Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 118 Searching for the Plane All Over the Mountains

Touching the cool metal of the plane, Hou Xiaoge felt that everything he had done was worth it.

"Ling'er, I remember there are a few buckets of paint in the warehouse. This task is handed over to you. These red circles are annoying to me. You should paint them all over." Hou Xiaoge said with a look of disgust as he looked at the red circles on the plane after getting off the plane.

"Okay, young master, let me hand it over to your most capable subordinate, Ling'er!" Ling'er stood on Hou Xiaoge's shoulder with a smile.

After recovering, Hou Xiaoge happily left with a pheasant raised in the space.

As soon as Hou Xiaoge came out of a hidden cornfield, he met three young men who were searching.

When several people saw the pheasant in Hou Xiaoge's hand, their eyes lit up instantly and they prepared to rob the child Hou Xiaoge.

"Where did you get this pheasant? Did you catch it in the cornfield in front?

I tell you, this cornfield belongs to us, put the pheasant down quickly." One of the young men shouted at Hou Xiaoge excitedly.

Hou Xiaoge is already accustomed to this kind of people who like to take advantage of others. There is nothing he can do about it because he is short and is just a ten-year-old child!

Hou Xiaoge didn't want to waste any more words on this kind of person, and directly took out the box gun attached to his waist. This thing was most intimidating because of its big size.

"You want to steal my chicken but you don't even consider your weight. Get out of here now, or I'll shoot you bastards to death." Hou Xiaoge pulled the trigger and cursed.

They never expected that Hou Xiaoge, a half-grown kid, actually had a gun in his hand. Although they were a group of poor ordinary people, the pistol with a metallic luster was obviously real.

They were so scared that cold sweat broke out on their foreheads and their legs were shaking with fear.

"Young man, we don't dare anymore. Let's go now. Let's go now." The leading young man said and quickly ran into the cornfield next to him.

After scaring away the three idiots, Hou Xiaoge didn't even bother loading his gun. He just walked towards the village team with the pheasant in one hand and the pistol in the other.

Along the way, many people looked at Hou Xiaoge holding a pheasant in his hand, and they all looked envious and jealous, wishing that person was themselves.

There were also people who were eager to try and were ready to do illegal things, but when they saw that the people in Hou Xiaoge's group were inferior to me, they gave up and quietly slipped away.

"Ah! Heiwa, you didn't find the plane, but you caught a pheasant?

My god, this pheasant is so fat! It looks like it weighs five or six pounds." The women in the village who were resting and waiting on the roadside came over curiously.

However, after Hou Xiaoge bled Datou, the villagers were obviously a little afraid of Hou Xiaoge. The simplest proof of this was that no one dared to ask for the pheasant.

"Hey! I was just a blind cat that caught a dead mouse. I was looking for an airplane in the woods when a pheasant was frightened and ran towards me.

There were people everywhere, and the pheasant had no strength left, so I pounced on it and caught it right away. "Hou Xiaoge said nonsense to the villagers around him while holding the pheasant.

"Heiwa's luck is incredible! It's great!"

"A pheasant weighing five or six pounds must be worth at least two dollars. Heiwa is really good at making money."

"Heiwa is indeed blessed. I must let my little Dou get closer to me so that he can share more of Heiwa's blessings."

"Me too!"

"It's the same in my house!"

"Me too!"

……

Hearing that Hou Xiaoge was blessed, the villagers nodded in agreement and expressed their wish for their children to be close to Hou Xiaoge.

Just like that, Hou Xiaoge returned to his team with the pheasant in his hand, looking refreshed and in high spirits amid everyone's praises.

At this time, the only people left in the team were my aunt and my mother with a few younger children. My uncle and my brother-in-law had already gone to look for a plane.

When the aunt and stepmother Wang Maimiao saw Hou Xiaoge coming back with a pheasant in his arms, they were delighted and hurried to greet him.

"Heiwa, you are so lucky, you caught a pheasant just by looking for a plane.

This pheasant is really fat, really good." The aunt took the pheasant and weighed it with excitement, then praised Hou Xiaoge.

"This pheasant should be able to sell for two dollars, right? I'll go to the city to sell it this afternoon, and I can buy more than 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes. I won't have to worry about food for the next month." Wang Maimiao said happily.

When Hou Xiaoge heard that his cheap mother wanted to sell some pheasants in exchange for sweet potatoes, his face was also filled with dismay.

"Mom, this pheasant is for everyone to eat to nourish the body. How can it be exchanged for sweet potatoes? Besides, eating too much of that stuff will cause heartburn." Hou Xiaoge said hurriedly.

"You can't eat it! Why are you so greedy now? You've eaten more meat in this period of time than I have eaten in my entire life, and you still want to eat this pheasant?

This pheasant is worth two dollars! Your father and I couldn’t save a dollar in three or four months. Listen to me and sell it.” Wang Maimiao said while protecting the pheasant.

"Yes, Heiwa, I still have a few pounds of wild boar meat in my backpack! If you are craving for meat, wait for your uncle and others to come back, and I will cut half a pound to cook for you at noon." The pheasant was still alive, and the aunt was reluctant to eat it.

After the younger sister-in-law and stepmother finished speaking, elder sister Hou Xiazhu, eldest cousin Hou Chunhua, and fifth cousin Hou Xuemei also started to persuade them.

A group of women were chattering, and Hou Xiaoge's head suddenly started buzzing.

He originally wanted to let his family members satisfy their cravings, but since they were unwilling to eat, then forget it. He had enough to eat anyway. Hou Xiaoge couldn't stand the pressure and quickly ran aside and stopped talking about eating pheasant.

"Brother, you are so awesome that you can even catch a pheasant." Xiao Shuanniu, who ran back from playing with his friends to see the pheasants, looked at Hou Xiaoge with admiration.

"Haha! Little boy, you can do it when you grow up." Hou Xiaoge touched his brother's head and said with a smile.

"Humph! Brother, you are just lying. Niu Dan and the others said that his father had never caught a pheasant.

Besides, my cousin and his friends couldn’t even catch up with the pheasant, let alone it could fly.” Xiao Shuanniu was stubborn and was not fooled.

"Uh!" Hou Xiaoge was stunned by his brother's mischievousness.

"Okay, when I have time, I'll make you a slingshot. In the future, as long as you practice the slingshot technique well, you can use the slingshot to shoot pheasants." Hou Xiaoge said, thinking of the slingshot he played with when he was a child.

"Really?" The little guy had seen a slingshot before, and said with surprise.

Last year, Shuanniu and his friends were hit with a slingshot by the landlord's son when they were playing in the village. Naturally, the memory of it was very clear.

Slingshots have existed in ancient China. They were made of animal tendons or elastic leather, so ordinary people naturally couldn't afford them.

During the Republic of China, industrial rubber bands appeared and slingshots became more common. However, rubber bands were expensive, with a band several feet long costing one or two dollars, so ordinary people still could not afford them.

So when Hou Xiaoge agreed to make a slingshot for the little guy, the little guy was happy, and the little carrot heads around him were envious.

"Really, as long as you listen to me, I will buy it for you during the New Year." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile.

"Brother, I'm the most obedient." The little guy patted his chest and promised.

"Okay, go play! Don't run too far, there are human traffickers who capture children and break their legs to beg for food." Hou Xiaoge warned.

"Know it!"

The locals and refugees in the surrounding areas spent most of the day searching for the plane. It was not until it was almost dark that they came back dejectedly, dragging their exhausted bodies.

"What's the matter? Didn't find it?" The aunt asked carefully when she saw the men coming back with tired faces.

"Oh! Don't mention it. The plane should have flown away and didn't crash at all. We searched all over the mountains and fields, but no one found it." Erhuan sat on the ground with a gloomy face and complained.

"Brother, it's not that easy to get a bargain. There are at least tens of thousands of people searching for the plane all over the mountains, and there are locals there, so even if they find you, they won't be able to take you away.

Let's take a look at the pheasant I caught! It's a pity that we can't eat it." Hou Xiaoge consoled him and pointed at the tied pheasant.

"Pheasant? Heiwa, you are so lucky!" Erhuan's face was twisted with envy.