Back to 1984: Hunting in the Mountains

Chapter 55 Modern Crossbow

"Click."

At this moment, the gun in Lao Qin's hand suddenly fired. The sound was crisp, but it was not the explosion sound as imagined.

It turned out that there was no bullet inside, just an empty shell.

But even so, Wang Dechun's knees were still weak and he knelt down in front of Lao Qin, his face pale, holding his head and almost peeing his pants.

Aunt Liu was also stunned on the spot, and was about to yell, but she saw Lao Qin opening the magazine, shaking his head regretfully, slowly loading a bullet into it, and waving the muzzle of the gun, about to point it at Wang Dechun's head again.

"No, no, please don't push us anymore. We are afraid of you. It's all our fault. We shouldn't have provoked you. Please stop bullying us."

Aunt Liu was about to curse, but she had to swallow it back down, and all that came out was a plea for mercy.

Yu Qiutang then sighed, walked up to Lao Qin and pulled his hand "awkwardly", "Forget it, they know they are wrong, just let it go, don't waste bullets."

Lao Qin continued to hold out for about a full minute before slowly putting down his gun and said calmly, "Don't always think that others are fools. I know exactly what you are thinking. For my brother Yu's sake, I will let you go this time, but if you run into my gun again in the future, then..."

As Lao Qin was speaking, he suddenly raised his gun and fired a shot. A blue-gray cuckoo fell from the catalpa tree and hit the ground with a "bang".

This is real shooting.

Not only did the last glimmer of hope of Wang Dechun and his wife be penetrated, but Yu Qiutang even secretly marveled at the old guy's excellent marksmanship.

The cuckoo just now had just landed on the catalpa tree, and before it could even utter the first "cuckoo" it was shot down to the ground. This shows how accurate Lao Qin's marksmanship is.

This is much better than almost being bitten by a snake in the mountains.

Since everything here was over, Yu Qiutang and Lao Qin left in a leisurely manner, not forgetting to take the cuckoo they had just shot with them.

It doesn’t have a lot of meat, but it can still be used as a side dish with a little wine.

When the two men left, the couple remained where they were, not daring to move. When they turned the corner, Lao Qin laughed and said, "You are really sinister. I think the couple must be scared to death now. They will never dare to provoke you casually in the future."

Yu Qiutang smiled and said, "Actually, I didn't provoke them that much, and it's not that I just don't like them. I did this for my own reasons."

"What?"

"Well, it's hard to say for now. Maybe it's not certain. Anyway, it's better to be prepared."

What Yu Qiutang actually wanted to say was that he was planning to build his own yard near the foot of the mountain, so he was actually not very far from Wang Dechun's house.

If you don't beat them up properly, these two bastards will either gossip behind your back or do some sneaky things, which will be really annoying.

After what happened today, I guess they will never dare to come and try their luck again. As long as they don't come to cause trouble, I won't bother to pay attention to them.

At the fork in the village, Yu Qiutang saw Lao Qin off.

Before leaving, Lao Qin mentioned that if there were any good wild animals in the future, they should be kept for him. Except for rabbits and pheasants, as long as they were alive, he would take everything else, but the prices would be different.

Yu Qiutang naturally agreed immediately.

With such a sales channel, he can go hunting with confidence. When the crops are planted in the autumn and there is no more farm work to do, he will focus all his energy on hunting in the mountains.

From the transition from autumn to winter to March or April of the following year, it is a good time for hunting. If you are lucky, you can save several thousand dollars before winter.

Enough to build a house, with some left over.
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Yu Qiutang was very busy in the next two days. Every morning, he would take his two children to exercise and strengthen their physique.

On the first day he was thinking about letting the children practice boxing, but then he thought, these two children had not had enough to eat before, and their bodies had been hollowed out. Before they recovered, practicing boxing would be a waste of time and would be meaningless.

It’s better to do some basic physical exercises.

So he changed to taking the two children to the foot of the mountain every day, where he would do a few sets of Red Boxing. Xiaowei would do 100 push-ups. Xiaoyun had poor physical fitness, so he started with 50 sit-ups, and then slowly worked up to 100 and 200.

His goal is that Xiaowei can do a thousand push-ups and Xiaoyun can do the same number of sit-ups.

This number may seem amazing, but it is actually not impossible to achieve. Many people in the army can do thousands of push-ups in one breath, and the Guinness World Record is over 10,000.

It seems amazing, but it is true that the development of human limits is always unexpected and hard for ordinary people to imagine.

Strong physical fitness not only reduces the risk of many diseases and enhances resistance, but also boosts confidence.

But the goal is ambitious and the reality is bleak.

The two children's foundation was even worse than he had imagined. In the first two days, they could not persist in running to the foot of the mountain in one breath, which was less than two kilometers one way, and had to run in several times.

When I arrived at the place, I felt weak and wanted to sit on the ground to catch my breath.

Yu Qiutang couldn't let them sit down after running, as it would easily cause serious injuries. Since they couldn't do push-ups and sit-ups, he simply took the two of them and walked slowly home.

In other words, Yu Qiutang holds a very high status in the hearts of the two children. If it were an ordinary person, he might not be able to suppress Yu Xiaowei, as he is a rebellious young man.

In addition to practicing boxing and exercising, Yu Qiutang is mainly working on his "modern rhubarb crossbow".

We can only do it, but there is still a big gap between imagining things and putting them into practice.

Of the four major parts of the crossbow, he currently only has the crossbow arm, which he spent several days carving.

This is no simple matter.

The shape of the crossbow arm is very special, an irregular hockey shape. Many toy-type crossbows are divided into two parts or even three parts together for simplicity.

But you can imagine the strength of such a crossbow. It's okay for playing with, but if it encounters a strong pulling force, it may break instantly and may hurt people.

Yu Qiutang planned to slowly carve out the shape of the crossbow arm on a piece of wood through carving and hollowing.

But the problem is that even if he has strong hands-on ability, he still needs the right tools, otherwise he will get half the result with twice the effort.

But the carpenters' tools at that time were very primitive and all had to be done by hand. The jujube wood was very hard, so it was not an easy task to carve out the shape bit by bit.

What's more, he has to go to town every day, which basically takes up half a day. When he gets home, he has to help his sister do other things. The time he can actually use for carving is only half a day, which is really slow.

While he was carving in the yard, his father came over and looked at him, but said nothing. Just as he thought his father was just indifferent, his father brought him some files, a hammer and a curved saw.

"You need some water. If you keep pecking like this, how long will it take you to finish?"

Before leaving, Youyou uttered a word.

(End of this chapter)