Xing'an Mountains 1984: Starting from climbing mountains to support the family

Chapter 123 This is my father, I can’t give it to you
"Xueting, give Xiaoliu to me. I'll carry her to the kang to sleep."

"Well, remember to put on your diaper! Don't wet the bed like last time."

"Ok."

Chen Weidong smiled and took Liu Ni from Liu Xueting. He looked at her pink face, especially her long eyelashes and cute face. She looked so cute! Chen Weidong couldn't help pouting and kissing her on the lips.
After being kissed, Xiaoliu pursed her lips while sleeping, and then pushed her little face into Chen Weidong's arms again.

Chen Weidong carried Liu Ni to the kang, and Wu Ni pulled a small stool and followed Chen Weidong with her short legs. When he had just taken off Liu Ni's outer cotton jacket and trousers, put a diaper on her and put her into the quilt, Wu Ni also stepped on the small stool and got on the kang, panting.

Wu Ni lay beside Xiao Liu, teasing her face and nose. Xiao Liu seemed to notice something, pursed her lips, then stretched, hummed twice, and fell asleep again.

"Stop playing and come down quickly. Don't wake up your sister!"

Chen Weidong said.

"Oh, Daddy, give me a hug. Wu Ni can't get down by herself."

"How did you get up if you couldn't get down?"

"Daddy, hurry up, Wu Ni wants to ride a big horse! Daddy~" the little girl said coquettishly in a baby voice.

"No wonder you followed me silently. Are you waiting for your dad here? I really can't do anything with you!"

Chen Weidong smiled, raised his hand and carried Wu Ni on his shoulders.

"Ride a big horse, ride a big horse! Harp! Harp! Harp!"

Wu Ni hummed in a baby voice.

"Ouch! Daddy, why did you spank my butt?"

"Don't move. Do you really think your dad is a horse? If I don't spank you, you'll jump up soon."

"Ow~"

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"Dad, I want to ride too!"

When Si Ni saw her sister riding on her father’s shoulders, she also started shouting.

"Come all!"

Chen Weidong was playing with his daughters while Liu Xueting started dinner.

"Dani, Dani..."

After a while, a childish voice was heard from outside the yard.

"It's Sister Xiaohua."

Si Ni ran out panting.

"Sister Xiaohua, Brother Goudan, why don't you two come in?" asked Si Ni Nai angrily.

"I'm afraid of your dog!"

"Don't worry, Xiaohua. My dog ​​doesn't bite. Didn't you come here last time? Come in quickly."

Dani came in with Xiaohua and Goudan.

"I'm not afraid to follow you!"

"It's cold, come in and sit down." Chen Weidong greeted the two children with a smile.

"Uncle Weidong, I'm here to get the basin, and I'll be back soon."

Xiaohua said.

"Oh, Si Ni, go get the basin."

"Have you two eaten?"

"I haven't eaten yet, but I just ate the sweet potatoes. Mom is out and won't be back until very late. That's our washbasin."

Xiaohua pointed at the basin that Si Ni brought over.

Chen Weidong smiled and said, "You two are the only ones left at home, are you afraid?"

"Don't be afraid! My sister and I will sleep together."

Goudan said timidly.

"Sister, it smells so good!"

Liu Xueting had already prepared the meal and brought over some meat, a big pot of stewed bear meat and flying dragon soup. Goudan's mouth was watering when he smelled it.

"Uncle Weidong, Auntie, we are going home!"

Xiaohua was a little more sensible now and knew that people had to go home when it was time to eat, so she took the basin and started to drag Goudan, who was almost unable to walk, away.

"Xiaohua, Goudan, don't leave. Eat at your aunt's house!"

Liu Xueting greeted with a smile.

"Your aunt is right, eat with Dani and the others!"

Liu Xueting and Chen Weidong spoke, and Dani immediately pulled Xiaohua back.

After all, he was a child, so he went to the table reluctantly.

Then Liu Xueting added two more pairs of bowls and chopsticks! Except for Xiaoliu who was sleeping, nine people started eating.

"What is this? It's delicious!"

"This is the blind bear that my dad caught. The chicken was also caught by my dad."

Wu Ni said proudly.

"That's amazing! My family hasn't eaten meat in a long time!"

"eat more."

"Uncle Weidong, it would be great if you could be my dad,"

Xiaohua said naively.

"Uh……"

Chen Weidong and Liu Xueting are both parents. They felt distressed when they heard this, but also did not know whether to laugh or cry at the child's words. After all, they both knew the situation in Widow Jiang's family and did not take it seriously.

"Sister Xiaohua, this is my dad! I can't give it to you."

Wu Ni didn't care about eating anymore. She immediately ran to Chen Weidong with her short legs and hugged Chen Weidong's arm.

"Uh-huh."

Si Ni quickly hugged Chen Weidong's other arm.

"Alright! Alright! Sister Xiaohua is just joking with you. How can your dad eat if you're like this?"

With two more children, eating at home is already lively, and now it is even more lively.

After eating.

It's getting dark too.

Chen Weidong held a flashlight and sent Xiaohua and Goudan back home.

Widow Jiang had not returned home yet, and the house was pitch black.

"Xiaohua, Goudan, where is your kerosene lamp?"

"On the stove,"

Xiaohua said.

Chen Weidong went to the kitchen to get the stove and turned on the light. He saw that the kang in the house was still cold. It was really hard for a family to be without a man these days. However, this was not something he worried about. It was just a pity for the children.

Then Chen Weidong heated up the kang.

"Hey!"

Chen Weidong sighed and looked at the two children lying on the kang before he left.

"Woof, woof,"

Chen Weidong returned home and took a quick shower when suddenly the dog outside started barking.

Chen Weidong thought someone had come, but when he went out to look, there was no one there.

When the dogs saw Chen Weidong, they all howled at him in grievance.

Chen Weidong then remembered that he forgot to feed the dog after sending Xiaohua and Goudan home that night. Liu Xueting probably forgot too.

So Chen Weidong quickly took the dog food and fed all the dogs.

By the way, I took a look and found that the two yellow muntjacs in the donkey shed were a little wilted. You know, yellow muntjacs are timid by nature and like to run and move freely. It is easy to kill them. Chen Weidong plans to sell them early tomorrow morning.

Originally, Chen Weidong planned to collect some deer blood to make wine, but when he saw the two muntjacs were in a listless state, he decided to give up, fearing that they would not survive until the next day, which would affect the price.

The next day, Chen Weidong got up early, went to the toilet, washed up, fed the dog, fed the chickens, shoveled donkey manure... and ate the breakfast made by Liu Xueting. Then he called Shitou and Bingzi and loaded the two yellow muntjacs onto the sled.

Since the ground is covered with snow, the donkey cart has been replaced with a donkey sled.

Three people rode on a sled and headed towards the county town.

Come to the county seat.

It was the first time for Shitou and Bingzi to enter the city. They looked around curiously, like country bumpkins like Granny Liu entering the Grand View Garden.

Chen Weidong first took the two men to a state-owned restaurant in the county town. After some bargaining, the two yellow muntjacs, which weighed less than 80 kilograms in total, were sold for a total of 260 yuan.

Chen Weidong immediately gave thirty yuan to Shitou and Bingzi, each of them! Chen Weidong also planned to give thirty yuan to Li Shengli, which was not a small amount.
Chen Weidong had inquired about the prey that Li Shengli usually hunted, such as skins and other things. Every year, there were mountain hikers who came to collect mountain products, and Li Shengli would sell them to these mountain product collectors.
Chen Weidong was in this business in his previous life, so how could he not know the price he was offered? It was much less than what he sold it for.

Then Chen Weidong drove the donkey cart to the small black market. Now Chen Weidong had about five or six hundred yuan in his hand, and the valuable things of Blind Bear had not been sold yet.

With the money in hand, Chen Weidong thought of the gun dealer Li Dashan, or to be more precise, the "flower-mouthed rifle".

This is also why he decided to bring Shi Tou and Bing Zi with him when he went into the city this time. You know, although Chen Weidong had dealt with the gun dealer Li Dashan before, buying a gun costs several hundred dollars.

This amount was a huge sum of money in that era, and he would be dealing with all kinds of people, so he would not be stupid enough to go alone with the money.

When Chen Weidong drove the donkey cart to the alley of the black market, he saw Li Dashan squatting under a tree in the alley, smoking a cheap cigarette.

"Brother, nice to meet you again. Is Hualukouzi still there?" Chen Weidong walked up with Shitou and Bingzi and asked.

Li Dashan was smoking a cigarette. He hadn't sold a single gun during this period, and only sold a few bullets.

He was worried. You know, they make money by using guns and bullets, so they can earn more!

But it has been two or three months since the last opening, and there are very few people in the county who have the spare money to buy guns.

Moreover, he is not the only one doing this business. Li Dashan has two or three brothers to support.

However, when he suddenly heard the sound of a gun, Li Dashan was delighted.
Finally someone is here! !
He immediately turned his head.

"It's you?"

Li Dashan was in a complicated mood. He was deeply impressed by Chen Weidong and often came to buy bullets.

However, last time it was this kid who asked for a long time, wasting a lot of his time, and in the end he just said... no money.

"Brother, don't joke with me. Aren't you short of money? How many bullets do you plan to buy this time?" Li Dashan said with a smile.

Chen Weidong smiled and said, "Is the Hualukou from last time still there? I'll buy it, but we need to discuss the price."

Li Dashan was stunned: "Really, you are not joking this time?"

"No joke!"

"Brother, you are a gun dealer after all, why are you so funny?" Chen Weidong thought to himself.

"I'm still here, I'm still here. This is not the place to talk, and the guns are not here either. Follow me, all three of you."

Li Dashan said this and called Chen Weidong.

Chen Weidong took a look and signaled to Shitou and Bingzi to be careful, then asked them to follow him.

Soon, the three of them, led by Li Dashan, came to a dilapidated brick house.

There was another young man inside.

"Brother Shan!"

Seeing Li Dashan, the young man hurriedly walked forward and greeted him.

"Well, go get the flowers you collected earlier and show them to these three brothers."

Li Dashan quickly gave the order.

"This is a bullet. There's no one here. Brothers, you can give it a try."

Soon a pistol was handed to Chen Weidong, along with two bullets.

Li Dashan asked him to try the gun, of course not because he trusted him and would not rob his fellow thieves, but because he trusted the young man holding the gun.

Chen Weidong briefly checked it out.
Loaded the bullet and tried it.

"boom!"

This pistol is good, but it's a little lacking in power.

However, its advantages are also obvious: it is small, easy to carry, and has little recoil. When Chen Weidong originally planned to buy it, he intended to use it for close combat self-defense.

Now that you have decided to buy, the next step is to bargain.

"how much is it?"

Chen Weidong asked directly without any hesitation.

"The price I told you last time was three hundred. If you really want it, take it for two hundred and sixty."

Li Dashan was delighted. He could see that the other party liked it, so he immediately made an offer.

"One hundred and fifty dollars."

Chen Weidong smiled. He knew that the price was too low and the other party would definitely not sell it. But he bargained? He bargained and bargained until both of them were satisfied.

"One hundred and fifty yuan, brother, are you kidding me? Are you kidding me?"

"You were the one who made the joke first."

"I think this gun is quite old! If I hadn't seen it in good condition, I wouldn't have taken it."

Chen Weidong said slowly.

"Two hundred and thirty dollars, that's the lowest price. If you want it, take it."

Li Dashan gritted his teeth and said.

"Don't give me the lowest price. Give me fifty rounds of ammunition for two hundred yuan, or I'll leave without saying a word."

Chen Weidong didn't believe in the lowest price. It was all bullshit. He remembered that last time Li Dashan bought it from the old soldier,

This kind of old gun is bought from the hands of veterans, either because the veterans' families have no food to eat and they are sold as a last resort, or they are defrauded from the veterans' families or children, which is probably even lower.

"Two hundred and twenty yuan, I'll give you sixty rounds of bullets, and another thirty rounds, the bullets you usually buy when you come here."

"it is good!"

Chen Weidong said simply.

"Brother, you are really good at bargaining."

Li Dashan sighed, immediately asked someone to take the bullet, and then stretched out his hand.

"The guns and bullets are here, where's the money?"

"Money? Let me find it."

After a while,
Chen Weidong pretended to be hesitant, and finally gathered together 220 yuan and handed it over.

These days, he still understands the principle of not leaking money.

In such a remote place, a large sum of money like more than 200 yuan cannot be given too readily.

Otherwise, it will be easy to be targeted, especially in their line of work, where there are many gangsters. Even if this group of people seems to be very reputable now, it is best not to use money to test people's greed.

Take the money.

Li Dashan was delighted. He carefully counted the money in his hand, put it in his pocket, and said to Chen Weidong with a smile: "Brother, if you want to buy a gun in the future, come to me anytime."

"As long as the price is fair, it's easy to talk about."

Chen Weidong said politely.

"That's no problem. The price here is the most reasonable."

Chen Weidong: “…”

The two exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Li Dashan personally escorted Chen Weidong and the other two out.

Coming out of the house, Chen Weidong couldn't let go of the pistol in his hand. No man could resist such an exquisite and good-looking pistol.

"Brother Weidong, we've bought the gun. Shall we go back now?"

Stone asked at this time.

"It's already late, aren't you hungry? I'll take you to a restaurant today, if you like anything, just buy it yourself."

Chen Weidong said.

"it is good."

Both of them were bright.

Then, Chen Weidong brought the two to the noodle shop.
Chen Weidong and Bingzi ate two bowls, while Shitou drank four bowls. Then he took them to the supply and marketing cooperative.

(End of this chapter)