Fight the Giants

  Chapter 65 Blocking the way

  Seeing that the two of them understood, Huo Zhong approved in his heart.

   He said again: "I'm afraid you won't be able to bring much grain on your boat on the way out, but you can find some local goods and bring them back on the way back."

  Huo Xi nodded again and again: "Uncle Huo, do you know of any famous local products in Huai'an? The capital can sell them well?"

Huo Zhong thought for a while, and then said: "Huai'an brings together ships and goods from south to north. Its shipbuilding industry, handicraft industry, commerce, and north-south food are all prosperous and developed. It is especially famous for wine making, drum making, and weaving. .”

"In Huai'an, there are ginseng and mink skins shipped from Liaodong, and pears and dates from North Zhili. There are also ginger, pepper, lotus root starch, medicinal materials, tea, cloth, silk, paper, etc. shipped from the south. Bamboo and wood boards, linseed, rattan rope, porcelain, etc. from Jiangxi, Huguang and other places, as well as cane sugar shipped from the south.”

  Watching Huo Xi and Yang Fu wrestle their fingers to memorize it, they said with a smile, "We have a population of one million in our capital, as long as it's good things, there's no shortage of people to buy them."

  After hearing this, Huo Xi stood up solemnly.

   Made a very standard salute to Huo Zhong: "Thank you, Uncle Huo, for your guidance. In the future, the boy will become a talent and live a better life. I will definitely repay Uncle Huo for his support and care."

  Yang Fu stared blankly at her after she saluted, and followed her example, making a bow to Huo Zhong.

  Huo Zhong helped the two of them up, feeling quite emotional in his heart, and was extremely satisfied with their actions.

  Huo Xi is good at finding opportunities from crises, and he is a malleable material.

   I don’t know how much inspiration he got from what he said today. But he believes that the child will have a wonderful encounter this time going north to transport grain.

  Huo Xi refused to take the money, left three bottles of shrimp products, and bid farewell to Huo Zhong.

  Drawing Yang Fu around the outer city, he crowded wherever there were many people. Which goods are easy to sell, you have to go forward to inquire about them.

   "Xi'er, should we go into the inner city to find out?" There are many rich people in the inner city. Yang Fu wiped away yesterday's sluggishness, and his whole body was filled with the desire to do a big job.

  Huo Xi paused, then shook his head.

   She already had some ideas in her mind. She is familiar with the inner city and has visited the inner city before. It's better not to enter the inner city now, if you meet Wu Youcai, you will lose all your success.

   "Let's go, let's go back and discuss with our parents."

   Before he reached the ferry in the outer city, he saw Huo Erhuai being pulled by two people. Huo Xi just wanted to raise his legs to go forward, but was stopped by Yang Fu.

   "It's brother-in-law's mother and brother!"

   "Ah?" Why did you suddenly find me?

  Huo Xi was stunned, and was dragged aside by Yang Fu.

Before Huo Xi took a closer look at them, and before hearing the reason clearly, only hearing them ask Huo Erhuai for money, Huo Xi hurriedly pulled Yang Fu over: "Go around, go to the ferry to find your mother, and take our family's Row the boat away! Come pick me up and Dad later."

  If they know that the family has changed to a new boat, the money and things on the boat may suffer. There will be no quiet days in the future.

  Yang Fu was so excited that he didn't have time to tell Huo Xi. He found another way and ran to the ferry.

  Huo Xi hid aside and eavesdropped.

  Huo Erhuai's mother, Fang Shi, took her youngest son, Huo Sipan, and has been looking for Huo Erhuai for a few days. Today I finally found him at Yushi Street in the outer city, and I followed him here endlessly.

   "Second brother, are you just watching your family starve to death? If you eat hot food and drink spicy food, don't you care about us?"

  Hearing this, Huo Erhuai looked at the youngest brother.

  When he was born, he was seven or eight years old, and this kid almost grew up on his back. When he saw that he was crying because he couldn't eat enough, he went around looking for food for him.

   Later, seeing that he was thin and thin, and his parents were crying and begging, he took two old clothes and married him to the Yang family.

   "We fish for a day, and we sell it for a day in exchange for some food. At least we have ten acres of land, and we have enough food to make ends meet, which is better than us. If we don't fish, we don't even have food. Where can we get food?"

  Seeing that his second brother looked cold, Huo Sipan hurriedly asked his mother for help.

The Fang family pulled Huo Erhuai and cried: "Erhuai, do you still hate your parents? Back then, the family couldn't make it through, so you were allowed to come to the Yang family. The Yang family is richer than ours. Eating enough is better than following us."

   "Yes, second brother, if I was old enough, I would have wanted to marry."

  Huo Erhuai glanced at him leisurely.

  He married? Back then, he had to die and live for a good woman, and even after spending all his money, he was not enough to get married, and his parents even came to him to ask for money. He was going to marry early.

  Huo Erhuai wanted to leave, but Fang grabbed the fishing basket tightly.

"Erhuai, your clothes look like they're newly made, without even a patch. Look at your mother and your brother, patch after patch. This year, taxes and food are collected a lot, and the family has a large population. After paying the food, there is nothing There are only a few left. Soon there will be another corvee to dredge the canal, and two of us have to go. I heard that we will not return until the snow falls. Your fourth brother has no heirs yet, and the family wants to pay for someone to do it for you. Have pity on your brother."

  Huo Erhuai is holding his breath, pity him? Then who has pity on me!

  My husband and I floated on the river for ten years, our bodies were soaked in cold air, and the few children we had were unable to keep. I don't have any heirs, who has pity on me!

  Huo Erhuai tightly clenched his fists. She turned her head away from Fang Shi.

Huo Sipan pulled him to play pitiful: "Second brother, you loved me the most when you were a child. You dredged the canal, and you had to soak in the river for two or three months. You are useless. I'm not a child yet, you don't want me to go bankrupt, do you? "

  Speaking of Juehu, Huo Erhuai panted heavily, and looked at him coldly.

   "Didn't you tell the family at the beginning that the little lady had hidden silver in her body and would bring a lot of dowry to Huo's house? Why, she refused to give you money for service?"

   Huo Sipan choked on his throat and lowered his head.

Fang jumped up: "That bastard! Ask her to hand over the dowry to me for safekeeping, but she refuses! I searched every corner, but I couldn't find where she kept her money. Your brother didn't even get a single piece of her money! This time I also covered my pockets tightly, saying that everyone else can go, why can't Sipan go! Bastard, if you don't feel happy, I will let Sipan divorce her!"

  Huo Sipan opened his mouth, but did not speak.

  Huo Erhuai glanced at him leisurely, he had to bear the result of the marriage he asked for.

   “I have no money. I have a family to support.”

   "What kind of family do you raise? You can raise your brother-in-law, why don't you want to support the family! You want to watch your brother being dragged into corvee!"

   "Chunying Chunshang gave birth to a son for me, and I still have to support my family!"

  The child in Chun Ying's belly was born?

   "Feed?" Huo Sipan asked in a daze.

  One sentence hit the deep pain in Huo Erhuai's heart.

   Shouted to Huo Sipan: "Get out! I don't have a brother like you!" Pulling away the fishing basket, he lifted his legs and left.

  Huo Sipan touched his nose embarrassingly.

  Seeing that Huo Erhuai broke free from the fishing basket, Mrs. Fang walked forward, stomped her feet resentfully, rushed up a few steps, and reached into Huo Erhuai's arms to feel around.

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  (end of this chapter)