Fight the Giants

  Chapter 31 Rich

  Mu Yan entered the mansion without looking back, and ordered: "Bring two cans to your aunt, and the smaller one will be rewarded to you."

   "Master, don't you want to eat?" Li Yi was taken aback.

   "Don't eat!"

  Mu Yan said bitterly. The more you think about it, the more you get angry, it must be expensive. Didn't you see that she was going to float when she walked just now? Must have been cheated! angry.

   "Thank you, master!"

   Li Yikan Er happily agreed, and went to the kitchen with bald butter in his hands. Just now, the child of the Zhang family said several ways to eat it, and they are going to try it.

   As for Cheng, I heard that Mu Yan bought her two cans of food on the way. What are they called bald butter? do not know.

  But he couldn't help jumping up in his heart, and the corners of his mouth raised. After listening to Li Yi's explanation of several ways to eat it, he was eager to try it, and hurriedly ordered the kitchen to cook it. The son's heart can't be wasted.

   When you eat it in your mouth, it is called a fragrance. Suddenly burst into tears.

  The child usually treats her coldly and calls her aunt, but in fact he always misses her in his heart. When I saw delicious food on the road, I thought about buying it for her.

  Cheng's heart was full of emotion. The child has a cold face and a warm heart, he is just not good at expressing it. I feel that I have treated him even more. With a loving mother's heart, she was suffering in every possible way, thinking about how to make up for him.

   Besides, on Huo Xi's side, he sold an extra five taels of silver, so he was very happy.

  Took Yang Fu to Gao Butcher and bought two pig's trotters and a large piece of fat and thin pork belly. Another ten catties of suet was cut and went back to refining. I heard Gao Butcher said that if you come early, you can still buy pork belly.

  It was only then that Huo Xi realized that there are usually five layers of pork with meat, fat and skin, but good pork can have up to seven or eight layers of flowers.

  I thought about coming back to buy it next time. And Yang Fu's mouth was already drooling.

  The two came to the ferry in the outer city, but they didn't see his family's boat, so they waited at the ferry.

  It wasn't until the sky was full of red clouds that Huo Erhuai came to pick him up in a boat.

   Seeing that the two of them bought meat again, Mrs. Yang was happy for their filial piety while feeling pained. Huo Erhuai only looked at it with a smile, and said: "The child is filial, so you can drink more pig's trotter soup, so that Nian'er can grow fat for nothing."

  Mr. Yang heard that they had sold all the bald butter, and sold it for a few taels of silver, so she didn't feel bad for that piece of pork belly, and happily took it to the bow of the boat to put it back.

  Yang Fu entered the cabin, took out the other things he bought in the basket, and began to pour out the silver at the bottom of the basket, making a small pile.

   "Sister, come and count the silver!"

  Huo Xi hugged Huo Nian and sat cross-legged, watching with a smile. Huo Nian also leaned over to grab it, wondering if he started to understand the value of money.

  After listening to the count of silver, Yang hurriedly got into the cabin with a smile on his face.

  Huo Xi knew how much he got without counting. Fifteen cans of bald butter, there are six cans per catty, and the last three cans were sold to the nobleman, and they sold five taels more. There should be...

   "Forty-six taels!" So many! Yang's face was full of disbelief.

   "It's forty-seven taels. There are still these copper coins. Xi'er and I just bought meat, seasoning and rice wine."

Yang was so happy that she didn't know what to do with her hands and feet: "His father, his father, the two children sold the bald butter for forty-seven taels!" Last time I felt a lot with thirty taels in my hand, but this time More than last time.

   "Okay, okay!" Huo Erhuai was very excited, even saying hello a few times, the hand shaking the oar trembled. The family got such a large amount of money again, Xi'er wanted to exchange for a big boat, and this time it was really possible.

   "Xi'er, our family can change to a bigger ship!"

  Huo Xi got out of the cabin: "Father, did you find out clearly? How much money do you want?"

"I got it clear. Like what Xi'er said, the two ends are pointed and the abdomen is enlarged. The length of the ship is more than four feet, the hull is more than half a foot, and the bow is equipped with oars and sculls. If you can make it for us, thirty taels You can get it." (One zhang here is 3.33 meters)

   "Thirty taels?" Huo Xi frowned.

   "Thirty-two villages can build a house with blue bricks and tiles." Yang felt a little pained.

Huo Erhuai comforted her: "We bought a big boat, and then built the cabin part according to Xi'er's idea. It can cover the front, middle and rear cabins. It's like a small house for walking. You can sleep with your legs stretched out. How nice."

   "That's right, sister, I can also have my own cabin! It's beautiful just thinking about it."

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu couldn't wait, and urged Huo Erhuai to book a big boat the next day.

  Huo Xi drew the changes to be made on the newly bought paper, and asked Huo Erhuai to take it.

  The waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are well developed and there are many shipbuilding workshops. But there are rules in each shipyard, women are not allowed to enter. It is considered unlucky for a woman to board a ship. Although there are many women on board Danmin fishermen, many boat workshops still refuse women to enter.

  Huo Xi didn't follow. Even Yang Shi, Huo Erhuai stopped the boat far away and let her stay on board.

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu didn't sell anything today, they just dragged him around. First went to the outer city, and then to the inner city.

  Taking Yang Fu around various miscellaneous shops, rice grain and oil shops in the inner city, and cloth and embroidery shops in the inner city, and moved goods to the wharf in the outer city for a day, and got thirty-two coins.

  In the afternoon, I didn’t move the goods any more, I just squatted on the pier and looked at the ships coming and going, observing what goods they were carrying. What kind of ships are there, where they come from, and where they are going.

   Seeing the kind-faced and kind-spoken man, he dragged Yang Fu forward to inquire.

  Yang Fu was dragged by Huo Xi to various shops this day, and now he was inquiring about various things on the pier again, he was so confused, he didn't understand what she was going to do.

  But he didn't ask too many questions, and just followed Huo Xi closely. Whatever Huo Xi asked him to do, he would do.

  Before the sunset, Huo Xi took Yang Fu to the bookstore and bought a copy of "Three Character Classics" and a copy of "Hundred Surnames", as well as some cheap pens, inks, papers and inkstones, which cost nearly a tael of silver.

   Said that he would go back and teach Yang Fu to read.

  Yang Fu pursed his lips, not daring to raise objections, for fear that Xi'er would sue and his sister would beat him.

   On second thought, it would be good to be able to recognize more characters. For example, at the pier, Xi'er can clearly see the emblems of various companies and shipowners, and can understand the names of the goods, but he doesn't recognize them.

  Today, because of her literacy and numeracy, Xier got a counting job, which allowed the two of them to get 20 Wen. In addition to the money for moving the goods, I got thirty-two coins on this day!

   Actually got more copper plates than ever before.

  If he can read and write, he doesn’t have to struggle with those porters on the wharf for a job. He can do a small job in counting and bookkeeping, and he can get twice as much copper as others. how nice.

  It’s beautiful just to think about it. Be sure to read well when you go back.

   And Huo Erhuai took the sketch drawn by Huo Xi to the shipyard early in the morning, and made a deposit. After another half day of fishing in the river, I came to pick up their uncle and nephew before sunset.

   "Brother-in-law, how many fish did you catch today?" Yang Fu and Huo Xi got on the boat, first teased Huo Nian for a while, and then opened the fish box at the stern to see.

  Huo Xi also hugged Huo Nian and took a closer look.

  (end of this chapter)