Chapter 34

When Wang An returned home, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were rendering oil.

Looking at the smiling faces of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, it should be quite a lot; the oil from four pigs is unlikely to be little!

These days, whenever Wang An fed the dogs, he would feed them some lard, making the already scarce lard hit the bottom even faster.

Liu Guilan scolded him several times, but found it useless, so later she scrambled to feed the dogs herself.

Last night and today, Wang An directly cut boar meat to feed the dogs.

Liu Guilan was so angry she scolded him again, but Wang An just kept feeding them as he pleased, ignoring her!

He still needed the dogs for hunting; how could he mistreat them! The family wasn't short of meat anyway.

In the evening, the family ate dinner.

Wang An told his parents and wife about his plan to learn hunting from his uncle-in-law, Feng Chengmin, today.

Wang Dazhu lowered his head to eat and didn't speak; in this family, Liu Guilan was the one in charge!

Liu Guilan thought for a moment and asked, "Then are you still staying at your uncle-in-law's house at night?"

Wang An said, "I don't know the situation yet. I'll ride a horse, and if there's nothing going on, I'll come back in the evening!"

Liu Guilan said, "Ever since you brought back those two horses, our family doesn't have much corn left. You'd better take some sorghum rice."

In this era, generally when going to someone else's house, eating a meal or two is fine; no one cares.

If eating for a long time, you either give grain coupons and money, or bring grain directly!

This is also a conventional rule. No family has abundant grain; in serious cases, even biological fathers and sons have to provide grain when eating a meal together!

In the Northeast, although there were no cases of people starving to death, it wasn't because there was enough grain to eat.

It was because of the various mountain animals, wild vegetables, mountain treasures, mushrooms, etc., in the mountains.

Every year, except during busy farming seasons, basically every household is preparing food or things that can be exchanged for money.

Those with ability are mountain-roamers, catching various mountain animals and selling the fur and meat!

If luck is high and they find a black bear to hunt, selling the bear gall and bear skin—one black bear is easily enough for a family's food and expenses for a year!

However, the number of people who lose their lives because of black bears every year is not small!

Secondly, there are the "mountain-callers," which are the ginseng seekers, but this industry is even less certain.

Since the Qing Dynasty, the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains and the Changbai Mountain area have always had the presence of ginseng seekers. Going into the mountains means ten days or even a month, and returning empty-handed is common!

But if you really find a big treasure, it's also a step to the sky!

Those who can't roam the mountains and can't call the mountains have to forage; in spring and summer, they pick wild vegetables, mushrooms, etc.

In autumn, besides these, they have to pick pine nuts, hazelnuts, and various medicinal herbs; in short, everyone is busy.

Wang An didn't even think and answered directly, "No need, I still have grain coupons in my pocket; keeping them is useless."

Wang Dazhu said, "Our family can't finish that meat either; I'll go sell some tomorrow."

Wang An didn't care about how the meat was handled, but he thought of the incident he encountered when he went to sell meat that day!

However, the meat of one or two wild boars wouldn't fetch much money even if sold, so he shouldn't be targeted!

But the horses were uncertain. Although those four people shouldn't have had accomplices, what if?

After being reborn, these trash people and trash affairs made Wang An a bit neurotic!

After dinner, Wang An called his parents and wife to the west room and closed the door.

Then he told them about the four people, including the conversation he heard, with some modifications!

This matter couldn't be hidden. Once targeted by someone with ulterior motives, without knowing what was going on, they wouldn't know how to respond!

The three of them stared blankly at Wang An, and for a moment, they were all dumbfounded!

Killing people, then normally marrying a wife, not delaying anything, doing whatever should be done! Is this really Wang An?

Wang Dazhu and his wife became worried; this son was too unfamiliar and too damn ruthless! Killing people was smoother than killing pigs!

Only Mu Xueqing, after being stunned for a while, had a face full of excitement, and seemed to admire Wang An very much!

Seeing that everyone was silent, Mu Xueqing spoke: "Then kill them if you have to! They were going to kill our whole family anyway, so there's nothing wrong with killing them!"

Wang Dazhu and his wife looked at their daughter-in-law upon hearing this, and simultaneously thought in their hearts, this daughter-in-law is no ordinary person!!

After the two looked at each other, neither was worried anymore; anyway, worrying was useless!

Besides, both of them were in their forties this year and had experienced too many things! When they were young, the Northeast was the main battlefield, and everyone had to be a soldier!

Wang Dazhu was even more heroic, saying: "I only know how to use a hanging-tube gun. You said there were two pistols, right? Teach me how to use them. I'll carry them tomorrow, and I'll see who dares to tail me!"

Liu Guilan still trusted her man quite a bit; at least compared to her son, she trusted her man more!

Following closely, she said sternly: "Right, if they dare to act cocky with us, we'll blast them!"

This time it was Wang An's turn to be stunned. This family had no cowards!! Why were they all so tough!!

Wang An thought about it; in this day and age, worrying was useless anyway. Big cities were already like that, and the countryside definitely had some of it too; there was no way to avoid it!

He turned around and took out the Type 54 from the kang chest, loaded the bullets, turned off the safety, handed it to his father, explained the precautions in detail, and demonstrated it twice!

After Wang Dazhu watched and demonstrated it once himself, he let out a sigh: "This thing is really advanced, much simpler than a hanging-tube gun, and it can fire continuously, really good!" After speaking, he fiddled with it lovingly.

Men, no matter how old they are, they all like guns!

Wang An thought about it; his mother said there wasn't much corn left at home.

He took out all the coarse grain coupons, all the salt coupons, all the match coupons, 50 jin of fine grain coupons, 5 jin of sugar coupons, 8 jin of biscuit coupons, and one cloth coupon, and handed them all to his father.

And said to his mother: "Mom, you think about it, buy everything with these coupons, and see how much money you should give my dad?"

Although Wang An had just told them about the four people, seeing so many coupons, the whole family was still shocked; this was too much!

People don't get rich without windfall wealth! All that mountain-roaming and mountain-calling is not as fast as picking the pockets of dead people!

Liu Guilan saw Wang An still had a pile of coupons in his hand and was about to grab them, but seeing her daughter-in-law nearby, she retracted her outstretched hand!

Wang An laughed when he saw his mother's action and said to her: "Mom, I'll give you these coupons, are you willing to spend the money? Mom, as long as you are willing, I'll give them all to you! Hahaha!"

Liu Guilan rolled her eyes fiercely at Wang An and muttered in a low voice: "You little brat!"

After his parents returned to their room, Wang An counted out 200 from the money in his pocket and handed it to Mu Xueqing; he still had a pile of small change in his own pocket, just a few dozen yuan!

Now that he had married a wife, he couldn't have his pockets cleaner than his face every day!

Sigh! Make money! Hurry up and make money!

At night, Mu Xueqing was a little excited; he didn't know exactly what she was excited about!

Anyway, after stripping clean, she actually took the initiative to sit on Wang An. Wang An naturally accepted it gladly and enjoyed it beautifully several times!

The next morning, after breakfast.

Wang Dazhu helped Wang An load the two pigs onto the mountain-roaming sled.

Wang An also helped his father put the pork to be sold onto another sled.

It was mainly boar meat; this meat is tough and gamey, and has a fishy smell, a bit better than leopard meat, but not by much.

Then he threw the pheasants and hares hanging in the shed onto the sled and called Mu Xueqing.

After leaving the gate, the father and son drove the sleds in two opposite directions.

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