Tie Kui Extra Story (3)

Goose-feather-like 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.

Tie Hu was shoveling snow when he heard movement behind him and turned his head to see Tie Kui. He smiled and said, "Kui Er, it's cold outside, you go back to the house and rest."

After staying on the mountain for more than two months, he can still understand simple conversations. Since he knew what Tie Kui meant to this family, Ning Hai told himself that he would be Tie Kui in the future.

"Father, let me clear the snow for you." After speaking, he took a small hoe and piled the snow into a ball.

Because ironware is very expensive, there are only a few ironware in their house, and they are very careful when using them on weekdays.

After entering the mountains, Tie Kui realized that not all mountain people are suffering. Just like the Tie family, because Tiehu is so good at hunting, they can eat meat almost every day. Also because of Jin's family management, there are a lot of beans, Chinese cabbage and pumpkins in the house.

But living in the mountains is very cold in winter, and I don’t even want to come out when I’m nestled in the kang.

After clearing 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 that he is more accurate in archery, but also because he knows kung fu.

Tie Kui walked over and said, "Daddy, I want to learn kung fu with you. Daddy, teach me!" The first time he saw Tiehu practicing boxing, he wanted to learn. It's just that Tie Hu felt that he was thin and didn't agree, and only asked him to take good care of his body.

Seeing a lot of flesh growing on his face, Tie Hu smiled and said, "It's okay to teach you kung fu, but once you start, you have to get up and practice kung fu every day."

"Okay." He was enlightened at the age of three, and would get up to recite every day at dawn. Although he is only seven years old, he has already learned the Four Books and Five Classics, and he can write very well. Old Mrs. Ning once said with great relief that the Ning family had successors.

Tie Hu didn't teach Tie Kui boxing immediately, but asked him to squat. Squatting or stance is to practice basic skills, and martial arts practitioners basically start from the basic skills.

After Tie Kui squatted for half an hour, his legs began to shake. A quarter of an hour later, my forehead was covered with sweat, and my whole body was shaking. However, he didn't stop.

Tie Hu smiled and said: "Come here first today, and continue later."

Tie Kui was unwilling, so he took a rest and continued to squat. Diligence can make up for weakness, if you don't have the talent to practice martial arts, practice more.

Tie Kui squatted back and forth four times in one morning. Then Tiehu stopped him,

Said: "You have to eat food one bite at a time, it is impossible to become a big fat man with one bite. Martial arts practice pays attention to step by step, and rushing for success will hurt your body."

After hearing this, Tie Kui accepted the criticism humbly: "I will 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 are not only good at hunting, but also handle their fur well. As long as the fur is handled well, the price is no worse than buying the whole prey directly. Therefore, Tie Hu often peeled off the fur of animals to make skins, and the meat was processed by Jin.

Seeing that Jin gave all the meat to him and Tiehu, Tie Kui didn't bother to tell Jin any more, and he directly divided part of the meat to Dachun and Erchun.

Dachun and Erchun are very happy.

But Jin said with a straight face: "Your father and younger brother are physically exhausted practicing kung fu, so eat more meat. You don't do anything and eat meat."

Dachun has a soft temper and dare not make a sound.

Erchun was unconvinced, and shouted, "Aniang, I'll get up early in the morning to cook and feed the chickens, and I'll have to clean up the vegetable garden in the back later." Like pigs, they don't dare to raise them, for fear of attracting big bugs, etc. prey. But there are three small things like chickens, two old hens and one rooster.

Tie Hu said unhappily when he heard the words: "There is so much meat stored at home, I will give it to the children."

Dachun and Erchun were very thin before, but they gained some weight after Tie Kui came and ate well. Tiehu used to think 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 it doesn't mean that he doesn't care about the two daughters.

Mrs. Jin was a little aggrieved: "Winter has just started now, and it will take five months until the beginning of spring next year. Naturally, we have to save some of this meat." If you eat so unrestrainedly, 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 long sentences. But she knew Jin's temperament, so she added a sentence: "Put the meat in the porridge and cook together." Not only can everyone eat it, but the taste is also good.

Tie Hu made a final decision: "Just do what Kui Er says."

Seeing Erchun smile, Jin gave her a hard look. This dead girl, when Kui Er gave her meat just now, she didn't know how to push it out.

At first, seeing that Jin asked Dachun and Erchun to do so much work but didn't give them food, drink and clothes, Tie Kui thought that the two sisters were not born of Jin. It was later learned that the two sisters were both born of the Jin family, but the Jin family is patriarchal. In her heart, sons are treasures and daughters are grass. Even his adopted son is worth two gold more than his sisters.

Erchun ignored Jin, and lowered his head to eat the meat.

After breakfast, Tie Kui and Tie Hu said: "Father, I want to learn to hunt." In this world, studying is useless, even if the court is fatuous and talented, it may not be possible to pass the exam. Only after learning martial arts, will he have the opportunity to avenge his family when he enlists in the army.

Tie Hu nodded and said, "Okay."

But Jin disagreed: "What kind of hunting do you want to learn in such a cold weather? If you go out, you will have to freeze to death. If you want to learn hunting from your father, you have to start in spring."

Tie Hu smiled and said, "I didn't say to 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 can only be found in Fucheng. Made of wood, it can be used to practice the head first.

"Father, do you need to do anything else? For example, exercise your hand and foot strength?" I have never eaten pork, and I have seen pigs run. He has also heard of some things.

Upon hearing this, Jin said with a smile: "My son is really smart, he even knows how to exercise his feet." Anyway, in Jin's eyes, Tie Kui is good in everything.

Tie Hu was not surprised, since his adopted son is not a child of an ordinary family, it is normal to know this: "Now the snow outside is very deep and it is not suitable to go out. Now you should squat and lay a good foundation. When the spring comes, I will take you to the mountains." Run More leg strength will be exercised. As for hand strength, Tie Kui is too young to worry.

In the following days, Tie Kui ran around the house every day. After running ten laps, he started squatting, and then practiced archery. His goal is to hit the heart of the grass rake with every arrow in the future, so he is very diligent.

The consequence of such exercise was that Tie Kui's appetite became larger, which made Jin feel happy instead. The son can eat, which shows that he is in good health.

If you eat a lot, you will jump up in size. By the beginning of spring, all the clothes Jin made for him were too 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 too much, he was content with food and clothing, how could he ask for so much.

In fact, not only Tie Kui has grown a lot, Dachun and Erchun have also grown taller and gained a lot of weight because of the good food in winter.

Jin was very worried and said to her husband: "Dachun and Erchun eat so much, the food is almost gone." She wanted to limit the food intake of her two daughters, but if she wanted to do so, Tie Kui would divide her food between the two. A sister is hungry by herself. In desperation, Jin could only feed his two daughters.

Tie Hu said with a smile: "Now that spring is coming, I can go hunting. You can take Dachun and they dig wild vegetables." In spring, there are a lot of wild vegetables.

So when spring comes, the bean rice or pumpkin porridge at Tie Kui's family is changed to wild vegetable dumpling. However, Jin's cooking skills are not bad, and with the broth, everyone eats very deliciously.

One day, Tiehu beat a roe deer. The skin was peeled off, and the meat was stewed, and the whole family was full of oil.

After eating and drinking enough, Erchun pulled Tie Kui aside and said, "Brother, Second Sister, I beg you for one thing."

After a winter, he can understand most of the words: "Second sister, you say." 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 twitched a bit and said, "Brother, can you give me a name!"

Tie Kui chuckled and said, "What name does Second Sister want?"

"Anything is fine, anyway, don't call her Erchun." After finishing speaking, Erchun explained: "The second cousin of my uncle's family is lazy and greedy, and she is also called Erchun, so I don't want to call her the same name."

"Uncle's house? Where do they live?" Hearing that they were in the village, Tie Kui asked, "Have you been there?"

Erchun hummed and said, "I've been there once, but my grandmother and uncle are very stingy. I don't even give you a full meal when I go to her house. I don't want to go again." Although two years have passed, but when I arrived Now Erchun is not relieved.

It's rare for my granddaughter to go home, and it's impossible for her family to cook well, but it's unreasonable not to care about her full meal. Although he had never met anyone from the Jin family, Tie Kui had a bad impression of the Jin family based on Erchun's words.

It was a coincidence that this was heard by the Jin family: "You dead girl, your grandparent's family is not rich and you are inconsiderate and full of complaints. Why are you so heartless?"

Erchun was more pungent, and immediately turned back to Jin's: "Mother, we took more than ten catties of meat with us at that time. In the end, we didn't give us a bite of meat, and the wild vegetable dumpling didn't care enough, and he said what to do with eating so much meat. Mom, if you want to go to Jin’s house in the future, I will definitely not 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's nonsense, your grandmother and uncle love you the most, and ask someone to bring you rice noodles every year."

Erchun snorted coldly: "Send three to five catties of rice and noodles, and then take a few good leathers. No one is more calculating than them." A good leather can buy twenty or thirty catties. Rice noodles.

Seeing Tie Kui's face darken, Jin picked up a broom and beat Er Chun savagely: "You damn girl, I'll let you talk nonsense, and I'll beat you to death today."

Tie Kui stepped forward to grab the broom, and then asked the Jin family: "Aniang, in your heart, the members of the Jin family are more important than the two biological daughters of eldest sister and second sister?"

Seeing the indifference in Tie Kui's eyes, Jin panicked: "Kui Er, don't listen to your second sister's nonsense, your grandmother and uncle are very good to your two sisters."

Seeing Jin evading the question, Tie Kui asked again: "Aunt, how did you get married in the mountains?" Life in the mountains is not only bitter, but also dangerous. In case the iron tiger is not around one day, if the beasts come and they can't avoid them, their lives will be in danger. Therefore, normal people would never marry their daughters into the mountains.

Jin said with a somewhat unnatural expression: "Naturally, the matchmaker made peace 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 Mrs. Jin to go away, and asked Tie Kui, "Brother, why did you ask that?"

Tie Kui said calmly: "If I'm not wrong, my mother should have been sold into the mountains by the Jin family." If not, the Jin family's temperament would not avoid his question.

Erchun opened his mouth, and then said: "With the virtues of the Jin family, it's really possible. I don't know what my mother thinks, the Jin family treats her like that, and she goes down the mountain to give gifts every year and festival. I want to replace it with It’s me, I will definitely cut off the relationship and never communicate again.”

"Well, the second sister is right to think so." In order to make up for the loss of her own children, it is also helpless to meet such a mother-in-law. Fortunately, the Jin family is not his own mother, but just a foster mother. Otherwise, you must vomit to death.

On the first day of May, the Jin family went down the mountain to the Jin family to give gifts for the Dragon Boat Festival. None of the three children wanted to go back to her natal home with her.

It doesn't matter if the two daughters don't go. But Tie Kui didn't go either, so she was very sad. Unfortunately, Jin's tears could not move Tie Kui.

Tiehu couldn't stop the Jin family from returning to her natal family, but he himself didn't want to go to the Jin family. But it happened that he wanted to sell the skins and two live chickens that he had saved for more than half a month in the town, so he took Jin down the mountain.

Before leaving, Tie Hu specially told Tie Kui: "Stay in front of your house during the day and don't go to other places, and stay indoors 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 came.

Tie Kui nodded and said, "Father, don't worry, I will follow Second Sister and not run around." After finally saving a life, he should cherish it even more.

After the two left, Erchun said to Tie Kui, "Second brother, how about we have fried meat with eggs at noon?"

Tie Kui laughed and said, "Second Sister, you can do whatever you want as long as you're not afraid of Mother coming back and scolding you."

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 really thought about this matter these days: "Chuncao, Chunxiang, Chunni, Chunlei, Chunlian, second sister, which one do you like?"

Without even thinking about it, Erchun said, "I like Chunni, the name sounds nice, and I'll love Chunni from now on."

Dachun interjected weakly from the side: "Brother, I think Chunxiang sounds very nice. Brother, can I be a sweetheart in the future?"

Tie Kui smiled and said, "Naturally."

Three days later, the husband and wife came back, Jin's eggplant was beaten like frost, while Tie Hu's expression was normal. The children could tell 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, the Jin family are greedy, don't let my mother walk with them." Such people, no amount of things 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 catties of meat." As for the leather, he forbade Jin to take it. The good leathers are sold, and generally put together to make two leather clothes for the third child. Also because she didn't bring back the previous leather, Jin was scolded by her mother when she went back to her mother's house this time.