Chapter 40: Hunting from Uncle

"In the West Bureau of Qiqihar Railway, there was an affiliated hospital in old China, which was changed to Qiqihar Railway Central Hospital after liberation, and there is a small road leading to the family area opposite the west gate, and the road facing the west gate of the hospital is the School of Engineering, and the closest to the gate of the College of Engineering is the home of my grandfather and uncle. It was a red brick house, with a floor and partition glass sliding doors, and a cabinet hung on the bed on the west side, except for the bed under the south window was the north house, and in this less than 60 square meters of room left in Japan, there were ten people living in it, maybe this was the result of the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, right?

My grandparents are over 60 years old, my eldest uncle Sun Lintu died in the war, and my second uncle Sun Linjing was a pharmacist in the Railway Central Hospital, and he was the most educated person in the Sun family. Although my father had been killed, and my mother, after going through the hardships of the old forest in the mountains of Yakeshi and my stepfather, she also took my stepfather and uncle-in-law from the countryside to work on the railroad through their connections, but there were not so many people living in the family, and they had to live in the dormitory of the railway.

Geng Wu is my cousin, and he is named "Little Five Sons", and the two of them are almost inseparable every day, and they have to sleep in a quilt at night. When my third uncle had a job in the depot and found a partner to get married, my mother asked for a house in the South Railway Bureau, and moved into the big brick house with my uncle's family.

My second uncle's job was suddenly transferred to the Jiamusi Railway Hospital, where he worked as a pharmacist, and achieved results in the invention of medicine, which was also published in various newspapers and commended. Later, he served as vice president, but he never expected that in 1958, he was beaten into the rightist just because "laymen can't lead insiders", perhaps the result of an intellectual's opinions. But he still went back to Qiqihar to visit his grandmother, and in the midst of financial difficulties, he wrote advertisements for stations and theaters, painted landscape film and television posters, and earned money as travel expenses to solve the difficulties at that time.

In 1957, I took advantage of the summer vacation of school, and in the name of the children of railway workers, I asked for free tickets for railway trains, and went to Jiamusi to visit my grandfather and my second uncle's family, when I was only 12 years old. Maybe it was my uncle's favor and importance, he asked his aunt to make dumplings, the dumplings were filled with whole meat and vegetarian filling, but the meat filling was specially for me and my grandfather, while everyone ate vegetarian dumplings.

The second uncle's hobby was hunting, and he had a Russian-style double-barreled digging handle shotgun, and he loaded his own gun. It was a Saturday, and in the evening he took me and my little five sons to hunt in the wilderness, and took the train from Jiamusi Station to get off at Boli County Station. The sky was still dark, and a group of three people walked one foot deep and one foot shallow, walking towards the barren Sanjiang Plain.

As the day was about to dawn, the second uncle noticed an animal in front of us, as if it were a wolf in Shanshan's direction. The second uncle sensitively asked me and Xiao Wuzi to lie down under a ditch slope immediately, and quickly picked up the shotgun to aim at the dirt bag on the edge of the ditch, which is also due to the experience of animals seeing the hill and seeing the slope down.

The animal came, it really went up the small slope, it was only a few meters away and it stopped, and it just lay there and didn't move, as if it saw something? The second uncle shot, the first shot was a squib, then the second shot, how could it still be a squib? The second uncle was a little nervous, and Xiao Wuzi and I were even more scared, seeing that the animal was still raising its neck, and saw that the chest was all white from under its mouth, but the second uncle couldn't dig the digging gun.

In order to prevent the attack and injury of the animal, the second uncle pulled out a dagger to defend himself, and the animal also stood up and turned away, under the light of the glow, its back was all golden, and the second uncle dug the gun over and over again, and muttered: "Fox... It's a fox. ”

The second uncle took me and my fifth son to the Xiao family's shack, which was the home of the hunting gunner. Boss Xiao put on the wine and food and the second uncle was drinking, but Xiao Wuzi and I were fiddling with the Russian-style shotgun next to the edge of the kang, I looked inside the muzzle, but Xiao Wuzi was going to fiddle with the ghost with his hand, once the fire was hooked, I would die. The second uncle shouted, "Little Wuzi!" and then the second uncle walked up to him and pulled Xiao Wuzi to the wine table.

Boss Xiao asked, "Why didn't you close the insurance?"

The second uncle said: "Don't mention it, I thought it was a wolf in the morning, and I fired two all-squib shots, and I couldn't shoot any more, and what was even stranger was a big fox." ”

Boss Xiao said: "I heard that there is indeed a fox in this area, and several gunners can't find it." ”

The second uncle said: "It seems that this fox can't fight, and in the future, it will shoot rabbits, pheasants, and geese or something." ”

Saying that, he and Boss Xiao drank again, and Xiao Wuzi and I also went to the kang to eat. I really didn't go hunting that day, after breakfast, the second uncle looked at his watch, it was almost noon, and when he was about to part with Boss Xiao, he picked up the gun, but for some reason he dug up the Russian gun. He was surprised to see that the bullet and the cannon were fine, and the firing pin was intact, what was the matter? Could it be that he was too panicked to pull the trigger?

The second uncle took me and Xiao Wu away in confusion, and went to Boli Station to prepare to go back to Jiamusi. However, he never expected that the gun would cause big trouble.

It turned out that when he met the animal, the second uncle began to see it as a wolf, so he replaced the original thirteen grains of medium sand with a single bullet. When he returned home, a friend borrowed a gun from him, and he even gave it to his friend with a gun and ammunition, and he never thought that his friend's first shot in the field was the thirteen grains of medium sand and was blown up and bored, and the gun was blown up, and half of the person's face was blown up and injured, and it was fortunate that he almost didn't kill him.

The second uncle felt that if he hadn't met the fox and didn't replace the medium sand with a single bullet, then he would have used the medium sand bomb to blow up the chamber.

The so-called cross-gun is to take those loaded guns and bullets, go to a place where there is no one, find a two-sided wooden pole, walk out 30 meters away and start crossing, you can see the size of the drug. There is no problem at all, so why did this accident happen? Maybe it was a personal negligence.

There was negligence in the past, once when he was loading the gun, put the cannon, when the medicine was missing, there was a nail cap on the edge of the kang and hit the cannon, and the gunpowder came out with the fire, burning the second uncle's hand, leaving a historical scar, and the second uncle thought of this to dispel his doubts.

This is also the first time I came to Jiamusi's second uncle's house, and I came here two times after that, and what happened? See Chapter 41: Chapter 41: Self-Injury in the Hunting Ranks.