This girl must be memorizing ancient weather proverbs.
Huo Xi can also memorize a few modern weather proverbs such as "If you don't go out when the morning glow goes out, the sunset will travel thousands of miles", "When the sun rises and the sun turns yellow, the wind will be wild in the afternoon."
Many elderly farmers can also look at some weather conditions, but not many people were literate in ancient times and not many formed a complete weather system.
In ancient times, there was no information explosion like modern times, and it was believed that disciples of the church would starve the master to death, so many things would only be passed down to one's own people as secret techniques orally.
Over time, it was lost.
This girl said that her grandfather was a boat master, and a boat master is someone hired to watch the weather on a long-distance ship.
By observing the sunrise, midday, and sunset, you can know whether it is cloudy or sunny. By observing the stars, checking the clouds, and knowing whether the wind is inverse or not, you can judge the direction of the wind by looking at the clouds, whether it is a tailwind or a headwind.
Observing the stars, observing the sun, and checking the clouds is not something that ordinary people can easily learn.
Those who are powerful can go to Qintian Prison to eat royal food.
Cao Jin, the boss of the ship, had been on the ship for many years, so he naturally knew a little bit about it. He listened to the girl read a few words and nodded towards Huo Xi.
Huo Xi knew that the girl in front of her said that her grandfather was a boat master, which must be true.
"Okay. Then you can stay on the boat for now." A person who knows how to read the weather is an indispensable talent for sailing.
"Thank you, young master, thank you, young master!"
Huo Xi frowned: "It's not an option for you to run out like this." She touched her chin, "Did you just say that you were willing to sell yourself?"
He nodded desperately: "Yes, I am willing to sell myself. As long as the young master gives me a bite to eat, I can follow you on the boat every day."
Huo Xi thought for a while and asked Shen Qianzhong to write a deed of betrayal.
As soon as the deed of betrayal was written, a man and a woman chased after them. They saw two large ships parked on the shore in the distance, holding torches in their hands, but they stopped in their tracks.
The girl named Vanilla saw her father and stepmother chasing after her on the boat. She swooped behind a pile of cargo bags and shrank down as hard as she could.
Huo Xi walked towards her: "You can't stay with me as a refugee. I'll have someone take you there. Your father and I bought you."
Vanilla was afraid that her stepmother would not agree, and her eyes were timid: "My stepmother received ten taels of silver." The village came to buy girls, but each one only cost five or six taels, and the stepmother would not agree.
Huo Xi nodded clearly, then turned around and ordered Shen Qianzhong to let him and the escort chief Lei Da take her off the boat.
"You damn girl, how dare you run away!" Vanilla's stepmother gritted her teeth at her and wanted to pounce on her and beat her.
Lei Da suddenly pulled out the knife from his waist, and she immediately shrank and hid behind her father in fright.
Shen Qianzhong didn't want to talk to them anymore, and held up the deed of betrayal in his hand: "My master has taken a fancy to your girl, and bought her out with you for fifteen taels of silver. This is her deed of betrayal. Come up and take your fingerprints."
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If you can sell your daughter to a widower who killed three wives for ten taels, and sell yourself as a girl to a wealthy family for fifteen taels, you won't disagree.
Sure enough, when Vanilla's stepmother heard this, she hurriedly walked out from behind the man, her eyes shining: "Really fifteen taels?"
Shen Qianzhong weighed the purse in his hand and threw it at her feet. The woman picked it up and looked at the white money inside. Her eyes bulged and she almost drooled.
"I press, I press!" the voice was excited. Holding the bag of silver in one hand, he was about to step forward to press his fingerprints, but was stopped by Vanilla's father.
"Fuck, do you really want to sell yourself?"
Married to a nearby village, you can see each other from time to time and walk around with your parents, brothers and sisters. If you sell to someone else, it will look like a merchant ship. You don’t know where it came from and where it is going. Maybe you will never see it again in your life.
It's up there.
Vanilla looked at him: "Dad, if I sell it to others, I can still survive."
Vanilla dad opened his mouth and said after a while: "As long as dad is here, he won't do anything to you." He tried to persuade him.
"Dad, just sign the deed of betrayal and treat me as if you don't have me as your daughter."
Vanilla's father didn't move, just looked at her steadily. Seeing that he didn't move, Vanilla's stepmother wanted to step forward, but saw the man holding a big knife and glaring at him, so she quietly used her hand to twist Vanilla's father.
Loin soft meat.
In the end, Vanilla Dad still put his fingerprint on the deed of sale.
"In the future, when you are stable, you can send a message to dad." He was a little reluctant.
Lei shouted: "Why do I give you a message to let you continue to exploit her?" The big knife in his hand flashed in front of him.
Vanilla's father was so frightened that he took two steps back, but his eyes were fixed on Vanilla.
When Xianghua saw her father pressing his fingerprints, she felt bitter in her heart. She knelt down to her father and kowtowed three times to him with tears in her eyes. She turned around and left without looking at him.
"Grass!" Vanilla's dad chased after two steps, but Vanilla walked faster and faster.
"Let's go! You sold your body and got money. Let's live our own lives from now on. Don't bother us anymore." Lei Da flashed the big knife in his hand and chased Shen Qianzhong and Xianghua back to the boat.
Vanilla's father watched blankly as his daughter got on the boat and then disappeared.
"Fuck, you have to listen to your master!" Dad can't help you.
There was no response from Vanilla on the boat. Vanilla's father waited there for a long time before lowering his head and turning to leave.
Seeing Xiang Xiang holding the door of the cabin open and looking out, her face full of tears, Huo Xi did not comfort her.
It wasn't until her father and stepmother were far away that the flames of the straw could no longer be seen, then she wiped away her tears and knelt down to Huo Xi: "Thank you, young master."
Huo Xi looked at her: "Be careful with your words and deeds from now on. You shouldn't read, listen, or say anything to others. Close your eyes and mouth, and remember to be loyal. Otherwise, as the master, I have the right to kill.
you."
"Yes, Vanilla remembers it."
"Let's call her Vanilla from now on." I didn't expect that this girl was already fifteen years old, but I couldn't tell at all. She was so thin and small that I thought she was similar to her.
"Yes." He nodded in agreement. Seeing that Huo Xi was about to go to bed, he hurriedly went over to help spread the quilt.
Until Huo Xi fell asleep, Xianghua also found a place to sleep in Huo Xi's cabin.
It wasn't until Huo Xi woke up the next morning that Xiangxiang realized that this was not a young master, but a girl! Thinking of what the girl said, she shut her mouth tightly and continued to call her young master.
Huo Xi was very satisfied.
As soon as the night had passed, she stepped into the role, bringing her face wash and breakfast from the kitchen, looking like a maid. She was even more satisfied.
"You have been raised by your grandpa for several years. Have you ever been on a boat? Are you water-resistant?"
"Yes. The slave is good at water. When I was young, my grandpa would dress up the slave as a boy and take him on the boat. But some ships don't allow girls to board the ship, so I can't follow my grandpa every time he goes out on the ship."
Huo Yi nodded: "Do you really know how to look at the weather?"
"Yes. My grandpa is a powerful boatman, and many people come to ask him to sail the ship. When I was a child, I didn't understand much, so my grandpa asked me to memorize it, saying that I would understand when I grow up. Later, when I recited a sentence, he
Just explain it to me and I will understand."
"Okay, then from now on you can watch the sun, stars, wind and clouds on the deck, and I'll see if what you said is accurate."
"Okay, slave, let's go now!" Vanilla was gathering energy in her heart, thinking that she would not let her master feel that she was bought for nothing, so she must show off her skills to her master.
I originally wanted to update it four times, but I'm a little bit more immobile. I'll make up for it when I have time.