Chapter 36

The whole family never expected that such fragrant and delicious pork had come with such a thrilling story!

Mu Xueqing was even more furious, her eyebrows furrowed and her phoenix eyes wide open, looking like she was about to explode with rage!

After a while, she said: "How could Li Biao be like this! Even back in school, I could see he wasn't a good thing! Always causing trouble but unable to settle it, and daring to act cocky with everyone. If you hadn't protected him and helped him settle things, he would have been beaten to death long ago!"

Wang An couldn't help but smile upon hearing this; he hadn't expected his wife to care so much about his actions!

"Hehehe, it doesn't matter anymore, we've already fallen out anyway!" Wang An laughed.

After calming down for a while, Wang An thought about it and said to his brother-in-law: "Xueli, come to my house in a while, take back that Mosin-Nagant rifle of mine. These days, you can just practice your marksmanship by hunting pheasants and hares near the village!"

Suddenly remembering something, he said very seriously: "You are absolutely not allowed to enter the mountains. Even if someone calls you, you are not allowed to go! I'm going to learn hunting properly from my uncle-in-law, and when I come back, we'll go mountain-trekking together!"

Upon hearing that he would have a gun, Mu Xueli jumped off the kang directly, not even eating the meat anymore!

Just like a child about to get a new toy, he kept jumping up and down on the spot, unable to stop at all!

While jumping, he shouted excitedly: "Brother-in-law, I'll listen to everything. If you don't let me go, I definitely won't go! Brother-in-law, you're too good, brother-in-law, you're really too good to me!"

Wang An looked at Mu Xueqing speechlessly, pointing at his brother-in-law with his eyes, meaning that she should quickly suppress her brother, as he was about to go crazy!

Mu Xueqing understood Wang An's look and was very obedient!

She put down her bowl and chopsticks, turned around, and swung her palm at the back of her brother's neck, and a "thwack" sound was heard!

After hitting him, Mu Xueqing turned around and sat on the edge of the kang to continue eating, as if she had been sitting there eating the whole time and hadn't moved at all, fully displaying the demeanor of an expert!

This scene made Wang An twitch his mouth; this woman looked soft and delicate, but she was really quite fierce!

However, the effect was quite good, immediate, and it made Mu Xueli behave instantly; he stopped crying out and stopped jumping!

Mu Xueli immediately wilted, scratched his head, and said in a wronged and dejected manner: "Eldest sister, why did you hit me? What did I do again?"

Mu Xueqing didn't bother with her brother, eating her meal with a blank expression.

Seeing his sister not speaking, Mu Xueli didn't dare to ask further and was left with no choice! He sat back on the kang dejectedly to continue eating!

His father-in-law, Mu Hua, and his wife didn't even raise their eyelids, seemingly accustomed to it.

Seeing his brother-in-law's behavior after being hit, not even daring to ask further, he knew that his wife's bloodline suppression of her younger siblings at her maiden home was truly quite strong!

After the meal, Wang An, having drunk two bowls of boiled water, felt sleepy and lay down at the end of the kang, falling asleep.

He didn't know how long he had slept before he was woken up by a need to urinate!

Passing through the outer room, he saw his wife and mother-in-law rendering lard, but he ignored them and walked groggily to the outhouse.

When he returned, he saw his brother-in-law and father-in-law building a fire in the yard, singeing the pig's head, trotters, and tail.

Helping was impossible; it was dirty, and who would want to deal with that stuff!

Looking at the sun, it was about 2 o'clock.

He called out to Mu Xueqing and prepared to go home. Seeing this, Mu Xueli hurriedly threw down the half-singed pig's head and went into the room to wash his hands.

He seemed very afraid of being left behind, making his gun lose its destination!

The three of them sat on the sled together and drove to Wang An's house.

The two families were close, so going back and forth was really very convenient.

After arriving at Wang An's house, Liu Guilan saw that her daughter-in-law's brother had come, so she naturally served him well.

Opening canned food, boiling water, brewing malted milk extract—she was busy for a while!

Liu Guilan's hospitality made Mu Xueli feel embarrassed.

In this era, whether it was malted milk extract or canned food, they were precious beyond measure!

Being able to eat them once a year meant you were a family living quite well!

With such good things, Mu Xueli was certainly embarrassed to eat, but Liu Guilan knew that her in-laws' life was even worse than her own, so she naturally wouldn't allow it!

After bickering with Mu Xueli for a long time, Mu Xueqing spoke up, feeling sorry for her brother who had never eaten anything good in his life: "Xueli, just eat it, don't let down your aunt's kindness!"

Upon hearing his sister speak, Mu Xueli, who was already swallowing his saliva, started to eat and drink, and he ate it with such sweetness!

Since Mu Xueqing married into Wang An's house, that case of soda had long since been finished.

A small spoonful of malted milk extract could brew a bowl, and one can could brew dozens of bowls, so she naturally drank plenty!

In this era, a bottle of canned food was substantial; opening one bottle meant the whole family could each get two or three pieces and half a bowl of syrup!

You definitely couldn't get enough of it!

But in this era, being able to eat two or three pieces of canned food each time was a great happiness!

Especially when the syrup entered your mouth, that taste was equivalent to nectar!

And at this moment, Wang An was picking out bullets on the kang in the west room!

He had thrown the ones he picked out that day into the drawer casually, but since this pile of bullets looked different anyway, it wasn't troublesome!

In a pile of three or four hundred bullets, the Mosin-Nagant bullets accounted for more than half, totaling 186 rounds! But this was normal!

Double-barreled and single-barreled shotguns could only hold two and one round at a time, while the Mosin-Nagant held five rounds at once!

The three of them were acting together, so if they were to fire, the Mosin-Nagant would definitely be the main force! Preparing more bullets was indeed no problem!

He counted out 6 rounds and threw them back into the drawer as a souvenir!

He put the remaining 180 rounds into a sturdy cloth bag; this pile didn't look like much, but it was quite heavy when lifted!

He pulled the Mosin-Nagant out of the chest and looked at it; this gun was truly good.

If he didn't have the SKS, and two of them at that, he wouldn't be giving this gun away no matter what; even his brother-in-law wouldn't be able to get it!

Thinking of his previous idea of giving it to Li Biao, he really wanted to slap himself twice!

Carrying the gun and bullets, he walked to the east room, where Mu Xueli had finished eating and drinking, and the three of them were chatting.

Seeing the Mosin-Nagant in Wang An's hand, Mu Xueli jumped from the kang to the ground and was about to jump, but perhaps he remembered that slap on the neck! It had been quite a heavy hit!

Subconsciously looking at his eldest sister, he didn't dare to jump after all, suppressing his excitement, and took the Mosin-Nagant with both hands carefully!

While examining it carefully and stroking it gently, his eyes and actions were even more focused and obsessed than when Wang An was examining and stroking the bare Mu Xueqing on the kang!

He was completely lost in it, not speaking, just examining and stroking it there.

The more Wang An watched, the more he felt something was wrong, and the more he frowned. What was going on with this brother-in-law?

He turned his head to look at Mu Xueqing and pointed at his brother-in-law with his eyes again.

Mu Xueqing understood in a second, raised her palm, and looked at her brother, but Mu Xueli was too focused at this moment; if she really gave him a slap, what if she scared him into something bad!

Mu Xueqing lowered her palm and shook her head at Wang An.

Seeing his wife didn't dare to take action, Wang An realized he didn't dare either!

If he gave him a slap, he might not just scare him, but knock his brother-in-law unconscious!

Thinking for a moment, he coughed loudly.

This sound startled Mu Xueli, and finally woke him up.

"What's wrong with you? What's the situation? Is it worth it?" Wang An asked three serious questions of dissatisfaction directly; his brother-in-law was going a bit too far!

Mu Xueli scratched his head and said embarrassedly:

"Brother-in-law, you don't know, I've dreamed of having a gun, but I dreamed of a pipe gun, I never even thought about a Mosin-Nagant."

Wang An sighed helplessly and rubbed his brother-in-law's big head; his brother-in-law was slightly shorter than Wang An, about 1.76 meters tall!

Although Wang An was only one year older than his brother-in-law, he always felt that his brother-in-law hadn't grown up yet, just like a child!

He wouldn't think that his own soul was actually that of a sixty-something-year-old man!

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