Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 353 Slingshot Technique

The little guys hadn't stopped since they entered the yard. They just teased the badgers for a while, and then they turned their attention to the pheasants in the yard, planning to pull two pheasant tail feathers to play with.Now those few pheasants were in trouble, clucking and flopping about in the courtyard.So pheasants are different from domestic chickens, they can fly.Although the few in Liu Junhao's courtyard can also fly, they spend most of their time looking for food inside and outside the courtyard, and this is the first time they have encountered such a situation.At that time, the pheasants were dumbfounded and got into the chicken coop in a panic.

Xiao Jianhui and the others refused to let go, and followed them into the chicken coop.

Immediately, the laying hens in the chicken cage screamed together, and one by two stretched out their necks and pecked at them.Seeing this posture, Mama Zhang hurriedly dragged them out.A few children didn't know the severity, and were pecked by the hen, absolutely crying in pain.

Unable to catch the pheasant, the little guys caught a native rooster unwillingly, and then plucked all the long hair from its tail, saying that they would make a shuttlecock later.

"Auntie, I want to eat sunflowers, can you pick one for me?" Xiao Zeyu played with chicken feathers for a while, then turned his gaze to the sunflower in the flower pond.

"I want it too. Sunflowers are so beautiful. Take one as a hat." Xiao Tongtong also clapped her hands and shouted.

These little guys are simply bandits, and Zhang Qian has a headache.If she is not reluctant to get them some melon seeds to eat, the key is that they are not yet ripe.Although there are many melon seeds in the flower plate that can be eaten, most of them have just grown out of their shells, and there are no kernels in them. It is a waste to pick them at this time.What's more, the sunflowers in her house can be regarded as a scene in the courtyard. At this moment, only the bare stems are left, which is quite a sight.

If you want to say that the growth of this field of sunflowers is really not good, it is considered remarkable that the sunflowers in ordinary people’s fields can grow to more than two meters. The sunflowers in my yard are nearly four meters high, with a leaf as big as a bowl and a stem underneath. The stem is thicker than the rim of a teacup, and the flower plate is surprisingly large.She reckoned that when the sunflowers were harvested in autumn, the ones grown in her garden would be able to harvest a snakeskin bag of melon seeds.

It can be said that the people who came to the yard were all amazed. When reporter Guo sent the animals in the yard last time, he specially left a few shots for Sunflower.

Zhang Qian knew that children would admit death, and once they decided on something, they would definitely have to get rid of it.She wanted to spend some time explaining, but Xiao Tongtong suddenly exclaimed: "I know the shell!"

"Where is it?" Several children turned their heads in unison.

"There, look, under the sunflower leaves. Uncle Liu, help us find the cicada shell." Xiao Tongtong shouted excitedly. Last summer, she and Xiao Haoyu played the cicada shell for a whole summer vacation. , and finally bought a few hundred yuan.After she went back to school and told her friends about it, those guys were all envious.The little girl came here in such a hurry this year because she also wanted to pick up more cicada shells and sell them for money.But when I came here, I heard Mr. Zhao said that the weather is dry this year, and I haven't come out yet.

"I saw it too, I'll get the bamboo pole." Xiao Jianhui also found the cicada shell.

"Where is it, why can't I see it?" Zhang Qian leaned forward to look after hearing about it, but her eyes were not as good as those of a few children, and she couldn't find it after looking for a long time.

"There," Tongtong pointed several times, and Zhang Qian didn't see it until Xiao Jianhui knocked the cicada shell off.This cicada shell was obviously just unearthed, and there was still fresh mud on it.

"There is also one on the neem tree leaf, too high to reach." At this time, Xiao Haoyu also found one on the neem tree.However, the four children were too short to reach them with bamboo poles, so they had to ask Zhang Qian for help in the end.

"Call your uncle here." Zhang Qian tried it, but found that she couldn't reach it even standing on a stool. This shows that the shell is too high. Why do you think it's okay to climb so high.

"Hehe, you don't know how to use your brains, and you don't know how to use the existing resources in the courtyard. Tell you, if you let me come, you won't even need bamboo poles." Liu Junhao looked at the cicada shell, and then smiled at his wife.

"You don't need a bamboo pole. If you have the ability to pick it off, I won't let you do it for lunch today." Zhang Qian looked at her husband in disbelief.

Seeing the young couple fighting in the courtyard, Mama Zhang was very relieved.To say that my vision is not as good as that of my daughter, that girl is stupid in everything she does, and she seldom satisfies herself since she was a child.Let’s take the college entrance examination as an example. She got a lot of marks in the exam, and I asked her to apply for a better one, but she didn’t want to go far, so she directly chose a university in the city.Doesn't this mean that he didn't even pass the exam in this city?At that time, the couple were very puzzled, and they were embarrassed to mention it when people asked about it when they went out.

The only thing that deserves praise is finding a boyfriend. The daughter of someone else's family will definitely call home to complain after less than three months of marriage.She was also afraid of her daughter at first, who knows that such a thing has never happened.Every time my daughter calls and talks about Liu Junhao, I can feel her excitement through the phone.

In other words, Xiao Hao is really good.Although they are relatively far away, they usually don't have time to go to the city, but they are very sincere. They always make phone calls every now and then, more often than their youngest son.In addition, tourists are allowed to go to the city to get some things every half a month.There is no shortage of native honey, native eggs, duck eggs, etc.Mom Zhang doesn't care much about gifts, the key is her heart.Every time these things happen, those old sisters are very envious.As the saying goes, it is better for the married daughter to pour water, and pick up half of the son for nothing.

"Okay, that's what you said." Liu Junhao shouted confidently, "Wukong"

As soon as the monkey heard the master's call, it sprinted over.

"Wukong, go up the tree, this thing." Liu Junhao asked for the cicada shell in Xiao Tongtong's hand, put it in front of the monkey to let it have a look, and then pointed to the cicada shell on the neem tree leaf.

"Zhizhi" monkey expressed understanding, and then climbed up the tree.

"Wukong, come down" Zhang Qian now fully understands, she urgently stopped.

"Zhizhi..." It was the first time that the monkey encountered a situation where the two masters disagreed. At that time, he was dumbfounded and scratched his head under the tree, not knowing who to listen to.

"You are cheating, you can't find foreign aid." Zhang Qian reached out and twisted Wukong's ear, and the guy followed the hostess obediently.

This product, let it eat the lotus seeds in the morning.Liu Junhao gritted his teeth with hatred, but he forgot that Wukong traded coolies for the lotus seeds.

"If you still have a way this time, I will definitely admit defeat." Zhang Qian looked at her husband proudly, wanting to see what other tricks he had.

"Such a simple question is trying to confuse me. I underestimate your husband too much. Wait..." Liu Junhao quickly ran into the room, and then walked out with a slingshot, "Let me show you what skills are." He finished speaking casually Picked up a small clod and put it in the slingshot foreskin.

"If you can hit that leaf, I admire you." Although Zhang Qian knew that her husband's slingshot skills were superb, she still didn't believe that he could hit a leaf as big as a copper coin.

"Wait to admire it!" Liu Junhao raised his slingshot to aim, and there was a three-point line.

Zhao Weidong and the others listened to the twittering in the courtyard and wanted to come over to join in the fun, but when they heard the two couples betting at the door, they stood there quite interested.They wanted to see if Liu Junhao could hit the leaves.

"Crack" Liu Junhao didn't wait too long after aiming, and let go of the foreskin directly.As the clods flew out, several leaves of the neem tree wobbled and fell to the ground, among them was the one called Cicada husk.

"It's hit, it's hit" several little guys shouted excitedly.

"You must be presumptuous," Zhang Qian shouted unconvinced.

"Hehe, your husband's level is not good enough. Let me tell you, when we were practicing slingshots, we used a pencil to draw a point on the tree. The difficulty was the same as this. Let me take a chance. Did you know the one above, how about I break it down for you to try?" If there is a cicada shell, there will be a cicada, Liu Junhao took a look and found a gray cicada hidden behind the neem tree.The cicadas that come out at this time are usually ringing cicadas, and there are very few dumb ones. It stands to reason that this guy should be screaming.

But he probably heard voices in the yard, so he wisely didn't call out.But it still didn't escape Liu Junhao's eyes, you must know that this guy is also a master in catching cicadas.

"Where?" As soon as everyone heard about it, they gathered under the tree to check.

Knowing that they were hiding relatively well, they searched for a long time before they found a black protruding tree parked on a branch.To be honest, it wasn't for Liu Junhao's pointing, even if they saw it, they would think it was a small dead branch.Hitting with a slingshot at this angle is not so difficult.

"Just bet, I don't believe you can stop this." With so many people watching, Zhang Qian nodded embarrassedly.

This time the difficulty was indeed great, and Liu Junhao was not fully sure.When he was a child, he used to hit cicadas with a slingshot, eight or nine hits out of ten within three meters.The distance like this is probably four or five meters, and it's pretty good to be [-]% sure.

With the sound of the slingshot leather, only a dull sound was heard, and then "Zhila..." flew up from the branch.

"Missed, missed" this time it was Zhang Qianhuan's turn to shout, but before she started to rejoice, she circled a few times in the air and fell to the ground.

"Successful!" Several little guys began to cheer.When Xiao Tongtong caught Cicada, everyone realized that half of Cicada's wings had been broken, no wonder he was able to struggle a few times just now.

"Excellent, Xiaohao, your level is very high. Even if you knocked down Cicada, did you kill it?" Zhao Weidong sighed.

Khan, this time it was really risky. He saw clearly the first point of impact of the bullet just now, and it hit the branch directly. As for the half of Cicada's wing, it was purely an accidental injury after the clod of soil was smashed.

"Uncle Liu, I want to ask you to be my teacher to learn how to slingshot." Xiao Haoyu's eyes already had stars, he thought that Uncle Liu's move was too cool.

"I want to learn, I want to learn." Jianhui and Zeyu shouted not to be outdone.Boys are more violent, they are very interested in this.

"You still have to learn. Forgot about breaking the school glass last time?" Zhao Weidong immediately pulled his son back, and then explained with a wry smile: "Xiaohao made it for him when he came to Liujiagou last time." A slingshot. This kid secretly put it in his schoolbag when he went back to school. After class, he aimed at the glass of the school and fired. It happened to hit the glass of an office. At that time, the female teacher by the window almost didn’t cry. Finally, the teacher called They called the two of us to the school and gave them a hard reprimand. Liu Junhao, you can't teach him the slingshot."

This little guy is the same as when I was a child.When Liu Junhao was a child, he also liked to practice slingshots aimed at the glass windows of the school, and he was often slapped by Liu Wuye for this.

"That's right, you can't teach them, otherwise what will these little guys do if they go back and make trouble with slingshots." Zhang Qian warned worriedly.

The adults sat and chatted in the yard, but the little ones couldn't sit still, and they all clamored to throw their cicada shells outside.

Professor Zhao thought that there was no danger around them, so he just told them not to go into the water and let them leave.

The four little guys were about to run out with cloth bags and bamboo poles, Liu Junhao hurriedly stopped, "Take Wukong, if you know the height of the shell, let him help you." , generally climbing higher.When more cicadas are known, the height of shelling will slowly decrease.

"Great, Wukong, let's go." Tongtong hugged the monkey excitedly.

Who would have thought that this guy would keep moving backwards, the weather is too hot now, and the monkey doesn't want to go out and suffer at all.

"I'll give you candy..." Helpless, the little girl had no choice but to use her trump card.

The monkey was very unprincipled, surrendered immediately, and obediently followed the four of them.

"Wukong is so funny." Zhao Weihong said with a smile, "I watched "The Book of Wonders" at home a few days ago. A colleague of our unit begged me to come and ask about the two turtledoves, saying that he wanted to pay for them.”

"That's right, Xiaohao, your yard is quite famous now. People in my work unit were talking about it when I was at work that day. I introduced it to my relatives, but they all said they would come over for summer vacation. have a look."

Although there was no wind in the yard, the vines had thick leaves, and everyone chatted while eating watermelon, but they didn't feel hot.

"By the way, what happened to the poplar leaves in your family?" Zhao Weidong's daughter-in-law ate a piece of melon, and looked up by accident, and found that the poplar leaves seemed to have just grown, and they seemed very fresh.

"It's not a random mess," Zhang Qian narrated the matter quickly, causing them to sigh again.For people who have never experienced this kind of thing, it is a bit unbelievable that a few little blind touches can cause such great harm.

"What's the matter?" Professor Zhao felt that they were making a fuss. "In the early years, there was a locust plague in the countryside. Large areas of locusts covered the sky and the sun. When they flew over, hundreds of acres of crop land could not see green."

"I've also heard people say this. There have been locust plagues and wild geese plagues in our village before..." Liu Junhao nodded in agreement.

"Wild geese are also a disaster?" The crowd once again uttered doubtful voices.

"Too much of anything is a disaster. In the past, people didn't have guns, so it was very difficult to catch wild geese. At that time, there were thousands of geese passing by. They fell in large swaths, and they specialized in eating wheat seedlings. When I went there, I found the wheat seedlings even by their roots. No, the wild geese fall into someone's field so that you can't cry." Liu Junhao heard this matter from the old head Liu several times.Said that when he was a child, as soon as he arrived in Chunshang, Murakami arranged a night watch, especially for the wild geese.This thing usually migrates at night, so it is impossible to guard against it. We can only arrange people to watch the night in the field.As soon as the wild geese are called, they beat the gong. At this time, men, women and children in the village rush towards the fields with torches.When wild geese saw someone below, they would naturally be startled away.

"It's really strange. It's the first time I've heard that geese can cause disasters. I always thought it was to protect animals. You didn't make it up, did you?" Zhang Qian sighed after listening to her husband.Well, this kind of subverted her thinking.

"Xiaohao is telling the truth. I have heard your grandparents tell the story before. They said that after the wild goose hit in the spring, people had to go to the fields to pick up wild goose dung to eat."

"Wild goose dung...Mom, don't talk about it, you are still eating melons." Zhang Qian almost spit out the watermelon in her mouth when she heard it.

Liu Junhao had also heard about eating wild goose dung, but seeing his wife's expression, he didn't continue.

"So the days are good now. Look at you. You don't want to wear clothes with a slight hole in them. You just buy new ones. When we were young, we didn't have new clothes to wear. They were all changed by adults. I remember that your grandma gave them to you during the Chinese New Year. I bought a new set of clothes but didn't buy them for your aunt, and your aunt cried from the 31st of the Lunar New Year to the first day of the new year..." Recalling the past, Zhang Ma began to recall bitterness and sweetness.

"That's right." Teacher Wang nodded in agreement, "It's the same in my family. I am the youngest at home, and I always wear the clothes of the eldest sister. I am not afraid of your jokes when I say it. At that time, my biggest wish was to work quickly to earn money , When I earn money, I want to wear whatever clothes I want to buy.”

Several old people talked about ancient times together, and their juniors didn't know whether to nod or shake their heads. After all, that era was too far away, and they had no impression at all, so naturally they couldn't understand the state of mind of the old people.

"Uncle Liu, Uncle Liu, hurry up and follow me." Just as she was speaking, Xiao Tongtong rushed into the yard.The little girl was sweating in less than half an hour after going out, and her little face was also covered with mud.

"What are you pulling Uncle Liu to do? Look at the mess on this body. Didn't you pick up the cicada shell? Why is there so much mud sticking to your hands?" Come and reprimand.

"This is what we dug for the treasures. Uncle Liu hurried to take a look with us. Just now we ran to the back of the yard to find the cicada shells. As a result, Wukong led us to find many treasures..." The little girl didn't pay any attention to her mother's words. There is excitement on the face, and the speech is incoherent.

"Digging for treasure?" Liu Junhao asked suspiciously, "Did you find some rotten pot again?" Last summer, she and Haoyu had a lot of trouble, and once even dug up Shi Gandang by the bridge.

"No, we dug this up, do you think it's edible?" Tongtong took out a dirty thing from his pocket while talking.The thing was as big as a palm, and there was a lot of mud stuck to it, but the exposed part had a few traces of jade, and it looked like a root of some kind of plant.

"What is this?" Zhao Weihong looked at it twice, but didn't recognize it at all.

"This... where did you find it? Are there many?" Liu Junhao became excited when he saw the thing.

(End of this chapter)