Chapter 59: New Year's gifts
Song Nuo and Song Haoting went back to Song County after lunch, and Xiao Nan went into the mountains, at this time it was close to the end of the year, every household was busy preparing New Year's goods, and wild meat was extremely popular in Qingfu Town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
She entered the mountain, Jiang Jingxuan went with her, Lin knew that these two children were good from an early age, and they did not stop them, Jiang Jingxuan had an excellent talent for martial arts, although he was only thirteen years old, his kung fu was already on par with the eighteen-year-old Song Haoting, as for hunting, he had been rolling in the forest with Xiao Dalang and Xiao Nan since he was a child, and Song Haoting couldn't catch up with him.
Xiao Nan is limited by memory, she doesn't know much about Jiang Jingxuan's kung fu, after entering the mountains and forests, she found that this thirteen-year-old boy's comprehensive force value is far above herself, he can not only pull Xiao Dalang's two-stone bow, archery eyesight is even better, he doesn't shoot arrows, once he comes out of the bow, he will not return empty-handed, this kind of ability, compared to Xiao Dalang is not much worse.
"Senior brother, your hunting skills are so good, even if you are a hunter for the rest of your life in the future, it is enough to ensure that you and your family have no worries about food and clothing." Xiao Nan was amazed, her marksmanship was good in her previous life, and after she came here, she received the talent of this body, and her archery skills were quite extraordinary, but compared with Jiang Jingxuan in front of her, she made a judgment.
"What kind of life does the aunt like?" Jiang Jingxuan said while picking up the badger pig that had just been shot.
"Me? I like to live an idyllic life where I don't have to worry about food and clothing, and I don't have to fight with people every day, well, just like now, I'm very satisfied. Xiao Nan replied with a smile.
"Then after the New Year, I will go to tell my wife, I won't read the books anymore, and I will accompany you into the mountains to hunt every day in the future, although our family can't be rich and expensive, but worry-free food and clothing will definitely not be a problem." Jiang Jingxuan turned around and looked at her with a serious face.
"Don't, if Grandma knows that I instigated you not to study, she will definitely kill me, senior brother, I know you are good to me, but I hope you can think seriously about your life and follow your heart to choose the lifestyle you like." Xiao Nan thought that Jiang Jingxuan was joking, and was about to say yes, but as soon as she looked up, she found a serious look on Jiang Jingxuan's face, and the good words that slipped to her mouth suddenly shrank back, and her expression gradually became serious, and she quietly watched Jiang Jingxuan speak.
"Auntie, you have changed, although you were also smart in the past, but far from being as calm and calm as you are now, at that time, you shouted every day that you wanted to be a general, and also asked me to be a general, if it weren't for your many habits being the same as before, and maintaining your wife and Zixiu as always, I can't help but wonder if you are still not you now." Jiang Jingxuan looked at Xiao Nan with a slight look of judgment in his eyes.
"In the past, I had my father to shelter from the wind and rain, I didn't need to think about anything, I didn't need to think about anything, I just had fun with my temperament, naturally said that the wind is the rain, but after my father went, I quickly realized what it means to be warm and cold, and the interpersonal relationships in a small mountain village are so complicated, and the officialdom outside is still good? You also know my temperament, how can I adapt to the complicated life in the officialdom? Xiao Nan's heart tightened, but her face did not move, she shook her head slightly, and said.
"That's right, if the eldest mother is not the eldest mother, who can she be? Who else would be as desperate as you to maintain and take care of my wife and Zixiu, aunt, I have suffered you these days, what I just said is completely from the heart, since you don't like officialdom and intrigues, I definitely won't like it, I have been worshipping under the master since I was five years old, and my wife treats me like a son, and you and Zixiu treat me as if I were my own brother. ”
"In my heart, there is only one goal, that is, to let you, my wife, and Zixiu always have a comfortable and happy smile on their faces, and you don't have to worry about other trivial things in life.
"But I still insist on studying in school, because you told me when you were a child, you like generals, and you yourself will be like Mulan in the drama and history in the future, to be a female general, and to be a general, it is not good to know martial arts, you also need to be knowledgeable and understand military strategy, so I hope to learn as much as possible, and then go to the martial arts exam, but now you don't like this kind of life at all, why should I waste time in school." The scrutiny in Jiang Jingxuan's eyes receded, and was replaced by an indescribable sense of passion.
This kind of emotion actually has nothing to do with love, Jiang Jingxuan's age can't fully understand the definition of love, more from the heart of Xiao Nan's family as his closest and most concerned people, when he was three years old, his mother Guo ran away with someone, his father was sick in bed, his grandfather, grandmother and uncle and others were even more eager to curse him and his father to die every day, all his warm memories came from Xiao Nan's family, in his heart, nothing was more important than Xiao Nan's family.
"Senior brother, you will tell your grandmother that you won't study, and your grandmother will never agree, so let's at least strive to get a show and come back, and when you reach the age of sixteen, you will seriously think about the path you want to take in the future, if your wishes are still the same as now, I will work with you to persuade your grandmother to let you go home." Xiao Nan was shocked by the strong emotions in Jiang Jingxuan's eyes, and she could clearly feel from the eyes of the young man in front of her that her family was really more important than anything else in his heart.
"Okay, I'll listen to you, I'll definitely win the fame of Xiucai before I turn sixteen." Jiang Jingxuan looked at Xiao Nan quietly for a while and said.
With Jiang Jingxuan such a good helper, Xiao Nan's harvest doubled every day, from twenty to twenty-five days, the prey they hunted back was sold for twenty taels of silver, in addition, there were a lot of spare ones left at home, on the twenty-sixth of the lunar month, they did not enter the mountain again, on this day, the family will kill the New Year's pig, and after killing the New Year's pig, they will give New Year's gifts, and then their own family will also prepare New Year's goods, from this moment on, until the New Year's year, they will no longer have time to enter the mountain.
After killing the pig on the morning of the twenty-sixth day, the Lin family prepared a leaf of pig liver, half a pig's head, a pig leg weighing about ten catties, a pheasant, a chicken rabbit, plus a zhang of muslin cloth and twenty eggs, and let Xiao Nan take Zi Xiu to send it over, Zi Xiu is Xiao Changhe's own grandson, and the only official legal male in Xiao Nan's family.
Lin prepared this New Year's gift, compared to the rich and noble family is of course not rich, but as far as the country is concerned, it is definitely one of the best, Xiao Nan put it into the back basket, and then took Zi Xiu to walk towards Zhu's home, Zhu's family is in the east of the village, four or five hundred meters away from Xiao Nan's house, their home is a three-room main house, behind the courtyard of two ear rooms, the house is all cut with green bricks, covered with large tiles, although not as elegant as Xiao Nan's yard, but not bad.
"Yo, this is the eldest lady and Zixiu, what kind of wind blew you here?" As soon as she came to the door of the Zhu family, she met Xiao Juyun, who also went back to her parents' house to give New Year's gifts, and as soon as she saw Xiao Nan's sister and brother, she immediately screamed in a weird way.