Chapter 343
"You can’t say that. People from Henan always find a way to do better than others wherever they go, and that’s a skill."
"Hehe," Zhao Sanque was noncommittal, "When I was a child, five siblings of mine—three died. I was the fourth one, nearly starved to death. Do you know how I survived?"
"It wasn’t by eating sparrows, was it?"
"You’re half right. That year, I was six years old, skin and bones from hunger. When I couldn’t stand it anymore, I started to think about catching sparrows. Do you know about sticky nets?"
Ye Tian nodded. Those kinds of nets were useless against large birds of prey, but for little things like sparrows and swallows, they were spot on. Most people would think the net was coated with glue, but it wasn’t; it was just a closely woven net, loose on the outside and tight on the inside, whose main function was to entangle, not to stick like glue.
"Hehe, I was the one who figured that out," Zhao Sanque said with a proud look, "Sticky nets from all over the country came from Henan—more specifically, they came from my hands."
Ye Tian laughed. Everyone says sticky nets came from Hebei Baoding, used for fishing. I didn’t expect they came from you, for catching birds."
"Let’s not talk about that. It’s all in the past. Anyway, the whole village started calling me Zhao Sanque, and then it spread to the whole county, and eventually, everyone in the city knew."
"They must all be grateful to you."
"Grateful my ass. They called me an environmental destroyer, a killer of birds."