Tie Kui Extra Story (7)

At night, it began to snow. This little snow, when it fell on the ground, turned into water.

Tie Kui said: "Father, it's snowing, let's not go down the mountain anymore!" Tie Hu has been busy like a spinning top for more than half a month, and Tie Kui is really worried that he will collapse from exhaustion.

Tiehu 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 I don't, I won't go down the mountain." Xiaoxue is not afraid, but he is afraid of heavy snowfall. The mountain is blocked by heavy snow, so it is not easy to go down the mountain.

Very lucky, the next day Tiehu met a single wild bull. After a lot of effort, Tiehu hunted him down. After tidying up, there are more than 400 catties of meat. About a quarter of them were left at home, and the others and Tie Kui went down the mountain to sell them.

When the news came that the Donghu people had entered the customs, most of them slaughtered their livestock for food or sold them. Keep them and waste food. And in the future, people have nothing to eat, so how can they raise livestock. In winter, the meat can be preserved 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. That's the case, as long as there is meat on the market, it will be looted soon. Chen Ji's shop won't sell the wild animals sent by Tiehu at all.

The shopkeeper settled directly at the market price, and handed the twenty-three taels of silver to Tie Hu after deducting the commission, and then said with a smile: "Da Hu, no matter how much you send, I can sell it for you." He didn't sell the meat at all. 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 in the town.

Tie Hu shook his head and said, "It's snowing outside, we can't go down the mountain anymore, this should be the last trip."

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Then next spring, you can bring more wild animals. Don't worry, I will sell you a good price." When the spring of next year begins, he will no longer be able to just draw commissions.

Tiehu knew that such good things could not happen all the time, so he readily agreed: "Okay."

On the way back, Tie Kui asked, "Father, how much money have we saved now?"

Tie Hu said: "I saved one hundred and thirty-six taels of silver." When he said this, a smile appeared on Tie Hu's face.

In the first two years, except for buying daily necessities and fine grains, all other money was saved. But after saving for two years, I only saved twenty-eight taels of silver. But this year, he saved one hundred and eighty taels of silver. In fact, the grain and meat sold in the past half month alone earned ninety taels of silver.

Tie Kui felt that this amount of money was too little: "Father, we are going to move down the mountain. First, 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, this money may not be enough. "More than one hundred taels of silver sounds like a lot, but this silver is the most useless.

Tie Hu smiled and said: "I am from Tie Family Village,

There is no need to buy the foundation, just let the village head approve a piece of land for us. As for the house, things like wood can be solved by ourselves. "That saves a lot of money.

But Tie Kui had his own ideas: "Father, since we want to build a house, we naturally have to build a big brick house. Such a house is not only elegant but also comfortable to live in."

Tie Hu laughed loudly: "Okay, we will build a big tile house with green bricks, and we will build six rooms. When you get married and have children in the future, you will not have to worry about having no place to live." Since Tie Kui arrived at Tie's house, Tie Hu's whole body All full of enthusiasm. It's not like before, I was busy from morning to night every day, but I couldn't see any hope, and there was only endless exhaustion.

Tie Kui smiled and didn't answer. In fact, he made up his mind to ask Chun Ni to recruit a husband. In today's world, as long as the conditions are good, even a son-in-law can be selected. If the conditions are not good, you can only choose crooked melons and cracked dates. Therefore, building a good house is the first step. Next, you have to buy land. It's just these words, he just thought in his heart but didn't say them.

The father and son were very lucky. It snowed heavily in the evening when they arrived home. The next day, the snow had accumulated to Tie Kui's knees.

It is impossible to go out in such a heavy snow.

Tie Kui suggested: "Father, mother, let's eat hot pot tonight!" In such a cold day, eating a hot hot pot should not be too exciting. And the whole family sits and eats together, and the atmosphere is very good.

Jin felt that it was too much food.

In the end, before he could speak, Tie Hu laughed and said, "Okay, I'll eat the pot tonight."

Chunni also agrees with both hands. From the beginning of spring until now, except for the mid-autumn day off, I have been busy all the time. Even at night, there are many things to do. But the two sisters are sensible, no matter how tired they are, they didn't complain.

Beef bones are used for the soup base, and the main course is naturally bison, as well as Chinese cabbage, bean sprouts, mushrooms, fungus, pumpkin, yam and other dishes.

That night, the whole family, including Jin's, had a full stomach.

When tidying up the dishes, Jin still couldn't help muttering: "It's too much food and vegetables to eat like this." This meal at noon ate about ten catties of meat and a lot of vegetables. These things are enough to eat for several days.

Having earned so much money, Tiehu has been in a good mood for the past few days. Hearing this, he said: "It's not like eating every day, but just once in a while. Besides, I worked so hard, not because of the three of them." Otherwise, why would I work so hard from morning to night.” Mainly for Tie Kui, he will work harder now so his son can relax.

Kim didn't dare to say anything.

Jin also murmured in his heart that so many things were missing in the house. She didn't dare to ask Tie Hu, so she asked Tie Hu in private: "Kuizi, tell mother, how much money did you sell in total these days?"

Tie Kui shook his head and said, "I don't know either. Mom, no matter how much money you sell, Dad will use the money at home." Tie Hu is not like the Jin family. He works so hard for this family and to create a better life for his children. good living conditions.

Jin was a little disappointed: "He didn't even hide it from you." The son is 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: "Mother, what you said is wrong. Father didn't tell me, because he thought I was too young to be the most important thing."

Jin's expression was a little embarrassing.

Tie Kui thought for a while and said, "Mother, those members of the Jin family are all vampires, you should stop dealing with them in the future."

After hearing this, Jin was very angry: "How can you say such a thing, the Jin family is your mother's family."

"Aniang, the Jin family sold you to daddy for thirty taels of silver. When they gave you the money, daddy said that he would not recognize this relative. Mommy, the three of us have nothing to do with the Jin family." It's also fortunate that my father wisely refused to recognize them, otherwise the three of them would be very annoying in the future with such a brazen and greedy foreign family.

Jin's tears fell down the ground: "How can it be okay? Kuizi, those are your grandmother and uncle."

Tie Kui knew that it would be unreasonable to reason with the Jin family, so he said directly: "Aniang, if you still miss this family and the three of us, you should stop walking with the Jin family. We can't stop you from sending you back to the Jin family." No man can tolerate a daughter-in-law who has no bottom line to support her natal family.

Jin's complexion turned pale. Tie Hu lived apart from her after beating her last time, and he still doesn't want to move back to the house.

Tie Kui looked at her expression and said, "Mother, think about it carefully, is the Jin family more important or the husband and children?" Normally speaking, it is naturally the husband and children that are more important. But the Jin family's brain circuit is unusual, and Tie Kui can't guarantee that she won't associate with the Jin family after moving down the mountain. It's just that he will try his best to persuade what should be persuaded. Otherwise, nothing can be done.

It is very cold on the mountain in winter, and Tie Hu usually only goes out when the weather is good. When it snows, I stay at home to teach Tie Kui martial arts or chop firewood to renovate the house. The real thing is that I never stop for a moment.

By the second year when the weather warmed up, 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.

That day Tie Kui went hunting in the mountains, and in the evening he brought back a hundred catties of wild boar.

Tie Kui didn't look right when he saw him put down the wild boar, and asked, "Daddy, are you injured?"

Tie Hu smiled and said, "It's okay, my arm was scratched by thorns." Fearing that Tie Kui would not believe it, he rolled up his sleeves.

Tie Kui looked at it and found that it was indeed scratched by thorns, but the wound was relatively deep. Tie Kui hurriedly fetched hot water to scrub his wound, and then applied some plaster on it.

When cleaning up wild boars at night, Tie Kui didn't let Tie Hu do it, but let him teach from the sidelines. Fearing that Tie Hu would disagree, Tie Kui hurriedly said, "Father, I will learn these sooner or later."

Tie Hu smiled and said, "Okay."

Because it is the first time to do it, I tossed a lot. Especially when dividing the pig into two halves, Tiehu can get it done with just a few knives. As for Tie Kui, he left after tossing for a long time. But everyone, no one laughed at him.

Because Tie Hu's arm was injured, Tie Kui didn't let him carry the wild pork on his shoulders, but carried it on a basket. And he also carried thirty catties.

When I arrived in the town, it was obviously much more lively than last year. In particular, there are many people selling things in the market, and some of them are selling wild things.

The two carried the wild meat to the game shop, and a hundred catties of wild meat were sold for two taels of silver. This is calculated according to the highest price of the shopkeeper. If it goes to the market, it will probably sell for about one or two half.

In spring, everything recovers, and wild vegetables can fill your stomach. Some people eat, and the prices of grain and meat have also dropped.

After going out, Tie Hu said with some regret: "I should have sold all the bacon at home last year if I knew it."

Last winter, a catty of wild pork meat could be sold for sixty or seventy renminbi or more, but now it is only more than ten renminbi. The price is five or six times worse.

Tie Hu hesitated every time he carried the meat stored at home down the mountain. It was Tie Kui who kept persuading him, so he sold three-quarters of the bacon at home. The remaining quarter was eaten up by my family in winter.

Tie Kui said with a smile: "Father, you can't let your family eat wild vegetable dumplings every day just to make money!" Under his repeated insistence, the food of the Tie family is very good. Not to mention him, even Chunxiang and Chunni have grown a lot taller. The height of the two sisters has already caught up with their peers.

Tie Hu thought about it too: "You are right."

After selling the wild vegetables, Tie Hu and Tie Kui said: "Let's go to Tiejia Village now, and tell your grandfather Jiu about the homestead." The village head of Tiejia Village is the ninth among a group of brothers, so Tie Hu has to call him Jiu grandfather.

Tie Kui was a little speechless: "Father, you can't go empty-handed when you ask someone to do something." No matter what, you have to bring some gifts.

Although he loves money, Tie Hu believes in Tie Kui. The father and son then went to the grocery store and bought a box of pastries and a catty of brown sugar. There are not many things, but it also cost more than 60 Wen. Things are very expensive now, especially things like brown sugar are even more expensive when they are rare.

Hearing that Tiehu wanted to move down the mountain, the village head was very happy: "The mountain is too dangerous, so it's better to move down." Guier's daughter-in-law is the village head's granddaughter, so he was very worried about Tiehu's family after he knew the reason why Li's family moved down the mountain. .

The village head is highly respected and fair, and is loved by the villagers. Even Tiehu respects him very much.

Tie Hu said: "Grandpa Ninth, the three children will not be able to live in the mountains forever when they grow up. At that time, it will be difficult for the children to get married. Grandpa Ninth, I want to buy a homestead in the village first, and return to the village to build a house next year. "

It is impossible for anyone to build a house overnight. They all choose the foundation, and then prepare the wood and other things by themselves. If you can't prepare yourself, you will spend money to buy it.

The village head nodded very pleased and said, "What to buy, you are a son of the Tie family, and you will be given a piece of the homestead directly. 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 genealogy of the Tie family. Since he is the heir of the Tie family, he can naturally get the homestead.

Tiehu was very happy to hear this.

Seeing this, Tie Kui hurriedly added a sentence: "Thank you, Lord Ninth." Although the village head is highly respected, if someone helps you, you have to remember him.

The village chief glanced at Tie Kui with some surprise, and then said with a smile: "My good boy, this is what a great-grandfather should do."

The father and son talked for a while before going back. The village chief asked them to eat, and Tie Hu shook his head and said, "You have to go up the mountain early, or you won't be able to make it home tomorrow afternoon." Now that everyone's food is in short supply, how can they stay for dinner?

When the village head heard the words, it was not good to stay any longer.

After the father and son left, Tong Shi, the wife of the village head, opened the oiled paper. Seeing a box of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes and a pack of brown sugar, he frowned and said, "This kid is really, how can you give him such an expensive thing." Brown sugar is a precious item in the farmhouse, and only confinement or sick people can eat it. Of course, this is only for those with a good family background.

The village chief sighed and said, "It's probably because the family made him feel cold, and he was afraid that I would not choose a homestead for him. This is a great gift."

Mao said coldly: "It's just a high fever, Dachun didn't ask a doctor, but he listened to his wife's words and threw the tiger into the mountains. No one would be chilled to meet such a brother." If it is an infectious disease such as smallpox or chickenpox, you can just throw the child into the mountains. But Huzi just fell into the water and caused a fever, so they threw the child into the mountain.

The village chief shook his head. He knew it at the time and took someone to look for it, but he couldn't find it after three days of searching. Originally thought that the child was eaten by wild beasts, but he did not expect that the child was so fatal that he was rescued by an old hunter in the mountains.