Fight the Giants

  Chapter 210 Red Haired Monster

  Songjiang Wharf, the noise can be heard from a distance. Looking around, I saw merchant ships and passenger boats gathering, and the river surface with a width of tens of feet was packed to the brim.

   There are endless sounds of chanting, throwing ropes, anchoring, and docking boats, and there are also voices of various boatmen shouting and cursing because they go in and out.

   "Father, let's not squeeze in, just park on the outside."

  Good guy, as expected of the Outer Harbor Wharf, there are hundreds of thousands of ships gathered here. If you want to squeeze into the wharf, you have to wait for the ships inside to sail out before you have a place to dock.

  Mr. Yang also nodded again and again: "Xi'er is right, let's not squeeze in, just stop here. Anyway, we can't squeeze in, park outside, it is convenient to get in and out, and it saves a lot of parking fees."

  Huo Erhuai and Yang Fu stood at the stern of the boat, looking around on tiptoe: "This is still far from the pier. Stop here and go into the city, it will take a long walk."

  Huo Xi glanced at the shore, saw the carriages and horses coming and going on the shore, and comforted him: "It's okay, father, let's go ashore, just hire carriages and horses."

  Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai looked ashore, and sure enough they heard the voice of a coachman welcoming passengers, so they nodded: "Okay, then we won't go into the dock."

   After talking for a long time, Huo Xi didn't hear Huo Nian's voice, so Huo Xi went to look for him curiously.

  Turning his head, he saw that the skinny boy was hugging the top beams of the cabin, climbing half way up, looking forward to the big boat on the pier, his eyes were wide open, his mouth was open in a circle, drooling.

  Huo Xi laughed, and quietly poked Yang Shi, Yang Fu and others to watch.

  When everyone saw it, they were immediately happy and laughed.

  Yang Fu stepped forward to hug him down, Pi Xiaozi still couldn't close his mouth: "Mother, what a big boat, it's so tall, it's even taller than the Buddhist pagoda in Linggu Temple!"

  Yang smiled and touched his little face: "Nian'er likes to watch it, so let's stop in Songjiang for a few more days so that Nianer can see enough. Don't worry, let's watch it slowly."

   "Mom, I can see those big ships for a day!"

   "Okay, that mother will watch with Nian'er."

   "Yeah. So pretty."

   "Then you stay on the boat to watch the big ship, and my father and uncle and I go ashore to watch the red-haired weirdo." Huo Xi teased him.

   "No, no, no, I want to go ashore to see the red-haired monster too! Sister, you can't leave Nian'er behind." Deng Deng ran to hug Huo Xi's waist tightly, for fear that Huo Xi would throw him into the boat.

   "Then you have to be obedient. If you are disobedient, get lost, and get caught by the red-haired weirdo, you won't be able to find your parents, sister, and uncle."

  Pi Xiaozi's hands tightened around Huo Xi's waist: "Nian'er is obedient, my sister told the red-haired weirdo not to catch Nian'er."

   "Okay, if you are obedient, they won't let them catch you."

Huo Xi looked at him and smiled, then turned around and told Yang Fu: "Uncle, you tell the guys on the three boats in our shop to guard our boat and not to go ashore at will. Let another guy go ashore. This boat of ours will be guarded."

   "Okay, I'll go right away."

   After parking the boat, the family went ashore. Immediately someone came up to recruit them and asked them if they wanted to hire a car.

  Huo Xi looked at Yang, and Yang looked at Nian'er looking around: "How about, let's take a walk along the coast and let Nian'er see the excitement. If you get tired from walking, then hire a car."

  Everyone agreed, so the family walked along the coast to watch the excitement.

  There are many small merchants and hawkers on both sides of the wharf, shouting one after another. Those who go out to play, do business, transport goods, and people come and go.

  Nian'er couldn't look enough. She looked to the left and then to the right, her little head bobbing back and forth without stopping.

  The closer you get to the pier, the more lively it is.

   As expected of the Outer Harbor Wharf, the two sides of the bank are full of several-story-high Dafu boats, as well as various cruise ships, merchant ships, cargo ships, and passenger boats, as well as small fishing boats to deliver and sell goods.

  The porters on the pier unloaded and moved the goods back and forth, and the steward took the buddies to shuttle among them, coming and going.

   There are also family and friends who come to pick up and see off family and friends. There are wealthy families, wives, young ladies, and old men who go out.

   "There are a lot of people." It was rare for Yang to see such a scene, and she was dumbfounded.

   "Sister, there is a red-haired monster!" Nian'er jumped up, pointing to Huo Xi with her little finger.

   "Don't point at people, it's impolite."

  Nian'er put down her little hand, and stared at the two red-haired foreigners in front of her. Huo Xi, Yang Shi and others also looked over.

  Although I saw Huo Xi a lot, it was the first time I saw him in this dynasty, so I couldn't help but take a second look, let alone the Yang family, Huo Erhuai, Yang Fu and others.

   Staring at people so intently that they almost counted the hairs on their heads.

   "Sister, why do they look different from us?"

  Nian'er's eyes are only full of curiosity, unlike some people who jump far away when they see a strange-looking fan, want to see but dare not look, a look of fear.

"Because the places where they grow are different. Just like eggplants, they grow in different places and are planted in different fields. There will be round ones, flat ones, long ones and short ones, thin ones and thick ones. It's the same with people."

   "Does that mean there are other colors of hair besides red hair?"

   "That's right, except for the hair, look at their eyes. They have black eyes. They have blue, green, and gray colors. They also have skin, some are white, and the whole body is black."

   "The whole body is black? There are people like that?" Not only Nian'er, Yang Shi, Yang Fu, Huo Erhuai and others were all stunned.

   "Yes, just like eggplants, there are various kinds, and there are also various kinds of people."

   "Wow!" Pi Xiaozi was stunned.

  Seeing the curiosity in the boy's eyes, a look of acceptance, and good eyesight at the passers-by, Huo Xi couldn't help but smile.

  Seeing that all the fans had passed by, Huo Nian was still staring at them, so Huo Xi dragged him to the pier for a closer look, and by the way, he went to see what the boats from Fanwai were selling.

  After the opening of the sea ban in this dynasty, I heard that in places like Guangzhou, Zhangzhou, and Ningbo, foreign ship trading wharves "there are endless ships in the sea, and barbarians swarm in the city."

   Sure enough, seeing is worth seeing. This Songjiang Wharf is comparable to the rumored places like Guangzhou and Zhangzhou.

  The foreign boats docked at the wharf are quite different from the lucky boats of this dynasty, full of exotic customs. Not only she and Nian'er stared blankly at the boat, but the two banks were also full of people watching the fun.

  Huo Erhuai, Yang Shi, and Yang Fu whispered to the foreigner's boat, why the bow and stern of the boat are made like this, and it is so high, and what are the patterns painted on the hull of the boat.

   Huo Xi couldn't help laughing.

  She searched the pier, wanting to buy some rare goods.

  Seeing some local businessmen talking with Fan people gesticulating, and frequent local businessmen being invited to board Fan boats, I couldn't help sighing. My own small business is looked down upon by others, and I guess I have no chance of being invited on board.

   His eyes turned to the pier again.

  There were quite a few people by the pier, and they set up stalls on the pier to sell the goods they brought, and many people gathered around to watch.

   "Uncle, let's go, let's take a look."

  (end of this chapter)