Chapter 380
It was already half past nine in the evening. After finishing hosting the "Spring Festival Gala", Uncle Five hurried to Uncle Two's house and shouted as soon as he entered the door.
"Brother, how's your leg? Was that really a gunshot I heard this afternoon?"
Second Uncle shook his hand, his face expressionless, but he uttered harsh words: "It's okay, you came just in time. Let's organize some things and go hunting pigs in the mountains in the next few days."
Uncle Wu paused, his eyes widening as he thought to himself, "Huh? So sudden? My second brother is usually such a steady person. How could he become so aggressive after being bitten by a wild boar?"
At this time, everyone else in the room turned their eyes to the second uncle.
Uncle Qi stood in the corner, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised, laughing in his heart: Humph, they were scolding those wild boars seriously just now, but in fact they must have wanted to cut them into pieces for a long time!
With prestigious people like the second uncle and the fifth uncle taking the lead, the subsequent arrangements were a piece of cake.
Everyone sat together and started discussing it one by one.
Some people say: "You can't kill animals on the first day of the New Year. This is a rule passed down by our ancestors."
Another person continued, "It's not appropriate to go back to your parents' home on the second day of the Lunar New Year."
So, everyone unanimously decided to take action on the third day of junior high school.
The Su family and the wild boar have new and old grudges combined, so they are definitely the vanguards. It would not be good not to call on other families.
So Uncle Wu turned on the village loudspeaker at night to announce that they were going to hunt wild boars in the mountains. Anyone who wanted to participate could sign up tonight.
During this period, many families' crops in the village were indeed destroyed by wild boars. The villagers were very angry when they saw the fruits they had worked so hard to grow being destroyed.
In addition, the news of Su Yuanan being attacked today has spread to most of the village, so everyone was not surprised by the Su family's sudden decision to encircle and hunt the wild boars.
However, not many people are really willing to participate.
In a house, a young man said to his mother excitedly:
"Mom! Why don't I join in too? I can even get some wild boar meat."
"Don't go! It's too dangerous! It's New Year's Day. What if you get hurt like Su Yuanan?"
"No, no matter how fierce the wild boar is, it can't be much more powerful with so many people. One person and one stick can kill it."
"Do you know how many people are going? And do you know how many wild boars there are in the mountains? If there are only ten or eight of them, we won't have time to run away. Anyway, I said you are not allowed to go!"
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At another house at the end of the village, the son ran up to his father and asked:
"Dad, shall we go?"
"Where are you going?"
"Hunting wild boars!"
"Oh no! The Su family is going to avenge Su Yuanan, why are we joining in the fun?"
"No, didn't Uncle Su Wu say that as long as you participate, you can get a share of wild boar meat."
"No matter how we divide it, the Su family will take the lion's share. What if there are only two pigs? Maybe we won't even get two pounds of meat. Why take the risk?"
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Of course, there were also those who were willing to participate. Two brothers from the same family discussed among themselves:
"Brother, shall we go hunting wild boars?"
"Go! It sounds fun!"
"Let's go! Sign up!"
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In the end, the Su family selected twenty people to go up the mountain, and ten people from other families in the village also signed up. The total number of people in the team was thirty, which was considered a huge team.
Uncle Wu held a meeting with everyone, talked about the time to go up the mountain and the preparations everyone should make, and finally made a simple plan for the distribution of wild boars.
"We don't know how many wild boars we can hunt yet. It's possible we won't find any, so everyone should be prepared."
"Uncle Su Wu, we know that if we can catch them, that's the best. If we can't, we'll just go for a stroll up the mountain."
"Okay, then let's talk about the distribution of wild boar meat. If we kill three or fewer, we'll divide it equally according to the number of people who go.
If you kill three or more wild boars, you kill the extra ones and prepare a feast for the whole village. No matter who comes and goes, we are all one village after all."
Everyone has no objection to this method. If a wild boar is really killed, it will be a godsend. It will be lively if the whole village celebrates together during the New Year.
After the meeting, my second uncle returned home and checked the hunting rifle. The children gathered around him and looked at it. There was no bullet in the gun, so there was no danger of accidental discharge.
Lele reached out and touched the cold barrel of the gun, and asked, "Second Grandpa, my dad said my family used to have a gun, but we handed it in. How do you still have it?"
"A few years ago, the higher-ups asked us to collect guns. Our village handed in over fifty, including yours. This gun was left to our seventh grandfather by our sixth grandfather as a keepsake, so we didn't hand it in."
"Oh! So that's how it is! So this is the only gun we have in our village now?"
"There are still some, but not as many as before. The world is peaceful now, so they are no longer needed. I still have five or six tubes, but they are probably almost rusted away."
Su Miao, who was listening to their conversation, couldn't help but recall the policy on gun control.
In 1983, during the crackdown, the authorities launched a gun collection operation, but the enforcement was not so strict at the time and many people did not hand in their guns.
It was not until 1996 that the crackdown was intensified and controls were further tightened. This time, not only guns but even some highly offensive weapons were taken away.
Such a strict gun ban policy stems from gun violence incidents occurring in various places, which gradually reveal the seriousness of the proliferation of guns.
Among the many events, the biggest turning point was the armed conflict between the two villages, which was later jokingly called the "Majinggeler Battle".
This incident caused a great sensation at the time and topped the list of topics for nighttime conversation in their dormitory for a whole week.
The general course of events was that on September 11, 1993, a brutal conflict broke out between two villages in a certain province, which had long been accumulating grievances.
People who don’t understand the situation might think that fighting among villagers is a common occurrence, and even deaths have occurred. Is it necessary to cause such a big fuss?
However, in reality, the scale and intensity of this fight far exceeded people's imagination.
At first, people on both sides only used hoes, sickles and other farm tools to fight, but as both sides showed no mercy, considerable casualties began to occur.
There was no hospital in the village, so the injured villagers ran to a nearby veterinarian for simple bandaging and then joined the battle again.
The conflict was so difficult to resolve that it not only failed to calm the two families, but instead became like a lit powder keg, becoming increasingly out of control. In the end, everyone took out their hot weapons.
The most dramatic thing is that the leaders of both sides have participated in wars and understand battlefield strategies. The struggle escalated from group fights to large-scale armed fights, and the whole scene was quite reminiscent of modern military warfare.
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