Fight the Giants

  Chapter 124 Past

  The image of her mother became more and more blurred in Huo Xi's mind. She deeply hated that she couldn't paint well, and couldn't keep her mother's appearance.

  Nian'er grows up, I'm afraid she doesn't even know what her mother looks like.

  The original Yanfeng country Beiping.

  In the Governor's Mansion, Zhang Fuzheng is holding a portrait and looking at it. The woman in the painting is holding a scroll in her hand. She has a light body, beautiful eyes, and a faint smile on her face.

   Zhang Fu looked at it, then sank in, his eyes far away.

  You remember that year, he brought a group of disciples of honorable ministers to Guozi to listen to lectures, and was attracted by Dr. Li's class, but even after the class quietly followed behind, he wanted to ask him a few questions, but he saw her unexpectedly.

  She brought her servants to deliver meals to her father, and with her beautiful little face upturned, she tugged on Dr. Li's sleeve and acted like a baby.

  He just looked stunned.

   Soon he asked his family to ask for marriage. The father-in-law refused at first, saying that his family was military officials and the Li family were civil servants, and the two families could not agree.

  He went to the Imperial College every day to grind and grind, and finally grinded his father-in-law to agree. Later, my father-in-law liked him quite a bit, saying that he was a descendant of a military general, but he had a good talent and learning, and he was also good at painting paintings.

  Xinrou finally married him, which was exactly what he wanted. The two are tender and sweet, and they are very compatible...

  Zhang Fu couldn't help but twitched the corner of his mouth, smiled, stretched out his hand, and carefully stroked the woman in the painting with his fingertips: "My lady..."

   "Lord Hou."

  The voice of servants outside the study came.

  Zhang Fu frowned: "What's the matter?"

   "Master Hou, the old madam has sent someone, and the madam has also sent someone to deliver things."

  Zhang Fu looked back at the portrait, sighed, and slowly rolled it up.

   "Let someone in."

"yes."

  After a while, Zhang Fu stared at the four fat, swallow-thin, beautiful women standing in front of him, and was stunned for a long while.

   "Is this what the old lady meant?"

   "Yes. The old lady said that Master Hou is alone in the north, and there are few people who know the cold and heat to take care of him, so she sent a few people to take care of Master Hou."

  Zhang Fu sized up the four women, they were all different in appearance, temperament, character, and body shape, so it was difficult for his mother to do a lot of painstaking efforts.

   "Take it away. They are not allowed to set foot in my courtyard, especially the study room. There is no shortage of people to serve me here."

"Can…"

   "Go down."

"yes."

   "Master Hou, Madam also asked someone to make some clothes, shoes and socks..."

  Zhang Fu waved his hand: "Take it away first. There is no shortage of these in the mansion."

"…yes."

  After the person left, Zhang Fu rubbed his forehead, then stretched out his hand to the rolled up portrait, stroked and caressed it, but finally did not open it again. Put it away in a slim case on the table.

   Picked up a bunch of golden bell bracelets in the box and took a closer look.

   "Daddy, Daddy, listen, jingle jingle, jingle jingle, the sound is crisp and sweet! My daughter likes it so much!"

   "Daddy, Daddy, what birthday present will you give your daughter next year?"

   "Daddy will remember my daughter's birthday every year, and will prepare gifts for her every year, and I will never forget it."

  Muttering, Zhang Fu put the string back into the box, put it together with the portrait, closed the box, stroked it again and again, and then put it away properly.

   On Huo Xi's side, he was busy fishing and selling fish and goods.

  Fishing and harvesting at dusk, selling fish in the morning, and selling Huizhou linen and sugar from the south in the villages along the river during the day in counties and towns near the outskirts of Beijing.

  Although the price of the linen is similar to that of Gema, people have a feeling that it smells far away and smells far away. They heard that it was shipped from Huizhou in the south, and they all gathered around to see the rarity and compare it with Gema.

  The Huizhou linen is really good. Huo Xi lowered the price by one or two cents, so he sold three or four hundred pieces.

  The local Gema received one cent and five cents from Zhihu, and the price for takeaway was even higher. And Huo's family sells linen for eight cents a piece, and sells it for five cents a cent, three or four cents a cent, and actually earns a few cents a piece.

   One horse earns dozens of pennies. Three or four hundred bolts of linen actually got nearly twenty taels of silver.

   But Yang was overjoyed. Counting copper coins every night is a joy.

  A box of copper plates can make her count several times without stopping.

  Ms. Yang counted the coppers, and Huo Xi was thinking about where to sell the goods the next day.

  The grocery business on the water is very good, not only among the fishermen, but also in the villages along the river.

  Every time I go back to Huo's house and row the boat to the village along the river, villagers in twos and threes stand at the entrance of the village, standing on both sides of the river and waving to Huo's boat.

   "At first I thought I heard it wrong, but I didn't expect such a big ship to sell goods." The first lady said while picking things on the boat.

   "Auntie, how do you buy things when you don't usually meet my boat?" Huo Xi pretended to be obedient and asked.

   "Usually you have to go to town in a bullock cart, otherwise you will stop a boat carrying passengers or a fishing boat passing by to enter the city, or wait for a peddler to enter the village."

  How many things can a shopkeeper pick up in one load. Even the peddler who used bullock carts to load goods did not pack as much as her family's boats. Huo Xi's eyes lit up.

  Originally, it was only a fisherman's business, but I didn't expect that this village along the river would also have a market.

   "You don't have all the things in your house." The aunt was a little dissatisfied, the needles were threadbare, and the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar looked mediocre.

   Hey, this aunt is still a rich man!

   "Auntie, my family originally sold goods for the convenience of fishermen who live on the water, and they only picked up ordinary things. Fishermen's life is not as good as your farmers' life. Your life is rich, which is beyond our comparison."

  Auntie felt comfortable being flattered by Huo Xitong's words and Tongyu's words, and immediately felt superior to others.

  I also don't want to be looked down upon by these fishermen, so I am very picky.

  Huo Xi thought of the salt hidden in the cabin, thought for a while and said, "Ma'am, we have some high-quality salt here, the price is lower than what you buy outside, see if you want it."

   "I don't want your fishing salt."

   "It's not fishing salt." Yang Shi said, she also knew the origin of the salt, and looked at Huo Xi.

  Huo Xi had already entered the cabin and came out with several bamboo tubes.

   "Ah, this salt looks pretty good. Can you still do salt business?"

   "No, it's not..." Yang looked at Huo Xi.

  Huo Xi put on a small smile: "We are not salt merchants, how can we do salt business. We just saw that it is inconvenient for everyone to go to the city, so we bought more and helped everyone along the way."

   "The price is the same as in the city?" The aunt picked up a few pills and put them in her mouth. She was very satisfied with the salty taste.

   "We give you two pennies per catty."

   "How can you still buy cheap salt?" Isn't the price of official salt the same?

"Didn't our boat be requisitioned to transport grain to Huai'an a few days ago? There was salt produced there, and my family bought more there. I lost the shipping fee. It was originally for myself and relatives and friends. If the aunt wants it, Give you some, too."

   "Okay. Give me a little too. But you gave up the shipping fee, so it's only two cents lower?"

   "My aunt should have heard that we didn't even have subsidies or foot money for this trip, not to mention the delay in fishing along the way, and we spent a lot on food and expenses."

"Yeah, it took us ten days to go back and forth on this journey." "Look, there are three little ones in my family... We don't let you rest all the way. My man's hands and feet are as if broken and he can't lift them up. It's been a hard journey. .”

   Yang Shi and Yang Fu also helped.

   Good morning, thank you for voting, thank you

  (end of this chapter)