Chapter 228

Hearing this, Wang Li also stepped forward to join the fun, saying cheekily, "Fourth Brother, do you have any extra box cannons?"

Upon hearing this, Wang An squinted his eyes and rolled them at Wang Li, then said, "Then you 'feel' it, whether I have any extra."

Wang An emphasized the two words "feel" heavily; it could be seen that Wang An hadn't forgotten these two words yet.

Wang Li's brain reacted quite quickly, directly asking with a confused face, "Fourth Brother, what does 'feel' mean?"

Before Wang An could speak, Wang Li continued, "I reckon you probably have some."

Seeing Wang Li's cherish-life little expression, Wang An couldn't help but laugh, and Mu Xueli also felt much better, no longer so worried; the three laughed at the same time.

Then Wang An said with a smile, "Hahaha, then your reckoning is quite accurate."

But Wang An suddenly felt that a box cannon wasn't for hunting, so giving it away for free didn't seem appropriate, so he thought for a moment and said:

"By the way, that box cannon can't be given for free; you two have to give me money, hmm, just give me 100 yuan each."

Actually, although 100 yuan wasn't a small amount, it wasn't much either; after all, even an old hanging-tube gun, the supply and marketing cooperative would still recycle it for 120 yuan.

Although the box cannon was old, the firepower of this gun was quite impressive; if it really started firing, it could genuinely be counted as firepower coverage.

The two breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, and both had expressions that it should be so.

Actually, what the two were worried about was that Wang An wouldn't want money and would give it away for free again!

Because anyone with a bit of face wouldn't take others' help for granted; the key was that the two weren't short of money now.

If people with face weren't short of money, their self-esteem would be very strong; they wouldn't care about small things, but anything worth a bit of money, they absolutely wouldn't take for free.

Wang Li, while counting money, said showily, "Sigh, the feeling of having money in the pocket is just bad; if I don't spend some, my heart feels uncomfortable."

After Wang Li finished counting the money, he used his right hand to pinch the money and flick his wrist, making the money in his right hand hit his left hand, letting the money make a few crisp "slap slap slap" sounds, and only then did he hand the money to Wang An.

Wang An looked at Wang Li's show-off look, took the money, sucked his teeth, and immediately followed with a slap on Wang Li's hat.

After slapping Wang Li, Wang An said to Wang Li with a gloomy smile, "Come, tell me, how does it feel to buy a beating with money? Is it comfortable?"

Mu Xueli, who was also counting money on the side, saw the show-off Wang Li and had been wanting to laugh but had been holding it in; at this moment, he finally couldn't hold it in anymore, and while laughing, said:

"Hahaha, Old Five is acting like this, I knew it... he was going to get beaten! Hahaha..."

Wang Li got slapped and immediately wilted, lowering his head and drooping his shoulders, immediately admitting defeat, and said to Wang An cowardly, "Fourth Brother, I was wrong, I won't show off anymore."

It must be said that Wang Li understood the saying "a hero doesn't suffer immediate losses" very thoroughly and executed it very thoroughly!

Wang An said helplessly with a smile, "You just have a head that asks for a beating; if you don't get beaten for two days, you'll be itching for it on the third day, if I don't beat you, you'll be itching."

Wang Li secretly raised his head and looked, chuckled a few times, and didn't dare to talk back.

Suddenly, Mu Xueli looked at the two sleds behind and said, "Brother-in-law, you say that in the future when we go into the mountains, just like this, driving three sleds, isn't it also quite good?"

This combination was actually quite energetic; behind Wang An's sled, Mu Xueli's big green horse was tied, pulling a sled, and behind Mu Xueli's sled, Wang Li's big white horse was tied, pulling a sled.

And the three of them were all sitting on Wang An's sled, talking nonsense and bragging.

Wang An looked back and forth and felt that this was really not bad; not only could it reduce the burden on the big stallion, but it was also convenient for Mu Xueli and Wang Li, and the main thing was that if they really encountered anything, the mobility was relatively better.

So Wang An nodded and said, "Yeah, in the future, you two should also drive sleds, let my big stallion be a bit lighter."

The three talked and laughed, galloping all the way home.

After returning to Wang An's house, a string of sleds entered the yard; the scene was still quite spectacular.

After Wang An entered the yard and saw no one, he let out a shout, which gave Mu Xueli, who was thinking about things, a fright.

Hearing Wang An's shout, Wang Dazhu and his wife and Mu Xueqing ran out, and immediately after, the three little girls also ran out. Seeing the live pigs, the adults were all very happy, only the three little girls were indifferent.

For things that were on the table every meal, children had no interest at all.

After unloading the pigs from the sled, Wang An called Mu Xueli and Wang Li into the house, then took out four box cannons and said, "You two pick, whichever one you fancy, take it."

Actually, for box cannons that could be passed down to this era, the traces of time were very obvious, so they definitely couldn't be new; they were basically all about the same.

And the wooden boxes that came with these guns were also gone; it was estimated that even if there were, no one would dare to show off and carry them on their waist.

One must know that not being strict and not caring at all were two completely different concepts.

Fortunately, the original owners of these four box cannons should have cherished these guns very much, so they were all well-maintained.

The most important thing was that the rifling wear wasn't very serious, so the accuracy should still be okay.

After Wang An finished speaking, he grabbed two big handfuls of bullets for each of them, estimated the number of bullets, and grabbed another big handful for each; this time, each of them could have over a hundred bullets.

After the two finished picking the guns, Wang An pointed to the bullets on the kang, signaling them to pack them up.

Mu Xueli and Wang Li scanned left and right but couldn't find anything to pack the bullets in, so they packed them all into their own pockets.

Wang An watched the two excitedly fiddling with the guns and asked worriedly, "Can you two figure out this gun?"

Only to see Wang Li scratch his head and say embarrassedly, "Fourth Brother, I feel I can't quite figure it out."

Wang Li almost said the two words "feel" again, but immediately changed his words.

Mu Xueli also said, "Brother-in-law, you'd better teach us, so we can be sure."

Wang An looked at Wang Li's appearance, laughed in his heart, but didn't continue to dwell on this matter, took the gun, and started to explain and gesture for the two.

However, guns were all much the same, so the two learned it after watching once.

The two loaded the guns with bullets and tucked them into their waistbands, then took them off their waistbands, repeatedly gesturing, looking quite happy.

It must be said that although the box cannon was big, stupid, and quite heavy, looking at it tucked into the waistband, it was still quite imposing.

"Brother-in-law, are we going into the mountains tomorrow?" Mu Xueli asked while fiddling with the gun.

Wang An thought for a moment; there were still ten-plus days until the New Year, and killing pigs now was a bit early, so he said to the two, "Go into the mountains, you two come over earlier tomorrow."

"Got it, Fourth Brother, Brother-in-law," the two replied at the same time.

The two refused the retention of Wang An's family and drove the sleds away.

At this time, Mu Xueting suddenly clamored to go home, saying she missed her mother, so she followed Mu Xueli and left.

When leaving, Mu Xueting also said to Wang Xiaomei and Wang Xiaoli, "I'll come to find you two to play in a few days."

"Yeah, elder sister, stay at home for a few days and then come, okay?" Wang Xiaoli, like a little adult, imitated Liu Guilan's tone and said very solemnly.

The three little girls' reluctant farewell made a group of adults laugh out loud.

After Mu Xueli left, Wang Li also drove the sled home, while driving the sled, he touched his lower back, seemingly afraid that the box cannon would be lost.

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