In fact, aiming a slingshot does require skill.
Qiu Yuling holds the bow horizontally. "Turning her body sideways to the target, she relaxes her whole body and leans back slightly. She wraps the bullet in a leather bag, raises her left hand, which is holding the bow, to shoulder height, straightens it, and raises her right hand, holding the bullet, with the rubber band relaxed.
"Yes, tilt your head to the right, slightly adjust your left hand position, narrow the aiming line to a single point in your field of vision, then fully draw the bow, gently pressing the rubber band against your face." Qiu Yuling bent Wang Xiaotao's head to find the right angle.
"Finely adjust your left and right hands to align the three lines. Keep your hands steady and gently rotate your waist to align your aiming point with the target. Pay attention to your breathing. At the top of your inhale, just before you exhale...
Yes, launch! "
With a "whoosh" sound, the flying bird fell to the ground.
"Wow, Yuling, I'm so awesome. No, you're so awesome!" Wang Xiaotao shouted and jumped excitedly.
"We are just too awesome." The happy atmosphere is contagious, especially when playing with someone as energetic and vibrant as Wang Xiaotao, the happiness can be doubled.
She is different from her hometown friend Wang Aihong who is naive and childish. She has been influenced by military life since childhood, and has a strong character and mature thinking. It is easy for Qiu Yuling to blur the difference in their psychological age.
"You know, there are many good shooters in the army who can hit the target with a heart while riding on horseback, but they are definitely not as good as you with a slingshot!"
This is truly an exaggeration! Qiu Yuling tried hard to suppress the upward curve of her lips, trying not to take it to heart, considering the child's exaggerated rhetoric.
Wang Xiaotao knows a lot. If Qiu Yuling had not lived two lives, she would definitely not be able to make friends with someone of her age who could talk freely.
"Yuling, have you ever been to the snow-capped mountains?" Wang Xiaotao asked Qiu Yuling, pointing to the peaks in the distance.
Qiu Yuling shook her head. She had already planned this into her vacation schedule in her previous life. "This is the farthest I've ever traveled." It's more than 1,500 kilometers from her hometown to the border.
"You've come so far. I seem to have been here since I can remember. I haven't even been to that snowy mountain. When I'm older, I'll definitely go there."
"We're still a long way from the snow-capped mountains." Qiu Yuling followed Wang Xiaotao's finger and looked over there.
She wanted to tell the girl that there was no need to be anxious. If your dream was really to guard the frontier, that peak would be yours to climb sooner or later.
The two of them lay on the grass, resting their arms around each other and chatting about this and that. At this moment, both of them were looking forward to growing up and longing for their own freedom.
What's different is that Qiu Yuling's spirit has always been free. She takes every day here seriously and works hard. She treats friends of all ages with sincerity, and she cherishes her family with whom she has ties.
Even the aunts from the same village working in the fields always called her Yuling affectionately, so she not only exchanged her own vegetable and grain seeds,
Qiu Yuling had secretly buried eggs in the lunch box of the kind and solemn old principal more than once. It seemed that there was not much she could do, but it seemed that she had done a lot inadvertently.
Haloxylon ammodendron trees on the loess ridge, wild ducks, pheasants, and rabbits in Yancao Lake...
She is not a real child and can distinguish between good and evil. She has never thought of being a saint, nor has she ever thought of living like a hedgehog.
"Yuling, you know, you don't act like a child!" Wang Xiaotao's words frightened Qiu Yuling so much that she almost came back to life.
"You are smarter than them. You understand what they understand, and you also understand what they don't understand when I tell them." After listening to this, Qiu Yuling tactically cleared her throat to calm herself down.
It was a close call. She had thought that this girl possessed some Mahayana Buddhist teachings, and that someone could see through her bones and blood and see her true nature. It turned out that it was just because she was a qualified listener.
"You don't act like a child. You understand everything they don't understand!" I'll go! One moment you're clamoring to be my sister, and the next moment you're pretending to have an X-ray to scare me.
"Oh~ that's nothing, I love this, I usually listen and watch more, so I will naturally know. Let me tell you, Wu Tiejun and the others are stupid..." After pretending to be deep, Wang Xiaotao switched to the mode of pulling down and criticizing in a second.
"...Are you stupid? You want to compete with me to see who can pee farther? I threw a shit-crawling cow at each of them, hahaha..." Qiu Yuling couldn't help laughing. Whose dark history is this talking about? Girl, did you change the wrong channel?
"You know, when they were playing games, they used Dahu and Xiaohu to cheat. I just punched Wang Dahu in the face, and that made it clear."
Qiu Yuling: ...You are so smart, there is really no one in this circle that you admire.
Qiu Yuling then understood why those boys didn't think Wang Xiaotao was a girl that day. Not to mention her appearance or dress, just based on her personality, it was hard for them to remember that the person in front of them was a girl.
Qiu Yuling scribbled on the notebook, sketching a horse with a flying tail next to it. The loose robe and pants could not hide the girl's curvy figure.
"See, Sister Xiaotao, isn't she handsome?"
"handsome!"
"Is it pretty?"
"pretty!"
Qiu Yuling then painted a picture of a girl with a hunched back and a slightly rough look, and asked Wang Xiaotao which of the two paintings was better.
"She looks pretty!" Wang Xiaotao pointed at the first painting and chose it without hesitation.
"Sister Xiaotao, she is you when you grow up, beautiful and handsome. Her girlish characteristics are not a constraint for you. On the contrary, ignoring them will only backfire."
Nowadays, there are no physical education classes. Many girls, both young and old, have their physical growth delayed at a stage when they should be developing vigorously due to lack of correct knowledge and guidance.
Qiu Yuling patiently told Wang Xiaotao many things that girls should know, hoping that she could fully discover her own beauty instead of treating girlish characteristics as shame.
"Yuling, you are younger than me, how do you know so much?" Wang Xiaotao blushed and her heart beat fast at first, but when she came to her senses, she felt something was wrong.
"First, I'm smart. Second, I love reading. Third, I know how to ask my mother questions. Got it?"
Wang Xiaotao didn't believe it. "What book talks about this?"
"One Hundred Thousand Whys"
Wang Xiaotao took note of it silently, thinking that she should find a way to buy another copy. She might not like studying, but she always felt something was wrong about asking a little sister to teach her.
"Oh no, it's bad. You promised my grandfather to feed the chickens, Yuling. Will the chickens die if they skip a meal?" Wang Xiaotao asked uncertainly.
"She won't die, but I'm not sure whether she'll lay eggs or not."
"Then retreat quickly!"
In the days when communication relied on shouting, Qiu Yuling had no idea that a big surprise was waiting for her at home because no one informed her.
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