The two boatmen never thought that after hearing Xiaoyu’s story, this strange prince would not only not be moved at all, but also get furious!
Not only did he kill the fish on the ground with a stick, but he also threw several gold leaves at them out of anger! Let them immediately sail to the water to catch a few more fish, so that he could kill them all and eat them!
The story of the filial fish that has been circulating for who knows how long is naturally worthy of touching the boatman, but this kind of touching immediately becomes worthless in front of gold!
So, after a brief period of confusion, the two boatmen immediately collected the gold like crazy and rushed towards the river screaming!
"What are you doing?" Zhang Qiang asked Xiao Han, frowning and looking at the dead big fish on the ground.
"Eat fish!" Xiao Han shook his head hard, trying to get the legend about this fish out of his mind! As a person who walked out of an orphanage, he had an instinctive resistance to this foolish and filial spirit!
(The legend about Xiaoyu makes people feel a little uncomfortable, so I won’t go into details. If you are interested, you can search it.)
"Then eat the fish!" Seeing Xiao Han's furious look, Zhang Qiang opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't ask any more questions. They just helped Xiao Han carry the fish with its broken head back to Xiaodong.
Catching fish, like fishing, apart from technique, is largely a matter of luck!
Especially on such a big river, maybe if you drop a net and catch a school of fish passing by, you can naturally catch a lot of fish!
But if you are unlucky, the fish will all swim to other places, and no matter how good your casting skills are, you will never catch a single fish hair.
The boatman was very lucky just now, and he caught the huge black fish in just a few strokes.
But now that I am tempted by gold, I try hard to catch fish, but I get nothing.
One net is empty, two nets are a frog...
In this way, until Xiao Han and others started to eat on the river beach, the two exhausted boatmen returned to the shore.
At this time, what the two of them were carrying was only about a pound of small miscellaneous fish.
Xiao Han was sitting on a big rock, holding the fattest skewer of fish in his hand. He saw the two people cowering from a distance, and winked at Xiaodong.
Xiaodong, who was busy eating, saw Xiao Han's eyes and immediately understood! He wiped his mouth, stood up and shouted to the two boatmen: "Hey, are you tired? Come and have a bowl of soup to rest!"
"Ah, no, no! We're not hungry!"
How could the two boatmen dare to sit with people like Xiao Han? So after hearing Xiaodong calling them over, they immediately shook their heads! The movement was so large that people worried that they would shake their heads off.
"Come here when I tell you to! There's so much nonsense!" Seeing the two of them standing still, Xiaodong immediately raised his voice and yelled and cursed again!
He knew what Xiao Han was thinking. If they didn't come, who would Xiao Han ask questions to? If he didn't ask questions, he wouldn't bother to stay here and would have gone home to stay.
"This... is good..."
The boatman was a little at a loss when Xiaodong scolded him. He stayed there for a while, and then he cautiously approached. When they saw Xiao Han turning to face them, the two of them immediately gave away the golden leaves they had been holding tightly with both hands.
go back.
If you haven't completed what others have told you, instead of waiting for others to ask for it, you should be more conscious.
"Haha, this is a reward for you, keep it all! I have never seen any prince reward you with something and still ask for it back."
After looking at the two embarrassed boatmen, Xiao Han almost laughed out loud and waved his hand, asking them to take back the gold leaves.
"Thank...Thank you, Lord Marquis."
The two boatmen looked at Xiao Han's cheerful appearance and hesitated for a moment, but in the end the value of gold defeated them, and they quickly and carefully put away the gold leaves.
Now that things have happened, they are willing to risk their lives. What little things they have are worthy of a prince's plans? Even if it is their own lives, it is not a loss to exchange these few gold leaves for them!
"Sit down, give them two bowls of fish soup and two steamed buns!" Xiao Han looked at the boatman's actions with a smile, pointed to the empty seat opposite him, and asked Xiaodong to serve soup to them.
It must have been the money they had just received that gave them courage! This time they did not refuse. They thanked carefully and took the fish soup, sipping it greedily in small sips.
The two boatmen drank the soup very seriously. In fact, as boatmen, they were not unfamiliar with fish soup. They even said that they drank fish soup that was more delicious than this bowl of mixed fish soup!
However, the current bowl of mixed fish soup was given to them by a prince, and with so many spices in it, the originally ordinary fish soup became extraordinary.
Xiao Han has always been picky about eating, especially when conditions permit.
The grilled fish skewers were a little dry because they were not brushed with oil.
Because the fish soup was made from river water, Xiao Han only drank half a bowl.
As for the black fish, after thinking about it for a long time, he changed his mind and planned to take it home and make a black fish hotpot to share with Xue Pan.
Cooking such delicacies in the wild is really a waste of resources.
After eating for a while, Xiao Han put down his bowl and chopsticks and took a sip of the water he brought in the water bag. He looked at the two boatmen opposite and asked with a smile: "How many years have you been tinkering with boats?
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Hearing this, the boatman hurriedly swallowed the steamed bun in his throat, raised his hands and replied: "To return to Mr. Hou, it has been more than ten years! Ever since the river was established, we started to build these two boats."
"More than ten years?" Xiao Han looked up at the dilapidated boat the two of them parked by the river, nodded and continued to ask: "It is indeed not short! In addition to fishing and ferrying people across the river, you are on this river.
Besides, what else do you do?”
"this……"
Hearing this question, the two boatmen hesitated and looked at each other, not knowing how to answer.
Xiao Han also noticed something strange about the two boatmen. He sat upright and said to them with a smile: "Don't be afraid, I'm just curious, just asking!"
One of the boatmen looked at Xiao Han, gritted his teeth and said, "I dare not hide it from you, sir. In the past, we would also send passengers on long journeys, and occasionally help transport goods."
"Oh? Both of these are time-consuming. Just now you said that you still have land at home, can you take care of your land?" Xiao Han did not ask how the two of them could avoid the government's inspection, but just touched his chin and asked.
It seems like a very unrelated issue.
When the boatman saw that Xiao Han did not pursue their private boating, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "At that time, the family just farmed a little bit of land, because whether it was carrying passengers or delivering goods, the money they earned was always
It takes a little more time than farming, but also a little faster!”
Xiao Han nodded, agreed with the two people's statement, and then asked: "Then why are you farming again now? Don't you make money by doing this?"
"Making money is just...hey..."
At this time, the two boatmen sighed together, with a look of defeat on their faces.
