Watson looked at her and smiled evilly.
"Well, I'm waiting for that day! If I don't understand the truth, I'll let you teach him. Who makes you the elder brother?!"
Sister Hong looked at Watson and giggled.
"Sister Hong, you will have a lot of things to do in the future. Haven't you seen how hard my mother is working now?"
Watson suddenly became jealous and laughed with Sister Hong.
Sister Hong was too lazy to pay attention to him. She clapped her hands and walked to Mrs. Liu's room. As she walked, she said, "Hurry up and wash your face and feet. Go upstairs and go to bed. Be careful not to get up tomorrow."
Watson looked at her and said, "Wait until I finish reading this text before I go."
Sister Hong looked at him and asked: "Now you bring Xiaolian and Ergou home to teach their brothers and sisters. When your brother grows up, he will also be taken care of by you."
Watson waved his hand and said, "No problem!"
...
The first winter snow in the town has finally arrived, and the whole street is covered in snow, making it especially beautiful.
The mountains behind the town also turned white overnight, and the snow was full of footprints of wild beasts coming out of holes to look for food.
Ergou, who was tightly wrapped in a cotton coat, stood in the snow with a black cotton hat on his head. Holding a slingshot in his hand, he looked around nervously.
Listening to the cry of wild beasts not far away, his body was shaking a little because of nervousness, but his dark eyes were getting brighter and brighter.
The cries gradually became clearer, and a pheasant appeared in the snow in the back mountain, and the atmosphere became tense. Ergou looked at that place nervously and suddenly shouted: "Watson, shoot the arrow quickly! Don't you want to let it go?!"
As he finished speaking, he raised the slingshot with all his strength.
Just hearing a soft sound of "Whoosh!", a bamboo arrow flew out...
The pair of dark rain boots under Watson's feet stepped heavily on the snow, cracking the thin ice that had condensed last night. He held the wooden bow made for him by blacksmith Hu in his hand and stared nervously ahead.
Without stopping, Watson, still in the air, turned around and rushed forward. Because he felt that his arrow had hit the target. While running, he threw himself into the snow in front of him like a mountain.
"Don't be loud! Scare it away!" The two dogs behind him also pounced on them, and they pounced into the snow one after the other.
I saw an arrow-hit pheasant flapping in the snow less than ten meters in front of the two of them. The two dogs ran fast and arrived first. They pounced on the side of the pheasant, then punched out with their left hand...the pheasant instantly lost its breath.
Watson also rushed over and grabbed the bamboo arrow on the pheasant.
A blood flower bloomed in the air!
"Hahaha! Watson, we succeeded!" Ergou hugged Watson and laughed.
Watson climbed up from the snow first and reached out to pick up the two dogs.
Looking at him, he smiled and said, "I don't believe it either. It seems that I can send pheasants to the master tonight. I promised him when I was practicing archery."
After practicing hard for several months, Watson finally hit his prey with an arrow in the snowy season!
"Well! Let's speak in a lower voice and look further. Maybe there are more." Ergou looked at Watson and smiled.
Watson put the pheasant into the bamboo basket and let the two dogs carry it, and he continued to walk up the mountain with the wooden bow.
It's a happy start, and the two friends are trying to find more game.
There is no way, the two families plus Liu Tiejiang, how come they have to fight back three to get enough?
Huasheng had already decided that even if he didn't want to eat it, he would still give it to his master. This was Watson's promise to his master.
His father, Huang Yushu, once told him that whether he is a businessman or a teacher in school, he must keep his promises.
Ergou didn't know what he was thinking, he just ran behind Watson excitedly carrying a bamboo basket. Seeing that my parents and sister can eat the game that I and Watson brought home.
You know, one is five years old and the other is six years old, they are still children in the town.
I'm afraid no one will believe that a six-year-old child can shoot a pheasant in the snow with a bow.
The two of them walked around again, and finally found a hare that was out looking for food more than thirty meters away from Watson, which made their hearts beat wildly again.
"Shh! Don't make a sound!"
Watson made a gesture with the two dogs behind him, and the two immediately fell down in the snow, for fear of scaring the prey not far ahead.
"Watson gave this hare to his sister. She said she had never eaten hare meat before!"
Ergou behind him thought of his sister Xiaolian's expectant eyes when he went out, and couldn't help but whisper to Watson.
Watson nodded and waved his hand to signal him to be silent.
The wooden bow was fully drawn in his hand, and a bamboo arrow was already hung on the string...
You must stay calm during major events. This is something that my husband emphasized repeatedly to dozens of children in class. At this moment, Watson decided to calm down, took a deep breath, and returned to his pounding heart!
The wooden bow in his hand was trembling slightly. This was also the gift he promised to give to sister Xiaolian, so he couldn't mess it up.
After regaining his breath for a while, the hare at this time became in Watson's eyes the small wooden board on the outer wall of Blacksmith Liu's backyard, which was ten feet away from him.
And his mission is to shoot the red heart on the small wooden board.
Gently, Watson took another breath. The wooden bow in his hand no longer trembled. He aimed at the prey in front of him and loosened the sore bowstring.
Just hearing a soft sound of "Whoosh!", a bamboo arrow happily ran towards the prey ahead on the snow...
"Bless me, sister, Watson's arrow will hit!" Ergou, lying in the snow, prayed silently in his heart.
"Master, please bless me and let me send a hare to Sister Xiaolian today!"
At the moment when the bamboo arrow flew out, Watson was also chanting softly.
At the moment when the two children were praying, the bamboo arrow from the string shot into the hare thirty meters away from Watson. Watson, who turned into blue smoke, got up from the snow and rushed forward. go out.
And then before the hare could recover from his thoughts...
I saw that he was holding a wooden bow in his hand, and the bow was bent like a full moon. "Whoosh!" A bamboo arrow flew out, and once again flew towards the hare with the force of lightning and flint.
"Hit! Watson, you hit again!" The hare, which was hit by two arrows, died before the two children could reach him. A pool of blood was seen spreading in the white snow.
Ergou stepped forward and picked up the hare. After weighing it, he looked at Watson and said with a smile: "Watson, this must weigh seven or eight pounds, right? My sister can have a full meal this time. You can go to my house for dinner tonight." "
Watson also reached out to pick it up, weighed it, and said with a smile: "I'm afraid it's more than that, it's probably about ten kilograms."
Putting the hare into the bamboo basket, Watson looked at the two dogs and asked, "This weighs more than ten kilograms. Can you carry it?"
Ergou looked at him and smiled and said: "You can carry it. Are these all meat? There are some for Master Liu and some for my sister. Now let's go find them for you."
Watson wiped off the snow stains on the two dogs and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it's still early, let's go for a walk."
He had a large family, so Watson thought it would be enough to kill two more.
But, will the animals on the back mountain let him have his way?
According to what his master, Blacksmith Liu, said, even experienced hunters would encounter situations where they couldn't see birds with their guns, not to mention it was the first time for the two of them to go hunting in the mountains.
Ergou didn't know what he was thinking, but he just followed Watson happily with a bamboo basket on his back, humming children's songs from the small town.
"Stop making noise, do you want to scare them away?" Watson turned back and glared at him.
Ergou was stunned, looked at Watson and laughed: "I forgot about it when I was so happy! Don't worry, I won't do it again."
Ergou reached out his left hand and covered his mouth.
The two of them walked around for nearly half an hour before they found a turtle dove in a tea bush.
This time, Watson didn't hesitate anymore and waved Ergou down. He had already taken a bamboo arrow in his hand.
Before he stopped moving, in this flash of lightning, he bent the bow with his left hand, and a bamboo arrow appeared in his hand.
The moment he took a sideways step, he suddenly drew the wooden bow. When the string is full, the loose arrow comes out, and when the string is full, the bamboo arrow leaves the string!
...
The two dogs at the foot of the mountain.
Xiaolian and her mother were guarding a pot of charcoal fire, holding a freshly roasted sweet potato in their hands, carefully cutting open the skin and taking a bite.
He looked at his mother and said with a smile: "These sweet potatoes are so sweet, mother, come and take a bite."
Xiaolian's mother stretched out her hand to wipe the charcoal ash from the corner of her mouth, and said with a smile: "You eat it first, and Mom will bake another one."
Looking at the snow falling in the sky outside the door, Xiaolian couldn't help but ask: "Mom, do you think my brother and Watson can catch a hare today? My brother said that Watson's archery skills are amazing!"
The woman who was roasting sweet potatoes on the brazier looked at her daughter and replied gently: "If you believe him, they will definitely be able to shoot!"
Xiaolian was stunned, turned to look at her and asked: "Mom, what's the truth? Could it be that as long as Xiaolian thinks hard, my brother and Watson can bring a hare back to Xiaolian?"
The woman looked at her and replied softly: "There is a truth that your husband will teach you when you go to school. That sentence is: if you keep it in mind, there will be a response!"
"If you keep thinking about it, there will be echoes! Then Xiaolian is thinking about her brother and Brother Watson very much. Please God bless them and bring Xiaolian back a hare."
The brazier in the room shone on Xiaolian's face, with a faint red light, like hope on a spring night.
...
"Watson, we should go home! It will be dark if we don't go." Ergou's black boots squeaked in the snow, and he raised his head and shouted.
"Just come! Don't rush me!"
Watson, who was hiding among the tea bushes, stood up, reached out and patted the snow off his body, and responded loudly.
"It's dark, and the pheasants and hares are hiding!" Watson walked over through the thick snow, carrying a turtledove in his hand.
"That's enough. Let's come back in a few days. We have to go to school tomorrow."
Ergou was very satisfied with being able to catch a hare and went home to give his sister and mother a surprise.
Watson handed the bow and arrow in his hand to Ergou, put the turtle dove in his hand in the bamboo basket, and said with a smile: "Help me lift it up, I will carry it for a while, and you will carry it later!"
"Watson, be careful. The road down the mountain is slippery. Let me go to the front. Don't be impatient." Ergou held the bamboo basket and asked Watson to carry it. Today's harvest was finally enough for the three families to share.
"Don't worry, as long as you get home before dark."
Watson was also afraid that his mother and Sister Hong would worry him, so he wanted to go home early. He had to send a pheasant to the master first. It was his promise to give the master a surprise. "My mother must not have cooked dinner yet. I'm afraid my sister is still waiting for the hare you gave her."
Ergou looked at Watson and laughed, holding his bow and arrow and walking forward.
Watson said loudly: "I'm afraid my mother is also waiting for me to bring some game back tonight. My father said that if you have game, you have to have a drink with Uncle Liu!"
"Come back next time, we have to find a way to hit more and send them to the teacher in your school." Ergou gestured with Watson as he walked. The red little face showed an excited expression.
The two friends got a harvest the first time they went into the mountains, which was not easy.
"You have to remember, sir, to shoot a few more turtle doves next time and I will send them to you."
