This time, Sheng Xinhua couldn't guarantee what would happen, so before testing the gun, he told everyone else to get out of the way.

"Xinhua, let me do it."

Chen Feng thought for a moment, then snatched the gun from Sheng Xinhua's hand, pushed Sheng Xinhua aside, and pulled the trigger.

With a loud bang, Chen Feng let out a scream.

The gun did fire, but the backfire was extremely severe; the amount of gunfire coming out of the front was almost the same as the amount coming out of the back.

Chen Feng's right hand was badly burned by the gunpowder spray; the area between his thumb and forefinger was blackened.

Sheng Xinhua rushed forward and was terrified when he saw Chen Feng's hand.

"Oh dear, I said I'd do it, look, I burned your hand."

As Sheng Xinhua spoke, he couldn't help but sigh heavily. This time, it still didn't work.

Although the test shot wasn't very successful, it was already a great achievement in the eyes of the other children.

Zheng Tianshun, Zheng Xianyong's grandson, looked at the gun in Sheng Xinhua's hand with great envy.

He kept pressing Sheng Xinhua for details about how the gun was made and what materials were used.

He even took Sheng Xinhua's gun and examined it carefully countless times.

The second attempt at making the gun also failed, and Sheng Xinhua was somewhat discouraged, mainly because he couldn't find any more materials to conduct the experiment.

The children searched inside and outside their house but couldn't find a suitable iron pipe. Helpless, they had to temporarily turn their attention elsewhere and play other games.

With so many children and so many things to do at the forest farm, Sheng Xinhua quickly became engrossed in the fun and gradually forgot about making guns.

To everyone's surprise, a few days later, Zheng Tianshun was beaten by his father, and the beating was very severe.

The reason is simple: Zheng Tianshun saw Sheng Xinhua making guns and he was very envious, so he wanted to make one himself.

So they sawed off the front brake of his father Zheng Jun's bicycle.

As luck would have it, Zheng Jun had something to do that day and rode his bicycle to Shuguang Forest Farm.

The bicycle Zheng Jun was riding was a used one, mainly for use when he was out hunting.

The yew trees mostly grow in meadows, some quite far from the forest farm. If you have a bicycle, it's not too tiring to get around.

Before entering the woods, find a secluded spot and chain your bicycle to a tree. Once you're out, unchain it and ride home.

New bikes are no good; they get stolen very easily. Sometimes the frame is locked to a tree and can't be taken down, so the wheels are removed and taken away.

Therefore, many families in the forest farm specially searched for an old, dilapidated bicycle, the kind that nobody wanted, and used it specifically for riding in the mountains as a side business.

Zheng Jun's car is quite dilapidated; its condition wasn't good to begin with.

Before leaving, Zheng Jun didn't even try the brakes; he just got on his bike and rode away.

On the way from Qianchuan Forest Farm to Shuguang, there are several steep downhill and uphill sections. When Zheng Jun rode his bicycle to the first downhill section, the bicycle was going quite fast and was speeding downhill. Zheng Jun quickly squeezed the brakes.

As luck would have it, the rear brake pads were so worn that they wouldn't hold properly, so in his haste, Zheng Jun had no choice but to squeeze the front brake as well.

But when Zheng Jun squeezed it with his left hand, his heart skipped a beat. He didn't feel the usual strain when squeezing the brake.

The car continued speeding forward, and Zheng Jun suddenly panicked.

This road was built by the Forestry Bureau using timber in exchange for road construction several years ago. Due to frequent use of the same old vehicles, the road conditions are not good.

The car was already out of control and going very fast. The road was also full of potholes and very bumpy. Zheng Jun lost control and the car plunged into the roadside ditch.

This fall really knocked Zheng Jun down, and it took him a while to climb out of the roadside ditch.

After he limped along, enduring the pain, and dragged the bicycle onto the road, he carefully inspected it and discovered that the section connecting the front brake of the bicycle had vanished.

Now that they didn't need to go to Shuguang Forest Farm, Zheng Jun pushed his bike back.

When he got home, he saw his eldest son, Zheng Tianshun, fiddling with something.

Especially the white iron pipe in my son's hand, the more I looked at it, the more familiar it seemed. Wasn't that the thing on the front brake of his bicycle?

Enraged by his son, Zheng Jun grabbed a tree branch, grabbed his son, and slammed him to the ground, giving him a good beating.

Zheng Tianshun took a really hard beating this time.

In the summer, those pants were thin, and they left my buttocks covered in red welts. You could feel them even through the pants; they were all swollen and raised.

Zheng Tianshun's buttocks were beaten so badly that he didn't dare to sit for two days.

However, this kid is quite stubborn. Even after being beaten by his father like that, he still didn't confess to Sheng Xinhua.

He only said that he wanted to make a gun, and he saw that the iron pipe at the front brake of the bicycle looked good, so he sawed it off.

After Zheng Tianshun was beaten, Sheng Xinhua remembered the gun-making project again, so he searched all over the forest for materials to make guns.

This time, he set his sights on the two iron pipes under the back seat of the bicycle.

There are four iron pipes on the back of the bicycle, two curved and two straight. Sheng Xinhua thought the two straight ones were good, and quite long. Even if the ends were cut off, the remaining ones would be enough.

However, given the horrific state of Zheng Tianshun's beating, Sheng Xinhua didn't dare to consider any other options.

He thought he would wait until he returned to Songjianghe before buying a bicycle from the repair shop.

The children had a blast, and time flew by. Before they knew it, it was already late July, and Sheng Yunfei's wedding day was getting closer and closer.

The Wu and Sheng families had already agreed that the wedding would be held in the capital. After Wu Yucheng and Sheng Yunfei got married, they would return to the Northeast to hold a banquet for relatives and friends.

In this way, there won't be too many people to escort the bride; the Sheng family can handle it.

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