Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Chang Kun was both amused and exasperated.

I never expected Chang Qing to be so possessive of her food, nor did I expect the other girls to be so alike, not even allowing others to smell it.

"Xiao Qing, why are you so stingy? Even if others don't smell it, the scent will fly away on its own."

Chang Qing pouted: "You're not allowed to smell it either. Wang Xiaohua used to tempt me with roasted bird droppings!"

This little girl holds a grudge. Chang Kun remembered that when he was first reborn, he took a few of them to catch cicadas and roast them to eat. Chang Qing kept saying that Wang Xiaohua was trying to tempt her.

Today she finally got her chance to get revenge.

Three eight- or nine-year-old children were kept outside, sniffing the aroma intensely. With each sniff, snot was inhaled into their noses, and snot bubbles would come out with each exhale.

Chang Kun felt a chill run down his spine. He remembered that the three children belonged to Old Wang's family next door.

The triplets, named Wang Dahua, Wang Zhonghua, and Wang Xiaohua, fight every day at home over a bite to eat.

Of the three brothers, Wang Xiaohua was the most greedy. His father had caught six cicadas at night and gave each of them two. The three brothers couldn't bear to eat them and fell asleep while smelling them.

Wang Xiaohua woke up in the middle of the night and smelled the fragrance of cicadas. He didn't eat his own cicadas, nor did he dare to eat all the cicadas in his brother's hand, so he secretly licked all the cicadas off his brother's hand.

The next morning, the two older brothers smelled something was wrong. The cicadas, which should have smelled delicious, had a foul odor. They thought the cicadas had gone bad overnight and started crying. But they found that their younger brother's cicadas were perfectly fine and he was eating them with relish.

This was outrageous! The three of them immediately started fighting over the last cicada that their younger brother had left.

Later, after their father inspected the area, he discovered the misdeeds of the third brother, Wang Xiaohua: the cicadas in the hands of the eldest and second brothers had been licked full of saliva by the third brother.

Needless to say, the third brother got a severe beating, but his two older brothers didn't mind his saliva at all. They put the cicadas with saliva on them in their mouths and chewed them with relish.

At this moment, the three brothers stood to one side of the roasted squirrel, sniffing, with snot and saliva dripping down their faces.

Chang Qing and the other girls glared at them, shouting, "Go to the back! You're not allowed to smell this!"

As the saying goes, the eldest is simple-minded, the second is cunning, and the third is treacherous; even triplets are the same.

The eldest brother, Wang Dahua, obediently took a step back, while the second brother, Wang Zhonghua, rolled his eyes twice and hid behind the third brother.

The youngest, Wang Xiaohua, puffed out his chest: "This isn't your house, can't I just stand here and look around?"

"This is my home, you're not allowed to look!" Seeing the three brothers still sniffing, the little girls got anxious, afraid that they would lose the aroma of roasted squirrel.

"I won't let you see my little squirrel." Xiu'er also tried to stand on tiptoe to block the roasted squirrel behind her.

Chang Kun watched the little kids making a ruckus with a smile, finding it quite amusing.

That's how kids are; they'll fight over even a stone they find on the ground, and they won't give up until they've decided who's the winner.

The two sides argued back and forth, neither willing to give in, until Chang Kun shouted, "The greyhound is ready! Come and eat!"

The four girls cheered and ran back to Chang Kun's side, no longer bothering to argue with the three children from the Wang family.

"Wow! Big brother, it smells so good!"

"Thank you, brother!"

Each of the girls had a roasted squirrel. After taking a bite, their eyes narrowed. It was fragrant, tender, and had a unique herbal aroma. It was so delicious!

After taking two bites, seeing that the three brothers still wouldn't leave and were watching him eat the meat with longing eyes, Chang Qing's eyes lit up and he had an idea.

She smacked her lips and exclaimed, "Oh, it smells so good! It's a pity some people can't eat it and can only smell it!"

He slowly walked up to Wang Xiaohua, held up the roasted squirrel meat, and circled it in front of him: "You can't have any, can you? Look how nice I am, I even let you smell it."

Just like how Wang Xiaohua used roasted cicadas to tempt Chang Qing back then, she's now tempting Wang Xiaohua in return, and with an even more delicious roasted squirrel.

Chang Qing was overjoyed.

Wang Xiaohua's eyes were bloodshot. If it weren't for the fact that the little girls' older brother Chang Kun was right next to them, he would have tried to snatch it. The squirrel meat smelled so good!

Especially when Chang Qing fanned the roasted squirrel towards them, the smell... made the three brothers almost drool.

"Xiao Qing, stop playing, everyone else has finished eating." Chang Kun called out, seeing the three children of the Wang family looking so pitiful.

Back in the main room, we distributed the remaining roasted squirrels to our parents and eldest sister. Everyone praised them highly. The stewed squirrels we had eaten before were already very delicious, but we didn't expect the roasted ones to be even more tasty.

The three Wang brothers next door were peering over the fence outside Chang Kun's yard, watching as Chang Qing and her girls devoured the roasted squirrel.

After finishing the meat, Chang Qing was still not satisfied. Seeing that the three Wang brothers were still outside, she held up two tin frogs and waved them in front of them: "Never seen these before, have you? My eldest brother bought them for me. They can even jump!"

The three Wang brothers' eyes lit up, and they shouted in unison, "Let me see Xiaoqing!"

Especially Wang Xiaohua, who practically peeked his head into the yard: "Xiaoqing, let me see, I'll never tempt you with Ji Niao'er again."

These days, there are hardly any toys for little kids to play with. If they can pull a stone along a string, that's considered the best fun. They've never seen this colorful tin frog before.

Wang Xiaohua's snot was streaming down his chin, but he didn't care. He stretched out his arms, wanting only to play with the toys.

Tick-tock.

Snot rolled down his chin onto the fence.

Upon seeing this, Chang Qing shouted, "Brother, Wang Xiaohua got his snot on our wooden stake!"

Wang Xiaohua dared not climb the fence anymore, and obediently took a few steps back, afraid of being scolded.

Chang Kun held a handful of boiled wild eggs and went into the courtyard to distribute them to the little girls. He didn't care about the children's lawsuit.

He peeled a wild egg for Xiuer and watched her eat it with a smile. Then he turned around and saw the three Wang boys standing obediently outside the fence, not having run away yet.

After thinking for a moment, Chang Kun took three wild eggs and walked over: "Take these home and eat them."

A wild chicken egg is about the same size as a pigeon egg, so even a small child can eat it in one bite.

But these days, this is a very precious food. Rural people are reluctant to eat it. Even if they find wild eggs in the mountains, they will keep them to exchange for oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar.

Chang Kun hadn't thought of it before, but after seeing these three boys today, he remembered that one of the three children from the Wang family would malnourished and suffer from edema, and wouldn't make it through the next year.

Although he didn't have much contact with his neighbor, Old Wang, Chang Kun still felt a pang of guilt knowing that one of his three children might die next year.

Wang Xiaohua licked his nose, his eyes shining: "Is this something for me to eat?"

The other two older brothers also widened their eyes. They could count the number of times they had eaten eggs on one hand since they were little.

Now that Changqing's older brother is offering them wild eggs, they can't believe it.