Carry a fountain with you

Chapter 99 "Wildcat" Reappearance

"This slingshot doesn't work. Is there a stronger one?" Liu Junhao took the slingshot handed over by Maozi, pulled it a few times with his hands, and shook his head in disappointment.

There are only two rubber bands on each side, and with a light pull, the slingshot will be fully pulled to the bottom.This kind of slingshot is too weak to hit ordinary small birds, but it has no effect at all against large birds like pheasants.Unless the head of the pheasant is hit, it is possible to shoot down the pheasant.

The rubber bands on the slingshots he played with when he was a child were all made of inner tubes inside the tires of carts. Several black rubber bands were tied together, and they were very strong.

"It's all like this. There are no eight rubber bands. There are too many rubber bands and we can't pull them apart." The hairy boy said a little embarrassed.Children have little strength, so they usually use four rubber bands, and rarely even six.Besides, they made the slingshot purely for nonsense, and they weren't going to use it to shoot pheasants.

"Then you wait, I'll go back to the house and get some rubber bands." He said, and quickly dug out a rubber band as thin as straw from the house.This thing is basically prepared by everyone who has a bicycle, and it is specially used to wrap the valve needle.

Although Liu Junhao has not made slingshots for several years, he is still familiar with the production process.Three times, five times and two times, I replaced the rubber bands of the hairy boy, and then made a slingshot with added ingredients.

"It's okay." He grabbed the cowhide used to wrap the bullets and pulled it back and forth a few times. He felt that the strength was just right. Then he nodded in satisfaction, threw the slingshot into Pang Xu's hand and said, "You can try it too."

He pulled it easily, but Pang Xu gritted his teeth and pulled it away, which seemed to be quite strenuous.

Pulling a slingshot also requires skill, and you can't just use brute force.Although Pang Xu's strength is not small, but he rarely plays with the slingshot, so it seems quite strenuous.

"I'd better use this, it's easy." After trying it, he completely gave up the idea of ​​modification.

A few people tidied up casually, and they were all ready to go.

Of course, before going up the mountain, Pang Xu asked Liu Junhao to find him a pair of sneakers to put on.Otherwise, I would not be able to climb the mountain with bare feet.

The two are about the same size, but Pang Xu is much fatter, and his feet are naturally bigger.Therefore, wearing Liu Junhao's shoes is quite cramped.From the moment he put on the shoes, he kept complaining that the shoes didn't fit.

This guy complained when he put on his shoes, and he was afraid that he would get athlete's foot after wearing them.

Maozi originally wanted to follow, but he was grabbed by his father as soon as he reached the back of the village.The family was busy mending flower seedlings, but he disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Although Maozi was very reluctant, he was also afraid of his father's slap, so he had to work aggrievedly.

Now that you have a slingshot, you will naturally have to look for bullets, but this thing is easy to find.The land in the east of Liujiagou Village basically belongs to river land. Due to flooding in the past few years, there are especially many Huangjiang stones in the land.Those Huangjiang stones the size of birds' eggs have already been rounded by the river water, and they are suitable for making slingshots.

So the few of them don't have to worry at all. Under Liu Junhao's guidance, they picked up all the way, and each of them packed thirty or forty pills in their pockets.

As soon as they arrived on the mountain, the eyes of the two girls were not enough.Especially when Xu Xiaoli saw the azaleas all over the mountains and plains, she said that she should play here instead of running into the mountains, so the two girls picked wild strawberries at the foot of the mountain.

Anyway, there are no big beasts in this mountain, so Liu Junhao doesn't have to worry about their safety, so he just let the two of them stay here, while he and Pang Xu went into the mountain to look for pheasants.

As soon as Pang Xu entered the forest, he was no different from a bandit. He beat up everywhere with a slingshot, but his accuracy was so poor that it was unbearable to watch.Most of the Huangjiang Stones that the two of them had prepared earlier were knocked out by this kid, but they didn't even touch a feather.

However, this kid's interest has not diminished at all along the way, and he has been defeated and fought repeatedly, while Liu Junhao has no chance to make a move at all.

When he saw a group of sparrows chirping on the poplar tree, he asked Liu Junhao to stop again, and he raised his slingshot and shot towards the tree.

There are at least [-] or [-] sparrows in this large group, even if a blind cat touches a dead mouse, it can still meet one, right?
With a crisp sound, the sparrows flew around, and a lot of leaves fell, but the sparrows didn't touch any of them.

"You kid, don't shoot if you don't have the right head. Just look at your posture and you will know that you won't be able to hit the bird. Do you understand the three-point line in shooting?" Liu Junhao saw him stretching out his hand and asked himself for marbles. He couldn't help but Live open mouth to ridicule.

When I was explaining the essentials of shooting a slingshot to him on the road just now, this guy also nodded to explain clearly, but when it came to the actual operation, he became loose.His eyes were fixed on the sparrow, and he didn't pay attention to the slingshot in his hand.

"This bird is flying too fast, there is no way to shoot it. If you say I can't, why didn't you try it just now? If you have the ability, let's compare and see who can shoot more birds." Pang Xu said rather unconvinced.

"If I don't compare with you, I can't afford to lose this person." Liu Junhao said with a smile and shook his head.

"Damn, you can show me one, just that... there is a sparrow on the poplar branch." Pang Xu was not convinced by anything.

"The sparrow is too small. It takes seven or eight to cook a plate. It's too much trouble. Let me break the branch it stands on and show you." Liu Junhao stretched out his hand to pull the slingshot, and his eyes immediately formed a straight line with the branch of the slingshot.When he was young, he was definitely good at playing with a slingshot. The birds in this forest had been harmed by him many times.Although the hand is a little raw now, the aim has not fallen.

Hearing a "pop", the sparrow fluttered away in fright, but the poplar branch, which was thicker than a thumb, fell from the tree.

"You're not being rash, are you? This accuracy is too good." Pang Xu ran over and picked up the branch, and said in disbelief. Of course he knew that hitting a tree branch as thick as a thumb was more difficult than hitting a sparrow Quite a lot.

"Then I'll give you another chance." Liu Junhao pulled the slingshot again, and the branches fell to the ground.

"With your accuracy, with a little training, you can definitely become a master blocker." Pang Xu said with a little envy.

"I'm so accurate? You think everyone is as good as you. The hairy boy didn't follow. If he followed, I can guarantee that he would definitely be better than you. There are many capable people in Liujiagou, and it's not easy to play slingshots well." Not much. I only have a distance of five or six meters, and there are still people who can hit branches at a distance of more than ten meters." He said disapprovingly, and Pang Xu, who has never played with a slingshot, found it strange.

While talking and walking forward, suddenly two roosters flew up from the grass less than ten meters away, squawking and screaming. They flapped their wings and flew for about four to fifty meters, and finally disappeared in the woods.

"You kid, why don't you fight?" The emperor was not in a hurry and the eunuchs were in a hurry. Pang Xu kept urging him since he saw the pheasant, but Liu Junhao didn't raise his slingshot when he saw the pheasant disappear.

"The distance is too far. You can't knock them down unless you hit a vital point. Besides, these things are not branches. They are flying. I don't have that accurate hand yet."

"Damn, you also lost the chain at a critical moment, and now the game is so good that it flew away again." Pang Xu was quite frustrated. He had heard Liu Junhao describe the wonderful taste of pheasant meat, and he really wanted to get one home to taste one time.

"Don't worry, this rooster is bright in color, it's easy to find in the mountains, and it must have fallen in that forest."

The two tiptoed towards the mountain ridge again, staring at the grass one by one.There are a lot of wild flowers of all kinds on the mountain in May, which puts a natural protective color on the pheasant, so it is quite difficult to find.They searched on the mountain ridge for half an hour but didn't find even a pheasant feather. Just when Pang Xu was about to open his mouth to complain, Liu Junhao gave a "shh" and pointed to his side.

I saw a rooster bowing its head to catch grass seeds less than ten meters away from them.

Of course Pang Xu would not be allowed to go out now, Liu Junhao calmly pulled up the slingshot.After three or four seconds, he suddenly let go of his right hand, and saw the sound of pheasants quacking in the grass on the opposite side, and a half-sized rooster kept fluttering on the grass.The other one in the distance was also startled, and it slid straight down the grass. Pang Xu threw down the slingshot, blatantly trying to go up and chase it.

"It's useless, come back. This pheasant can run faster than Liu Xiang in the grass. It would be nice if you can kill one." Liu Junhao said as he stretched out his hand to grab the pheasant that was still flapping its wings and trying to escape.

"Okay, mouse, hit the pheasant's leg directly, you are accurate enough." Pang Xu took the pheasant and looked at it twice, only to find that the marble hit the pheasant's leg.The slingshot with eight rubber bands was overbearing, directly breaking the pheasant's leg, no wonder it couldn't escape after fluttering for a long time.

"Khan, this time it was really risky. I wanted to hit it in the stomach." Liu Junhao explained embarrassingly.After all, I haven't played slingshot for several years, and my hands are unfamiliar.

"Didn't the great man say that a black cat and a white cat are good cats if they catch mice. Now I'll eat pheasant meat tonight." Pang Xu, a foodie, was thinking about pheasant meat.

"Okay, don't look like you're not having fun. It's not easy to go up the mountain. Let's go back and dig some wild vegetables and fry them to eat at night." Liu Junhao casually threw the pheasant into a long worm leather bag, and then pulled Pang Xu back.

"You just hit one and stop?" Pang Xu asked suspiciously.

"You boy, what will you eat after killing all the pheasants?" When hunting, you can't kill them all, you must keep a seed. This is a saying that the older generation often talks about, and people who go hunting in Liujiagou generally abide by it. this rule.

"Well, it makes sense. It's still the same saying, 'If you exhaust the lake, there will be no fish next year', right?" Pang Xu said with emotion, and then said a little depressed: "You have already opened your business, buddy, you still don't even have a sparrow. Didn't hit it"

"Stop, just dig wild vegetables here." Liu Junhao stopped immediately when he saw the green area on the sunny side of the hillside.

"What kind of dish is this?" Pang Xu also followed his example and squatted down, stretching out his hand to pinch this kind of half-knee-high grass, the tender and tender grass was full of clear juice.

"This is the five-element grass in martial arts novels. Eating it can bring people back to life." Liu Junhao said with a forced smile.

"Bullshit, what is it? Why don't you say you can become a fairy after eating it?" Pang Xu naturally sneered at his argument, "The five-element grass will be such a virtue?"

"Don't you believe it, it's really called Wuxingcao. 'Yeqing, stalks are red, flowers are yellow, roots are white, and seeds are black', so it is called Wuxingcao. People also call it 'Longevity Vegetable', but We usually call it purslane."

"Damn, this is purslane, why does it look so familiar to me? We also have it there..."

As they were talking, suddenly they heard two girls shouting from across the mountain.The two of them were startled and hurried down the mountain.Liu Junhao was even faster all the way, leaving Pang Xu far behind.

"What's the matter, what's the matter?" In less than 3 minutes, Liu Junhao had already rushed in front of them.

"Big cat, a big cat was beside us just now, it's so big..." Zhang Qian gestured with lingering fear.

"Is there really such a big thing?" Liu Junhao naturally remembered what Maozi said just now, "You can't be fooled, you think the grass lizi is a wild cat."

"Absolutely not. It was hiding at the top of the tree and catching birds. We only looked up when we heard the movement. We were so frightened when we saw that we both forgot to call out. Until it jumped down from the tree and grabbed the bird. Only when the sparrow ran away did we realize..."

"What's the matter, Xiaoli, are you alright?" At this time, Pang Xu also ran over scrambling.

When he asked what happened, he had the same expression as Liu Junhao.

"This thing can't run very far, it's easy to find if there are bloodstains." Liu Junhao thought of following the bloodstains in the grass, and asked Xiaopi to smell them.

Xiaopi sniffed around on the grass, and immediately ran forward. The two girls didn't dare to stay alone at the moment, and followed them in fear.

After walking less than half a mile, Xiao Pi suddenly barked at a tree.

When they looked up, they were all dumbfounded. A wild cat that was a little bigger than Xiaopi was tearing at the sparrow.

As soon as the wild cat saw them, it immediately jumped off the branch in panic, and ran towards the depths of the woods.

Xiaopi was about to go up to chase, but was stopped by Liu Junhao.

"My god, there is such a big wild cat. I forgot to take a picture just now. If I take a photo, I can apply for the Guinness Book of Records. Such a big wild cat." Pang Xu patted him on the shoulder excitedly.

"This thing doesn't seem to be a wild cat." Liu Junhao shook his head and said, "It should be the grass leopard that the old people talked about."

"Caobaozi, you said that was a leopard just now?" The remaining three people were startled by him.

"Well, has any of you heard of such a big cat?" In fact, Liu Junhao saw this thing for the first time. He just heard people of the older generation talk about the grass leopard in Daqingshan when they talked about ancient times.But Liu Junhao hadn't seen this thing since he could remember, and he thought it had disappeared long ago.But I didn't expect that the grass leopard, which had been extinct for 40 to [-] years in Daqingshan, would come back again. This is really good news.

"Are you sure it's a leopard? Why is it so small? Isn't a leopard very fierce? Why does it run away in fright when it sees people?" Zhang Qian suddenly asked suspiciously.

"It seems that grass leopards are only this big. My fifth master once said that when he was young, he went up the mountain to cut firewood and encountered three grass leopards besieging him. He killed them both with a pole."

"Leopards aren't so inferior, are they? They are the ones who can kill wild boars. Are you bragging?" Pang Xu obviously didn't believe it.

"It's possible if it's this kind of leopard." Xu Xiaoli followed behind.

(End of this chapter)