? It's so small, you might not even be able to shoot an arrow!
She became more and more certain that the second-hand donkey at home must come into the house every night and kick Yuanye on the head, otherwise he would not do such a ridiculous thing!

Seeing that she was about to get three strings of cash for free, she became even more excited: "Let's go, let's go out and try! It's impossible to shoot at sixty houses anyway!"

If she could shoot sixty times, she would eat this bow raw today, without even dipping it in bean paste!
Yuanye was a steady person, not as jumpy as her. He didn't have to suppress others when encountering things. Hearing this, he kindly advised: "Forget it, I'll go and calibrate the shooting myself later."

He planned to let her go and not embarrass her and ruin their friendship. After all, this guy was still quite useful. But A-Man refused. She worked so hard and her hands were blistered from grinding parts. Wasn't it all for the sake of earning three strings of cash?

Is it easy for her?

Must pull it out and try!
She insisted on going out to try, and had to prove that she won. Yuanye looked at her speechlessly for a while, and thought that since she was willing to die, he should be willing to bury her too. So he fulfilled her wish, carried the bow and went out of the village with her.

Ah Qing lowered his eyes, hesitated for a moment, and followed silently behind.

They found an open area on the riverbank. Yuanye took a quick look and pointed to the woods in the distance and asked Ah Man, "Are sixty rooms enough?"

Ah Man was waiting to receive the money, and couldn't wait any longer. He didn't care about the three feet and five inches, as long as it was roughly the same, he immediately rubbed his hands and said happily: "Enough, absolutely enough, hurry up and cum!"

After getting the three strings of money from Yuanye, she would find a place to bury it. This time she would definitely not use it to try to turn her bicycle into a motorcycle. Instead, she would save it to buy a cannon in the future, so that her self-created life-saving trick could be taken to the next level.

Besides, Yuanye is a nice person, and she is also a decent person. When Yuanye loses, she will not laugh at him loudly or embarrass him too much, so that he will not dare to gamble with her next time.

Seeing that she agreed, Yuanye took a deep breath, stood sideways, drew his bow and arrow, aimed and shot quickly, and let go when the bow was full. After all, his target was a forest, so if he couldn't hit this tree, he could hit that one.

Ah Man was still imagining the day when he would master his martial arts and master the "Equality Cannon" and stand out from the crowd, and how he would comfort Yuan Ye's injured and fragile heart later, when he heard a sharp whistle and saw the arrow on the bow stand disappear. He was stunned for a moment - what, this weird thing actually shot the arrow? This is not right, how could there be such a weird bow in the world?

This clearly looks more like a double-headed hammer!

She immediately went to look for the arrow, praying that it would not hit the target, and would preferably just fall limply to the ground in the middle of the road. Unfortunately, the laws of physics were not subject to her will, and the long arrow swam rapidly in the air like a fish, and it was impossible to see it with the naked eye. Before the whistling sound had died down, it had pierced the tree in an instant, and the arrow feathers exploded into white flowers, which was extremely conspicuous.

Wood is definitely harder than humans. Yuanye nodded slightly and felt it was okay. Except that the sight needed to be adjusted and the shot was a little crooked, there were no major problems in other aspects. It should be enough for use in the Middle Ages.

He retracted his gaze, waved his hands, looked at A-Man, and asked with a smile: "So, who is the bigger fool between us now?"

Let you, a wild child, argue with me. Are you convinced?
Ah Man's eyebrows were already prostrate. The three strings of money she had earned were actually gone. She couldn't believe it, but she was a good gambler. If she lost, she lost. She admitted it and held it in for a while. She said in a very aggrieved tone: "Yes, I am a big fool, and you are the best, okay!"

It was really frustrating. I worked for Yuanye for several days in vain, got blisters on my hands, and in the end I didn't get anything. I really looked like a fool.

Yuanye smiled slightly, and stopped there. He didn't want to embarrass her too much, as there was no need for that. He turned around to get the arrow, measured the deviation distance, waved goodbye from a distance, and went back to the village.

He left in a good mood. Ah Qing glanced at him from a distance, walked up to Ah Man, looked down at her, and asked calmly, "Sister, what should we do now?"

Ah Man was still upset. It was impossible for her to lose, so how could she lose? She became a fool after losing her money. This didn't make sense. If there was a bow in the world that could aim and shoot sixty rooms, the old man should not have been unaware of it!

Her mind was in a mess at the moment. She looked up in surprise and asked, "What should I do?"

"You lost my... Sister, what should we do now?" Ah Qing had a blank expression on her face, but her tone became increasingly cold. If her life had not been saved by Ah Man, she would have thrown Ah Man into the river by now.

No, only A-man could do such a wicked thing. If anyone else dared to gamble with her head, she would have beaten that person to death and thrown him into the river the moment he proposed it.

"Yes, and I lost your head." Ah Man finally remembered that they still had to pay for the bet, and immediately began to shirk responsibility, "You can't blame me for this. The old man said that he had traveled all over the world and visited 66 countries. He had seen all the wonders in the world. He was the one who said that the five-vine bow was the best bow in the world. If you want to blame someone, blame him!"

Ah Qing lowered his head and stared at her for a while, then slowly tilted his head and lowered his eyelids, saying nothing. He seemed to have accepted his fate and did not refute it.

Ah Man knew her temperament very well, and knew that she was really angry when she tilted her head. He didn't dare to say anything more nonsense, and said quickly: "Don't worry, it's useless! Okay, I was wrong this time, but don't blame me. I should have won. The old man really said that the five-vine bow is the best bow in the world. It can only shoot more than 30 shots. It is absolutely safe at this distance. If you don't believe me, ask him in the future!"

She wanted to take advantage of Yuanye just because she thought she was sure to win. She had already used her own brain, so she had to try with Aqing's brain, but now she actually lost...

She still hasn't figured out why she lost. There was no reason for her grandfather to lie to her!
She admitted her fault, and Ah Qing seemed to calm down a little. His expression softened slightly, and he turned back and asked softly, "What should we do now?"

"Well, now..." Ah Man thought for a while, then scratched his face and muttered, "How about we pack up our luggage and run away overnight? But... well, running away after losing is too embarrassing. He has always been very good to us, so we can't be so rude, right?"

As she was talking, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she had a new idea, "No, don't panic, it seems that there is no need to run away! We still have the capital, when A Qian and A Yu come looking for us, we still have two heads, and the old man should be worth something, I will bet everything, and go and gamble with him again, and win you back!"

The more Aman thought about it, the better he thought this was a great idea. Yuanye was a pushover and would definitely not really chop off Aqing's head. So it didn't matter if he kept her with him for the time being. He could just win her back later!

Maybe then I can not only make back my money, but even win a few more coins from him!

The more she thought about it, the more excited she became. She said happily, "Trust me, I will win every time I bet, guaranteed to win!"

Ah Qing looked at her silently for a while, then turned around and walked back to the village, looking even angrier - believing that she can win the bet is worse than believing that a sow can climb a tree!

"Don't go! Let's discuss it!" Aman was numb, she had never expected to lose before, and now she couldn't pay off the bet, how would she end it!

It's over, it's over!

(End of this chapter)