NOVEL NEXT Chapter 19 Modifying the Crossbow
Lin Yu got straight to the point and said, "Grandpa Zhou, I remember that your family seems to have an old-fashioned crossbow?"
It was left over from the previous Orion family. After all, Grandpa Zhou made a brand new one for him based on that look.
Old man Zhou stepped aside, closed the door and said, "It's true, what? Do you want to use it?" That thing is just scrap metal now. It's better to replace it with a new one after repairing it, so he suggested that Orion make another one.
Lin Yu nodded: "I'll modify it and let me use it today."
"Okay, you can dig through the boxes in the tool room yourself! Do you want to make your share of dinner?"
Lin Yu didn't even look back and went to the tool room: "Grandpa Zhou, no need. I'll go home to eat later."
Seeing the darkness in the tool room, she opened the window on one side and let the residual light from the west fill the room filled with various tools. Seeing the box in the corner, Lin Yu opened it and searched hard, and finally found an old crossbow.
Since it was made more than ten years ago, the iron parts on it have rusted, and even the originally flexible bowstring has fallen off.
Lin Yu had a headache, but luckily there were still many tendons from Orion's house.
There isn't much time. Fortunately, the main body of this thing is quite strong. As long as some seemingly redundant parts are removed and modified, the crossbow can still be used for several years.
Lin Yu had a headache. In order to make her parents look like relatives who went to the city to enjoy the autumn breeze, she worked extremely hard!
In the original plot, although my sister married in the city, she was not living well.
Her mother taught her well that when Daya was at her husband's house, she would hide some good things and bring them back to her parents' house for her mother to eat. It's good to have this kind of intention, but she can't help but bring things back every one or two weeks, and the things she brings back every time are only common vegetables, not even eggs.
It happened too many times, and it also made her husband's family and sister-in-law unhappy.
Later, Lin Daya finally got pregnant with a child, but she aborted it for various reasons. The doctor diagnosed that she could no longer have a baby, so Lin Daya disappeared in despair, and her brother-in-law, who loved her so much that she couldn't help herself, was depressed ever since.
The good-looking family was separated from each other, and the in-laws of the white-haired man who sent the black-haired man away also shed tears every day and eventually went blind from crying, and were extremely resentful towards the Lin family.
Now that they have just separated, Lin Daya probably still doesn't know. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'll have to rush to my parents' house with the goodies again, and the first thing Lin Jiancheng and his wife will do when they enter the city tomorrow will definitely be to see Lin Daya.
If we go there early in the morning, the husband's family won't let them have breakfast? When the neighbors saw Lin Daya's parents coming to the house empty-handed, they would definitely complain about the arrival of relatives in the autumn wind. All kinds of rumors slowly spread, becoming another straw that would bring Lin Daya down in the future.
Lin Yu decided to kill such signs in the ground. Since they had already enjoyed the things Lin Daya brought back before, and there was nothing good for her, they would make full compensation from tomorrow.
Even the meat resources in the city are tight these days. Lin Yu doesn't have all kinds of golden fingers like other fast-traveling colleagues. After all, the golden finger she chose is a study room.
Although there are various skill books for her to learn, it is impossible to conjure meat out of thin air. You can only use what you have learned to modify the crossbow in front of you to make it more powerful and faster.
Otherwise, with her small body, she might not be able to catch even a single chicken feather when she goes up the mountain, let alone catching rabbits or pheasants.
Lin Yu worked hard until it was completely dark.
Fortunately, Old Man Zhou kindly lit the oil lamp, otherwise Lin Yu would not be able to finish this thing.
Their Hongqi Village is backed by several large mountains. The mountains are rich in resources and have luxuriant vegetation. This is also the reason why Hongqi Village and two nearby villages were least affected during the great famine years.
Even if some of them are out of food, they can still go to the deep mountains and old forests to find some plants and wild vegetables and bark to chew on. It won't cause people to starve to death, but it will be difficult to keep up with nutrition.
So even with nearly two years of buffering, everyone still looked hungry and yellow. In the end, it was because of the lack of nutrition during those years that the body was exhausted.
Old man Zhou looked at Lin Yu who was assembling things and shook his head.
This little kid becomes extremely focused when he encounters something he likes, unlike others. If I saw him holding a bowl of rice next to me and eating with gusto, I would have been unable to suppress my growling stomach and would glance over at him from time to time.
But Lin Erya didn't even raise her head and worked hard. Seeing that she had dismantled most of the original crossbow, the new crossbow in front of her became lighter.
It looks a lot brand new. The upper iron plate and the main body have been reground, and there is a switch similar to a cup handle at the bottom.
"Erya, you made something amazing again." Old man Zhou joked. He took it apart and remade it, and polished the parts. Erya's skills are incredible.
It's better to be better than blue! After all these years of his life, he never thought that he would be able to teach a genius apprentice when he was old. He would be worthy of his ancestors when he went underground in the future!
Lin Yu shook his head: "I didn't do this. I just removed the redundant functions based on the original foundation, and then replaced some aging parts and renovated them.
With that said, Lin Yu, with the old man's consent, aimed at another wall of the yard like a gun in later generations. The sharp wooden arrow that she had polished was placed on the slot. As she pressed the switch with her index finger, the wooden arrow flew out with a sharp sound and penetrated the wall. It was vibrating slightly and making a low-pitched buzzing sound.
Lin Yu was very satisfied. The switch did not look like a gun like the sudden memory, but instead looked like a cup handle that was popular in this era. After all, she was just a country girl. Where had she seen guns? Isn't this giving others a reason to take advantage of her?
Lin Yu never looks down on anyone.
A trace of surprise flashed across Old Man Zhou's eyes. What Lin Yu had made before was that climbing on the foundation was good for farmers, but something like this was so lethal...
"What do you want to do with this?"
Lin Yu scratched his head: "I want to go hunting in the mountains."
Everything is recovering, and there are indeed a lot of prey on the mountain, and there are also many people who go to the teething ceremony to supplement their children's nutrition.
"When are you going? I'll go with you."
Because working as a carpenter, I often have to do some physical work. Even though Old Man Zhou is in his sixties, his body is still very strong.
Usually, it is not a problem to go up the mountain and collect wood by myself. Lin Yu said: "No, Grandpa Zhou, I plan to go tonight."
"What?!" The old man put down the papers in his hands.
"Go now?" He looked at the moon that had just risen in the distance: "No, this is too dangerous! Do you know that there are tigers and wolves in the mountains? Even if you don't meet those forest overlords, if you meet a wild boar What should I do? I know your crossbow is quite powerful, but it’s still too dangerous to deal with those big guys!”
Lin Yu had to raise his hands in a gesture of surrender: "No, Grandpa Zhou, I plan to go to the rabbit slope to catch some little rabbits."
Speaking of which, there were rabbit holes all over the stone slope of Hongqi Mountain near them.
Those rabbits build their nests together, and the rabbits in other places have three burrows. The rabbits here are covered by the cracks in the mountains, and the rabbits in other places may have ten burrows.