Go back to the prosperous days and become a layman

Chapter 733 Unexpected Call
After hearing what Tang Zhitong said, Zhang Guifang felt relieved and her mind became more active. She asked, "Anzi, are these chickens easy to sell?"

"Our chickens are good looking and can lay eggs, so they are not difficult to sell and can be sold at a high price. I estimate that one chicken can be sold for about 60 yuan.

The higher-ups said that officials are not allowed to keep chickens, but they didn’t say that ordinary workers and citizens are not allowed to keep chickens. Eggs are hard to buy outside now, but there are always people who have some spare money who want to buy chickens to lay eggs for consumption.”

Tang Zhitong continued to give his mother reassurances with full confidence.

As for whether he could sell it or whether he could sell it at a high price, Tang Zhitong was not worried at all. He still had a lot of money lying around in his own space. When the time came, he could just throw the hens in, take out the money and give it to his mother.

"That's good, that's good. Director Xu gave us a deadline of three to five days, why don't we wait until Sunday to sell it?" Zhang Guifang was still somewhat reluctant. Now that the weather was warmer, the hens were laying eggs more diligently. Four hens could lay two eggs a day on average, which means ten eggs in five days, almost a pound!

"Okay, I'll go to the suburbs on Sunday and sell them at the market." Tang Zhitong saw his mother's reluctance and agreed readily. There must be some time from notification to execution, and he usually doesn't have time.

"That's settled then. I'll feed them better these two days so they lay more eggs and grow more meat, and I can sell them for more money." While Zhang Guifang was concerned about the eggs, she also wanted to sell the hens for a good price.

"You are very thoughtful. I will do as you say." Tang Zhitong didn't care about it. No matter how well he fed her, it was just a little food. As long as his mother was happy, it was enough.

Xiao Wang watched her husband and mother-in-law finalize the sale of the chickens in a few words, so she didn't say anything else. She decided to wait for the unit to issue a notice asking cadres to deal with the domestic chickens and see which way the wind was blowing. Since Xu Hui could come to her house without any hesitation, then this must be true.

"Your brother Xiaoping has been studying in the city for a while, right? This kid doesn't even know how to come over here." After worrying about the chickens, Zhang Guifang started to worry about people.

"It's been more than 20 days, and it will probably be finished in a few days. I'll go over there after school tomorrow." Even a fool could hear the concern for Zhang Chengping in Zhang Guifang's words. Tang Zhitong expressed his opinion immediately without waiting for his mother to speak.

"Okay, go and leave some money for him and ask him to come over before he goes home." Zhang Guifang said as she took out a handkerchief from her trouser pocket and uncovered the layers of tightly wrapped banknotes and put five dollars inside.

"Okay, I will make sure to convey it." Tang Zhitong took the money without hesitation. From his mother's behavior, it can be seen that the five dollars was prepared by her long ago.

Although his mother didn't say anything, Tang Zhitong knew that she was worried about his uncle.

Thinking of his uncle, Tang Zhitong suddenly realized that he hadn't written to his uncle in the Northeast for a while, and he hadn't received any letters from him recently. He didn't know how he was doing recently, or whether his sister-in-law was about to give birth.

After a quick chat at school in the afternoon, Tang Zhitong and Zhang Guifang finalized the matter of the hen, and sat at the dining table to eat two more steamed buns with pickles.

Back in the room, Tang Zhitong took out a pen and paper and began to write letters to Tang Gang and Su Nianbin.

The reason why I wrote two letters was mainly because I was worried that Tang Gang would only report good news and not bad news, and that Nian Bin would not be so picky about me and would probably say whatever he wanted to say in his reply.

In order to reduce his uncle and aunt's worries about him, Tang Zhitong, in addition to writing "everything is fine" in a dry way in his letter to Tang Gang, also mentioned that he had not finished eating Iraqi dates and pine nuts, using facts to prove that life here is not bad and there is no need to worry.

The letter to Su Nianbin was much more casual, focusing on asking about his academic performance and encouraging him to take advantage of this opportunity to overtake others and strive to get good grades this year.

At the end of the letter, Tang Zhitong asked Su Nianbin not to listen to his parents and to tell him if there were any difficulties at home.

Nothing happened that night. The next day, March 3, in order to let Tang Gang and Su Nianbin receive the letter earlier, Tang Zhitong went to the escort department early after breakfast.

Today is Wednesday, the day Kong Yiqin goes to Andong with the escort mail truck. If he misses today, the letter will have to wait until next week to be delivered. Plus the deliveryman has to go to the forest farm, so it will take at least ten days.

When Tang Zhitong arrived at the escort office, Kong Yiqun was loading a parcel. Tang Zhitong handed him a cigarette, handed him the letter, and immediately set off for the Post and Telecommunications College without much delay.

When Tang Zhitong arrived at the Post and Telecommunications College, Wan Xiangyang had just finished breakfast and was about to go out.

Now that the supply of non-staple food is insufficient, Fang Yuan, in addition to growing vegetables on the land of the escort department, also went to find He Hongchuan a while ago and got a lot of bullets from him.

Fang Yuan's reasons were very sufficient. Marksmanship cannot be relied upon only in concentrated target practice once or twice a year. It must not be neglected in normal times and one must always keep hard training in mind!
He Hongchuan laughed after hearing this, then sighed heavily and asked his leader to get approval from the escort department.

How could He Hongchuan not understand Fang Yuan's intention of coming here to ask for bullets? On the surface, it was indeed to practice shooting skills, but in fact, it was more to carry a gun and go out to hunt some wild animals, just for that little bit of meat.

Ever since the bullets were transported to the escort department, the enthusiasm of these escorts has increased. During their breaks, they like to run outside with their weapons on their shoulders.

If you are lucky, you can get something, but if you are unlucky, you will return empty-handed. Generally speaking, you will return empty-handed more often.

Of course, Fang Yuan did not supply ammunition openly. Each person was only entitled to 20 rounds per month. Giving a base amount right away like Tang Zhitong was a special favor.

Whether now or decades later, men's preferences are similar.

Now we carry tools to shoot birds, and in the future we will carry cameras to photograph birds. The actions are similar, and the target is birds.

Wan Xiangyang received a gun and bullets from the escort department, then rode his bicycle northward. He had heard that birds often landed to rest by the lake in the north.

Wan Xiangyang’s goal is very clear. Swans are the first choice, followed by wild geese, and wild ducks can only be spare tires among spare tires.

There are ten birds on a tree. If you kill one, how many are left?

No matter whether you hit the bird or not, after the gunshot, there will be no bird left in the tree.

Wan Xiangyang understood this principle, so he would only shoot the bigger ones when he had limited bullets.

This is a kind of wisdom in life. Some people have applied this wisdom to missiles. After the Rabbit family's missiles enter the terminal guidance and lose the target due to electronic interference, in order not to waste things, they will automatically search for the target with the largest radar reflection. Well, some people have suffered losses from this.

Wan Xiangyang rode his bicycle all the way north and stopped at the south gate of Yanda University. He looked up at the sky, waiting for the swans to fly by and see if they would fly that way.

He kept looking up for half an hour. If Wan Xiangyang hadn't been carrying a weapon on his back, passers-by would probably have thought he was a lunatic.

After determining the direction of the swan's flight, Wan Xiangyang moved his stiff neck up and down, left and right, then rode his bicycle westward again.

Not far to the west is the territory of the Summer Palace.

The Summer Palace is very large, but the main attractions are concentrated on the north side, while the south side is dominated by water systems, which naturally became the first choice for swans to stop and rest. The periphery of the Summer Palace is still farmland and wasteland. Wan Xiangyang got off the car, locked the bicycle, loaded the bullet, and quietly moved forward with the gun in his hand, for fear of startling the swans that stopped to forage for food.

The closer it got to the end, the slower Wan Xiangyang moved forward, but unfortunately, the swans still sensed his presence, and after giving warning cries, they spread their wings and flew away.

Wan Xiangyang didn't have time to think, he picked up the gun and shot.

After a few shots, almost all the swans flew away from the area, only one swan was staggering and flapping its wings to fly eastward.

"Drop! Drop! Drop!" Wan Xiangyang was overjoyed, knowing that he had hit the target. He stared at the swan and released the ultimate forbidden spell from his mouth - the curse!

The forbidden spell was released successfully, and the swan fell headfirst from mid-air, but unfortunately fell into the wall of the Summer Palace.

"Oh no!" Wan Xiangyang slapped his thigh regretfully. He couldn't bear to give up like this. He had to go into the Summer Palace and buy a ticket.

Just when Wan Xiangyang was feeling frustrated, another swan among the flock of swans that had flown away flew back, circled over the south wall of the Summer Palace, wailing mournfully, and refused to leave for a long time.

Not only was Wan Xiangyang unable to resonate with the swan, he also raised his gun and aimed at it. If it wasn't too far away, he would have shot this one down.

After much consideration, Wan Xiangyang returned the same way, rode his bicycle northward, and went to the Little West Gate of the Summer Palace.

Due to the special nature of the Summer Palace, which often receives foreign guests, shiny items such as five or six pieces of jewelry are not allowed to be brought in.

The west gate does not accept weapons, so Wan Xiangyang is asked to deposit his gun at the main gate and then buy a ticket to enter.

Wan Xiangyang had no choice but to go to the main gate, but he was unwilling to hand over his partner so easily, so in front of the staff of the Summer Palace, he disassembled the 56ha, put away the firing pin himself, and reassembled the 56ha for temporary storage before buying a ticket to enter.

The swans in the sky are the best guiding angels. Wan Xiangyang entered the garden, jogged all the way, and headed south in the direction of the swans.

There are many lakes on the side of the Summer Palace. Although there were some palaces built here during the Yuan and Ming dynasties, its greater function was to be used as a natural reservoir to regulate water volume.

When the time came for him to become a stamp-stamping addict with a penchant for ostentation and extravagance, this old man simply waved his hand, enclosed the entire area, and built the imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty.

Wan Xiangyang was jogging while looking at the weather vane in the air, fearing that the swan would be picked up by someone else. However, he was still a step too late. He saw two people in a small boat happily picking up the swan floating on the lake and rowing slowly towards the shore.

"Hey~ Comrade, this swan was shot by me." Wan Xiangyang held his strength and sprinted a hundred meters. He arrived at the shore breathlessly before the two men left. As soon as the two men came up, he immediately stated his purpose.

"You hit him? What did you use?" The two looked at each other, obviously not believing it.

"Use a gun. You are not allowed to bring it into the park. You put it at the ticket office. Look, this is the firing pin of the gun." Wan Xiangyang was not afraid. He took out his firing pin from his pocket and placed it in front of the two men.

Seeing that what Wan Xiangyang said was well-reasoned and did not seem false, the two men actually believed it a little, but they were unwilling to let the swan they had just caught fly away like that.

"You go back first. I'll talk to this comrade." One of them winked at his colleague while holding the swan, and then began to ask Wan Xiangyang: "Comrade, you are a great shooter. What's your name?"

"My surname is Wan. What's your name?" Wan Xiangyang's face relaxed a lot when he saw that there was a way.

"My last name is Wei, you can just call me Lao Wei. You must have run all the way here, right? I see you must be very tired. Let's sit aside and talk." Lao Wei was holding the swan with no intention of returning it to Wan Xiangyang.

Wan Xiangyang could see that Old Wei was a little unhappy, but he didn't want to rob him. Since this was someone else's territory, he decided to negotiate: "Comrade Wei, you see it wasn't easy for you to get it out. How about this, I only want half, and you can share the rest."

"Hey~ Comrade Wan, it's not that I don't want to give it to you. But now we can't prove that it was you who beat him. If someone else comes to us and asks for it, saying that he was the one who beat him, what should we do then? We must investigate first, right?" Old Wei did not accept Wan Xiangyang's kindness. He didn't say he would give it to you, nor did he say he wouldn't. He just dragged his feet anyway.

"Oh? Then how are you going to investigate?" Wan Xiangyang asked angrily, suppressing his anger.

"We have to wait and see if anyone else comes to claim it. Then we'll go check out your gun and see if it's capable of shooting a swan." Old Wei racked his brains to think of an excuse.

"Okay, then I'll wait with you!" Wan Xiangyang didn't believe that anyone else would come to claim it. When he shot the swan, there was no one else around!

The atmosphere suddenly became cold, and both of them were silent, each thinking about their own things.

Wan Xiangyang was now thinking about how to respond next. What if the person who left brought a third person back and said that the third person beat him? What should he do then?

It is very difficult to prove oneself. The other party did not seem to want Wan Xiangyang to prove himself. Although they brought a third person, he did not say that he was the one who shot the swan. Instead, he asked Wan Xiangyang to go to the ticket office to see the gun.

Wan Xiangyang was delighted, thinking that he had been petty-minded, and happily returned to the ticket office with a few people.

From beginning to end, the Summer Palace staff did not raise any objections. Just when Wan Xiangyang thought the matter was settled, the police came and asked, "Who called the police?"

"Comrade, this guy shot the swan in the Summer Palace and disturbed the foreign guests. The foreign guests are very dissatisfied with this." The third person who had remained silent saw the man in the police cap coming, and immediately stepped forward to complain to Wan Xiangyang.

Wan Xiangyang was dumbfounded. Was he too young? How dare he wait for him here? Was it necessary to put such a big hat on himself for a swan?
The man in the peaked cap took one look at the gun on the table and recognized it as a 56-and-a-half. He knew that ordinary people could not possess such a firearm, so he just took the gun and did not cuff Wan Xiangyang: "Come with me, let's go to the police station and explain everything clearly."

Along the way, the third person who showed up kept muttering to the big hat about disturbing the foreign guests, having a very bad influence, and asking for serious treatment.

He spoke in such a serious manner that even Wan Xiangyang began to wonder whether he had really disturbed the foreign guests.

Wan Xiangyang felt that no matter whether there were foreign guests involved or not, this matter today could not be resolved peacefully. With his small body, he might not be able to handle it, so as soon as he entered the police station, he made a request: "Comrade, I want to make a phone call."

The police station recognized the gun and did not reject Wan Xiangyang's request, but this caused dissatisfaction among the other three people.

When encountering this kind of thing, Wan Xiangyang thought about it and decided to call Tang Zhitong. However, Tang Zhitong was in class and did not answer the call. It was not until after school at noon and after the dormitory manager conveyed the news that he learned that Wan Xiangyang had an accident.

(End of this chapter)