Fight the Giants

  Chapter 145 This business can be done

  Huo Xi stared blankly at her father as he rowed the boat to the shore, then at Yang Fu helping him put the gangway to the shore, and then at him taking people onto the boat.

  Three people, a woman, with a man, a woman and two children. Then the size of the burden.

  Looked at her father, okay, her mother is doing work in Qionghua Lane to earn money for the family, while his father is doing work on the water. Where is Fanjiajiao? A penny? It seems to be ok, the flowers of the day are used up.

  If you earn one dollar a day, you can earn three taels a month.

good.

   Seeing that Yang Fu had put away the gangplank, her mother took the three of them into the cabin and sat down.

  Huo Xi thought for a while, and got in too.

   "Ouch, do you still have such a small child on board?"

  The woman stretched out her hand to tease Huo Nian, who had just woken up. Huo Nian was half asleep and half asleep. He just woke up and didn't want to talk to anyone. After sizing them up, he limply returned to Yang's shoulder socket.

   "This child looks really good." Not only the woman, but even her two half-old children stared at Huo Nian.

  Seeing Huo Xi and Yang Fu coming in, they stared at them again.

   "Are you visiting relatives?" Yang asked the woman.

   "Yes. We are going to Fanjiajiao, my natal family."

  Huo Xi glanced at the three of them, and asked with a smile: "Auntie, are you all going to the river to find a boat? It doesn't cost a penny to rent an ox cart, does it?"

The woman looked at her and smiled: "The ox cart is cheap, but the ox cart is slow, and the road is bumpy. If it weren't for the distance between the two villages, I would like to walk. My two children don't like to do it either." The bullock cart, said it hurts the buttocks."

  Huo Xi glanced at the two children. The older sister lowered her head, while the younger brother looked at her and smiled at her.

   "Yes, I don't like riding in bullock carts either. I'd rather walk." Yang agreed.

"Yeah, the road is easy to walk, it's okay, but it's not easy to walk down and push. And on the boat, our two children can lean on for a while when we are sleepy, or take a look at the scenery. I can also do some work along the way. Nah Shoe soles or doing needlework are good ways to pass the time.”

  Huo Xi couldn't help but look at her with admiration.

  This woman is very smart, the ox cart is bumping like that, how can she do work to pass the time. If the work done can be sold for money, wouldn't the extra travel expenses be made up for? Maybe there is still room to spare.

  The woman and two children sat in the cabin and kept looking: "Your ship is not a passenger ship, is it?"

   "No. My family is a fishing boat."

   "Fishing boat?" It doesn't look like it, "Then what's written on the sign outside you?"

   "Huo's Floating Grocery Store."

   "Floating grocery store? Do you sell goods?"

  Mr. Yang nodded with a smile: "Sell goods while fishing."

"That's better than just fishing. I said that such a big boat can't just be a fishing boat. Seeing that your boat is new and has such a well-built cabin, I thought you were a passenger boat or something like that. Kind of cruise ship."

   Fortunately, the fishing boat picked up the three of their mothers.

   While looking at it, he asked, "What do you sell?"

   "Rice, flour, grain and oil, daily sundries, needles and threads, children's toys, and some ordinary pastries."

  The eyes of the two children sitting next to the woman lit up.

  The woman glanced at the two children, and said to Mrs. Yang: "Then there is something for the children to eat, let me see if the price is right, I will buy some."

  Ms. Yang held Nian'er in her arms, and Huo Xi greeted the two children: "Then come and see with me."

  Anyway, it’s on the shelf in the next cabin. Take them to have a look, so you don’t have to move it around.

  The two children took a look at their mother, then stood up and followed Huo Xi.

  Huo Xi took the two children to the shelf, saw the two children picked out several items, and thought to herself, this woman should be from a well-to-do family, not a rich peasant, or at least a middle peasant.

  For the comfort of my buttocks, I am willing to spend a penny to take a boat, and the clothes I wear are not patched. Although it is better to dress than usual when visiting relatives, it is also good to look at the spirit.

  The two children quickly wrapped themselves in their arms and walked out.

   Sure enough, the woman didn't say anything, and Huo Xi felt that she had guessed right.

   "Mom, they have a lot of things on board! And wine."

   "That's right, didn't Mom say she wanted to buy wine for grandpa, but she couldn't take it with her, did she not buy it in the end? They have it on the boat. There are several kinds!" The older girl said to the woman.

   Sure enough, the woman's eyes lit up: "Are you still selling wine?"

   "It's for sale. It's all good wine from Shuangquan Village."

   "Let me take a look!" The woman got up hastily.

   Yang asked Yang Fu to follow him in.

   Soon the woman picked out two jars of good wine, and after listening to Mrs. Yang talk about the beauty of the brown sugar wine vat, she bought a few more packs of brown sugar and distiller's grains.

   "Oh, if I knew I would meet you, I wouldn't have to travel to the city to buy those pastries. If the quality of your pastries is better, I'll get some from you."

  It's a pity that they are all just average, and it's a bit difficult to get them to my mother's house.

  Mr. Yang said: "The pastries sold on my boat are sold to fishermen on the water, and some children in villages along the river buy sweets. They taste good, but they are not suitable for giving away."

   "Mom, delicious!"

  The girl handed the pastry to the woman's mouth. The woman took a sip and sipped it. Well, it tasted pretty good.

  Seeing this, the little boy also put the cake in his hand to his mother's mouth: "Mother, you eat."

   "My mother won't eat it, you can eat it yourself."

   "You two children are really sensible."

  The woman smiled. He glanced at the two children: "I took them to wait by the river for a long time, but no boat was willing to take us. The children are all hungry."

   And distressedly said to the two children: "Eat it, I will buy it for you if you don't have enough."

  The two children nodded, holding the cake and eating it happily.

   After eating, he played with the selected toy Nine Links. The little woman also took out some things from her bag and started to work.

   "Are you a velvet flower?" Yang was a little surprised, seeing someone making velvet flowers in front of her own eyes.

  Huo Xi also turned to look at her.

  Velvet flowers are a specialty of Jinling City, and they are not cheap in the city. The delicate velvet flowers are more expensive.

  Jinling is the production place of Yunjin, one of the three brocades, and Yunjin is a tribute. It is also because of the mass production of Yunjin that there are a lot of silk leftovers, so there are velvet flowers.

   Many workshops specializing in the production of velvet flowers were born in Jinling City.

  Although it is made from leftovers of silk, it is silk after all, and the flowers are endless, and because of the homonym for "Ronghua", women in Jinling City, no matter rich or poor, like headgear made of velvet flowers.

  The velvet flowers are becoming more and more delicate. Later, the leftovers were not enough for production, and the workshops directly used good silk to make them.

  The woman nodded when she saw Mrs. Yang's question, and she was not afraid of revealing her skills. She twisted and trimmed the velvet ball with great dexterity, and soon it became a beautiful velvet flower.

   "It's so beautiful." Yang was stunned.

   "Is this very expensive?"

  (end of this chapter)