Break out of the courtyard

"Grandpa, are we going the wrong way?"

Zhang Heping stood on the top of the mountain, looking at the flat valley below the mountain, a winding dry river ditch, and a winding dirt road leading to... It must be the direction of the county!

He felt like he was being tricked by his grandfather!

"That's right!" Grandpa Ma Changming raised the corner of his mouth. You brat doesn't know martial arts, but he dares to touch your grandpa's veins. He thinks that grandpa has never seen the world. See how I deal with you. He smiled and said: "The mountain road is closer!"

"Are you sure?" Zhang Heping pointed to a horse-drawn cart running happily on the dirt road, "Are you afraid of the distance if you have a car?"

Ma Changming carried two gray rabbits that were still kicking and strode down the mountain. He said with a smile: "Don't you think the mountains are fun! How can you catch rabbits in a car?"

Zhang Heping carried the white cloth bag and followed weakly, "But we can't go so far! It's already past lunch and I'm so hungry..."

"Don't you still have steamed buns?"

"You said that my cousin likes to eat, so you can't leave some for them..."

……

"Dad, why did you bring this bastard back? Can the second sister agree? Doesn't this kid go to school? How is my brother-in-law? Eh? Why are there so many gifts..."

Ma Changming was annoyed by a bunch of questions from his eldest son Ma Zhiyi, and kicked him over, "Ask, ask! I know how to ask this and that in just one day. I don't have any sharp eyesight. Didn't you see that we came back from the mountain road? Why not?" Go get some food quickly!"

Zhang Heping sat under the thatched eaves, leaning against the mud wall beside the door. He weakly said to a few children around him who were looking at him strangely: "There are steamed buns in the bag. Share it among yourselves..."

By the time Zhang Heping drank a bowl of corn mush and ate two roasted sweet potatoes, he had already gotten to know these cousins. Among them were four of his uncle's children, as well as his great-uncle's and their grandchildren. Anyway, they were all named Ma.

After building a good relationship through steamed bun diplomacy, a group of brats invited Zhang Heping to play hide-and-seek!

Zhang Heping naturally couldn't let them get what they wanted, but he came with a purpose.

"Cousin, let's take you to catch butterflies!" 14-year-old cousin Ma Yongsheng was entrusted with the important task of taking care of his cousin Zhang Heping.

Zhang Heping shook his head and refused, thinking about what he had just seen on the mountain. There were only more than 20 thatched mud houses in this village. He decided to make a quick decision and implement hunting equipment as soon as possible. "I heard from my grandpa that someone in the village was injured. I want to go take a look." .”

"What are they doing?" Cousin Ma Yongsheng said, pointing to a house not far away, "Uncle Twelve is lame, do you want to watch?"

Ma Yongsheng thought Zhang Heping wanted to see something strange, so he pointed at the lame man.

As a result, Zhang Heping wanted to treat people.

"Uncle Twelve, for your foot, just hold your right leg with both hands and push it forward, and then lift it down like you are holding something. Repeat this dozens of times every day. If you insist on doing it for two or three months, you will stop lame. "

"Oh...you're welcome! You're welcome! I really need to thank you. Lend me the bow and arrow on the wall for two days."

Later, Zhang Heping went to six other households. The most serious case was a young man who, except for his yellow face, walked normally.

However, his internal organs were injured, he had severe abdominal fluid accumulation, and his belly was swollen.

His family thought that he had gained weight due to recent recuperation, but when Zhang Heping told him, the whole family hesitated, wondering whether they should believe what Zhang Heping said.

Some of the villagers watching the excitement said dissatisfiedly: "Hey! From the Liu family! This kid won't take your money. Are you afraid that he will lie to you?"

Zhang Heping, who was regarded by everyone as not accepting money, was standing in the middle of Ma Laoliu's house looking around with several little kids holding shotguns, bows and arrows, Japanese pirate shovels, animal traps and other items.

"Sanwazi!" Uncle Ma Zhiyi came over, looked at the hunting tools held by a group of children, frowned and asked: "How do you think this injury of your uncle Liu Liu should be treated?"

Zhang Heping looked at this uncle and felt that he seemed to have a problem with him.

However, he had a good harvest today, so he was too generous to be as knowledgeable as him. He pointed at the tall and thin guy who still had his shirt open and exposed his big belly, and said:

"It's best to send him to the hospital today, perform an operation to release the accumulated water inside, and then take medicine to recuperate his body."

Zhang Heping didn't have silver needles to regulate his internal organs, and he didn't want to give him time-consuming massages, so he simply sent it to the hospital. The family didn't believe him anyway.

After Zhang Heping finished speaking, he took the people to the foot of the mountain to play.

Lift the gun and aim, draw the bow and nock an arrow. The skills activated for Zhang Heping are:

Target: Beginner (12%).

After he fired a shot and shot an arrow, the activated skills were:

Shooting: Getting Started (2%).

This aiming skill is easy to hang up, just draw the bow and nock an arrow without shooting.

Just this shooting skill...

When reaching the proficiency level, Zhang Heping can also raise the bow and shoot far to increase the flight time of the bow and arrow, thereby achieving the 7 seconds required to hang up.

But at the mastery level, you need to shoot for 49 seconds to increase your proficiency by 1%.

Mastery (1%) cannot be improved, so I can only go back and find shooting books to learn how to hang up.

At dinner time, Zhang Heping and a group of little guys returned to his grandfather's house. After leaving the hunting equipment under the eaves, most of the little guys went back to eat.

When his grandfather Ma Changming saw Zhang Heping handling three birds, he couldn't help but shook his head and reminded: "Sanwazi, don't hunt birds tomorrow. It's not a good time to hunt birds in spring."

"Okay!" Zhang Heping didn't ask why. Today he just had itchy hands and shot a few arrows. Tomorrow he would go out into the mountains alone to dig holes and make big deals!

Dinner was boiled sweet potatoes and wild vegetables, which made Zhang Heping a little stunned.

Seeing this, my grandfather explained: "It is not advisable to go hunting in the mountains in spring. We have to wait until those little cubs in the mountains grow up."

"Oh!" Zhang Heping finally understood. Hunting is prohibited during the breeding period of animals and they must rest and recuperate.

It's a bit difficult now. Do you want to go to the mountains tomorrow?

After the meal, my aunt saw that Zhang Heping's green military uniform had several cuts, so she asked Zhang Heping to take it off and let her and her eldest cousin Ma Lili mend it.

Zhang Heping wore his cousin Ma Yongli's loose black linen cropped trousers and stood outside the door, aiming his bow and arrow at the crescent moon in the west, in the direction of the mountains.

After dark, Zhang Heping returned to the room where the oil lamp was lit. He saw his cousin Ma Yongsheng and his cousin Ma Yongli rushing to try on his green military uniform. He couldn't help but take off his white shirt and threw it away.

"Put them all on and try them on. Whichever of you two suits you best, give it to the one you wear."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Heping picked up his cousin Ma Yongli's patched white coat, shook it out, and put it on himself... with three-quarter sleeves and a navel-baring top.

Looking at the green rubber shoes on my feet and the tattered straw sandals worn by my cousins, I couldn't help but shake my head secretly and forget about the tattered straw sandals.

The fight in the room ended quickly. The 14-year-old cousin Ma Yongsheng wore Zhang Heping’s green military uniform and it fit perfectly. His cousin Ma Yongli, who was the same age as Zhang Heping, lost.

When her eldest aunt Liu Ting saw that her grandfather Ma Changming did not stop her from changing clothes, she silently put away her needlework.

Zhang Heping patted his cousin Ma Yongli on the shoulder and comforted him: "When your brother grows taller next year, he won't be able to wear this outfit. Aren't you the one who will wear it then?"

After these words, although his cousin Ma Yongli was still a little unhappy, he accepted the reality.

On the other hand, cousin Ma Yongsheng focused on the green rubber shoes on Zhang Heping's feet.

Zhang Heping smiled and said: "I don't wear bad straw sandals. If you want to wear my rubber shoes, you have to find me a new pair of straw sandals and they have to fit my feet."

"Wait!" Cousin Ma Yongsheng ran out excitedly, quickly came in with a bundle of dry straw, and asked Zhang Heping to sit on the kang.

Then, I saw this cousin taking off Zhang Heping’s rubber shoes. He didn’t mind Zhang Heping’s foot odor, so he held a straw and pointed it at Zhang Heping’s feet, and knitted straw sandals on the spot.

Zhang Heping found it interesting, so he took a few straws and started to learn to weave...

Braiding: Mastery (33%).

Finally, Zhang Heping knitted a pair of flip-flops and thick-soled straw sandals by himself, and paired them with his cropped trousers and cropped midriff-baring top, which was quite interesting.

I didn't wait for my uncle Ma Zhiyi to come back in the evening. I heard that he had sent the sixth uncle to the hospital.

As a result, the uncle came back early the next morning and asked Zhang Heping to go back to the capital, and took out the telegram sent by Comrade Ma Xiuzhen: Tell Zhang Xiaosan to go back to school!

Such a long telegram showed that Ma Xiuzhen was extremely angry!

How could Zhang Heping be willing to go back without even getting the hunting equipment?

Then, Zhang Heping ran out suddenly. A group of adults in Majiatun chased Zhang Heping around, but they just couldn't catch the kid.

At noon, uncle Ma Zhiyi had to stop and negotiate terms with Zhang Heping.

Shotgun...impossible! Absolutely impossible! What should you do if you hurt someone?

Bows and arrows... arrows don't work! For the bow, you can use your cousin's strength training bow.

After some haggling, Zhang Heping asked for a skinning knife with a wooden handle and a wooden sheath.

Then, he carried a small bamboo basket and packed 6 roasted sweet potatoes, a bamboo tube of boiling water, a sharp peeling knife, a family heirloom splitting knife, a letter of introduction, a few dimes, and With a long bow as tall as him in his hand, his uncle put him on a mule and horse cart.

I waved goodbye to my grandpa with a smile on his face, my cousin in a green military uniform, and my unknown little cousin who fell in love with a glass jar...