When several people saw Yang Fu running into the cabin crying, they looked at each other and sighed.
Huo Xi thought of the two thousand pieces of linen she had bought from a southern merchant, and feared that she would have many nightmares at night.
Then he took out the deed and handed it to Yu Jiang: "Uncle Yu, I need to trouble you. Please take Brother Xiang and Brother Sheng there and bring our hemp back. I'm afraid of long nights and many dreams."
Huo Erhuai saw it and stood up quickly: "Dad, let's go too."
Huo Xi nodded: "Okay, Dad, take the money with you. Let Brother Xiang and Brother Sheng accompany you to the place where you rent a scooter and pay the money to others."
"Okay." I almost forgot about the trolley.
Huo Erhuai packed up and was about to get off the boat, but he was a little worried about his two children: "Xi'er, are you okay?"
Huo Xi forced a smile at him: "It's okay, dad. I'll think about other options on the boat."
"Okay. You guys stay on the boat, don't get off the boat, and wait for dad to come back." Huo Erhuai confessed repeatedly.
Huo Xi nodded: "Well, we won't get off the boat. Dad, you can go."
After the people left, Huo Xi sat blankly on the board of the boat, feeling defeated for the first time.
It turns out that nothing is easy.
If she sells the silk cloth for ten taels per piece, she can get 530 taels. After deducting the 130 taels she originally paid for the cloth, she can make a net profit of 400 taels.
She also has 400 taels of silver notes in her hand. Counting what she earns and how she borrows the money and shares the profits, she can have about 1,000 taels.
For twelve ounces and one acre of fertile land, she could buy nearly one hectare of fertile land.
If one acre produces three or four stones of grain, she can have three to four hundred stones of grain in one season. She can eat as much as she wants, and there will be endless grain.
There's a lot of food.
Then she would save the money from selling grain. Then she would earn some money and save it again. When Nian'er grows up, she can send him to school and hire famous teachers for him.
The mother must have longed for her son to be smart and capable of learning a lot in the future. When she was pregnant with the child, she even asked her to recite books and read poems to the child in her belly.
Mother must be looking forward to this.
But her mother died miserably for them. Huo Xi's tears flowed down the corners of her eyes.
"Xi'er, I'm sorry. I was careless and fell into someone else's trap."
Yang Fu heard her sobbing, came out of the cabin, came to her side, and kept saying sorry to her.
I wanted to help her wipe away her tears, but I didn't dare.
Huo Xi wiped his eyes and sighed: "It's not my uncle's fault. It's just that other people's tricks are so deep that we can't guard against them."
"It's all my fault." Yang Fu lowered his head. He was dazzled by the high price of twelve horses.
Huo Xi was silent.
"Xi'er, can we ask Mr. He for help?"
Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head.
"Why? Master He should be willing to help, right?"
"We have brought so much stuff with us, so it's better not to trouble others. It will make Mr. He's life difficult. Maybe it will be self-defeating in the end."
If someone gets jealous of the goods they buy and reports them, and collects commercial taxes along the way, everyone in Taoyedu will blame them.
And there should be someone behind the warehouse, otherwise he wouldn't be so careless as to rent a warehouse at the dock and set a trap for passing retail traders.
To deal with extraordinary people, you still have to use extraordinary means.
"Xi'er, what are we going to do?" There are so many silks and a lot of money. A large amount of money that he has never seen before.
Huo Xi narrowed her eyes bitterly. She had to spit out what she had eaten.
If you don't spit it out, you will have to peel off the skin.
"Wait until dark."
Before sunset, all the two thousand pieces of linen purchased earlier were shipped back, which made Huo Xi let out a long sigh of relief.
After dividing it with each family, the rest were moved to his own ship and loaded up, wrapped in oilcloth several times and stacked on the ship's board. Neither He Feng nor the supervisor took away the previous Cao flag, so Huo Xi still kept it
Plug it into the bow of your own boat.
By this time, all the food on Taoyedu's ships had been delivered. Most of them had also heard about the Huo family being tricked.
When they heard that they were going to see each other in the evening, they all responded one after another.
Taoyedu is a group, we came out together, and when we were bullied in a foreign country, we naturally wanted to get our place back.
After Qian Xiaoyu handed over the grain and helped carry the linen, he said he wanted to go together.
There were many people responding. Huo Xi asked Huo Erhuai to order about ten people, and the remaining people docked the boat together and guarded the boat together.
There are many things on every ship. Poor people value every penny and cannot afford to lose them.
After dinner, we sat and waited on the board for a long time until the noise on the pier gradually subsided.
Huo Xi stood up.
"Xi'er, why don't you go and stay on the boat, and dad and your uncle will take everyone there."
Huo Xi shook her head: "Dad, I want to go."
Huo Erhuai sighed, touched her head, and took her hand to get off the boat.
Others who were planning to act together also quietly disembarked and followed behind.
Huo Erhuai held up his hands and said, "I don't know what will happen when I go out this time. Everyone is following my house this time..." The honest man is worried that everyone will follow his family and get involved in a lawsuit.
Qian Sanduo and his son, brothers Ma Ji and Ma Xiang, Yu Jiang and others didn't care: "Erhuai, don't say heretics. If we are bullied, you won't stand idly by."
Huo Erhuai nodded and extended his hands to everyone. He didn't say any more words of thanks and just walked in front with his two children.
Huo Xi glanced at the people following him and silently wrote it down.
Naturally, one should repay the kindness given by others in the form of a spring.
The group of people arrived near the dock warehouse in the dark.
"No one is guarding the door."
"I'm going to take a look." Yang Fu broke away from Huo Erhuai's hand and trotted over.
"I'll go take a look too." Qian Xiaoxia also ran after him.
Huo Xi thought for a moment and said, "Dad, please wait here while we go and explore first." After saying that, he broke away from Huo Erhuai's hand and ran towards the warehouse.
"Hey, Xi'er..." These two children.
Huo Erhuai wanted to follow, but Qian Sanduo and others held him tightly, "Let the kids explore first, and we'll go there later."
At the door of the warehouse, Huo Xi saw Yang Fu and Qian Xiaoxia leaning against the crack of the door and looking at it for a long time without any reaction. He asked anxiously: "What, is there anyone inside?"
The two stepped back and shook their heads: "I didn't see anything, it was dark."
"Why is there no one guarding such a big warehouse?"
"Maybe they are asleep?"
"Xi'er, what should I do?"
Huo Xi touched her chin, that shouldn't be the case. Isn't such a big warehouse just for storing goods? Isn't it possible that there is no one to guard it?
The original plan was to sneak in, hold people down, and interrogate the people about the whereabouts of the silk. But if that didn't work, they took advantage of the crowd and robbed the items in the warehouse, rowing away overnight.
He turned around and saw that the stones thrown during the day were still there, and said, "Let's throw a few stones in there to test it out."
Qian Xiaoxia and Yang Fu nodded, each picked up two, stood at a distance, and threw them inside.
After throwing it away, I lay down in the dark and observed it for a long time, but there was no sound at all inside.
No one came out to check.
"There really isn't anyone, right?"
"Isn't it better if no one is around? We just happened to get in and snatch the goods."
"You are stupid. If there is no one to guard such a big warehouse, either the things inside are not valuable, or there are no things stored in it at all."
"Ah, you don't have anything? Then why rent such a big warehouse? It's a lot of money?"
"Maybe it was moved on a boat and transported away."
Yang Fu and Qian Xiaoxia were bickering. Huo Xi's brows became tighter and tighter.