Jiaohu

Chapter 42 What will it look like again?

Zhao Huniu came to the city this time for a serious business.
Spring is here, and it's almost time to discuss with the shopkeeper of Jinlulou about going up the mountain.

Temporarily employing idiot Zhao, a willing laborer, in the family's field is nothing to worry about. At most, it's enough to ask Dad to watch him do it.

Now I want more money,
It still depends on Zhao Huniu to go up the mountain.

In addition to this incident, Zhao Huniu came to the city and asked the shopkeeper of Jinlulou about his own shop.

It is impossible for her to set up a shop with the money now,
But during the conversation with the shopkeeper of Jinlulou, Zhao Huniu probably had some understanding in his heart.

It seems that this money should not be spent indiscriminately in the future, and you have to learn to save it.

After finishing these things today, the sun is about to set,

Zhao Huniu also wanted to go to the blacksmith shop of Li's family to maintain the spear and dagger, but it seemed that she could only come back tomorrow.

Drive the donkey cart back home,

Zhao Huniu tied up the little donkey, and as soon as she entered the door, she realized that her chickens and ducks were missing one each.
At the same time, there is a smell of cooked meat that has not dissipated in the house.
Zhao Huniu frowned.

"Father, are there any guests at home today?"

Zhao Cunwu had already come out of the kitchen with dinner, when he heard Zhao Huniu ask this, his hands froze,
"Ah, ah yes,
When people came to visit, I caught a chicken and slaughtered it for them.

When entertaining guests, don't be too stingy."

The man's tone was a little guilty. After putting the plate in his hand on the table, he wiped his hands on his body.
"Come, come, children, eat, eat."

Zhao Huniu entered the house without saying a word, and after changing her dirty clothes, she came out to finish her meal; there was a small plate of soy sauce chicken on the table, about a quarter of a chicken,

And without wings and legs,

Zhao Huniu picked up a piece and put it in the bowl,
"father."

The girl's voice made Zhao Cunwu tremble all over,
"Hey, what a good girl,"

"It's okay for you to entertain guests, but you can't always kill chickens and ducks like this. The chickens and ducks in our family are also seedlings bought with money, and they are fed with straw.

We haven't eaten many of them ourselves, so what if you take them all to entertain guests? "

"Yes, dear girl, what you said is... Dad will definitely not be like this next time,"

Zhao Huniu and Zhao Cunwu sat face to face and ate with their heads down. Zhao Huniu couldn't see the expression on her face clearly.
Zhao Cunwu could see that there was a little panic.

"Are you okay going into town?"

As if to ease the awkward atmosphere, Zhao Cunwu put a piece of chicken in Zhao Huniu's bowl and asked at the same time;
Zhao Huniu picked up the piece of meat and put it in her mouth, chewed and swallowed it before answering:
"Nothing. But I'm going into town to-morrow. I'm going to the blacksmith's to sharpen the dagger and the gun again."

"Oh, like this,

Good dad knows. "

"What about the house? Is there anything going on while I'm out?"

"No... Ah, you almost forgot if you didn't ask Dad,"

Zhao Cunwu put down his chopsticks and clapped his hands, stood up and walked to Zhao Huniu's room; Zhao Huniu watched him go in and took out a bag that he had never seen before.

Then came over and handed it to him.

She looked at Zhao Cunwu,
"What's this, Dad?"

"I was going to ask you about that,"

Zhao Cunwu sat down,
"After you entered the city today, that kid from the Guo family came. This is what he sent.

Said it was two pairs of shoes made by his mother, and I want to hand them over to you, you can take a look. "

Zhao Huniu reached out to take it and opened it. There were indeed two pairs of women's shoes in the middle of the fur skin.

Exquisite workmanship and fine wiring,

The most important thing is that these two pairs of shoes have one left foot and one right foot respectively.
A little tiger is embroidered on it, lifelike,
Jumping and rolling on the fabric on the side of the shoe, so lively.

Zhao Huniu glanced over a few times, her eyes were full of surprise; of course she recognized that some of the fabric she gave to make jackets was used,

But not many,
It would be too wasteful to continue to produce these two pairs of shoes just for this fabric.

"Guo Yinshu's mother made this for me?"

"That's what he said,"

As soon as Zhao Cunwu finished speaking, she saw Zhao Huniu take off her right shoe,
Before he opened his mouth to stop,
Zhao Huniu had already put the right shoe embroidered with a little tiger on her feet.

What surprised Zhao Huniu even more happened.
The shoes are exactly the same as my own feet,
But she obviously never told Kou Yujiao the size of her feet.

"Strange, strange,"

Watching Zhao Huniu take off this one and try another one,
And the expression on his face couldn't be described as being rude,
On the contrary, I feel faintly happy,
Zhao Cunwu frowned.

"Good girl, did you ask someone to help you make these shoes?"

"no,"

Zhao Huniu had already tried two pairs of shoes, and they were just the right size for her; she wrapped the two pairs of shoes with furoshiki again, and when she turned her head, she saw Zhao Cunwu's serious face.

"Then why did they give you shoes for no reason?"

"It's probably because there are not many leftovers from the last time I made clothes, so it's unnecessary to send them back and it's a pity to lose them, so I made two pairs of shoes and sent them here."

Zhao Huniu's casual but well-founded statement made Zhao Cunwu's words stuck in his throat,

He suffocated and thought for a while,
"It's not good to leave it to others. From now on, you should do these things yourself."

"I'll do it?"

Zhao Huniu heard what Zhao Cunwu said, looked up at him,
"Father, don't you know that I'm not good at being a female celebrity, not to mention making clothes and shoes, I can't even make patches.

Besides, with the time spent on these sewing and mending, I can go up the mountain and hunt a few more raccoons and hares.

I went to sell them and earned half a dollar, and even the materials and workers were made for me.

Why should I waste all this time? "

Zhao Cunwu was choked for a moment, but he didn't intend to give up his point of view.

"But you are a girl after all, female red is always more important. Things like hunting in the mountains are a man's job. You can't give up learning female red for this kind of thing, right?"

"why not?"

Zhao Huniu's tone was cold,
"Since hunting is a man's business, are you willing to go hunting in the mountains?
You don't want to.

Then since I can go hunting in the mountains to support our father and daughter, it proves that I have taken on the responsibility of a man,
Correspondingly, why am I still in charge of women's work?Make me do man's work, and make me do woman's work,
Where in the world does this make sense. "

"then you……"

"You want me to stop hunting in the mountains?"

Zhao Huniu looked at Zhao Cunwu, although the corners of her mouth did not move, but the tails of her eyes were raised slightly,
There is a faintly funny meaning contained in it,
"Father, take a closer look at our house, our field,

Chickens and ducks raised in two places in the yard,

A donkey tied outside the gate.overhead shed,
The clothes on your body, the shoes on your feet.The food on the table,

Dad, tell me,
If I don't go up to the mountains to hunt,
How will the life of our father and daughter change? "

(End of this chapter)