Because of the continuous heavy rain, many merchant ships and official ships passing by could not speed up.
Some of them went to Suzhou City to take shelter from the rain if they had time, but those with slow boats and no power basically had to camp in the wild to take shelter from the rain.
Therefore, the lotus pond also welcomed many people passing by to take shelter from the rain, including boat gangs, businessmen, tourists, etc.
The people in Hehuatang are warm and hospitable. Although some business travelers from the north do not understand the language, fortunately there are boatmen to help. And those boatmen have been doing business for a long time and eat on the water. They will not take advantage of the merchants because of their language.
Suffer.
After all, ordinary people's households do not have much food reserves. Every household is not well-off, and most of the wealthy people have gone to the city or county. So it is not easy to provide free food to those people, but those passers-by also understand the market.
Buy rice, grain, etc. at a higher price than the market price, and then get food nearby.
After all, even if a fire can be made on the boat for cooking, such heavy rain is unsafe and inconvenient.
Most people camped in some thatched houses outside the village. The conditions were simple and naturally poor.
Those who have a little money can stay in other people's houses, and the price is reasonable.
No matter how delicate you are, you want to be picky and demanding that your residence be clean and tidy, free of mold and mice, spacious, and...
There is only one house in the entire Lotus Pond that can meet such conditions, and that is the Xun Family Courtyard where Su Mo currently lives.
The compound is nothing more than a courtyard with three entrances and three exits, with two narrow cross-yards.
This is the courtyard that Liu Heihu and the others prepared privately for their own people to stay in. After receiving the news that the lady was coming, the original residents cleaned it up and smoked it, and then the family moved to the small courtyard overnight.
The main courtyard was freed up for Su Mo to live in.
These people were all brothers brought out by Liu Heihu. When he returned to Heihu Mountain, he told everyone that he would be the second boss in the future, and the first boss would be the eldest lady - a six or seven-year-old girl.
At first, they were laughed at by his subordinates, but eventually Su Mo sent some special trainers to train them, requiring them to have at least one-third of the ability even if they could not reach the level of the Phantom Knight.
Otherwise, just go home and farm, don't come out and hang out.
Not only did she send people here, but she also gave them boxes and boxes of money, letting those people eat as much as they wanted, and then trained them to death, making them look like gods and ghosts one day.
