Goose feather like snow, falling from the sky.

Early in the morning, tiekui opened the door and saw a thick layer of snow outside.

Iron Tiger is shoveling snow, heard the movement behind, turned to see tie Kui, said with a smile: "kui'er, it's cold outside, you go back to the room to rest."

After more than two months in the mountains, he could still understand the simple conversation. Knowing what tie Kui means to this family, Ning Hai tells himself that he will be tie Kui in the future.

"Daddy, I helped you clear the snow together." Then he took a small hoe to make a ball of snow.

Because iron is very expensive, there are only a few kinds of iron in their family. They are very careful when using them.

Entering the mountain, tie Kui realized that not all mountain people are suffering. Just like Tiejia, because Tiehu hunts very hard, they can eat meat almost every day. Because Kim's family is well managed, there are a lot of beans, cabbages and pumpkins in the house.

However, living in the mountains is very cold in winter, so I don't want to come out of the Kang.

Clean up the snow outside the door, iron tiger into a wooden house to practice boxing. The reason why he is so good at hunting is not only his archery, but also his kung fu.

Tie Kui went over and said, "Daddy, I want to fight with you. Father, teach me The first time he saw Tiehu practicing boxing, he wanted to learn. But at that time, Tiehu thought he was thin and didn't agree. He just let him take good care of his body.

Looking at a lot of meat growing on his face, tie Hu said with a smile, "it's OK to teach you Kung Fu, but once you start, you can't stop. You have to get up every day to practice Kung Fu."

"Good." He started at the age of three and got up at dawn every day. Although he was only seven years old, he had finished learning the four books and five classics, and he wrote very well. Mr. Ning used to say that there are successors in the Ning family.

Tiehu did not immediately teach tiekui boxing, but let him squat. Squatting horse steps or standing on a stake are basic skills, and martial arts practitioners begin with basic skills.

Tie Kui squatted for a quarter of an hour, and his legs began to shake. A quarter of an hour later, his forehead was full of sweat, and his whole body was shaking. But he didn't stop.

Iron Tiger said with a smile: "today first here, later to continue."

Tie Kui didn't want to rest and continued to squat. If you don't have the talent to practice martial arts, practice more.

Tiekui squatted four times in one morning. Then Tiehu stopped him and said, "you have to eat a mouthful of rice. It's impossible to be a fat man. Practice martial arts step by step, and being eager for success will hurt your body. "

After hearing this, tie Kui accepted the criticism with an open mind: "I listen to my father."

By this time, breakfast is ready. A dustpan of coarse cereals cake, a half basin of pumpkin porridge, and a bowl of meat.

Iron Tiger not only hunts hard, but also handles its fur well. As long as the fur is handled well, the price is not inferior to buying the whole prey directly. Therefore, Iron Tiger often peels the animal's fur to make skin, while the meat is processed by Kim.

Seeing that Jin gave all the meat to him and tie Hu, tie Kui didn't bother to tell Jin any more. He directly divided part of the meat to his two sisters, Dachun and Erchun.

Dachun and Erchun are very happy.

But Jin Shi pulled his face and said, "your father and his younger brother need a lot of energy to practice martial arts, so they have to eat more meat. You don't cook anything. You eat meat. "

Dachun has a soft temper and doesn't dare to say anything.

Erchun was unconvinced, shouting: "Aung, I get up early in the morning to cook and feed the chickens, and I have to clean up the vegetable garden later." Like pigs, they don't dare to raise them for fear of attracting big insects and other prey. However, the chicken is a small thing, but raised three, two old hens, a rooster.

Iron Tiger smell speech not happy to say: "the home saved so much meat, to the children to eat."

Before Dachun and Erchun, they were very thin, but after tiekui came, they got fat only after eating well. Iron Tiger wanted to fight more prey to earn medical expenses for his son before, so he didn't spend too much time on his two daughters. But that doesn't mean he doesn't care about the two girls.

Kim was a little aggrieved: "it's just winter now, and it will be five months before spring next year. This meat, of course, needs to be saved. " If you want to eat without restraint, you won't be able to have spring.

After all, tie Kui has only been studying for two months. He can only understand simple words. He can't understand such a long sentence. But she knew Kim's temperament and put in a word: "the meat is cooked together in the porridge." It's not only available to everyone, but also delicious.

Iron Tiger one hammer fixed sound: "according to Kui er said to do."

Seeing Er Chun smile, Kim glared at her. This dead girl didn't know how to push out when kui'er gave her meat just now.

At first, seeing that Jin asked Dachun Erchun to do so much work, but he didn't give them good food, drink and clothes, tie Kui thought that the two sisters were not born to Jin. Later I learned that the two sisters were born to the Kim family, but the Kim family preferred boys to girls. In her heart, the son is treasure and the daughter is grass. Even his adopted son is more expensive than his sisters.

Erchun ignored Kim and bowed his head to eat meat.

After breakfast, tie Kui and tie Hu said, "Daddy, I want to learn to hunt." It's useless to study in this world. Today's fatuous imperial court may not be able to pass the exam even if it has talent. Only after learning martial arts can you join the army and get revenge for your family.

Tiehu nodded and said, "good."

But Kim disagreed: "it's freezing to learn how to hunt in such a cold day. If you want to learn how to hunt with your father, it's spring."

Iron Tiger said with a smile: "I didn't say to take him to the mountain now, but you can practice first. In two days, I'll make you a set of bows and arrows. " Bows and arrows made of iron can only be found in Fu Cheng. It's made of wood. It can be used to train the head first.

"Daddy, do you need to do anything else? For example, what about hand strength and foot strength I've never eaten pork, and I've seen pigs run. There are some things that he has heard of.

"My son is so smart that he even knows how to exercise his feet," he said with a smile Anyway, in Kim's eyes, tie Kui is good at everything.

Tiehu is not surprised that his adopted son is not an ordinary child. It's normal for him to know this: "now the snow is very deep outside, so it's not suitable to go out. Now you have a good squat to lay a good foundation. When spring comes, I'll take you to the mountains. " If you run a lot, your feet will be trained. As for the strength, tie Kui is too small to worry about.

In the following days, tie Kui ran around the house every day. After ten laps, you start to squat and then practice archery. His goal is to hit the rake heart with every arrow in the future, so he is very diligent.

The result of this exercise is that tie Kui's appetite becomes very large, and Kim is not particularly happy. A son who can eat shows that he is in good health.

If you eat too much, you will grow up. By early spring, all the clothes Kim made for him were small. I didn't have so much money to buy clothes made of cloth, so I had to change the original clothes and wear them again. Tie Kui didn't care. If he had food and clothes, he would be satisfied. How could he ask for so much.

In fact, not only did tie Kui grow up a lot, but Dachun and Erchun got taller and fatter because of the good food in winter.

Kim is very worried with her husband said: "Dachun and Erchun eat so much, food is almost gone." She wanted to limit the amount of food for her two daughters, but if she wanted to do so, tie Kui would share her food with her two sisters and starve herself. In desperation, Kim had to satisfy his two daughters.

Iron Tiger said with a smile: "now spring, I can go hunting, you take spring they go to dig wild vegetables." In spring, there are many kinds of wild vegetables.

So in spring, tiekui's bean rice or pumpkin porridge is changed into wild vegetable dumplings. However, Kim's cooking skills are not bad, coupled with broth with, we all eat very fragrant.

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

After eating and drinking, er Chun took tie Kui to one side and said, "brother, second sister, please do something."

After a winter, most of the words he can understand: "second sister, you say." As long as he can, he will not refuse. If he can't, he won't agree, because it's useless.

Er Chun pinched and said, "brother, can you give me a name?"

Tie Kui said with a smile, "what name does the second sister want?"

"Whatever you want, don't call it Erchun anyway." With that, Erchun explained, "my uncle's second cousin is lazy and greedy. I don't want to give her a name."

"Uncle's house? Where do they live? " I heard that it was in the village. Tie Kui asked, "have you been there?"

Er Chun said with a voice, "I've been there once, but my grandmother and uncle are very stingy. They don't even give me a full meal when I go to her house. I don't want to go any more." Although the past two years, but now the spring has not let go.

It's rare for a granddaughter to have a good family. If her family is not well off, it's impossible to have good food, but even if she doesn't have enough to eat, it's hard to say. Although I haven't met the people of the Jin family, tiekui has a bad impression on the people of the Jin family with Erchun's words.

This is very unfortunate to be heard by Kim: "you dead girl, your grandfather's family is not rich, you don't understand, but also a bellyful of complaints, how can you be so heartless."

Erchun was more pungent, so he went back to Jin: "mother, we took more than ten jin of meat with us at that time. As a result, we didn't give us a bite of meat. We didn't care enough about the wild vegetable dumplings. We also said that the girl had so many pieces to eat and what to do. Niang, if you want to go to the Jin family in the future, I will never go. " In my own home, I work a lot, but I can still eat enough.

After hearing this, Jin said to tie Kui in a hurry: "don't listen to your second sister Hu lie. Your grandmother and uncle love you most. They send someone to bring you rice noodles every year."

Erchun snorted coldly: "send three or five Jin rice noodles, and then walk a few good skins. No one can be more calculating than them." With a good leather, you can buy 20 or 30 jin of rice noodles.

Seeing that tie Kui's face sank down, Jin picked up his broom and hit Er Chun: "you dead girl, I'll let you talk nonsense. I'll kill you today."

Tie Kui grabbed the broom, and then asked Jin: "Aung, in your heart, the people of Jin family are more important than the two biological daughters of elder sister and second sister?"

Looking at tie Kui's indifference, Kim panicked: "kui'er, don't listen to your second sister's nonsense. Your grandmother and uncle are very kind to your two sisters."

Seeing that Jin evaded the question, tie Kui asked again, "Aung, how did you get married in the mountains?" Life in the mountains is not only bitter, but also dangerous. If one day iron tiger is not there, they will be in danger if they can't escape. Therefore, normal families will never marry their daughters to the mountains.

Kim's face a little unnatural, said: "nature is the matchmaker said peace, and then married your father. Well, your father thinks that after dinner, I have to clean up! "

With that, she hurried back to the room.

Er Chun waited for Jin to leave and asked tie Kui, "brother, why did you just ask that?"

Tie Kui said with a light look: "if I guess correctly, my mother should have been sold into the mountain by the people of the Jin family." If not, how can Kim's temperament avoid his problem.

Er Chun opened his mouth and said, "it's really possible for the virtue of the Jin family. I don't know what my mother thought. The Jin family treated her like that. She went down the mountain to give gifts every Spring Festival. If it's me, I'm sure I'll cut off the relationship

"Well, the second sister is right to think so." In order to make up for the loss of their own children, it is helpless to meet such a mother. Fortunately, Kim is not his mother, but his adoptive mother. If not, I have to die of vomiting.

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

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

Tiehu couldn't stop Jin from going back to his mother's house, but he didn't want to go to Jin's house himself. But it happened that he was going to take the leather and two live chickens he had saved for more than half a month to sell in the town, so he took Kim down the mountain.

Before leaving, Tiehu specially told tiekui: "don't go to other places in the daytime at home, and don't come out of the house at night." The two daughters don't have to tell them how to do it. Tie Kui just came and didn't know the danger in the mountains.

Tie Kui nodded and said, "don't worry, Dad. I'll follow the second sister. I won't run around." It's not easy to pick up a life. Naturally, we should treasure it more.

After they left, Erchun said to tie Kui, "second brother, shall we have fried meat with eggs at noon?"

Tie Kui laughingly said: "as long as you are not afraid of your mother coming back to scold you, second sister, you can do whatever you want."

Two spring white tie Kui a way: "by the way, let you think of a nice name for me, how do you think?"

Tie Kui really thought about it these days: "Chuncao, Chunxiang, Chunni, Chunlei, Chunlian, which do you like?"

Do not want to, two spring said: "I like Chunni, this name sounds good, I later * * Ni."

Dachun weakly inserted a sentence: "brother, I think Chunxiang is very nice. Brother, can I make a fragrance in the future

Tie Kui said with a smile, "naturally."

Three days later, when the couple came back, Kim hit the eggplant like frost, while Tiehu looked normal. Several children saw that Kim was in a bad mood, but no one comforted her.

Tiekui avoided Jin and Tiehu and said: "Daddy, those people in the Jin family are insatiable. Don't let Aung walk with them." Such people can't satisfy their greed by giving much.

"I told her several times, but she didn't listen," Tiehu said. Forget it, let her go! Anyway, it's just a few catties of meat. " As for the leather, he would not allow Kim to take it again. Good leather to sell, generally put together to make two leather clothes for three children. Because she didn't bring her previous skin back, Kim was scolded by her mother this time.