The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

The pellets were yellow clay balls made by Yang Dalin. These were dried on a kang (a heated brick bed) and were better than small stones.

Once he found his aim, Yang Dalin slowly ventured deeper into the forest.

In winter, the forests on the northern plains are probably only home to a few birds on the branches.

Rabbits aren't easy to spot; if they were, who knows how many times the hungry workers would have caught them.

As for snakes, they are mostly hibernating. Besides, there are very few venomous snakes in the north, so you're unlikely to encounter them in these plains and forests.

I was wearing cotton shoes and cotton pants, so even if they came, they couldn't bite through.

And with such keen senses, excellent hearing and eyesight, I'm not afraid at all.

Not far inside, Yang Dalin spotted a wild pigeon.

The scientific name for wild pigeons should be the ring-necked dove, but Yang Dalin doesn't know if that's what they're all called.

Anyway, his hometown has always called it Wild Pigeon, which looks a lot like a pigeon.

This thing has a very strong temper. In his previous life, Yang Dalin caught a small one and tried to raise it, but it wouldn't survive. It wouldn't eat anything you prepared, so fortunately, he eventually released it.

This one looks quite plump, so Yang Dalin is going to give it a warm bath.

Aim the slingshot and fire.

"Bang,"

It hit the wild pigeon's head with pinpoint accuracy.

The wild pigeon fell down immediately.

Yang Dalin stepped forward, picked it up, took out the dagger from his spatial storage, cut off the already smashed head, drained the blood, and then temporarily put it back into his spatial storage.

This thing isn't big, probably only a little over four ounces. Keep spinning.

Yang Dalin was making things so that he could provide his family with something good to eat.

Otherwise, who knows what kind of trouble will happen in the yard.

After wandering around for a while, I spotted a grey magpie. This one's good too, I'll take it.

The forest was quite large, and Yang Dalin soon caught three wild pigeons, two pheasants, four magpies, and five sparrows.

That's enough for a meal; let's shoot fewer birds.

Although shooting birds is not illegal now, others don't have my level of accuracy. Most people would have a hard time catching a pheasant.

Let's look for wild rabbits. Although you can't eat too many of them when you're hungry, they're still heavy.

These birds are too light; even the pheasants weigh just over a pound each.

Leave some for others.

Yang Dalin looked in the direction he had come from; the trees obscured the view, making it virtually impossible to see the factory gate.

So Yang Dalin took out his crossbow and practiced with it.

This thing even has a scope, which makes things even more convenient for Yang Dalin.

While others need to use their feet to pull the crossbow to load an arrow, Yang Dalin, being a strongman, loads an arrow with ease.

They found a tree to use as a target, and there were a hundred arrows. When Yang Dalin started shooting, he discovered that the arrowheads were five different types.

There are twenty of each kind, which is very convenient. They are good for killing, good for bleeding, good for hunting small animals, and good for breaking armor and killing large prey.

Yang Dalin had to praise the system; it was truly thoughtful.

After firing more than a dozen arrows in succession, Yang Dalin realized he had the strength and the accuracy.

The wind is weak in the woods, and I can't launch from a great distance. It's not an open area. In the woods, I can only shoot a few dozen meters at most, so I don't need to worry about the wind speed.

Then Yang Dalin put away the arrows and began looking for wild rabbits.

Actually, when hunting wild rabbits in plains areas, it's best to look for ditches or cemeteries.

Because few people go to these two places, and the second place has lush grass, making it easy for them to hide. If there were dogs, they could come out at night in winter to ambush the rabbit burrows, which would be quite dangerous.

In Yang Dalin's previous life, one of his uncles would take his dog to catch wild rabbits on late autumn or early winter nights in the 1990s. He could catch hundreds of them in one night, which shows how many of these creatures there were.

Unfortunately, as pesticides became more widely used, this stuff became scarce.

Even though it's a time of famine, we can still find some.

Just pay attention to the terrain.

Yang Dalin found one near a shallow ditch in the woods.

Yang Dalin originally wanted to use a crossbow, but then thought better of it and decided to use the enhanced slingshot instead, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the wound to Brother Tian later.

As long as the bullet hits the rabbit's head, it's not a big problem.

Plus, with its steel frame and four pressure bands on each side, this slingshot is powerful enough to hit people.

Yang Dalin switched to a slingshot, aimed, and fired.

"Bang!" A wild rabbit jumped up and then fell to the ground.

Yang Dalin quickly stepped forward and drained the blood into his spatial storage.

Follow the rabbit's path to find the rabbit hole.

As the saying goes, rabbits don't eat the grass near their burrows, so there's usually more grass around the entrance to a rabbit hole than in other areas.

It's winter now, and the grass is all withered, making it easier to find the burrow entrance.

Before long, Yang Dalin found a rabbit burrow, then found the other two entrances and blocked them up.

Clear away the withered grass around the first hole.

We started smoking the smoke, hoping for a good result.

At the same time, we also need to check if there are any other holes that are emitting smoke.

Otherwise, if they escape through a hole they've never seen before, it'll be useless.

After smoking for a while, sure enough, a large one ran out. Yang Dalin reacted quickly and knocked down another one weighing four or five pounds.

A little while later, more rabbits ran outside, but Yang Dalin didn't catch them and let them all escape.

Yang Dalin extinguished the fire completely and buried all the ashes with soil.

It would be a real problem if a fire broke out in the woods.

Open the other two holes as well.

Little bunnies, keep them here, I hope you grow up quickly.

I'll come back later.

Yang Dalin repeated the same method and caught four more large rabbits.

Just then, he heard Brother Tian calling him, so he prepared to go back.

Yang Dalin agreed and said he would be right there.

Take a rope from the space and tie the bird prey and the two rabbits together.

The other four rabbits will be temporarily stored in the space.

I originally wanted to use a burlap sack, but I didn't bring a burlap sack into the woods earlier, and a large burlap sack wouldn't fit my satchel.

So we can only use ropes for now.

Yang Dalin, carrying a large string of prey, emerged from the woods and saw his colleagues' cars already driving away.

The other colleagues and the factory manager were amazed that Yang Dalin had gained so much in such a short time.

They all congratulated him, and Yang Dalin, being quite polite, offered to give the factory manager a rabbit.

Although the other party really wanted them, seeing that there were two rabbits and that the driver also needed to curry favor, they reluctantly confiscated them.

This factory has about a thousand employees. Who would they feed the rabbits they harvest?

It would have been better not to do it at all. He even took a burlap sack from the factory and helped pack the prey into it.

When his colleagues praised Yang Dalin with envy, Yang Dalin said he would treat everyone to meat when he got back.

Please ask the chefs at the freight station canteen to help process it.

We didn't eat dinner at the factory, since we still had dozens of kilometers to go.

So everyone just drove off.

On the way, Brother Tian looked at the prey at his feet and praised him, "Not bad, Da Linzi, you've got some skills. Did you use your slingshot to shoot it all?"

Yang Dalin agreed, "Yes, Brother Tian, ​​it was all because of the pressure we faced when we were kids. The year before last and last year, we were starving, so we had to find all sorts of ways to get food."

With practice and by learning from other elderly people, you'll understand.

Upon hearing this, Tian Xueyi realized that his little brother had suffered a lot of hunger, all because he had been forced to.

So he changed the subject: "Okay, let's go to the Northeast, and the grasslands. I have comrades there, and there's plenty of prey there."