Chapter 30: Luring the Wolf into the House
"Men should get married, women should get married, life is like this. Look at the girls in our village, like your sister Xiaohua, she is also a good girl, but unfortunately after the age of 18, even if she is an old woman, it is not easy to marry a wishful husband. In the East Village and West Village over the years, if you hear that there is a marriageable male baby, how can Xiaohua's parents not ask a matchmaker? But how can a boy from a good family be willing to go to their house to propose? This year drags on year after year, seeing that Xiaohua is about to be 20 years old, if no one proposes marriage, she will have to continue the string or be a concubine. Although the old blacksmith also wanted his daughter to accompany him for a few more years, when he heard that his daughter wanted to accompany him all the time, he immediately became anxious. What sin cannot be endured? I can do anything, but no matter how reluctant I am, I can't delay my daughter's lifelong event.
"Daddy!" What a continuation, what a concubine, what is my father thinking, why is it more outrageous the more he talks? Listening to the old blacksmith's words, Yaya felt that her father really liked to talk nonsense more and more, how could he say such about his daughter? Yaya didn't know what she would say if she let her father continue to talk about it, and she would say something that made her feel unbearable shame, so she immediately interrupted her father's words.
"Yaya, tell me the truth to my father, don't you like Xiao Nan of the Chen family, my father will reject Lao Chen, and then my father will help you find other guys. Our maid is so beautiful, empathetic, and ingenious, I believe that as long as I am not blind, I will definitely be willing to marry you. Yaya, you first think about what kind of boy you like, and wait for Daddy to come back and tell Daddy. Daddy is going to help you find it. The old blacksmith was about to go out the door.
"Daddy!" The girl looked at her father, who was in a hurry, and trotted after him, clutching the old blacksmith's sleeve tightly. Chen Zhinan's chubby figure came to mind.
Yaya grew up in the village since she was a child, her mother died in childbirth when she was born, she had no mother since she was a child, she could only rely on her careless father to take care of, until one day, she was playing in the yard of her own house, a little boy of three or four years old entered his yard, a young face looked at her timidly: little sister, is this a kitchen knife?
She looked at the little boy in front of her who was cautiously asking, ignorant and stupid, and laughed out loud, she thought this little boy was so funny. This is the first time she has met a friend of the same age. She took the little boy to the blacksmith's workshop to find her father and sold him a kitchen knife. Then she asked her father, and only then did she know that the little boy's name was Chen Zhinan, and he was the child of the old Chen family at the Village West Inn.
Chen Zhinan may also have felt that it was rare to meet a peer at that time, and he was very happy, and since then, he has often come to the old blacksmith's house to play with Yaya. Later, I was more familiar with the play, a small talk, talking about the first meeting, Chen Zhinan told Yaya that he was leaving home for the first time, Chen Zhinan's father hoped to exercise Chen Zhinan's self-reliance, let him go out alone to buy a kitchen knife, he had never gone out by himself, he was very afraid, Yaya was the first person he had seen in addition to his parents and guests.
At that time, the girl felt very happy when she heard Chen Zhinan say this.
And this happiness has always been kept in Yaya's heart, until now, thinking of Chen Zhinan's words back then, I still feel happy.
As they grew older, Chen Zhinan and Yaya also came into contact with more people of the same age and met more friends of the same age, but among these friends, in Yaya's heart, Chen Zhinan was always the most special one.
If I can marry Brother Nan, I will definitely be very happy.
As soon as she grabbed her father's clothes, Yaya's face was completely red in an instant. At this moment, the girl's face is even more vivid than rubbing rouge gouache, and the clear water hibiscus, natural carving, has surpassed countless in the world. Even when the old blacksmith saw this appearance, he couldn't help but feel a swaying in his heart. It's not that the old blacksmith thought about his daughter, it's just that the beauty of that moment, no matter how rough a person is, can't completely ignore it.
"Daddy!" The girl quickly let go of the hand that grabbed the old blacksmith's sleeve, and her face was so red that it seemed to touch her toes.
"What are you holding me for? Changed your mind? Want to marry Xiao Nan? Don't just drag me, you have to talk, do you like him or not? Just tell your daddy. If you don't speak, how does Dad know what you mean, should I refuse or promise? The blacksmith looked at his daughter who bowed her head and didn't speak, rubbing her huge head with her rough hands, the girl just didn't speak, how could she know what she was thinking, this girl was really going to kill her own father.
The poor old blacksmith could not understand his daughter's behavior with a head like him, who only knew how to strike iron.
"I don't care, if you want to refuse, you can refuse, and if you want to agree, you can agree. Sister Xiaohua said that she recently went to the town to buy a piece of cloth to make clothes, and asked me to help take a look, so I left first. Yaya looked at her father who was scratching her head, and was immediately ashamed. How can a father ask his daughter so bluntly. The hatred dropped a word and ran to the east end of the village.
"Yaya! Yaya! "The old blacksmith looked at his daughter who was running quickly, and said that the woman's heart was in the bottom of the needle, and the daughter seemed to have really grown up, and he couldn't see through his daughter's thoughts." Don't be too late, come back early in the evening! ”
Looking at his daughter, who had already run away, the old blacksmith sighed, then turned and went back to the house.
Just as the old blacksmith was about to pick up the hammer and finish the hoe that had not yet been beaten, he heard a noise in the courtyard. Kong Fang and other water thieves rushed into the blacksmith shop.
"Yo, it's a blacksmith shop." Kong Fang had a weed in his mouth, a large knife resting on his shoulder, and nodded as he looked at the hoes, shovels, and bows and arrows hanging on the wall.
Looking at the swarming water thieves, the old blacksmith couldn't help but panic in his heart. "I don't know what you guys need? Please take a look at it, our blacksmith craft is ancestral, and we have relied on this craft for generations to make a living, and we keep it to the satisfaction of all heroes. ”
"Hey, let's be satisfied?" Kong Fang looked at the strong man in front of him, who looked stout but his legs trembled slightly, and smiled, glanced at the various iron tools in the room, and glanced at a strong man beside him with disdain.
The strong man took out the single knife on his waist and slashed at the firewood knife hanging on the wall, but the next scene made the water thieves present stunned, and Kong Fang's smile stiffened on his face.
I saw a crisp sound of "ding" accompanied by the collision of the two knives, and the strong man's single knife broke in response.