Southern Yunnan Province is famous for some of its specialties, such as tea and walnuts.

Needless to say, the tea is famous all over the country, and the tea of the people in the mountains is not so elaborate, and what you drink is the original natural taste.

As for walnuts, the walnuts over there are also called iron walnuts, and people have long called them "banzai" or "longevity fruit". It is said to have the effect of strengthening the brain and opening the mind, replenishing the middle and invigorating qi, moistening the intestines and lungs, and prolonging life.

Lao Wangtou's family is no exception, people in the mountains don't have any treasures, and hospitality is inseparable from these two things they grow.

Sitting down at the humble homemade coffee table and pulling a few words, the old king enthusiastically poured a bowl of tea for each of the officers.

Drinking this crude and unrefined tea, the sweet taste in the throat is particularly impressive.

"Sit down first, I'll get you something to eat!" The old king was not enthusiastic, and during the border war, he was an activist in front of the branch.

This is how many years I haven't seen a person in a military uniform, and the old Wang Tou feels extremely kind, and everyone seems to be twenty years younger.

"You're welcome, old man......"

"Yes, yes, it's good to drink tea, let's just talk casually......"

Everyone was embarrassed.

Anyway, it is the people's soldiers, and there is a saying in the old tradition that "do not take a stitch from the masses", although this is not a door-to-door to take anything, but it is also very embarrassing to cause trouble to the villagers, especially the border people here are still very poor.

"You're welcome! What's welcome! I fought alongside your troops back then! Come, I'm glad to watch! ”

The old king waved his hand categorically and non-negotiably, and walked into the small room next to him.

The three of them had no choice but to sit down.

Lian Yue said: "Secretary, take twenty yuan and press it under the table." ”

Secretary Sun Wei was stunned and said, "This is ......"

Lian Yue said: "Let you press it, quickly!" ”

It's like giving orders.

Sun Wei immediately came to his senses, reached into his pocket, and took out two pick-up banknotes, then bent down to look left and right, and finally saw that there was a cross under the homemade coffee table, so he folded the banknotes and wanted to put them up.

"Are you afraid that he won't be able to see it?"

Sun Wei hesitated.

Put it in an obvious place, see it at a glance, put it in an inconspicuous place, don't see it, don't say it, and it will be wasted to be dragged by a mouse to make a nest.

Just as he was hesitating, the old king came out of the room.

Sun Wei hurriedly retracted his hand and held the money in his palm, for fear that the old king would make all kinds of excuses when he saw it, which would be too troublesome.

The old king glanced at the three people sitting at the coffee table, and came over with a small basket in his hand.

"Taste the walnuts of our mountains."

Lian Yue glanced at the small bamboo basket that he had made himself.

There was a pile of iron walnuts lying inside.

"Our walnuts here are delicious......"

As he spoke, the old king picked out a big walnut and put it on a piece of bluestone next to the coffee table, and then reached out and took it out of his pocket—

In fact, Lian Yue and the others had been drinking tea before.

After all, after walking the mountain road for so long, I just entered the village and started to walk around again without drinking saliva, and I was already a little thirsty.

I can't say how rich the taste of tea in the mountains is, but the thirst quenching is absolute.

So the one of the three of them drank was called cool, and their attention was on the tea.

Bang Bang –

Bang Bang –

The old king smashed the walnuts very seriously.

The first to notice that something was wrong was the secretary Sun Wei, who had been thinking about how to put down the money, and at this time, the old king smashed the walnuts, which was considered to have given him a chance.

He wanted to see if the old man had noticed him, and if he hadn't noticed himself, he first pressed the money under the bamboo saucer.

Unexpectedly, he looked sideways and shocked him out of his body!

"Grenades!"

Sun Wei's exclamation made Lian Yue, who was drinking tea, take a sip of tea and spray it directly on Yang Daxi's face opposite.

Almost at the same moment, the three of them all felt that the camouflage cap on their heads was about to be pushed open by the out-of-body soul, and at that moment, no matter what kind of demining veteran you are, the first reaction was -!

The three of them bounced almost at the same time, flashing out the door like arrows.

"Lao Wang!"

Hiding outside the door, Lian Yue shouted, "Put down that grenade!" Will explode! ”

True, a Type 67 wooden-handled grenade is not a high-explosive substance, but it exploded in the room, and at such a close distance, I am afraid that none of the four people will survive.

How can you not be afraid!?

After dismantling the mine for so many years, he has already developed an extremely sensitive sense of touch to explosives.

It stands to reason that the grenade is an iron head, and it will not explode if it is smashed, but the problem is that the grenade of the old king's head is definitely not the kind of combat material kept in the wooden box in the warehouse.

It was definitely picked up in the wild, and it was definitely not well preserved.

Once the handle is corrupted, it breaks when struck......

Then it's the same as you tearing off the ring of fire......

Can you not be afraid?

The old king was not afraid at all, he looked at the door in surprise, and looked at the three half-stretched out by the door, with anxious faces.

"What are you afraid of!? I usually knock like this, it's okay, I know how to do it! Back then, when ammunition was transported to the front-line troops, there were more things to touch than chopsticks. I removed the fuse inside, and I don't believe you—"

As he spoke, he raised the grenade and aimed his tail at the door.

The three of them looked at it, and sure enough, the fire cap and the fire ring and fire rope inside were gone.

"Oh my God......"

Lian Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

……

On that day, Lian Yuexia's fellow villagers were right.

After that, from under the bed in the old king's house, he found more than 20 anti-infantry mines of various types, more than a dozen grenades, and the most terrifying thing was that the old kinghead also had an anti-tank mine.

The old king put it on the kitchen floor, specially used to chop chicken food for chickens, cut pigweed to feed pigs......

But there is one thing, these mines and grenades, it is true that the fuse is removed.

As for why Lao Wangtou was so awesome and could learn to defuse bombs without a teacher, Lian Yue asked for a long time, and he could only say that when Lao Wangtou was a militia member before, he watched sappers lay mines more than once, and helped the front-line troops transport weapons and ammunition more than once.

Lian Yue was not at ease, so he found the village party secretary and asked him to collect all the explosives in the whole village.

In order to make everyone active and voluntary, Lian Yue asked the secretary to take out all the money in his pocket and buy it at the price of 1 yuan for a mine and a grenade.

In just two hours, there was an empty ground under the big tree at the head of the village, and a small hill was opposite......

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At that time, the border people would indeed dig mines by themselves, and become doctors after a long illness, but there were also a lot of things, so this kind of thing was quite a bit of black humor, I listened to this story back then, and my first reaction was to laugh, and after laughing, a faint sadness slowly came to my heart.

Fortunately, through the efforts of the demining team over the years, the border area has really improved a lot.