Jiaohu

Chapter 47 Three Quails
"Fourth uncle, this is for you,"

"Ok?"

After descending the mountain and at the intersection of entering the village, Zhao Zheng watched as Zhao Huniu untied three quails from her waist and handed them to him.
"You want to give these to me?"

"That's right. The quail caught in this trap was eaten by the snake. Although the snake can be stewed in snake soup and sold for money, the quail is gone.

It just so happened that I caught some here, fourth uncle, you can take a few back. "

"Although I didn't catch a quail, I didn't come home empty-handed," the man looked at Zhao Huniu with a slightly weird expression, "But I didn't return empty-handed. According to our hunting rules here, if I didn't return empty-handed, Others should not divide their prey,
Do you understand? "

Zhao Zheng's meaning is obvious, Zhao Huniu is not a fool; she nodded,
"I understand. But why?"

"what why?"

"Why can't we divide?"

"Ok?"

Zhao Zheng frowned,
"Didn't you say you understood?"

"I understand what fourth uncle you're talking about, but what I'm asking is why," the girl said calmly,

"Since this is the prey I caught, it is mine. I can distribute it to whoever I want. Why can't I distribute what I have hunted to that person just because others didn't come down from the mountain empty-handed?" What about people?"

Zhao Zhenggang wanted to explain, but when Zhao Huniu said this, he held back the words of explanation.

In fact, this is an unwritten rule that has been passed around for more than ten years.

There are different opinions on who passed it down, in other words, no one knows.

But I heard that in the past, many people from various villages went to the mountains to hunt. They said they were hunting, but the number of villagers who could really hunt prey by themselves was a minority;

Seeing that a few of them picked up dead pheasants and wild birds almost by chance, those who hunted a lot couldn't bear it, and distributed their prey to everyone.
After going back and forth, some people will not realize it.
Started endlessly asking for those prey from others.

If they asked for too much, the two families tore their faces apart. One said that the other was easy to take advantage of, and the other said that the other was stingy.
Perhaps in order to avoid such disputes, the people who went up the mountain at that time made such an agreement,

As long as you don't get nothing, you can't ask for prey from other people who go up the mountain to hunt.

Zhao Zheng has kept this agreement very well all these years; after all, there are very few people in Brassica Village who dare to go up the mountain, not to mention that he is one of the best.
Few men were better at hunting than he.

If others are different, he can get whatever he wants, so it's his turn to ask for what others don't.

But now, looking at the quail that the little girl handed him in front of him, Zhao Zheng felt mixed emotions—he couldn’t say he was unhappy, or that he was dissatisfied that others despised him——Zhao Huniu was only able to go up the mountain last year. It is normal to agree that she does not know.

But after explaining to her,
She actually asked herself why?
Zhao Zheng wanted to explain the origin of this agreement to Zhao Huniu in detail, but what Zhao Huniu said made him silent.

indeed,

The quail is what Zhao Huniu hunted by her own ability, whether to eat, sell, or give away, it should be Zhao Huniu's choice; isn't this the original intention of the agreement,
In order to give those who don't really want to share their spoils, a reason not to say no,

Now Zhao Huniu refuted herself like this,
Having rejected this agreement,

But it is sure again.

Seeing that Zhao Zheng was silent, Zhao Huniu continued:

"Although fourth uncle, you caught a snake, you can sell it for money and make snake soup, but fourth aunt doesn't want to eat quail? Even if you change the money now, you can't buy quail in the village, right?

It's not worth it to go all the way to the city just to buy a few quails that I can catch.
If you take these three quails back to my fourth uncle, and let my fourth aunt eat the quail she wants, that is my kindness; I still have so many quails, and three of them are not a big deal.

No matter what, fourth uncle, if you take these three quails, it is a good thing for us,
Then why not take it? "

Zhao Zheng was completely speechless.
He never expected that Zhao Huniu, who seemed not good at speaking, could speak in such a clear and reasonable way; he opened his mouth,
Nothing to say no to,

Zhao Huniu had already stuffed three quails into Zhao Zheng's hands,

"That's it, Third Uncle. I'm going to the city later, so I won't talk to you. Say hello to Fourth Aunt and me,"

After saying that, Zhao Huniu turned around and left, heading straight for her home.

Of course Zhao Zheng knew that Zhao Huniu went to the city to sell wild game. The whole village knew about the fact that she had signed a deal with a big restaurant in the county town.

But seeing it with my own eyes,

Still worth a sigh.

Where and when did he learn such a shrewd and capable look?
Zhao Zheng looked at the three quails in his hand, shook his head,

He merged the three quails into the sack that originally only contained snakes, and led the sack home.

"The master is back?"

As soon as he opened the door, Zhao Zheng saw his wife was sweeping the dust in the yard; seeing that it was Zhao Zheng coming back, the woman was holding a broom, and first looked Zhao Zheng up and down.
Then he opened his mouth and said:
"It's just right, the rice is hot for you, go and eat."

"understood,"

Zhao Zheng did not put down his prey and go to eat as usual, but walked in front of his wife,

"Mother Caiyu, I have something strange to tell you."

"What are you talking about, if you want to talk about it, say it quickly, don't keep it up. What about quail, why didn't I see you mention it?"

"It's in here, I'll get it for you in a while. Guess how you got it because you want to eat this quail today?"

"Hey, you bastard, is your skin itchy? If you tell me to tell you, just say it, and leave me here to talk nonsense!"

"Okay, don't worry, I'll just say it"

As he said that, Zhao Zheng finished talking to Zhao Caiyu's mother about meeting Zhao Huniu on the mountain and Zhao Huniu giving him three quails.
Seeing Zhao Caiyu's mother's surprised expression, Zhao Zheng felt a little complacent for no reason.

"It's really strange,
You said that the child of your distant cousin's family has been seen before, and it is not the same as it is now, it is really not the same at all; by the way, a few days ago, did you still talk about the little devil in the fifth sister-in-law's house? Was it usurped by that child to go up the mountain? "

"how is this possible?"

Zhao Zheng scoffed,

"Not to mention anything else, just those little devils are so cowardly, Huniu doesn't even have the guts to point a finger. Huniu told them to go up the mountain and they dared to go up the mountain?"

"What are you talking about with me, isn't that what you said at that time?"

(End of this chapter)