The general's wife knows medicine

"Gouzi, what are you holding in your hand?" Liu Qiang put down the axe he was using to chop wood and took the fox from Gouzi's hand.

"Where did you bring it back from? What is this?" Foxes are not common. For Liu Qiang, who has never been to school, he has only heard of them but never seen one.

"This is a fox. I saw it dead from an arrow in the mountains, so I brought it back." Tang Peipei replied.

"Is this a fox? The fur of this fox is very valuable. You are so lucky!" Liu Qiang hugged the fox and studied it.

When Aunt Du saw Tang Peipei coming back, she walked to Tang Peipei immediately, took the little dumpling in her arms, and checked if she was injured. Seeing that it was still the soft and sticky little dumpling, she happily kissed the little face.

Little Dumpling blinked his eyes and looked at Aunt Du. After a while, he pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled silently at Aunt Du.

"Oh, little Tuanzi smiled, little Tuanzi smiled at me." Aunt Du said to Tang Peipei excitedly, and then without waiting for Tang Peipei to answer, she asked little Tuanzi: "Does little Tuanzi like Grandma Du? Grandma Du likes little Tuanzi too. When little Tuanzi grows up, grandma will buy candy for little Tuanzi."

"Mom, you've never bought me any candy." Gou Zi complained while standing behind Aunt Du.

"How old are you? Do you still want candy? You are Xiaotuanzi's uncle. Do you have the nerve to snatch food from your nephew?" Aunt Du rolled her eyes at Gouzi.

Gou Zi pouted, obviously not feeling unhappy when Aunt Du asked him to buy candy for Xiaotuanzi.

In fact, Gouzi is not very big, just a six or seven-year-old child. In modern times, that is the age when people love to eat candies, but in ancient times, when people got married and had children early, Gouzi was already considered a half-grown child and had to help with many chores at home.

"Okay, Gouzi, don't be unhappy. Wait until Sister Peipei sells the fox and comes back to buy you some candy."

"Where are you going to sell this fox? I heard that foxes are very valuable, especially the fur." ​​Liu Qiang had only heard about it and had never seen anyone selling a fox. Even the only hunter in the next village had never heard of him hunting a fox.

"You can only go to the county to check this out. Actually, I don't know either." Tang Peipei only knows that modern genuine leather is very expensive, and it is divided into different levels of quality. It is said that the better the quality of the fur, the more expensive it is.

"Uncle Liu, do you know anyone who knows how to get this fox skin off?" Tang Peipei knew nothing about fur.

"You can find Hunter Zhao from the next village. He should know about this. How about I make a trip for you, bring the fox to him, and ask him to help you skin it." Liu Qiang was already in his thirties or forties, and had never actually seen an animal skin being skinned. He usually only heard Hunter Zhao talk about it when he was drinking with him. Today he finally had the chance to see it for himself.

"Uncle Liu knows Hunter Zhao?"

"Doesn't your Uncle Liu know how to renovate houses? It was your Uncle Liu who led people to renovate Hunter Zhao's house two years ago. As time went by, these two of them would have a drink together every now and then." Aunt Du took over the conversation with a smile.

"Is that so? Then please excuse me, Uncle Liu. I'll discuss the price. But I can only pay him after I buy the fur. Please help me negotiate with him, Uncle Liu."

"That's no problem, it's a piece of cake. I'll go now and should be back in less than an hour." After saying that, he went out with the fox in his arms without waiting for Tang Peipei's consent.

Liu Qiang hurried all the way and arrived at Zhao the Hunter's house in just a quarter of an hour.

"Yaya, is your father here?" As soon as Liu Qiang arrived in the yard, he asked Zhao the hunter's daughter to play in the yard by herself.

"Uncle Liu." Zhao Xiaoya called out to Liu Qiang, and then shouted into the house: "Dad, Uncle Liu is here to drink with you."

Hearing what Zhao Xiaoya said, Zhao the Hunter came out of the house, rubbed Zhao Xiaoya's head, and said in feigned anger: "You little girl, go play somewhere else."

Zhao Xiaoya made a face at Zhao the Hunter and went to play by herself.

"Brother Liu Qiang, why are you here at this time today?" He looked at the fox Liu Qiang was holding and asked in confusion: "Where did you get the fox? It's a very rare animal."

"My niece found this by accident in the mountains. She asked me to come to you and ask you to help skin it." Liu Qiang handed the fox to Zhao the hunter.

Hunter Zhao took the fox and looked at it carefully. "Your niece is quite capable, but she probably doesn't know how to hunt animals to sell their fur. She shot the arrow at the wrong place!" Hunter Zhao felt a little regretful.

Liu Qiang saw that Zhao the Hunter had misunderstood, but he did not explain that he had picked it up because of luck. He just asked curiously: "What do you mean?"

"If she shoots in the neck, I can peel off the whole skin, but if she shoots in the stomach, there will be a hole when I peel it off, and the price will be greatly reduced."

"Oh! She is a lucky girl and doesn't understand these things. It's a big loss for her." Liu Qiang felt a little regretful.

"Have you decided who to sell this skin to?"