Living in the mountains and forests as hunters

Chapter 5

By nature, Zhao Yiyi is a kind of easy-going, even calm and decadent girl. She was born with no risk factors, let alone enthusiasm. Sometimes there will be different emotions, like now, Zhao Yiyi rarely feels what is apprehension and what is anticipation.

Although it is just a hunter in the mountains, in the eyes of modern people, there is no culture, there is no ability in the mountains, and there is a difference in time and space. That's the case, Zhao Yiyi still has a little more expectation for the future marriage.

At the very least, such a man is honest, so she doesn't have to worry about cheating. Although she lives in the mountains, she doesn't need a loan to buy a house. She is 21 years old and hunts for a living, so she must be strong. Little women, not like modern times, women in dual-career families have to do men's work.Finally, there is no family planning in this era, and there is no need to pay pension insurance. In this way, living in ancient times is actually quite beneficial.

Self-consolation, after self-adjustment, Zhao Yiyi felt at ease about this sudden marriage, and the next three days would be busy days. That night, Zhao Qian took the newly bought three Clothes were made of chi green shuttle cloth. In ancient times, one chi was actually less than thirty centimeters, and three chi was less than one meter. At this time, the cloth was all hand-woven and the width was not large. It belongs to narrow cloth with a width of three feet, which is about 90cm today. The ancients used a piece of cloth to measure four feet, and one foot to ten feet, so one piece is 12 meters, so this so-called one piece is really very small. very small.

Looking at the small piece of cloth in Zhao Qian's hand, Zhao Yiyi didn't know what to do with the clothes. Could it be stitching?Well, I'm a tailor. Looking at Zhao Qian, Zhao Yiyi compared the original craftsmanship in his memory, and finally understood. It's really like this. At least half of the sleeves of the so-called new clothes are They are all made of other fabrics, and the collar is also made of other thick fabrics. In this way, these three feet can really make a dress. Zhao Yiyi thinks about the burlap she saw in a medium-sized grocery store. At the price of 5 yuan per meter, she suddenly felt that the cheap one was a bit outrageous, but it was too much cloth for 60 Wen!You must know that the standard of the things in the grocery store is modern. In that case, the width may be 1.2 meters or 1.5 meters, so how big can this meter be?In the future, if she gave gifts with these burlap, she didn't know how much money she could save.

Zhao Qianshi was making clothes, and Zhao Yiyi didn't rest. She couldn't wear straw sandals when she got married, so under Zhao Qianshi's command, she started to make shoes for herself. After all, this was her first pair of cloth shoes. In the mountains, except for important events such as getting married, most people, whether men or women, wear straw sandals, which cost nothing and are light and convenient for climbing mountains and wading.Zhao Yiyi was holding a thick black iron needle and gnashing her teeth while building the sole of the shoe. This thing is really troublesome!

On the other side, Zhao Dahu was also very busy. He was helping weave the basket. Since he knew that his sister would definitely get married, he wanted to add more dowry to his sister.In his heart, this time his sister got married in such a hurry, because of the betrothal gift, so that they can survive the winter smoothly, and for this family, which made him feel very uncomfortable. The only man in the family, the new head of the family, couldn't protect his family well, and he blamed himself a lot. Now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, he also knows that he has nothing to say, and there is no reason to refute it. Then the only thing he can do is What I did was to make my sister's marriage more beautiful, so that no one would look down upon her.

As the only son in the family, Zhao Dahu has learned his skills from his father since he was a child. If Zhao Yiyi's skills as a bamboo craftsman were learned by hand, then Zhao Dahu was taught by his father. This can be exchanged for copper coins and can supplement the family's ability. Father Zhao also hopes to pass it on to his son, so that good children and grandchildren will benefit in the future.So don't look at Zhao Dahu as a small person, but if you really want to make things seriously, you can actually see it. Although it is also because you are small, you can't make big things, but it is still possible to carry a basket or something. He thought, his sister has I bought a rattan box, if I add a good basket, then can it be regarded as having two dowries?People say that the dowry should be in pairs, and I can't let my sister break the taboo.This is not auspicious.

The [-] small families in the village also heard that Zhao Yiyi was going to marry in Rexiao, or marry a mountain man, and they all couldn't help sighing a few times, thinking that Zhao Yiyi was this What a pity, what a girl!If it wasn't for this coincidence, next year it might be a good family in the town!Fortunately, they are not ignorant. Knowing that Mrs. Zhao Qian is preparing the dowry, and listening to Aunt Liang's talk about the number of preparations for marriage, and thinking about their family's situation, she understands the reason for this, saying In the previous sentence, this big tiger mother is not easy, so she can't live on!
There are no intrigues among the people in the mountains, and there are not many conflicts of interest. There are only a few families, and most of them are clan members. When encountering such a thing, although their own lives are not well-off, they all want to do their part. Anyway, I can take advantage of this happy event to help them one or two.

So from the night when the marriage was agreed upon, the east family sent five eggs, and the west family sent a small bag of soybeans. Anyway, they were all small but practical things, and some families even put together and used their leftovers. A long skirt was made out of unpatched burlap, although it was just a few pieces of cloth spliced ​​together, and it was still undyed hemp gray burlap, but it was a rare good thing. This place is in the mountains, and women mostly hang out with men. They also wear trousers, or the kind of trousers with big feet, just for the convenience of work. Some people there will think that they need to wear skirts and gowns when they get married. Cloth with other colors added, some are blue, some are khaki, and one is actually maroon. This kind of skirt may seem a bit nondescript to the ancients, and it can only be regarded as a wish, but in Zhao Yiyi's view But it is extraordinarily unique.

A green cloth jacket, a heather-gray long skirt, and a pair of blue cloth shoes. These are Zhao Yiyi's newlywed clothes, plus a copper bracelet, a copper hairpin, and a pair of copper ears given by her third uncle. Nails, and a red velvet flower made by Aunt Dong herself, are all Zhao Yiyi's jewelry.

As for the rattan box, it contained only a set of Zhao Yiyi's usual clothes and two pairs of straw sandals. The inferior kitchen knives, as well as the inferior medicine hoe and inferior dagger that she often used, it wasn't that she didn't want to keep them at home, but that Zhao Qianshi and Zhao Dahu were very familiar with the things in this family, so if there were extra, If it can make them uneasy, maybe it will make a big fuss, so in the end she can only take it away.

But Zhao Yiyi has made up her mind, in the future, she will often come over with those things. At that time, the family will think that it was bought by her man with money from hunting, and even the village will not have any doubts. An Dalang is really good at hunting, he can earn a living, and he is filial!

No matter how busy they are, the three days is really fast, the time is up in the blink of an eye, the crowing cock crowed, and the day of Zhao Yiyi's marriage came.The so-called wedding at this time was really held at dusk, but after all, the person Zhao Yiyi married was in the mountains, the sky was dark, and it was not safe in the mountains, so the wedding could only be held at noon, so that they could Went into the mountains earlier, got married in a period of filial piety after all, no banquets, no music, and even the happy words at the door were just two stickers for the occasion, so the atmosphere did not come up, except for Zhao Qian and Zhao Dahu There were tears in his eyes, and the rest really couldn't tell that he was a married girl.

There is no one in An Dalang's family anymore, everyone already knows this, and the so-called mountain people generally have few people living together, most of them are alone, or a family eats on a mountain, a bit like a beast It means occupying a lot of land, so when he came to pick up people alone, everyone was not surprised. They just looked at An Dalang with clean clothes, clean head and face, and the big guy took a few more careful glances.

If this An Dalang is not a mountain man, he is really a good young man!Looking tall and strong, he must be very strong, with a straight head and face, and he can be seen as an honest child at a glance.

Several women whispered to each other, and then stepped forward to ask Zhao Qian to point out someone to recognize An Dalang's relatives. Finally, after An Dalang and Zhao Yiyi kowtowed to Zhao Qian's farewell, they looked at the hair on An Dalang's back. Zhao Yiyi's big rattan box, holding a basket made by Zhao Dahu, these two Zhao Yiyi's dowry, then blushed, peeked at his wife with joy in his eyes, and led Zhao Yiyi step by step to the back mountain and go.

In this way, from this day on, no matter what it was for, no matter whether she wanted to or not, Zhao Yiyi became An Zhao Shi, became a wife, and started her new life.

(End of this chapter)