Chapter 115 Things about the Tao family
The house of the Li family is as warm as spring. The pine trees that Li Long brought back that could be used for timber were all put away by Li Jianguo in preparation for packing things in the spring. As for the ones that were almost rotten, Li Jianguo had chopped them into logs for fire-fighting while Li Long was hunting. use.
"Uncle, this gun is really heavy." Li Qiang was on the kang, barely holding the small-caliber rifle and saying with difficulty while shaking it.
“This is light.” Li Long was beside him, instructing his nephew, “The muzzle of the gun cannot be pointed at people, you can’t pick it up - I turned off the safety.”
< br>Li Juan held the doll on the kang and looked at the gun curiously.
"Go and hunt a yellow sheep and come back with a gun?" Li Jianguo still couldn't believe it. "The captain came over earlier and told me that he was joking. How much does a yellow sheep cost? How much does a gun cost? I didn't expect you to return it. I really got it back!”
“We caught four yellow sheep in total,” Li Long explained, “They mainly wanted the horns of the yellow sheep for urgent use. Besides, not everyone can catch this yellow sheep, mainly because it’s hard to find.”
“That’s the reason.” Li Jianguo nodded, “Everyone knows that there are yellow sheep in the Gobi Desert. There is no one who can shoot."
Li Long took the gun from Li Qiang and handed it to Li Juan:
"Look?"
"Hey!" Li Juan happily put down the doll, picked up the gun, and aimed at the window in a decent manner.
"This gun should be able to shoot rabbits." Li Jianguo also had a hint of envy in his eyes. He had actually touched a gun before. When the production team was first established, the first batch of people came to guard against wolves with old 79 rifles. Later, a militia company was established, using 56 semi-automatic and 56 submachine guns.
But those guns are owned by the public, and bullets cannot be used casually. Now that the small-caliber rifle in Li Long's hand is regarded as Li Long's own, the feeling is completely different.
“You can hunt rabbits, snow chickens, and foxes, and yes, you can also hunt badgers.” Li Long said.
“Badgers and foxes fight, and their skin is damaged.” Li Jianguo said.
Seeing that Li Juan couldn't lift the gun, Li Long took it and handed it to Li Jianguo:
"Badgers, pigs and water rats can still be dug out, but foxes are difficult to deal with, so they can only be beaten."
Li Jianguo Hold the gun, open the safety skillfully, and pull the gun After the machine got stuck, he looked at the barrel of the gun through the bolt hole, and then asked:
"Are there any bullets?"
"They gave me two boxes, and I plan to go again. Buy a few boxes from Xinhua Bookstore.”
Until the ban on guns in later generations, Xinhua Bookstore no longer sold small-caliber rifles, air guns and sand guns, but there were still small-caliber bullets on the counter, which made Li Long very strange. But he didn't have a gun at the time and didn't ask.
"Yes, there is no harm in having more bullets." Li Jianguo fiddled with it for a while, then handed the gun to Li Long. He stood up and took off the key from his waist, opened the chest of drawers, and took out a satchel. .
Li Long recognized that this satchel turned out to be Li Juan's schoolbag. Later, after Li Long bought Li Juan a standard schoolbag, the schoolbag was put away by Liang Yuemei.
“These are the bullets I got from the team these days. You need bullets for hunting, and those herder friends in the mountains should also be short of them. They have helped you a lot, so you can’t be stingy, use them. If it’s not enough, I’ll think of another way.”
Li Long didn’t refuse, took the satchel and felt it, there should be at least one or two hundred rounds of ammunition.
Don't worry.
“And this.” Li Jianguo took out two more knives from the chest of drawers and handed them to Li Long. The two knives are long and short, the long one is thirty or forty centimeters, and the short one is about ten centimeters, both with sheaths. Li Long took the knife and looked at it one by one.
"When you are hunting in the mountains, you need to use good knives to disembowel the skin and break down the skin. I asked someone to make these two knives with cannonball steel. They have been sharpened and are very sharp." "Cannonball steel? Where did they come from? Cannonball steel?" Li Long asked in surprise as he looked at the sharp knife with cold light.
“Nanshan shooting range.” Li Jianguo said with some pride, “Don’t our county artillery regiment have a shooting range in Nanshan? After shooting there, the soldiers did not clean up the shooting range completely. It was clean, but there was leaking cannonball steel. Someone picked it up. A blacksmith I knew had a few pieces. I asked him to make two knives some time ago. "
Li Long still used an old knife with a wooden handle, and the steel was gone. The skin of the roe deer was damaged, mostly because of Li Long's poor skills, but also partly because of his poor knife.
Looking at these two knives fondly, Li Long was really happy.
Li Qiang saw the knife and wanted to touch it curiously. Li Long quickly put the knife into its sheath and said to him:
"Qiangqiang, you can't touch this knife, just touch it. A cut is very useful!"
When Li Qiang heard this, he was still a little curious, but he immediately took a few steps back to the edge of the kang. He didn't want to get hurt.
Seeing Qiang Qiang being so cautious, Li Long felt relieved.
"You haven't seen Daqiang in the past two days, have you?" Li Jianguo locked the chest of drawers and turned to ask Li Long.
"No, I'm still surprised. He used to run home every day, but he hasn't been seen these days."
"His father is sick." Li Jianguo said. Lao Tian took a look at the problem and said he could only wait and go to the county hospital if he wanted to be cured. Tao Daqiang wanted to take his father there, but Tao Jianshe refused to go, saying that he had an old problem and it was nothing serious. "
Li Long had nothing to say. Nowadays, medical conditions are not as good as those of later generations, and it is really difficult for poor families to see a doctor. The barefoot doctors in the village have indeed solved many people's problems, but some serious diseases can only be treated in large hospitals, and the people have no money.
On the contrary, in later generations, the New Rural Cooperative Medical System was established in rural areas. He remembered that several members of the team were diagnosed with cancer during physical examinations, and then went to Wucheng for surgery and lived for many more years.
So although the New Rural Cooperative Medical System has been criticized by many people, everyone in the team is very positive.
The older generation is used to suffering. Now when they are sick, they can fight it off if they can. At most, they just take injections and take medicine. In "The Ordinary World", Sun Shaoping's grandma counts out painkillers. Rural areas are nothing new.
Even until the death of Li Long in later generations, many old people in the team still believed in metamizole, aspirin and painkillers when they were sick. Although these two drugs have serious side effects, in the eyes of the elderly, they are cheap and effective.
I’m old and can’t think so far ahead.
"I'll go take a look." Li Long took the knife and gun and prepared to put them in the east room.
"Xiaolong, if you put things in the east room, you have to lock the door." Li Jianguo reminded, "These things are not cheap."
"I understand."
"Bring something with you when you go. There are canned food and sesame cakes at home. I'll cut a piece of meat for you now."
"Okay." Yu Tao's family is not short of meat, so he should bring some meat. No matter what, Tao Daqiang works with Li Long, so you still have to watch it.
Tao Jianshe was lying on the bed covered with quilt, coughing once or twice. Tao Daqiang was washing clothes by the stove. He was surprised when Li Long came in. He stood up, a little embarrassed, not knowing what to say.
Li Long sighed secretly, this silly brother is really the same as before.
(End of this chapter)