Chapter 38 Embarrassing Marksmanship(1/2)
Author: Riding an ant to the market
On the way back to the cave with Aju.
The big tiger discovered a hare hiding in the grass at the base of the rock wall.
The two dog brothers moved their paws together, one on the left and the other on the right, blocking the rabbit that came out to look for food at the foot of the mountain.
Han Xiaokang loaded the bullet.
Aim the gun and hear a "bang"!
Didn't hit.
But it frightened the timid hare so much that it suddenly jumped up from the grass!
"squeak--"
The hare screamed, and he probably didn't mean anything good at all.
Don’t think that rabbits can’t bark, they can even curse when they’re in a hurry!
In Bashu dialect, this is called: Beating and begging to survive, but being frightened!!
One hit misses.
Han Xiaokang quickly pulled the bolt, ejected the empty cartridge case, and pushed the bullet in the magazine into the gun chamber again, "Bang——"
This time the hare was caught.
I saw the hare dragging its hind legs and limping away.
This. This is absolutely unscientific!
The Type 44 mounted rifle uses 6.5mm pointed bullets. Such a thick bullet can hit a small hare.
That would be equivalent to shooting a wild boar with a cannon.
Not to mention breaking its trunk into pieces, at least it would have to make a big hole, right?
Now, only one of its legs was injured?
"Woo——"
In the end, the two tigers took the lead, swooping over and biting the slightly bruised rabbit into their mouths!
The injured hare was still kicking around desperately, while the two tigers grabbed its neck and shook its head from side to side.
After a few moments, the rabbit became motionless and mournful.
When Han Xiaokang came forward,
When he pulled the hare out of Erhu's mouth, he couldn't help but feel a flash of embarrassment on his face: the shot he just fired actually didn't hit the hare at all.
Instead, the bullet hit the hard stone wall, and countless gravels flew out, limping one of the rabbit's hind legs.
Two bullets cost 6 cents and 6 cents, but the hare that was shot weighed just over 2 kilograms?
This is still with the skin on.
No matter how he calculated it, Han Xiaokang felt a little unfair.
But Aju didn't think so.
I saw her clapping her hands and cheering, "Brother Xiaokang, you are so powerful, you can hit such a small target!"
"Ahem, cough, cough, just so-so."
Han Xiaokang asked: "Can you skin a rabbit?"
Aju nodded, then carried the rabbit to the waterhole just now.
Han Xiaokang frowned: Can the water in there be used to wash rabbits?
But before Han Xiaokang could speak, Aju had already crossed the pool of spring water and headed straight ahead.
On the stone wall in front of this pool of spring water, there is still a little water seeping there, dripping there.
It turned out that Aju was carrying the rabbit there to clean it.
Skinning a rabbit is actually very easy.
I saw Aju using a knife to draw a full circle horizontally along the rabbit's hind legs.
Then, cut from the edge of the knife along the rabbit's leg to the other hind leg. After the knife edge has made a long cut on both hind legs of the rabbit.
Aju then turned the blade.
He made another cut on the belly of the rabbit, and then made another cut on each of the rabbit's front legs according to the same method as he used to cut the hind legs.
It seems that the shape drawn by Aju is actually the shape of the character "work".
I saw Aju put down the knife,
Holding the hare's hind legs with one hand, the other hand grasped the hare skin from the top of the hind legs and began to pull it down.
The rabbit skin can be peeled off completely without any effort.
Skinning a rabbit is actually two different things from killing a pig.
The peeled rabbit skin is intact, and there is no trace of blood on the rabbit. In fact, it can be washed or not.
And Aju had to take it to the spring water to clean it, mainly because when it was disemboweled, there would be a little bit of blood in the hare's abdominal cavity.
Wait until she has cleaned up the hare.
There are also some deer-eared leeks and wild green onions growing on the edge of the seeping cliff.
Ah Ju picked some randomly, and then went to a slope to cut down a moso bamboo. She only took out the larger section and brought back a few bamboo tubes.
You can use it for cooking later.
When the two returned to the cave, Aju didn't let Han Xiaokang interfere with life and cooking at all.
She does it all by herself.
So Han Xiaokang, who had nothing to do, could only sit on the sack used for sleeping and watch Aju cook in boredom.
Her movements are very agile.
After a few seconds, he chopped a small hare into pieces.
Then stuff the rabbit meat into a bamboo tube, then add salt, pepper, and chili powder.
Then I pinched the wild green onions with both hands, twisted them hard, and poured some green onion juice into the bamboo tube.
Wait until all the condiments are put in.
Ah Ju used a banana leaf, rolled it into a ball and stuffed it into the bamboo tube.
Then shake the bamboo tube vigorously with both hands to allow the hare meat inside to marinate evenly.
Aju was shaking vigorously there.
The wet clothes on her chest were swaying.
Because the shirt she was wearing was very old, the fabric had been worn out and was very thin.
At this time, there were no thickened covers or anything like that.
The older girls and younger wives in the production team all just wear vests.
Now Aju is shaking like this.
Seeing this, Han Xiaokang shook his head: From now on, if the child follows this mother, he will probably be hungry for nine meals in three days.
Babies in rural areas lack food and clothing, and there is no place to buy milk powder!
The superiors can give lactating babies a little white sugar and brown sugar, which would be good.
If they are factory workers in the city, they can also get a purchase quota of 2 cans of malted milk.
However, it is difficult for the majority of production team members to obtain malted milk.
There are only a few individual families who can ask for help if they know long-distance drivers who drive large trucks.
Then the long-distance driver asked other drivers to help him get some precious milk powder back from Shanghai in a relay race.
But 99% of families obviously do not meet this condition.
For the children who were born, all their food rations had to be produced by the pair of automatic assembly lines.
If the production capacity cannot keep up, you can only add some sugar to the rice soup and feed it to the children.
Therefore, during this period,
Many people in the Bashu area are not very tall. The main reason is that they cannot keep up with nutrition.
Therefore, when many people are looking for a daughter-in-law, they like to marry someone with a thick waist and a big butt.
In the words of those experienced old ladies, only this kind of woman is a good daughter-in-law who can give birth and raise children who will not eat or drink less!
Thin and weak women are not very popular in the production team.
Otherwise, on the promotional poster,
To be continued...