Mhmm hmm, Mazi Nduka cleared his throat after he emptied his palmwine cup and spilled the left overs to the floor.
"Mazi Adindu, to what do I owe this August visit with Palm wine and Kola?" Mazi Nduka asked turning himself another cup of palmwine.
"Nduka, he who brings kola brings life"
"Ise"
"And as we eat the Kola we eat life and prosperity to our lives and crops"
"Ise"
"Yet, Mazi Adindu, you still haven't answered my question o," he chuckled, "if the bird flies from the ground to the ant hill, it is still on the ground."
"Nduka my friend, our people says if the toad runs during the day, it is either it is after something or...." Mazi Adindu began.
"Something is after it my friend" Mazi Nduka added.
"My son said he found a beautiful flower in your garden and we have come to pluck it that we may also plant it in ours"
Mazi Nduka broke into hysteric laughter for a while, stopped, held his stomach and let out some few giggle and continued, "Mazi Adindu, it is said that if we tell a man a proverb and the meaning of it then the dowry of our mother should be refunded"
"Owu otu ha kuru ya nwanna" Mazi Adindu chirped.
"This flower your son saw baffles me, because there's no flower of mine that's left. Ije-aku my last daughter just got married last eke" Mazi Nduka said, confusion clearly spelt on his face.
"Like I said, the toad does not run in the daylight for nothing....."
"So Mazi Adindu, do you want to marry Aku that's already married, you know it's a taboo for a woman to be married to two men." Mazi Nduka chirped.
"You should have waited for me to finish, Mazi Nduka, the Palm Wine, and Kola we brought including the one you have consumed constitutes the dowry, my son here is paying on the head of your son Ikechukwu."
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Chines Zoe!
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