Chapter 3

Wang An thought about it, and it wasn't hard to understand; it was ownerless property to begin with!

The only two solutions were to turn it in, but if you turned it in, they would definitely ask where you got it! Once the origin was cleared up, they would definitely ask how you knew about this! Even if you rounded off the lie, they would definitely ask how much you kept for yourself!

How to answer? It's all unsolvable! Mainly the gold issue, which is impossible to explain no matter what.

You wouldn't get any benefits, you'd have a pile of trouble, and in the end, you might even get yourself locked up.

Seeing his parents were so "reasonable"!

Wang An set his mind at ease and said: "Mom, hide this gold nugget well; as for these two guns, do we need to come up with a story? Otherwise, if someone asks, there's no way to explain it!"

"Simple, hide the new one away, and keep the old one out in the open; if anyone asks, just say your uncle bought it as captured internal goods and asked someone to bring it back!" Liu Guilan waved her hand and said casually.

Wang An's eyes lit up when he heard this; this is a good idea! Wang An's uncle was a warehouse keeper at some unit in the neighboring city, and they hadn't been in contact for many years!

Guns are rampant in this era; who would be bored enough to go and verify it? It's simply perfect!

"That works, then let's all say that!"

After discussing the origin of the guns, Wang Dazhu asked: "When did you learn to shoot? I saw those bullet holes were all in the pig's head? Your marksmanship is quite serious!"

"Hey! Don't you think I was just loafing around in the county town every day, doing nothing? I really have touched this thing quite a bit!" Wang An answered without thinking, and secretly thought: "I can't say I've lived through this once already, and I was tinkering with this thing in my past life, right!"

"Then what are you thinking? Are you going to hunt in the mountains from now on?" Wang Dazhu said in a muffled voice.

"Yeah, I can't just loaf around like this every day! I have to find some way to make a living for myself!"

"I like hearing that; you're already twenty years old, jumping around everywhere like a loafer every day; if you don't pay attention, no one will want to be your wife!" Liu Guilan said while examining the gold nugget.

"Yeah, the third son of the Zhang family in the east already got engaged at 18; you look much more energetic than him!" Wang Dazhu said.

"That's right! Let's work hard too; we're not worse than them!" Liu Guilan said.

Wang Dazhu suddenly said solemnly: "It's just that hunting is not like usual; mountain animals are ferocious, you must be extremely careful!"

"If you run into big paws (tigers) or leopards, don't go poking around blindly; if you get kicked to death, what will your father and I do!" Liu Guilan put down the gold nugget and added.

... Listening to his parents' repeated preaching and exhortations, Wang An felt especially moved; poor are the hearts of parents everywhere!

In his previous life, he had treated it all as wind in his ears! He really wanted to give himself two punches!

"That's it, enough said, you're a big person now! Just figure it out yourself!" Liu Guilan said.

"Let's go prepare the meat, those three little ones are about to drool!" Wang Dazhu said with a laugh.

Wang An put the new gun wrapped in oil paper into the kang cabinet (the cabinet at the end of the kang), put the bullets in the drawer under the kang cabinet, and hung the old gun on the wall behind the door.

Liu Guilan got off the kang and went to the east room with the gold nugget, while Wang Dazhu continued to wash the pig intestines.

At noon, the family sat around the kang table to eat; a big basin full of pork belly stewed with sauerkraut, little sauerkraut, lots of meat. The staple food was cornmeal pancakes!

Everyone had meat in their mouths, the whole family was eating until their mouths were oily, and everyone's face was full of smiles!

The two little sisters were muttering while eating: "Finally eating meat, meat is really delicious!"

"So fragrant, if only we could eat meat every day!"

"Bad Gou Dan always makes me crave it, humph, I'm eating meat too! Crave him to death!"

Hearing this, Wang Dazhu, Liu Guilan, and Wang An all laughed out loud; this little girl is quite vengeful!

A big basin of meat and vegetables, even the soup was wiped clean by Wang Yi with pancakes; they hadn't seen meat for a long time, and this meal of meat had the whole family stuffed! Satisfaction hung on everyone's face!

After the meal, the meat and bones left outside were already frozen, and Liu Guilan put them into the big vat under the window outside the house!

This big vat is the natural refrigerator for the people of the Northeast; usually, they put frozen bean buns, frozen tofu, frozen dumplings, frozen meat, and other frozen goods inside. It can ensure the food is frozen and prevent rats from causing trouble!

Every household has one or several such big vats under their windows!

Wang Dazhu built a fire in the courtyard and hung the pig's head, trotters, and tail over it to burn off the pig hair; these are all good things and will absolutely not be wasted!

After burning off the pig hair, Wang An took a hunting knife and scraped off the ash with Wang Dazhu.

In the evening, Liu Guilan cut the fat meat and lard on the pig's belly into small pieces to render oil; because wild boars have a high activity level, there isn't much fat on their bodies, so Liu Guilan only got half a jar of oil in total, but even so, Liu Guilan was still smiling from ear to ear!

This is lard; even if you put just a little bit when cooking, the taste of the dish will undergo earth-shaking changes!

And in this era, if every meal has oil, people will eat less grain but their bodies will be healthier and have more energy!

Wang Yi and the two younger sisters were each holding a bowl of cracklings left over from rendering the oil, dipping them in salt, eating quite happily!

This stuff is indeed delicious; no one in the family ate less, only Wang Dazhu was muttering: "Such delicious food, but no wine, it's all a waste of such good food!"

"You're beautiful! No wine? I think you look like wine! I've been with you for twenty years, when have you ever let me eat meat like today, and you still have the nerve to think about drinking! You're nothing!" Liu Guilan rolled her eyes at Wang Dazhu, her mouth outputting like a machine gun at Wang Dazhu!

Wang Dazhu instantly turned red in the face, clicked his mouth, said nothing, and put another piece of crackling into his mouth...

Wang An and Wang Yi were holding back laughter on the side, not daring to laugh out loud, lowering their heads and shrugging their shoulders for a good while.

The night passed without incident.

In the morning, around 5 o'clock, it was still dark; Wang An put on his clothes and went to the outhouse; when he came back, he saw the kerosene lamp in the kitchen was on, and Wang Dazhu and Liu Guilan were already busy burning fire and cooking in the outer room!

Usually, no one gets off the kang at this time; it might be because they knew Wang An was going into the mountains, so the couple started cooking early.

Because Wang An left without eating breakfast yesterday and dragged back a pig, although the parents didn't say anything, they were still very heartbroken for their son!

Breakfast, cornmeal porridge and cornmeal pancakes! The dish was potato and cabbage stewed with meat! Lots of vegetables, only a few slices of meat!

To be honest, this food was about the same as what Wang An ate in prison in his past life! Even slightly worse, after all, the cornmeal used in prison at that time was machine-processed, relatively fine, and didn't scratch the throat!

And the cornmeal at this time was corn that hadn't been peeled and was directly crushed with a millstone; if you weren't used to it, it really scratched the throat!

"Must find a way to make money to buy some fine grain to eat! Since I've been reborn, I must let my family eat something good!" Wang An muttered secretly in his heart.

After eating, Wang An picked up a few pancakes with a cloth bag; he really didn't want to experience yesterday's hunger again!

With the gun loaded with bullets, he took two full magazines and a box of bullets, plus the same equipment as yesterday, and went into the mountains again!

Wang An now is considered a half-hunter, knowing some common sense things, but he really doesn't know how to find prey, relying entirely on luck, which is damn uncomfortable!

After entering the mountains, most of the time was spent wandering blindly!

If it weren't for getting a gun, and his marksmanship being quite good, he really didn't know if Wang An could continue on this path of mountain hunting!

Pondering secretly in his heart, he must find a mountain hunter to learn how to find prey, and he must find an opportunity to buy a few hunting dogs to drag out, otherwise he wouldn't know how to drag dogs either!

If he just relied on himself to grope slowly, then it would be over! When will he be able to enjoy a happy life freely!

While vigilantly looking around, he walked forward cautiously; there was nothing but trees and snow all over the mountains and plains!

Suddenly, a shadow darted past Wang An's side quickly, scaring Wang An into a start; looking closely, it turned out to be a jumping cat (wild rabbit) running forward!

This angered Wang An, who raised his gun to his cheek, and with a "bang," the jumping cat fell from mid-air to the ground!

Running to the front, quite good!

This shot, the bullet entered the jumping cat's neck at an angle and came out of its head, otherwise, with the power of the Type 56 semi-auto, the jumping cat's skin wouldn't be worth much, and if there were two more holes, maybe the supply and marketing cooperative wouldn't even accept it!

Stabbed the neck with a knife to bleed the jumping cat, didn't even open the belly, and threw it directly into the sack, continuing to wander.

Wandered for nearly an hour, Wang An saw two flowers moving by a tree about two hundred meters ahead, appearing and disappearing; feeling suspicious in his heart, he didn't stop his footsteps; approaching to look, two pheasants were looking for grass seeds in the snowless place under the bushes; it looked like one male and one female!

Pheasants are really beautiful birds! They must be quite good to eat!

Raising the gun to his cheek, Wang An paused and didn't fire, slowly knelt on one knee, waited for a while, and then pulled the trigger.

With a "bang," both pheasants flapped their wings at the same time; one of them fell down just as it was about to leave the ground, and the other had already flown into mid-air, but immediately, like an airplane landing, it slanted into the snow! One shot, two pheasants!

Running forward, he slit the throat of the pheasant that hadn't flown up and was still struggling, immediately ran to the place where the other pheasant fell, and picked up the struggling pheasant from the snow, performing the same operation!

This snow was frozen quite hard, and the pheasant made a small pit when it fell; as he was holding this pheasant and intending to walk toward the previous pheasant.

He discovered a red animal holding the pheasant in its mouth and about to drill into the forest; the speed wasn't fast, because that pheasant looked to be nearly 5 jin in weight! The size of that red animal was only a little more than double that of the pheasant!

"Oh! Are you here to deliver meat to me or to snatch food from me? You are clearly looking down on my marksmanship!" Wang An shouted at the red animal.

The pheasant performed free-fall motion; he raised the gun to his cheek, smoothly disengaged the safety, aimed at the head, and fired a shot!

That red animal didn't even make a sound before its head rested on the pheasant and it lay on the snow!

Running close to look, this is a windfall! A fire fox! A very big fire fox!

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