July is a month of fire, and cicadas and insects chirp frequently, making people feel dry.
Huo Nian's school was on summer vacation, and he pestered Huo Xi, jumping up and down. Huo Xi was so annoyed with him that he couldn't bear to discipline him, so she had to take him with her.
"Sister, that brother is really blind and blind, and he still calls you a good brother."
Huo Nian covered her mouth and snickered for a long time. She raised her little face and walked around Huo Xi: "Sister is easy to recognize. I can recognize her at a glance. I can tell she is my sister even from a distance. Why?
Can’t that brother recognize him?”
Seeing that Huo Xi didn't reply to him, he said to himself: "Huh, I won't tell him anyway. Even if he gave me these many gifts, I wouldn't remind him. Who makes him blind?
Blind."
Huo Xi glanced at him: "He sent you so many gifts from the northwest, and you still say bad things about him behind his back?"
"I'm not saying bad things." Huo Nian jumped up to defend.
"Then what are these words?"
"Yes...it's not a bad thing anyway." Huo Nian pouted, but he didn't say bad things about anyone behind their back.
Huo Xi flipped through the shop's entry and exit details and ignored him. He chatted alone for a long time, and then came over again: "Sister, won't you reply to that brother? I'll sharpen the ink for you?"
"It's so hot that you have to stick to me."
"As long as it's sticky, it's sticky." He hugged her arms tightly.
Huo Xi couldn't get rid of him, so he had to forget it. After a while, he couldn't sit still anymore. Sure enough, he had barely taken two breaths when he saw the little boy jumping away again and moving the ink to grind it, insisting that Huo Xi write a reply.
"Didn't you go to school? Why don't you write this letter for my sister?"
Huo Nian's eyes lit up, and he was about to nod, but then hesitated: "But I don't know too many words yet."
"Then leave blank the words you don't know, and my sister will fill them in later."
"Okay!" Pi Xiaozi was finally willing to calm down and do something, and Huo Xi breathed a sigh of relief.
Now the shop in Songjiang has opened, and the nanny and Ma Ma have quit their jobs, bought ten looms, rented a large yard, and hired people to weave.
She originally only gave Uncle Li Yu a thousand taels of silver. The money needed to rent a shop and a house, and to hire an accounting clerk to receive the goods, so it was a bit tight.
Huo Xi wanted to let the nanny and the nanny resign from the weaving mill and work for themselves, so that they would not be so tired. They could work when they wanted, rest when they wanted, and be their own masters.
I don't want her to be too tired.
So what I told Cousin Yu was just to buy five looms and hire three or two people to relieve her boredom.
Unexpectedly, the nanny and Ma Ma took this as a career and bought ten looms in one go, draining their own wealth.
Fortunately, the nanny is now accompanied by the nanny, and Huo Xi's worry has been forgotten. Cousin Yu also takes the nanny with him and teaches him carefully. It's a pity that the nanny can't return to the nanny.
Huo Xi couldn't help but sigh, saying that life is impermanent.
Now that Cousin Yu, wet nurse and nanny were helping to collect some goods, cloth and grain in Songjiang, Huo Xi felt much more at ease.
Ships from Guangfengshui made several trips to Songjiang these days, transporting a lot of goods back and also bringing cargo from the capital to Songjiang. Songjiang's shops were now open, and business was getting better day by day.
It doesn't look like it will take long to recover the cost.
These days, my uncle has sent many people to her. Now there are people everywhere, and finally there is not much shortage of people.
As for whether these people can be used, it will take some time to see. As for loyalty, she is not worried. If her maternal uncle can send it to her, he must have passed the test of brush selection.
"Sister, I've finished writing."
Huo Xi was called back to her senses by Pi Xiaozi. She took a look at the letter he handed to her and was stunned.
Only a few words were written on this piece of paper. It was big, black, and round, with many empty spaces. Several pages were written in just a few sentences.
"Sister, is my writing good?" Pi Xiaozi raised his head proudly and waited for her to praise her.
This letter is simply unbearable to read.
But it was not easy to dampen Pi Xiaozi's confidence. Huo Xi nodded bravely: "Okay, I didn't expect that we Nian'er could write letters after studying for such a short time. It's great."
Pi Xiaozi immediately became extremely proud.
"Then sister will help me make up for it, and I will write another letter to my grandparents. After I finish writing, we will buy gifts for them, and also for Brother Gong."
Pi Xiaozi was so praised that he couldn't stop writing. He immediately spread out the paper again and started writing a letter to his grandparents.
Seeing that he was in high spirits, it was hard to discourage him. Huo Xi had no choice but to take a pen, guess his thoughts, and fill in the missing words. If he couldn't guess, he asked him what he wanted to write in the empty space.
"where?"
Deng Deng Deng ran over and said, "Oh, here, thank you brother for the porcelain figurine you gave me. I can't write porcelain."
Uh...Okay. Huo Xi resignedly helped him fill in the missing words on the paper.
The two siblings each held a side of the desk and wrote a reply very seriously. There was a sound of cicadas in the courtyard, but the backyard of the shop had a quiet feeling that had passed through the years.
Later, when Huo Erhuai entered the shop with several carts of bamboo, silk, hemp rope and other items, he was so happy to see that Huo Nian could write a letter.
"Our Nian'er has only read this book for a while, and now he can write letters. It's great. Dad is happy. I'll tell your mother later, and your mother will be happy too."
"Well, if I read more books, I can recognize more words and write longer letters."
Pi Xiaozi was always praised, but the more he praised, the more energetic he became, and he made a great wish with his father: "When Nian'er can recognize more words in the future, he will read some good stories in the book to his parents."
"Okay, our Nian'er is the best."
After Huo Erhuai finished unloading the goods and keeping accounts, and seeing that it was getting late, the father and son walked outside the shop.
"Aren't you waiting for uncle?" Huo Nian took Huo Erhuai's hand and raised his head and asked.
"We'll wait for your uncle at the ferry later."
Huo Erhuai lowered his head and glanced at him with a smile. He and his mother had raised the child carefully, and it finally grew so big, which made people happy.
"We will hide the boat for a while so that uncle cannot find it and make him anxious, hehe."
"Okay, dad will hide the boat in a moment." Huo Erhuai almost responded to his son's requests.
The three of them turned a corner and passed by a medical center. They saw someone pulling at the door. Huo Xi didn't want to cause trouble, so she wanted to go around from the other side.
But after taking only two steps, Huo Erhuai was stunned.
"father?"
"It seems to be your fifth aunt."
"Fifth Aunt? Who is it?" Huo Nian looked puzzled. Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized, "Dad, go and have a look."
"Okay, you guys wait here for dad."
Huo Erhuai trotted towards the door of the medical center. Huo Nian shook Huo Xi's hand: "Sister, who is the fifth aunt?"
Huo Xi lowered her head and glanced at him, not knowing what to say about the Huo family.
Over the years, Huo Erhuai and Yang also knew that Huo Xi wanted to hide the identity of the two siblings and would not take them back to Huojiaba during the holidays.
The Huo family didn't even have a room for Huo Erhuai and Yang, so why did they take the two children back to suffer?
He just said that the two children were in poor health and never took them back to his hometown.
Huo Xi probably knew who there were in the Huo family, but Huo Nian had never seen or heard of them. He stood on tiptoes and looked over there curiously.
I'll make an update after I've been busy for the past two days~ There are too many things to do, and I feel a little ashamed of everyone that I have to say more updates.