After setting up the suit, Chen Ping and the three of them left the stream.

Chen Erniu was holding two skinned hares in his hands, and two pheasants were tied with hemp rope around his waist, while Chen Ping and Lai Pingdong were carrying a roe deer together, and Chen Ping was still holding a little wild boar in one hand.

After a few days of trapping, I finally caught the prey other than the pheasant and hare.

A small wild boar, a roe deer, and there should have been a flower deer, but it entered the stomach of Chen Shun's family.

"Brother Ping, how do you eat this thing?" Before he got out of the forest, Chen Erniu thought about eating, "It should taste good." ”

"That's enough meat at home." Hare, pheasant, plus Chen Ping's occasional pork and beef brought back from the county and city, there is actually a lot of meat, in the hall of Chen Ping's house, the beam is still hung with a rope and the hare meat hunted a few days ago, "This roe deer will not be eaten first, put it at home and raise it, and after a few days, it will be made into bacon and kept for the first day." ”

The Xia Dynasty has a summer calendar, and New Year's Day is the first day of the first month, and New Year's Day is the first day. It's just that later the dynasty changed, and the new king showed that he was ordered by the heavens, so he wanted to change the color of Zhengshuo and Yifu, and the Shuo day here refers to the first day of the first month.

The Shang Dynasty took the wax moon, that is, the first day of the twelfth month as the first day, and the Zhou Dynasty took the first day of the winter month as the first day. After the unification of Qin, the Qin calendar was issued, with the first day of October as the first day. Later, to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the summer calendar was restored, with Meng Chunyue, that is, the first day of the first month, as the first day.

After that, there were slight changes during the period of Wang Mang and Emperor Wei Ming, but by the time of the Sui Dynasty, the Xia calendar was still used, and this continuation would be maintained until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

It's still November, and there are still nearly two months to go. But by the time of next month, the meat should be ready for this day.

In the past, I had to go to the county or city, or wait for the people in the village who raised dolphins to be slaughtered, buy a little, and then put them in the pot to stew in the first day.

If there is no accident, it should be the same this year, but Chen Ping is an accident, and all this obviously will not happen again. In such a miserable situation, it should be possible to say goodbye to Chen Ping's family.

"Brother Ping, will you really be beheaded if you steal something?" Chen Erniu asked, "But I heard Chen An say that you have stolen the eggs in Chen Ya's house, so are you going to be beheaded too?" ”

"How can it be so serious, it's just a matter of counting boards." Sui has the law of opening the emperor, divided into 12 volumes, a total of 500 articles, including names, prohibitions, job systems, household marriages, etc., among which there is also a volume of thieves and thieves, but it is a pity that after the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty, this law of opening the emperor was lost and scattered, and it was not handed down, and Chen Ping was not clear.

However, the Tang law followed the Kaihuang law, although there are changes, but it should be generally similar and can be used as a reference. There is no death penalty for theft in Tang Luli, and the sentencing range is 50 to additional servitude.

This petty theft, beheading will definitely not, after all, Yang Jian is gone, and there will be no more things like stealing money and being dragged to beheading.

"Then why did you say that you wanted to drag Chen Shun to the county government to behead him?" Chen Erniu was a little worried, "I can't cut off my head now, what if he doesn't return the trap and pheasant?" ”

"If you don't tell him, where will he know?" Chen Ping rolled his eyes, let alone now, even in the future generations, there will be a large area of legal illiteracy, Chen Shun may not even know a word, let alone understand the law.

If you can bluff people, you can do it.

"Well, I'm sure I won't say it." Chen Erniu nodded.

Walked out of the forest along the path, and before he had walked a few steps, Chen Ping saw a person below hurriedly running up.

After changing his clothes, which were also tattered, Chen Shun cried with a sad face, and carried three animal traps in his hands.

"Where's the pheasant?" Seeing the pheasant, Chen Ping put down the wooden stick on his shoulder.

The roe deer was carried on the stick, the limbs were tied, and the other end was on Lai Pingdong's shoulder.

"Eat." Chen Shun's eyelids pulled twice, "When I go back, my mother stewed the pheasant." ”

"Then why don't you bring that stewed pheasant soup?" Chen Ping interrogated, "The deer, the hare, and the pheasant are all gone." It's all money, and if you sell it to the county or city, you can get back a lot of money, you know? ”

"I know, but the prey you hunted in the past was not sold to the county or city, didn't you eat it?" The village is so small, a little thing can alarm it, not to mention that Chen Ping's family caught the prey, Aunt Li's tongue is not white, the old and young in the village, there is no one who does not know that Chen Ping's family eats meat every day, and Chen Shunzi has also heard of it.

"That's my own business, I can eat, can you?" The deer and the hare, as well as the pheasant, were sold to the county and city, and the rice obtained was enough for Chen Shun's family to eat for a while, but the final result was that Chen Shun's family ate the deer and hare, as well as the pheasant stewed this morning, in less than two days, only about four meals, the gains and losses in this can not be calculated, Chen Ping only feels that the family has fallen to the point where everything is self-inflicted.

In that case, do you still need a good face?

Chen Shun was overwhelmed by Chen Ping's ruthless tone, and wanted to refute it, but he couldn't refute it, and wanted to go up and beat people, but there were three on the other side.

"Say, do you want to send you to the county government now, or wait until you say goodbye to your family?" Chen Ping took the trap from Chen Shun's hand and raised his eyelids, "Let's talk about it, as a fellow villager, I will definitely go to see you when you are dragged to the county and city." ”

Vicious, Chen Ping's words were not affectionate at all, intimidating Chen Shun.

"I'll pay you back, I'll pay you back." Chen Shun squatted on the ground, holding his head in both hands, "You tell me, let me do anything, I will listen to you." ”

"Yes." Chen Ping responded, seemingly a little hesitant, and after a while, he said: "You must have no money at home, and those two acres of land are still worth a little." ”

"That land can't be sold, and if it is sold, my family will starve to death." Chen Shun roared, tears flowed out, he regretted how he could steal Chen Ping's things, "You and I are from the same village, you can't do this." ”

"Didn't your grandfather sell the land to Aunt Li?" This is a fact, but Chen Ping never thought of seizing the last bit of land from Chen Shun's family, "I am not interested in your family's field, and besides, you are not the head of the household, so you do not have the right to dispose of the land." ”

"And what do you want?" Chen Shun asked.

"Simple, do you see the dead branches and leaves in this mountain?" Chen Ping pressed Chen Shun's shoulder and pulled him up, "You will help collect firewood this winter, and then send it to my house, I will not go to the county government to sue you." How is it? ”

Chai He, next to Liuhe Mountain, the most important thing is Chai He, as long as he can walk, even if he is a child, he can pick up a few branches at the foot of the mountain, and go back to let his grandmother praise twice.

"Okay, okay, no problem." Chen Shunlian nodded, "I can pick up the firewood today and deliver it to the gate of the courtyard for you in the evening." ”

"You can't pick it up alone, you can mobilize your younger brothers and sisters to come." Chen Ping said, "Not only the dead branches, but also the fallen leaves on the ground." ”

Chen Ping deliberately emphasized the fallen leaves again.

This made Chen Shun very strange, what is the use of falling leaves? If you don't burn it, you put it into the stove and it will immediately turn to ashes. But no matter what, this vicious guy must have caught a few good prey and his mind was dizzy, and he would actually prescribe this condition, which is too simple.

"Don't go too deep into the mountains, for there are wild beasts in them. If any of your younger siblings are taken away by the wolf, we won't cry for you. Chen Shun was left alone, and Chen Ping and the three of them went down the mountain.