Chapter 288

Actually, there were families who would store some apples in the cellar in the autumn.

However, the apples of this era were not high-yielding, so they would be eaten up quickly if they couldn't store many.

After eating the oranges, Liu Guilan stuffed two apples into Mu Xueqing's pocket, saying that she should eat them when she felt like she had no taste in her mouth.

Mu Xueqing naturally declined, but the whole family, including the two little sisters, all said Mu Xueqing should keep them well.

Mu Xueqing had no choice but to look at Wang An with helpless eyes; Wang An felt it didn't matter.

It was just two apples, and besides, his wife was a pregnant woman, so he signaled with his eyes for Mu Xueqing to keep the apples well.

As for the remaining two, Liu Guilan cut them into orange-segment shapes with a kitchen knife, and everyone in the family tasted them.

One has to say, although this apple didn't grow big, it was truly damn sweet!

Wang An watched his whole family pushing and yielding to each other, eating these few oranges and apples.

He felt that being born into such a family was truly special.

But the shitty thing was that he clearly wasn't short of money, but he damn well couldn't find a place to buy them.

After eating the oranges and apples, Liu Guilan looked at the two stacks of ten-yuan bills on the kang.

The reason there were two stacks was because the 170 had been tucked into Wang An's own pocket.

Liu Guilan naturally counted out 200, and handed all the rest to Mu Xueqing.

While handing over the money, she said: "You're pregnant now, so in the future, I'll just take ten percent of the money Wang An earns from hunting."

Mu Xueqing looked at Wang An and found that Wang An had subtly revealed the index and middle fingers of his left hand.

He made a "V" gesture from later generations, and Mu Xueqing understood instantly.

So Mu Xueqing quickly counted out another 20 ten-yuan bills, and while handing them to her mother-in-law, she said:

"Mom, you only keeping ten percent is too little; it must be at least twenty percent, otherwise I can't take this money."

Liu Guilan had actually noticed her daughter-in-law's actions; it was obvious that her son had instructed her daughter-in-law to do so.

So Liu Guilan turned back and glared at Wang An, then looked at Mu Xueqing, and helplessly put the money away.

In the evening, Wang An made the forest frogs and catfish into dishes.

Of course, with Mu Xueqing pregnant, neither the forest frogs nor the catfish were simply boiled in water.

Because doing so, although it would retain the most primitive taste and be very delicious.

But both the forest frogs and the fish were very fishy.

So, the forest frogs were braised in soy sauce, and the catfish was made into sweet and sour fish.

Delicious things are truly delicious as long as they are cooked well.

The whole family, including Mu Xueqing, liked this simplified version of sweet and sour fish made by Wang An very much.

Most importantly, Mu Xueqing didn't vomit.

Wang An also received praise from his younger sister Wang Xiaoli:

"Big brother, this fish is really delicious, you have to make it often from now on, okay?"

Wang An hurriedly replied with a smile: "Whatever Xiaoli loves to eat, big brother will make."

Wang Xiaoli said with dissatisfaction: "Hmph, stinky big brother, you're copying the way I talk again."

"Hahahaha..." The whole family laughed.

At night, Wang An hugged the bare Mu Xueqing and fell into a deep sleep, sleeping quite soundly.

Not a word all night.

Early the next morning, Wang An continued to use corn kernels to get close to the female deer.

Perhaps because of the little deer's influence, one of the female deer finally ate the corn kernels in Wang An's hand cautiously.

This made Wang An very happy, because he was one step closer to winning the trust of all the deer.

Soon, Mu Xueli and Wang Li arrived driving the sled.

Wang An divided the prepared money among the two, and the two pulled out 3 ten-yuan bills from the stack of money in front of Wang An.

And they put these 3 ten-yuan bills into the 100 yuan meat-selling money that Wang An had given them later.

After putting the money into their pockets, the two finally showed happy smiles.

Wang An took out the slingshots, gave one to each of them, and also gave them quite a few steel balls.

At this time, Mu Xueli carefully examined the slingshot in his hand, and while trying to pull it twice, he said with a smile:

"I've seen valve wire used for slingshots for the first time; this thing is really good, brother-in-law, you're too talented!"

Wang Li also gestured while saying with a smile: "Yeah, it's my first time seeing it too. Aren't we too awesome?"

Wang An ignored their exclamations and said with a smile:

"I've made the slingshots, but you can't always use steel balls for ammo. When you go home tonight, make more mud balls, okay?" "That's a small matter," Mu Xueli said.

"Yeah, Fourth Brother, leave it to us," Wang Li also echoed.

Mu Xueli became more and more fond of the slingshot in his hand and asked with a smile:

"Brother-in-law, are we going to hunt with this thing today?"

Wang An said casually: "Yeah, you two know the situation with hunting with traps; in case we can't find anything, we can't come back empty-handed."

Wang Li looked at the slingshot, clearly loving it very much, and said a bit embarrassedly:

"Such a good slingshot, I'm a bit reluctant to use it, hehe."

Wang An looked at the two speechlessly, paused, and then said: "What good item? Look at your pathetic looks."

Wang An thought for a moment and said: "I learned yesterday that squirrel skin is now 4 yuan a piece, you two decide what to do."

The two were only interested in the slingshot now, so Mu Xueli said: "Brother-in-law, did you only make three slingshots?"

Wang An pointed to the sack on the sled and said: "There are three more in there, and one for each of you."

Upon hearing this, Mu Xueli and Wang Li ran to the sled quickly, took out one slingshot each, and the expressions on their faces became even happier.

Wang An glared at the two and said: "Stop showing off, let's go."

Upon hearing this, the two reluctantly put the slingshots into their pockets and went to tie the sleds into a string.

On the road, the two still wanted to take out the slingshots to show off, but Wang An slapped each of them once, and only then did they behave.

Speeding along, the three arrived at the place where they set traps and snares.

After a busy time, 62 rabbits, 7 pheasants, 16 roe deer, and 8 hazel grouse were thrown onto the sled.

After checking the traps and snares, Wang An found Mu Xueli and Wang Li holding the slingshots with expressions of eagerness to try.

Wang An also lost the desire to find prey in his heart, so he drove the sled and walked deep into the mountain.

Just as they were passing a large pine forest, Wang An stopped the horse.

After feeding the horse fodder, the three started slingshot hunting.

In the pine forest of this era, there were quite a lot of squirrels.

Almost without looking carefully, one could see squirrels jumping back and forth in the trees.

A slingshot is actually used horizontally, just like a box cannon.

In this way, you can use the left or right fork of the slingshot as a sight.

Although this sight is truly not very standard, a slingshot is inherently a very simple weapon.

To hit prey with a slingshot, it actually relies more on feel.

To say it a thousand times, playing with a slingshot is not like firing a gun; whoever teaches it is just talking nonsense.

Because it's impossible to teach; it all depends on one's own realization; it's just a matter of practice makes perfect.

And playing with a slingshot is completely different from playing with a gun.

If you play with a slingshot, you basically learn it at a glance, but wanting to be accurate is another matter.

Therefore, Wang An, who had very awesome marksmanship, and Wang Li, who had abnormal talent for guns.

In terms of slingshot technique, this pair of brothers could be said to be—worthless!

That's right, only these four words can perfectly describe this pair of brothers.

Because after an hour, no one knew how many steel balls had been fired, and no one remembered.

Mu Xueli had already hit 4 squirrels, while Wang An and Wang Li were still struggling with the branches using their slingshots.

Anyway, no matter how the brothers aimed, the steel balls always hit the branches.

Although it was unknown which branch they would hit, one branch would definitely be hit by the two...

The most awesome thing was that the fired steel balls would occasionally bounce back to the two of them.

Finally, Wang An raised a question: "Is there something wrong with my slingshot? Why does it always go off-target?"

Not far away, Wang Li also echoed: "Yeah, this slingshot doesn't walk the straight path."

Then Wang An said: "Xueli, bring your slingshot here, let me see what's going on?"

Mu Xueli, who was looking for a position to fire the slingshot, agreed upon hearing this, walked to Wang An in confusion, and Wang Li also came over upon hearing this.

Seeing Mu Xueli and Wang An exchange slingshots, he took out a steel ball and clamped it on Wang An's slingshot.

He didn't even see how Mu Xueli aimed; anyway, after the steel ball flew out, the squirrel in the tree "squeaked" and fell down.

The squirrel that fell down wasn't dead yet and was still "squeaking" non-stop.

Mu Xueli proved with facts that there was nothing wrong with Wang An's slingshot.

Wang An and Wang Li looked at Mu Xueli's performance and frowned directly; it was truly a slap in the face!

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