Chapter 12: Two Bitter Meals
After the clip was manufactured, Wang Zhe propped it up with his feet, hung up the safety hook, put the pin, and then removed the safety hook and gently touched the splint with a small stick.
With a "bang", the clamp quickly closed, grabbed the stick, and jumped up.
It looks like it is still very successful, and Wang Zhe is very pleased with these achievements.
Clips are not the same as slingshots, the latter is just toys, while the former is a guy for eating.
With a clamp, Wang Zhe can ensure that his little cat-like sister has meat to eat every day.
Although you can make money by selling spicy noodles, your family will not lack the money to buy meat in the future, but that is after all. The current plan to eat meat also depends on the clamp.
The first one was made, and the second one was easier, except for the time-consuming time to hold the spring with a steel bar, the others were very easy, Wang Zhe and Zhang Hu were on the side, and it didn't take long for the second clamp to be.
Seeing that there were still materials left, Hu Zi's father helped him make a few more. Together, there are five.
"Xiao Zhe, can the clamp be as big as a wooden basin?"
Hearing this, Wang Zhe understood what Uncle Zhang meant. After a pause, he said, "Uncle Zhang, it's not good for this kind of clamp to be made too big, do you want to use it to catch wolves?" β
Father Huzi's eyes were burning and he nodded very generously.
"Well, I've designed a trap, and I'll go back and draw the size requirements and drawings on paper, and I'll give it to you tomorrow, and do what it says. This kind of small iron clamp can only be used to catch pheasants and jump, and cannot deal with those wild things that are larger. β
"Okay." Huzi's father patted Wang Zhe on the shoulder and kicked his son's ass lightly. "Let's hang out with your brother Zhe, and remember to come back for dinner before dark."
Wang Zhe took Huzi and took a bunch of old iron bars, and used one of them to string five clips together, and then went back.
"Brother Zhe, this way you can clamp the pheasants, they can't be so stupid, right?"
Wang Zhe was very embarrassed at this time, and he had already begun to imagine the deliciousness of Huangzangyu mushroom chicken and Tujia radish rabbit. said casually: "Haha, don't worry, buddies will be able to eat meat every day in the future." β
"I don't believe it, the clamp is so small, could it be that the pheasants and rabbits have fallen into evil and drilled into it? Even if they are caught, they can still run, where can you find them? β
Zhang Hu really couldn't figure out why the pheasant could fly into the clip and the rabbit would go crazy and put his feet on the splint.
"I don't believe we can make a bet." Wang Zhe is full of confidence.
"Bet on what?" Zhang Hu didn't believe it.
"Let's bet that whoever loses will put a piece of on Sun Da's little stool."
"Okay, that's settled, but you have to promise me one thing. If you lose, and if you do on his little stool, you have to do it secretly and don't be discovered. If he knows afterwards that you did it, you must come to me, I can't let him bully you arbitrarily, let's carry it together. β
Hearing this, Wang Zhe was very moved. What is Brother? That's it!
A person in his twenties with a psychological age gets along with an eleven-year-old child, no matter what, the latter's performance will be a little naΓ―ve in the eyes of the former, but this kind of true affection is precisely the most rare and valuable.
The former makes it easy to see which ones are true and which ones are false.
When Wang Zhe was told by an eleven-year-old child, "I can't let him bully you at will", Wang Zhe decided that he would not let anyone bully him in the future.
This is the brother he Wang Zhe sincerely recognizes, a brother for life.
In the side room, my mother and sister are busy, and some bean tendons have already been made. But the tofu can't be left behind, and at this time, they are soaking beans.
Wang Zhe found a few wooden sticks the thickness of cucumbers in the firewood pile in the side house, and cut off five sections with an iron axe, each of which was slightly longer than chopsticks.
Cut the skin and sharpen it, and then use the scissors strand to carve a shallow groove at the other end. This heat must be mastered, otherwise the head of the wooden stick is easy to break, and the groove of the slingshot is a principle.
It is said to be a groove, but in fact it is only a shallow one, and it can be tied by wire. Without this, the wire tends to slip off the head of the stick when the clamp grips the prey.
Hehe, don't think crooked.
After carving the wooden wedge, Wang Zhe proudly showed off to Huzi and held it in front of him.
"Look, do you know how to use this? Nail a wooden wedge into the soil, with a wooden wedge tied to one end of the cloth rope and a clamp at the other, and that's it, do you still think that the pheasant can run away? β
Zhang Hu stopped talking, scratching his head, he really came up with a loophole, "What about the rabbit?" The rabbit is in a hurry and bites, not to mention this cloth strip, the thin wire may not be able to resist. β
"Well, what do you think this is?"
"Wire bars, oh, such thick wire strips do. But the rabbit is clever, and this kind of wire is clearly placed on the ground, and it definitely can't work. β
Wang Zhe showed him a caring look like he was mentally retarded, which made Huzi uncomfortable.
"Well, don't look at me like that, I can guess what you're going to do, you're going to be buried in the ground. However, it is said that rabbits are particularly clever, and this kind of wire is crooked and difficult to bury. Huzi perseveredly picked thorns, even though he knew that this reason was not very suitable, but he just refused to admit defeat.
Wang Zhe didn't answer, he did it directly, and proved it with facts. In three or two minutes, two chains appeared in the hand.
"I really can't bear to hit you anymore, please don't force me to pretend to be 13 again, see? Braiding the wire into a chain, each individual link does not need to be braided into a broad bean, that would be too much effort, just weave a long chain that is stronger than your calf. β
Zhang Hu covered his face, he shouldn't have understood the meaning of pretending to be 13, he just snorted in annoyance, and he didn't know whether he was annoyed to take the big head or embarrassed to have the upper hand.
"Xiao Zhe, it's time to eat. Huzi, come over and drink some fish soup pads, I'm afraid your family won't have to wait until the evening to start eating. β
Wang Zhe sighed, put down the things at hand, and pulled Huzi to the side room.
The carp in the morning did not survive, and in order to avoid waste, my mother stewed both fish, and there was a rabbit at home.
In these two days, the food at home will be abundant.
Mother and sister may satisfy this abundance, but Wang Zhe will not.
How satisfying is it to eat only two meals a day?
Three meals were forcibly reduced to two, not because they were lazy and didn't want to cook, but for the sake of life.
The Queen Mother would go to the eastern outer city of Chrysanthemum City every day to sell tofu, and when she arrived at the place, she would eat some hard cakes brought from home and drink some tea.
Her son received cultural education at the college, and she had to send lunch money to her son after selling tofu, and when her son came back from vacation, she went home directly. It's already afternoon when I get home, so I'll wait a little longer, start cooking, and eat lunch and dinner together.
For a long time, two meals a day became the norm. Of course, there is one of the most important reasons for this, and that is to save food.