Sheng Xiping took his two younger brothers and dug four or five more gastrodia elata. This season's gastrodia elata harvest was over.
Then you have to wait until the beginning of autumn and next spring to dig for germination.
However, birth is a matter of luck. If you meet someone, you may be in love, but if you don't, you may not open your eyes for a whole day.
In mid-to-late July, the second crop of young forest tending begins.
Sheng Xiping was going to take the people from the educated youth team to work where they had shoveled saplings before.
Having had no rest the past few days, Zhou Qinglan asked for leave from Lao Hu and went back to Songjianghe to visit her parents and stayed at home for a few days.
In addition to Zhou Qinglan, many other educated youths from Songjianghe also took leave to go back.
Lao Hu is a good person, and he never has trouble with these educated youths.
They are all young people under twenty. They have been away from home for several months. How can they miss their parents?
After a few days of vacation, Lao Hu wouldn't offend so many people.
After Zhou Qinglan came back from Songjianghe, she brought a gauze scarf to Zhang Shuzhen and delicious snacks and candies to sisters Sheng Yunfei and Sheng Xitai.
In the evening, Zhang Shuzhen stayed with Zhou Qinglan for a meal at Sheng's house. The whole family was enjoying themselves and it was quite lively.
Sun Yunpeng and Du Jiabin also returned to Songjianghe.
They had previously threatened to go back and get two guns, and then they would also go hunting in the mountains.
Not to mention, these people are really good at it. They have a double-barreled shotgun and an air rifle.
The recoil of the double-barreled shotgun was quite strong. Sun Yunpeng and the others still couldn't figure it out for a while, so they didn't dare to take it out and shoot it.
As for the air gun, Du Jiabin, Sun Yunpeng and others took turns playing with it, shooting birds and so on.
The marksmanship of these people is so mediocre that sometimes they can't even hit a sparrow.
They got excited, and they held the air rifle and competed with each other all day long. Even when they went to work in the mountains, Du Jiabin also brought the gun with him.
From getting off the train to Linban's work site, we have to walk through a large forest.
Now Du Jiabin and the others were caught. No matter when they went in in the morning or came out in the evening, they shot into the forest with their guns, causing the birds in the forest to fly in all directions.
Occasionally, you can also catch a chickadee, jay, or a small squirrel.
As long as they gain something, they will show off Du Jiabin and the others' beauty to Sheng Xiping and others.
Sheng Xiping never paid attention to this.
Especially the marksmanship of that group of people, in Sheng Xiping's eyes, was simply disgusting.
If you can hit something, it's just like a blind cat meeting a dead mouse. What's the point of showing off?
Sheng Xiping is not envious, which does not mean that others are not envious either.
Being disturbed by Sun Yunpeng and others, Gao Haining, Wang Jianshe and others all wanted to get a gun for fun.
In fact, when they were studying, they all made their own firecrackers.
I don’t know who found the pattern of the tortoise box, traced it on the wooden board, carefully carved it into the shape of the tortoise box, and then drilled holes and a series of other operations.
After that, the prepared thin steel pipe, spring-loaded firing pin, trigger, etc. are installed and fixed on it, and a simple fire gun is ready.
If you want to make it more realistic, you can also apply some black paint to make it look like the real thing.
The gunpowder is loaded with gunpowder and iron sand from the front, and a paper cannon is installed at the back, so that it can start with a burst of fire.
At that time, having a firecracker was a great thing among classmates.
I don't know how many boys were milling around, looking eagerly and wanting to try it out.
In fact, this thing is quite dangerous.
There was a student from Shuguang who was playing with a firecracker to kill birds.
As a result, one of the birds did not catch the gunpowder, but accidentally misfired while loading the gunpowder. In fact, one of his own eggs was broken, and he went to Songjianghe Hospital to remove it.
Because of this incident, various forest farms held meetings, and if any children at home had firecrackers, their parents had them confiscated.
At that time, Sheng Xiping was already hunting with Liu Changde. If he could handle a real gun, who would care about a fake one?
On the other hand, the firecrackers of Gao Haining and others were finally thrown into the pit and burned by their parents.
A firegun is just a gadget, how can it be compared with a gun?
Even if you don’t have a serious shotgun, wouldn’t it be great if you could get an air rifle and shoot birds, squirrels, etc.?
"Xiping, do you know where to get the stuff they have? I also want to make one for fun."
While working, Wang Jianshe came over and asked Sheng Xiping.
"What do you want with that thing? You may not even be able to kill a bird if you hit it, most of them will just knock it out."
In Sheng Xiping's eyes, the air gun was just a fire stick, useless.
Sheng Xiping dared to say that if he used his slingshot well, it would be better than the air gun.
"Isn't that greedy? It's hard to handle a shotgun, but you can also play with an air gun." Wang Jianshe scratched his head and chuckled.
There are actually a lot of shotguns, and many people in the big alkaline farm next door have guns.
There are single-barreled hunters, double-barreled hunters, five- and six-half-barrel hunters, and even the old-fashioned cannons and water-linked beads.
But they are all passed down from home, and they have to be kept for hunting, so they are not easily sold for takeout.
For another example, the security section of the forest farm and the militia platoon of the large alkali farm all have guns.
But it belongs to the public, not to individuals. Unless you have a particularly strong relationship, you can't take it out.
Now at this time, some stores are also selling shotguns.
However, it needs to be registered with the relevant departments, and the price is not low, so ordinary people cannot afford it.
Sheng Xiping has a No. 16 hanging pipe, which was given to him by Liu Changde, and is hung on the wall of the west room.
Sheng Xiping cherishes it very much and takes it out to wipe and maintain it every now and then.
"You're free, you're taking advantage of me, spending money to buy that thing?" Sheng Xiping rolled his eyes.
This man, from the time he was eighty to eight years old, seemed to have a special liking for guns.
"Hurry up and get to work. Don't think about the things you have or don't have. If my uncle and my aunt find out, they will scold you to death."
Even though it is an air gun, the price is not low. Spending money to buy a toy is purely for hunting in the eyes of the older generation.
Wang Jianshe was just greedy and looking for someone to satisfy his craving.
The conditions of his family are not good either. The elder brother has not yet married, and he has several younger brothers and sisters.
His father and brother are both ordinary workers, and their wages are not that high. Life at home is pretty tight.
If he were really asked to spend money to buy an air rifle, he would be willing to do so, but his parents and brother wouldn't let him do it either.
Just like that, everyone went back to shoveling the saplings, and no one mentioned the air rifle.
On the way back from work in the evening, Sun Yunpeng and others did not take a good walk, but went into the forest to cause trouble, aiming at trees from time to time.
Several tree chickens were startled, flapping their wings and flying in all directions.
Sun Yunpeng was holding a gun, so he aimed the gun at the flying tree chicken and fired directly.
Unfortunately, there was no hunting at all, and the tree chicken flew away under their noses.
"It's really grandma's bad luck, but she didn't catch it."
Seeing the tree chicken fly away, Sun Yunpeng couldn't help but cursed in a low voice.
Sheng Xiping and the others were watching not far away. Seeing this, Sheng Xiping called out to Wang Jianshe and others, and nuzzled in the direction of Sun Yunpeng and the others.
"I just said that thing is useless, right?"
When Gao Haining, Wang Jianshe and others heard this, they all burst into laughter.
"The key is that if people are not good enough, no matter how good the gun is, it will be useless." Wang Jianshe said with a smile.