No matter how poor the people in the village are for the Chinese New Year, they still want to create an atmosphere, and every household posts the word blessing on the doors and windows, and the faces of the villagers are filled with rare smiles.

At the beginning of the week, he came to Xiaohua's house with several bundles of firewood, and saw that only Blacksmith Zhang was at home, so he put down the firewood and explained his intentions.

"I don't have any alcohol. ”

“...... My dad said you have. ”

Blacksmith Zhang was very reluctant to enter the house and took out a small pot and gave it to him. After explaining a few words, Blacksmith Zhang asked:

"When will the dowry with ten bundles of firewood still missing?"

In fact, the firewood had already been delivered, but when Blacksmith Zhang asked, it was naturally Xiaohua who was secretly lost again, and Zhou Zhizhi could only say: "Uncle Zhang, don't worry, it will be sent after the year." ”

Blacksmith Zhang looked at him suspiciously, and at this time, Xiaohua came back from the other end of the village with her mother carrying a bamboo basket.

When Xiaohua Niang saw Zhou Zhichu, she became happy when she arrived, and shouted from afar:

"Xiao Zhou, why are you standing outside, why are you here?Have you eaten?Why are you still so thin?Hey, have you grown taller?......?"

"Auntie, happy New Year, I still have something to do, so let's go...... Good bye. ”

At the beginning of the week, she ran away, and Xiaohua suddenly chased after her, still shouting: "Mother, I'll come when I go." ”

"Hey, it's not that you don't want to get married, why did you catch up? ”

Xiaohua followed Zhou Chuchu's footsteps and shouted, "Don't run, wait for me." ”

Zhou Zhichu turned his head and saw that he was already far away from Blacksmith Zhang's house, so he stopped and said to Xiaohua, "What are you chasing after you?"

"Every time I see you coming, my mother has to talk to me for a long time, why are you here?"

"It turns out that you are also afraid of your mother," Zhou Chuchu suddenly remembered the dowry, "Did you throw away the firewood I sent again?" ”

Xiaohua blushed and said, "So what." ”

"Your father asked me to deliver firewood again. ”

"If you send me, I will lose it, and I will lose as much as I send. ”

"......" Zhou Chuchu looked at Xiaohua and said, "Your father will find out sooner or later." ”

Xiaohua stubbornly looked at the boy and didn't make a sound.

Zhou Chuchu continued to walk forward and said: "If you don't want to marry, you won't marry, but if you toss me so much, what do you treat me for." ”

Although he didn't want to marry Xiaohua, he still felt hurt when Xiaohua rejected him like this.

Xiaohua followed behind him with a bamboo basket on her back, "You don't want to marry me, why do you keep giving dowry gifts, and what do you treat me for!"

"You're afraid of breaking your father's heart, and I don't want to break my father's heart. ”

"You're a boy, your dad will agree. ”

Zhou Chuchu's footsteps stopped suddenly, "My father is dying." ”

Xiaohua almost hit her head on the teenager's back, "What?!"

"My dad has tuberculosis, and although the medicine collector didn't say anything, I knew I didn't have much time. ”

Xiaohua was speechless. After a long time, he said, "So you want to marry me." ”

"......" Zhou Zhizhi silently looked at Xiaohua.

Seeing the silent beginning of Zhou, Xiaohua suddenly threw the bamboo basket at him, and the wild vegetables in it were scattered on the ground.

"Do you hate me so much?" Zhou Chuchu asked indignantly.

Xiaohua squatted on the ground and cried bitterly: "I don't hate you, I hate this village, this place is like a cage, I want to get out, I don't want to stay here for the rest of my life." ”

“...... The outside world isn't that good. ”

"I don't know, I just don't want to be here. Can you believe it, I even envy Yueyue, why wasn't I robbed. ”

"You're crazy. ”

"I'm crazy. Xiaohua put away her crying and slowly walked in the direction of home, her figure lonely and confused.

Zhou Zhizhi picked up the bamboo basket and wanted to stop Xiaohua, but he still didn't call out when he saw her back in the distance; Daddy once said that Zhou Zhizhi didn't look like a child, but in his opinion, Xiaohua was the child who really didn't look like a child.

When I came to Xiaodao's house, I saw that the yard was full of garbage, and there were some small animal skins and herbs hanging in the snow to dry, and the house looked dilapidated, as if it was an old house that was uninhabited.

He shouted twice, but no one answered, but the hunting forks and bows and arrows in the courtyard showed that the knife had not gone out.

Zhou Chuchu walked into the courtyard, pushed open the door, and saw Xiaodao lying on the thatched bed, looking at the roof with his eyes open, as if he was wandering into the world.

"Knife, what are you doing. ”

“......”

Zhou Zhichu sat on the edge of the bed and said, "I met Xiaohua." ”

"Huh?"

"She threw away my firewood again. ”

"Hmm...... She wants to be a chivalrous woman and won't marry you. ”

"I know, I decided to tell my dad today and get out of the marriage. ”

Xiaodao Huo Ran sat up, "You want to withdraw from the marriage?!"

"Xiaohua is like a bird, she wants to fly freely, I don't want her to hate me in the future. ”

"But if you get out of the marriage, her father will hate you, and your father will blame you even if he doesn't hate you. ”

"Since people hate you no matter what, then I'd rather be Uncle Zhang, and my father won't hate me. ”

“...... Yes, no matter what you do, there will always be someone who hates you. ”

"Xiaodao, do you blame me too?" Zhou Chuchu suddenly asked.

At the dock, Knife wanted to continue chasing along the river, but Zhou Chuchu didn't agree.

Knife lay back on the bed, "No, I know you're good to me. ”

“...... Do you know why I didn't let you chase it?"

The knife's eyes glanced at the boy.

Zhou Zhichu continued: "Because I'm afraid, I'm afraid that you will die in the hands of that demon woman, I want you to become stronger, even if you become a little stronger, it is better than going to die now." ”

Xiaodao's tears flowed unconsciously, and he said, "I don't blame you, Brother Zhou, really." ”

Zhou Chuchu nodded and said, "It's the New Year, you go to my house with me today, don't stay here." ”

After a little groaning, the knife agreed.

The two cleaned up for a while, and then went out, and at the beginning of the week, they carried a bamboo basket with two stripped hares in it, which was the harvest of the knife from hunting in the mountains for a while now.

"Xiaodao, when the Chinese New Year is over, I will go hunting in the mountains with you. ”

The knife was stunned for a moment, and agreed, "Okay, but you have to prepare some things, my mother's hunting fork. ”

A really good bow is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the value is extraordinary, such a bow knife is not affordable, in fact, the average mountain people can not afford to use, so the bow with the knife is a simple hunting bow, but the simple hunting bow is not so simple, to expand the wood, horns, animal tendons and other materials after gluing with lacquer, after dozens of processes to complete, this kind of bow is simple but durable, the maintenance method can be used for a hundred years, the bow of the knife hand is handed down by his ancestors.

“...... How long does it take to make a bow?" Zhou Zhizhi listened, only to know that hunting is not as simple as imagined, just a bow will stump countless people, no wonder the hunters in the village only have a knife.

"A good bow takes years, and a simple one takes three months to six months. ”

"Do I have to use a bow to hunt?"

“...... If you don't use a bow and arrow, do you have to chase your prey every time? Even if you catch up, do you have to fight hand-to-hand? Rabbits and foxes are fine, what if you encounter wolves, bears, or even tigers?"

At the beginning of the week, it seemed that if you want to learn to hunt, you must first get a bow.

"Actually, you can go buy one. Knife said.

Zhou Zhizhi knew the meaning of the knife, and the package of the woman in white was brought back by him at that time, with dozens of taels of silver and a few gold leaves, which was considered a huge fortune, but neither of them moved, and it was buried on the edge of Chunniang's grave.

The knife didn't want it because the money came from the people he hated, and Zhou didn't move at the beginning because he felt that only the knife was qualified to use it.

"No, I'll figure it out. What do you need besides a bow?"

"With a bow and a hunting fork, everything else is easy. "Literary