Dressed as a farmer group pet

Chapter 214 214 Short Bow
Ever since he had the idea of ​​learning to hunt and practice archery, Xiaomi really started to think about it, hacking and chopping with a hatchet every day when he had nothing to do.

Not to mention running out every day, sometimes even when Wei Ziang asked her, she would just respond casually a few times in a perfunctory manner.

At first, everyone thought that Xiaomi was a 3-minute hotness. After all, she is such a runner, how could she have the patience to stay at home all the time.

Who knew that Xiaomi's state would last from late autumn to early winter. The mahogany in his hand was changed one after another, and he didn't figure out what a bow should look like.

Just when Xiaomi couldn't help but want to give up and decided to ask his father to take him to the town to find someone to make a small bow for him, someone knocked on the door.

"Little brother? Are you out of school?" Seeing Wei Ziang outside the door, Xiaomi froze for a moment before realizing it.

Wei Ziang nodded: "Well, it's almost dark, have you figured it out yet?"

Xiaomi's shoulders slumped: "It's too difficult, I wanted to make one myself."

Wei Ziang looked behind Xiaomi, the ground was messy and there were a lot of sawdust.

It can be seen that Xiaomi really tried hard to make it, but failed.

Mahogany can be used as a short bow. It is relatively small and suitable for children to play with. Xiaomi is also holding one out first to practice the feel and accuracy, and then consider other things.

As a result, the first step has not yet been taken, and it is directly stuck.

"Come with me." Wei Ziang directly pulled Xiaomi out, turned his footsteps, and walked to his room.

Xiaomi looked bewildered. During this period of time, she has been a little obsessed with making bows and arrows. She has been thinking about it every day except eating and sleeping.

Everyone in the family tried to persuade her, but they couldn't make her give up.

But everyone saw that Xiaomi didn't seem to have any problems other than thinking about it every day, so she left it to her.

It's rare to encounter something that Xiaomi is so interested in, and it doesn't hinder eating and sleeping, so everyone let her go.

Now finally seeing that Xiaomi didn't go out at meal time, Xiaoxue was surprised, and was about to ask something, when Wei Ziang dragged Xiaomi back to her room.

It's winter, and there are not so many things to do in the field. Some scattered work, Jiang Hu took Qixi and finished it by himself, planting wheat and rapeseed, digging lotus root and so on, and found others.

Among the chickens, ducks and geese raised were Erniang and Aunt Yang, so that Xiaoxue was completely free, thinking about her own embroidery every day.

Zhang Xiaohua has been away for a while, just as Xiaoxue and Xiaomi planned, she was able to pick up some handkerchief embroidery work in the cloth village a few days ago.

But because he can only embroider a single sample, he doesn't earn much. A handkerchief can only earn one copper coin.

If you work hard every day, you can embroider four or five handkerchiefs in one morning.

Seeing how easy it is to make money, Zhang Xiaohua's parents immediately stopped letting her do housework. Anyway, they are not busy in winter, so they let her embroider when she has nothing to do.

In addition, Zhang Xiaohua will still come to Xiaoxue to study in the afternoon.

Under Xiaoxue's signal, she clearly told her parents that she has only learned this trick now, and the amount of money she can make is limited.

Only by being more serious and working harder to learn more things can I make more money like Xiaoxue!
Moreover, Zhang Xiaohua's parents now also know what Xiaoxue learned. They learned it from the county. At least the teaching materials are from the county, right?
Therefore, I have no opinion at all about Zhang Xiaohua still studying every day.

Not only that, Zhang Li recently voluntarily asked for no wages when he worked for the Jiang family, even if Jiang Hu didn't even ask for it.

During the period, Xiaomi also discovered that Zhang Xiaohua embroidered with oil lamps at home, which made her very tired and sleepy the next day, and her eyes were a little uncomfortable.

Xiaomi frightened her directly, embroidering under the oil lamp at night, be careful that her eyes will go blind, and she will never be able to embroider again.

Of course, this wasn't all scaring, so under Xiaomi's intimidation and Xiaoxue's suggestion, Zhang Xiaohua also began to learn to arrange her embroidery time reasonably.

But these are digressions, let's get down to business.

With a dazed expression, Xiaomi followed Wei Ziang back to the room, and watched him take out a wooden box as long as a child's arm.

"Brother, what is this?" Xiaomi looked at the wooden box on the table in confusion.

Wei Ziang didn't talk nonsense, he opened the wooden box directly, and then turned to Xiaomi.

"Give it to you."

Xiaomi was stunned for a moment, and then his face was filled with ecstasy: "Short bow! What a beautiful short bow, where did you get such a beautiful short bow?"

There is only a short bow on Xiaomi's arm, which is very small and has some simple patterns on it.

Not only is there a bow, but it is also stringed, and there is a small pair of arrows next to it.

After Xiaomi was pleasantly surprised, he quickly picked up the bow and arrow, fondling it fondly.

The arrow branch is made of a very hard wood, and the arrowhead is not entirely made of iron, but covered with a thin layer of iron.

As long as the strength is enough, it can cause a certain amount of damage.

"It's so beautiful, a beautiful short bow, how did you get it, little brother? Did you buy it?"

As soon as the words fell, she felt that something was wrong. This bow and arrow looked very good. She tried it out. Although she had never used this thing before, it gave her a good feeling.

Xiaomi believed in her feelings, so she felt that this bow must not be cheap.

Wei Ziang also had some pocket money in the past two years, but it must not be much, at most one or two hundred copper coins, which is less than hers. After all, Wei Ziang has only been in Jiang's house for about three years.

If you order copper plates, you will definitely not be able to buy these.

Just as he was about to say something again, Wei Ziang shook his head: "No, I made this myself. Didn't you always want it? I just tried it myself."

Xiaomi's eyes widened: "You made it yourself?"

Thinking back to the pile of sawdust in my room, I blush!
Wei Ziang looked calm and calm: "Well, but Uncle Jiang bought the animal tendons, and Uncle Jiang also paid for the arrowhead."

Xiaomi touched the short bow: "So this bow was actually made by you yourself?"

That's great, right?
Xiaomi Xingxing stared at Wei Ziang.

She is a 30-year-old core, but she is not as powerful as an eight-year-old child!

Wei Ziang had been pretending to be calm all the time, but it was a broken effort after all, with a smile on his face, his eyes slightly curved, and his eyes softened a lot in an instant.

"I also made a few scraps before I succeeded. When Xiaomi gets bigger, we will find other better wood and make you a bigger one. But for now, this peach wood short bow should be enough."

Xiaomi nodded vigorously: "Yeah, it must be enough, little brother, you are amazing!"

Wei Ziang tried his best to control his expression, making himself look calm.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Yu came in from the door at this moment.

"Hey, Ziang, this is the short bow you made. You didn't show us what you said before, so it looks like this."

Jiang Yu strode into the room, and raised his hand to take a look, but Xiaomi dodged it all at once.

"Brother, this is mine, my brother gave it to me!" Xiaomi held the short bow tightly in his arms, staring at Jiang Yu like a thief.

Jiang Yu was speechless: "I'll just take a look, and I won't spoil it for you, so what do you do baby."

Xiaomi curled her lips: "It's very precious in the first place, okay? It's not like you don't know, I haven't done it for so long."

This Jiang Yu had to admit it, and even nodded sympathetically: "Besides embroidery, there are rare things you don't know, but Ziang, how did you know how to do this?"

When Xiaomi first became obsessed with making bows and arrows, both Jiang Hu and Jiang Yu tried, but unfortunately they failed.

Seeing that Xiaomi would never give up until he made it, Jiang Hu was ready to buy one.

However, Wei Ziang stopped him, saying that he could try it.

No, actually tried it out.

Wei Ziang: "From the book, just try to do it a few times."

This is not true.

Xiaomi and Jiang Yu showed admiration at the same time: "Aren't you too good?"

She still has ready-made bows and arrows in her space, and she didn't figure out a trick by following them.

Wei Ziang just smiled lightly, he didn't know why, but the short bow was really handy, he only made three mistakes before it was finished.

He even tied the bowstring himself, which fits perfectly.

Wei Ziang signaled Xiaomi to put the short bow back into the box: "Xiaomi, please put it back in the room first, it happens that we also rest tomorrow, I will teach you."

Xiaomi's eyes lit up: "Little brother, do you know?"

Jiang Yu also looked at him curiously: "Ziang, why do you know everything? I haven't seen you playing these things in the past few years. Could it be that you knew it before? But don't you have amnesia?"

Wei Ziang shook his head: "I don't know, maybe I really knew it before, anyway, I think I should be able to shoot a little bit."

Xiaomi put the shortbow back into the box: "That's great, I'll start practicing tomorrow, maybe after another year or so, I can go hunting by myself."

Speaking of hunting, Xiaomi's face is full of radiance, as if he will go up the mountain soon.

While talking, Xiaoxue had already come over and told them to go to dinner. It was cold in winter and it got dark early, so dinner was also early in the evening.

After eating, those who are sleepy and tired will go back to the room to rest.

For those who don't want to sleep, Er Niang will also build a fire in front of the kitchen door, and everyone will warm up and chat, and occasionally Jiang Hu will take a test of sweet potatoes or something.

But most of the time, everyone is happy to chat with the family, sometimes in the village, sometimes in the town, and occasionally Uncle Liu will share some news from the county.

So far, the Jiang family still doesn't know what the Liu family does, and they haven't met Liu Ze's parents.

But almost every month, there are letters sent from the county, and sometimes there are things sent to the Jiang family.

It was almost November at this time, and at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, that is, one month later, Uncle Liu and Liu Ze were going to set off again and return to the county.

Xiaomi happily showed off the short bow to everyone, everyone praised Wei Ziang, and then talked about the slaughter of pigs for bacon this year.

Although it suffered from drought in the past few years, Cheng County has been developing well in the past few years, especially the high-yield crops have been promoted almost throughout the county.

So in the past few years, the lives of the people in Chengxian County have improved visibly with the naked eye.

As for places farther away, ordinary people like them don't know about it, and dare not discuss it too much.

Every year before the twelfth lunar month, the Jiang family will start to kill the New Year's pigs and make bacon, so that Uncle Liu and the others can take some with them when they return to the county.

This is what I'm talking about tonight, of course.

"Uncle Liu, why don't you just pull two fat pigs this year? It will take seven or eight days at most for the horse-drawn carriage to reach the county seat? Slow down with the ox cart, it should arrive in a day or two longer."

Although no one in the Jiang family has ever been to the county except Jiang Yu.

But don't forget, a few years ago, when everyone was resettled in Fu'an Village, they also passed outside Cheng County.

Although Jiang Hu has almost forgotten how to get there, the approximate distance can still be estimated.

Uncle Liu looked at Liu Ze: "Ze'er, what do you think?"

Liu Ze thought for a while: "It's not impossible. Build a shed for the bullock cart and put more pigweed, etc. Although it's a bit troublesome, it's not without benefits."

Uncle Liu raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What's the benefit?"

This time, Liu Ze looked at Jiang Hu and Erniang, then at Xiaoxue, before explaining.

"The Jiang family's meat and vegetables are all delicious. Everyone in Xiangma Town knows that the eggs delivered to the county are all quickly robbed."

"But there are too few eggs after all. In a slightly richer family, there are only a dozen or so people, and there are dozens of people. There are only one or two hundred eggs in three or five days. In the county town, it is nothing. Didn't particularly care."

"If the Jiang family is determined to move to near Cheng County, we can make preparations in advance now. We have all eaten pork from Uncle's house. It is fat but not greasy, thin but not firewood. It is very delicious."

"It just so happens that the Chinese New Year is coming up. At that time, I will give some to some big families in the county. If the Jiang family moves to Cheng County in the future, they may have a few more blessings to avoid being tricked."

Liu Ze talked eloquently, and the others nodded their heads.

It has to be said that what Liu Ze said was completely correct, and even Xiaomi secretly praised it in his heart.

That's right, she had forgotten that the Jiang family had never been targeted in Fu'an Village and Xiangma Town because of the hidden umbrella of the Liu family.

The Liu family protected the Tongfu restaurant, and indirectly protected the Jiang family, allowing them to farm with peace of mind without worrying about anything else.

If this is moved to the surrounding county, if the Jiang family continues to develop like it is now, Baobuqi will be targeted.

At this time, it would indeed be a good thing for them to have more wealthy and powerful people covering them.

And those people are not related to the Jiang family, why should they help them?

At this time, the time to reflect the value of the Jiang family has arrived.

Uncle Liu also nodded in satisfaction: "Ze'er is right, Xiao Jiang, you can't make a suggestion, how about this, when the time comes, we will go to the town to find a bullock cart, and bring the two pigs back to Cheng County together!"

Jiang Hu hurriedly said: "Okay, then it's settled."

The Jiang family also has an ox cart, and Jiang Hu can also send it, but if the Jiang family does not have Jiang Hu, a family of young women, how dare he leave alone, not to mention that it will take 20 days to say the least.

This matter was settled so simply.

Xiaomi has received the key message: It seems that the parents are determined to move to the county!
(End of this chapter)