Three days later, the Jiang brothers each carried a deer back, which immediately caused a sensation in the whole village.
One of the three deer was killed and two were injured, one of which was a fawn.
"Jiang San, this is really not a decent thing to do."
A young villager said sourly: "You went deer hunting without even telling us."
Jiang Sanlang chuckled and said, "This is all very unexpected. Besides, I didn't see you that day."
The young man knew that he was being perfunctory, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where did you go hunting?"
"Beishan, my elder brother and I chased the fawn for dozens of miles and almost got lost." Jiang Sanlang put a rope around the fawn's neck and tied it to the handle of the millstone.
"Beishan, I went to Beishan to cut hemp yesterday, why didn't I see him?" asked another villager.
"By the time you saw it, the deer had already run away." The young man said angrily, and then turned to ask Jiang Sanlang: "You hunted three deer this time, so the herd should be quite large, right?"
Jiang Sanlang: "Not very big, just three or four, three big deer and one small deer."
In fact, it's more than that, but how could he tell the truth to outsiders
This time he went chasing deer with his elder and second brothers and found that there were more than a dozen deer in the herd.
If they hunted one deer, they would bring it back on the same day. Because the weather was too hot, dead deer could not be left for long, so they had to bring them back in time to process them.
But how can we let go of such a good opportunity
So they kept following, waiting for an opportunity to hunt a few more alive and bring them back.
Sure enough, hard work paid off and they hunted three deer as they wished.
But on their way back, a deer died due to serious injuries. Fortunately, the dead deer was wrapped with herbs and did not rot much.
When the young man heard that it was just a group of fawns, his resentment disappeared and he said angrily, "You are really lucky to have hunted all three."
Jiang Sanlang grinned foolishly and went to help his elder brother skin the deer.
Yingbao squatted in front of the millstone and saw the little deer curled up under the millstone, looking at her with a pair of big wet eyes in fear. She couldn't help but feel a little moved.
The fawn's hind hip seemed to be wounded by an arrow. Some herbal juice was applied to it, but it was still bleeding.
There were a lot of flies flying around the wound, which didn't look good.
Yingbao slowly moved over, quietly got some Wudingzhi from the cave, crushed it and smeared it on the deer's wound.
Just after she finished wiping, she heard Sister Dani call her: "Yingbao, don't touch it, be careful not to dirty your hands."
Yingbao turned around and smiled: "It's not dirty."
Dani saw that her cousin's hands were indeed not dirty, so she pulled her up and took her outside the yard: "Let's go watch the skinning of a deer."
Yingbao didn't want to go, she also wanted to see the injured deer.
But he was too weak to resist Sister Dani, so he could only follow her, looking back every step of the way.
A group of villagers gathered in the woods outside the yard, watching the three brothers Jiang, Dajiang and Jiang, skinning a deer with great interest.
Several children were moving around in the crowd, touching the deer's antlers, poking their legs, laughing and playing.
Yuanbao was among them. He was like a little wolf protecting its food, glaring at everyone and not allowing anyone to touch his deer.
In the afternoon, the Jiang family cooked venison and invited Chen Fu, the head of the Chen family who lived in Dongchen Village, Chen Sanyou, the village chief, the private school teacher, and several respected elders in the village to come to their home for dinner.
After the venison banquet was over and the guests were sent away, Old Man Jiang asked his three sons to sit down and talk.
"Tomorrow there will be a market at Simen. You three brothers can take the injured deer and the deerskin and antlers to sell. Simen is close to the county town and there is a big market there. You can get a good price."
Old Man Jiang drank the bamboo leaf water his wife handed him and said slowly, "The money you earn will be divided equally among the three of you. As for the fawn, leave it to Sanlang, Dalang and Erlang. Do you two have any objection?"
Jiang Dalian said hurriedly: "Look at what you said, what do we have any objection to? We are all family, and the deer should be given to Sanlang."
Jiang Er also nodded, "That's right, Dad, you are too polite. What do you think of us brothers?"
Old man Jiang nodded, "That's good."
Turning to his third son, he said, "Take the fawn back with you later. I see Yingbao likes it very much. If the fawn can be raised, I will sell it and give the money to her to make clothes. Sanlang, Yingbao is well-behaved, you must take good care of her."
This means that the ownership of the deer is handed over to Yingbao.
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said, "Dad, don't worry, my daughter will have new clothes to wear even without the deer."
"It's good that you understand." Old Man Jiang snorted, "Boys and girls in our family are equally precious. Yingbao is also my granddaughter. Whatever others have in the future, she must have it too."
He was reminding his third son not to ignore Yingbao when his own children were born.
Jiang Sanlang is not stupid, so he naturally knows what his father wants to say.
But how could I be bad to my daughter? The old man looked down on his son.
"Don't worry. Yingbao is my eldest daughter. My younger brothers and sisters can only respect and love her. When she grows up, I will find a good husband for her." Jiang Sanlang said with a smile.
Old Master Jiang glared at San'er and said, "What a stupid thing to say. How old is she now? Get lost now."
Jiang Sanlang ran away quickly, took the deer back home and tied it to the leg of the table in the main room.
Yingbao heard the noise in the room and quickly got off the bed and ran over to see what was going on.
"Dad, how did you bring the fawn back?"
Although the three brothers of the Jiang family separated, they did not separate their households. Whenever the three of them worked together to do business, the profits would be mainly distributed to the eldest brother's family, after all, their parents still lived in the old family.
Jiang Sanlang smiled and said, "Your grandfather gave the fawn to our family and asked my daughter to raise it. I will sell it and use the money to buy you cloth to make you a flowery dress."
"Really? Hehehe."
Yingbao was delighted, and patted the little deer's head happily, muttering, "I will definitely fatten you up so that you can be used as meat for my brother."
Little Deer: …
Back away in fear. Away from this horrible human cub.
That night, Yingbao had another dream.
She stood in a thick fog and the book appeared in front of her again.
The pages of the book turned automatically without any wind and went straight to the third chapter.
Yingbao didn't dare to hesitate and hurried over to take a look.
But before I had read a few chapters, the book turned into a paper butterfly and flew away.
This time, Yingbao is sure that the characters described in this book are Chen Changping's family in Xichen Village and Aunt Han's family in the county town.
Except for the name Yingbao, the rest correspond one to one.
The book says that Chen Changping was the second of three brothers and was a student who failed the imperial examinations many times.
His wife, Han's parents died early, and she had no brothers left. She only had one sister, Xiao Han.
Han gave birth to the eldest daughter Chen Wan, the second daughter Chen Zhao, the third daughter Chen Ying, and a four-year-old son Chen Xu.
And this third daughter, Chen Ying, was the name that Chen Changping gave to Yingbao in his previous life.
Yingbao narrowed her eyes.
This book is really interesting.
It is written from the perspective of Chen Tiantian, the second daughter of Aunt Han.
The book describes Chen Changping's three daughters. The eldest is timid, the second is sweet-mouthed but bitter-hearted, and the third is gloomy and vicious. They are all women who are not presentable.
The only son, Chen Xu, is a spoiled little bully who is selfish and annoying.
This is indeed the case.
Chen Changping's three daughters were often beaten or scolded by Han.
Girls who live in this kind of family atmosphere for a long time will definitely have some personality problems.
Yingbao remembers that she was brought back to the Chen family at the age of five. As soon as she entered the door, she was beaten severely with a bamboo stick by Han, and her back, arms and legs were all bruised.
Han was probably upset about the two taels of silver awarded to the Jiang family. Coupled with her previous depression and Yingbao's crying, she wanted to teach her third daughter a lesson and vent her anger.
After all, the process of getting his daughter back was quite bumpy and even involved a complaint to the government office.
It seemed that the Chen family won the lawsuit, but they also lost face in the village.
However, Han's wish came true and she gave birth to a big fat boy the next year.
Chen Changping was very happy. He looked through all the books and gave his son a name called Xu, and his nickname was Baoer.
As a tool, Yingbao has lived a miserable life in the Chen family since then.