Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 7 Dad, you eat dirt

When Chen Xiulan saw it, she couldn't help but smile, and then rolled her eyes at Lin Heng: "You are such an adult, and you still like this."

"Just tell me whether your husband is great, right?" Lin Hengxiong said in an arrogant tone.
  Chen Xiulan held the pheasant and looked at it, while nodding: "Awesome, so awesome!"

"Hey, you should reward me well that night." Lin Heng approached and smiled.

Chen Xiulan's face tightened and she glared at him shyly: "You are already a father, and you are still so immoral."

"I'm jealous of my wife, so this is perfectly justified!" Lin Heng held his head high.

Chen Xiulan couldn't resist such explicit talk, so she put the pheasant in Lin Heng's backpack and walked quickly to the front.

The two of them walked down the mountain talking and laughing. When they reached the bottom of the mountain, it was already dusk, and it would be completely dark in another hour.

"Xiulan, did you go up the mountain to collect mushrooms?"

Someone not far away spoke to the two of them.

Lin Heng turned around and saw an old man in his fifties with sparse hair, smiling at the two of them.

Lin Heng remembered that this was Tian Baishun, a bachelor in their village who did not farm much and made a living by hunting and collecting mountain products.

At this time, he was holding a turtle dove in his hand and waved it deliberately so that no one could see it.

"Yes." Chen Xiulan nodded and made a casual conversation, not wanting to pay attention to this person.

Seeing that Xiulan ignored him, Tian Baishun looked at Lin Heng and found the slingshot in his hand. He couldn't help but smile: "Lin Heng, are you hunting with a slingshot?"

"You must have missed it, right?" He didn't wait for Lin Heng to speak, and continued with a smile: "Hunting is not as simple as you think. There is a lot of knowledge."

"How about you ask Xiulan to cook me two meals, and you to pour me two glasses of wine, and I will take you up the mountain with you in the future?" Tian Baishun said with a smile.

This guy is a bachelor. He wants to hook up with women whenever he sees them. He shows off every time he goes hunting. I heard he has affairs with many women.

Lin Heng sneered, walked over and stood in front of his wife, looked at him and said, "Forget it, I'm not interested, I'll play with myself."

After saying that, he asked his wife to go in front, while he walked in the back, and they went home together.

The old man had a shotgun in his hand, and he didn't bother to conflict. After all, they didn't say anything teasing.

Tian Baishun was stunned for a moment, then chased after him: "You are looking down on my hunting skills, old man..."

Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly saw the pheasants and gray squirrels in Lin Heng's backpack, and he was shocked: "This... were all shot by you with a slingshot?"

Shooting squirrels and pheasants with a slingshot seemed unthinkable to him.

"No, I picked it up by luck." Lin Heng said and left.

When Lin Heng said this, Tian Baishun was speechless. His whole body was soft after he picked it up. Are you trying to fool me, old man?
  He knew how nimble pheasants and squirrels were.

"He must have hit him himself." Old Man Tian was sure.

No wonder they are not interested in being with me. What I gain from holding a gun is not as good as that slingshot. Is this what I feel is a trick on my class?

But he also thought that he might have been caught in a trap, and he didn't want to believe that this famous second-rate man was so powerful.

"I have to show you my hunting skills some other time!" Old Man Tian felt that he was despised, and planned to get a big prey next time to show Lin Heng his skills.

Lin Heng and his wife Chen Xiulan had already returned to the door. After leaving the woods, he got some handfuls of pigweed to cover the prey.

When others ask, they only say that they picked a few fungi. He knows very well the principle of keeping wealth hidden. There are many jealous people in the village, and they don't like others. “You go back first, I’ll go to the toilet.”

After saying that, Lin Heng put the backpack next to him and put water next to it.

Chen Xiulan returned to the yard. Her parents, elder brother, sister-in-law, younger sister, and the elder brother's son and daughter were all back.

Father Lin Xuan and eldest brother Lin Yue were enjoying the cool air, while sister-in-law Liu Juan and mother Lu Hongmei, as well as younger sister Lin Caiyun, were scraping potatoes for dinner.

Seeing Chen Xiulan coming back alone, the sister-in-law couldn't help but laugh: "Mom, it seems that my second brother didn't last even one day this time, and ran out to fool around again."

"Hmph, I knew a dog couldn't change its habit of eating shit!" Mother Lin was very unhappy. She thought she could hold on for a few days this time, but she ran away.

His father, Lin Xuan, also shook his head in disappointment: "This second-rate guy is really angry. I will break his legs next time he comes back."

"Dad, it's time for you to take charge. Look at Lin Yue. He works all day long farming. Lin Heng does nothing. What will he do in the future?"

Sister-in-law Liu Juan hurriedly complained, thinking that Lin Heng was running well, and how would he look after his family fortune in the future.

At this moment, Lin Heng came in after using the toilet. He heard everything he said just now.

"No, you don't even have this basic trust?" Lin Heng was speechless.

"Humph, did I make a mistake?" Mother Lin glared at him, then looked at her daughter-in-law Xiulan, and said distressedly: "Tell me the truth, did Lin Heng run away all afternoon again and just came back. "

She knew that her second daughter-in-law was soft-hearted and kind-hearted, and Lin Heng must have asked her to confess again.

"No, he and I went up the mountain, and he even shot a squirrel and a pheasant with a slingshot today." Chen Xiulan shook her head and said with a smile.

"What?" Lin's father, Lin Xuan, stood up after hearing the words, with a look of disbelief on his face: "He can hunt squirrels and pheasants, and I will eat the loess on the spot."

He still doesn't know what kind of virtue Lin Heng is. This is simply impossible.

"Are you sure you're not talking nonsense?" Mother Lin looked at her daughter-in-law Xiulan and asked, and touched her head.

Obviously, no one in the family believed that Lin Heng had this ability, unless the sun came out in the west.

"Come on, come on, see for yourself!!"

Lin Heng directly put the backpack on the ground and looked at the family confidently. Did he even lose this basic trust between people?
  When everyone saw it, they were immediately dumbfounded. They even looked at it again and again, with their eyes widened as if they couldn't believe it.

"Second father is possessed by evil spirits?" Lin Wei, the son of eldest brother Lin Yue, suddenly said.

Not only him, but everyone else also had the same idea, thinking that only being possessed by evil spirits was the most reasonable.

"You're just possessed!" Lin Heng was so angry that he kicked him in the butt.

"Dad, you don't want to eat tonight, little sister, go grab a bowl of loess for dad, and dad will give you his portion tonight." Lin Heng teased.

The younger sister Caiyun's eyes lit up, but before she could do anything, her eldest nephew Lin Wei grabbed a handful of dirt and handed it to his grandfather Lin Xian: "Grandpa, eat dirt."

Lin Xuan was so angry that he wanted to pick up a stick and hit someone on the spot: "You two unfilial descendants!!"

"Master, you said it yourself." Lin Wei jumped out and quickly hid behind Lin Heng, grinning.

"Lin Heng, did you really hit him yourself?" The eldest brother Lin Yue didn't believe it either.

"That's right, it's a dead thing that you picked up, right? Don't eat the bad guys." Sister-in-law Liu Juan also nodded, not believing that Lin Heng could defeat these two things with a slingshot.

(End of this chapter)