The feathers of snow fell from the sky one after another.
In the early morning, Tie Kui opened the door and saw a thick layer of snow outside.
Tiehu was shoveling snow. Hearing a movement behind him, he turned his head to see Tie Kui. He smiled and said, "Quil, it's cold outside. Go back to your house and rest."
After staying on the mountain for more than two months, he can still understand simple conversations. Knowing what Tie Kui meant to this family, Ning Hai told himself that he would be Tie Kui in the future.
"Daddy, I will help you clear this snow together." After speaking, he took a small hoe and smashed the snow into a ball.
Because ironware is very expensive, they only have a few types of ironware in their house, and they are very careful when using them on weekdays.
Entering the mountain, Tie Kui realized that not all mountain people are suffering. Just like the Tie Family, because the Iron Tiger hunts very well, they can eat meat almost every day. It is also because of Jin's family management that there are a lot of beans, cabbage and pumpkins in the village.
But when I live in the mountains, it is very cold in the winter, and I don't want to come out when I am nestled on the kang.
After clearing the snow outside the door, Tiehu went into a wooden house to practice boxing. The reason why he is so good at hunting is not only that he is more accurate in archery, but also because of his kung fu.
Tie Kui walked over and said, "Daddy, I want to fight with you. Daddy, teach me!" The first time I saw Tiehu practicing boxing, he wanted to learn. It's just that Tiehu felt that he was thin and didn't agree, so he only asked him to take good care of his health.
Seeing a lot of flesh growing out of his face, Tiehu said with a smile: "Teach you kung fu, but once you start, you can't stop. You have to get up and practice at dawn every day."
"Okay." He enlightened at the age of three, and got up to endorse the book every day. Although he is only seven years old, he has finished studying the four books and five classics, and his writing is very good. Mrs. Ning was very pleased to say that there are successors in the Ning family.
Tiehu didn't teach Tiekui boxing right away, but told him to squat. Squatting or standing is to practice basic skills, and martial arts practitioners basically start with basic skills.
After Tie Kui squatted for a quarter of an hour, his legs began to shake. After a quarter of an hour, the forehead was sweaty, and the whole person was shaking. However, he didn't stop.
Tiehu smiled and said, "Come here first, and then continue later."
Tie Kui was unwilling, rested and continued to squat. Diligence can make up for one's weaknesses. If you don't have the talent to practice martial arts, then practice more.
Tie Kui squatted four times in the morning. Then Tiehu stopped him and said: "You have to eat rice one bite at a time. It is impossible to eat a big fat man with one bite. Martial arts pay attention to step by step, and eagerness for success will hurt your body."
After hearing this, Tie Kui humbly accepted the criticism: "I listen to my father."
At this point, breakfast is ready. A pancake of mixed grains, half a pot of pumpkin porridge, and a bowl of meat.
The Iron Tiger not only hunts well, but also handles its fur very well. As long as the fur is handled well, the price is no worse than buying the whole prey directly. Therefore, the iron tiger often shaves off the animal's fur to make skin, and the meat is processed by King's.
Seeing that Jin gave all the meat to him and Tiehu, Tie Kui didn't bother to talk to Jin again. He directly divided the meat into Dachun and Erchun's two sisters.
Dachun and Erchun were very happy.
Jin's face was pulled and said, "Your father and brother are physically exhausted when practicing the exercises. You should eat more meat. You didn't cook anything and eat any meat."
Dachun has a soft temper and dare not say anything.
Erchun was not convinced, and yelled: "Aniang, I got up early in the morning to cook and feed the chickens, and later I have to clean up the vegetable garden behind." They don't dare to raise pigs for fear of attracting big insects. prey. However, there are three little things like chickens, two old hens and one rooster.
Hearing this, Tiehu said unhappily: "There is so much meat stored at home for the children to eat."
Dachun and Erchun were skinny before, but after Tiekui came, the two of them ate well before gaining weight. Tiehu used to think about hunting more prey to earn medical expenses for his son, so he didn't really think much about spending it on his two daughters. But this doesn't mean that he doesn't care about the two girls.
Jin's aggrieved: "Winter is just now, and it will be five months before the beginning of spring next year. Naturally, this meat must be eaten a little bit less." If you want to eat so uncontrollably, you will definitely not be able to eat the beginning of spring.
After all, Tie Kui had only been studying for two months, so he could only understand simple words, and he couldn't understand such a long sentence. But knowing Jin's temperament, she inserted a sentence: "Put the meat in the porridge and cook it together." Not only can everyone eat it, but it also tastes good.
The Iron Tiger made a final decision: "Just do what Quer said."
Seeing Erchun smile, Jin gave her a fierce look. This dead girl, she didn't know how to push it out when Queer gave her meat just now.
At first, seeing Jin let Dachun Erchun do so much work without eating, drinking and dressing well, Tie Kui thought that the sisters weren't Jin's biological. Later, I learned that the two sisters were both born to the Jin family, but the Jin family is patriarchal. In her mind, the son is the treasure and the daughter is the grass. Even his adopted son is more expensive than his sisters.
Erchun ignored Jin's and bowed his head to eat meat.
After breakfast, Tie Kui and Tie Hu said, "Daddy, I want to learn hunting." It's useless to study in this world. Even if the mediocre court is talented, it may not be able to pass the exam. Only after learning martial arts, after joining the army, can I have the opportunity to avenge my family.
Tiehu nodded and said, "Okay."
Jin did not agree: "What to learn about hunting in such a cold day, you must go out to freeze it, and if you want to learn hunting from your dad, you have to talk about it in the beginning of spring."
Tiehu said with a smile: "I didn't say I will take him to the mountain 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 are only available in the city. Made of wood, you can use it to train your head first.
"Daddy, do you need to do anything else? For example, exercise your hands and feet?" I haven't eaten pork, and I've seen pigs run. He has also heard of some things.
Jin said with a smile: "My son is really smart. He even knows how to exercise his feet." In Jin's eyes, Tie Kui is good in everything.
Tiehu is not surprised. A child who is not an ordinary person will know this and it is normal: "The snow outside is very deep and it is not suitable to go out. You now squat and lay a solid foundation. When the spring starts, I will take you to the mountains." More leg strength will exercise. As for hand strength, Tie Kui is too young to worry.
In the following days, Tie Kui circulated the house every day. After running ten laps, he started squatting and then practicing archery. His goal is to hit the heart 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 pleased. If the son can eat, it shows that he is in good health.
Eat a lot, jump up sharply. By the beginning of spring, all the clothes that King made for him were small. I didn't have that much money to buy cloth to make clothes, so I had to change the original clothes and wear them again. Tie Kui didn't care. He would be content if he had food and clothes. How could he ask for so much.
In fact, not only did Tie Kui grow a lot, Dachun and Erchun also grew taller and gained a lot of weight because of the good food in winter.
Jin said to her husband very worriedly: "Dachun and Erchun eat so much, and the food is almost gone." She wanted to limit the appetite of the two daughters, but if she wanted to do this, Tie Kui divided her meal between the two. This sister is hungry herself. In desperation, Jin could only feed his two daughters.
Tiehu smiled and said: "Now that spring is beginning, I can go hunting, you take Dachun and the others to dig wild vegetables." In spring, there are a lot of wild vegetables.
So when spring comes, Tie Kui’s bean rice or pumpkin porridge is changed to wild vegetable dumplings. However, Kim's cooking skills are not bad, and with the broth, everyone eats deliciously.
On this day, Tiehu beat a roe deer. The skin was peeled off, the meat was stewed and the whole family ate so much oil.
After eating and drinking enough, Erchun took Tie Kui aside and said, "Die, second sister, please."
After a winter, he could understand most of the words: "Second sister, you said." As long as he can, he will definitely not refuse. He won't agree if he can't, because promises are useless.
Erchun twisted and said, "Adi, can you give me a name!"
Tie Kui smiled lightly and said, "What name does the second sister want?"
"Anything can be done, don't call it Erchun anyway." After speaking, Erchun explained: "The second cousin of my uncle's is lazy and greedy, and is also called Erchun, so I don't want to call her a name."
"Uncle's house? Where do they live?" I heard that they were in the village, and Tie Kui asked, "Have you been there?"
Er Chun said: "I have been there once, but my grandmother and uncle are very stingy. I don't even have a full meal at her house. I don't want to go anymore." Although two years have passed, Now Erchun has not let go.
My granddaughter is rare last time, and it's definitely impossible to make good food in a bad family. Although he had never met the people of the Jin family, Tie Kui had a bad impression of the people of the Jin family based on Erchun's words.
This was unfortunately heard by the Jin family: "You damn girl, your grandfather's family is not wealthy, and you are not considerate and complain about it. Why are you so conscientious."
Erchun was more pungent, and now I went back to Jin’s: "Mother, we brought more than ten kilograms of meat. As a result, we didn’t give us a bite of the meat. The wild vegetable dumplings didn’t matter enough, and she said what she did for eating so many slices. Mother, if you want to go to the Jin's house in the future, I will never go." At home, I work a lot, but I still have enough food.
After hearing this, Jin hurriedly said to Tie Kui: "Don't listen to your second sister Hu Lielie, your grandmother and uncle love you the most. Every year they ask someone to bring you rice noodles for you to eat."
Erchun snorted coldly: "Send three to five catties of rice and noodles, and then take a few good skins. There is nothing more calculating than them." A good skin can be bought for 20 or 30 catties. Rice noodles.
Watching Tie Kui's face sinking, Jin picked up his broomstick and slapped Erchun head and face: "You damn girl, I will let you talk nonsense, and I will 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 elder sister and the second sister?"
Jin looked at the indifference in Tie Kui's eyes and panicked: "Quil, don't listen to your second sister's nonsense, your grandmother and uncle are very good to your two sisters."
Seeing Jin avoiding the question, Tie Kui asked again, "Aniang, how did you get married in the mountains?" The life in the mountains is not only bitter, but also dangerous. If the Iron Tiger is not there any day, the beasts who run to avoid them will be in danger of life. Therefore, normal people would never marry their daughters in the mountains.
Jin's complexion was a little unnatural and said: "Naturally, the matchmaker said and then married your dad. Okay, your dad probably has to go and clean up after dinner!"
After speaking, she hurried back to the house.
Erchun waited for Jin to walk away, and asked Tie Kui: "Adi, why did you ask like that?"
Tie Kui said with a faint expression: "If I guessed right, Niang should have been sold into the mountains by people from the Jin family." If not, how would Jin's temperament avoid him.
Erchun opened her mouth, and then said: "It's really possible because of the virtues of those in the Jin family. 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 break the relationship and never talk again."
"Well, the second sister is right to think this way." In order to make up for her sons and daughters who have lost her family, it is also helpless to meet such a mother. Fortunately, Jin is not his mother, but a mother. If not, you have to vomit to death.
On the first day of May, the Jin family went down the mountain to Jin's home to give the Dragon Boat Festival. Of the three children, none of them would go back to their parents' home with her.
It doesn't matter if the two daughters don't go. But Tie Kui didn't go, and she was very sad. Unfortunately, Jin's tears couldn't touch Tie Kui.
Tiehu refused to stop the Jin family from returning to his natal family, but he himself did not want to go to the Jin family. But it happened that he was going to take the skins and two live chickens he had saved for more than half a month to sell in the town, so he took Jin's down the mountain.
Before leaving, Tie Hu deliberately told Tie Kui: "Don't go to other places at home during the day, and stay in the house at night and don't come out." The two daughters knew what to do without telling them. Tie Kui didn't know the danger in the mountains when he arrived.
Tie Kui nodded and said, "Daddy, don't worry, I will follow the second sister and won't run around." After finally taking his life back, he naturally has to cherish it more.
After the two left, Erchun said to Tie Kui: "Second brother, shall we eat egg and scrambled meat for lunch?"
Tie Kui laughed and said, "As long as you are not afraid of your mother coming back to scold you, the second sister will do whatever you want."
Erchun whitened Tie Kui with a glance: "By the way, let you think of a nice name for me, how are you thinking about it?"
Tie Kui really thought about it these few days: "Chun Cao, Chun Xiang, Chun Ni, Chun Bu, Chun Lian, which one do you like the second sister?"
Without even thinking about it, Erchun said: "I like Chunni, this name is so nice, I will love Ni in the future."
Dachun weakly inserted a sentence beside him: "Adi, I think Chunxiang is very nice. Adi, can I fuck you in the future?"
Tie Kui smiled and said, "It's natural to get better."
Three days later, when the couple returned, Jin's eggplant was beaten like frost, but Tiehu's expression was normal. All the children saw that King was in a bad mood, but unfortunately no one comforted her.
Tie Kui avoided Jin and Tiehu and said, "Daddy, those in the Jin family are insatiable, don't let A-niang walk with them." Such a person can't satisfy their greed with much.
Tiehu said, "I told her several times, but she didn't listen. Forget it, let her go! Anyway, it's just a few catties of meat." As for the skin, he would not allow Jin to take it again. Good leathers are sold, and they are usually put together to make two leather clothes for the three children. Because he didn't take the leather back home, Jin received her mother's scolding when she returned to her family's home this time.