Fight the Giants

  Chapter 143 He is not a bad person

  After Huo Xi finished the ledger, he read it to Yang Shi and Yang Fu. The two were very happy after listening.

  Their family’s trip to Huai’an originally thought it was a hard job, not to mention the delay, and paid out of their own pockets to subsidize the cost. Unexpectedly, on the return trip, I earned back a hundred and dozens of taels.

  In addition to the 300 bolts of cotton cloth entrained on the way out, I earned sixty taels.

   "It's great. If we go to Huai'an, we can add 20 acres of good land to our family. I hope we can be requisitioned next year." The siblings were overjoyed.

  Huo Xi was also very happy.

"If it is called next year, it may not be as lucky as we did this year. One is that everyone has woken up, and it is estimated that they will be entrained. The other is that the government will also recall next year. I am afraid that there will be cards along the road to inspect the goods. Taxation."

   When Yang Shi and Yang Fu heard this, they immediately withered.

   After a long while, he said: "If you accept it, you will accept it. If you earn less, you will still earn."

   "If you want to make money, we don't have to wait until the grain is collected and transported."

   "Ah, then how to go?"

"Uncle, you are stupid. We went to Huai'an once. We all know the situation on the way, which piers to pass, which sluices to wait for, and how long the journey will take. If you want to go, you can go by yourself. Let's go to Yangzhou. The light boat will arrive in one day. It will only take one more day to go to Huai’an. We can go whenever we want.”

  Huo Xi had some thoughts in his heart.

  For example, in Songjiang, a county that produces cotton cloth, all the boats that go to sea stop there.

  But the weather is cold, so it’s not easy to think about it this year. Can only hold back.

   Yang Shi and Yang Fu looked at each other, and they said yes. There is a boat at home, and no one restricts their movement, so they can go if they want?

why are you not going?

   Yang Shi and Yang Fu's hearts became hot. Buzzing in my head, surrounded by a bunch of people by the Mochou Lake, yelling and selling goods, that feeling... seems pretty good.

  Well, I still want to sell goods.

   If there is money to make, why not?

  The boat at home can hold a hundred stones, not to mention earning back 20 acres of good land for one trip, but one or two acres of land for one trip.

  The family has more than one hectare of land. Hectare after hectare after hectare, be a landlady, with sleeves on, and go to the countryside to collect rent?

  What do you think, how beautiful! It's so beautiful.

   "Sister, what are you thinking? Your mouth is drooling." Yang Fu poked Yang Shi, what was his sister thinking, with her mouth open and a smirk on her face.

"Hehe, thinking that there are a lot of land at home, I took Nian'er to the countryside to collect rent. I was like a landowner's wife with my sleeves on. Nian'er held the ledger and said how many acres your family rented. Pay a few cents and a few cents..."

  It looks like that, just think about it.

   "Sister, you are daydreaming." Looking up at the sky, it was still sunny, so his sister began to dream.

   "You son of a bitch." Yang shook his fist at him and bared his teeth.

  Yang Fu rolled his eyes back at her.

   Huo Xi was amused.

   "Mother, quickly put away the money, let's string the copper plates, and then take them to the bank to exchange them for silver or bank notes."

   "It's better to change it to silver. The silver ticket is so light that you don't feel it when you touch it. Mother is worried that it will be damaged, and she is also worried that it is fake. It is better to touch it with silver and copper."

  Huo Xi nodded, only following her pleasure.

  The three of them stringed copper coins together.

  Mr. Yang said while stringing: "Your father said to give you all the money in the family, so that you can spend it."

  Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, looked at a box full of banknotes, silver and copper coins, and didn't speak.

   "Mother thinks the same way. You earned all the money in the family. Parents thought you might have other ideas, so your father discussed it with mother and handed over the money to you to arrange."

  Huo Xi was very emotional when he heard this. How lucky.

   Blinking his eyes, he swiped into the box: "Then I'll take some, and leave the rest at home."

   "Your father said to let you take it all. Everyone has returned the money we lent to Taoyedu before. Your father said to give it to you."

  Taoyedu borrowed less than two hundred taels at the beginning, plus the money collected and earned from selling goods at home, there is a lot of money in the box.

  Huo Xi thought for a while, and then said: "This is a lot of money. After changing the money, I can just keep the five hundred taels of silver in my hand. The rest will be kept at home."

   There should be more than one hundred taels left in the family, which is enough for the purchase and expenses of the family.

   "Take them all. The family has been selling goods, and they can make a lot of money by bringing goods to Qionghua Lane every day. There is no shortage of flowers at home." Yang made a decision.

  Huo Xi shook his head: "I'll just take five hundred taels."

   pursed her lips, and said in a low voice: "When my mother was dying, she was always worried about my grandparents' family. I thought that if there was a chance in the future, I would have to look for them..."

   This is the first time Huo Xi has talked about family affairs.

  Mr. Yang and Yang Fu were both stunned.

   "Your grandfather's family is still there? Then why didn't you take Nian'er to look for them?" Yang asked cautiously.

  Huo Xi pursed his lips tightly, and after a while, he said with a sad expression: "My grandfather's family was exiled."

ah?

  Mr. Yang was startled.

   Said that Xi'er was raised by a rich family. Unless these ordinary people conspired against each other, if one person commits a crime, the other should be punished. How could the whole family be exiled?

  This poor child, it’s no wonder that after the death of his parents, he will be reduced to the point where he hugs his younger brother to join his relatives and is driven out. It is estimated that his father's family also suffered.

Seeing that both Yang Shi and Yang Fu were shocked, Huo Xi was afraid that they might misunderstand, so she hurriedly said: "My grandfather's family are all good people, they are not bad people. My grandfather is very knowledgeable, and there are many, many students..." Taoli is all over the world .

  Before she finished speaking, she was hugged tightly by Yang Shi.

   "Mother knows, mother knows. The emperor changed people, and many people are innocent. Although mother has not read the book, she also knows that there is one emperor and one courtier. Mother understands."

  At that time, when the new emperor invaded Jinling City, she and Huo Erhuai were so frightened that they rowed their boats into the middle of the Yangtze River every day, not daring to approach the Qinhuai River.

   They were not the only ones during that time, all fishing boats dared not approach the waters of the capital.

  I heard that during that time, the city was bleeding like a river, and at the Jubao Gate, the executioner was swinging a knife all the time, and the knife cut a gap.

   After a long period of time, she and Huo Erhuai didn't dare to go to the Jubao Gate, for fear of seeing Gulu rolling a head on the ground.

   "Mother understands, your grandfather's family is good people, they are not bad people."

  Huo Xi choked with sobs and hummed, quietly nestling in Yang's arms. Turning to see Yang Fu looking at her worriedly, he smiled at him. Just as long as they don't misunderstand.

  Her grandfather was not only a good person, but also extremely knowledgeable, humble and kind...

   "Wow, grandfather, you have so many books!"

   "Then what if little Xi'er wants to study with her grandfather?"

"want!"

  Grandfather happily hugged her and sat on his lap, spread out the books and taught her to read word by word, held her hand and taught her to write big characters stroke by stroke...

   "Xi'er's writing is really good, she has her own strength of character."

   "Really? Then I will come to my grandfather every day to practice calligraphy!"

  …

  Huo Xi buried her head in Yang's arms, blinking away tears: "Mother, Nian'er and I will be filial to you in the future."

"good."

   Yang's tears welled up in her eyes. Responding in a low voice, gently, stroking her back over and over again, comforting her extremely gently.

  (end of this chapter)