Tie Kui Extra Story (5)

After leaving the game shop, Tie Kui and Tie Hu said: "Father, let's exchange all the money! Before winter, we don't want to go down the mountain." Tie Hu is the pillar of the family. , this big family can't survive in the mountains at all. As for leaving the mountain, there is no house or field outside, and there is not even a place to stay.

As for driving the Donghu people out of Liaodong, that is the court's business. For Tie Kui, the most important thing now is to survive.

Tiehu nodded and said: "Well, I won't go down the mountain again before winter." Anyway, there is food everywhere on the mountain, as long as you work hard, you don't have to worry about not eating.

The father and son went to the salt shop again, exchanged their money for salt and a little sugar, and then went back to the mountains.

Knowing that the situation outside is becoming more and more tense, Jin became more and more worried about her natal family. But no one in the family supported her going back to her natal family. No matter how worried she was, she dared not go down the mountain alone.

After finally making it to August, the Jin family and Tie Hu said: "The child is her father, I want to go back to my mother's house to see." Every year at this time, the Jin family will return to her mother's house to give gifts.

It is a traditional custom for a married girl to go to her natal family to give a gift during the New Year. It's just that Jin's situation is special, she goes back by herself every year, and Tie Hu never goes with her.

Tie Hu said impatiently: "There are so many things at home, I don't have time to go down the mountain." When the weather gets hot, Tie Hu doesn't go hunting much, at most he just walks around or digs traps to see. At other times, stay at home and help with work.

The vegetable field at home has been expanded by one third. Beans and eggplants, these seasonal vegetables, can't be eaten up at all, and those that can't be eaten are dried in the sun. When it rains, the whole family has to pick up fungi after the rain. If you can't finish eating, you can dry it in the sun and save it for winter. The five members of the family are all busy, and no one is idle.

The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tie Kui went to look at the trap dug, and found a wild boar inside. This wild boar is not big, weighing around seventy catties.

After cleaning up, there were still more than 50 catties of meat. Some of these meats were kept for eating, and the rest were marinated in the sun for a day and then smoked to dry. Although the taste is not as good as bacon, and some even have a little taste if they are not cooked well, but some are good to eat, so there is so much to pay attention to. And this is why Tiehu has to buy so much salt.

On the day of Mid-Autumn Festival, Mrs. Jin took her two daughters to cook. Tie Hu took Tie Kui to the mountains, made a round trip and brought back a bag full of pears and wild grapes.

The food at noon was very delicious, and Chunni accidentally ate too much. Touching her somewhat full belly, Chun Ni said, "Eldest Sister's cooking skills are much better than Auntie's." Since last year, Chunxiang has been in charge of the chef in the Tie family.

Jin's craftsmanship is actually good, but she is reluctant to put oil, salt and seasoning.

And Chunxiang listens to Tie Kui the most, and does what he tells him to do.

Tie Kui glanced at her and said, "Second Sister, don't eat too much. If you eat too much, it will hurt your stomach." Only rich people say that being full is good for health. Ordinary people have to work, and if they don't eat enough, they can easily get hungry. If you are hungry and have no energy, you can't do anything.

Chunni was a little embarrassed.

After a day off on Mid-Autumn Festival, Tiehu took his wife and children to the mountains to pick up wild goods.

After Tie Kui came, he felt that it was a great loss to see that the family did not store wild goods. You should know that things like chestnuts and walnuts are all good things. Especially the stewed pork ribs with chestnuts are very delicious. However, there was a patient at home before, and Jin couldn't leave, and he didn't have time to pick up wild goods. In the second year on Tiekui Mountain, when chestnuts, walnuts and other mountain products were ripe, Tiehu took his mother and son to the mountain to pick them up.

After three days of busy work, more than half of the chestnuts on the tree were beaten. The rest of the iron tigers are not going to be killed, they have to be kept for the animals in the mountains for the winter.

The next day, the chestnut ball was left to the mother and son to deal with. Tie Hu took Tie Kui to the mountain. Autumn is not the season of reproduction, but also the season of fattening animals. It is the best season for hunting. Today I just went for a walk, I didn't plan to go very far. Otherwise, he wouldn't have taken Tie Kui with him.

It was also because Tie Kui was still young, so he planned to wait until Tie Kui turned ten before taking him to hunt.

Turning around in the mountains, Tiehu hit two hares. After all, it is autumn, and the hare is very fat. The largest one weighs six catties.

The father and son were very happy at first, but when they got home, they saw that Chunxiang's eyes were swollen from crying, while Chunni's eyes and face were swollen, and there were even scars on her arms.

Tie Kui was stunned, and asked, "Eldest Sister, Second Sister, what's wrong with you?" Chunni looked as if she had fought with someone. But Chunxiang has a soft temper, it is impossible to fight with her.

Chunni rushed over and hugged Tiehu and cried so sadly: "Father, three people came from the Jin family, and they emptied the food in the house. My eldest sister and I stopped me, and the three thieves beat me up." Can't get up."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Jin came out of the house and cursed at Chunni: "Damn girl, who are you calling a thief? Those are your uncle and cousin."

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Jin said to Tiehu: "My son's father, my mother's family can't open the pot, and the family has been hungry for three days. There is really no way, otherwise my elder brother would not bring his nephew into the mountains to ask me for help." The child’s father has more than one year’s food in the family, so I gave them three bags of food.” I have food at home, so how can I watch my mother’s family go hungry.

Tie Kui looked at Jin Shi speechlessly. They are working so hard these days just to store more food. There is food everywhere in the mountains, as long as their family is willing to work, they will not be hungry. But the problem is that if there is no food outside, those people will go to the mountains! At that time, how can we find so much food.

Looking at Chunni's red and swollen face, Jin's body was not injured at all. Tiehu looked at the Jin family, and asked coldly: "The Jin family beat Chunxiang and Chunni, what were you doing at that time?"

In fact, the Jin family only hit Chunni, not Chunxiang. However, Tiehu doesn't care about these.

Jin felt that Tiehu's eyes were piercing, and she panicked: "Dad, my mother has been hungry for three days. If there is nothing else, I will starve to death. Father, I can't watch my mother starve while she's alive." die?"

"Let me ask you, what were you doing when the Jin family beat Chunxiang and Chunni?"

Before Mrs. Jin could speak, Chun Ni said: "When the animals of the Jin family beat me and eldest sister, my mother scolded us by the side. She said we were cold-blooded, heartless and wolf-hearted, but I could watch that damn old woman of the Jin family starve to death... "Jin's words, not to mention Chunni, even Chunxiang, who has always been filial, is heartbroken.

Hearing this, Jin looked at Chunni with resentment in her eyes.

Hearing this, Tie Kui asked Chun Xiang, "Elder Sister, Mother really scolded you like that?" It wasn't that she didn't believe Chun Ni, but that Chun Xiang was honest. Her words are more believable.

Chunxiang nodded slightly.

When Tiehu heard this, he slapped him across the face. The beating made Jin's eyes blurry and he fell to the ground.

Married to Tiehu for more than ten years, it was the first time that Jin was beaten. Covering his face, Jin said with disbelief, "You hit me, and you hit me."

Tie Hu said expressionlessly: "Beasts know how to protect their cubs, you are not as good as animals." Outsiders beat their own children, not only did not protect them, but also scolded them. This woman has no heart at all.

Seeing this, Tie Kui was afraid that he would rush forward and say, "Father, they shouldn't have gone very far. Let's catch up and get the food back." The three bags of food, although they are coarse grains, can be mixed with wild vegetables or pumpkins The lamp is enough to feed them for two months.

Since knowing that Donghu people came in, the whole family ate vegetable dumplings, and never had a meal of noodles or dumplings. The white flour at home is also turned into vegetable cakes, in order to save food. Of course, they don't eat less meat, so life is not difficult.

When Jin heard this, she grabbed Tie Kui's hand and said, "Kui Zi, how can you be so cruel? Those are your real grandmother and uncle."

Tie Kui said indifferently: "They have nothing to do with me." Don't say that he is just the adopted son of the Tie family, even if the Jin family is really such a shameless thing as his relative's family, he would not recognize it.

Seeing that the father and son were about to go down the mountain, Jin got up and stopped them and said, "Father, Kuizi, you can't go. This food is the life-saving food of the Jin family."

Tiehu threw it hard, and Jin fell to the ground again. It's a pity that the three of them were standing, and none of them went to help her.

Tie Hu stared at the Jin family, and said coldly: "Since you miss the Jin family so much, I will send you back right now. It's up to you how you want to be an ox or a horse for the Jin family."

Jin's head is all wooden: "The child's father, what do you mean by that?"

Tie Kui couldn't bear it, but he knew that if Jin's temper didn't scare her, she didn't know what outrageous things she would do: "Father means to divorce you and let you go back to Jin's house. In the future, you Life or death has nothing to do with the Tie family."

After hearing this, Jin's face turned pale: "Father, I was born as a member of the Tie family and died as a ghost of the Tie family. If you divorce me, I will immediately hang myself on the tree outside. "

Chunni glanced at Tie Kui, seeing his calm expression, she knew that his father was not here for real, but just to scare her mother.

Chunxiang didn't know, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and cried, "Father, please don't divorce, mother." No matter how bad mother is, she is also their mother.

Tiehu didn't really want to divorce Jin, and he couldn't divorce her for the sake of the three children. With these words, Tie Hu also had a step down: "Since you know you are from the Tie family, protect the people from the Tie family. If next time you allow outsiders to bully the children, don't blame me for not remembering the relationship between husband and wife for many years. "

After finishing speaking, he hurried down the mountain with Tie Kui.

Chunxiang stepped forward to help Jin Shi up, but Chunni still remembered what happened just now and stood still.

After Jin got up, she gave Chunni a hard look, but she didn't dare to scold Chunni again because of what Tiehu said just now.

The father and son walked for more than an hour, and saw three people standing under the tree resting their feet.

When the members of the Jin family saw the black-faced Tiehu, they were a little scared. Boss Jin could only bite the bullet and shout: "Brother-in-law."

Tie Hu sneered and said, "I said it when I paid the money that day, and the two families will not move around in the future. This is evidenced in black and white." Normally, mountain people cannot marry a wife, but some people are greedy for money and are willing to sell their daughters. Therefore, most of the mountain people are daughters-in-law bought with money. That day, the Jin family asked for fifty taels of silver. Tiehu saw that the Jin family did not agree to pay so much, and finally bargained for thirty taels of silver. But when I gave the money, I also said that after the Jin family severed ties with the Jin family, they would not communicate with each other.

Later, after Chunxiang and Chunni were born, Mrs. Kim said she wanted to go back to her natal family. Tiehu disagreed, so she cried every day, making herself sick from crying. In desperation, Tiehu had no choice but to let her go back to her natal family, but Tiehu himself had never been to the Jin family's door. The attitude is obvious, he does not recognize this relative.

Boss Jin said with a strong smile: "Brother-in-law, you are the son-in-law of the Jin family. This is an unchangeable fact."

The second child of the Jin family turned his head faster, looked at Tie Kui and said, "Is this Kui Zi? Kui Zi, you and your grandfather look like a mold."

Tie Kui smiled and said, "Father, don't talk nonsense with them, just take the food back! Otherwise we won't be able to go back before dark."

The Jin family really didn't have any food to eat, otherwise they wouldn't have risked their lives to go to the mountains to find the Jin family for food.

Hearing this, Boss Jin scolded: "How can you be so heartless, kid. Your grandmother is starving to death, and your food room can't hold it. What's the matter with some food?" If it weren't for their weak strength Too much, but not only three bags of grain.

Tie Kui chuckled and said, "If Mrs. Jin is starving to death, it's also her fault for raising a bunch of useless children and grandchildren."

Not to mention the boss Jin, but the faces of the second son Jin and the eldest son of the Jin family have changed.

Tiehu didn't want to talk nonsense at all, and walked over to get food. Boss Jin and Jin Dalang refused to let go, and were beaten by Tiehu until they lay on the ground and couldn't get up.

When the father and son went back, Tie Kui said very worriedly: "Father, I don't know what's going on outside. If the common people really have no food to eat, they know that we have hidden so much food, and someone will definitely come to my house Grab the food." In that case, their family would not have a peaceful life.

Tie Hu hummed and said, "You will come down the mountain with me in the future and see what's going on outside."

Tie Kui nodded. Knowing the situation outside, they can also respond.

When the father and son returned home, it was just dark.

Seeing the three big sacks of grain, Jin couldn't help but burst into tears. With all the food brought back, how can her mother and elder brother live as a big family! But seeing Tiehu's expression, she dared not say a word.

While eating, Kim was still crying. Tie Hu dropped his chopsticks and cursed angrily: "Why are you crying? I'm so reluctant to part with the Jin family and I'll send you back tomorrow." If it wasn't for the sake of the three children, he would really have sent the Jin family back.

Jin was too scared to cry anymore.

After eating, Tie Hu went back to the house and picked up the bedding.

Jin boldly grabbed Tie Hu's arm and said, "Father, where are you going? Father, I know I made a mistake. Don't worry, I will change it in the future." If the couple don't sleep together, how can they be two mouth. And sleeping separately will become rusty after a long time.

Tie Hu shook off Jin's hand, hugged the bedding and went to Tie Kui's room.

Tie Kui's room has the best location and the largest area, but there are a lot of things in the room. Fortunately, he slept on a double bed, so it wouldn't be too crowded for Tie Hu to come and sleep.