Holding Zhao Xinqing's hands and grabbing the bow and arrow, Su Bai leaned into Zhao Xinqing's ear and whispered:
"Turn your body sideways, with the side holding the bow in front."
"The string side is in the back."
"Yes, that's it. It's the correct posture for exerting force."
"Hold the bow steadily."
"Try to draw the bow string..."
Su Bai patiently and carefully explained the basic essentials of archery to Zhao Xinqing.
The barrage said sourly:
【Are you...really just teaching me step by step?】
[Being a teacher to a talented girl with a fourth doctorate is the highlight of Su Bai’s life!]
[Sour and sweet... I suggest changing the name of this live broadcast room to "Lemon Candy"! 】
In order to avoid the loss of arrows, Su Bai and Zhao Xinqing did not set up a target when practicing archery, but used the air as the target.
In this way, it is also effective to first develop the feel, become familiar with bows and arrows, and practice skills.
Of course, after a certain stage, a target will definitely be needed for final calibration.
Su Bai taught Zhao Xinqing for half an hour and saw that Zhao Xinqing had basically mastered the correct postures and methods. The rest was just practice.
Even in a place like China where weapons are strictly controlled, bows and arrows are still not banned. The reason is that they are too difficult.
For ordinary people to start practicing archery from scratch, they need to invest a lot of time and energy.
However, the bamboo bow in Zhao Xinqing's hand only had an effective range of twenty steps, which inadvertently shortened the practice process a lot.
Su Bai was also intensifying his practice in order to become familiar with this new horn bow as soon as possible.
The two of them practiced until breakfast was ready, and then they put away their bows and arrows and went to eat.
The fish meat that the fish had not had time to smoke had all been wasted, and the two of them could only eat the smoked part.
Although the speed of spoilage of smoked fish is reduced, it also has an indescribable smell. After stewing the fish soup, I always feel that it is not that delicious.
"With salt, the condition of smoked and salted meat should be much better."
Su Bai put down the bamboo tube in his hand, took Zhao Xinqing, snacks, and Maomao up to the bamboo forest on the mountain while the sun was not strong in the morning.
“Bamboo is so versatile.”
"Everything we need for our departure this time must be made of bamboo."
"With this batch of bamboo, I plan to make a camel-carrying tool for snack foodies first."
While Su Bai was chopping bamboo, he gestured to Zhao Xinqing in front of the live broadcast camera:
"We bundled two square bamboo baskets with bamboo slices, the larger one is deeper."
"The middle is connected with simple buffalo leather to form a load-bearing structure similar to a shoulder pole."
"Put the cowhide part on the waist of a snacker, and you can place a lot of things in the square bamboo baskets on both sides."
"Including the dew collection device we need along the way, and the large amount of salt we need to carry when we come back."
The hide of the buffalo that was hunted by snow leopards in the cold wave was also brought back to the camp by the two of them. It had already been dried, washed with alkali and oiled, and it was ready for use.
Barrage:
[Good guy, use cowhide to make equipment for cows, you really have it...]
【Snack foodie: Kill the cow to kill the heart!?】
[The snack foodie is so frightened that he doesn’t dare to take a step, for fear that he will become a piece of cowhide in your hand.]
The two of them didn't use too much force this time. They cut down ten bamboos and then stopped. With snacks helping them, the process of going down the mountain was quite leisurely.
Back at the camp, the two used stone axes to split the bamboo into pieces, interspersed and fixed them with bamboo strips, and assembled the pieces into a usable whole.
Then it is inlaid with mortise and tenon, fixed with straw rope, and glued with fish bladder glue. The final bamboo basket is strong and durable, and can indeed hold a lot of things.
It was now eleven o'clock. Zhao Xinqing was arranged by Su Bai to cook fish soup for lunch, while she began to process the buffalo hides that had been dried before.
As soon as Zhao Xinqing put the pot on the table, the snow leopard came down from the mountain and clung to Zhao Xinqing's side, acting coquettishly and cutely.
Zhao Xinqing simply took the cat teasing stick, and while playing with the snow leopard, she took the opportunity to stroke the snow leopard's belly.
While leaving the scent, I also checked the snow leopard's breastfeeding status.
"Strange……"
Zhao Xinqing murmured in a low voice:
"Snow leopards are becoming more and more relaxed, and the time to go down the mountain is getting earlier and earlier..."
"But the amount of milk secretion is increasing... This means that her cub's food intake is increasing, which can basically rule out the possibility of premature death."
"Recently, I have been bringing fish back to the nest from time to time."
"Is there really other leopards helping her look after the house? This kind of social structure has never been observed before..."
"If this is really the case, it can be considered a new discovery..."
Snow Leopard played with Zhao Xinqing for a while, and then went to smoke catnip for a while. After coming back, he kept tapping on Zhao Xinqing.
Zhao Xinqing was hit twice, gently pushed the snow leopard away, smiled and said to the camera:
"She's hungry."
"Let's go and eat."
She called the cat and took the two beasts to the fish pond, letting them catch fish for themselves.
As for the smoked meat of Dachshund's catfish, let the two of them eat it slowly.
It is not difficult for cats to catch fish in such a small fish pond.
It took two or three minutes for the cat to catch a huge fat fish from the fish pond, turn it back into his bird's nest and eat it.
The snow leopard was still a little troubled, lying low on the edge of the fish pond in a hunting posture, with its ears erect and a pair of dark green leopard eyes wide open, staring closely at the fat fish swimming in the fish pond.
But he didn't dare to catch fish for a long time.
Zhao Xinqing smiled and stroked the back of Snow Leopard's neck, and instead of accompanying her, she went back to the camp to help Su Bai process the cowhide.
At this time, Su Bai had completed the process of extracting plant ash water, alkali washing the cowhide, and was oiling the cowhide.
After the previous cooking and several times of tanning the leather, there was not much butter left in the bamboo tube.
Su Bai looked at the bottomed bamboo tube and sighed:
“I don’t know when the next time I’ll get fat will be.”
"This kind of thing is indeed too luxurious in the wilderness."
The two hung up the tanned cowhide and waited for it to absorb the oil in a few days before completing the final steps of the bamboo basket.
After hanging up the cowhide, Su Bai took out a thick stack of fish skins from the bamboo shed.
All the fish skins obtained in the past few days are here.
The preliminary drying work has been completed.
Su Bai completed the alkaline washing, without applying any grease, but spread them out one by one, and began to use bamboo to make an umbrella-shaped structure.
While doing this, Su Bai said seriously to the live camera:
"In long-term settled life, food and shelter are the top priorities, while water and fire are just foils."
"But when we leave the camp and travel long distances in the wilderness, the importance of food and shelter decreases significantly."
"What is really fatal is once again the two aspects of water and fire."
“It has to be reliable and sustainably available to ensure our safety in the wilderness.”
"If not, I may never come back after leaving the camp this time."
"And this thing..."
Su Bai said while using bamboo slices to make an umbrella-shaped structure: