Chapter 5: The Carpenter Forging the Knife (3)
There is no time in the mountains, and there is no shame in the mountain people. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info It's not that Zhao Zheng discriminates against the mountain people, but everyone wears it simply, and the person who is a father becomes pants around an animal skin. But he was quite enthusiastic, and when he saw Zhao Zheng and his party coming, he immediately stepped forward to say hello.
Chunniang and the fourth girl were frightened and didn't dare to go out, while Tao Yuan stared at a girl with proud breasts chatting with friends.
"I like it, buy it back and give it to you as a wife", Zhao Zheng laughed on the side.
Tao Yuan's old face blushed, and he said for a long time: "Forget it, it's quite good, the appearance is really not as good as the eyes, and it looks like a man more than the old man." ”
Xiaozhu ate and smiled, the ten-year-old girl here would be bought by traffickers if she had a little look, and naturally the women who looked like men were left.
"Xiaozhu, do you still remember the address of your house, let's spend the night at your house tonight."
Xiaozhu Yingying smiled, jumped up and said, "Really, my house is over there, not far from here at all." Saying that, she actually grabbed Zhao Zhengduo's hand and ran over, and Chun Niang's eyes became more and more fierce in her eyes.
"Big, mother, I'm Erya, I'm back."
Xiaozhu pushed open the half-height door and shouted and called for her parents, like a daughter who married into a wealthy family and returned to her parents' home.
A person with his head wrapped walked out of the room, looked at Xiaozhu for a while and said in surprise: "Erya is really you, why don't you come back, hurry up." ”
Xiaozhu said with tears in his eyes: "It's okay, I didn't run back, my master brought me back." ”
The woman breathed a sigh of relief, bowed rudely to Zhao Zheng, and said crampedly: "It turned out that the nobleman came, did you want to add some maids, but unfortunately my daughter died of a cold illness the month before last, but I still have a kid, and the nobles can take it away and do some strength work if they don't dislike it." ”
"Cloth, come out quickly, come out quickly, kowtow to the nobleman."
Saying that, the woman pulled out a black and thin little boy, looking no more than ten years old, let such a child do coolies, Zhao Zheng will definitely not be able to do it.
Zhao Zhengdao: "I'm not here to buy, I heard that there are burning stones here, and I want to pull some back to use." ”
"What, don't buy it? It must be that this kid is not as good as your eyes, and he hasn't kowtowed to you for so long, and the stinky boy will see that I won't kill you. ”
As he spoke, he picked up an arm-thick firewood stick from the ground, and the stick and meat hit the child, and Zhao Zheng looked at it and twitched in his heart.
"Xiaozhu hasn't stopped your mother yet, seeing that your brother is about to be killed."
Xiaozhu was stunned for a moment and said: "Master, she is my sister's eldest sister, seeing her live in the West House, my eldest and grandmother must be dead." ”
"Ahh Zhao Zheng was shocked, he really didn't want to stay for a minute, and said coldly: "I'll take that child away and give you two pieces of corn." ”
The woman smiled, rubbed her hands and said, "Okay, good, sell it, in the future, Bu will be your house slave, if he dares to come back, we will definitely kill him." ”
Zhao Zheng waved his hand and didn't want to see this "mother", so he walked over and didn't feel dirty, checking the wounds on the cloth. With such a heavy hand, the cloth was almost covered with bruises.
At this time, Gongfu Chunniang and the others also arrived at the door, and saw an unkempt village woman with a winter melon face holding Xiaozhu's hand and talking, and wearing Xiaozhu's hairpin on her head.
"Dong Shi Xiao Er!"
Chun Niang sighed, turned her head and squatted on the ground and asked, "Did Zhao Lang buy this child, but what can he do at such a young age?" ”
Zhao Zheng, who was already very annoyed, heard this sentence and replied sharply: "Don't let him do anything, I can't support a child." ”
Chunniang looked at Zhao Zheng, who was angry with herself, in surprise, feeling very uncomfortable, but quickly relieved. Zhao Zheng's thinking is very strange, and he is very kind to those noble families who practice the law of respect and humility, and on the contrary, his attitude towards his subordinates is more kind than that of nobles.
The mountain people here had a hard time surviving, they all lived by gathering and hunting, and they couldn't feed the children at all, so the only way to do it was to sell them and let them get their own deeds and become slaves.
Originally, this was a way to survive, and the commonplace Chun Niang treated it as usual, but Zhao Zheng, who had traveled from modern times, hated it to the extreme. Neither of the two is right or wrong, it's just that the values and education since childhood are different.
Zhao Zheng, who knew that he was rude, apologized to Chunniang after recovering: "It's not that I deliberately yelled at you, but seeing this skinny child being trafficked by his own mother, it's really..."
Zhao Zheng turned his head, he didn't want to cry in front of people. Bu's experience made Zhao Zheng recall that he also spent his childhood under a stick, as if he was not born to his mother, but the hospital's birth certificate clearly had his name on it.
"The slave family knows Zhao Lang, so take this child back."
Chun Niang leaned down and gently wiped the dirt on Bu's face with a handkerchief, and asked softly, "Are you willing to go with us?" ”
Bu looked at the two gorgeously dressed people in front of him with wide eyes, looked down at his red-haired and black-haired feet, and asked timidly, "Do you have shoes to wear when you go with you?" ”
"Yes, not only shoes but also clothes, you won't be cold when you wear them warmly."
Bu looked at Chunniang's pretty face with a warm smile, and couldn't help but think: How nice it would be if this were his mother.
"Then will my grandmother go?"
Zhao Zheng was shocked, the village woman abused her parents and children so much that she was not resentful, and she didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
Bu looked at Zhao Zheng and didn't speak, lowered his head in frustration and said, "I'm not going, I'm going to stay at home to protect my mother, after Ah Da died, those people always bullied my mother." ”
Zhao Zheng touched the head of the cloth and said to the eldest girl: "Oh, I bought your son, but now I won't take him away, let him stay in your house, I will send you food to feed him, if you beat him again, I will beat you." ”
He did not take away the cloth, but gave back the food, which was the fulfillment of his prayer to the gods. The eldest girl couldn't believe her ears and turned to bow down to the mountain, thanking the mountain god for granting her wish.
At dinner, Zhao Zheng gathered around the whole village and told everyone that he was here to exchange for coal, and 100 catties of charcoal for 100 catties of corn.
The mountain people couldn't believe their ears, and a muscular man approached the eldest girl and whispered that in the evening he had seen the nobleman go to her house.
The man's name is Shi, he is a good hunter, and he wants to marry the eldest girl after the man dies, but the eldest girl of the philistine relies on her to still look like a woman, and proposes a lot of dowry, and Shi Cai returns in a huff.
Shi hunted in Taihang Mountain all the year round, and these burning stones were used for heating, and he also named it Stone.
Shi boldly came to Zhao Zheng and said: "Nobleman, my name is Shi, I am a hunter, I know a lot of these stones, they don't know, do you think I can transport it to you alone." ”
This is the one who eats alone, and it seems that fools will open up in the face of interests. Zhao Zheng's unreasonableness of exchanging one hundred for one is already extremely treacherous, but it is still a fight for these mountain people, and no matter how much it is, it will inevitably be a revenge.
"You know a lot of coal mines, it's that kind of stone, it's good, what's your name."
Shi felt that Zhao Zheng had agreed, and hurriedly said: "My name is Shi, I call that kind of stone a charcoal, I found one, two, six, seven, seven places." ”
Seven places are estimated to be a vein, and the range of activities of the mountain people is only fifty miles at most, but this is enough for Zhao Zheng.
Zhao Zheng stood up and said loudly: "Now I declare that the hunter stone is now your leader, and you will be taken by him to dig for coal." ”
"Noble, didn't you say I'm alone", Shi stomped his foot anxiously, regretting what he had just said.
Zhao Zheng smiled and said to him: "Now I will give you a benefit, seven places of coal, and I will give you seven pieces of corn."
I also want to give you a name, it turns out that it is too difficult to remember, and in the future you will be called Shi Yi, the leader of these mountain people. ”
"Ah~"
Shi Yi was pleasantly surprised and didn't know what to say, jumped a few times and quickly knelt down and kowtowed Zhao Zheng a few times.
Zhao Zheng wanted to stop him, but Chun Niang grabbed him, these mountain people couldn't salute the nobles in the past, and they had to gouge out their eyes when they saw the nobles. Although Zhao Zheng is not a nobleman, in the eyes of Chun Niang, he is a hundred times stronger than those princes.
Chunniang leaned into Zhao Zheng's ear and said, "The eldest girl has been looking here, and I also heard that Shi Yi wanted to marry her for a long time, and now she may agree." ”
Good things come in pairs, although Zhao Zheng's first feeling about the big girl is very bad, but he is still willing to do it for the sake of that skinny little boy.
Zhao Zheng picked up Shi Yi, who had red forehead, and said with a smile: "How about I find you another woman, do you want to see the big girl?" ”
Shi Yi felt that he was favored by the mountain god today, and he couldn't accept so many good things.
"Yes, I am willing, whatever the master says, it is good." At this time, he seemed to regard himself as Zhao Zheng's house slave, and in his heart, Zhao Zheng was a certain nobleman, and becoming his house slave was a high promotion.
"It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, tonight you will go to the cave room and make a three-happiness coming."
Shi Yi and the eldest girl looked at each other and nodded.
Three days later, Zhao Zheng's convoy returned with a full load, and all the food when it came was replaced with coal, so that even half of what Shi Yi dug up was not loaded. Zhao Zheng had seen that ore layer, and roughly estimated that it would be fine to dig for a hundred years.
Due to the large dust content of raw coal, contemporary people do not have a special stove, and it is obviously impossible to heat the brazier, so Zhao Zheng is not worried that others will rob these coal mines, and they will not use them if they are robbed, these are the wealth that God gave him alone.
Zhao Zheng, who was sitting in the car, looked at the coal, a smile crossed the corner of his mouth, and suddenly a shout came from behind, "I will be a brave and fearless person and become a big hero." ”
Zhao Zheng looked back, and there was a small figure standing on the hillside at the head of the mountain village.
"Maybe that's not the greatest asset," Zhao Zheng muttered to himself, recalling his conversation with the teenager last night.
Bu saw Zhao Zheng coming to his house and quickly kowtowed to him, and Zhao Zheng pulled him up angrily and asked him why. Bu's immature voice said fearlessly: "Mother said that we are lowly people, and when we meet a noble person like you, we must kowtow." ”
Zhao Zheng frowned, and his attitude towards the eldest girl who had changed his opinion deteriorated again, did he want to let his descendants be humble all the time.
"You're not mean, but if you keep thinking like that, you're going to be humble. Boo, do you tell me that you are willing to be a lowly person? ”
Bu raised his head and thought about it, "No, the lowly people don't play with him." He remembered the roll of the eyes he had received when he took the mountain goods and gave them to the children of the commoners outside, begging to play with them.
"How can I not be humble?"
"Be a brave and fearless person who will never succumb to the difficulties in front of you, no matter how great they may be."
Zhao Zheng looked at the starry sky and said, then touched the little head of the cloth and said: "Of course, knowledge changes fate, you have to learn more knowledge in the future." ”
Bu enjoyed Zhao Zheng's stroking and felt the touch of his father when he was hunting in the past, and when he heard the word knowledge, his eyes lit up and said: "Can you teach me to read, I can't even write my name until now." ”
"Of course you can," Zhao Zheng said, then took a short sword from his body and wrote on the ground, "Be a brave and fearless person, Bu". After writing, looking at the longing eyes of the cloth, he simply gave him the sword.
Bu stood on the hillside and watched Zhao Zheng's convoy drift away, squatted down, took out a short sword from his arms, and carved on the stone the words he had read all night last night. Finally, he wrote the word "Yingbu" in the place of signature, clenched his fists and stared at the sky and swore in his heart: "Be a brave and fearless person, I will be called Yingbu from today onwards, heroic and fearless cloth." ”
He sat until the evening, when Yingbu got up and went home, the sun had set behind him, but a fiery red was still lingering in the sky.