Huo Xi and Yang Fu returned to the outer city ferry, where her small awning boat was parked quietly.
Seeing it from a distance, Huo Xi felt extremely warm in her heart.
"Dad, Mom, have you been waiting for a long time?"
"No, no, dad happened to be nearby to buy two loads of water, and also exchanged a basket of vegetables with someone."
"Then I will eat vegetables tonight. I don't want to eat dried salted fish anymore." Yang Fu let out a breath. Although the vegetables are not as good as eating vegetables, they are still better than eating dried fish and pickled vegetables for three meals a day.
Yang came out with Huo Nian in his arms and patted him: "Many people want to eat dried fish but can't, yet you still have to choose! You can't even eat it these days."
"What's wrong?" Yang Fu asked. Huo Xi also looked over.
"Your brother-in-law sold all the dried fish our family kept to the village and emptied it."
"Ah? Someone buys it? How much can it be sold for?"
"How can no one buy it? Do you think it is easy for a farmer without a boat to eat a fish? Besides, the dried fish is packed with salt. Your brother-in-law exchanged it for half a tael of silver and half a bag of coarse grains."
"Half a tael of silver? That's a lot. But..."
"What's wrong?"
"Hehe, your daughter, Xi'er spent nearly half a tael on preparing food for others today. My brother-in-law's dried fish were so wasted that it didn't even make a sound."
Yang opened her mouth in surprise.
Huo Erhuai looked at Huo Xi, who had his head lowered, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I can do anything without spending money. There's no such thing as a cake falling from the sky these days."
After speaking, he touched Huo Xi's head and comforted her. She thought that the trip between uncle and nephew was in vain today. Although she felt sorry for the money, she also knew that the child did not spend it randomly.
Yang came back to her senses, pulled Huo Xi over, and wiped her dark face with her hands: "Why is it painted like this? Maybe let your dad do it next time."
Huo Xi raised his face and asked Yang to wipe it, and then pretended to use a black face on Nian'er. Nian'er hid behind him in disgust. Yang Fu made a face at him, making Nian'er laugh.
Yang Fu said to Mrs. Yang: "Sister, my brother-in-law is not as good as Xi'er. You don't know how powerful Xi'er is today. He walked around the city as if he were back home. He even got a lot of orders for our family!"
"Really?" Yang was so happy that her voice rose.
Huo Erhuai walked to the stern of the boat, shook the oar board to let the boat leave the ferry, and listened carefully.
Yang Fu started talking loudly. After hearing this, Yang forgot to close his mouth.
"Thirty-eight orders? Do you want chrysanthemums?" One family has half a basket and one basket, so how many crabs are needed!
Looking at Huo Xi is like looking at a golden doll.
Then I thought again, can I make money by harvesting 10% more than the market price? If I can't sell it, I will lose more if I get more... Hey, I can't think about it, it hurts my heart.
Huo Xi listened to Yang Fu's report while cleaning her face. Seeing Yang's face changing from happy to sad, she understood, but did not explain.
"Mom, have you received any crabs today?"
"That's not true, but your father caught half a crab pot. Your father hung it outside the hull of the boat and in the water. You can check it out later and see if it's needed."
"Okay." Huo Xi was overjoyed after hearing this, and then looked at Huo Erhuai, "Dad, have you collected some baskets?"
"Yes, I have collected about ten of them, big and small. There is no room to put them on the boat. If they are not enough, dad will buy them tomorrow. I have made an agreement with others."
"That's good."
Huo Erhuai rocked the boat back to the water where it usually docked at night.
"You're back? You guys got back late today. You'll have to make dinner in the dark later." Qian Sanduo's voice came from a distance.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu went out to say hello. It turned out that her family was the last to return home. Almost all the twenty or so family members who usually stopped by had returned.
"We had dinner along the way. Did Brother Qian catch any crabs today?" Yang Fu asked Qian Sanduo in a loud voice.
"Do you really accept it?"
"Collect it. Are you still worried that we will deceive you? We have already exchanged a box of copper coins, can you still accept it?"
Qian Sanduo breathed a sigh of relief.
When selling fish today, he deliberately kept the crabs and asked about the price. It was slightly higher than the previous days. If the Huo family didn't accept it, it would be a waste to let it go.
Just when I was about to call my son, I saw Qian Xiaoxia had already lifted the crab pot out of the water, dripping with water.
As soon as the Huo family parked the boat, Qian Xiaoxia carried the crab pot and jumped onto the stern of Uncle Yu's boat next to the Huo family. He jumped again and jumped onto the Huo family's boat.
"Huo Xi, come and see, how much can I get for these?"
Qian Sanduo shook his head and laughed. He stood on the bow of his boat and stretched his neck to look towards the Huo family.
Yang Fu poured the crabs from Qian's crab pot into his own fishing basket, while Huo Xi squatted in front of the fishing basket and started to pull them out.
"You have big or small ones, you can't have the same price."
"What, you don't want it, little one?" Qian Xiaoxia was a little anxious.
"Yes. But the price is the same for the bigger one, and the same price for the smaller one."
"We are all so familiar, so you can't kill them. My father and I went to sell fish today, and I know the price of crabs." You can't trick me.
Yang Fu pushed him, almost knocking him over, and glared at him: "We are so familiar, do you think of us like this? Xi'er will not deceive others!"
Huo Xi also went to the fish market today, and she knew the price of crabs. The Double Ninth Festival will be in a few days, and the price of crabs changes every day, and it is already more expensive than meat.
"Twenty taels to four taels, twenty cents, four taels upwards, thirty cents, six taels upwards, the price will be negotiated separately."
"A pound?"
"One." Huo Xi looked at the many small crabs in the basket and said, "less than two taels, fifteen cents per catty."
"What?" Not only Qian Xiaoxia was stunned, Yang Fu was also stunned.
A pound of large white meat, sizzling and oily when you bite it, only costs twenty cents per pound. This green shell crab has no meat at all. How expensive is it?
Huo Erhuai tied up the boat and put away the oar planks. Then he arrived at the bow of the boat. When he heard this, he was also stunned.
He didn't go to sell fish today, and he hadn't caught crabs for a long time. He also didn't know the price of crabs for more than half a month. Are crabs more expensive than meat?
Yang held Huo Nian's hand tightly. Huo Nian's little finger pointed at the crab crawling in the basket trying to escape, oh, oh, and pointed.
"You can't have it. This Green Shell General knows how to bite people. It will hurt if you bite Nian'er." Yang threatened him.
When Huo Nian heard this, his little hands shrank back in fear. But he didn't want to go back to the cabin, so Yang held him and stood watching.
"At this price, if your family is willing, sell it to us. If you don't want to, keep it and sell it in the city." Huo Xi pulled down the crab that was crawling out.
"Sell, sell. The price is fair. Let's sell it to Xiao Huo Xi." Qian Sanduo stood on the bow of the boat and said loudly.
Good guy, let’s not go fishing tomorrow, just look for crab nests specifically. Taking advantage of the high price of crabs these days, let’s catch more crabs in exchange for money.
Several people nearby who were watching the excitement also responded and went back to pick up their own crab pots.
When Qian Xiaoxia came to his senses, he and Yang Fu picked up their own crabs and prepared to weigh them, "Your price is higher than the market price. Can you sell it?"
Yang Fu was also a little worried, but looking at Huo Xi who looked calm, he puffed up his chest and said, "That's my family's business. How can you be so careless?"
"You guy! I'm not afraid that your family won't be able to eat when the weather comes, so you have to go to my house to catch the autumn wind."
whispering sound.
Yang Fu was too lazy to pay attention to him, so he divided the Qian family's crabs into several sizes, and then weighed them with Huo Xi.