Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 44 Clues
this woman.

When Yu Qiutang saw Yu Qiushi, he immediately knew what was going on.

As the saying goes, if someone shows kindness without any reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. How could Chen Meidi be so kind as to offer apples on her own initiative? She must have wanted to take the opportunity to see how their magical tofu is made.

She would definitely not come here in person. After all, Yu Qiushi was Yu Qiutang's younger brother, so it would be best to send him as a spy.

Sure enough, Yu Qiushi was standing at the door, his two little eyes darting around, and when he saw the bag placed against the wall next to the pot, he immediately showed great interest.

The children in the Yu family look very different.

The main reason is that the three mothers look very different.

The mother of the three sisters, Wang Shufen, looks a bit like a man, with a firm face and strong lines, so the three sisters all have average looks, the kind of looks that people don’t pay much attention to if it were the eldest sister.

Yu Qiutang's mother was tall, with a round face and big eyes, so Yu Qiutang was also tall and had a slightly delicate appearance, not looking like a man born in the northwest.

Yu Qiushi's mother has a special charm. She is not too tall, and her figure is neither fat nor thin. Her appearance is actually very ordinary. She even has small eyes and single eyelids. But when put together, there is a special flavor to her.

Anyway, many people in the village talked about Yu Qiutang's stepmother, saying that she was very pretty and dressed very fashionably, and did not look like a rural woman.

But some children inherit the advantages of their parents, while others gather all the disadvantages of their parents. Yu Qiushi is precisely the product of this unfortunate combination.

He has a short neck, small eyes, a big face, and is not very fat, but his face is as fat as a bun. He is lazy and a bit stupid, so only his mother Chen Meidi likes him.

When relatives and friends saw this, they all shook their heads.

Before Yu Qiutang could say anything, Yu Qiushi took the apple plate and placed it on the edge of the pot. He then leaned his head towards the pot, pointed at the green paste and asked, "Brother, what is this?"

"Just tell your mother that the magic tofu is made by boiling it in the pot. It will come out after a while."

"Oh, okay."

Yu Qiushi nodded, quickly took all the apples and put them aside, then ran out of the kitchen with the plate.

His action left Yu Qiutang speechless and he couldn't help rubbing his brows.

It seems that the Yu family really doesn't have any smart genes. A woman like Chen Meidi, who is extremely smart, gave birth to such a stupid son.

There was no need to use any shady tricks, he was immediately tricked into finding out the reason and then fooled away.

At this time, Xiaowei and Xiaoyun came back carrying water.

Now that we are going to make magical tofu at home, the water consumption has increased significantly. The two children carried two buckets of water and staggered into the kitchen. The water in the buckets was scattered along the way and was less than two-thirds.

Putting down the bucket, Yu Qiutang asked Xiaoyun to continue making tofu with Yu Chunmei. Now that the container was full, there was no need to toss the tofu back and forth, so it would take faster. It was estimated that a pot could be made in half an hour.

He took Yu Xiaowei out of the door and spent a long time picking stones on the ground outside. He found an irregular stone with a diameter of about one centimeter. "Xiaowei, I have a task for you. Take a bag and pick up stones of similar specifications for us by the canal. Bring back half a bag."

"It's for slingshots, right?"

"Yes."

"Leave it to me and I will ensure the task is completed." Yu Xiaowei ran into the yard, picked up a bag and rushed out of the troglodyte courtyard.

Yu Qiutang returned to the cave, found the jujube tree branch that was pressed under the bedding, took out the broken bicycle tires he had collected at the market today, and began to make a slingshot.

The threshold for making a slingshot is very low. Many children in this era can make a slingshot. It is nothing more than a tree branch tied with a rubber band, which can be used as a slingshot. However, these slingshots are not elastic enough and the accuracy is difficult to guarantee. They are just toys for children, and at most they can hit a few careless birds by chance.

What Yu Qiutang needed was a slingshot that was more powerful, more solid, and equipped with a sight.

Needless to say, the slingshot stand is made of repeatedly smoked-dried jujube wood branches, and the elastic line is made of bicycle inner tubes.

Whether a slingshot is easy to use actually depends on its elasticity and crosshairs, and stable elasticity is the basis for stable crosshairs.

Elasticity can be replaced by cowhide or sheepskin. Stores even sell a hollow elastic rubber tube, which was originally used to make an airtight core for bicycles, but can also be used to make slingshots.

However, cowhide and sheepskin need to be specially processed and can be bitten by ants. The elasticity of the rubber tube is too weak and the shooting distance is very short. If it is forced to be pulled too long, the aim will be lost.

Comprehensive comparison, or the car inner tube is more useful.

Some children don't like to use it. You said that it is because the tire is more elastic and more strength is needed to pull it open. Most children either can't pull it open or try to pull it open but can't control their trembling hands and can't hit the target at all.

And these are exactly the things that Yu Qiutang doesn't have to consider.

The thing he lacks the least is strength.

While making the slingshot, he was thinking about what happened at the market. The standing posture of Wang Erma was the basis of the old man's boxing. It meant that if he practiced well, perhaps his attributes could continue to improve.

Why not start practicing that boxing technique every day starting from tomorrow morning? It will also give me another skill.

In the future, when you go into the mountains and encounter unexpected things that force you into close combat, the higher your physical fitness, the better. Not to mention counterattacking, at least you will have the capital to survive.

Okay, that’s it, I’ll bring my nephew and niece along tomorrow.

As for my nephew, naturally he is making preparations for what will happen later.

Niece, just think of it as practicing self-defense. The social security is quite bad these days, with crimes like human trafficking and hooliganism popping up all the time. If a girl encounters any trouble, at least she will have the capital to resist.
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New kitchen.

Chen Meidi saw Yu Qiushi coming back, took the plate and threw it aside, then hurriedly grabbed his hand and asked, "Did you see how it was done?"

Yu Qiushi said: "My brother asked me to tell you, it's just to make a pot of green greasy soup."

Chen Meidi was puzzled and looked at her son with suspicion. This idiot must have been cheated. He told me...what, he asked him to tell me. That brat discovered my purpose so quickly.

"It's true. When I went in, the thing was simmering in the pot. It looked like half a pot of green stuff. Even though the room was filled with air, I could still get it."

So it is true.

Chen Meidi was confused.

If this is the only clue we have, it would be the same as having no clue at all. There are many things that can produce green stuff, and who knows which one it is.

That brat must have guessed what I was thinking and tried to make me angry on purpose.

"Forget it, just go and have fun."

"Oh."

Yu Qiushi turned and walked out. Chen Meidi withdrew her gaze and found a fallen leaf at the foot of her son where he had just stood.

(End of this chapter)