"Muddy boy, don't mess with that wine!"

Hu reprimanded Zhao Yu in the stove, then wiped his hands on his apron and came to the main house with a bowl of vegetables.

Putting the vegetables on the table, Hu Shi took out an empty bowl again, divided the big bowl of braised beef into a full bowl, and finally put the bowl of beef and wine next to Zhao Yu, and said:

"Send these to Master Tiger! You kid plays with other people's stone locks every day, and I don't know how to thank others! ”

"Oh, here we go!"

Zhao Yu nodded hurriedly, and secretly said that the Hu family would come to something.

Zhao Yu understands that the Hu family is going to do a good job in neighborly relations.

It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the Hu family has treated the seven aunts and eight aunts around them well these days, but Xue Hu can't say a word.

But Xue Hu is a close neighbor, and he may need help from others at any time, so even if they are cold, the Hu family also wants to have a good relationship.

With the beef and wine in his hands, Zhao Yu turned around and ran out of the main house.

"Stinky boy, slow down, don't beat it!"

There was Hu's scolding behind him.

"Got it!"

With a crisp sound, Zhao Yu ran out of his yard and came to Xue Hu's house.

Under the dark moonlight, the courtyard of Xue Hu's house was very quiet.

However, Xue Hu was not in the courtyard, the doors were closed, and only the light came out of the main room.

Zhao Yu came to the door of the main house and said loudly:

"Master Tiger, my mother made beef and wine, ask me to send you some!"

The sound fell, and no sound came from the room.

Even for a while, there was no movement.

Zhao Yu knew that Xue Hu was in the room, but they didn't make a sound, so he looked left and right, and shouted:

"Master Hu, I put things on the stone pier at the door!"

After speaking, Zhao Yu put the beef and wine on the small stone pier next to the door, then looked at the closed door, and finally ran out of the yard and returned to his house.

When I got home, it happened that Zhao Yongzhuo also came back, and the two entered the main house together.

"Yu'er, have you sent anything over?"

Hu Shi sat at the dining table and waited, and when he saw the father and son coming back together, he took the lead in looking at Zhao Yu.

"It's delivered!"

Zhao Yu didn't say much, and after replying, he sat down on the table.

Seeing this, Hu looked at Zhao Yongzhuo, who had just sat down at the table:

"In charge, the two brothers Ji Qiang and Shui Sheng can eat?"

"The shop just closed, and they're cooking it themselves!"

Zhao Yongzhuo was full of smiles, picked up chopsticks and began to eat.

After Zhao Jiqiang and Zhao Shuisheng came to the county seat, they lived in the store, one is to save the money for renting a house, and the other is to be able to look at the store, the best of both worlds, that is, it is a little troublesome to cook by yourself.

Hu Shi nodded when he heard this, and then began to eat.

Zhao Yu looked at Zhao Yongzhuo's smile while picking up the rice.

Needless to say, business is definitely good today.

The family of three is happy, full of the sweetness and happiness of life.

After eating.

Zhao Yu didn't go back to the room as usual, but sneaked out of the courtyard, wanting to see if the beef and wine he had placed in front of Xue Hu's house were still there.

It's just that as soon as he came out of the yard of his house, Zhao Yu paused.

I saw a bowl on the edge of the arch of my yard, which was cleanly washed, and there were some dried fruits in the bowl.

Seeing this, Zhao Yu's face showed joy.

Because this bowl is the same bowl he just gave Xue Hu beef.

Now that the bowl is clean, it is obvious that Xue Hu has put things away.

And there are dried fruits in it, which is the meaning of the exchange of courtesies.

Looking at the dried fruits in the bowl, Zhao Yu was amazed.

Accept things and don't return the empty bowl, this is a subtle etiquette, Zhao Yu didn't expect Xue Hu, a rough and cold man, to have such a delicate side.

But......

"Just take it!"

Zhao Yu glanced at the courtyard opposite, then happily picked up the bowl from the ground and returned to his house.

Sit at the desk in the middle of the room.

Zhao Yu smirked at the books on the table while eating dried fruits.

Today, he came to Xue Hu to return the gift, which means that the relationship between the two families is closer, Zhao Yu is looking forward to chatting with Xue Hu tomorrow, and then asking Xue Hu to teach him martial arts.

It's just that...... The reality is brutal!

When the next day comes.

The sky was slightly bright, and when Zhao Yu ran to Xue Hu's courtyard to practice the stone lock with anticipation, he was disappointed.

Because Xue Hu still ignored him, even if Zhao Yu found something to talk to, Xue Hu didn't reply a word, let alone let Xue Hu teach him to practice martial arts.

The only thing that has changed is that Xue Hu is not as cold to Zhao Yu as before, at least when he sees Zhao Yu, the tiger-like one-eyed eye is not as sharp as before!

But that's about it.

Other than that, what was before, is still how it is!

"It's still cold, but at least it's better than before, it's good to make progress!"

Seeing Xue Hu return to the house after practicing his swordsmanship, Zhao Yu secretly cheered himself up, and then hurriedly returned to his house, picked up his small satchel and went to the private school.

......

The afternoon sun is no longer as hot.

this day.

Sunset.

Zhao Yu rushed out of the private school with a small satchel on his back, and rushed to Nanshi in the south of the city.

It looks like a child who goes crazy after school.

No, it's a kid after school!

The private school is in the west of the city, separated by several streets from the south market, Zhao Yu is very fast, shuttling and running on the street, pedestrians only see a small figure rushing over, and when he was about to dodge, a gust of wind blew, and then the little figure disappeared.

When those pedestrians reacted, they all scolded the children who were naughty now.

And Zhao Yu, after passing through several streets, finally came to a shoe shop in Nanshi.

There are all kinds of finished shoes in the shoe shop, and it is the afternoon, and there are no two customers in the store, so it is very deserted.

Zhao Yu tilted his head and looked at the signboard, then grabbed the shoulder bag strap on his chest with both hands and twisted it, and finally walked into the shoe store with his head held high.

"Yo, whose child is this? How did you run this game? ”

There was an old shopkeeper in the shoe shop, who was dialing the abacus behind the counter, and when he saw Zhao Yu coming in, he looked at him with a smile.

Zhao Yu looked like he was not afraid of life, tilted his little head up, and said:

"I'm not here to play, my adults told me to buy shoes!"

"Oh?"

As soon as he heard that he was buying shoes, the old shopkeeper immediately put away his joke, walked out of the counter with a smile, came to Zhao Yu, bent over and smiled:

"Little child, what shoes did your adults let you buy? The old man's shop has clogs, cloth shoes, pampas straw shoes and cowhide straight sewing boots! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yu looked left and right.

However, I saw that the store was basically white black cloth shoes, as well as shoes woven with cattails, as well as clogs and two leather boots with straight sewn, and the rest were women's embroidered shoes.

I didn't see a pair of boots made of cloth like that.

However, Zhao Yu knew that the Ming Dynasty had strict management of dressing, and ordinary people were not allowed to wear boots, so it was normal for this kind of ordinary shoe store to have no boots.

"I want those leather boots!"

Glancing at the eye shoe store, Zhao Yu finally pointed to two leather boots with straight sewn leather on the cabinet.

It was a simple leather boot, and the people of the north wore it a lot.

The old shopkeeper glanced at the leather boots on the cabinet, then nodded and straightened up:

"Okay, I wonder how big shoes your adults wear?"

"Seven inches nine! However, my family has a request, that is, the sole of the left foot should be three points thicker! ”

Zhao Yu stretched out three little fingers.