Tie Kui Extra Story (11)
After resting at home for a few days, Tie Hu took Tie Kui up the mountain again. Before going up the mountain this time, Tiehu gave Chunni a bag of copper coins to keep at home.
Tie Kui said: "If it is short, it will take seven or eight days to go down the mountain. If it is long, it may take more than a month." If you are lucky, you can come down the mountain quickly when you encounter big prey. If you are not lucky, you may not be able to catch prey in ten and a half months.
It was the first time Chunni had taken so much money in such a big age, and her hands were trembling right now.
Tie Kui smiled and said, "Second Sister, if you have anything to buy, next time you go to town with Aunt Li or Grandma."
After two days of going to the town to go to the market, Chun Ni really went to the market with Aunt Li. It was the first time she went to fear getting lost, so she followed Aunt Li all the time.
After buying daily necessities such as salt and thread, Chun Ni and Aunt Li said, "Auntie, I want to catch some chickens to raise." Let the chicken be slaughtered and eaten.
Chunni bought twelve chicks in one go, six males and six females.
On the way back, Chun Ni said, "Ma'am, where can I buy piglets? My family wants to buy two little piglets." Raising chickens on the mountain is frightening, let alone going to the countryside. But now that I live in the village, I don't have to worry about that. So Chunni wanted to raise poultry.
Aunt Li smiled and said, "Let me ask for you." This kid is really hardworking and good at planning. It's a pity that her youngest son is gone, otherwise she must have married Chunni.
Thinking of her youngest son, Aunt Li felt down again.
Tie Hu and Tie Kui went back to their house to rest for a night, and then the father and son went deeper.
Walking to a place with towering ancient trees, I suddenly saw a deer galloping lifelessly.
Seeing this, Tie Hu hurriedly said: "Climb the tree quickly."
Hearing this, Tie Kui climbed towards a nearby big tree without saying a word, followed by Tie Hu.
As soon as the father and son climbed up the tree, they saw a big snow-white tiger.
Tie Kui shuddered, it was the first time he had seen a tiger at his age, and it was such a pure white tiger.
The white tiger quickly threw the deer to the ground, killed it with its sharp teeth, and began to eat the most tender meat.
After eating, the white tiger took away the unfinished meat. This is an adult deer,
The white tiger will not have to hunt for food for the next few days.
Tie Kui said softly: "Father, let's go!" This place is too dangerous, it's better to leave as soon as possible.
Tie Hu shook his head and said, "This should be a tiger that came from elsewhere recently. If we don't kill it, we won't be able to hunt in this generation." There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, and it is even more dangerous to have this tiger hunting with him.
Speaking of it, they were lucky, they moved down the mountain and the tiger came. Otherwise, how could he rest assured if the mother and daughter were left at home.
Tie Kui opened his mouth, and said after a while, "Father, you want to hunt this tiger, right?" Hearing Mr. Shu's story about the hero who beat the tiger, it makes people feel excited and wish they could not fight in person. But when faced with tigers, how many have the courage to hunt and kill them.
"You must kill him, otherwise you will not be able to hunt again in the future." Hunters like them have their own hunting territory and cannot cross the border. Otherwise, if there is a conflict, death will be in vain.
A penny beats a hero. The original budget for building a house was thirty taels, but it turned out to cost almost fifty taels. Then I spent more than four taels of silver to buy daily necessities such as hoes and iron pots. Now they have no land, and the whole family has nothing to eat if they don't hunt.
Tie Kui was silent for a while and said, "Father, what do you think should be done?" In order to survive, he had to rush forward even if there was danger.
Tie Hu took Tie Kui around the forest for three days. For the past three days, Tie Kui was frightened, fearing that the white tiger would appear suddenly. Fortunately, his worries did not appear.
In the end, Tiehu chose a place where white tigers had been haunted, and he dug traps for Tie Kui to guard against.
Tie Kui asked worriedly: "Father, is this useful?"
There is no guarantee for this iron tiger.
Half a month later, the father and son hunted and killed the white tiger with great effort.
Tie Kui looked at the blood on Tie Hu's hand, and hurriedly said: "Father, let's go back and apply the medicine first!" The tiger bit his left hand, and even if he avoided it in time, a large piece of flesh was torn off. It hurts the bone. The skin trauma should be healed after a few months of treatment.
Tie Hu shook his head and said, "Go back to the house and bring that wooden box, I'll wait for you here." He bled a lot, and his body was a little weak at this moment, so he couldn't go back at all. Furthermore, if the two of them left, the tiger would be a skeleton when it came back.
Tie Kui felt a little apprehensive.
Tie Hu asked Tie Kui to bring a pile of tiger excrement and put it in the basket, saying: "The tiger is the king of all beasts, and other animals will back away when they smell it. With it, no animal will dare to approach you." of."
Tie Kui was terrified to death, but he still gritted his teeth and said, "Daddy, I'll be back soon." He had no capital to be afraid, and had no way out but to move forward.
The two-and-a-half-day journey back and forth was shortened by Tie Kui to two days.
When Tie Hu saw Tie Kui, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. In the past two days, he was also on tenterhooks, afraid of accidents.
Not only brought ointment gauze and peeling tools, Tie Kui also brought tin cans.
After bandaging Tie Hu's wound, Tie Kui said, "Father, take a rest first, and I'll go wash the rice. You won't be too late to work when you're full." No matter how anxious you are, don't rush for a while.
Tiehu ate the half-iron can of hot porridge and began to skin the tiger. Because his left arm was injured, he needed Tie Kui's help when peeling the skin.
After peeling the skin, the iron tiger began to remove the bones. At this time, there is no need for Tie Kui's help.
Passed the boiled tiger meat soup to Tie Hu to drink, then looked at the pile of tiger meat and Tie Kui asked, "Daddy, how do you bring the meat back?"
Tie Hu said: "I'll take tiger skin and bones. You can carry as much as you can! But the weather is hot now, and the taste will change in two days." It's also cold in the mountains, so if you go down the mountain, you may already stink.
The next day, Tie Kui carried fifty catties of meat back. Before I left, I looked at the hundreds of catties of meat on the ground and felt distressed.
Tie Hu smiled and said: "The most valuable thing about a tiger is its skin and bones."
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat, let alone tiger meat. It's a pity that his strength is too weak, fifty catties is already the limit, and he can't carry more.
After returning to the stone house, they began to tan the tiger skin and boil the tiger ointment. The father and son were so busy that their feet never touched the ground.
A month has passed, and Tie Hu and Tie Kui haven't come back yet. Jin said a little anxiously: "Your father and Kuizi haven't come back for a month. You will follow me up the mountain tomorrow to look for it."
Chunxiang was also worried, but after hearing this, she couldn't help looking at Chunni.
Chun Ni said: "There are so many wild beasts on the mountain, the three of us went up the mountain and were eaten by wild beasts and couldn't find any bones."
Jin said: "You go and ask the elder brother of the Li family to accompany us up the mountain."
Chunni laughed angrily: "Uncle Li and Brother Guizi have never been to the mountains since the accident happened in Li's family. Uncle Li's family treated us well, but they didn't owe us anything." Therefore, they shouldn't make things difficult for others.
Ever since what happened to the Jin family, Jin felt that Chunni was a heartless person: "If you don't go, I'll go."
After finishing speaking, he really ran to Li's house to talk about it.
Father Li wanted to go into the mountains to help find him, but Aunt Li wanted to stop him but was afraid that if something happened, her husband would blame her for the rest of her life. She was struggling to see Chunni coming.
Chun Ni said to the two of them: "Uncle, aunt, my father said before going up that it might take more than a month to go down the mountain this time. So, don't worry about my mother's words." I didn't feel it on the mountain, but now it's getting worse. The more I found out that the Jin family really didn't understand the world at all.
Father Li asked in disbelief, "Your father really said that before he left?"
Chun Ni hummed and said, "My father probably wants to hunt more prey and accumulate more skins." These skins are sold in winter to get a good price.
Father Li said: "Then wait a few more days, I will go up the mountain to look for your father and the others before they come back."
"Wait another half a month! If they haven't come back after half a month, I will go to the mountain with my uncle to look for them." Chuni is very sensitive, and her hairs will stand on end when she is in danger.
There are often dangers on the mountain, and the mother and daughter of the Jin family have encountered it several times. But because Chunni can predict the danger, they all saved the day in the end. It may be a coincidence once or twice, but Tiehu feels strange if there are too many times. After knowing the reason, Tiehu told her not to tell the third person about it.
Father Li nodded and said, "Okay."
After Chunni left, Aunt Li couldn't help sighing: "These three children of Huzi are really smarter than the other."
"Our noble son is not bad."
After hearing this, Aunt Li laughed and said, "Takako is not bad, but he is far worse than Kuizi." A ten-year-old child can build a house for the family without any mistakes, but her son is not capable of this.
"In two years, when Kuizi grows up, Huzi won't have to work so hard anymore." Outsiders envy them that hunters often have meat to eat, but they don't know that they are risking their lives to make money, and they will lose their lives if they are not careful. In fact, it's okay to die, but I'm afraid that I will be injured and can't do anything, and I have to take medicine, which will drag the whole family down.
After going down the mountain, Father Li became more and more reluctant to go hunting in the mountains after living a comfortable life. At most, they just wander around here to hunt small prey.
Knowing that Chunni went to Li's house, Jin would not let Father Li go up the mountain to find Tiehu and his son, and scolded her bloody: "You don't care about the life and death of your grandmother and uncle, but you don't even care about your father and son?" You don't care about your brother's life or death, why are you so heartless?"
Chunni laughed angrily: "You are not wolf-hearted, then you go to the mountain to find father and brother!"
Looking at Chunni one more time, Jin felt that it was an eyesore: "Chunxiang, you will go up the mountain with me tomorrow to find your father and brother."
Although Chunxiang is soft-tempered, she is not without brains. Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "Mother, we don't know where father and brother are and how to find them? Besides, we are going up the mountain, and father and brother didn't see us when we came back, so we have to run to the mountain to find us. "In this way, make more troubles.
Jin scolded angrily: "It is said that the married daughter poured out water. You are only caring about yourself before you get married. Why do I have such a hard life, and I gave birth to you two heartless people."
Because of the bad breath, Jin scolded Chunxiang and Chunni every day in the following days.
When Chunxiang was scolded, she just lowered her head, and when Chunni got angry, she didn't dare to choke her, so she just dropped what she was doing and went out. It was also Tie Kui who reminded her that this place is not like a mountain, and if she always quarreled with the Jin family and ruined her reputation, she would not be a good family.
In the evening, Mrs. Jin scolded Chunni again, and the more she scolded, the worse it sounded.
Tie Hu stood at the door and listened, and he took Tie Kui in after more than two quarters of an hour when Mrs. Jin stopped scolding him.
When Chunni saw him, her eyes were red: "Daddy, brother, you are finally back." She was worried about the safety of Tiehu and Tiekui, and she was scolded and angry every day. These days, Chunni is haggard all over.
Tie Hu looked at Jin and said, "Pack up your things, and I will take you back to Jin's house tomorrow."
Tie Kui secretly sighed. Jin's appearance is getting worse and worse, just like the ugly words just now, she can even swear, those who don't know think she is a stepmother!
If it was before, Tie Kui would definitely persuade him. But looking at the two sisters, he couldn't say that. If the Jin family is not suppressed this time, the life of the two sisters will be even more difficult in the future. Especially Chunni, the Jin family didn't even treat her as a daughter, but completely treated her as an enemy. If this continues, I'm really worried that Chunni will lose her temper if she can't bear it.
No matter how much Jin begged, Tiehu remained unmoved. As for Chunxiang's three siblings, none of them interceded for her.
Chunxiang and Chunni simply thought that Tie Kui was just sending the Jin family back to the Jin family for a while. During this time, the two sisters were tortured by the Jin family, and they wished that she would return to the Jin family for a while. In this way, both of them can breathe a sigh of relief.
It didn't matter what happened to the two daughters, but Tie Kui didn't intercede for her, and Jin was in great pain: "Kui Zi, I worked so hard to give birth to you and raise you, and you were sick, and my mother never had a good night's sleep. Mother will give you everything you need. Kuizi, mother gave you all her heart, how could you treat mother like this?" In Jin's heart, she gave her son her heart and soul, and his son should repay her like this of.
Tie Kui looked at Jin Shi with some surprise. He has been sick twice since he went up the mountain. Although he was sick and mentally ill, he was not life-threatening, and he recovered within two days. But Tie Kui soon understood that the Jin family really regarded him as their own son Tie Kui.
Tiehu turned to Chunxiang and said to Chunni: "You guys go cook, Kuizi will come into the house with me." As for Jinshi, she can kneel if she wants to, anyway, she is either kneeling or crying.
After entering the house, Tie Hu asked Tie Kui to pack up his things. But the tiger skin has not been finished yet, and it is now hanging in the stone house. In two days, their father and son will go up the mountain. I was also afraid that Chunxiang and the others would be worried, and the wound medicine was gone. Otherwise, they would not have come back so soon.
Tie Kui asked: "Father, are you going to divorce A Niang, or just send her back to the Jin family for a few days." There is an essential difference between the two.
Tie Hu didn't hide Tie Kui's words, and said: "I'm going to divorce her. I will ask my husband to write a divorce letter tomorrow, and then tell the village head to remove the Jin family from the family tree." It doesn't matter at all.
After what happened last time, he wanted to divorce his wife. But for the sake of the two sisters, he endured it. But when he was standing outside the door and heard Jin scolding Chunni just now, he didn't hesitate anymore.