[Chapter 2083 Tie Kui Fanwai (7)]
At night, it snowed lightly. This little snow turned into water when it fell on the ground.
Tie Kui said, “Dad, it’s snowing, let’s not go down the mountain again!” Tie Hu has been busy like a spinning top for more than half a month, and Tie Kui is really worried that he will be exhausted.
Tie Hu looked at the ground and said with a smile, “I’ll go to the mountains tomorrow. If I hunt wild animals, I’ll go again. If not, I won’t go down the mountain.” Xiaoxue is not afraid, but is afraid of heavy snow. It is not easy to go down the mountain when the snow covers the mountain.
Very lucky, the next day Iron Tiger met a wild bull who was alone. After much effort, Iron Tiger hunted him down. Cleaned up, there are more than 400 catties of meat. About a quarter of them were left at home, while the others and Tie Kui went down the mountain to sell.
When the news of Donghu people entering the customs came, most of them slaughtered or sold their livestock. Keep them and waste food. And in the back no one has food to eat, so how can they keep livestock. In winter, the meat can be kept until the snow melts in March next year, so meat is very popular now. The price is also much more expensive than food, and ordinary people can’t afford it at all. Rao is so, as long as there is meat on the market, it will be looted quickly. Chen Ji’s shop got the wild things sent by Tiehu, and they didn’t sell them at all.
The shopkeeper settled directly at the market price. After deducting the commission, he handed the 23 taels of silver to Tiehu. He then said with a smile, “Dahu, no matter how much you give, I can sell it for you.” He doesn’t sell this meat at all. In the town, but sent to the county to sell. Now that the weather is cold, the meat is not afraid of spoilage. In the county, the price is 20% higher than that in the town.
Tie Hu shook his head and said, “It’s snowing outside, so I can’t go down the mountain anymore. This should be the last trip.”
The shopkeeper said with a smile: “Then you can send more wild animals in the spring next year. Don’t worry, I will sell you a good price.” When the spring begins next year, he will no longer be able to only take commissions.
Iron Tiger knew that such good things could not happen all the time, so he readily responded: “Okay.”
On the way back, Tie Kui asked, “Dad, how much have we saved now?”
Tie Hu said: “One hundred and thirty-six taels of silver have been saved.” When he said this, a smile appeared on Tie Hu’s face.
In the first two years, except for daily necessities and refined grains, all other money was saved. But after two years, only 28 taels of silver were saved. But this year, I have saved 108 taels of silver. In fact, for the grain and meat sold in the past half month alone, I got 90 taels of silver.
Tie Kui felt that this amount of money was too little: “Father, we have to move down the mountain. First of all, we have to buy a piece of land to build a house. In addition, we have to buy some fields so that we don’t have to buy food all the time, daddy. I’m afraid this money is not enough. “More than one hundred taels of silver sounds like a lot, but this silver is the most useless.
Tie Hu said with a smile, “I’m from Tiejia Village. We don’t need to buy the foundation. Just ask the village chief to grant us a piece of land. As for the house, we can solve things like wood by ourselves.” This will save a lot of money.
But Tie Kui had his own thoughts: “Father, since we want to build a house, we naturally have to build a big brick house. Such a house is not only stylish but also comfortable to live in.”
Tie Hu laughed: “Okay, we’ll build a large brick house, and we will build a six-room house. When you become a biological child, you won’t have to worry about not having a place to live.” After Tie Kui arrived at Tie’s house, Tie Hu was completely All full of energy. It’s not like before, I was busy every day from morning to night, but I couldn’t see any hope, and some were just endless exhaustion.
Tie Kui smiled and didn’t answer, in fact, he had made up his mind for Chunni to recruit her husband. In today’s world, as long as the conditions are good, even a son-in-law can be chosen. If the conditions are not good, you can only choose crooked melons and cracked dates. So, building a good house is the first step. Next, you have to buy land. It’s just these words, he just thought about it but didn’t say it.
The father and son were very lucky, and it snowed heavily in the evening on the day they got home. The next day, the snow accumulated to Tie Kui’s knees.
It’s impossible to go out in such heavy snow.
Tie Kui suggested: “Father, mother, let’s eat hot pot at night!” On such a cold day, eating a hot hot pot should not be more exciting. And the whole family sits together to eat, the atmosphere is also very good.
Jin felt that the food was too expensive.
In the end, before he could speak, Tie Hu laughed and said, “Okay, let’s eat pot at night.”
Chunni also agreed with both hands. From the beginning of the spring to the present, except for the Mid-Autumn Festival, it has been busy at other times. Even at night, there is a lot to do. But the two sisters are sensible, even if they are tired, they don’t complain.
The beef bones used in the soup base are naturally bison beef, as well as Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, mushrooms, fungus, pumpkin, yam and other dishes.
That night, the whole family, including the Kim family, had a round stomach.
When cleaning up the dishes, Jin couldn’t help but muttered: “It takes too much food and vegetables to eat like this.” At noon, he ate about ten kilograms of meat and a lot of vegetables. These things are enough to eat for several days.
After earning so much money, Tie Hu has been in a good mood these few days. After hearing this, he said, “I don’t eat it every day, but only once in a while. Besides, I’m exhausted and exhausted, and it’s not for the three of them. Otherwise, why would I be up early and work in the dark?” Mainly for Tie Kui, he will work harder now and his son will be more relaxed.
Jin didn’t dare to say a word.
There were so many things missing at home, and Jin was also muttering in his heart. She didn’t dare to ask Tie Hu, so she asked Tie Hu in private: “Kuizi, tell your mother, how much money have you sold these days?”
Tie Kui shook his head and said, “I don’t know either. A-Niang, no matter how much money you sell, Dad will use the money for the family.” Tie Hu is not like the Jin family. good living conditions.
Jin was a little disappointed: “He didn’t even hide it from you.” The son was the hope of the couple for the rest of their lives, but the husband didn’t even tell the son.
Tie Kui heard the words and said: “Auntie, what you said is wrong. Dad didn’t tell me, because I thought I was too young to be the best.”
Jin’s expression was a little embarrassed.
Tie Kui thought for a while and said, “Auntie, those people in the Jin family are all vampires. You should not interact with them in the future.”
Hearing this, Jin was very angry: “How can you say such a child, the Jin family is your foreign family.”
“Auntie, the Jin family sold you to Dad for 30 taels of silver. When the money was given, Dad said that he would not recognize this relative. Auntie, our three brothers and sisters have nothing to do with the Jin family.” It’s also fortunate that Dad wisely didn’t recognize them, otherwise, with such a brazen and greedy foreigner, the three of them would be very annoying in the future.
Jin’s tears fell: “How can it be okay? Kuizi, those are your own grandmother and uncle.”
Tie Kui knew that reasoning with the Jin family would not make sense, so he said directly: “Auntie, if you still miss this family and the three of us, don’t walk around with the Jin family. Otherwise, you will annoy Dad. We can’t stop you from sending you back to Jin’s house.” No man can afford a daughter-in-law who has no bottom line to make up for her parents’ family.
Jin’s face turned pale. After hitting her last time, Tie Hu lived separately from her, and he still doesn’t want to move back to the house.
Tie Kui looked at her face and said, “Auntie, think about it, is the Jin family more important or the husband and children?” Normally, it’s the husband and children that are more important. But Jin’s brain circuit is unusual, and after moving down the mountain, Tie Kui can’t guarantee that she will not interact with the Jin family. But he will try his best to persuade him. Others are powerless.
In winter, the mountains are very cold, and Iron Tiger usually only goes out when the weather is good. When it snows, he stays at home to teach Tie Kui martial arts or chop firewood to repair the house. The real thing is that he does not stop for a moment.
By the time the weather warmed up the following year, it was already the end of April. At this time, wild vegetable dumplings become the staple food, but they will be eaten with cold wild vegetables or fried meat with wild vegetables.
Tie Kui went up the mountain to hunt that day, and in the evening he brought back a wild boar of a hundred kilograms.
Tie Kui didn’t look right when he saw him put down the wild boar, and asked, “Father, are you injured?”
Tie Hu said with a smile: “It’s okay, my arm was scratched by thorns.” Afraid that Tie Kui would not believe it, he rolled up his sleeves.
Tie Kui looked at it, and it was indeed scratched by thorns, but the wound was deep. Tie Kui hurriedly made hot water to scrub the wound, and then put some plaster on it.
When cleaning up the wild boars at night, Tie Kui did not let Tie Hu do it, and only let him teach. Afraid that Tie Hu would disagree, Tie Kui hurriedly said, “Father, I will learn this sooner or later.”
Iron Tiger smiled and said, “Okay.”
Because it was the first time to do it, it took a while. Especially when the pig is divided into two halves, the iron tiger can be done with a few knives. And Tie Kui separated after a long toss. But everyone, no one laughed at him.
Because Tie Hu’s arm was injured, Tie Kui did not let him carry the wild boar on his shoulders, but carried it with a basket. And he also carried thirty pounds on his back.
When we got to town, it was obviously much busier than last year. In particular, there are many people selling things in the market, including wild animals.
The two carried the wild boar to the game shop, and sold the wild boar for two taels of silver for a hundred catties. This is still calculated according to the highest price of the shopkeeper. If it goes to the market, it is estimated that it will sell about one or two half.
In the spring season, everything recovers, and wild vegetables can fill the stomach. Some people eat, and the prices of grain and meat have also dropped.
After going out, Tie Hu said with some regret: “I knew that I should have sold all the bacon at home last year.”
In winter last year, a pound of wild boar could be sold for 60 to 70 yuan or more, but now it is only more than 10 yuan. The price is five or six times worse.
Iron Tiger would hesitate every time he carried the meat from his family down the mountain. It was Tie Kui who kept persuading him to sell three-quarters of the bacon in the family. The remaining quarter was eaten up by my own family in winter.
Tie Kui said with a smile, “Dad, you can’t let your family eat wild vegetable dumplings every day just to make money!” With his repeated insistence, Tie’s food was very good. Not to mention him, even Chunxiang and Chunni have grown a lot in size. The two sisters are now taller than their peers.
Tie Hu thought about it too: “You’re right.”
After selling the wild vegetables, Tie Hu and Tie Kui said, “Let’s go to Tiejia Village now and tell you about the homestead with your grandpa Jiu.” grandfather.
Tie Kui was a little speechless: “Father, you can’t go empty-handed when you ask for help.” No matter what, you have to bring some gifts.
Although he is distressed about money, Tie Hu believes in Tie Kui very much. The father and son then went to the grocery store and bought a box of pastries and a pound of brown sugar. There are not many things, but it also cost more than 60 cents. Things are very expensive these days, especially things like brown sugar that are less expensive.
Hearing that Tiehu wanted to move down the mountain, the village chief was very happy: “It’s too dangerous in the mountains, so it’s better to move down.” Gui’er’s daughter-in-law is the granddaughter of the village chief, so he was very worried about the Tiehu family after he knew the reason why the Li family moved down the mountain. .
The village chief is highly respected and fair in his conduct, and is loved by the villagers. Even Iron Tiger respects him very much.
Tie Hu said: “Grandpa Jiu, when the three children grow up, they can’t live in the mountains for the rest of their lives. At that time, it will be a big problem for children to get married. Grandpa Jiu, I want to buy a homestead in the village first, and then go back to the village to build a house next year. ”
No one can build a house overnight. They all choose the foundation, and then prepare the wood and other things themselves. If you can’t prepare it yourself, you will spend money to buy it.
The village chief nodded in relief and said, “What to buy, you are a descendant of the Tie family, and you can directly allocate a piece of homestead to you. You don’t have to worry about this, I will choose a good piece for you.” Although Tiehu has no household registration He is a black family, but his name is on the Tie family’s genealogy. Since he is a descendant of the Tie family, he can naturally be allocated a homestead.
Iron Tiger was very happy to hear this.
Seeing this, Tie Kui hurriedly added a sentence: “Thank you, Master Jiu.” Although the village chief is highly respected, he must remember him for helping you.
The village chief glanced at Tie Kui in surprise, then said with a smile, “Good boy, this is what Grandpa should do.”
The father and son talked for a while and were about to go back. The village chief asked them to eat, and Tie Hu shook his head and said, “You have to go up the mountain earlier, or else you won’t be able to get home tomorrow afternoon.” Now that everyone is too short on food, how can they stay for dinner?
Hearing the words, the village chief could not stay any longer.
After the father and son left, the village chief’s daughter-in-law, Tong Shi, opened the oiled paper. Seeing that it was a box of sweet-scented osmanthus cake and a packet of brown sugar, he frowned and said, “This child is real, how can he send such a precious thing.” Of course, this is only in a good family.
The village chief sighed and said, “It is estimated that my family has chilled my heart, and I am also afraid that I will not give him a good gift before choosing a homestead.”
Mr. Mao said coldly: “It’s just a high fever. It’s fine for Dachun not to ask a doctor. He even listened to his wife’s words and threw Huzi into the mountains. Who wouldn’t feel cold when they meet such a brother.” If there is an infectious disease such as smallpox or chicken pox, you can just throw the child in the mountains. But the tiger child just fell into the water and caused a fever, and they even threw the child into the mountains.
The village chief shook his head. He knew at the time that he took someone to look for it, but he couldn’t find it after three days of searching. I originally thought that the child was eaten by a wild beast, but I didn’t expect that the child was so dead that he was rescued by an old hunter in the mountains.
