Chapter 7 Hunting in the Ravine Who Visited
Lin Xu is very familiar with Huang Zongwen and Huang Rong's father and daughter, and the father and daughter are also very familiar with Lin Xu, but they are not familiar with Guan Wentao. With Guan Wentao as an unfamiliar person, it is inconvenient to say more between the three of them. And Guan Wentao is here, because of Huang Zongwen's relationship, he has always been a little cramped and uneasy.
Lin Xu could see Guan Wentao's situation, and for the sake of this friend, he didn't stay at Huang Zongwen's house for long, but just sat for a while, and then left with Guan Wentao's farewell.
Their original arrangements and plans were disrupted by Huang Rong, and after leaving Taoyuan, it was not good to continue to jump over the wall and enter the school to play. After all, Huang Zongwen is also a teacher at school, although Lin Xu won't care, but Guan Wentao doesn't have the courage to climb the school wall under Huang Zongwen's nose. Even if it was the holiday period and the school hadn't started, he didn't dare to climb over the wall in front of the teacher, not to mention that he was already a little afraid of Huang Zongwen.
couldn't go into school to play anymore, and after the two left Taoyuan, they drove away. However, it was still early at this time, it was only nine o'clock in the morning, and it was not yet ten o'clock, but Lin Xu did not want to go back so early. So after discussing with Guan Wentao, the two turned halfway to a nearby wasteland ravine to play.
The ravine is far from the nearby villages, and no one has cultivated the land here, so it is not very popular, and it is rarely visited. The ditch is littered with rocks and overgrown with weeds. Because there are few people, there are many wild animals such as pheasants and hares living here. There are even rumors in several nearby villages that there is a wolf hiding in this ravine. When the adults in the village are scared of children, they often say things like "disobedient children will be taken away by this wolf".
Lin Xu and Guan Wentao had heard a lot of such words when they were children, but it turned out that there were no wolves here at all, not even a slightly older ferocious carnivore. This is a rumor in the nearby villages, but adults deliberately make it up to intimidate children into obedience. The education of the villagers is that when the children are disobedient and have a temper, they often do not try to persuade patiently, but use some terrible things to intimidate, or simply beat and scold.
Lin Xu's parents did not have this kind of backward educational thinking, after all, his father Lin Lang had received a good modern education, and his high school education was still quite high in the countryside in this era. Although Lin's mother only has a primary school education, she is influenced by his father and does not have this backward thinking. The kind of threatening words that Lin Xu heard when he was a child were mostly said by his grandparents and other elders. There are tigers in the West Mountain, bears in the South Mountain, etc., all of which specialize in eating disobedient children.
Lin Xu was sure that there were absolutely no wolves and other ferocious carnivores in this wild ravine, because he had been here many times and personally confirmed it. He needs some experimental subjects such as birds and beasts to practice martial arts, in order to test the techniques and power of certain martial arts, and when he practices marksmanship, hidden weapons and other shooting targets, he will often come here to practice capture. Within a radius of 100 miles, there are many wild beasts here.
Not only has Lin Xu been to this ravine many times, but Guan Wentao has also been here a few times a few times. When the children in the village grow up, they don't believe the intimidating words of the adults when they were young, but because of the words they heard a lot when they were young, they will be curious about this place. Therefore, either for verification or to train their courage, many children will come to this ravine to explore and explore when they grow up to see if there are really wolves. And after coming, they all punctured the intimidating words they had heard when they were children, and their strength proved that they were all nonsense made up by adults, and there were no wolves here, not even a wolf hair. If you have a little bit of a relationship with a wolf, that is, there is a weasel. But that's a ferocious animal, it's just a fart.
However, although the older children pierced the intimidating words they had heard when they were children, the old people in the village continued to scare the younger children with such words. However, the times are advancing, especially after entering the modern society, the progress is very fast, and there are often great changes in three to five years, so all kinds of new ideas and concepts are also swept up in the rural areas. Now the younger generation who have grown up in the villages will no longer choose to use such words to intimidate children, and they believe in the scientific concept of education.
Just like in the past, when children were born in the village, they were basically in their own homes, and then an experienced midwife was invited to deliver the baby. But now when children are born in the village, they will choose to go to the township health center, or even to the county hospital. Go to a professional obstetrician so that the birth rate and survival rate of the child are more guaranteed.
Because it is a wasteland ravine, few people usually come, naturally there is no serious road, and Lin Xu's car can't drive in, so he stopped far away and walked over with Guan Wentao.
The two played in the ravine for more than an hour, and did not leave until eleven o'clock. There is nothing unusual about playing, that is, wandering around in the ravine, looking for seclusion, sometimes encountering pheasants and hares, looking for some small stones to play.
In the past, the two of them hunted like a joke, and naturally they didn't gain much. Even with a slingshot sometimes, it's hard to get it right. As for the stones thrown by hand, even if they are occasionally lucky, they are not strong enough to cause any damage to the prey.
But now it's different, Guan Wentao is okay, Lin Xu is a dozen, and no pheasant or hare can escape. However, he didn't make many moves, mainly by the side to point out Guan Wentao's method of hitting the hidden weapon.
When they finally left, they took the two pheasants and the three hares they had hunted. The pheasants were divided equally between the two, one for each person, and the hare was one more for Lin Xu, after all, it was mainly he who hunted.
After driving back to the village, Lin Xu sent Guan Wentao home first, and then returned to his home. At noon, when the whole family gathered for dinner, there was an extra plate of braised rabbit meat on the table. The pheasant was a little more troublesome to clean up because it had to pluck its feathers, so it was planned to save it for the afternoon, and the other hare was also saved for the afternoon. When Huang Zongwen's father and daughter came over in the afternoon, they could be entertained. The father and daughter were going to come over in the afternoon to pay New Year's greetings, so he naturally told his parents when he came back.
And he used to practice marksmanship, shoot with hidden weapons, and practice other martial arts to capture and experiment with those pheasants, hares, etc., in the end, all of them were not wasted, and they were basically made into dishes and put down the stomachs of the family.
After lunch, when it was a little past four o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Zongwen and Huang Rong came over with gifts to pay their respects.
Lin Xu's parents are naturally a good hospitality. After drinking tea and chatting, Lin Lang asked his wife to make a few snacks and drinks, and drank a few cups with Huang Zongwen. The wine was drunk until the evening, and by the way, the father and daughter were invited to dinner together.
Soon after dinner, Huang Zongwen's father and daughter also said goodbye and left. However, after knowing that they came on foot this time, Lin Xu took the initiative to ask Ying and drove them back. And by the way, he won't be back tonight, anyway, he plans to go back to school tomorrow, but now it's just a night in advance.
It's already night, and Lin Xu has a car, so he should drive the guests. So for his proposal, Lin Lang and his wife thought about it and agreed. Anyway, Lin Xu often lived in school and didn't come back during this winter vacation, so they were used to it. It's just that I left before the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I was a little reluctant. But they didn't show much about it, they just sent Lin Xu, Huang Zongwen, and Huang Rong's father and daughter out together.
After going out and turning to the small temple, after the three of them got into the car, Lin Xu skillfully started the car, and then lowered the window and waved to his parents and sister, and then drove away.
After dark, there are fewer people on the streets of the village. After all, although spring has begun, it is still cold and the weather is very cold, and no one wants to go out at night.
Coincidentally, this year's Lichun happened to be Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, yesterday. Think about the beginning of spring yesterday, the tail of winter has not passed, and you can know where to go. It is not until after the sting that everything recovers that the weather will warm up faster.
There were few pedestrians on the street, so Lin Xu also raised the speed of the car, and soon left the village and arrived at the gravel road leading to the school. After walking for a minute or two, you can already see the school and Taoyuan from afar.
When looking at Taoyuan, Lin Xu suddenly couldn't help but let out a surprised "huh". Because he found at this time that at the head of the canal bank bridge on the Taoyuan side, there were cars parked at some point.
Looking at the location where the car was parked, it was obvious that the people in the car were planning to go to Taoyuan. Otherwise, if you go to the school or a nearby restaurant, you won't park here. At present, the entrance of the school and the entrance of the hotel are empty, and there is a lot of parking space.
On the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, I don't know who came to find Huang Zongwen, or maybe Huang Rong?