Counting up, Jian Ying and Huibai's sister have not been in contact for more than half a year.

According to Hui Bai, his sister went to the northwest border to deal with business matters, and she didn't know when she would be able to return.

In the past, Sister Huibai also liked to write with rouge, but the handwriting was very casual and she never signed, only drawing a clumsy flower at the end. Leng Buding changed to a dignified font and signed it solemnly, so that she couldn't recognize it for a while.

is finally going to meet someone who has the same smell as her and has been friends for a long time, Jian Ying is inevitably a little excited. While instructing people to come in, he prepared to go back to his room to make up.

Dabao was having fun, and when he saw that his mother was leaving, he "ran" over with two small short legs, hugged her legs, and shouted "mother" one after another.

Xiaobao will also go, but he is not as stable as Dabao, and he needs someone to help him. He likes to be quiet or not, just give him anything, and he can sit there and play quietly for half a day. saw Dabao coquettish with his mother, but he raised his eyes and lowered his head to continue playing with himself.

Jian Ying put her fingers on the handkerchief, wiped the saliva that flowed out for Dabao, and comforted her softly, "Mother is going to meet a guest, you are obedient, play with your brother and mother." ”

Dabao still held her leg and refused to let go, and when her mother saw this, she hurriedly came over and coaxed him away.

Jian Ying didn't treat Tie Gu as an outsider, and ordered to invite people directly to the small hall of the Ju'an Courtyard. She finished cleaning up, and Tie Gu also came.

At first sight of her, Jian Ying was almost blinded by her fiery dress and those shiny jewelry. I counted it about the ground. From head to toe, I am afraid that I will wear no less than twenty or thirty kinds of jewelry, all of which are large and sufficient.

Just looking at the facial features, it is not the best. However, the confident and calm bearing, as well as the high-flying and domineering enchantment under the exaggerated dress, really makes people can't take their eyes off.

That's an aggressive, thrilling beauty!

Jian Ying looked at her, and she was also looking at Jian Ying.

I felt that the small and delicate person standing in front of me was far from the one who was open and open in the letter. If it weren't for the slaves, she could see at a glance that she was the head of the house, and she would have thought that she had seen the wrong person.

The two looked at each other for a long time. Jian Ying laughed first. "The name Tiegu really doesn't match you."

Tie Gu followed and smiled, "No way, my father and mother took it." ”

After a slight pause, he continued. "You speak with one mouth. I really recognize you. ”

"No way. When you become a lady, you always have to be tense. Jian Ying laughed at herself in her tone.

Tie Gu laughed, "Then we can be regarded as sympathy?" ”

Xueqin peeked at Tie Gu. Seeing that she didn't look like Hui Bai at all, they suspected that she and Hui Bai were not biological brothers and sisters.

After sitting down for refreshments, Jian Ying didn't seem to be able to speak, "I heard that your family is iron-struck, how did you become the big shopkeeper of the four seas?" ”

"That's a long story." Tie Gu smiled.

"It's okay, you can say slowly, today is not over and there will be tomorrow. It's hard to make a trip, and you'll stay with me for a few days. Jian Ying knew that she was straightforward, and it was not a pretext to say that, and she really wanted to hear her story, so she kept a guest.

Tie Gu was not polite, and nodded her head, "Okay, then I'll bother for a few days." ”

Jian Ying immediately instructed Xue Qin to clean up the house, opened the warehouse, and picked up some gorgeous things that matched Tiegu's style and added them to it.

Drinking tea and talking, Tie Gu slowly told her life experience in this half of her life.

Tie Gu and Hui Bai's original surname is Xu, their father is an ironsmith, their mother is from a farmer's family, and their maiden name is Li.

Blacksmith Xu lost his father at an early age, and there was only one old mother at home who was not very good at eye. Tiegu was the eldest child and the only daughter in the family, and had three younger brothers, named Axe, Hammer and Hammer.

Hui Bai is the smallest one, and everyone calls him Little Hammer.

Blacksmith Xu and Li are not treacherous people, they do their duty, and their families have a large population, so their lives are not very rich. Fortunately, both husband and wife are diligent, and you can help me make ends meet.

Tie Gu has a pungent temperament since she was a child, not only to help her father and mother, but also to protect her younger brother, holding up half of the sky in the family, and the people in the town call her "Evil Nier".

The "evil" in Shandong dialect means powerful, although others shouted without any malice, but this powerful reputation spread out early, and it became a problem when it was time to get married. It wasn't until the year of Ji Lu that a family affair was decided.

The man runs a grain and oil shop, and there is only one single seedling in the family, and he has a soft temperament, and he is not a martial artist, nor is he a material for doing business. The shopkeeper wanted to find a powerful daughter-in-law for his son and hold up the door for him, so he took a fancy to Tiegu.

Whether it was Blacksmith Xu and the Li family, or Tie Gu, they all knew that they didn't have a choice, and the other party gave a generous dowry, so they agreed.

Just two months before Tie Gu's marriage, a man from the rivers and lakes came to the blacksmith shop, took a piece of black and swarthy iron weighing hundreds of pounds, gave blacksmith Xu an ingot of fifty taels of silver, and asked him to help make a heavy sword. And promised that after the battle, he would give another fifty taels of silver as a reward.

One hundred taels of silver is undoubtedly an astronomical amount for the Xu family, who are used to being poor. If it was in normal times, Blacksmith Xu might not be willing to agree, but just in time for his daughter to get married, he wanted to prepare a decent dowry for her anyway, so he discussed it with the Li family and agreed.

The black iron was heavy and hard, and it was very difficult to beat. Blacksmith Xu and his family worked day and night for more than a month before they would make a prototype.

Tie Gu knows how to cook and likes to cook, and the brown rice and brown noodles that other people eat can be conjured up in her hands. Thanks to her, although the younger brothers did not eat much good food, each of them grew very strong.

The people in the rivers and lakes come to the shop every day to check the progress, and occasionally bump into it and eat with it. When the days are long, I will pick a meal and come over.

"He is not a picky eater, he eats whatever he wants, and he eats very well. Always say 'good' when you're done eating, and then put some money down. There was no definite number, sometimes it was thirty or fifty copper plates, sometimes it was a few coins of broken silver, and the most time, he gave a silver ingot of five taels. ”

When she said this, Tie Gu's expression was a little dazed. Soon he returned to normalcy and continued, "There is a rule in our town that our daughter cannot work for three months before she gets married. Poor families pay less attention to it, and it just means that they don't work a few days before they get married.

My father and mother loved me and wouldn't let me do anything ten days before I got married. He came over that day with a little bit of food, but he didn't eat what I cooked, so he turned around and left. When I woke up in the middle of the night and opened my eyes, I saw him sitting on the edge of the bed, his eyes shining like a wolf.

I didn't shout, I told him to cover his mouth, and then he asked me, 'Will you come with me?' ’”

- (To be continued.) )