Chapter 437 You have some luck
"Uncle Shuqing, that is a wild beast, not a demon beast."

"It's only a small thing of 10 to 20 pounds. Even if you don't hit it, it will be scared away. It won't come out to fight you."

Chen Hui joked with Huang Shuqing and then tried to pull the slingshot.

Easy to use!

It looks quite thick, and it takes much less effort to pull it than the one I use for practice.

"Did you buy this? Judging from the feel and materials, it doesn't look like you made it yourself." Chen Hui asked.

"I bought this slingshot specially, and the stones were picked up by the child's father when he was free at the riverside."

"It's very useful. My husband has used it to hunt rabbits and pheasants." Jiang Xiaohua said.

Chen Hui took out the stone and put it in his trouser pocket.

Take one out and hold it in your hand, walk to the other side and go around to a higher position.

Wild animals have more acute perceptions than humans.

If I go straight ahead, they'll run away before I even get close.

It is easier to see the prey by going around to the back and looking down from a high position.

If it is really discovered, it will run forward even if it runs.

In addition to Jiang Xiaohua's house, there is also the vegetable garden she has created and the place where she grows flowers and plants.

The view is much wider than in the woods and it is easier to operate.

After learning how to use a gun from Chen Guobiao for such a long time, Chen Hui's shooting skills still rely mainly on luck, but his skills in using a slingshot have improved a lot.

As long as the prey runs forward, Chen Hui is confident that he can hit it.

Huang Shuqing and Jiang Xiaohua stood on the stone steps at the door and stretched their necks to look over here.

Seeing that Chen Hui had just walked up a distance, he changed his original route.

Instead of continuing to go up, he bent over, lowered his steps, and walked straight for a distance carefully.

Put the stone on the slingshot, pull the slingshot to the full extent and aim it forward.

"Xiaohua, did you see anything?"

Huang Shuqing narrowed his eyes and stared ahead but saw nothing.

"No, they are all blocked."

"Brother Shuqing, your friend is amazing. The way he moves seems like he knows where his prey is."

Jiang Xiaohua said in a low voice.

"Ah."

Huang Shuqing nodded.

The slingshot in Chen Hui's hand loosened, and he quickly ran forward a few steps and pounced directly on the ground.

"Did you catch him?" Jiang Xiaohua asked excitedly.

"Chen Hui! Did you catch him?" Huang Shuqing cupped his hands into a trumpet and shouted loudly to the front.

"Brother Shuqing, you'll scare the prey away by making such a loud noise." Jiang Xiaohua was very anxious.

"With the noise he made, if we didn't catch him, he would have been scared away by himself."

As soon as Huang Shuqing finished speaking, Chen Hui stood out from the bushes.

He raised his arm high, holding something black and white in his hand, and it was hard to tell what it was.

"Wow! We caught him! That's awesome!" Jiang Xiaohua couldn't help but applaud.

"This young man has pretty good skills," Huang Shuqing also said.

Chen Hui shuttled through the bushes, jumped over a few steps of the vegetable garden, and trotted back to the door of Jiang Xiaohua's house.

He handed her the slingshot and said, "Thank you very much."

"That's it. It looks pretty cute."

Jiang Xiaohua took the slingshot and curiously studied the prey in Chen Hui's hand.

It was neither too big nor too small, and looked quite special, and she had never seen it before.

"This is a badger. I've seen it in a book."

"The illustrations in the book are quite large, but I didn't expect it to be so small." Huang Shuqing said.

"Uncle Shuqing is different. He knows everything."

"This one weighs more than 20 kilograms. It's not small among badgers." Chen Hui said as he weighed the prey in his hand.

"Chen Hui, how did you fight just now?"

"Just a slingshot killed it? No way?" Jiang Xiaohua observed the prey and didn't see any other wounds on its body. "It's not that lethal. The slingshot just knocked it unconscious."

"After I knocked it unconscious, I hit it with my fists. I wanted to use a stone, but the fur of this creature is quite valuable, and I was afraid of breaking its fur with a stone."

Chen Hui raised his hand and explained.

Although his fingers are slender, his fist is not small at all when he makes a clenched fist.

The joints are distinct and it looks very powerful.

Jiang Xiaohua thought Chen Hui was a few years younger than her.

Not only is he proficient in hunting, he can recognize animals that he doesn't know and he knows exactly how to handle prey.

I couldn't help but ask, "Are you a hunter? Or do the adults in your family hunt?"

"I am a fisherman, and the adults in my family are also fishermen." Chen Hui said with a smile.

"Huh? Fishermen?!"

Jiang Xiaohua was very surprised.

I look at the young man in front of me with new eyes.

"Comrade Xiaohua, do you have a knife to lend me? I need to deal with this prey first." Chen Hui asked.

"Yes, I'll get it for you."

"Just call me Xiaohua. It sounds so serious to call me comrade."

Jiang Xiaohua said with a smile and handed Chen Hui a knife and scissors.

He found a few more wooden strips, tied them up with ropes, and used them to support the animal hide.

"Thank you!"

"You raise angora rabbits and you should cut their fur and sell it. How do you know the skin needs to be supported?"

Chen Hui took the tools and started chatting casually.

"I heard about this from the comrades from the Animal Husbandry Station when they came to give us guidance."

"Later, when we caught some wild rabbits, we took their fur to the county town to sell," said Jiang Xiaohua.

Huang Shuqing reached out and touched the badger fur. "Chen Hui, how much can this fur sell for?"

"I don't know about that. The purchasing station has its own valuation model."

"But every time I took it to them, they offered me a good price. The highest price they offered me was thirty-one pieces."

As Chen Hui spoke, he first peeled off the badger's fur, processed it simply, and then tied it to a wooden rack and stretched it out.

"Thirty? That high?"

"Xiu Lian is right. You are very lucky."

"Look, you came here to spend money today, but you made money before you even entered the door." Huang Shuqing couldn't help but sigh.

Chen Hui smiled.

He lowered his head and continued to deal with the prey in his hand.

The badger that was in the jungle just now, eyeing the fruits and vegetables grown by Jiang Xiaohua.

In less than two hours, it was just a piece of fur and a bag of meat.

After processing the prey, the three began to study what flowers and plants to buy.

Behind Jiang Xiaohua's house, there is a row of more than a dozen osmanthus trees planted.

Chen Hui bought all the osmanthus saplings and planted them in the backyard near the mountain.

September and October are the flowering seasons of osmanthus.

Open the row of windows at the back and the mountain breeze fills the room with the fragrance of flowers.

"Chen Hui, there's no need to buy so much, right?"

"Don't be fooled by the fact that they are not big now. They will become big trees in a few years," Huang Shuqing advised.

"What are you afraid of? There's a whole hill behind my house."

"When they grow up, we will transplant them to the mountains. When the summer evening breeze blows, when we watch the sunset at home, the air will be filled with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers."

Chen Hui imagined that this kind of life was what he had always wanted.

Huang Shuqing thought about what he said and gave Jiang Xiaohua a chance to get some more osmanthus seedlings.

When the time comes, he will also plant it back in his old house in the village.

(End of this chapter)