ryethenovel Chapter 11 Where is the gun in the house?
Chapter 11 Where is the gun in the house?
"Sister, we can't do anything illegal!"
Liu Jianguo held the chubby little Li Doudou in his arms and said somewhat nervously.
"Dou Dou is still young. She can manage whether she's poor or rich, but she can't do without her father. Even though you're a woman, you still have to keep an eye on Li Xiangyang and make sure he doesn't cause any trouble."
Liu Xiulan almost laughed at him.
He's so precocious; he knows that life can be good whether you're poor or rich. It seems his mother has been nagging him about this a lot at home.
Pretending to be serious, he said:
"Hey, stop calling him Li Xiangyang all the time. It's so disrespectful. He's your brother-in-law, and he's several years older than you!"
"I know, sister. Don't change the subject. We really can't do anything illegal. You need to keep an eye on Li Xiang... no, I mean, keep an eye on your husband."
Liu Jianguo was used to calling Li Xiangyang by his name and couldn't quite change it for a while.
"This older sister knows him. He wasn't doing anything illegal; he just went to the lake to catch some fish and took them to town to sell."
"What did you say...?"
Liu Jianguo was startled.
"Catching fish privately and selling them in town, isn't that illegal? That's practically speculation."
"Shh...don't shout so loudly."
"Your brother-in-law knows someone in the higher-ups who gave him the information that restrictions on private trading are being gradually lifted across the country."
They said that not long ago, some people from Yiwu... something... the government issued "chicken feathers for sugar" permits, saying that with this permit, private individuals were allowed to do business.
Seeing how well-founded Liu Xiulan's words were, Liu Jianguo gradually began to believe her.
Of course, this wasn't something Li Xiangyang made up.
In November 1980, the Yiwu County Administration for Industry and Commerce reinstated the issuance of temporary licenses for exchanging small commodities for sugar and fertilizer.
In Yiwu, a small vendor named Feng Aiqian received the "first" individual business license.
From then on, it was legal to exchange sugar and wholesale small commodities such as buttons and needles and thread.
As for the so-called "friends above," they were just fabricated by Li Xiangyang.
"Alright... It seems your brother-in-law hasn't been out there all day for nothing. But you should also remind him to be careful, since things haven't really loosened up here yet."
Liu Jianguo said solemnly.
"Yes, yes, I know that. Here, little brother, this was given to me by your brother-in-law. I don't need it right now, so you can give it to that girl from the Wang family. I know you like her."
Liu Xiulan didn't know much about business matters and didn't want to discuss the topic anymore, so she smiled and took out the butter paper that was wrapped around half a bar of soap.
"This is……?"
Liu Jianguo opened the yellow oil-wrapped paper with a puzzled look, and a fragrant aroma wafted out as the paper was opened.
His eyes lit up too.
It's soap.
He went to the town's supply and marketing cooperative a few days ago and originally wanted to buy one as a gift for his girlfriend, but the price was too high, so he didn't buy it in the end.
"Sister, this isn't appropriate. Your husband bought it especially for you. You can keep it for yourself. If I want to give it away, I'll buy it myself."
"Why are you buying that? Why waste that money? I'll give it to you, just take it."
Liu Xiulan took a hard line.
Liu Jianguo couldn't refuse her, so he accepted it somewhat awkwardly.
Actually, he could afford a 3-cent bar of soap. But being able to afford it and being willing to spend the money are two different things.
A bar of soap costing three cents was almost a day's wages. In those days when even basic needs like food and clothing were not guaranteed, people would not spend money on such unnecessary expenses.
Washing your hair with water infused with wood ash is perfectly fine.
Before leaving, Liu Xiulan's mother-in-law, Wang Guiying, forced her to eat a 5-jin (2.5 catties) carp and six half-jin (2.5 kg) small crucian carp before she was allowed to go.
Liu Xiulan watched as her mother-in-law fed fish to her younger brother without stopping her; on the contrary, she felt very proud.
For the past two years since she married into the Li family, it has always been her family taking things from her husband's family; this is the first time her husband's family has taken things from her family.
Every time I went back to my parents' home, those gossipy neighbors would complain about it, as if I had taken something from their house.
It made her feel very awkward every time she went back to her parents' home.
When things are better at home during the Lunar New Year, we'll bring back more New Year's goods to make our parents proud.
Not long after Liu Jianguo left, the courtyard gate creaked open.
Li Xiangyang is back.
In the courtyard, Li Xiangdong had already hidden most of the fish as instructed at noon, leaving only a small portion exposed.
Li Xiangyang took a look, was very satisfied, and then pushed open the door to enter the middle room.
at this time,
My father, mother, and brother's family all slept on the kang (a heated brick bed). To save on firewood, the kang in the east room where my brother's family lived was basically not heated during the day.
He lived in the west room, and because his wife often had to breastfeed DouDou, and the whole family was in the middle room, it was inconvenient, so the kang (heated brick bed) was heated during the day as well.
"Xiangyang, what did Secretary Guodong say?"
Father Li Zhenshan asked.
Li Xiangyang glanced at Li Xiangdong. He had already told his brother at noon not to mention that he was going to deliver fish to the old Party Secretary's house, so as not to worry their parents.
It seems that the prince couldn't help but speak up. He's such a grown man, yet he still has to report everything. Li Xiangyang was speechless.
But thinking about it, with his honest nature, it would be strange if his brother didn't tell their father when he got home; he just hadn't considered things carefully.
"Why are you looking at your brother? I'm asking you a question. How's things going with the secretary?"
Li Zhenshan was getting anxious and urged:
"Uncle Guodong said we can go to the lake to catch fish."
call……
Hearing that the Party Secretary didn't object to catching fish in the lake, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then how about selling fish on the black market?"
Li Xiangdong asked.
"Um……?"
The whole family turned around and looked at Li Xiangdong with extremely contemptuous eyes!
Li Zhenshan even picked up his pipe and tapped Li Xiangdong's head hard.
I'm a little disappointed in him.
"Xiang Dong, your head is full of sheep dung balls, how can you even ask such a question?"
As soon as Li Zhenshan finished speaking, his nephew Li Chunsheng immediately leaned close to his older brother's head and started sniffing:
"Grandpa, Dad doesn't smell of sheep dung on his head?"
"Go away, go play your sheep's knuckles, what are you meddling in?"
Sister-in-law Zhao Lijuan looked at her own pair of lively father and son with a somewhat embarrassed expression.
Helpless, he explained to Li Xiangdong:
"Xiang Dong, selling fish on the black market is a major taboo now. How could Xiang Yang possibly go and tell the secretary? Wouldn't that be walking into a trap?"
"Hehe, I see, I understand."
Li Xiangdong scratched his head, chuckled, and immediately felt a little embarrassed.
"By the way, Dad, where's our gun?"
Li Xiangyang suddenly remembered the matter of the sika deer herd and realized he needed to make preparations in advance.
"What do you need a gun for?"
"The snow has been falling heavier and heavier lately, and the livestock in the mountains may come to the pastures because they have run out of food. We need to prepare in advance."
"At noon, on my way to Zhahar Lake with my brother, we saw several wolf footprints."
"Hmm...indeed, you've thought it through quite thoroughly. This year's snowfall is a bit strange, it's been more frequent than usual. The animals on the mountain have run out of food, so they're going to come down and feast on us herders."
Li Zhenshan praised him and then told Wang Guiying to go behind the cabinet and take out a long strip of item wrapped in yellow oil paper.
Everyone gathered around, and the butter wrapper was slowly opened.
A Type 53 rifle, which wasn't too old, was revealed.
Li Xiangyang was overjoyed.
He remembered that in his previous life, before the complete ban on guns, his family owned guns, but he never expected it to be this particular model. He picked up the rifle and examined it closely.
Type 53 rifle.
Its full name is the 1953 7.62mm carbine, and its predecessor was the Soviet Mosin-Nagant M1944 carbine.
It was the first standard rifle uniformly adopted by the Republic, and its adoption ended the chaotic era of "a hodgepodge of weapons from all over the world" in our army.
It uses 7.62×54R full-power rifle cartridges, with an effective range of 400 meters and a maximum range of up to 1000 meters.
With high accuracy and great power, it can easily kill medium to large wild animals such as wild boars and wolf packs.
of course,
This was one of the very few standard-issue rifles that could be legally certified in pastoral areas in the 80s.
Li Xiangyang was very satisfied.
"Um... Xiangyang, do you know how to shoot?"
Li Zhenshan suddenly asked.