Chapter 7 Dad, You Eat Dirt
Chen Xiulan couldn't help but smile when she saw it, and then rolled her eyes at Lin Heng: "You're so grown up, and you still like this."
"Just tell me if your husband is awesome or not?" Lin Heng said proudly. Chen Xiulan looked at the pheasant and nodded: "Awesome, really awesome!"
"Hehe, you must reward me well tonight." Lin Heng approached and smiled.
Chen Xiulan's face tightened and she glared at him shyly: "You're already a father, but you're still so frivolous."
"I'm greedy for my wife, so this is only natural!" Lin Heng held his head high and chest puffed out.
Chen Xiulan couldn't stand talking about such explicit things, so she put the pheasant in Lin Heng's backpack and walked quickly to the front.
The two of them talked and laughed as they walked down the mountain. When they reached the foot of the mountain, it was already dusk. In another hour, it would be completely dark.
"Xiu Lan, are you going up the mountain to pick mushrooms?"
Someone not far away spoke to them.
Lin Heng turned his head and saw that the person coming was an old man in his fifties with sparse hair. He smiled at the two of them.
Lin Heng remembered that this was Tian Baishun, a bachelor and mountain herder from their village. He didn't do much farming and made a living by hunting and gathering mountain products.
At this time, he was holding a turtledove in his hand, and he waved it deliberately, fearing that no one could see it.
"Yes." Chen Xiulan nodded and said something casually, not wanting to pay attention to this person.
Tian Baishun saw that Xiulan didn't want to pay attention to him, so he looked at Lin Heng again and found the slingshot in his hand. He couldn't help but laugh: "Lin Heng, are you using the slingshot to hunt?"
"You must have missed it, right?" He didn't wait for Lin Heng to reply, and continued with a smile: "Hunting is not as simple as you think, it's a very complicated subject."
"How about you let Xiulan cook two meals for me and pour me two glasses of wine? I will take you with me to the mountain in the future?" Tian Baishun said with a smile.
This guy is a bachelor. He wants to hook up with any woman he sees. He always shows off everywhere every time he goes hunting. I heard that he has affairs with many women.
Lin Heng sneered, walked over and stood in front of his wife, looked at him and said, "Forget it, I'm not interested, I'll just play by myself."
After saying that, he let his wife walk in front and he walked behind, and they went home together.
The old man had a shotgun in his hand, and he was too lazy to get into a fight. After all, the other person didn't say anything teasing.
Tian Baishun was stunned, then chased after him: "You are looking down on my hunting skills..."
Before he finished speaking, his eyes suddenly caught sight of the pheasant and gray squirrel in Lin Heng's backpack, and he was immediately startled: "These... were all shot by you with a slingshot?"
Shooting squirrels and pheasants with a slingshot seemed incredible to him.
"No, I just got it by luck." Lin Heng said and left.
When Lin Heng said this, Tian Baishun was speechless. The ones he picked up were all soft. Are you trying to fool me, an old man? He knew how flexible pheasants and squirrels were.
"He must have hit him himself." Old Man Tian was certain.
No wonder they are not interested in joining me. What I get from using a gun is not as good as what they get from using a slingshot. It seems like I am just showing off my skills in front of an expert.
But he thought that maybe he was caught in a trap and was unwilling to believe that this famous second-rate guy was so powerful.
"I must show you my hunting skills some other day!" Old Man Tian felt that he was being looked down upon, and planned to catch a big prey next time to let Lin Heng see his abilities.
Lin Heng and his wife Chen Xiulan had already returned to the door. After leaving the woods, he even got some pig grass to cover the prey.
When others asked him, he just said that he had picked some mushrooms. He knew very well that wealth should not be shown to others. There were many jealous people in the village who couldn't stand seeing others doing better than they were.
"You go back first, I'm going to the bathroom."
After saying this, Lin Heng put the backpack aside and went to drain the water.
When Chen Xiulan returned to the yard, her parents, eldest brother and sister-in-law, younger sister, and eldest brother's son and daughter had all returned.
Father Lin Xuan and elder brother Lin Yue were enjoying the cool air, while sister-in-law Liu Juan, mother Lu Hongmei, and younger sister Lin Caiyun were peeling potatoes for dinner.
Seeing Chen Xiulan coming back alone, the eldest sister-in-law couldn't help but laugh: "Mom, it seems that my second brother didn't even last a day this time. He ran out to fool around again."
"Hmph, I knew that a dog will always eat shit!" Lin's mother was very unhappy. She thought she could hold on for a few days this time, but she ran away.
Father Lin Xuan also shook his head in disappointment: "This second-rate guy is really infuriating. Next time I come back, I will break his legs."
"Dad, you should take care of it. Look at Lin Yue, who works on the farm all day long, while Lin Heng does nothing. What are we going to do in the future?"
Sister-in-law Liu Juan complained quickly, thinking that it was a good thing that Lin Heng ran away, because she would have no face to let him divide the family property in the future.
Just then, Lin Heng came in after using the toilet. He heard everything that had just been said.
"No way, there isn't even this basic trust?" Lin Heng was speechless.
"Huh, was I wrong?" Mother Lin glared at him, then looked at her daughter-in-law Xiulan and said distressedly, "Tell me the truth. Did Lin Heng go out for the whole afternoon again and just came back?"
She knew that her second daughter-in-law was kind-hearted, and Lin Heng must have asked her to collude in the testimony again.
"No, he went up the mountain with me, and he shot a squirrel and a pheasant with a slingshot today." Chen Xiulan shook her head and said with a smile.
"What?" Lin Xuan'an, Lin's father, stood up after hearing what he said, with a look of disbelief on his face: "If he can kill squirrels and pheasants, I will eat dirt on the spot."
He didn't even know what kind of person Lin Heng was, so this was simply impossible.
"Are you sure you are not talking nonsense?" Lin's mother asked her daughter-in-law Xiulan and touched her head.
Obviously, no one in the family believed that Lin Heng had this ability, unless the sun rose from the west.
"Come on, come on, take a look for yourself!!"
Lin Heng put the backpack on the ground and looked at the family with confidence. Did people lose even this basic trust in each other? When everyone saw it, they were stunned. They picked it up and looked at it again and again, their eyes widened, and they looked unbelievable.
"Is Second Father possessed by evil spirits?" Lin Wei, the son of eldest brother Lin Yue, suddenly spoke.
Not only him, but everyone else had the same idea, thinking that being possessed by an evil spirit was the most reasonable explanation.
"You are the one who is possessed!" Lin Heng was so angry that he kicked him in the butt.
"Dad, you don't have to eat tonight. Little sister, go get me a bowl of yellow soil, and I'll give you my share tonight." Lin Heng teased.
Little sister Caiyun's eyes lit up, but before she could do anything, her eldest nephew Lin Wei directly grabbed a handful of dirt and handed it to grandpa Lin Xuan: "Grandpa, you eat dirt."
Lin Xuan was so angry that he wanted to pick up a stick and hit him on the spot: "You two unfilial descendants!!"
"Master, you said it yourself." Lin Wei jumped out and quickly hid behind Lin Heng, smiling.
"Lin Heng, did you really hit him yourself?" The eldest brother Lin Yue didn't believe it either.
"That's right, could it be that they picked up dead things? Don't eat bad guys." Sister-in-law Liu Juan also nodded, not believing that Lin Heng could knock down these two things with a slingshot.
(End of this chapter)
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