Jiaohu

Chapter 46 Fourth Uncle
"You ran up the mountain by yourself again?"

Zhao Zheng looked at Zhao Huniu for a while, and then asked.

Zhao Huniu nodded.

She raised her finger and pointed to the trap behind her,
"Fourth Uncle, did you do this?"

"yes,"

"It's pretty good,"

"Thank you."

Zhao Zheng answered Zhao Huniu's question subconsciously, and he didn't react until he finished answering,

The tone of this girl's questioning, why is she like an elder.

Zhao Zheng squinted his eyes when he caught sight of a circle of quails hanging around Zhao Huniu's waist; to Zhao Huniu who had hunted big snakes and wild boars, quails were really nothing special.
But hanging around like this,
It's really not easy to do.

"This is a trap for catching quail, fourth uncle,"

Before Zhao Zheng could say anything, Zhao Huniu was obviously very interested in the trap, and poked her head to look.
"However, when I came over, I only saw this snake being caught above. It must have eaten all the quails that were caught before. Isn't that a bad thing, Uncle Si?"

Zhao Huniu yelled to her fourth uncle one by one, which was quite natural.

For Zhao Zheng,

The number of times Zhao Huniu called him just now has surpassed the total number of times she called him in the past ten years when she was so old; listening to Zhao Huniu calling herself so,

Although he was a little dissatisfied with the tone of Zhao Huniu talking to him just now,
But he just remained silent and walked to the side of the trap.

"It's better than catching quail,"

Zhao Zheng saw the snake that was bound by the trap and couldn't move. He bent down and just reached out his hand to pick the snake off the trap.

"Quail can only be sold to those who want to eat it, but the snake meat can be made into clay pot, and the snake skin and snake gall can also be sold to medicinal shops in the city. The price that such a snake can sell,
Much higher than the quail it ate.

and,"

Zhao Zheng pressed the grass snake's bulging belly,

"It hasn't eaten the quail for long, and it hasn't digested it yet. When I take it home and open the snake's stomach, maybe I can add another meal at night."

"So it is."

Zhao Huniu nodded, indicating that she understood.

The snake's head had already been twisted off by Zhao Zheng, and it was put into the cowhide bag that he carried with him.
Looking at Zhao Huniu again, Zhao Zheng glanced at the quails again,
"You've caught so many, it's time to stop. Normally, you can't hunt this spring, which disturbs the breeding of animals on the mountain. In autumn, there will be fewer fat ones."

"I was going down the mountain,"

Zhao Huniu patted her belt,
"It's just that I saw a strange thing here just now, so I came here to take a look. So the fourth uncle came up to the mountain, didn't he just catch something and sell it for money?"

"Of course not."

While Zhao Zheng was talking, he had already begun to dismantle the trap placed on the ground.

"If it weren't for your fourth aunt who wanted to eat quail, I wouldn't have come to the mountains in spring. Besides, spring is the time when the fields are open, and the work in the fields is still too busy.

Where is the time to hunt? "

"Oh,"

Zhao Huniu thinks so.Unexpectedly, Zhao Zheng looked like a rude man, and he doted on his wife.

"Exactly, then you can go with me,"

The trap has been put away, and Zhao Huniu watched as Zhao Zheng carried the strip-shaped trap on his shoulders, through the not-so-thin cloth, he was not afraid of poking his flesh; he said to Zhao Huniu :
"I'm going down the mountain too. It's safer for us to be together."

"Row,"

Zhao Huniu originally planned to go down the mountain, since Zhao Zheng invited herself to be with him, there was nothing wrong with that.

Along the way, one old and one young, walking one after the other on the way down the mountain,
each other silent,

Originally, although Zhao Zheng and Zhao Huniu were related, they were not very close; although they had said a lot just now, now Zhao Zheng should take the initiative to talk to Zhao Huniu.
But he couldn't do it.

In fact, when Zhao Huniu was just born, as the eldest son of the family, he carried a basket of eggs to celebrate the congratulations——

When my cousin got married,
There have been many discussions in the family behind their backs.

The family she married was not considered rich, it could even be said to be a bit embarrassing, but the most important thing was that man's mother, who was a well-known shrew in Brassica Village,

Listen to my mother,
When she was going to marry back then, her mother refused to agree with her life and death - she couldn't figure out why she fell in love with that man.She has always been soft-tempered in speaking and doing things, and she blushed with her family because of this marriage.

Later still married,

As everyone had guessed secretly, her life was not easy,

I heard that my man hurt his leg and couldn't do heavy work, and the care of the family's fields basically fell on his cousin.

Being soft-tempered means being deceitful,

But the one who gave birth was also a woman,

I'm afraid that even if she grows up, she won't be able to protect her from her mother-in-law.

But she died before seeing her daughter grow up,

Like many overworked women in the village, she probably died of illness.I went to see him for the last time at the time of the burial,
The thin one is not at all similar to the girl who was sent to marry back then.

For so many years, Zhao Zheng has also watched with cold eyes a lot of things happened in the Wu family of Zhao Village—he himself also married a wife and had children, and like the Wu family of Zhao Village, he gave birth to a single girl.
But he never told the village or anyone in the family to bully her.

The mother-in-law is also strong-tempered, and she also liked her when she married her.
With the fact that he is the only person in the village who can come down from Jianlin Mountain alive, the life of Zhao Zheng's family in Brassica Village is very good.

So he hates Zhao Cunwu so much,
It was my distant cousin who unfortunately passed away from exhaustion,
He didn't like it much either.

Everything in this world has to be earned by oneself and kept by oneself.

A useless man like Zhao Cunwu, a weak woman like my cousin,

In the end, I suffered for my whole life,

It also ruined the life of the child.

After all, parents are people who are used to being bullied, how can they teach children who are indomitable?

But Zhao Huniu obviously overturned Zhao Zheng's usual cognition,

She was following behind her at this moment, without saying a word,

The booty hanging from her waist shows off her strength—Zhao Zheng knew that she caught those quail with her hands,

Not to mention Brassica Village, even if all the nearby villages add up, no one would make such a trap in his hands.

She is more powerful than all the boys Zhao Zheng has ever seen.

Could it be that he had gone wrong before?I didn't realize that fighting cocks would grow out of quail nests,
Although Zhao Zheng still vaguely remembers Zhao Huniu's not-so-intelligent and dumbfounded look when she was a child,

But it is clear that the girl standing in front of him is exactly the same as the child in his memory,
But very different.

Zhao Zheng suddenly found that his impression of Zhao Huniu had changed a lot.
Maybe it started before,

But he was far from noticing then.

The opportunity to notice it may be because Zhao Huniu called her just now,
Fourth uncle.

(End of this chapter)