Chapter 11: Eliminate the Four Pests(1/2)
"Sister, when will you come back to see us?"
He Jiawen asked reluctantly while helping He Jiali pack her clothes.
"Let's see if you can come back during the Chinese New Year. Anyway, this year's family leave has been used up." He Jiali said and gave He Jiawen a hug.
"When I'm not at home, I'll rely on you at home. If the third and fourth brothers are disobedient, you will teach you a lesson. If they dare to disobey, wait for me to come back to deal with them."
"Um."
He Changsheng stood outside the door and waited for the two sisters to finish their words before coming in.
"Okay, let's go late and I can't catch the bus."
The family sent He Jiali to the entrance of the alley, while He Changsheng and He Jiawen were all the way to the passenger station.
"Jiali, if you hold on in the countryside, I'm already entrusting my relationship and will get you back to the city as soon as possible."
He Changsheng said with red eyes before getting on the car.
"Dad, Feixi is not that bad, so don't worry."
As He Jiali's tears fell, the car also swayed and spitted black smoke away.
Seeing his daughter's figure gradually fading away, He Changsheng could no longer suppress his tears.
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Spring is coming and summer solstice. In a blink of an eye, Qin Hao and He Jiawen's high school career also ushered in the summer vacation. This is also the most relaxing high school summer vacation that Qin Hao has ever experienced, and he has no summer homework at all.
After Qin Hao's tutoring, He Jiawen also traveled from his original class to become a top student in the school. What made He Changsheng say is a pity that after so many years, there is still no news of the college entrance examination resuming.
Many students in the school have given up studying and are waiting for their homes to arrange work.
"Brother Hao, are you making a slingshot?" He Jiayi asked curiously.
"Um."
Qin Hao responded casually, and his hands did not stop. He carved two grooves on the dry elm tree branch that had been dried before with a knife, and then tied the discarded medical infusion tube to both ends of the tree branch. Although it was discarded, it was not easy to make. He used two kilograms of grain coupons to exchange a few from Lao Jiang at the waste purchase station.
Carefully proofread the length of both ends of the rubber band. If this thing is not proofreaded well, the ballistic will go off.
After tied it up, Qin Hao pulled it off and tried it. It was pretty good. He picked up a small stone from the ground and tried it to the leaves of a big tree in the yard.
"Bang!"
He Jiahuan was very excited: "Oh, the slingshot is ready, you can kill birds and eat it."
"We know how to eat every day. We are responding to the call and eliminating the four evils."
Qin Hao tapped He Jiahuan's head and said seriously.
Flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows are all pests in this era. Schools encourage children to kill them, and more they will be rewarded.
Qin Hao remembers that in the "blood-romantic" world, when there were famines, some people went to dig mouse holes. Digging a few more mouse holes would be enough for a family of four to eat a month.
Compared with the other three harms, sparrows are somewhat unfair. Compared with the crops it eliminates pest-protected, the little food it eats is not worth mentioning at all.
He was even arrested and killed for being included in the "Four Pests" and became an endangered second-level protected animal.
"Let's go, I'm tired of eating fish, try what the bird meat tastes like."
"Oh, there's some bird meat to eat."
He Jiayi and He Jia were so happy that they smiled. He Jiawen shook his head. These two greedy girls used to be happy for several days if they could have a mouthful of fish soup, but now they are so good that they are tired of even eating fish.
"Don't spoil them too much, and make them messy. My parents got angry yesterday." He Jiawen said softly to Qin Hao.
Qin Hao smiled: "Who told you to steal food and get caught in the bag?"
"Second sister, what are you talking to Brother Hao?"
"No, nothing."
"Let's go, it's dark in a while."
Under He Jiahuan's urging, Qin Hao and his four men left the yard. As soon as they reached the entrance of the alley, they met Liu's son Zhang Qiulin.
"What are you doing, He Jiahuan?"
"We remove the four pests and fight sparrows."
"Can you bring me?"
He Jiahuan hesitated for a moment and turned to look at Qin Hao.
"I'll keep up with you, and I'll leave you behind and get lost."
Qin Hao has no good feelings for Zhang Qiulin. After this guy came back from abroad, he was definitely a man's green tea. He also looked like he was pursuing He Jiahuan. As soon as his ex-wife came back, the two of them reunited again. Isn't this just riding a horse and looking for a donkey to treat He Jiahuan as a spare tire?
The group came to the farmlands in the suburbs. Golden wheat waves drifted with the wind. In the rolling golden ocean, the wheat ears rubbed each other and made rustling whispers, and the scarecrow also swayed gently with the breeze.
Groups of sparrows were busy flying in the air, and occasionally turtle doves were passing by the fields, making a "cuckoo" sound.
"Hey, what are you doing little kids?"
The old man who was farming in the fields called Qin Hao and his party.
"Uncle, the school calls on us to help farmers eliminate the four evils during the summer vacation. We are here to fight sparrows." He Jiayi's mouth is the sweetest, and he whispers to the old man, which makes the old man confused.
"So, then you guys are careful. The rice is about to mature, so don't break it."
"Don't worry, uncle, let's ask them to pick them up. They are small and will not break the rice."
He Jiahuan was very dissatisfied with the work that He Jiayi imposed on him, but Zhang Qiulin, the silly boy, happily agreed.
He Jiahuan was so angry that he glared at him fiercely.
"Then what are you doing?"
"My second sister and I are responsible for picking up stones and replenishing ammunition for Brother Hao." He Jiayi said with confidence.
Now He Jiahuan has nothing to say and can only accept this task dejectedly.
Qin Hao found a place close to the ridge of the field and squatted down, pulled out his slingshot and aimed at several sparrows flying in the air.
"Ba~~~"
A sparrow suddenly fell down like a kite with a broken string, followed by another one.
"Wow, Brother Hao is so awesome."
"Haha, don't be afraid of not being full now."
With the food in mind, He Jiahuan also forgot the work that He Jiayi imposed on her, and plunged into the rice fields and trotted all the way towards the sparrow falling. Only then did Zhang Qiulin react and quickly followed.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The old man from Tianbian also gave Qin Hao a thumbs up: "Young man is playing with slingshots well."
"Just play."
Qin Hao responded casually, but his hands did not stop. Two sparrows fell from mid-air. For a moment, the sparrows in the entire wheat field were flew up and flew further away.
"These sparrows are quite smart."
He Jiayi handed Qin Hao a handful of pebbles.
"Change the place, the range of the slingshot here is no longer enough."
An hour later, He Jiahuan and Zhang Qiulin crawled out of the rice fields with sweat. The two were exhausted, with more than twenty sparrows and two turtledoes on the ground.
"Okay, let's find a place to roast sparrows. If we beat too much, we can't finish it."
As soon as he finished speaking, He Jiahuan immediately breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't run anymore. If it weren't for the delicious portion, she would have quit.
"There's the work done now? There are still many sparrows." The old man was still reluctant to let Qin Hao go.
"Uncle, we will come back next time. If we don't go back, our family will be anxious." He Jiayi waved to the uncle.
"I'm in a hurry to roast the sparrow."
"hey-hey."
He Jiayi, who was discovered, stuck out his tongue awkwardly.
The group came to the riverside. Qin Hao and He Jiawen started cooking sparrows. Because there was no boiling water, it was not easy to remove hair. They could only peel off the skin and there was no meat on their heads. They cut it off and string it together with branches.
There, He Jiayi and He Jiahuan had already made a fire, and Zhang Qiulin went to the forest to pick up firewood.
The seasonings are also very simple, with only salt and soy sauce. He Jiawen dug a few handfuls of wild onions in the field, marinated them briefly, and then started to roast them on the fire.
"If the sparrow is too small and the fire is too strong, it will be baked in a while."
After more than ten minutes, a strong fragrance spread on the fire. The saliva of the two little greedy cats, He Jiayi and He Jiahuan, was almost flowing down. When they turned around, they saw that Zhang Qiulin was in a similar situation.
"Brother Hao, can you eat it?"
Qin Hao broke a sparrow leg open and looked at it without bloodshot: "Well, it's cooked, it's ready to eat."
He Jiayi and He Jiahuan immediately started a sparrow battle, fearing that they would suffer if they were slow to do so, but they all had their hands and mouths burned.
"Give it." Qin Hao took down a sparrow and handed it to He Jiawen.
"Thanks."
“How is it?”
To be continued...