Chapter 27 The Eve of the Storm
The Daguang Road Vegetable Market in Hulong County is like a person's buttocks, with two streets leading here. This vegetable market is noisy and prosperous during the day, with cabbage, radish, cucumber and eggplant all representing the peace of life. This vegetable market is gloomy at night, and there is no passing person, who would go to buy vegetables at night?
The street lights were smashed by the bad boy, and the wind blew the plastic bags across the street corner, and the low walls around them were silent.
At 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, some sneaky people came to the vegetable market one after another. They mumbled and left in a hurry before dawn. This was the case every day, and the night was maintained, and they were conducting secret transactions in the dark. Since the ban on fireworks and firecrackers, this place has become a gathering place for privately selling fireworks and firecrackers. Later, some criminals also came here to sell prohibited items. There were several smugglers selling cultural relics in the shadows, and a few thieves selling stolen goods in the shadows, selling fake cigarettes and wine in the corner of the wall on the left, and the cement platform on the right was filled with various pornographic books and pirated CDs.
Sometimes there are many customers and crowds. This black market is outside the law, and only supply and demand relationships interact.
The police have repeatedly attacked, but the results have been minimal. They often know the news before the police attack. When they climb over low walls, there are always some dark and roundabout places that can make people escape smoothly.
On October 28, 2001, at midnight, three people walked into the Daguang Road Vegetable Market.
They are: Big Thumb Brother, Ding Busi, Gao Fei.
They stopped in front of the stall selling detonators. A female stall owner showed a smile to the customer and asked what. After a while, the transaction was completed. They bought three packs of explosives, which was a TNT industrial explosive, which was mostly used for mountain openings and mine blasting. Its power is extremely powerful. Criminals often sell them on the black market.
They and the female stall owner muttered a few sneaky words. The female stall owner lowered his voice and said to come with me. She led them through several streets, walked around the bush and walked through several dark alleys, and finally stopped at the end of a dead end.
The female stall owner knocked on the door and opened. A man in a military coat appeared in the slightly opened crack. The female stall owner said something to him. He showed a look of surprise and cunning, and asked in a low voice: "You want to buy a gun?"
Brother Thumb nodded.
The man in military coats asked them to come in, put them in the door, walked through a yard with a well, and entered the main hall. The man asked vigilantly what he said and said, confirming whether they were policemen.
Gao Fei said, "Take it out."
The man in a military coat took out a tart cloth bag from the mezzanine of the wardrobe, and spread it out, with a shotgun with a sawed-off barrel inside, he said: "Here."
Big Thumb shook his head in disappointment.
The man in the military coat said, "This is what I picked up from the mountain. You can see that it's a price."
Ding Busi said: "We don't want it."
Gao Fei said: "It is better to shoot the moon than shooting people fifty meters away with this gun. Their chances of hitting the target are the same."
Ding Busi said: "What we want to buy is a gun that can kill people, not a gun that can shoot birds."
Big Thumb said: "Gun, and bullets."
The man in a military coat said, "No."
Big Thumb said, "Let's go."
When they were about to reach the gate of the courtyard, the man in the military coat whispered and discussed with the female vendor. "Wait, don't leave first." He stopped them.
The man in the military coat said, "I have it, have you brought enough money?"
Big Thumb patted his pocket.
The man took off his coat and walked to the wellhead in the yard. He slid down the rope, and the woman pulled him up with a wheel. He took out a tart cloth bag from the bottom of the well, which contained three guns, two spears with scopes, and a revolver.
Big Thumb picked up the revolver and asked, "How much?"
The man said: "This is a foreign product."
Brother Big Thumb asked again: "How much does it cost?"
The man continued: "The British police use it."
Ding Busi was a little impatient: "Just tell me how much it costs."
The man still said, "This is not made of scrap iron. Some people made guns are mute. They use nails and horseshoes to pour all the rusty things into the wrought iron stove."
Gao Fei said: "You can see."
The man added: "There is also a broken sickle."
Big Thumb waited patiently for him to finish speaking.
The man finally offered the price: "The revolver is 6,000 yuan, and 60 bullets are given for free. These two are 7,000 yuan per pair, and three are 20,000 yuan."
Big Thumb asked: "Revolver, is it sold for 5,000?"
The man said firmly: "If you don't sell it, this gun is made of copper."
Ding Busi said: "If this is the case, the business will be swearing."
The man pretended to put away the gun: "Okay, I'll keep it, there will be people who know the goods to buy it."
Big Thumb said: "5,000 is cash, so give it money now."
The man got angry: "You don't know anything, as long as you take out this gun, you will be scared to death." /~Half♣Floating*sheng:.*No pop-up window++
Big Thumb turned around, approached Gao Fei's ear, and asked in a low voice: "Is the thing good?"
Gao Fei nodded.
Big Thumb said, "We bought all of them, and there are those two spears."
The man corrected: "Wrong, this is not called a spear, this is called a sniper rifle, it is also a foreign product. I will give you two more mufflers. Look at this scope, it can be used as a telescope. Not to mention killing birds, even a phoenix can be shot down."
Big Thumb said: "We bought three guns."
Hulong County is one of the three major black gun bases in China. The three guns sold by men wearing military coats are not so-called foreign goods, but are made by local farmers. Because the county is poor, it is built to make money to support their families. The situation of selling guns is very common. Some people farm during busy farming and build guns during slack farming. Since 1992, the number of local private guns has increased year by year. Data provided by the police shows that between 1992 and 1996, a total of 8,772 illegal guns were confiscated.
Chapter completed!