Chapter 98: The Wildcat Reappears
This slingshot is not good, is there any more powerful one?" Liu Junhao took Mao's slingshot, pulled it with his hand a few times, and shook his head in disappointment.
There are only two rubber bands on each side. Just pull the slingshot to the end with a light pull. This slingshot is too weak, and it is OK to hit ordinary birds, but it has no effect on large birds such as pheasants. Unless it hits the head of the pheasant, you can shoot down the pheasant.
The rubber bands on the slingshot he played with when he was a child were made of inner tubes in the tires of a large car. Several black rubber bands were tied together, which was very strong.
"It's all like this. There are no eight rubber bands. We can't pull them away if there are too many rubber bands." The hairy child said a little embarrassedly. Children are weak and usually use four rubber bands, and even fewer have six. Besides, they are just making slingshots, and they are not planning to use them to beat pheasants.
"Then you guys wait, I'll get a few rubber bands back to the house." He said, and quickly pulled out a rubber band as thin as wheat straw from the house. This thing is basically prepared by bicycles, which is specially used to wrap valve needles.
Although Liu Junhao hasn't made a slingshot for several years, the production process is still very familiar. After a few seconds, he replaced the hairy rubber bands and then made a supplementary version of the slingshot by himself.
"It's okay." He grabbed the cowhide used to wrap the marble and pulled it back and forth a few times. He felt that the force was just right, so he nodded with satisfaction, threw the slingshot into Pang Xu's hand and said, "You try too."
He pulled it effortlessly, but Pang Xu gritted his teeth and pulled it away, which seemed quite difficult.
Pulling a slingshot also requires skills, and you cannot blindly use brute force. Although Pang Xu is not very strong, he rarely plays a slingshot, so it seems quite difficult.
"I'd better use this, it's so easy." He completely gave up the idea of modifying after trying it.
A few people cleaned up casually and prepared to set off.
Of course, before going up the mountain, Pang Xu asked Liu Junhao to find him a pair of sneakers to change into. Otherwise, he would not be able to climb the mountain with his bare feet.
The two were about the same size, but Pang Xu was much fatter and naturally his feet were bigger. Therefore, he was very thrust in Liu Junhao's shoes. He kept complaining since he put on his shoes, saying that the shoes were not suitable.
This guy complained when he put his shoes on. He was still afraid that he would get athlete's foot after wearing them.
The Mao child originally wanted to follow him. Who knew that he was grabbed by his father when he just walked to the village. The house was busy repairing the seedlings. But in a blink of an eye, he disappeared.
Although the hairy child was very reluctant, he was afraid that he would slap his son and had to do his job in grievance.
If you have a slingshot, you naturally have to find a marble. But this thing is easy to find. The land in the east of Liujiagou Village basically belongs to the river land. In the past few years, due to the rising water, there were a lot of Huangjiang stones in the plot. The land of the bird-egg-sized land had already washed the ground and round the river water. It was just right to use it as a slingshot marble.
So they didn't have to worry at all. Under Liu Junhao's guidance, they picked up all the way, and each person had thirty or forty pills in their pockets.
As soon as he arrived on the mountain, the two girls' eyes were not enough. Especially when Xu Xiaoli saw Yingshanhong all over the mountains and said she would just play here and not run into the mountain, so the two girls picked wild strawberries at the foot of the mountain.
Anyway, there are no large wild beasts in the mountain, so Liu Junhao doesn't have to worry about their safety, so he let them stay here, and he and Pang Xu go into the mountain to find pheasants.
As soon as Pang Xu entered the forest, he was no different from a bandit. He was playing around with a slingshot, but his accuracy was so bad that it was hard to bear to see. Most of the Huangjiang stones that the two of them had prepared before were knocked out by this kid, but they didn't even touch a bird's feather.
However, this kid was still interested in the slightest along the way, and he fought repeatedly, while Liu Junhao followed behind and had no chance to take action.
When he saw a group of sparrows chirping on the poplar trees, he asked Liu Junhao to stop, and he raised his slingshot to hit the tree.
There are at least seventy or eighty sparrows in this large group. Even if a blind cat hits a mouse, you can still encounter one?
With a crisp sound, the birds flew around and many leaves fell, but the sparrows did not touch any.
"Don't hit the birds randomly if you don't have a correct head on your hands. Look at your posture and you will know that you can't hit the birds. Do you understand the three points and one lines in the shooting?" Liu Junhao saw that he reached out to ask for a marble again, and couldn't help but laugh at him.
When I was telling him the key points of playing slingshots on the road, this guy nodded and explained it clearly, but when it came to actual operation, he felt diarrhea. He stared at the sparrow and didn't pay attention to the slingshot in his hand.
"This bird flies too fast and has no way to fight. I said I can't do it. Why didn't you try it just now? If you have the ability, let's compare. Let's see who will hit more birds later." Pang Xu said with dissatisfaction.
"I can't afford to lose this person if I don't compare with you," Liu Junhao said with a smile and shook his head.
"Damn, you call me one and show me, that... there is a sparrow on the branch of the poplar tree." Pang Xu was not convinced.
"The sparrow is too small, and only seven or eight can be fried in a plate. It's too troublesome. I'll break the branch where it stands for you." After Liu Junhao said that, he stretched out his hand and pulled the slingshot, and his eyes immediately formed a straight line. When he was young, he was definitely a good player in playing slingshot. I don't know how many birds in this forest have harmed him. Although his hands are a little bit raw, his accurate head has not fallen.
Only a "pop" sound was heard, and the sparrow flew away in fear, but the poplar branch, which was thinner than his thumb, fell off the tree.
"You kid can't touch it, right? This is too awesome." Pang Xu ran over and picked up the branches and said in disbelief. Of course, he knew that hitting a branch as thick as a thumb is much more difficult than hitting a sparrow.
"Then I'll touch you again." Liu Junhao pulled the slingshot again, and the branches fell to the ground.
"Just with your accuracy, with a little training, you will definitely be a blocking master." Pang Xu said with a little enviousness.
"I'm so accurate? Do you think everyone is as good as you. The kid who hasn't followed him, I can guarantee that he is definitely better than you. There are more people in Liujiagou, and there are many good slingshots. I've only been five or six meters away, and there are still people who can shoot branches between ten meters away." He said disapprovingly, only Pang Xu, who has never played slingshots, found it strange.
As they were talking, they were walking forward, suddenly, in the grass less than ten meters away, two roosters flew up. They flapped their wings and flew for about forty or fifty meters, and finally disappeared in the woods.
"You kid, why don't you fight?" The emperor was not anxious. The eunuch was anxious. Pang Xu kept urging him since he saw the pheasant, but when he saw the pheasant disappear, Liu Junhao did not raise his slingshot.
"The distance is too far. You can knock them down unless you hit the vital point. Besides, this thing is not a branch, it is flying, I still
How accurate is it at hand."
"Damn, you're also losing your chain at a critical moment. Now the wild game that's so good that you're flying away again." Pang Xu was quite depressed. He had heard Liu Junhao tell the wonderful taste of pheasant meat just now, and he wanted to get one home to taste it.
"Don't worry, this rooster's feathers are bright and easy to find in the mountains. It must have fallen into that wood."
The two of them tiptoed towards the ridge, staring at each other in the grass. There were many wild flowers blooming in May, which gave the pheasant a layer of natural protective color, so it was quite difficult to find. They searched on the ridge for half an hour and didn't even see a pheasant feather. Just when Pang Xu was about to complain, Liu Junhao "boo" and pointed at his side.
I saw a rooster lowering his head to catch grass seeds and eat it.
Of course, Pang Xu would not let him take action anymore. Liu Junhao calmly pulled up his slingshot. After three or four seconds, he suddenly relaxed his right hand and saw the rattle of pheasants coming from the grass opposite. A half-large rooster kept fluttering on the grass. The other one in the distance was also alarmed, and he drifted down the grass. Pang Xu threw down the slingshot and wanted to chase him.
"It's useless, come back. This pheasant runs faster in the grass than Liu Xiang. It's good to be able to beat one." Liu Junhao said as he reached out to grab the pheasant who was still flapping his wings and trying to escape.
"Okay, mouse, hit the pheasant leg directly. You are already accurate enough." Pang Xu took the pheasant and looked over and over twice before he found that the marble hit the pheasant leg. The eight rubber band slingshot was domineering, and it directly broke the pheasant leg. No wonder it couldn't escape after slitting for a long time.
"Shan, this time I really touched it. I originally wanted to hit it in the stomach," Liu Junhao explained embarrassedly. After all, I haven't played with a slingshot for several years and I'm unfamiliar with it.
"Didn't the great man say that black cats and white cats, catching mice is a good cat. Now there is a pheasant to eat tonight." Pang Xu, a foodie, was thinking about pheasant meat.
"Okay, don't look like you're not playing. It's not easy to go up the mountain. Let's go back and dig some wild vegetables and cook them tonight." Liu Junhao threw the pheasant into the worm leather bag, and then pulled Pang Xu back.
"I've just hit one and I won't beat you?" Pang Xu asked in confusion.
"You kid, what should you eat after you have completely wiped out the pheasants?" You can't kill them all during hunting, you must keep a seed. This is what the older generation often talks about. People who go up the mountain to hunt in Liujiagou generally abide by this rule.
"Well, it makes sense. It's still the same saying, "If you fish in the waters, you will have no fish next year," right?" Pang Xu sighed and then said with some depression: "You have already opened, and my buddy hasn't even beaten a sparrow yet."
"Stop, just dig wild vegetables here." When Liu Junhao saw the green patch of green on the sunny side of the hillside, he immediately stopped.
"What kind of dish is this?" Pang Xu also squatted down like him, reached out and pinched the grass half-knee-high, and the tender and tender were all clear.
"This is the Five Elements Grass in martial arts novels. Eating it can make people resurrect the dead." Liu Junhao said with a smile in his hand.
"Beast, what is it? Why don't you say you've become an immortal after eating it?" Pang Xu naturally scoffed at his argument, "Will the Five Elements Grass be this virtue?"
"Don't disbelief, it's really called the Five Elements Grass. 'The leaves are green, the stems are red, the flowers are yellow, the roots are white, and the seeds are black', so it is called the Five Elements Grass. It is also called the "Longevity Vegetable" among the people, but we usually call it horse teeth."
"Damn, this is horse teeth. I said why do you look so familiar? We have it there too..."
As they were talking, they suddenly heard the screams of two girls coming from the opposite side of the mountain. The two were shocked and hurriedly ran down the mountain. Liu Junhao even quickly walked and left Pang Xu far behind.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?" In less than three minutes, Liu Junhao had already rushed to them.
"Big cat, a big cat was by our side just now, it was so big..." Zhang Qian gestured with lingering fear.
"Is there such a big thing?" Liu Junhao naturally remembered what Mao Chiu said just now, "You are not dazzled, you are treating Caolizi as a wild cat."
"Absolutely not, it hides birds on the top of the tree. We still looked up when we heard the movement. When we saw the two of us, we were shocked and forgot to shout. We didn't react until it jumped out of the tree and ran away with the sparrow in its mouth.
"What happened? Xiaoli, are you okay?" At this time, Pang Xu also rolled over and crawled over.
When he asked what was wrong, he had the same expression as Liu Junhao.
"If this thing is definitely not far away, it's easy to find if there is blood. When Liu Junhao saw the blood in the grass, he had the idea of following it, and let Xiaopi come forward and smell it.
The skin smelled the grass and immediately ran forward. The two girls didn't dare to stay alone at this moment, and followed them in fear.
Less than half a mile after walking, Xiaopi suddenly roared at a tree.
When they looked up, they were stunned. A wild cat that was a little bigger than the small skin was tearing the sparrow.
When the wild cat saw them, he immediately jumped off the branches in panic and rushed towards the depths of the woods.
Pi was about to go up and chase him, but was stopped by Liu Junhao.
"Oh my god, there is such a big wild cat. I just forgot to take a photo. If I take it, I can apply for a Guinness record. Such a big wild cat." Pang Xu patted his 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 talk about."
"Grass Leopard, did you say that was a leopard just now?" The remaining three people were shocked by him.
"Well, who have you ever heard of such a big cat?" In fact, it was the first time that Liu Junhao saw this thing. He only heard the older generation talk about the grass leopards in Daqingshan when talking about ancient times. But he had never seen this thing since I could remember, and he thought it had disappeared long ago. However, he did not expect that the grass leopards that had been extinct in Daqingshan for thirty or forty years have returned. This is really good news.
"Are you sure this is a leopard? Why is it so small? Isn't the leopard very fierce? Why is it so scared that it keeps running away when it sees people?" Zhang Qian asked suddenly in confusion.
"It seems that the grass leopard is so big. My fifth master once said that when he was young, he came up the mountain to chop firewood and encountered three grass leopards besieged. He swung a shoulder pole and killed two of them."
"The leopard is not so inferior, right? That's the one who can kill wild boars. Is your fifth master bragging?" Pang Xu obviously didn't believe it.
"If it was such a leopard, it would be possible." Xu Xiaoli followed behind.
Chapter completed!