Chapter 96: Buying a gun in Tiecheng, a brand new 56 semi-automatic

Yue Feng shouted twice at the door, and footsteps were heard from the north door.

“Who?”

“Aunt, it’s me, Yue Feng!”

Soon Zhang Cuilian opened the door.

“Oh, Xiaofeng is here! Come in quickly. Have you eaten?” Zhang Cuilian hurriedly asked Yue Feng to come into the house.

“I came here after I’ve eaten! These are the jumping cats and pheasants I caught. You can cook them for my uncle and Mingyu later!” Yue Feng handed the things in his hand to Zhang Cuilian.

“Look at you. It’s not a festival, but you still have to carry things every time you come to my house. Next time you come, you are not allowed to carry anything!”

“Hey, okay!” Yue Feng followed him into the house.

At this moment, Wang Jianguo was also having dinner. On the table was a pot of eggplant, potato and pork belly stewed with some fried peanuts. The standard of the food was not low.

“Xiaofeng is here, would you like to have a drink with me?” Wang Jianguo greeted with a smile.

“It’s terrible. I can’t drink much. I can’t get up in the morning after drinking white wine. I have to get up early tomorrow to go up the mountain to release falcons!” Yue Feng waved his hands repeatedly.

“Then wait for me for a while, I’ll finish this drink!”

“it is good!”

Soon, Wang Jianguo drank the half cup of white wine in the glass with one gulp, and then took Yue Feng to the inner room.

“Are you planning to buy a gun? What’s your goal?” Wang Jianguo asked, knowing the answer well.

“Yeah! I just heard from the weather forecast that it’s going to snow here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow! My dad and I discussed it and decided that after the snow freezes for a few days, it will be a good time to go up the mountain to hunt!

Without a strong weapon, it would be difficult to take home a big wild animal if you encounter one! My dad said that if we want to buy something, we should buy it all at once, and directly buy a new five or six and a half!” Yue Feng said truthfully.

“Okay, I’ll write you a letter of introduction! I’ve already submitted the list you asked me to get for you last time! I’ve also gotten you a militia qualification!”

“Thank you, uncle!” Yue Feng thanked him repeatedly after hearing this.

The hunter qualification is easy to obtain, but the militia qualification has additional work points bonus every year, but it is in short supply.

The militia of this era is not the same as the militia of two thousand years later. Militia training such as shooting is organized regularly every year. In the armory of the township security department, there are real weapons, even large-killer weapons such as squad machine guns and mortars, are available in the warehouse.

“How’s your dad’s leg?”

Yue Feng shook his head: “It’s unlikely that I’ll be well before the New Year. Forget about going up the mountain in winter. My dad and I have discussed it and plan to let Uncle Li take Xiao Tao and me up the mountain!”

“With Li Wentong taking you into the mountains, there won’t be any problems! Here’s the letter of introduction, keep it safe!”

After a brief chat, Wang Jianguo took out a piece of red letterhead, quickly wrote a letter of introduction, stamped it with the village stamp, and handed it to Yue Feng.

“Thank you, uncle!” Yue Feng treasured the letter of introduction and put it in his pocket.

Wang Jianguo added, “By the way, I still have some 7.62 bullets. If you don’t have enough, come to my house and I’ll get some for you!”

“Yes, I’ll come get it when you need it. I’ll go back first. When I kill a wild boar in the mountains, I’ll definitely send a wild boar leg to you and my aunt!”

“Okay, uncle is waiting to eat your wild boar leg!”

Wang Jianguo, wearing his coat, accompanied Yue Feng to the door, then walked into the house leisurely, cigarette in his mouth.

After finishing dinner and cleaning the table, Wang Jianguo and his wife went into the east room and lay on the kang.

“The second young master of the Yue family, do you want to buy a gun?” Zhang Cuilian asked.

Wang Jianguo nodded: “Yes! 56 and a half!”

“I remember you told me once before that a brand new 56 costs more than a thousand yuan! Xiaofeng has been arranging people to fly hawks recently, and he is making a lot of money!” Zhang Cuilian was quite surprised when she heard that Yue Feng wanted to buy a .

“Lian, have you thought about what I discussed with you last time?” Wang Jianguo asked without any context.

Zhang Cuilian said: “The two boys of the Yue family are really good, they are kind, sensible, and capable. It has only been a short time, but they have already earned enough money to buy guns.

But our Xiaona is still young, so why don’t we wait and see?
As the old saying goes, if a family has a daughter, hundreds of families will pursue her. With our family’s conditions and your prestige in the village, no one would rush to you. It makes our daughter look so worthless!”

What Zhang Cuilian said did make sense. Her daughter was well-behaved, tall and pretty, and she was a high school student. Plus, Wang Jianguo had great prestige in the village, so her daughter would have no trouble finding a husband.

“Okay, then I’ll do as you say and wait and see!

But I want to remind you, if you want to be a general’s wife, you have to marry a soldier first! The second boy of the Yue family has already begun to show his talent. If someone else gets there first, then you can only slap your thighs at that time! “Wang Jianguo took a puff of cigarette and said in a steady tone.

Zhang Cuilian was slightly stunned after hearing her husband’s remarks about the general’s wife, but still couldn’t make up her mind: “It won’t be too late to talk about it after a few days, Xiaona’s 20th birthday!”

……

Nothing happened that night. Yue Feng got up early the next morning.

Opening the main door of the north room, the yard is covered in silver.

Five eagles were squatting on the eagle pole under the eaves. Except for the place where the eagles were perched, the rest of the place was covered with white snow.

The weather forecast was indeed accurate. It snowed, and the snow was more than ten centimeters thick in one night.

“Dad, it’s snowing!” Yue Feng shouted at the top of his voice.

Soon, both parents got dressed and got up. Yue Lei stood at the door with his crutches and watched for a while before saying, “It’s snowing hard. Let’s sweep the walkway after dinner!”

“Yeah! I’ll go find my Uncle Li later and ask him to go with me to Tiecheng to buy a gun!”

“Okay! It’s not too slippery when it first snows, but once the road freezes solid, even a bicycle won’t be easy to ride!”

After Yue Feng and his father reached a consensus, he took a broom and swept a path through the snow in the yard. Not long after, the Zhang brothers and the Li father and son also came to Yue Feng’s house.

“Xiaofeng, it just snowed. Can we still go up the mountain to release hawks today?” Li Wentong asked uncertainly.

Yue Feng grinned: “Of course I can, not only can I, but it’s also the right time!”

“What the hell? It’s hard to walk in the snow, and all the pheasants and flying dragons are hiding. How can it be a good time to release hawks?”

Yue Feng explained: “After the snow, there will be tracks, so it’s more efficient to follow the tracks. After the snow, it’s hard for these little pheasants to get food, and their physical strength will be relatively poor! You will know after you release them once, it’s almost like picking them up for free.

Not to mention eagles, even if there were no eagles, we would have caught many sand pheasants and flying dragons in the mountains when it snowed in previous years!”

After hearing what Yue Feng said, everyone realized that it was indeed much easier to catch flying dragons and sand chickens in the mountains after the snow, but everyone had no experience in hawking in the snow, so they didn’t expect this. “By the way, Uncle Li, you can’t go hawking in the mountains today! I have already written a letter of introduction. You have to accompany me to Tiecheng today, and we will buy the gun back!” Yue Feng continued.

“Go to Iron City to buy a gun? Did your father agree?”

Li Wentong’s eyes lit up when he heard the word “gun”. He had always wanted to have a gun of his own, but because it was too expensive, he had saved money for many years but still could not afford it.

“Well, just buy a new 56 and get it done in one go!”

Li Wentong: “That’s great. If we have five or six hundred thousand, we can not only go out to measure roe deer and deer, but also bring wild boars and bears home! Do you have enough money? If not, our family will also contribute part of it, just like investing in a stock!”

“I have enough money! I have made a lot of money during this period and I have saved it all!” Yue Feng said confidently while patting his trouser pocket.

“Okay, let’s go after breakfast! It’s not a long way to go to Iron City and back! Fortunately we have bicycles!”

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After having a full breakfast, Xiao Tao and the three Zhang brothers continued to go up the mountain to release hawks, while Yue Feng and Li Wentong went into the city to buy guns.

The three eagles that went out today have also been adjusted. Yue Feng’s Red Iron-backed Hawk was given to Xiao Tao to catch rabbits around the small vegetable garden. The Chicken Hawk was given to Xiao Wen, and Xiao Wu used the Great Blue Harrier.

The three eagles represent the highest combat capability of the Yue Family Eagle Hunting Team. As it was snowing heavily, the harvest of these three eagles would definitely surprise the people.

In this way, Yue Feng and Li Wentong rode a bicycle out of the village and headed towards Tiecheng.

Tiecheng is larger than Fengcheng. Although the two cities are of the same level, the infrastructure and industries such as coal mining there are more developed, and the city’s population and economic level are also much higher.

The father and son rode a bicycle into the city. Because it had just snowed, it took them a lot of time on the road. By the time they arrived at the Tiecheng Supply and Marketing Cooperative, it was almost nine o’clock in the morning.

It also snowed in Tiecheng, but the snow was slightly less than in my hometown. There were not many pedestrians on the road. Inside the counter of the supply and marketing cooperative, two sales clerks were sitting inside and eating melon seeds.

“Hello comrade, I want to buy a 56 semi-automatic rifle. Here is the letter of introduction!” Yue Feng placed the letter of introduction issued by the village office on the counter.

“Buy a gun?” The salesman was slightly stunned when he heard this request. The 56-and-a-half is a big deal. A gun costs yuan, and normally only one or two guns are sold in a year. I didn’t expect someone to come to buy a gun on a snowy day.

Yue Feng nodded: “It should be clearly stated in the letter of introduction! By the way, how much is a new gun now?”

“A brand new Type 56 semi-automatic rifle with one hundred rounds of ammunition costs one thousand two hundred and fifty-seven dollars!” The salesperson flipped through a few pages of records and said the price listed above.

“Okay, please give it to me!” After hearing this, Yue Feng started to take money out of his cotton-padded jacket.

They were all Big Unity bills, all worth ten yuan each. After taking out a whole stack, he took out twenty or so from another stack. After counting them, he put the money on the counter.

The other party had a letter of introduction and was paying in cash, so the salesperson immediately took the money and started counting it.

After confirming that it was correct, he turned around and went to the warehouse behind him, and took out a new gun wrapped in a rectangular canvas holster.

“This is brand new, you can open it and check it out! Note that new guns are sealed with gun oil inside and outside. If you need to fire, wipe off the excess grease before test firing.

In addition, before the new gun is officially used, it must be calibrated at a fixed point, and it must be wiped and maintained regularly after use! ! “The salesperson reminded very carefully.

Yue Feng nodded, took the gun and handed it directly to Li Wentong.

Li Wentong is a retired veteran. He used to hunt monkeys in the south with a 56-and-a-half rifle. After receiving the new gun, he opened the holster very familiarly and inspected the new gun, which smelled of gun oil, on the spot.

Yue Feng didn’t understand what was going on, but he saw Li Wentong disassembling a new gun into parts with a few clicks, just like playing with a toy. Then he asked the salesperson for some toilet paper and started wiping the grease off the outside of the new gun in public.

After wiping off the sealing grease inside and outside, Li Wentong checked the trigger, barrel, receiver and other structural parts. After making sure there were no problems, he quickly reassembled the gun.

“No problem, this is a new gun that has never been fired!” Li Wentong said very affirmatively.

Yue Feng nodded: “Then please issue the invoice!”

He issued the invoice, made the change, and then handed the 100 rounds of bullets that came with the gun to Yue Feng in a brown paper box.

Yue Feng packed all the change and bullets, and then walked out of the supply and marketing cooperative side by side with Li Wentong.

When he got the real thing, Yue Feng felt his heart rate soared to at least 120.

This is a Type 56 semi-automatic rifle. I have been hanging around in Yuefeng Mountain for more than ten or twenty years in my previous life, but I never got such a gun. Now, it appears on my shoulder so realistically.

“Uncle! Let’s find a place to fire a few shots for fun?” Yue Feng said somewhat impatiently.

“Let’s talk about this later. Let’s go to the river! This gun is not an ordinary thing. I need to warn you before you use it!”

“You say!”

“A gun is nothing else. No matter how good the relationship is, you can’t lend it to someone who doesn’t have a backer.
Second, no matter whether there are bullets in the gun or not, the muzzle of the gun should not be pointed at people. Unless necessary, the safety should be kept on to prevent accidental discharge!

The third point is, once you are on the mountain, you can only shoot when you are sure of your aim. Don’t shoot as soon as you hear any movement in the bushes. If you hurt someone, it will be a disaster!

“

“Yes, I remember everything you said!” Yue Feng nodded repeatedly, very seriously.

Each of these rules was learned from bloody lessons. Yue Feng had also been using the 16-gauge barrel for half of his previous life, and he had heard a lot about what happened to the hunters around him. Even if Li Wentong didn’t mention it, Yue Feng was still very respectful of the regulations on using guns.

Seeing that Yue Feng was quite stable, Li Wentong continued, “Your father can’t go up the mountain this winter, so I will probably take you and Xiao Tao up the mountain to hunt.

With a gun comes ambition. I understand that you want to prove yourself by touching a gun, but before I approve of you, you can’t bring a gun into the mountains and show off! “

“Yeah!” Yue Feng nodded repeatedly.

Some people may feel unhappy after seeing this. I paid the money and provided the letter of introduction, but after buying the gun, I cannot bring it into the mountains without Uncle Li’s permission. Isn’t this too frustrating?
It’s a bit frustrating, but that’s the reality!
Yue Feng couldn’t say that he knew everything he should know as a human being in two lives. In front of his father and Uncle Li, he was just a twenty-year-old greenhorn with no hunting experience. If he could do whatever he wanted after buying a gun, that would be nonsense.

However, Yue Feng also has a way to deal with it. He does not allow people to bring guns into the mountains without permission. It is simply because the adults feel that he does not have enough hunting experience and experience in using guns.

As long as you go up the mountain once or twice and perform well and get recognition, that’s all that’s needed.

“Okay! Then let’s go back and try out the gun in the small woods by the river! I have been very accurate with a slingshot since I was a child, and I think shooting a gun should not be difficult!” Yue Feng laid the groundwork in advance.

“go!”

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The father and son rode very fast along the way. It took nearly two hours to get here, but only one and a half hours to get back.

When the bike arrived at the entrance of the village, the two did not enter the village immediately. Instead, they got off the bike and pushed it into a small path at the edge of the field. After circling a few times, they arrived at an open space by the river.

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