“I can teach him, and I don’t need your money. But I have one condition: if you can agree to that, I will agree to teach him.”

Hearing He Chengjing agree, Song Zhili swallowed back what she was about to say. "Whatever your conditions are, as long as it's within our capabilities, we will definitely agree to them."

"You know I know martial arts and don't want the villagers to know. From now on, you can have your underling come to my yard, and I'll teach him martial arts there. But you'll have to take care of my meals three times a day."

"it is good."

Upon hearing that the conditions were so simple, Song Zhili agreed without hesitation.

"By the way, let me make this clear from the start: learning martial arts from me will be very hard. Go back and explain this to your younger brother. If he can't persevere or can't handle it and refuses to learn, I won't teach him anymore."

Song Zhili nodded repeatedly, "Okay, I'll go back and explain it to him, let him make his own decision. If he agrees, I'll have him come to you tomorrow, okay?"

"Ah."

Hearing that He Chengjing had agreed, Song Zhili was very happy. She wanted to go back and tell Song Ziming the good news as soon as possible, so she said goodbye to He Chengjing.

"Okay, then it's settled. I'll have Song Ziming come over tomorrow. I'll head back now. If you don't mind, you can come to our house for dinner tonight."

By the way, if my family asks, can I tell them that my younger brother is learning hunting from you?

"Okay."

“Okay, then I’ll tell my family in a bit that my little brother will be learning hunting from you from now on. I’ll tell them not to tell anyone else. I won’t go back to cook now, you can come over later.”

After Song Zhili finished speaking, she waved to him and turned to leave.

He Chengjing stood there watching Song Zhili leave, and only after she disappeared from sight did he turn around and go back into the house.

When Song Zhili returned home, she searched the yard beforehand but didn't see Song Ziming. She figured he was probably still catching fish by the river.

So she left the courtyard and walked straight to the riverbank. Sure enough, when she arrived at the riverbank, she saw Song Ziming and several children about his age catching fish in the river.

Just then, Song Ziming stood up, holding a large fish in his hand, and saw Song Zhili standing not far from the riverbank.

"Sister, come quickly! Look how many fish we caught today!"

Song Ziming shouted loudly at Song Zhili, and the friends standing next to him also heard his shout and looked up in Song Zhili's direction.

Song Zhili walked in their direction and saw several wooden buckets on the shore. Upon closer inspection, she saw that each bucket was filled with a lot of fish.

His gaze swept over their hands again, noticing that they were catching fish with their bare hands, without using any tools.

She couldn't help but exclaim, "They are truly amazing!"

"Sister, why did you come at this time? These are all the fish we caught, aren't we awesome?"

Song Ziming walked ashore and pointed to the wooden buckets placed on the bank. Then he put the big fish in his hand into the bucket.

"Yes, you are all very capable."

Song Zhili sincerely praised them, "Did you and your friends catch all the fish in those wooden buckets?"

Song Zhili pointed to the other wooden buckets.

"Yes, Sister Daya, I caught these."

The person who spoke was called Heidan. He came out, pointed to one of the wooden barrels, and said to Song Zhili.

Another thin boy, not to be outdone, pointed to another wooden bucket and spoke to Song Zhili as well.

"Big Sister Daya, I caught some too. These are the ones I caught."

"Good, good, you're all very capable. Can you count how many fish you caught?"

As soon as Song Zhili finished speaking, they all returned to their wooden buckets and began counting the fish they had caught. Then, the boy named Heidan was the first to finish counting.

"Big Sister Daya, I caught five."

"I also caught five."

"I caught six, hehe."

When the other children heard that Heidan had finished counting and announced his catch, they immediately announced the number of fish they had caught after they finished counting as well.

"Okay, I understand. Then you can all take these fish you caught to our house."

"Okay."

The children answered in unison.

They had no objections when Song Zhili said she would take the fish they caught to her house.

They caught these fish purely for fun and didn't care who got them.

Anyway, there's no way we'll bring them home. Last time we did, their parents beat them up.

And so, the children, each carrying their own wooden bucket, headed towards Song Zhili's home.

On the way, they encountered several villagers who looked at the children with strange eyes because they saw that the children's wooden buckets were filled with worthless fish.

Song Zhili ignored the villagers' scrutinizing gazes. After returning home, she had the children put the wooden bucket in the yard and then called them over.

"Come here, all of you. Your name is Black Egg, right? You just caught five fish. Bring them to our house. I can't let you catch them for free. I'll give you five copper coins. From now on, catch as many fish as you want, and I'll pay you one copper coin per fish, okay?"

When Hei Dan heard Song Zhili say that, he was completely dumbfounded. He didn't expect that catching fish would actually earn him money. He stood there blankly, not even daring to go forward and take the copper coins that Song Zhili gave him.

“Black Egg, what are you standing there for? My sister is giving you copper coins, just take them. See, I told you my sister is great, but you didn’t believe me.”

Seeing his friends standing there dumbfounded, Song Ziming covered his mouth, wanting to laugh.

Hearing Song Ziming say this, the black-faced boy timidly stepped forward and asked again to confirm, "Sister Daya, is what you said true? One copper coin for each fish, how many fish do you need?"

“Of course it’s true, we need fish every day, come here.”

Song Zhili beckoned to Heidan, who stepped forward this time. Song Zhili counted out five copper coins and placed them in his palm.

At first, Hei Dan felt that none of this was real, until the copper coin truly appeared in his palm, and he realized that this was not a dream, but real.

"Thank you, Sister Daya."

Black Egg's hands trembled with excitement as he bowed to Song Zhili in thanks.

Song Zhili simply smiled and did not stop them. Then she asked another child to come forward and collect the coins. After all the children had received their coins, they all bowed to Song Zhili to express their gratitude.

Only then did they happily take the coins and leave their house.

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