Chapter 7: First Sharpen Your Tools

  When he left, he sat in a Bentley, and when he came back, he sat in a broken-down Mercedes-Benz. When he got on the car, Jin Hu saw that there was still a piece of paint falling off from the rear end. It's really using people to face forward, not backward. In his heart, Jin Hu despised Xu Mao again, and his disdain for him deepened another layer.

  As soon as he got on the car, Jinhu began to think about it. Escorting so much money is not a simple task, and it's necessary to get some handy tools. As for going to work for Xu Mao, Jinhu directly threw it to the back of his mind, completely unaware that he had already become a puppet in other people's eyes. Thinking of getting the tools, Jinhu patted the shoulder of the driver: "Stop at the entrance of the internet cafe ahead, I need to get some stuff for the trip." There's no need to hide it, these days someone might be secretly following him, not maybe, but definitely. It's better to speak out frankly.

  After getting off the car, Jin Hu rushed into the internet cafe and took out 10 yuan from his pocket to hand over to the cashier. The little girl took the money and asked, "Five or ten?" When she heard that Jin Hu had paid for 10, she looked at him with a sunny expression, as if the sun was rising in the west.

  Jintiger sat down at a computer and started contacting someone he had met on a forum before, who was selling crossbows in Jianglin. As a child from the mountains, Jintiger was familiar with guns and bows and arrows. However, no one dared to sell guns openly here, and even if they did, Jintiger might not have trusted them. Bows were a better option, and Jintiger had been chatting with this seller on the same forum for over half a year, so they were familiar with each other's personalities and could chat easily. In private chats, Jintiger also knew that this person had access to controlled items.

  Contacted the person, tomorrow afternoon go to his place to pick goods. Jin Hu watched a movie for a while, only then did he feel that his five internal organs were in turmoil. He even made an unprecedented move and bought a bowl of instant noodles and a bottle of water at the counter, under the gaze of the cashier girl's ghostly eyes, before returning to his seat. For someone who has been online for over half a year without even buying a bottle of water, Jin Hu's actions today were like those of a spendthrift.

  How to describe the complexity of human nature, Jin Hu can lend several thousand yuan to Zou He Ming, and even give away forty or so yuan to the unfamiliar Yu Qin, but he himself is reluctant to buy a bottle of one-yuan water. Others find it strange, if Jin Hu's grandfather saw it, he would nod his head in approval, praising him as a good material for being a family leader, and sighing that the old Jin family has someone to inherit its legacy.

  After watching two movies and spending ten bucks, Jin Hu finally strolled out of the internet cafe, heading towards the construction site.

  Just as he pushed open the gate of the construction site, Jin Hu unexpectedly heard Yu Qin's voice: "Why are you back so late?"

  Jin Hu was taken aback, but quickly regained his composure and listened as Yu Qin continued to say: "Have you eaten yet? I left something for you, it's still warm, let me go get it for you."

  "No need, I've already eaten. In two days, I'll be helping a friend deliver some goods and it may take five or six days to return," Jin Hu said to Yu Qin.

  "So are you going to follow this friend from now on?" Yu Qin thought for a moment: "Then I'll find someone to take care of Nannan tomorrow night, and we'll go out."

  The words had been said to this point, Jin Hu knew what Yu Qin meant and nodded slightly: "Hmm! Then tomorrow night we'll go out, as for doing things with others without a shadow! I'm still working on the construction site, not interested in following him to work. Have the boss and his wife gone to sleep?"

  "There isn't one," Yu Qian said, glancing at the small iron house.

  Jin Hu said to Yu Qin: "Then you go to sleep first, I'll go ask the boss for a leave." After finishing speaking, he lifted his foot and walked towards the house.

  "Boss, boss's wife, are you asleep?" Jin Hu knocked on the door.

  The landlady immediately replied: "I'll come and open the door for you." Before she had even finished speaking, Jin Hu heard the sound of the door creaking open: "Come in and sit down to talk."

  "No need, I just want to take a few days off, about a week or so, help a friend with something and then come back to work," Jin Hu said to the boss's wife.

  "Alright then, I'll get it done as soon as possible and come back early," said the boss's wife to Jinhu.

  "Now you don't have to worry about Jinhu jumping to a higher branch!" The boss said with a smile to the boss's wife.

  The boss's wife smiled: "I just like this kid being diligent and able to eat bitterness, don't you like it?"

  Jin Hu smiled and rubbed his head, then turned around and walked away.

  As soon as he returned to his dormitory, a group of workers lying on the bed asked Jin Hu: "Old Tiger, what did your friend treat you to today?"

  Jin Hu put the bundle of money from his pocket under the pillow, and while undressing, he said: "The more money you have, the stingier you are. He just drank a cup of red wine for dinner and asked me to help him with something! It's just for the wages."

  Lao Qi listened and said: "This person is ungrateful! He doesn't even offer a meal when asking for help."

  They didn't care about their friends discussing Xu Mao's behavior, and instead went to the water tap in the courtyard to take a bath. After coming back, they lay down on the bed and fell asleep soon. In the dream, the metal chair appeared again, this time with an additional map, a blue circle in the middle that kept expanding like ripples. The two scenes kept alternating, but fortunately, it wasn't too scary. As soon as Jin Hu opened his eyes, he muttered: "It's really time to see a doctor, this metal chair is not a good omen. Isn't it said that we're going to align with foreign countries now? Death penalty isn't by shooting anymore, it's changed to electric chair, and this chair looks just like an electric chair, truly inauspicious."

  He had pushed two carts of bricks in the morning, and Jin Hu only changed his clothes and headed to the agreed place. After changing buses twice, he finally arrived at a village entrance on the outskirts of the city.

  As soon as he got off the car, he saw a fat man who was looking around with his head raised. When he saw Jin Hu walking towards him, he confirmed it and took two steps forward: "Gan Shui Jiu Mei?" Jin Hu's online name was derived from a TV series, and the fat man's online name was one of the two most notorious names on the forum.

  Jin Hu smiled: "Are you a yin person?" Looking at the fat man nodding and continuing to say: "This place is really biased."

  "My surname is Zhang, and my given name is Yifan. My small business can't afford to rent a house in the city, and it's quiet here." Zhang Yifan made a please gesture towards Jin Hu.

  Jin Hu followed in Zhang Yifan's footsteps; "My name is Jin Hu".

  "There are also a few friends by the river who want to meet you, heard that you're coming over and they all came together. They've been saying they wanted to meet you for a long time, but you never had the time." Then in a low voice, he said to Jin Hu: "Yi Xiangxi wants to see your archery skills".

  Jin Hu smiled, today is to buy arrows, of course, to try arrows. A group of archery enthusiasts in the city, two years ago, they were not even familiar with drawing a bow. Jin Hu has been playing with bows since he was able to run, if he can't beat them, he might as well go crash into a tofu block and die.

  Walked to the entrance of a small courtyard, saw several cars, estimated that it was the ride of several netizens. The ordinary rural courtyard has nothing to say with a wall around it, after entering the courtyard, I saw several people who were dressed well practicing.

  Introduced one by one, Jin Hu had never seen them before, but the online name was familiar, and they chatted for a while.

  Li Lin said with a smile: "I heard you speaking eloquently in the forum, want to play a game with us?"

  Jin Hu shook his head: "I haven't found a suitable guy yet, let's talk about it after I find one." He was just about to ask Zhang Yifan to take him to choose a bow when Li Lin handed over his own bow: "This three-thousand-dollar bow is too much for me, and the force isn't enough to pull it up."

  Jin Hu, what a good bird, after listening to Li Lin's provocation, directly took over the bow, his left hand hooked a phoenix eye on the bowstring, and pulled the bow into a full moon in one go. After lightly releasing it, he shook his head and said: "The strength is too light!" Jin Hu came to Zhang Yifan's place because he heard that he had a composite bow made by an old craftsman, not for this kind of competition. His own strength has indeed increased a lot since he started having strange dreams, and it was absolutely not so easy for him to pull open this bow before.

  A small hand gently pressed down, and several people were stunned. Zhang Yifan also followed with a cheer. Jin Hu was about to ask Zhang Yifan to take him to choose a bow when Li Lin said: "You're more awesome than me!"

  This remark made Jin Hu glance at him and smile, saying: "The more you practice the better, besides, all of you are using Western archery methods, I'm using the old way, my strength has a bit of an advantage in drawing the bow." Then he turned his head to Zhang Yi Fan and said: "Take me to choose a bow."

  As soon as they heard that Jin Hu was going to choose a bow, everyone went in together to take a look. After Li Lin stepped down from the stage, he also followed them into the house.

  After trying several bows, Jin Hu directly said to Zhang Yifan: "Take out that bow made by your old craftsman and let me try it!"

  "I'm telling you, Wet Brother! I won't sell that bow, I'll keep it for myself to play with," Zhang Yifan said with a bitter face.

  Someone next to him immediately said: "You can't even use it yourself, giving a BMW to a hero, so you're just a common person after all".

  "A famous master's work, I'm not willing to part with it! It seems it's not yours after all!" Zhang Yifan said with a smile.

  Jin Hu listened and smiled, saying: "I'll try it out, I won't take what others love." Zhang Yi Fan then entered his own room, and after a while, he came out with an exquisite box in his arms.

  Jin Hu opened the box, took a look, pulled the bowstring and lost interest in trying it out. This is supposed to be a masterpiece, but the craftsmanship isn't even as good as that of an old man from a small village. Except for looking nice, the workmanship on this bow is at best average.

  Jin Hu said: "Put it away, bring me your most powerful recurve bow here and let me try it".

  "What's wrong?" Zhang Yifan asked.

  "It's nothing, still too light" Jin Hu couldn't bear to say that you are a goods of this kind, it's easy to offend people if he said it. However, several people were not foolish and guessed eight or nine from Jin Hu's actions.

  Zhang Yifan smiled and said: "Just a face-to-face meeting?" Looking at Jin Huo's silence, he understood.

  He hugged the box and sent it back to the house, then directly took out a modern craft, wooden handle with two steel plates, helped Jin Hu hang up the string, and handed it over: "The bow with the greatest pulling force is this war bow. I also bought it through someone else's introduction. It was my first time doing this business, and I paid tuition fees. It has been useless until now." Jin Hu tried it out and felt that it was not bad. He said to Zhang Yifan: "Is there a board pointer? If so, help me find a few more key arrows."

  "Here!" Zhang Yifan turned around and went to hand over the board pointer and arrow to Jin Hu.

  Arrived at the courtyard, Jin Hu stood in the position of a few people earlier and tried it out. He felt a bit awkward, but after adjusting his stance, he shot three arrows in one breath, all hitting the red heart and piercing through the target.