Across the Market

Chapter 22

Zhao Ren was cut off by his daughter before Zhao Ren finished speaking, and the embroidery said: "Father, I said earlier that I am not called Xiuhua, I have changed my name to Zhao Tiehua... Also, who said that I am a policeman? Fantastic? Who said that women should farm, embroider and have children at home? Why not! I was a fast catcher in the Anyang County Yamen, and I caught a lot of little thieves, no worse than those old men."

"Really?" Zhao Ren immediately smiled, and stretched out his hand to Zhao Tiehua, "Where's Yinzi?"

Zhao Tiehua threw away the burden and threw it into the arms of her nephew Goudaner, then walked towards her father with his hands on his hips, with a puzzled look on his face: "What money?"

Zhao Ren's face immediately turned serious again: "Of course it's your salary as a police officer! Dad has already inquired about it. In our Songyang County, as a police officer, you get three taels of silver a month. Anyang County is only a lot more." ? You have been away from home for several months this time, at least you have to save ten taels of silver, hurry up and take out the silver to honor your father."

"I have no money." Zhao Tiehua looked innocent.

Zhao Ren jumped angrily: "How could there be no silver? No matter how much you eat and drink, you can't spend three taels of silver in a month! Do you have money and hide it yourself? Embroidery..."

"It's Tiehua!" Zhao Tiehua's eyes were wide open, with a hatchet slung around his waist, he looked quite dignified.

The thing that Zhao Ren can't control the most is this little daughter. If you change your name, just change it. What he cares about now is money.

"Okay, Tiehua..." Zhao Ren softened, and his voice lowered a little, "I don't care if you change your name, but you are eighteen now, and you should have reached the age of marriage. If you If you don’t think about getting married, you will have to pay the family money every month in the future, otherwise, this family will not let you live in it.”

Zhao Tiehua shrugged indifferently and said, "Daddy, first, I really don't have any money. Although I have three taels of silver every month as a policeman in Anyang County, I donate all that money to poor families who can't afford food." Seeing her father stomping her feet anxiously, she didn't give him a chance to answer, and quickly said, "Second, I don't plan to get married, and I don't plan to live at home to eat, I plan to go to our Songyang County Take a look at the county government, try to find a fast arrest in our county, and when the time comes, he will naturally live in the city."

"You!" Zhao Ren was so angry that his face turned green. He stroked his chest with his bloated palm, and he got better. "You are so mad at me that you actually gave away the vain money to others? Who is poor? Who is as poor as your father? You are so unfilial, you bloody girl." He paused for a moment, then asked again, "Why are you looking for a job in the Yamen of Songyang County? You don't do the job in Anyang County gone?"

Zhao Tiehua said with righteous indignation: "The county magistrate of Anyang County is incompetent and incompetent. He doesn't do anything practical. He always thinks about how to please the Lord Zhizhou. Huh, working under him, this is not allowed, and that is not allowed, but I am so aggrieved. Yes. I, Zhao Tiehua, want to be a famous arrester in the Six Gates in the future, what kind of decent cases can I handle with such an official? So, I kicked him and came back with a burden on my back."

Zhao Tiehua ignored his father's beating his chest and stamped his feet, looked directly at Zhu Fu's family, then nodded to Zhu Lu and said, "You idiot, why did you carry the pig to my house? My family is not a poor family, and there is no shortage of money. You should act faster." Take it away, don't dirty my house."

There was no hope for silver, and now this ancestor was even thinking about wild boars, Zhao Ren couldn't care less about his heartache, and grabbed his daughter.

"This pig belongs to our family and has nothing to do with them." Zhao Ren held his daughter steady, and then said to Zhu Fu's family, "Let's go, hurry up, don't stand here and get in the way, go quickly."

Pigs can't be given away for nothing, Zhu Fu glanced at Zhao Tiehua, lingering and refusing to leave.

Zhao Tiehua said: "Father, don't lie to me. I heard it on the way back just now. The neighbors all said that this pig was hunted by Zhu's family. You killed it halfway, abused your power, threatened and lured you, and you were stunned." Forcing someone to bring the pig for you! Dad, our family lives well and has everything we need. Then Zhu Er’s family lives in that thatched hut, and they don’t eat their last meal. Why should you take advantage of this? Cheap!"

Goudan'er was most afraid of his little aunt. The little aunt was not at home, and he was the king in the village. As soon as the little aunt came back, he became wilted, and he just shrank his head and hid aside.

"Then Zhu Gui stole my limelight and bullied him!" Goudan'er hated this little aunt very much at this time, why would she not let herself eat wild pork, and said angrily, "I want to eat wild pork, I want to eat it!"

(End of this chapter)