When this man had slept there that day night, on the next day that man gave him a little cooked rice. Having eaten it he set off to go and seek Nikini. Then a man was sowing a rice field. The man asked him, “Where are you going?”
This man said, “I am going to seek for a little Nikini.”
The man asked, “What for?”
This man replied, “A longing has come to our house-mistress, so she told me to go and bring a little Nikini.”
The man said, “If so, come here and sow.”
For the whole of that day those two sowed. In the evening they came to the man’s house, and both of them having eaten cooked rice, while they were there this man said, “Now then, tell me the place where there is Nikini.”
Then the man said, “Yakō,[2] that was not [asked for] through want of Nikini. That was said through wanting to cause you to be killed. Your wife has a paramour.”
The man quarrelled with him, saying, “Not in any way. My wife is very good. She has great love for me. If you again say such a thing as that one is there, I shall strike you.”
The other man asked, “What will you give me to catch that paramour for you?”
The person who went on the search for Nikini said, “I have a gem which has continued with us from generation to generation. I will give you that gem.” [The man accepted this offer].