Return to the small mountain village in 1983

Chapter 259 Qingming Qingming Practice with Guns
After looking at all the things he planted, Lin Heng rode a horse and wandered on the road for a while, and then returned home when the sun was a little warmer.

When he led the horse back to the stable, he found that his father was also in the back hill. It seemed that he had just brought the cattle back from the plow and had picked two bundles of fresh grass to feed them.

Father Lin glanced at him and asked, "Have you gone to see Hongfeng Mountain?"

Lin Heng nodded and replied: "Yes, I took a look at the solidification of the cement, as well as the growth of Chinese medicinal materials and pastures. Except for the ginseng that has not yet sprouted, everything else has sprouted and is growing very well."

"That's good." Father Lin nodded, and then asked, "Has the machine you bought moved over?"

Lin Heng shook his head: "No, there is no one watching over there right now. I'm afraid someone will steal it if I move there."

Although the fish pond is surrounded by fences, it is impossible to prevent people. After a few days, he got the shrimp seedlings back, took the dog over, and then moved the machine over.

After Father Lin finished feeding the cows, he came over and said with a smile: "Your mother and I will go live there in a few days to experience what it's like to live in a building, and by the way, I can show you the pond."

Although it was a small one-story bungalow over there, it was painted with cement and had sliding glass windows. It was much more transparent than the mud house. He wanted to live in it and give it a try.

"Okay, then I'll go over in the next two days to see what's missing in the house and get it all for you."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded. He and Xiulan were planning to live here for the time being and did not want to move elsewhere. He was about to ask his dad if he would like to go there, but he didn't expect him to speak himself.

Father Lin smiled and waved his hand and said, "We have the stove, bed and table. I can do the rest myself, or I can just take it from the house."

The stove is a red brick cement stove, and the bed and table were made by Carpenter Liang. He was there to watch, so these basic configurations are enough.

"Well."

Lin Heng nodded in agreement. His father liked to tinker with these things by himself.

"Then I'll go back and ask someone to open fire after seeing a better time."

Father Lin smiled and nodded, then came over with grass and put some on the horse.

After a few more words, the two went out together. Lin Heng went to his eldest brother's house and told him to practice shooting behind Hongfeng Mountain together after three o'clock in the afternoon.

After saying that, he went back home to rest.

"You're back, how do you feel?"

Xiulan was picking vegetables in the main room. When she saw Lin Heng coming over, she asked with a smile.

"They're all sprouted."

Lin Heng smiled and nodded, walked into the room and told her everything he saw and heard.

"It's okay for your parents to live there so that you don't have to run back and forth."

Xiulan couldn't help but feel a little happy when she heard the last news. She was still thinking about how she could not separate from Lin Heng.

Lin Heng came closer and smiled: "Why, you don't want to be separated from me so much?"

Xiulan pursed her lips and rolled her eyes: "I'm just worried that no one will coax Xiaoxia to sleep at night."

"Besides, it's not certain who can't live without whom."

After speaking, she added a little arrogantly.

Just as Lin Heng was about to speak, Xiaoxia ran over with a small Rubik's Cube: "Dad, teach me how to play the Rubik's Cube."

"Okay, keep an eye on it."

Lin Heng nodded, took a look at the Rubik's Cube, and demonstrated it to her.

After watching it three times, Xiaoxia took the things and started playing with them by herself.

Lin Heng looked at Jinbao next to him, then reached out to pick it up and stroke it. This guy looked like a little tiger and weighed about the same as Xiaoxia.

After eating well, the hair is shiny and feels very good to the touch.

"Meow~"

After being touched twice by Lin Heng, it made a pleasant sound.

It has been fed too much, and now it is too lazy to move when it sees people.

After touching it twice, Lin Heng put it down. It looked around, walked over and jumped into the bamboo basket to continue sleeping. This little day is so comfortable.

Lin Heng poured a cup of tea and drank it for a while, then went out to train the two puppies in the yard.

The previous training had produced some results, but since they hadn't trained much these days, they had forgotten all about it.

After training for more than an hour, Xiulan prepared lunch. She made simple chopped green onion noodles and some leftover dishes from last night.

After finishing the meal, Lin Heng looked at Xiulan and said, "I went to the back of Hongfeng Mountain to practice shooting with my elder brother."

"You go ahead, I will take Xiaoxia and mom to pull out the garlic later."

Xiulan waved her hands and said.

Lin Heng nodded, went into the house to get the compound bow, and then went over to ask his elder brother to go to Hongfeng Mountain with him.

"Brother, do you think it's possible to encounter prey today?" Lin Yue was a little excited.

"No chance." Lin Heng shook his head. If he could encounter prey, the sun would be out in the west.

"Haha, that's right." Lin Yue laughed, feeling that he was too excited.

It didn't take long for them to arrive at Hongfeng Mountain. As they walked in the forest, the shadows of the trees were mottled, and the leaves of the trees were too small to block the sunlight.

But the air is very fresh, and the leaves on the ground are like carpets, which makes people feel comfortable.

After a while they arrived at an empty ditch behind.

This area of ​​the ditch, which is about fifty meters long, is very open and there are not many trees around it.

Lin Heng found two pieces of rotten wood in the ditch as targets, one set 30 meters away and the other 50 meters away. The size of a rotten tree is about the same as that of a field dog, and the prey usually hunted in the mountains is only this big.

"Let me tell you about the maintenance of this gun. The first one is that the muzzle should not be pointed at anyone at any time. Also, there should be no one within a range of 120 degrees to the left and right when firing. The killing radius of the shotgun is very large. Be careful and it will hurt people.”

"Also, the recoil of this gun is very strong, so you have to be very careful when shooting..."

Lin Heng first talked about the precautions, and then started to explain how to use the gun.

Double-barreled shotguns are divided into barrels arranged up and down and barrels arranged left and right. The one Lin Heng bought is arranged left and right.

Bullets can be fired as a single shot or as two.

Lin Heng explained the basic principles and then started to explain how to use it.

In fact, this kind of shotgun-loaded gun only needs to be roughly aimed. The lead pellets in the bullets have a wide range of damage. Generally, only special lead bullets need to be aimed accurately.

"Okay, now load up the ammunition and give it a try." Lin Heng said with a smile.

"Don't you give it a try?" Lin Yue said with a smile.

"No, there's nothing to try." Lin Heng shook his head, took out toilet paper and blocked their ears first.

Lin Yue followed Lin Heng's instructions, loaded the gun, took aim, exhaled and pulled the trigger.

"boom!!"

With a bang, the bullet flew out, and a large number of lead shot broke through the warhead and shot out.

Lin Heng glanced sideways and behind and knew that this shot had hit the sky.

"The recoil is so strong."

Lin Yue said in shock, it was much bigger than he thought. Not only was his shoulder hurt from the impact, but he also couldn't hold the gun steady.

"It's normal. Just try again. Don't be afraid of wasting bullets."

Lin Heng said with a smile.

"it is good."

Lin Yue nodded, loaded another bullet, and tried again. He hit a thirty-meter target.

With another loud bang, echoes echoed through the ravine.

"Hit!" Lin Yue put down his gun excitedly and ran towards the target.

"Brother, there are five bullet holes!" Lin Yue shouted to Lin Heng. "It's okay, but there's still something wrong with your gun handling."

Lin Heng nodded and said, this kind of loaded shotgun is easy to hit.

Especially the birdshot, there are dozens of small lead pellets in one bullet, so even those who have never touched a gun can easily hit the target after learning a few times.

Five hits showed that he still didn't have control of the gun.

"Well, tell me and I'll change it."

Lin Yue nodded, the hit just now gave him confidence.

Lin Heng learned all the skills related to firearms from Uncle Gao. He had a good memory and memorized them all, so he could teach his brother.

"Let me make a practice plan for you."

Lin Heng looked at him and said.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded.

"The plan is very simple. Practice holding the gun for three hours every day, and then shoot ten rounds at the target. Hold the gun more often when you have time. Once you get used to it, you can also tie a sandbag to the head of the gun and continue to practice holding the gun. In the long run, it will not be easy to shake when shooting. Only then can you control the gun during target practice.”

Lin Heng looked at his elder brother and said, this was also taught by Uncle Gao.

Generally, if you practice this kind of shotgun for half a month, the accuracy can be improved a lot.

"Okay." Lin Yue nodded and bought the gun. He had no chance to regret it and could only practice hard.

Two hundred yuan is definitely a huge investment for him, and he must not let it go down the drain because of his own reasons.

Lin Yue immediately began to practice aiming the gun. Lin Heng guided him for a while and then went to dig orchid grass.

His brother is a perseverant person and there is no need for his supervision.

He had just observed that there were a lot of orchids on the hillside here, and was going to come over to see the situation and transplant two back.

"Chunlan!"

After taking a closer look, Lin Heng gave up. He already had several orchids at home.

I continued to search in the forest, but found that there were only spring orchids nearby, but no other orchids.

I was lucky enough to find a wild lily, but it was too small and I didn’t dig it up. I already have many planted at home.

Just as he was about to turn around and go back, he saw several half-meter-high small shrubs growing on the stone skin next to him.

"This goat's milk fruit tree has just sprouted."

Lin Heng walked over and took a look and found that these were several goat's milk fruit trees.

Goat milk fruit is also called crotch fruit. It tastes very good and was one of Lin Heng’s favorite things to eat when he was a child.

Lin Heng tried to pull it out, but he pulled it out easily. It turned out that the stone bark on which the tree grew was a single piece and could not take root at all.

It is only stuck in a thin layer of soil on the surface, so it comes off with a simple pull.

Lin Heng pulled out all three small trees connected together and prepared to take them back and plant them. For this kind of shrub, one tree is a clump, six or seven trunks, and three trees are enough.

There were no traces of pheasants or wild birds on the mountain, except for a few green-bearded squirrels, which Lin Heng didn't bother to do anything to.

After breaking the tree and returning to the ditch, Lin Yue was still practicing with his gun.

"Brother, this arm can't stand it. It's so sleepy." Lin Yue said with a wry smile.

"In the army, the practice of wielding a gun starts with one hour. The more you practice, the better."

Lin Heng laughed and said that it felt like his back hurt when he stood and talked.

But this is the fact. How is it possible to make money without suffering.

"I'm practicing." Lin Yue did not give up, still holding the gun.

Lin Heng ran around the mountain with his compound bow, but he didn't find any prey.

He simply found a place to sit down and rest. After a while, gunshots were heard from below. No need to think, it must be his elder brother.

After practicing for nearly two hours in the afternoon, Lin Yue couldn't hold on anymore and called Lin Heng to go home.

Lin Heng took the goat's milk fruit tree home, planted it in the back hill, and then went back to the house to rest.

Xiulan pulled a lot of garlic and got a lot of gray vegetables in the afternoon. Lin Heng drank some water and helped pick vegetables.

In addition to eating garlic directly, you can also pickle it sour before eating it.

In the evening, Xiulan made cold gray vegetables for Lin Heng, and he solved more than half of it by himself. Anyway, he was obsessed with this taste for no reason.

After coaxing Xiaoxia to sleep, Lin Heng started sowing again. Since he had decided to have a second child, he would try a few more times.

In the next few days, apart from planting early corn and soybeans with his father, Lin Heng spent the rest of his time practicing shooting with his elder brother and digging wild vegetables with Xiaoxia Xiulan.

Of course, the most important thing is to work hard for the baby with Xiulan every night. Not using contraception makes him a little indulgent.

In the blink of an eye, it is already the third day of April in the Gregorian calendar, which is also the third day of March in the lunar calendar.

In the ancient tradition, there is a proverb "Snake comes out of the mountain on the third day of March", which means that from this day onwards, snakes come out of their holes and start to move.

And this is also the day before Qingming Festival.

Lin Heng opened his eyes in the morning, but he didn't want to get up at all. It wasn't physical fatigue caused by overindulgence these days. He exercised every day and ate well, so he didn't feel tired within a few days.

He simply didn't want to get up.

After taking the test, she looked at Xiulan's face and was stunned for a moment. Xiulan had also woken up. Seeing Lin Heng's expression, she asked curiously: "What's going on?"

Lin Heng said softly: "It's okay, lean on me and sleep a little longer."

"Okay." Xiulan nodded and agreed to him.

The two of them didn't get up until Xiaoxia got up and needed to go to the toilet.

After breakfast, Lin Heng and Xiulan taught Xiaoxia how to cut paper. Naturally, the things she cut were Qingming hanging paper, which would be used to worship ancestors tomorrow.

They almost all cut it themselves, there are simple ones like paper money, and there are also complicated ones. Lin Henghui taught both types of skills when his grandfather was still alive.

Lin Heng and Xiulan cut two in a while. Xiaoxia still hadn't learned it for a long time, and looked around blankly with the unfolded paper in her hand.

"Come on, Mommy will teach you how to cut, Xiaoxia."

Xiulan realized that such complicated paper-cutting was too difficult for her daughter to write, so she folded it herself and held her hand to start cutting.

After a while, a beautiful paper-cut was made.

"Okay, I can also cut paper!"

Xiaoxia ran around in the yard holding a small Qingming hanging paper.

"This is for your grandfather's grave. Stop playing with it."

Lin Heng shouted, pulled her over and told her about the tradition of Qingming Festival and the origin of hanging paper while cutting paper.

After cutting the Qingming hanging paper, the three of us got up early the next morning to visit the grave. The eldest brother and his parents were also there, and everyone was talking and laughing.

At this time, the trees on the roadside are basically tender green. Walking in the forest, the air is fresh and the trees are eye-catching, which is very enjoyable.

When they arrive at the tomb, they burn paper money, hang it with Qingming hanging paper, and then kowtow a few times to complete the worship.

The tomb had been repaired during the Chinese New Year, so it was just a matter of pulling out some weeds. Father Lin and Mother Lin said many blessings and prayed for their son and grandchildren.

Lin Heng fulfilled his promise and scattered a few perilla seeds in the soil beside the grave.

"Brother, I feel like I've almost perfected my marksmanship. When are we going to go bear hunting?"

On the way home, Lin Yue said with a smile.

　It’s four thousand today. I’ll wait for two days to think about how to write it later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)