Chapter 2: Half in Hand

Put the 80% new Type 56 semi-automatic and the three magazine slots aside.

Wrap everything else up again and carry it on his back. Pull the bolt empty a dozen times to let the frozen springs inside recover their elasticity.

Then open the magazine catch, press in the bullets, put the empty magazine slot in his pocket, close the safety, raise the gun to his face, and aim around.

The Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, known as the hunting artifact, can achieve continuous fire by continuously pulling the trigger, or single fire. The magazine capacity is 10 rounds, the gun length is 1.025 meters, it uses standard 7.62mm bullets, and is equipped with a folding bayonet. After loading the bullets, it weighs about eight jin.

This is the magazine slot.

Wang An was really too familiar with this gun. In his past life, almost half of what he sold were these guns. Of course, selling guns was still mainly single-barreled hunting guns, double-barreled hunting guns, and flintlock guns!

Wang An didn't know the price of the Type 56 semi-automatic now, but before Wang An went to prison, the price of a Type 56 semi-automatic on the black market was already about four thousand. In the 90s, how many ten-thousand-yuan households were there in the whole country?

Wang An decided to hunt some meat today to let his family satisfy their cravings.

Although Wang An in his past life tinkered with guns every day and had good marksmanship, he really didn't know much about mountain hunting! He only had a half-understanding of the rules and such.

After all, before going south, Wang An mainly went into the mountains to pick mushrooms or dig wild vegetables and medicinal materials, or to hit hazelnuts and pine nuts or pick wild walnuts, all just to eat. He was doing mountain picking work.

While vigilantly watching the surroundings, he walked into the deep mountains. After walking for more than an hour, Wang An didn't find any prey, not even a pheasant or a rabbit, which made him a little depressed.

And Wang An was a little hungry now, mainly because he hadn't eaten a single bite of food from morning until now.

After walking for another hour, just when Wang An was about to give up and wanted to go home to eat, he heard the sound of "Fen," "Fen" not far away.

It was obvious that prey had appeared, and Wang An's little mood was instantly excited.

Afraid that the prey would smell him, Wang An tiptoed around to the leeward side.

Then he slowly approached, trying his best not to make a sound. When the distance was less than one hundred meters, Wang An hid behind a cluster of bushes and slowly poked his head out to look at the prey.

He saw a wild boar under an oak tree in front, rooting in the snow, probably looking for acorns to eat, occasionally raising its head to sniff around.

After a while, the wild boar probably felt itchy, so it rubbed against the oak tree. Good opportunity!

Wang An opened the safety, slowly raised the gun to his face, and when the wild boar's head appeared in the sight, he decisively pulled the trigger. "Bang," "Bang," he fired two shots directly.

The wild boar didn't even turn its head, it just rushed forward. It ran for more than twenty meters before falling to the ground. It had to be said that the vitality of this wild boar was quite tenacious.

Seeing this scene, Wang An quickly got up and ran towards the pig. When the distance was less than ten meters, he fired another "Bang" shot at the wild boar's forehead. In his past life, Wang An had heard plenty of stories about wild animals feigning death and then attacking people.

This was a male wild boar, called a "cannon egg" by the locals, about 200 jin. Of the first two shots, one hit under the pig's ear, and the other hit the pig's neck. He hadn't touched a gun for more than thirty years from his past life to now, and he didn't expect his marksmanship to still be not bad.

Looking at the pig, there were no scars on its body, and he didn't know why it wasn't in the pig herd but was looking for food here by itself.

"Hahaha..." Imagining the satisfaction of his family eating meat, especially his little sister's pitiful little face!

Wang An couldn't help but laugh out loud. He took out his hunting knife and stabbed it directly into the wild boar's neck to bleed it. He carefully opened the belly with the hunting knife and took out the internal organs and threw them on the snow.

He poured out the intestines and the dirty things in the pig's stomach, rubbed them several times in the snow, then stuffed a lot of snow into the pig's belly, and stuffed the internal organs and such back in.

These intestines and internal organs were all meat! How could he throw them away?

He used hemp rope to tie a simple sled (a tool in the Northeast, two long pieces of wood on the left and right sides, with wooden boards across the middle), and laboriously moved the wild boar onto the sled. It was really heavy as a dead pig!

People in this era could carry two or three hundred jin on a pole and walk ten or twenty miles, which was quite normal, but moving a wild boar of more than 200 jin was not easy.

Wang An arched his back and dragged the sled slowly home. It took a full two hours to reach the entrance of the village.

Wang An was exhausted, panting, and shivering all over.

Because the Wang family lived at the very west end of the village, he didn't meet any villagers on the road, which was good, saving trouble.

Otherwise, if someone opened their mouth to ask you for a piece of meat, you would have to give it.

Because this is the local rule—that is, "mountain wealth cannot be enjoyed alone."

Taking a deep breath, Wang An dragged the sled into the yard with all his might and sat directly on the pig.

Panting heavily, he was really tired, thirsty, and hungry!

After relaxing for a while, Wang An stretched his neck and shouted towards the house:

"Dad, Mom, little brother, who is at home? Come out quickly."

It was a good time, because it was noon, the whole family might be waiting for lunch, and no one had gone out.

Wang Dazhu, Liu Guilan, and Wang Yi heard the shouting in the house and all ran out. Looking at Wang An in front of them and the wild boar under Wang An's butt, everyone was stunned!

Wang An supported his legs and stood up with difficulty, saying:

"Dad, Mom, little brother, you guys clean up the pig, we'll eat meat at noon, I'll go into the house to rest and drink a bowl of water, I'm exhausted."

He didn't dare to say anything else, because Wang An had been carrying a gun, and he estimated that everyone had seen it just now!

And now, he really didn't know how to explain the wild boar and the gun.

Oh! It's urgent.

Wang An in his past life was not a good bird, otherwise he wouldn't have dared to listen to the ginseng merchant's coaxing at 24 and run to the south alone.

You know, at the age of 24 in the countryside, basically children would already be buying soy sauce, but Wang An couldn't even find a partner.

1.8 meters tall, exquisite facial features, high nose bridge, a pair of big eyes glowing with spirit, sword eyebrows!

To say that such a figure and appearance couldn't be called a handsome man, he could at least be called a little handsome guy...

Unfortunately, Wang An was kicked home by the teacher before he finished the third year of junior high, the reason being—hooliganism!

After not studying, Wang An became an unbridled wild horse, rubbing the forest farm's small train to the county seat every few days...

He didn't do big things, but small things were constant! He didn't gamble big money, but he gambled small money!! He didn't break the law, just a loafer!

The most important thing is that every time he went to the county seat, he would go to the middle school where he studied and find the partner he once hooliganized—Mu Xueqing.

Mu Xueqing was two years older than Wang An and was Wang An's classmate.

She had a gentle personality, was relatively introverted, and was particularly beautiful. Her facial features were as exquisite as if they had been carved, her skin was fair, her figure was tall, and the two places that raised offspring were towering!

Although everyone wore black, gray, or blue, and wide labor cloth clothes, it still couldn't hide Mu Xueqing's nearly S-shaped figure.

Mu Xueqing fascinated Wang An so much that he was completely lost. It wasn't just Wang An who was fascinated like this, but Wang An was tall and big, and he beat up all the young men who wanted to get close once or twice!

This led to many classmates holding a grudge against Wang An, and finally a small report went up... Wang An left school and returned home!

Wang An could leave home to go south in his past life, on the one hand, to get rich, and on the other hand, because Mu Xueqing was married to Wang An's classmate, Zheng Fei, by her parents for a bride price.

After marriage, Zheng Fei often beat and scolded Mu Xueqing. After Wang An beat Zheng Fei up several times, Mu Xueqing cried and found him, begging Wang An not to beat Zheng Fei anymore...!

In short, Mu Xueqing was the kind of traditional woman who followed the chicken if she married a chicken and followed the dog if she married a dog.

From then on, Wang An was both sad and helpless! He lost his soul and no longer cared about Mu Xueqing....

What reason should he make up? Wang An, lying on the kang in the west room, thought hard...!

In this era, although guns were very common, there were only a few hunters in the village, basically all 16-gauge hanging barrels (single-barreled hunting guns could fire slugs or shot).

Let's just tell the truth! Lying about this kind of thing would only make his parents worry, it's not worth it.

In the yard, the two younger sisters didn't know when they ran out, laughing so hard that their big eyes were almost gone. Wang Yi was also helping to unload the pork with a smile on his face. Only Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan were full of gravity, not knowing what they were thinking.

After unloading the meat, more than 20 minutes had passed. After Wang Dazhu rinsed the pig intestines in a water basin several times, Wang An couldn't help but shout:

"Dad, Mom, come to my room, I have something to tell you!"

Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan looked at each other, took a rag to wipe their hands, and went to the west room with Wang An. At this time, the three brothers were still looking at the meat and laughing.

Wang An pondered for a moment and said:

"Dad, Mom, I want to show you something."

As he spoke, Wang An placed everything he dug up in the morning on the kang.

The couple was already a little scared at this time, especially when they saw the small gold nugget.

Because in this era, gold is not circulated among the people. Although everyone knows this thing is valuable, no one will buy it.

And people who have this thing also exist in the form of jewelry, and they have to hide it, for fear of being seen.

Immediately after, Wang An simply explained the matter.

He just changed the news he heard in his past life to the news he heard when he went to the county seat a few days ago, and changed the shepherd and woodcutter discovering the guns to those four criminals staying at the ruined temple behind the back mountain of Yangshu Tun....

After speaking, Wang An looked at the couple and explained that the serial numbers of these two guns had been filed off and could not be sold.

Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan listened to Wang An's explanation as if they were listening to a heavenly book.

After a long while, Wang Dazhu said hesitantly:

"That is to say, these guns are ours now? Those four bandits are all dead?"

"Yes, except for the three of us, no one knows what happened." Wang An hurriedly said affirmatively.

"Then what am I worried about! I thought you were the one who stole it!" Wang Dazhu seemed to be completely relaxed.

Wang An stared at his old father blankly, but in his heart he was thinking: "Am I that bad?"

Liu Guilan also relaxed, picked up the gold nugget with a smile and said:

"Half a lifetime, this is the first time I've seen such a big piece of gold. In the past, it was something only landlords and rich people had! Now our family has it too... Hehehe..."

Wang An was directly stunned by the couple's operation!