slingshot
Lifting the slingshot makes people's minds immediately return to childhood!
My childhood was in the late sixties and early seventies of this stage, when the children's toys were not as much as now, but always feel that playing red-hot, happy, because sometimes a toy children can participate, and now the children's toys are various, gorgeous and beautiful, a wide variety, some toys are very scientific and technological, but basically who plays who, do not interfere with each other. When we were young, there were few types of toys, and our memories included: iron rings, hairy eggs, sandbags, ice walking cars, gunpowder guns, slingshots, etc.
These toys are made by their parents or themselves. Speaking of the production of the slingshot is not complicated, the slingshot is composed of a slingshot fork, a tan (tan) skin, a bullet stone bag, a good quality slingshot is the most important "bullet stone bag", it is about three or four centimeters long, about two centimeters wide, the most specialized "magazine" for loading the stone, it is a special wild animal skin: suede, so far I do not know that the hometown people call it "Xiangzi", the suede is soft and wear-resistant, if the stone is put into it, the mother index finger holding the bullet stone bag can hold the stone tightly, so that the stone that is ejected does not deviate and is strong.
Slingshot fork has two kinds of wood and wire, the wire slingshot fork needs rough wire, hand clamp hammer can be made, but it is uncomfortable to hold in the hand, most children use wood, and wooden slingshot fork needs to go to the tree to find the natural growth of the "fork", if you choose a hard and strong slingshot fork, in the hometown we will go to find elm trees, almond trees, if you can enter the original forest dozens of kilometers away from home, naturally will choose loquat or birch, because this wood is smooth and strong. Slingshot fork selection can not be too thin nor too thick, according to their own strength and palm size and selection, the best season to choose a slingshot fork is spring, cut off the slingshot fork with a knife, cut off the bark, cut a shallow groove in the face of a fork head, easy to bind the elastic belt. The material that is elastic and not easy to break is of course the dai tire of the rack car, and the rack car at that time was quite expensive, just like the small car now, who has a rack car is a glorious thing.
The first time I did a slingshot, I found a black inner tire (dai) hanging on the outer wall of the house, and when I saw that there was an inch-long opening in one of the tires, I thought that this tire would not be used again.
I immediately took the scissors from my mother's sewing basket, and "clicked" a section of the tire about fifteen centimeters long, and then divided it into two. One end is tightened and then tied with a rope, and the other end is also stuck into a marble bag. When I made the slingshot, I proudly held it in front of my companions to show off, and from then on my "slingshot life" began...
Unexpectedly, after I went home in the afternoon playing crazy, as soon as I entered the door, I found that my uncle had a black face and a piece of wood in his hand and asked me sharply:
"Did you hinge the tire?"
"Yes..."
"Snapping", my leg had been beaten four or five times by Uncle Da, I rubbed my leg and howled, and Grandma came out and said Uncle:
"If you ream it, you will hinge, what does the child know?" ......”
Uncle no longer fights, and slows down and says to Grandma:
"I went to buy glue, ready to repair the tire, who knows let him give the hinge, but also have to buy a new tire to go ..."
Uncle Dae cherishes this rack car, I know that it is Uncle Da's prize, is the "Agricultural Dazhai" pingtian land preparation when the county government to give the model workers!
After having a slingshot, no matter where I go, the slingshot is something I must bring, and the level of my slingshot is getting higher and higher, and it can be said that the sparrow within twenty meters can be said to have no false hair!
In the years of playing with the slingshot, there were indeed companions who beat people with slingshots. Especially in August and September, the season when the apricots are ripe, meet with their companions, afraid of being discovered by the people who watch the apricot trees, hide outside the garden of the production team, hit the apricot branches with a slingshot, and the apricot branches shake rapidly under the action of the external force, and the apricots crackle and fall to the ground, and we secretly climb under the tree to pick up the apricots...
When I went to high school, I never played slingshot again, because the school was in Dajing, dozens of miles away from home, and the school would not let you play slingshot...
At this moment, I am reminded of the poem of Lin Kui in the Song Dynasty:
Ups and downs of feelings everything is the same,
Ten years of Cao She's drunken spring breeze.
Slingshot Garden,
The chess hall was silent.
Barefoot I have no,
The black-headed monarch cooperated with the three dukes.
The rivers and lakes are still knotted today,
See the return to the flying dot Hong.
Hit the slingshot