Back to 1992, slingshot hunting skill points!

Lin Chuan guessed that he had added some more tung oil to the bamboo tube and was roasting it by the fire when his mother came out, yawning.

"Mom, why are you so sleepy?"

"I couldn't sleep last night. Hmm~, why are there so many rabbits? When were they killed?"

"I just got rid of it on the way to get the cage. I have to skin it first, otherwise it won't sell well."

Mom immediately got into the swing of things and started peeling the tung oil with Lin Chuan, while Lin Feng assisted. When they got to the sixth piece, Lin Chuan glanced at the tung oil and saw that it had already turned into liquid.

He found a bowl and began to bleed the rabbit, mixing the rabbit blood with tung oil in a 3:3 ratio, and then put the bowstring he had prepared the night before into it.

"You keep an eye on it and take it out in twenty minutes. I'll go get the cage first."

"Brother, do you want me to come with you?"

"No need, just dissect the rabbit, that will speed things up."

The three worked together: the mother skinned the animal, Lin Feng gutted it, and Lin Chuan retrieved the cage.

First cage, harvest points +45; second cage, harvest points +47; third cage, harvest points +43.

His total harvest points reached 464, but there were no skills left to add. However, when he first got the system, he vaguely sensed that the harvest points could be used for a lottery, which was something to look forward to.

The three cages yielded a total of 135 catties, which is two catties more than yesterday's catch, indicating that there are quite a few fish in the river.

Before the proliferation of pesticides and the advent of electrofishing equipment, there were plenty of fish wherever there was water. After all, it was difficult to set nets, and fishing or catching fish couldn't keep up with their reproduction rate. This is why few people bother with river fish these days.

Having learned his lesson yesterday, Lin Chuan didn't carry two cages at once today. He didn't use a flashlight, but carried the cages and ran very fast. He carried three cages of fish back home, but he hadn't finished processing the rabbits yet.

Lin Xue also got up. The little girl looked quite energetic this morning, wearing a light blue dress with messy hair, obviously her mother hadn't had time to tie her hair yet.

Lin Chuan waved to her, and she immediately ran over.

"Go get the comb and hair tie, I'll do your hair."

"Brother, you can even do hair?"

"I can barely do it, but it looks really bad. Do you still want me to do it for you?"

The little girl looked conflicted. If she accepted the gift, she was afraid of getting hurt and looking ugly; if she didn't accept it, she felt inexplicably sorry for her brother.

In the end, Lin Chuan won her over. She gritted her teeth, nodded, and handed the comb and hair tie to Lin Chuan.

"Brother, take it slow and make it look nice."

Lin Chuan suppressed a laugh and quickly tied her hair into a bun. The little girl looked sullen, thinking that her brother must have done it too quickly and it must not look good, but she was too embarrassed to say so, and she sulked to herself.

Until Lin Feng glanced up unintentionally:

"Hey, Xiaoxue, your hair looks great! When did you learn to do your own hair, bro?"

Hearing this, Mom looked up and praised, "It is quite beautiful."

The little girl's face instantly brightened, and she ran to her room. A moment later, she came out holding a mirror, looking at herself with a silly grin on her face, admiring herself.

As Lin Chuan poured the fish out, he said to Wang Xiuxia:

"Mom, how about we buy a bicycle with the money we made from selling fish today?"

"Why buy a bicycle? It costs over two hundred yuan."

"Mom, we can't keep borrowing Aunt Lan's bike every day. The fish we sell in a day are enough to buy a bicycle. Anyway, we have the bike, so it will be more convenient to go anywhere later."

After Lin Chuan finished speaking, he saw that his mother didn't say anything, so he knew that everything was settled and that this was an easy deal to calculate.

My mom hadn't quite grasped the situation before; when she heard it was over two hundred yuan, she instinctively refused. Little did she know, things were very different in her family than before.

Sure enough, after Lin Chuan finished emptying the three baskets of fish, his mother sighed:

"I don't care what you do. Buy it if you want. You're all grown up now, so make your own decisions."

Lin Chuan smiled but didn't say anything. Seeing his mother and younger brother dividing the fish, he went inside and put two wild boar stomachs in the pot.

It is said that wild boar stomach is good for the stomach. Lin Chuan later investigated and found that they are both pig stomachs, neither is more noble than the other, and their nutritional value is exactly the same.

However, pig stomach is indeed good for the stomach. Lin Chuan originally wanted to save it for his mother, but she couldn't finish it all. They hadn't even eaten the fish, meat, turtle, or pheasant yet.

It's better to sell it first; we can buy pig stomachs to eat later.

The two sacks of fish weighed a total of 130 jin (65 catties), and the white-striped rabbits filled half a sack. Because he was planning to buy a bicycle, he didn't borrow one and carried it on a shoulder pole to take the bus.

There are several buses a day to Luo County, but that's to the town. There's only one bus that passes through Qiaotouwan. It departs from upstream of Huaihe Village at 6:00 AM and arrives here at around 6:20 AM.

Seeing that it was already six o'clock, Lin Chuan picked up the sacks and hurried off. Missing the appointed time would be quite troublesome. Before setting off, Lin Chuan gave a final, reassuring reminder:

"Xiaofeng, don't forget to air out the blankets. Soak the ones that can be soaked in boiling water with sulfur powder. Spray some sulfur water on the bed board as well. Turn the blankets over once they're warm from the sun."

"Okay, okay, brother, don't nag like Mom."

"Brother, come back soon. Don't spend the money recklessly; bring it back for Mom to save."

Lin Chuan glanced at the time; it was 6:05. He carried his load on a shoulder pole and hurried toward the roadside. Just a few minutes after he reached the roadside, the car arrived.

The entrance to the vegetable market in the county town.

Lin Chuan was recognized as soon as he arrived; his incredible slingshot skills from yesterday had made him famous.

"Hey, young man, you're here. Do you have wild boar meat today? Give me two pounds."

"Good morning, Auntie. We don't have wild boar meat today, but we have rabbit, which was just killed this morning, and fish too."

"This rabbit is very fresh. How much is it?"

"Six yuan each, first come, first served. These two small ones count as one."

Rabbit meat is priced at 2.8-3 yuan per jin, slightly lower than pork. The white rabbits that Lin Chuan slaughtered, except for two small ones, mostly weighed about 2.1-2 jin. The two small ones weighed about 2.5 jin in total, but since they had more bones and two heads, the total weight was about the same.

But they looked so cute that the older woman who asked the price grabbed the two rabbits, quickly paid, and business was in business.

I was on the bus today and couldn't add water to the fish, so most of them died, and the price was reduced by one cent.

The goods sold out in just over two hours, and I received a total of 315 yuan.

Lin Hongmei never showed up. After selling his goods, Lin Chuan first bought a bicycle for 240 yuan, and then bought a lock with a chain for five yuan.

Then I rode my bicycle to the outside of the Green Willow Community, and just as I was about to register, someone suddenly shouted from behind:

"Hey, what are you doing here?"

Lin Chuan turned around and saw a girl wearing black-rimmed glasses, a light green dress, and apricot-colored sandals.

Lin Chuan had never seen this style of skirt and sandals at the department store yesterday.

Lin Chuan was completely confused by the call and racked his brains but still couldn't remember who this person was.

They're definitely not relatives, and probably not classmates either. If there were someone this good-looking among classmates, they wouldn't be unforgettable.

He asked tentatively:

"Young lady, are you calling me?"