[Chapter 2079 Tie Kui Fanwai (3)]
Feather-like snow fell from the sky one after another.
Early in the morning, Tie Kui opened the door and saw a thick layer of snow outside.
Tie Hu was shoveling the snow, and when he heard something behind him, he turned his head to see Tie Kui, and said with a smile, “Kui’er, it’s cold outside, go back home and rest.”
After staying on the mountain for more than two months, he can still understand simple conversations. Knowing what Tie Kui meant to the family, Ning Hai told himself that he would be Tie Kui in the future.
“Dad, I’ll help you clear the snow together.” After speaking, he took a small hoe and built the snow into a ball.
Because ironware is very expensive, they only have a few types of ironware at home, and they are very careful to use them on weekdays.
After entering the mountain, Tie Kui realized that not all mountain people were suffering. Just like the Tie family, because the iron tigers are particularly good at hunting, they can eat meat almost every day. Also because the Jin family is well-mannered, there are a lot of beans, Chinese cabbage and pumpkins in the house.
However, living in the mountains is very cold as soon as winter comes, and I don’t want to come out of the kang.
After cleaning up the snow outside the door, Tiehu entered a wooden house to practice boxing. The reason why he is so good at hunting is not only because his archery is more accurate, but also because he knows kung fu.
Tie Kui walked over and said, “Father, I want to learn kung fu with you. Father, teach me!” The first time he saw Tiehu practicing boxing, he wanted to learn it. It’s just that Tie Hu felt that his body was thin and didn’t agree, so he only let him take good care of his body.
Seeing a lot of flesh growing on his face, Tie Hu said with a smile, “It’s okay to teach you kung fu, but once you start, you can’t stop, you have to get up every morning to practice.”
“Okay.” He was enlightened at the age of three, and he would get up and endorse it every day at dawn. Although he is only seven years old, he has already finished learning the Four Books and Five Classics, and his handwriting is also very good. Grandpa Ning once said with relief that there was someone in the Ning family.
Tie Hu did not teach Tie Kui boxing immediately, but made him squat. Squatting or standing on a stance is the basic skill, and people who practice martial arts basically start from the basic skill.
After Tie Kui squatted for a quarter of an hour, his legs began to tremble. A quarter of an hour later, his forehead was full of sweat, and his whole body was shaking. However, he didn’t stop.
Tie Hu said with a smile, “Get here today, and continue later.”
Tie Kui didn’t want to, so he took a rest and continued to squat. Diligence can make up for clumsiness. If you don’t have the talent to practice martial arts, you should practice more.
Tie Kui squatted back and forth four times in one morning. Then Tiehu stopped him and said, “You have to eat one bite at a time, and you can’t eat a big fat man in one bite. Practice martial arts in a step-by-step manner, and rushing for success will hurt your health.”
After hearing this, Tie Kui humbly accepted the criticism: “I listen to my father.”
At this point, breakfast is ready. A dustpan of multigrain cakes, half a pot of pumpkin porridge, and a bowl of meat.
Iron tigers not only hunt well, but also handle their fur well. And as long as the fur is handled well, the price is no worse than buying the whole prey directly. Therefore, iron tigers often shave the animal’s fur to make skins, and the meat is processed by Jin’s.
Seeing that Jin gave all the meat to him and Tie Hu, Tie Kui didn’t bother to tell Jin anymore, so he directly divided a part of the meat to the two sisters Dachun and Erchun.
Da Chun and Er Chun were very happy.
Jin Shi pulled his face and said, “Your father and brother are physically exhausted by practicing Qigong, so eat more meat. You didn’t do anything and eat meat.”
Dachun’s temper was a little soft, and he didn’t dare to say a word.
Erchun, however, was not convinced, and shouted: “Auntie, I get up early in the morning to cook and feed the chickens, and I will go to clean up the vegetable garden in the back.” Like pigs, they don’t dare to raise them for fear of attracting big insects and so on. prey. But the little thing like chicken has three, two old hens and one rooster.
Tie Hu said unhappily when he heard the words: “There is so much meat in the house for the children to eat.”
Dachun and Erchun were very thin before, but after Tie Kui came, they both ate well and gained some weight. Iron Tiger had thought about hunting more prey to earn medical expenses for his son, but he really didn’t have much thought to spend on his two daughters. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about the two daughters.
Jin was a little aggrieved: “It’s just winter, and it will be five months until spring next year. Naturally, this meat has to be eaten sparingly.”
After all, Tie Kui had only studied for two months, so he could only understand simple words, but he could not understand such long sentences. However, she knew Jin’s temperament and inserted a sentence: “Put the meat in the porridge and cook it together.” Not only can everyone eat it, but it also tastes good.
Iron Tiger made a final decision: “Just do as Kui Er said.”
Seeing Erchun smiling, Jin glared at her fiercely. This dead girl, when Kui Er gave her meat just now, she didn’t know how to push it out.
At first, seeing Jin let Dachun Erchun do so much work without food, drink, and clothing, Tie Kui thought that the sisters were not Jin’s biological. Only later did I find out that the two sisters were both born of the Jin family, but the Jin family was patriarchal. In her heart, the son is treasure and the daughter is grass. Even his adopted son is more expensive than his sisters.
Erchun ignored Jin and lowered his head to eat meat.
After breakfast, Tie Kui and Tie Hu said, “Dad, I want to learn to hunt.” It’s useless to study in this world, and even if there is talent and learning in today’s dull imperial court, it may not be able to pass the exam. Only after learning martial arts can you have the opportunity to avenge your family after joining the army.
Iron Tiger nodded and said, “Okay.”
However, the Jin family disagreed: “In such a cold day, what kind of hunting is to be learned, and it must be frozen when you go out. If you want to learn to hunt with your father, you have to talk about it in the spring.”
Tie Hu said with a smile: “I didn’t say that I would take him to the mountains now, but you can practice first. In two days, I will make you a set of bows and arrows.” Bows and arrows made of iron can only be obtained from Fucheng. It is made of wood and can be used to train the head first.
“Dad, do you need to do anything else? For example, to exercise your hand strength and leg strength?” I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pigs run. Some things, he has also heard.
Hearing this, Mr. Jin smiled and said, “My son is really smart. He even knows how to exercise his leg strength.” Anyway, in Mr. Jin’s eyes, Tie Kui is good for everything.
Iron Tiger is not surprised. It is normal for the adopted son to know that this is not an ordinary child: “The snow outside is very deep and it is not suitable to go out. Now you are laying a good foundation for squatting. When the spring begins, I will take you to the mountains.” The more legs you have, the more you will exercise. As for hand strength, Tie Kui is too small to be in a hurry.
In the days that followed, Tie Kui ran around the house every day. After ten laps, he started squatting, and then practiced archery. His goal is to hit the grass rake with every arrow in the future, so he is very diligent.
The consequence of this exercise is that Tie Kui’s appetite has become very large, and Jin is not particularly happy. If the son can eat it, it shows that he is in good health.
Eat a lot, and get big. By the beginning of the spring, all the clothes Jin made for him were too small. I don’t have that much money to buy cloth for clothes, so I can only change the original clothes and wear them again. Tie Kui didn’t care either, he was content with food and clothing, how could he ask for so much.
In fact, not only has Tie Kui grown a lot, but Dachun and Erchun have both grown taller and fatter because of their good food in winter.
Jin Shi said to her husband very worriedly: “Dachun and Erchun have eaten so much, and the food is almost gone.” She wanted to limit the amount of food her two daughters could eat, but if she wanted to do so, Tie Kui divided her meal between them. A sister is starving herself. In desperation, the Jin family could only make the two daughters have enough to eat.
Tie Hu said with a smile: “Now that spring is coming, I can go hunting, and you take Dachun and the others to dig wild vegetables.” In spring, there are many kinds of wild vegetables.
So in spring, the bean rice or pumpkin porridge of Tie Kui’s family is changed to wild vegetable dumplings. However, Jin’s cooking skills are not bad, and with the broth, everyone eats it deliciously.
On this day, Iron Tiger beat a roe deer. The skin was peeled off, the meat was stewed and the whole family was full of oil.
After eating and drinking enough, Erchun pulled Tie Kui aside and said, “Adi, Erjie asks you one thing.”
After a winter, he can understand most of the words: “Second sister, you said.” As long as he can, he will definitely not refuse. If he can’t do it, he won’t agree, because it’s useless to promise.
Erchun twisted and said, “Adi, can you give me a name!”
Tie Kui chuckled and said, “What name do you want, second sister?”
“Anything will do. Anyway, don’t call her Erchun.” After speaking, Erchun explained, “My uncle’s second cousin is lazy and greedy, and she is also called Erchun, so I don’t want to call her by the same name.”
“Uncle’s house? Where do they live?” Hearing that it was in the village, Tie Kui asked, “Have you been there?”
Erchun hummed: “I’ve been there once, but my grandmother and uncle are very stingy. They don’t even get a full meal when I go to her house. I don’t want to go there anymore.” Now Erchun is not relieved.
It is rare for my granddaughter to go to the door, and if the family is not good, it is impossible for me to cook well, but it is impossible to say that I don’t even care if I have enough food. Although he had never met the Jin family, Tie Kui had a bad impression of the Jin family based on Erchun’s words.
It was unfortunate that Jin’s words were heard: “You dead girl, your grandfather’s family is not rich, you are not considerate and complain all over, why are you so unconscionable.”
Erchun was more pungent, and immediately turned back to the Jin family: “Mother, we brought more than ten catties of meat at that time. As a result, we didn’t give us a single bite of meat, and the wild vegetable dumplings didn’t matter, and they said that what to do with so many slices. Mother, if you want to go to Jin’s house in the future, I will never go.” At home, there is a lot of work, but you can still eat enough.
After hearing this, Mrs Jin hurriedly said to Tie Kui, “Don’t listen to your second sister Hu Lielie, your grandmother and uncle love you the most, and every year they ask someone to bring rice and noodles for you to eat.”
Erchun snorted coldly: “Send three or five catties of rice and noodles, and then take a few good skins. There is no one who is more calculated than them.” A good skin can be bought for twenty or thirty catties. Rice noodles.
Seeing Tie Kui’s face sinking, Jin slapped up Erchun with a broom, “You bastard, I told you to talk nonsense, I’ll kill you today.”
Tie Kui stepped forward and grabbed the broom, and then asked the Jin family, “Aniang, in your heart, the Jin family is more important than the two biological daughters of the eldest sister and the second sister?”
Seeing the indifference in Tie Kui’s eyes, Mrs Jin panicked: “Kui’er, don’t listen to your second sister’s nonsense. Your grandmother and uncle are very kind to your two sisters.”
Seeing Mrs Jin avoiding the question, Tie Kui asked again, “Auntie, how did you marry into the mountains?” Life in the mountains was not only hard, but also dangerous. In case Tiehu is not there one day, if the beasts come and they can’t escape in time, their lives will be in danger. Therefore, normal people will never marry their daughters into the mountains.
Jin said with a somewhat unnatural expression: “Of course it was the matchmaker who talked and married your father. Well, your father probably finished eating, so I have to clean up!”
After speaking, she hurried back to the house.
Erchun waited for Jin to walk away and asked Tie Kui, “Adi, why did you ask that?”
Tie Kui said indifferently: “If I guessed correctly, my mother should have been sold into the mountains by the Jin family.” Otherwise, how could Jin’s temperament avoid his question.
Erchun opened his mouth, and then said: “As far as the virtues of the Jin family are concerned, it is really possible. I don’t know what my mother thinks. The Jin family treats her like that. She goes down the mountain to give gifts during the holidays. It’s me, I will definitely cut off the relationship and never communicate again.”
“Well, second sister is right to think so.” In order to make up for the children who lost her parents’ family, it is also helpless to meet such a mother. Fortunately, Jin is not his biological mother, just a foster mother. If not, have to vomit to death.
On the first day of May, the Jin family went down the mountain to Jin’s house to present the Dragon Boat Festival. Of the three children, none of them wanted to go back to their parents’ home with her.
Kim doesn’t care if the two daughters don’t go. But Tie Kui didn’t go, so she was very sad. Unfortunately, Jin’s tears could not move Tie Kui.
Tie Hu refused to stop Jin’s return to his parents’ house, but he himself did not want to go to Jin’s house. But it happened that he wanted to sell the skins and two live chickens that he had saved for half a month to the town, so he took Jin’s down the mountain.
Before leaving, Tie Hu specially told Tie Kui: “Don’t go to other places outside the house during the day, and stay indoors at night, don’t go out.” The two daughters knew what to do without telling them.
Tie Kui nodded and said, “Don’t worry, Daddy, I will follow the second sister and won’t run around.” After finally getting a life back, it is natural to cherish it more.
After the two left, Erchun said to Tie Kui, “Second brother, shall we eat fried pork with eggs at noon?”
Tie Kui laughed and said, “As long as you’re not afraid that your mother will come back and scold you, second sister, you can do whatever you want.”
Erchun rolled his eyes at Tie Kui and said, “By the way, let you think of a nice name for me, what do you think?”
Tie Kui has really thought about this matter for the past few days: “Chun Cao, Chun Xiang, Chun Ni, Chun Lei, Chun Lian, which one do you like, second sister?”
Without thinking about it, Erchun said, “I like Chunni, the name is nice, I’ll fuck Ni in the future.”
Dachun interjected weakly beside him: “Adi, I think Chunxiang sounds very good. Adi, can I have sex in the future?”
Tie Kui smiled and said, “It’s natural.”
Three days later, the husband and wife came back, Jin Shi was like an eggplant beaten by frost, while Tie Hu looked normal. Several children could see that Jin was in a bad mood, but unfortunately no one comforted her.
Tie Kui avoided the Jin family and Tie Hu and said, “Father, those people in the Jin family are greedy, don’t let A-Niang walk with them.” No amount of giving to such people can satisfy their greed.
Tie Hu said: “I told her several times, but she didn’t listen. Forget it, let her go! Anyway, it’s only a few pounds of meat.” As for the skin, he wouldn’t allow Jin to take it any more. The good leathers are sold, and they are generally put together to make two leather clothes for the three children. Also because he didn’t bring back the skin from before, Jin’s mother was scolded by her mother when she went back to her mother’s house this time.
