"Uncle, uncle, we are here!" Huo Nian jumped at the stern of the boat and waved to the shore.
"Hey, uncle is here."
Fourteen-year-old Yang Fu has grown a lot taller and is now on the same level as Huo Erhuai. He looks like a boy who can take charge of his family.
Huo Nian went up to him again and said, "Uncle, sister spank Nian'er." He then complained in his uncle's ear.
Yang Fu pretended to be shocked, his eyes widened: "Ah, sister spanked our Nian'er again? Uncle will help Nian'er vent her anger in a while, okay?"
Huo Nian hugged his neck, nodded fiercely, and quickly shook his head: "Uncle, just tell her, just tell her not to be so cruel to Nian'er, and don't hit my sister."
"Okay, then uncle, let's talk about her properly. How can she keep beating our Nian'er's ass? It's really outrageous."
"Yes, that's outrageous."
Huo Nian turned around and snorted at Huo Xi. When Huo Xi glared at him, he lay back on Yang Fu's shoulder.
In the evening, Huo Xi and Yang Fu followed their boat back to Taoye Ferry.
She and Yang Fu lived in Qionghua Lane most of the time.
Although they have a house at home, Huo Erhuai and Yang prefer fishing, and the couple spend most of their time living on the boat. Huo Nian depends on his mood. If Huo Xi has time to take care of him, he and Huo Xi will live on the shore.
Living on the boat means the family spends more time together on the boat.
On the way back to Taoye Ferry, the family had dinner.
Seeing Huo Nian jumping around on the boat without stopping, and remembering the dirty words he said in the water that night, "I have a seed, my sister doesn't", Huo Xi thought about restraining his temper.
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He is almost five years old. He is clever and a little clever, but he just can't sit still.
I also taught him some words, but he remembers them well when counting, and he has no idea about how to read and write. He will remember it today and forget it tomorrow. If he is asked to write big characters, he will jump into the water. If you insist on not practicing, he will
Huo Xi was very angry when he emerged from Cai Shui.
Huo Xi glanced at Yang Fu. When Shen Luo was sent to a private school by Shen Qianzhong, Huo Xi also asked Yang Fu to study with him for a few years. After Yang Fu finished studying for three years, he didn't want to continue studying.
Come on. Run after Shen Qianzhong.
After being taken under the guidance of Shen Qianzhong for a year, he was able to discuss business alone. The fourteen-year-old boy was already able to stand alone.
Huo Xi was a little relieved.
No matter what the future holds, whether it's fishing or doing business, my uncle will have more choices and the road will be easier.
Seeing Huo Xi looking at him, Yang Fu moved to Huo Xi and asked, "Xi'er?"
"It's okay. Have you visited the shops in the outer city?"
"I've seen it. Shopkeeper Shen said that the shop is not enough now. All our goods are piled up there and there is no place to store them. I think if no one is willing to sell the shop, I am going to find another shop nearby. I
I think it would be more convenient to buy the shops on the left and right to connect them."
"The shops on that street are all old shops that have been around for many years. Unless there are major changes, it will be difficult to rent them, let alone sell them."
"Yes. Shopkeeper Shen said the same thing. He said you don't want to buy a shop in the inner city?"
Huo Xi nodded: "Well, the inner city is too troublesome. There are many rules and restrictions, and it is also far from the outer city dock. It is not convenient for our freight from the north to the south."
"Can't we bring the goods over by boat from Dongshuiguan? There are many rich people in the inner city. If we have a shop, we can do more expensive business, and the profit should be considerable."
Huo Xi looked at him. Today, Yang Fu has lost all his youthfulness. He often travels around and has developed a lot of skills. He is no longer the naive fisherman boy he was four years ago.
Huo Xi gave him a thumbs up.
"What's wrong?"
"Uncle, now that I have you, I can rest. I can just fish on the river with my parents."
Yang Fu scratched his head in embarrassment: "Shopkeeper Shen is very powerful. I still have a lot to learn from him."
"You are already very powerful now. Earlier, when you went out, my mother worried about you day and night. Now my mother doesn't mention you much all day. I feel relieved."
Yang Fu smiled, glanced at Mrs. Yang, and whispered: "Xi'er, I like to run around and talk business with people. I can go to different places, see different scenery, and see different people."
"Just live the way you like. Life is only a few decades long, and you should do things that make you happy and willing to do it."
"Yes." Yang Fu nodded. Seeing that she was not looking at him, he followed her gaze and saw that she was staring at Nian'er: "Looking at Nian'er?"
"Well, this kid is getting tougher and tougher now, I think I need to put a halter on him."
Yang Fu laughed: "You want to send him to study? My sister and brother-in-law will be reluctant to do so. I'm afraid they will have to guard the entrance of the academy every day like a watchtower."
Huo Xi also laughed when thinking about that scene.
Huo Nian, a villain, shuddered when he saw his sister and uncle looking at him. These two people must be holding back some ideas, Nian'er was afraid.
"Mom, my sister and uncle must be holding it in again. You have to help Nian'er." She stood close to Yang.
Mrs. Yang was putting away the pots and pans. When she heard what he said, she turned to look at Huo Xi and Yang Fu, and whispered to comfort him: "It's okay, we have mother and father."
"Well, Mom, you are the best. I like Mom the most." He said sweet words and lay on Yang's back.
Yang felt as if she had drank a hundred and eighty kilograms of honey. She raised her buttocks and bumped him, feeling very full.
"I like my mother the most, so I don't like my father?" Huo Erhuai walked to the bow of the boat and teased him.
The boy let go of Yang and moved to Huo Erhuai, hugging his thigh and raising his head: "Nian'er also likes dad the most."
You damn boy, you can’t even see. Huo Xi stroked his forehead.
Soon the boat rowed back to Taoye Ferry.
Today, Taoye Ferry has changed several waves of people, from the twenty-seven stops at the beginning, to thirty, and now to nearly a hundred, which are packed with stops for several miles.
The first wave of people who followed the Huo family to sell goods, such as the Qian family, Yu Jiang, Ma Ji brothers and others, rarely stopped at Taoye Ferry.
Since Huo Xi had shops and warehouses in other cities, he needed the help of boatmen to deliver goods to both sides, to carry the goods from this city and then bring the goods from the other side back. Huo Xi also had a few ships of his own, but they were still not enough.
Yujiang then started the business of delivering goods.
Since he became rich, his family would always find various excuses to come over and ask for money or things. They would even find Taoye Ferry at night and stay on his boat. He was so annoyed that he just helped Huo Xi run away. Got the boat.
I made a few deliveries back and forth in a month, and not only made a lot of money, but I could also buy some goods from both sides and find a place to sell them when I came back. I could make a lot of money in a month.
In the past few years, I have also bought a house in another city. No one knows the address except the Huo family and a few close friends.
The brothers Ma Ji and Ma Xiang both got married and bought a boat. The two brothers took one of their children and helped Huo Xi run the boat.
Qian Xiaoyu and Qian Xiaoxia are two brothers who own a boat and help run the boat.
Qian Sanduo and Sun almost stopped fishing. They bought about 20 acres of land in a village below Jiangning and built a house. They occasionally bought some goods from their son and sold them in the villages along the river. They lived a comfortable life. good.
Most of the people who started selling goods with Huo Xi had land and built houses in the countryside. Some people lived a small life in the countryside, but most of them still bought goods from Huo Xi and helped run the boat.
Who cares about having too much money, right?
As soon as the Huo family's boat entered the ferry, everyone came up to say hello. They were all partners. During the peak season, when the goods were plentiful, Huo Xi relied on them to help run the boat. She got along well with everyone.
She doesn't have that many boats now, and her own fleet is not yet large-scale. It is not easy to train a boatman, and she has to rely on these familiar boatmen.
After the boat stopped, Huo Erhuai and Yang took the wine out and drank with everyone while chatting and bonding.
Huo Nian also found a boy of similar age to him and played around on the boat.
Late at night, Huo Xi made her bed and was about to sleep, when she saw Huo Nian holding a small pillow and pushing open her cabin door.
"Sister, I want to sleep with you."
Her little feet rubbed against the board of the boat, her eyes looked at Huo Xi, blinking, biting her lip for fear that Huo Xi would disagree.
Huo Xi's heart suddenly softened into water.
Waved at him: "Come." Huo Nian saw it and immediately rushed towards her.
He put down the small pillow, got into her bed, held the edge of the quilt with both hands, and smiled proudly at Huo Xi.
"Aren't you going to sleep with uncle?"
"I want to sleep with my sister today."
"Then you are not allowed to wet the bed."
"I don't wet the bed!" He got angry. He pouted and turned away.
After only two breaths, he turned around again: "Sister, bedwetting sister, you are not allowed to rush Nian'er."
"Don't rush."
"Sister is the best, I like her the most." Monkey came over.
Damn boy, who do you like the most?
After listening to the story told by Huo Xi, Huo Nian started snoring quickly. Huo Xi looked at him quietly for a long time, caressed his little face, sighed with emotion, and then fell asleep next to him.