Back mountain.
Ma Lingling was leading ten girls about her age to practice shooting crossbows.
These ten girls were carefully selected by her, and all of them are quite capable.
Ma Linling has always had high prestige among the young women in the village. If she says what she wants to do, she will naturally have many fans.
The ten girls she chose have similar temperaments to her, and they usually like to dance with swords and guns, so when they got the crossbow, they were all extremely excited.
As for Ma Lingling, she said that after learning how to use a crossbow, she can fight bandits.
They expressed that they were even more excited. After all, they were unarmed before, so they did not dare to have such an idea.
But now, they have experienced the power of this crossbow.
They also wished that bandits would come so that they could really practice their skills.
Hu Da and others passed by carrying several wild jujube trees.
They couldn't help but started talking quietly there.
"Why does Mr. Li let some little girls play with crossbows?"
"It's really a waste to have this kind of artifact in their hands."
No wonder they expressed such emotion.
Since they started using crossbows, they almost all regarded them as treasures. They would wipe them again and again before going to bed every day. Many people even slept with them in their arms, which was more comfortable than sleeping with their own mothers-in-law.
"Of course Mr. Li has his own reasons for doing this. The leader is the village chief's daughter. Mr. Li told me that women should not be inferior to men. Don't look down on others because you think you are a man." Hu Avenue.
Then he urged, "Okay, go back quickly, Mr. Li is still waiting for these jujube trees."
"Lingling, those men just seemed to look down on us."
After Hu Da and the others left, a girl said to Ma Linling unconvinced.
Although she didn't hear clearly what those people said, she could see from their eyes that they looked down on girls like them.
"They are all people who have killed people. It is normal for them to look down on us, as long as we don't look down on ourselves!" Ma Linling said.
"Are they really all people who have killed people?" The girl's face changed slightly.
The expressions of the other girls also changed.
Although they felt that they could fight bandits now that they had crossbows, they had never experienced killing people before.
There is also an instinctive fear of people who have killed people.
In addition, those people are all refugees.
Naturally, they felt a little uncomfortable.
"Don't worry, even if they have killed someone, there is nothing to be afraid of." Ma Linling glanced at the girls, "I said, it's okay for others to look down on us, but we can't let ourselves look down on ourselves!"
"Besides, what's so scary about killing people! Once I take you hunting a few times, you'll understand that you can treat your enemies as prey and just shoot them to death with one arrow!"
Whoosh.
Ma Lingling shot an arrow and hit the target.
I have to say that her archery skills are becoming more and more accurate.
Her aura became more and more like that of a female general.
The girls were infected by her and had confident expressions on their faces.
"Yes, we are no worse than men. Once we have mastered our archery skills, we will make those bandits the dead souls of our arrows!"
All the jujube trees cut down by Hu Das were carried to Dahei's house.
Now Dahei's house is like a small arsenal.
The bows and crossbows all came from his home.
Li Qian discovered that Dahei not only had the potential to be an animal trainer, but also had the potential to be a carpenter.
When it comes to carpentry work, he is even faster than him.
Of course, the most important thing is that this guy is strong, and the wood is like playing in Dahei's hands, whittling it into what he wants.
This really saved him a lot of things, so he was able to make those many crossbows in such a short period of time.
Of course, there is another major contributor to this, and that is Blacksmith Yang in the town.
If Blacksmith Yang hadn't been working day and night to build arrowheads and some parts for him, even if the crossbow body was ready, it would only be an empty frame.
Blacksmith Yang even moved his blacksmithing stove and some belongings to the village.
He was fascinated by Li Qian's crossbow.
According to himself, he had been in a general camp on the battlefield before and was very familiar with and interested in all kinds of weapons.
Because he injured his leg on the battlefield, he came back to make a living by blacksmithing.
The so-called general camp is a barracks in the military camp that is specially used to build or repair weapons, armor and other battlefield equipment. It is also called a work camp.
He also said that if Li Qian's crossbow had appeared ten or twenty years earlier, the Dacheng Dynasty would not have been invaded by foreigners and lost large areas of its mountains and rivers like it is now.
Li Qian only smiled. He was not interested in knowing or talking about such national events.
However, this Blacksmith Yang is really a treasure to him now.
After all, he doesn't know how to blacksmith, and a blacksmith is really indispensable for making many things.
Village entrance.
Zhou Guangji reined in the reins and stopped the horse.
"Mr. Zhou, why don't you go in?" Zeng Xing asked from behind.
