Mu Yan entered the house, without looking back, and ordered: "Bring two jars to aunt, and the smaller jar will be given to you as a reward."
"Master, you don't want to eat?" Mu Li was stunned.
"Don't eat!"
Mu Yan said bitterly. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. It must have been too expensive. Didn't you see that she was floating when she walked just now? She must have been cheated! So angry.
"Thank you, Master!"
Mu Limukan happily agreed, and went to the kitchen with the butter in his hands. The Zhang family's children just mentioned several ways to eat it, and they were going to try it.
As for Cheng, I heard that Mu Yan bought her two cans of food on the road. What's the name of the butter? I don't know.
But he couldn't help but feel excited in his heart and the corners of his mouth raised. After hearing Mu Li explain several ways to eat it, he was eager to try it and hurriedly asked the kitchen to cook it. His son's hard work could not be wasted.
When I took it into my mouth, it tasted so delicious that I burst into tears.
The child usually treated her coldly and called her aunt, but in fact he was thinking about her in his heart. Whenever he saw delicious food on the street, he would buy it for her.
Mrs. Cheng was deeply moved. The child was cold-faced and warm-hearted, but he was just not good at expressing it. She even felt that she had wronged him. Her motherly heart was tormented in every possible way, thinking of how to make up for him.
Besides, Huo Xi was very happy after selling five more taels of silver.
I took Yang Fu to Butcher Gao and bought two pig's trotters and a big piece of fat and thin pork belly. I also cut ten kilograms of suet and went back to refine the oil. I heard from Butcher Gao that if I came earlier, I could still buy pork belly.
Only then did Huo Xi realize that generally, pork has five layers including meat, fat, skin and flowers, but good pork can have up to seven or eight layers of flowers, with moderate fatness and leanness. It tastes very fragrant, fat but not greasy.
I was thinking about coming back to buy it next time, but Yang Fu was already drooling all over the place.
The two came to the ferry in the outer city. They didn't see his family's boat, so they waited at the ferry.
It wasn't until the sky was filled with red clouds that Huo Erhuai came to pick him up by boat.
When Mrs. Yang saw that they had bought meat again, she was happy that they had filial piety, but her flesh ached. Huo Erhuai just looked at it with a smile and said, "If your child is filial, you should drink more pig's trotter soup, and it will help Nian'er."
Raised to be white and fat."
When Mrs. Yang heard that they had sold all the bald butter and sold it for several taels of silver, she no longer felt sorry for the piece of pork belly and happily took it to the bow of the boat to put it away.
Yang Fu entered the cabin, took out the other things he bought from the basket, and began to pour the silver from the bottom of the basket into a small pile.
"Sister, come and count the silver!"
Huo Xi hugged Huo Nian and sat cross-legged beside him, watching with a smile. Huo Nian also leaned over to grab it, wondering if he was beginning to understand the value of silver.
As soon as he heard the money being counted, Yang hurriedly got into the cabin with a smile on his face.
Huo Xi didn't even need to count to know how much he got. Fifteen cans of Bald Butter, six cans per kilogram, and the last three cans were sold to the noble man for an extra five taels, so there should be...
"Forty-six taels!" So many! Yang's face was full of disbelief.
"It's forty-seven taels. I still have these copper coins. Xi'er and I just bought meat, seasonings and rice wine."
Yang was so happy that she didn't know what to do with her hands and feet: "His father, his father, the two children sold Bald Butter for forty-seven taels!" The thirty-seven taels already felt like a lot in his hands last time, but this time it was actually a lot.
Even more than last time.
"Okay, okay!" Huo Erhuai was very excited. He chanted "ok" several times, and his hand shaking the oar trembled. The family got such a large sum of money, and Xi'er wanted to buy a big boat, and this time it really happened.
"Xi'er, our family can buy a bigger boat!"
Huo Xi got out of the cabin: "Dad, have you found out clearly? How much money does it cost?"
"I have inquired clearly. As Xi'er said, the two ends are long and the belly is enlarged. The length of the boat is more than four feet, and the hull is more than half a foot. There are also oars and oars on the bow. I can make it for us, thirty taels.
You can get it." (One foot here is three point three and three meters)
"Thirty taels?" Huo Xi frowned.
"Thirty Liang can build a brick house in the countryside." Yang felt a little sad.
Huo Erhuai comforted her: "We bought a big boat, and then built the cabin part according to Xi'er's idea. It can build three cabins in the front, middle and back. It's like a small walking house. You can sleep with your legs straight out."
How nice."
"That's right, sister, I can have my own cabin! It's beautiful just thinking about it."
Huo Xi and Yang Fu couldn't wait any longer, so they urged Huo Erhuai to order a big ship the next day.
Huo Xi drew the changes she wanted to make on the newly bought paper and asked Huo Erhuai to take it.
The waterways in the south of the Yangtze River are developed and there are many shipyards. However, each shipyard has rules and regulations and does not allow women to enter. It is considered unlucky for a woman to board a ship. Although there are many women on board the boats among the Danmin fishermen, many shipyards still refuse women to enter.
Huo Xi did not follow. Even Yang and Huo Erhuai stopped the boat far away and asked her to stay on the boat.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu didn't sell anything today, they just took him for a stroll. First they went to the outer city and then to the inner city.
He took Yang Fu to various grocery stores, grain and oil shops, and cloth and embroidery shops in the inner city. Then he moved a day's worth of goods to the wharf in the outer city and got thirty-two coins.
In the afternoon, I stopped moving goods and squatted on the dock to watch the ships coming and going, observing what goods they were carrying, what kind of ships they were carrying, where they came from, and where they were going.
Seeing that he looked kind and spoke kindly, he took Yang Fu forward to inquire.
Yang Fu was dragged around various shops by Huo Xi that day, and now he was asking questions on the dock. He was confused and didn't understand what she wanted to do.
But he didn't ask too much and just followed Huo Xi closely. He would do whatever Huo Xi asked him to do.
Before the sunset filled the sky, Huo Xi took Yang Fu to the bookstore and bought a copy of "The Three Character Classic" and a copy of "Hundred Family Surnames", as well as some cheap pens, inks, paper and inkstones, for which they spent nearly one tael of silver.
He said he would go back and teach Yang Fu how to read.
Yang Fu pursed his lips and did not dare to raise objections, fearing that Xi'er would complain and his sister would beat him.
Then I thought about it, it would be good to be able to recognize more words. For example, at the dock, Xi'er could clearly see the emblems of various merchants and shipowners, and could understand the names of the goods, but he didn't recognize them.
Today, Xi'er also got a counting job because of her literacy and numeracy, and the two of them earned twenty cash. Including the work of moving goods, they actually earned thirty-two cash that day!
Actually, I got more copper coins than I ever got before.
If he could read and write, he wouldn't have to struggle with the porters on the dock for work. He could just do a small job of keeping accounts and bookkeeping, and he would be able to earn twice as much copper as others. How great.
It’s beautiful to think about. I’ll make sure to learn how to read well when I go back.
Huo Erhuai went to the shipyard early in the morning with the sketches drawn by Huo Xi, and placed a deposit. He fished for a long time on the river, and then came to pick up his uncle and nephew before sunset.
"Brother-in-law, how many fish did you catch today?" Yang Fu and Huo Xi got on the boat. They teased Huo Nian for a while, then opened the fish box at the stern of the boat to take a look.
Huo Xi also held Huo Nian and came closer to take a look.