Chapter 125: Giving a Rabbit
The two children were very enthusiastic and chattered away, eagerly explaining things to her.
"I’m not lying, it’s true! This is all what my mom told me. If you see Wu Da in the village from now on, you absolutely must avoid him. Don’t provoke him, or he’ll get angry and beat you up, whether you’re a child or an adult!"
Zhao Zhitong listened in astonishment. The other child eagerly added, "Wu Da is really a crazy person, and a bad one at that! He spends all day doing nothing productive, just fighting, causing trouble, and engaging in petty theft around the village. He even angered his own father to death! After that, he ran away from home and didn’t even attend his father’s funeral."
"He’s also terribly unfilial to his mother. His mother was so good to him; she always protected him whenever his father beat him. But not only does he not take care of her, he even badmouths her to others. In the end, the Wu Family removed his name from their ancestral records and kicked him out. Now he lives all alone in that dilapidated hut by the burial mounds at the foot of the mountain. See? That broken bamboo house over there, surrounded by graves. It’s so gloomy and terrifying!"
As they spoke, the two children shuddered, as if genuinely frightened by the thought.
Just as their excited chatter reached a peak, footsteps sounded from behind. Turning, they saw it was Wu Da; he had returned.
Unlike before, he now carried a wild deer slung over his shoulder and held two wild rabbits in his hand.
Despite the load, Wu Da walked effortlessly, reaching them in just a few strides.
The two children who had just been badmouthing Wu Da turned pale with fright. They quickly lowered their heads and huddled by the roadside.
Zhao Ya and Zhao Cheng were also terrified, pulling Zhao Zhitong towards the side of the road with them.
Only Zhao Zhitong remained completely unafraid. In fact, she stared intently at Wu Da—or rather, at the game he carried.
She had never seen a hunter return with their quarry before, and the sight of someone carrying a deer and two wild rabbits was utterly fascinating to her.