Zhenzhen's slingshot had been used for so long that the branches were covered with patina, and the tendons were softer and stronger. Xu Jiajia returned Liu Chenglin's slingshot to her, and smiled as she came over to touch Zhenzhen's slingshot: "Wow, it looks like it's been used for a long time."
"Yeah, it's been many years." Zhenzhen didn't need a slingshot when she went up the mountain. She waved her hand and the pheasants and rabbits on the mountain wanted to jump into her basket. There was no need for such a laborious slingshot. But sometimes when her brothers were on vacation, they would go up the mountain to collect firewood. Sometimes they would call a few friends to take Zhenzhen up the mountain to hunt. Zhenzhen had to use a slingshot to cover up the crowd.
What Liu Chenglin said just now was not wrong. After all, a slingshot is a crude tool. Its accuracy cannot be compared with that of a gun. If you can hit the target 80% or 90% of the time, you are considered very good at it. But Zhenzhen is different. Her consciousness can accurately determine the distance and direction of the target at 360 degrees. Whenever she wants to shoot at the pheasant's eyes, she will never hit the feathers nearby. She can definitely hit the target every time.
Seeing Zhenzhen lower her head to pick up a few stones of the right size, Meng Yaoxing couldn't help but want to try: "Let's have a competition to see whether our male classmates can catch more prey or you female classmates can catch more?"
Kong Xiangwu immediately shook his head: "That's not fair, you're obviously bullying a girl. After all, slingshot shooting requires strength. If your arms are weak, you can't even shoot ten meters. If you don't have enough strength, how can you hit the prey?"
"That's right, stop making trouble." Liu Chenglin echoed, "Hunting is something we men do, just let the girls pick mushrooms."
Xu Jiajia's eyebrows raised when she heard this. She was about to take the bet but was afraid that if it was true as they said, Zhenzhen wouldn't be able to hit far.
"Do you want to compete?" She tugged at Zhenzhen's sleeve and asked softly.
"Let's compete." Zhen Zhen lazily leaned against the tree and winked at Xu Jiajia: "Put in some bets. I guarantee you'll win big today."
Guo Xiaoqiao heard the two people muttering and came over: "It's just a game anyway. It doesn't matter if you lose. At least you can't lose in momentum."
"You're right." Xu Jiajia patted Guo Xiaoqiao on the shoulder and asked, "What are we betting on?"
Meng Ranxiao rolled his eyes and said, "Whoever loses will fetch water for the other for a month."
Several girls burst into laughter, and Xu Jiajia immediately punched her palm with her fist: "Okay, let's bet on this."
Several girls dispersed, and Xu Jiajia pointed at Liu Chenglin: "Don't worry, we have to have fun when we come out. We just discussed it, let's compete, but we have to accept the punishment if we lose."
Liu Chenglin looked at him in horror: "Forget it, what if I win and you cry? I don't know how to comfort a girl. Oh my god, it makes me feel dizzy just thinking about it."
"We won't cry." Xu Jiajia rolled her eyes and directly stated the bet: "The loser has to get boiled water for the winner for a month." This is a common practice in the boys' dormitory. For example, Liu Chenglin basically gets boiled water from Xi Junjie for eight months a year, and he loses miserably every day.
Seeing that the girls were very determined, the four boys looked at each other and nodded: "Okay, let's compete." Liu Chenglin picked up a few stones: "After this slingshot is out, it will be hard to tell who hit the target. Let's each have a stone, whoever hits the target will pick it up, and then count it at the end."
Xi Junjie shook his head and smiled: "You talk as if you can all hit it, but don't waste your time until noon when you can't hit anything."
"Of course not." Liu Chenglin said unconvincedly: "I told you that my best record was shooting a pheasant with ten pulls of the slingshot. It is still the record of our village."
"That sounds impressive." Guo Xiaoqiao tugged at Zhenzhen's clothes: "Zhenzhen, what should we do? Can we win?"
Zhenzhen pinched Guo Xiaoqiao's chubby face and said, "You'll know when you see me. I promise I won't let you get some water for them."
Hearing the conversation between the two, Xu Jiajia immediately gained confidence: "Since we have agreed, let's not waste time and start." She looked at Zhenzhen: "Who of you two will start?"
"Let him play first." Zhen Zhen pointed at Liu Chenglin: "Men first."
Liu Chenglin thought that Zhenzhen wanted to take advantage of the situation while he injured the pheasant, so he decided to give in to the girl and stepped forward first.
This mountain is very large and deep. It is the busy farming season, and it is estimated that no one has gone up the mountain to hunt for a long time. In Zhenzhen's mind, there are dozens of pheasants and rabbits in this area alone. Liu Chenglin turned around and found a pheasant on a branch. He immediately held his breath and took out a stone to aim.
Several classmates stared at him nervously, especially the girls, who couldn't tell whether they hoped he would hit the target or not. If he hit the target, they might lose, but if he missed, the consequence might be that everyone would go hungry. Their expressions were very complicated for a moment.
"Swish..." The stone flew towards the pheasant, but the pheasant was standing quite far away, and the stone had obviously lost its force in the later stage, hitting the branch softly, scaring the pheasant away.
"Ah..." the boy sighed in disappointment.
Liu Chenglin scratched his head and said, "It's a little too far. Next time I'll get closer and I'll definitely be able to hit it."
Kong Xiangwu looked at the distance and nodded pertinently: "It's indeed a bit far." He turned to look at the girls next to him: "It's your turn."
Zhenzhen didn't have to look far to find a pheasant on a tree ten meters away. She picked up a stone, put it on the slingshot, and shot it out without even aiming. The force was so strong that several people could even hear the sound of the wind brought by the stone.
"Bang!" The pheasant shook and fell from the branch. Several boys stared at the empty tree trunk in amazement, seemingly unable to react.
Xu Jiajia was the first to come to her senses. She screamed excitedly, ran over excitedly, and soon came back with a pheasant.
Meng Ranxiao and Guo Xiaoqiao happily hugged Zhenzhen and laughed and jumped. Several boys were stunned for a long time. Xi Junjie was the first to come to his senses and applaud, with a smile on his face: "My Zhenzhen is so amazing."
Meng Yaoxing looked at him speechlessly: "No, Brother Jie, you betrayed too quickly."
Xi Junjie said calmly: "I didn't betray you. I've always stood on Zhenzhen's side. Anyway, I couldn't bear to let Zhenzhen open the water for me."
Meng Yaoxing pointed at Xi Junjie for a long time without saying anything. Kong Xiangwu scratched his head and moved closer to Liu Chenglin with some uneasiness: "Hey, buddy, are you really the hunting king of your village?"
Liu Chenglin almost swore to heaven: "It's true, there is no young man who is more capable than me."
Xu Jiajia chuckled: "Then your village is really too desperate."
"Tactics, this is their tactic, they want to undermine our self-confidence!" Kong Xiangwu immediately patted Liu Chenglin on the shoulder: "Don't be discouraged, they just got lucky this time, you should aim a little more next time, and we will try to turn defeat into victory!"
"Yeah!" Liu Chenglin nodded. After walking for a while, they finally found a pheasant. In order to ensure that they could hit it, Liu Chenglin waved his hand and signaled them not to come over. He tiptoed to a place about five or six meters away and then stopped. After aiming for three minutes, he finally shot a stone.
"Bang!" The stone hit the pheasant, and the pheasant lost its balance and fell from the tree branch. Several boys shouted and were about to run over to pick it up, when they saw the pheasant that fell into the bush flapping its wings and flying and crawling into the grass and disappeared.
Meng Yaoxing stood there dumbfounded, as if he couldn't believe that the pheasant he caught could fly away. He turned around and asked Liu Chenglin in disbelief: "Why? Didn't we catch it?"
Zhenzhen suppressed her laughter and said, "Because the stone he threw hit the thickest part of the pheasant's flesh, and the force was not strong enough, so the pheasant was only injured, but far from dying."
"Brother, you ate ten pheasant eggs this morning, why are you still not energetic?" Meng Yaoxing almost knelt down to Liu Chenglin: "If you can't use your energy, can you hit the pheasant on the head?"
"That's easy to say." Liu Chenglin glanced at him and said, "A pheasant's head is only this big. It's so hard to hit it!" He paused and immediately made a promise: "I promise to use all my strength next time."
Kong Xiangwu patted his shoulder, then looked at Zhenzhen: "Student Li, it's your turn now."
Zhenzhen was looking at a pheasant thirty meters away. When Liu Chenglin saw her taking out a stone, he immediately advised: "Move forward, otherwise you won't be able to kill it, just like me just now."
Zhenzhen slightly raised the corners of her lips, raised the slingshot, and shot a stone in an instant, and the pheasant fell down.
The whole place was silent. The first time was just a coincidence, but this time it would confirm Zhen Zhen's strength. Guo Xiaoqiao ran over and brought back the pheasant in a short while.
Liu Chenglin ran over and saw a stone embedded right in the pheasant's head.
"Sister, you have very good eyesight. You can see clearly from such a distance." Liu Chenglin looked at her with admiration: "Your level would be amazing if you were in our village."
Zhenzhen smiled modestly: "Most people can't compare to me."
Liu Chenglin immediately lost his temper. Zhenzhen scanned the area with her consciousness and saw the injured pheasant lying in a haystack not far away. She walked over, waved and called Liu Chenglin over to show him. Liu Chenglin's eyes lit up immediately, he pulled the slingshot and aimed for a long time before finally knocking the pheasant unconscious.
Liu Chenglin excitedly ran over to pick up the pheasant, and said happily: "I caught a pheasant with only four stones, which is a new record for our village."
Everyone looked at him speechlessly, then turned to look at Zhenzhen who was stroking the slingshot, and immediately waved their hands in unison: "Forget it, stop talking about your village's record, it's not embarrassing enough."
Liu Chenglin held the pheasant in his hand and tried to explain to them how difficult it was to shoot a pheasant with a slingshot. Xu Jiajia glanced over and said, "No matter how difficult it is, we Zhenzhen can still shoot one with a slingshot."
"That's right." Guo Xiaoqiao hugged Zhenzhen's arm: "Come on, Zhenzhen, let him see how powerful you are. Scare him to death."
Because Zhenzhen's arms were hugged, she kicked a stone with her toes before anyone could react. Before they could even open their mouths to ask, the stone hit the pheasant's head accurately.
"Zhenzhen..." Guo Xiaoqiao's voice trembled: "I asked you to scare him to death, but I didn't ask you to scare me to death. Can you give me some psychological preparation?"
Zhenzhen looked innocent: "I can't use the slingshot if you hold my arm."
Liu Chenglin ran over and picked up the pheasant. He saw that the stone was still embedded in the pheasant's head. He compared it with the previous two pheasants and found that the position was exactly the same.
Kong Xiangyun and Meng Yaoxing both came over to take a look. The word "shocked" was not enough to describe their feelings. According to Kong Xiangyun, they wanted to kneel down in front of Zhenzhen. There was nothing to say except "admiration".
Xi Junjie looked at Zhenzhen in surprise, as if he had not expected her to be so good at hunting. Seeing the young couple smiling at each other, Guo Xiaoqiao immediately let go of Zhenzhen's arm and plucked the beautiful feathers from the pheasant's tail with Xu Jiajia and Meng Ranxiao.
Xi Junjie's eyes were full of admiration: "I didn't expect you to be so good at hunting. I thought Fourth Brother was just talking casually."
Being praised by the person she likes, Zhen Zhen's heart is almost bubbling with joy. She put her hands behind her back and smiled at Xi Junjie: "Although my fourth brother is a little silly, he always speaks the truth."
Xi Junjie looked at Zhenzhen's smug expression and couldn't help but smile and ruffle his hair: "Then we'll leave our lunch today to Zhenzhen."
"No big deal." Zhen Zhen looked back at Liu Chengwu and said, "It's your turn."
Liu Chengwu looked at his hands with tears in his eyes: "What is there to compare? My ten fingers are not as good as your one foot. It hurts my self-esteem."
Meng Yaoxing and Kong Xiangwu nodded immediately. When Liu Chenglin looked over, they firmly switched sides to the girls' camp: "It's not that we don't have loyalty, it's mainly because we can get more meat if we follow Li."
"Then we won't compete anymore?" Zhen Zhen asked the boys with a smile. The four of them shook their heads together: "We won't compete anymore."
When several girls saw Zhenzhen win the Northeastern man who was known as a hunting expert, they were very enthusiastic and pulled Zhenzhen to learn. They originally thought that slingshots were for boys and girls had no advantage, but Zhenzhen's performance today refreshed their perception: slingshots are girls' toys, and boys should just go get some water.
Seeing that it was still early, Zhenzhen decided to take everyone out for some fun. She patted the 20-meter-tall elm tree nearby and said, "How about I break off a few branches and make a slingshot for each of you?"
Several girls followed Zhenzhen's gaze and looked up. They were all a little stunned at the towering elm tree: "How can we break off branches when it's so high?"
"Climb up..." Before Zhenzhen finished her words, Kong Xiangyun immediately jumped out: "I can climb trees. When I was in my hometown, I climbed trees to pick dates all day long and I'm very good at it." As he said that, Kong Xiangyun rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs and was about to climb up.
Xi Junjie grabbed him and said, "This height is not the height of a jujube tree. Are you sure you can do it?"
Xi Junjie's words calmed Kong Xiangyun's heated head. He looked at the lowest vertical fork on the tree, which was about seven or eight meters high, and suddenly felt a little nervous.
"Is it a little too high?" Meng Ranxiao looked up at the branch.
Kong Xiangyun had some feelings for Meng Ranxiao, otherwise he wouldn't show off like this, but he had already said it, and it felt a bit embarrassing to retreat without a fight. Kong Xiangyun gritted his teeth and hugged the tree trunk: "It's okay, I'll try, and if it doesn't work, I'll come down."
Xi Junjie patted him on the shoulder and said, "Be careful." Then he stepped aside.
Kong Xiangyun held onto the tree trunk and climbed up. At first he climbed very fast, but later his speed slowed down significantly. By the time he reached five or six meters, he was basically moving forward.
"It's too dangerous, come down."
“Stop climbing.”
"Come down quickly."
Zhenzhen used her consciousness to observe Kong Xiangyun. She heaved a sigh of relief when she saw that he was climbing slowly but steadily. However, she did not dare to relax at all and stared at him. She made up her mind that if Kong Xiangyun slipped, she would immediately let the branches catch him.
Kong Xiangyun finally reached the shortest branch after a long effort, but he was dumbfounded when he got there. It was unrealistic to break the whole branch off, after all, he didn't have that much strength in one hand, and he didn't have an axe or anything like that, but it was too dangerous to climb up the branch to break off a small branch.
After weighing the pros and cons for a long time, Kong Xiangyun climbed down again and sat down panting: "No, I can't break it off."
"It's okay, it's okay, we don't want to play anymore, it's nothing."
"Well, we can just take turns trying it."
Several people talked at once to comfort Kong Xiangyun. Xi Junjie just found his water bottle in Kong Xiangyun's schoolbag and handed it to him, but when he looked up, he found that Zhenzhen was gone.
Thinking of the scene of seeing Zhenzhen sitting on a tree branch often last winter, Xi Junjie's face suddenly turned green.
"Zhenzhen!" Xi Junjie looked up at the tree and saw that Zhenzhen had climbed halfway up the tree.
When they heard the sound, they looked up and immediately looked as if they had seen a ghost: "When did she get up there? Isn't she climbing too fast?"
Unlike Kong Xiangyun, who couldn't move at all, Zhenzhen climbed up the tree as if it were flat ground. It took Kong Xiangyun more than ten minutes to move up, but she climbed up in less than a minute. Her ease made Kong Xiangyun start to doubt his life.
Zhenzhen found a thick, straight branch and stepped lightly on it.
"Is she trying to reach over and pick the small branch?" Kong Xiangyun asked, looking up, and then shook his head: "It's too dangerous. This branch can't support her weight."
As if to verify his words, Zhenzhen really withdrew her foot, and when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they saw Zhenzhen climbing down.
"It's impossible to pick it." Kong Xiangyun rubbed his neck and explained to several classmates: "The branch is as thick as Liu Chenglin's arm. It can't be chopped down without an axe."
Everyone's eyes fell on Liu Chenglin's big, muscular arms, and they nodded in unison.
"Crack..." A crisp sound came from the tree. Everyone looked up and was so scared that they couldn't even blink.
Zhenzhen was seen holding the trunk with one hand and holding the branch with the other, and then, in front of everyone's astonishment, she broke off the branch that was as thick as Liu Chenglin's arm.
Kong Xiangyun couldn't help but rub his eyes, looked up at the branch in Zhenzhen's hand, and couldn't help but lower his head and rub his eyes again. He always felt that he was hallucinating, otherwise how could a delicate-looking little girl break off such a thick branch
Liu Chenglin touched his big thick arm and trembled a little: "Junjie, don't mess with your girlfriend in the future. I'm afraid she will break your neck if she gets angry."
Xi Junjie stared at Zhenzhen nervously and couldn't help but defend her: "My Zhenzhen is so gentle."
Liu Chenglin felt that he must have some misunderstanding about this gentle word.
Zhenzhen felt it was inconvenient to climb down while holding onto the branch. She turned her head and looked down, which frightened Xi Junjie so much that his voice broke: "Don't look down, hold on to the tree tightly." Zhenzhen turned around and threw the branch down from another direction to prevent it from hitting them.
Seeing the branch fall smoothly to the ground, Zhenzhen climbed down along the trunk. It seemed that she didn't like the posture of climbing down the tree. Zhenzhen stopped more than two meters away from the ground and looked down. Xi Junjie, who had seen Zhenzhen climb down the tree many times, immediately guessed what she was going to do and his face turned pale again: "Don't jump."
As Xi Junjie spoke, Zhenzhen had already landed lightly on the grass. Xi Junjie breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that his clothes were all wet.
"You scared me to death." Xi Junjie took a few steps back and leaned against a tree, feeling his legs go weak.
Liu Chenglin, Kong Xiangwu, and Meng Xingyao looked up at the tree and then back at Zhenzhen, their eyes sparkling: "Student Li must be the martial arts master written in martial arts novels."
Since the end of the movement and the start of reform and opening up, the biggest impact on these students is that there are more books to read. The library of Imperial Capital University is all-encompassing, not only the famous Chinese and foreign works that were banned in the past, but also a lot of martial arts novels that were always disdained in the past. Martial arts novels such as Hong Kong Island Jin Da Xia and Gu Da Xia have become classics that boys in the dormitory never get tired of reading, and are also popular books in the library. Basically, as soon as you return a book, the people waiting next to you can't wait to grab it.
There was a boy in Xi Junjie's dormitory who had a relatively wealthy family. He used Xi Junjie's connections to buy a set of Jin Yong's works. Every night after studying, several boys would read with relish before lights out, each with a copy of the book. They would often fantasize about how great it would be if they could become the martial arts master.
Later, the school's projection room introduced more types of movies, and the boys realized that Hong Kong had already been making martial arts movies. Watching the heroes in the books flying around on the screen with swords flashing and sabers flying, these guys dreamed of learning a few moves themselves.
Originally, they were just talking nonsense, but this time they saw Zhen Zhen jumping down from a tree two or three meters high. They suddenly realized that the light steps were the legendary martial arts. No wonder she could hit the target every time, climb trees easily, and break branches with her bare hands. These were all kung fu!
Liu Chenglin knelt down excitedly: "Master!"
Zhen Zhen took a step back in fear and looked back at him: "Are you okay?"
Xi Junjie shook his head speechlessly: "Don't pay attention to him, he's obsessed with reading novels."
Liu Chenglin was still excited: "Is the move you made when you jumped down a Qinggong?"
"No!" Zhen Zhen easily punctured his fantasy: "I just spent a lot of time in the mountains since I was a child, and climbing trees is no different from walking for me." Seeing Liu Chenglin's somewhat unbelieving expression, Zhen Zhen shook her head speechlessly: "You said you are like this when you read a martial arts novel, if you read a fairy tale, you will go crazy?"
"What is Xianxia?" Liu Chenglin looked confused.
Zhen Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "The library has a set of "Swordsman of Shu Mountain". You can rent it and read it. When you finish reading it, your dream will be sublimated."
"What will sublimation become?" Liu Chenglin asked stupidly.
Zhen Zhen curved her eyes and looked at him with a smile: "You just want to become an immortal."
Several girls burst into laughter, and Liu Chenglin realized that Zhenzhen was teasing him. He got up a little embarrassedly and said, "Well, sister, you really don't know martial arts?"
This span, from master to elder sister, Zhenzhen smiled and looked at him, shook her head: "I really can't." Is martial arts as powerful as supernatural powers? This idiot, he still doesn't have enough education.
Zhenzhen pulled over the branch she had torn off, and easily broke off the branch she needed. With the cover of her schoolbag, she took out a few tendons from the space, and in a few minutes, six slingshots were ready.
A few of them thanked him and each took one. They happily picked up stones and started trying to shoot pheasants. Except for Xi Junjie, the boys Kong Xiangwu and Meng Yaoxing had all played with slingshots when they were young. There were not many toys at that time, so having a slingshot was fun. However, they usually just shot randomly without any rules. Sometimes they hit and sometimes they didn't, and it was hard to say how accurate they were.
Although the girls had seen slingshots, they had basically never used them. Zhenzhen taught them the essentials step by step, and watched them shoot everywhere, startling a group of pheasants and rabbits. After playing for an hour, only Liu Chenglin killed two pheasants. Seeing that it was almost noon, the group of people were dumbfounded. Six pheasants alone were not enough for so many people. After a pause, Guo Xiaoqiao looked at Zhenzhen for help, and the others reacted, waiting for Zhenzhen to show her skills.
Zhenzhen took out her slingshot, and in front of a crowd of admiring onlookers, she killed five pheasants and four rabbits that appeared out of nowhere in a short while.
After picking up the prey, Xu Jiajia was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth: "You guys, a bunch of grown men, want to compete with us Zhenzhen in slingshots. You really don't know your place."
Kong Xiangwu considered the issue in a complicated way: "Student Li, are there still wild rabbits and pheasants on the hill where your family lives? You haven't wiped them out, have you?"
Zhenzhen put the slingshot in her schoolbag and smiled: "Don't worry, we have a rich variety of species and a considerable number of them, even tigers."
"Is this true?" Xu Jiajia came over immediately: "Zhenzhen, have you ever seen a tiger?"
Thinking of Da Huang, Zhen Zhen smiled and said, "Come to my hometown when you have time, and I will let you see the true face of a tiger."
Everyone thought it was a joke and burst into laughter: "Forget it, forget it. How can they offer themselves as food?" Zhenzhen smiled and shook her head: "The tigers in our area have plenty of food and are willing to eat humans."
Meng Ranxiao looked at Zhenzhen with admiration: "What's the biggest prey you've ever hunted, Zhenzhen?"
Zhenzhen thought for a moment and said, "If I use a slingshot, I can only hit a deer at best, but I can't use a slingshot to hit a wild boar."
"Then what do you rely on?" Meng Ranxiao couldn't help but ask.
Zhenzhen stretched out her white and tender little hand and said with a half-seriously half-fake smile: "Help me!"
Liu Chenglin, who had already turned into Zhen Zhen's little fanboy, suddenly felt that there was nothing shameful about his loss. He looked at Zhen Zhen and spoke in a floating voice: "Sister, you are really awesome."
Xi Junjie kicked him aside alertly, holding Zhenzhen's hand and walking at the back. Liu Chenglin limped along, carrying a few pheasants, and sighed unwillingly: "What's so good about a pretty boy? He's so jealous. Shouldn't he find a partner who's as manly as me?"
"What's the point of finding someone like you?" Xu Jiajia said, "Xi Junjie is much better looking than you."
"You women are superficial. Do you think good looks are enough to make a living?" Liu Chenglin straightened his chest and said, "At least someone like me can be of some use."
"What's the use?" Xu Jiajia rolled her eyes at him. "Are you better at hunting than our Zhenzhen? Or are you faster at climbing trees than our Zhenzhen? Even at breaking off branches, you're not as strong as our Zhenzhen."
"That's right." Meng Ranxiao echoed, "Since you men can't compare to Zhenzhen, there's nothing wrong with Zhenzhen finding the best-looking man."
Guo Xiaoqiao nodded: "No problem, the two of them standing together are pleasing to the eye, at least better than beauty and the beast."
Liu Chenglin instantly wilted, Kong Xiangwu also lowered his head, Meng Yaoxing looked at Guo Xiaoqiao and saw that his ears were a little red: "So you also borrow fairy tales from the library? You even know Beauty and the Beast."
Guo Xiaoqiao blushed instantly, took out a stone from his pocket that he hadn't used up just now and threw it at him: "Nonsense, I didn't see it."
Meng Yaoxing hid back aggrievedly: "I mean, I saw it too."
A group of people came down the mountain in a lively manner. Several men finally put their skills to use, making fire and removing the hair. In half an hour, they cleaned up the prey neatly.
Using wood to prop up the grill, Zhenzhen put eight pheasants and four hares on the grill and brushed them with the first coat of seasoning. Although he was not good at hunting, Liu Chenglin still knew how to grill pheasants. Zhenzhen put the honey and seasoning she brought on the ground and told them to brush them several times. Zhenzhen picked up the remaining three pheasants and handed them to Xi Junjie: "Let's stew these three, so that we don't get sick of eating too much."
Xi Junjie agreed and just as he took the pheasant, he saw Zhenzhen walking towards the river with a wicker basket. Xi Junjie quickly called out, "Where are you going?"
Zhenzhen raised the wicker basket: "Catch the fish."
Liu Chenglin turned around and shouted, "Sister, don't be fooled by the fact that there are a lot of fish in there. In fact, they are all old and the big ones don't move to the side. Don't waste your time, or you'll get your pants wet."
Zhenzhen had already reached the river. She took off her shoes, rolled up her trouser legs, and walked into the river with a wicker basket in hand, pretending to fish. After staying in the river for a few minutes, Zhenzhen turned around and came back. Liu Chenglin asked her cheerfully, "I didn't lie to you, did I? Are those fish hard to catch?"
"Yeah." Zhenzhen put the wet wicker basket on the ground: "The basket is small, the fish always run out, it's hard to catch them."
Liu Chenglin's smile froze when several large fish jumped out. Kong Xiangwu looked at the fish struggling on the ground and asked Zhenzhen with a numb face: "Lady, is there anything else you can't do?"
Zhenzhen thought about it carefully and replied seriously: "It won't go to the sky yet."
The girls burst into laughter. Xi Junjie shook his head and Kong Xiangwu covered his face in frustration: "You are really hurting our self-esteem."
Meng Yaoxing put the fish back into the basket and prepared to go to the river to kill the fish: "Junjie doesn't worry about hurting his self-esteem, so what are you afraid of?"
"How can this hurt your self-esteem?" Xi Junjie looked at Zhen Zhen with a smile: "My Zhen Zhen is so amazing. I am so honored."
A group of people covered their chests with red faces, watching the two people smiling at each other and saying cheesy words, and felt that it was too irritating. If it were a few decades later, they would know that this was called showing off their love.
Zhenzhen smiled sweetly at Xi Junjie, and carried an empty wicker basket into the river. When Meng Yaoxing had just put the fish in the basket, another basket full of fish was placed next to him.
Zhenzhen ran to the cooking area empty-handed: "I caught two baskets of fish, leaving a few for stewing, and the rest can be grilled or stewed. You guys discuss it, I'll find a place to change pants."
Xi Junjie glanced at Zhenzhen's pants, which were already wet to the thighs, and asked quickly, "Did you bring clothes? Do you want me to help you get some fresh air?"
Guo Xiaoqiao immediately laughed: "That won't do. I'll go and help Zhenzhen keep an eye out for her."
Zhen Zhen waved her hands: "No need for you, I'll find a good place when I go down the mountain." Without waiting for Guo Xiaoqiao to put down the things in his hands, Zhen Zhen had already run up the mountain and disappeared after turning a corner. Back in the space, Zhen Zhen turned on the shower and quickly washed her body, changed her pants, and didn't dare to delay in the space any longer and hurried out.
The roasted chicken and rabbit took a long time to cook, but the fish that Zhenzhen caught later cooked quickly. Each person held a roasted fish skewered on a tree branch. Some were squatting, some were sitting, and some were standing. Everyone couldn't wait to take a bite of the fragrant roasted fish in their hands.
The fish meat was tender and plump with a slightly burnt aroma. In this era when eating fish and meat was still considered a luxury, this grilled fish was already a rare delicacy. Although Guo Xiaoqiao was from the imperial capital, it was her first time to go hunting in the wild. When she tasted the grilled fish, she almost cried: "This fish is so delicious, Zhenzhen, you are amazing, why don't you consider it and let me be your partner."
Meng Yaoxing, who had always secretly liked Guo Xiaoqiao, suddenly wanted to cry: "Mr. Guo, I grilled the fish."
"But these are the fish that Zhenzhen caught." Guo Xiaoqiao said confidently. She pointed at the roasted pheasants and rabbits that were dripping with oil licked by the flames and said, "These prey were all caught by Zhenzhen. I think it's more reliable to date her than you."
Several boys looked at Zhenzhen and were unable to refute.
The author has something to say: Chapter 100, a big fat chapter to relax, thank you all for your support, and I specially present this big fat chapter to you!
Thanks to the rich man for the big ticket.
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