wind and rain scissors shop

Chapter 107-107.
The old man had a gray beard, a thin figure, a pair of triangular eyes, and a blue satin gown. He stood at the door of the store and looked around: "Is the boss there?"

Old man Tian glanced suspiciously at Matchmaker Liu in the distance, and smiled all over his face: "I am. What kind of iron tools do you want?"

The old man sized him up a few times, and cupped his hands, the emeralds in his hands were particularly dazzling.He asked: "I heard that you have a very capable female blacksmith who helped the Armed Forces Academy to forge scissors. I want to meet her and order five more iron pots and ten sickles."

The old man Tian stared at the gemstone in the opponent's hand greedily, and when he heard that the big deal was coming, he immediately smiled and shouted to the back door: "Erya, come here quickly, the guest wants to see you."

Tian Erya came out wearing an apron, and seeing only a strange old man in the shop, she wondered, "Master, what do you want from me?"

The old man frowned: "Girl, not everyone likes to be honored as uncle by you. Although I am a little older than you, I am as strong as a young man."

"I'm sorry, I was rash. May I ask what you want from me?"

The old man examined her, stepped forward and circled her again.

Tian Erya was shocked by his eyes: "What do you want from me?"

The old man stroked his gray beard: "He has thick bones, is tall, has broad shoulders and narrow waist, fat buttocks and big hips. He can be attractive to your husband, and he is also a good hand at work. Not bad."

Tian Erya felt that she was here to pick animals, and she was a little annoyed: "Who are you? What are you looking for?"

"In the future, you will know who I am." The old man shook his head slightly: "As a girl, you should learn to smile without showing your teeth and behave gracefully. Forget it, I know you are a country girl, and I will train you slowly in the future .”

"Oh! You have an old tone. We are here to sell iron tools, and we need others to teach us. If you want to buy something, please go out." Tian Erya vaguely guessed the identity of the old man, it should be The old fortune-teller that Matchmaker Liu and his father had told him about.When Cuicui talked about this matter, she still didn't believe it. She thought that her father would not ignore her situation and ask her to marry a very old man. It was half cold.

The old man took off the straw hat: "You girl has a very temper. As a girl who has not left the court in her natal family, it is nothing to lose her temper occasionally. If you marry in the future, you must be pleasing to the eye in front of your husband, and you must be extremely respectful. It’s true to raise the eyebrows together. Do you know the origin of the idiom ‘raise the eyebrows together’?”

"do not know."

The old man wanted to show off: "The origin of this idiom lies in the fact that there was a loving couple named Liang Hong and Meng Guang in the Han Dynasty. When his wife Meng Guang delivered food to her husband Liang Hong, she always bowed her body and held the plate of food to her. As high as the eyebrows, it is sent to the husband to show respect to him. The word "husband" means the son of heaven, which means that the husband is the sky of women, the woman is the emperor, the earth is respected by the sky, and women are superior to men. A wife must obey her husband in all things, put her husband first, understand the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, and take her husband as the key link.”

Tian Erya rolled her eyes: "That's not looking for a wife at all. Wouldn't it be more obedient to spend some money to buy a servant?"

The old man Tian already understood the identity of the person coming from the gestures Liu Matchmaker made to him from a distance, and immediately reprimanded: "Erya, what are you talking about?"

"Father, am I wrong? A woman finds a man to marry off in order to live a good life. The husband and wife respect and help each other, instead of the husband's family being a slave and being at the mercy of others."

"Don't whine about me, talk nonsense. Since the beginning of the world, women have to listen to men, and married women have to regard their husbands as their gods, and put their husbands first in everything."

The old man gave a thumbs up: "Boss Tian is right. A woman is a man's accessory. We let her go east, but she can't go west."

Tian Erya picked up a pair of scissors and rubbed them on the whetstone: "What should a woman do if she doesn't marry a good husband and gets angry and beaten at her husband's house?"

"That's her fate. Fate is fixed. If she really marries a husband who doesn't love her, she can only endure it. In the next life, she will have a good pregnancy and find a good family."

Old man Tian looked at the several emeralds on the old man's fingers, and nodded his conscience: "Mr. is right."

The old man saw Tian Erya pouted and narrowed his eyes: "Young lady doesn't seem to agree with my theory. What I'm talking about is the way of a sage. As a little girl, you don't have any objections. You grew up in the countryside and are busy with work. Maybe you don't agree with me. Literate, have never learned female virtues, I have a copy of "Female Precepts" here, you can use it to learn from relatives who can read."

Tian Erya didn't pay attention at all, she lowered her head and sharpened her scissors vigorously.

The old man Tian took it over respectfully: "Thank you sir, sir, you are well-versed in literature and reason, you are really like everyone."

The old man stroked his gray beard complacently, approached Tian Erya, looked at her hands sharpening the scissors, and shook his head: "It's a pity that these hands have done a lot of rough work since childhood. The joints are too thick, and they are destined to suffer."

"Tch, I see that you old man is full of guns, what am I going to suffer? If I marry someone who is not a good man, I will just kick him and share most of his wealth. I will still eat well and drink spicy food, and I will not worry about it in my next life."

The old man exclaimed: "What? You marry and still want to abandon your husband and divide your property?"

"What's the matter? If my future husband-in-law treats me badly, of course I will share his family's property so that I can live a comfortable life. Is it possible that he is only allowed to be sorry for me, and I am not allowed to enjoy life like him?"

The old man's face suddenly became cloudy.

Old man Tian slapped his daughter hard on the back: "You're talking nonsense. You don't look like a girl, so shut up." He turned his head and smiled apologetically: "Sir, don't mind. My daughter is not like this usually. She is hardworking and filial. , have patience, know how to regard the father as the sky at home, and obey the husband when married..."

"Father, you are contradicting yourself when you say that. You most hope that after I get married, I will obey you in everything as I do now. You often whisper in my ears that when I get married in the future, I will also help my mother's family and take care of my in-law's family. I hid my property and brought it back to my natal family. I will do as you said, but I will disobey my future husband."

The old man's face became more gloomy: "It seems that your natal family has a heavy burden. If someone marries you, it is equivalent to recruiting a mouse into the granary."

"That is. My father can't raise me for so many years in vain, and he still expects to squeeze every drop of effort from me."

The old man Tian was furious, and angrily shouted: "Erya, shut up! A big girl who has never left the court, keeps her married woman in her ears every day, are you ashamed?"

Tian Erya raised the sharpened scissors and clicked twice, making them tremble in fright.

The old man couldn't help taking a step back: "What are you going to do? Talk about something!"

Old Man Tian licked his lips nervously: "Argh, don't be silly, just speak up if you have something to say."

(End of this chapter)