newbobooks Chapter 139 Selling Chickens
Chapter 139 Selling Chickens
It passed by the crowd like a gust of wind and disappeared in a flash.
It happened so fast that I couldn't even blink.
The three people who were trying to steal skills watched here for a long time and found that there was no trick, just running, chasing and blocking. They thought they followed the wrong person. Now they met Zhou Guo, who had formally become his apprentice. His hunting skills were even simpler, and he didn't even run and chase, just relying on his two feet to chase.
This...even if they run until their legs break, they still can't catch up.
The three of them were discouraged. They might as well learn from the three people in front of them and cooperate better. They could at least catch one in half a day, right?
Zhou Dacang on the other side heard the noise, turned around and saw Zhou Guo chasing a chicken relentlessly, gritting his teeth, looking at the chicken in front of him as if he had some great grudge and wanted to skin it.
He immediately became interested, and after a closer look, he discovered that the girl's leg skills seemed to have improved. He had learned another set of kung fu, but because of his poor foundation and his old age, the results were not very good. Now, looking at the speed of his little niece, he was very envious and wondered why he was not born two years later.
He shook his head and decided not to compete anymore. He picked up a few more stones in his hand. Although his lightness skill was not very good, he had been practicing this skill for so many days and it became more and more accurate. He could hit four out of ten small tree trunks four or five feet away. It was a great improvement.
……
I don't know how long I chased it, but Zhou Guo saw that the chicken in front of him was gradually slowing down, and the distance it flew each time was getting shorter and shorter. He was delighted in his heart, thinking that this guy was finally about to die!
With a flash of thought, the chicken fluttered forward from the tree trunk again, but halfway through the flight, it ran out of strength and fell straight down from mid-air, "cluck, cluck~~"
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel that there is some unwillingness in its cry.
She took her last breath, leaped forward, and grabbed the chicken in her hands.
He was so tired that he could not speak. He lay on the ground gasping for breath. Sweat kept coming out of his head and face. His legs and hands were weak and he had exhausted all his strength.
The sense of accomplishment in her heart was as much as sweat. She actually caught the pheasant with just her legs! Without relying on any other tools.
Zhou Da Cang came over with a bunch of pheasants in his hand, looked at the pheasant in her hand, and said with a smile: "You are really good. You actually caught it. If we don't have meat to eat in the future, we will let you go into the woods to chase it."
Zhou Guo waved his hands, indicating that he had not recovered yet and needed to rest for a while.
After a long while, she finally felt her lost strength gathering in her limbs bit by bit, and her weak hands and feet slowly returned to normal. Then she slowly sat up holding the chicken, "Master only gave me half an hour, luckily it didn't exceed. How many chickens did you catch?"
Zhou Dacang raised the chicken in his hand and said, "Eight."
"That's not enough. We still need four. Why are you standing here instead of going to catch chickens?" She turned her head and asked puzzledly, her mind going blank from exhaustion.
"Your three brothers each have at least one, right? You have one too. That's enough. What else should I catch? There aren't so many pheasants in the mountains for me to catch. It's good enough that I can find these. I'm not a professional hunter, and I haven't mastered the skills yet, so I can't catch any more." After he said that, he pulled a grass seed off his clothes.
"Uncle, uncle!!"
Not far away, Zhou Gu and the other two called out, "Where are you?"
"Here!" Zhou Guo said, stretching his neck to look outside, wanting to know how many chickens his brothers had caught.
Not long after, the three of them came over after taking many detours. When they saw Zhou Dacang, they excitedly ran up to him and handed all the chickens in their hands to him. "Uncle, look, we caught three, just one for each of us. These chickens are big, so one should be enough for thirty cents, right?"
Zhou Da Cang looked at it, nodded, and encouraged: "Not bad, not bad, it's really good, you caught three in such a short time. In the future, even if Zhou Guo and I are not at home and we have no money to buy meat, we will always have these pheasants to eat. If there is no meat, you three can go into the woods and catch some."
Zhou Guo: “…”
Zhou Gu said with a smile: "It can also save money on buying meat."
Zhou Mi and Zhou Mai were also very happy. Being able to contribute to the family to the best of their ability was something they had always wanted to do.
All twelve pheasants were gathered. It was already noon, and several people got up and prepared to leave the mountain.
Zhou Guo was halfway there when he suddenly thought of the old man who was still hiding somewhere. "Oh, where's my master? He hasn't come out yet. I have to go find him."
Zhou Dacang and his companions then remembered that the old man was still in the mountains.
"Search, search."
“No need to look for it.” Everyone turned around and saw him strolling out with two chickens in his arms, a faint smile on his face.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, what delicious food did you eat again?"
The old man flatly denied it, "No way, I didn't eat alone."
Everyone: "..."
Zhou Guo said: "...Master, you forgot to wipe your mouth." There was a circle of oil around his mouth, shining in the sunlight shining through the treetops.
"..." The old man wiped his mouth awkwardly and said calmly: "Well, I'm just hungry. I'm old, not like you kids, I can't stand hunger. Okay, let's go, the meal at home should be ready."
As soon as I came out of the mountain, each family was already waiting.
When they saw them come out, the families who had ordered chickens yesterday swarmed over.
"Mine, mine, Sanlang, these are two from my family. Here, I'll pick out two big ones. Sixty cents, give them to you." After saying that, he was about to take away the two that looked the fattest.
Zhou Dacang retracted his hand and said, "Don't worry, ladies and gentlemen. I will lay out these pheasants on the ground from big to small, and you can pick them yourself. Those over two and a half catties are thirty cents, and those under two and a half catties are twenty cents."
Zhou Mi was very smart and ran back home to get a scale, and the twelve pheasants were quickly weighed out.
There were seven that weighed more than two and a half catties, and five that weighed less than two and a half catties, including one that weighed two and a half catties, which was not much different from two and a half catties.
As soon as it was weighed, an old lady snatched it from her hand and said, "I want this one, this one is mine." She hurriedly threw down twenty cents and left, fearing that it would be snatched away.
Because everything was already decided, everyone didn't think too much about it. They just picked what they wanted, paid for it, and happily carried it back to the camp. All twelve pheasants were quickly picked.
Zhou Gu and his two companions sold their chickens for sixty cents, which was exactly twenty cents per person.
The few people took the money they got from selling chickens and cherished it very much. Strictly speaking, this was the first time they had earned it through their own efforts since they were born. The three of them handed the money to Li.
Li took eighteen coins from each person and left two coins for each of them. She smiled and said, "Your grandmother made a rule at that time. In the future, if anyone can earn money, they are not allowed to take it all. They have to leave some for you. You can keep these two coins for yourselves."