"Your shop is big, can you collect a lot of pearls?" The little girl looked at Liu Heng and An Ruyi expectantly.

An Ruyi nodded.

"Great, then we will sell all our pearls to you, okay? My name is Guo Zhu'er, but now my father, my mother, and my three brothers have all gone to sea at this time, and they won't come back until it's getting dark, can you wait? ”

Guo Zhu'er was afraid that the two of them would be impatient to leave, so she hurriedly said, "Why don't I take you to my house first, and I will tell my family at night, you will come early tomorrow morning, and you will be sure that there will be a lot of pearls when you come tomorrow." ”

"Since they are not here, then don't worry, you have opened these pearls, we will accept them directly, and you will not have to bring them with you." An Ruyi pointed to the mussel shell in front of Guo Zhu'er that had not yet been pried open.

"Okay."

Guo Zhu'er responded with a happy face, and the movements in her hands were much faster. She felt that she was simply lucky today, first of all, she hadn't sold many pearls for a long time, and the people who came to ask had to lower the price to six taels and one bucket, and she was not willing to sell and was scolded by someone pointing her nose.

The conscience of heaven and earth, the price of the pearls sold by their family is actually not high, and some of the other people's families have to be sold for the price of eleven taels of silver, which is not as big as theirs.

Seeing that the fish market was more than halfway through, her pearls were sold for two buckets, and she thought that she would be left back today, but who knew that the God of Wealth would come in the end.

Liu Heng and An Ruyi stood there and watched Guo Zhu'er's fingers fly, and the movements were quick to pry the clam shells, Xu was distracted, she pry the small pile of mussel shells before the tea, and the amount was almost to a bucket, An Ruyi wanted to calculate the price of a bucket, but the little girl was anxiously red-eyed, and insisted on only accepting her eight taels of silver.

Facing the little girl who is unwilling to "take advantage", Liu Heng and An Ruyi both have a good impression. They had bought a lot of pearls before, and the pearl sellers saw that the two of them were well-dressed and not local, and they were all lions with their mouths wide open, and the highest price was one hundred taels and one bucket.

In fact, a bucket of pearls is really not expensive, buy the pearls back and inlay them on the jewelry, and the recovery is far more than this price, but the two of them have divine sense, they have already seen many transactions in other houses, and they know that the price of pearls here is only the price of a bucket between ten taels and twelve and three taels. Only the kind with particularly good quality and large size can be sold for a price of more than 100 taels. And that kind of pearl is not traded in the fish market.

After selling the pearls, she hid the silver coins and bundled all the mussel shells in a sack and put them on a wheelbarrow beside her. Then he cleaned up the stools, small tables and other furniture, and finally fixed everything with ropes, then clapped his hands and said to Liu Heng and An Ruyi with a smile, "Okay, master, madam, let's go." ”

Along the way, An Ruyi and Guo Zhu'er chatted while walking, and soon inquired about their family's details. Guo Zhu'er is twelve years old this year, in addition to her father and mother, there are three brothers in the family, the eldest brother is sixteen, and the second brother and the third brother are fourteen twins. None of them have started a family yet.

The family has lived in this town for generations, and their ancestors have lived by pearl diving for generations, and the three elder brothers followed their father to the sea to dive pearls at the age of eleven or twelve.

The family has a small boat of their own, and if she hadn't encountered a fish market today, she would have gone to sea with her father. Sometimes a family will not **** back at sea, as long as they bring pots and pans, they can make do with an isolated island on the sea at night for several days.

Walk around and talk, and walk for a full quarter of an hour to get to the place. Guo Zhu'er pointed to a small courtyard and said to the two, "My house is here." ”

opened the door with a key, and Guo Zhu'er enthusiastically led Liu Heng and An Ruyi into the house, and the two looked fixedly, there were several kinds of vegetables planted on both sides of the small courtyard against the wall, and leeks, celery, and cucumbers were growing very well. There are no chickens and ducks in the yard, but a lot of mussel meat is dried.

Guo Zhu'er followed the gaze of the two to look at the dried mussels, and couldn't help but smile shyly.

"These are dried and sold, and the rest can be saved for your own family to eat. Whether it's used to make soup or stir-fried, it's delicious. Why don't you stay at noon and I'll cook it for you? ”

An Ruyi looked at Liu Heng, and Liu Heng nodded slightly. An Ruyi smiled at Guo Zhu'er; "Then we'll try your hand."

As she spoke, she took out an ingot of ten taels of silver and put it in Guo Zhu'er's hand, "This will be used as a ******** asset." ”

"No, no, no, I'm going to invite you to eat, not silver." Guo Zhu'er's face turned red, and she waved her hand again and again.

"Then you invite us for lunch, and we will come back to meet with your father and mother in the evening, even if we invite you at that time, okay? It's just that I have to trouble you to get it, but I don't know if you're willing to do it? Is there enough of this silver? An Ruyi was full of smiles, and when she looked at the child, she knew that the family couldn't be wrong. It is also a good choice to come here often to buy pearls in the future.

"I do. This silver is enough, don't want so much, five taels will do, and five taels will probably be left. Just give me five taels. When Guo Zhu'er heard this, she also felt that it made sense, so she didn't refuse, but seriously took out five taels of silver from her body and handed it to An Ruyi to let her take it back.

"If you have the rest, even if you have your hard work, then you have to go shopping, and you have to wash and cook so hard, how embarrassed are we, you are not allowed to shirk, and then push us not to buy pearls from you." An Ruyi stopped her, looking at her little face, although it was tanned, it couldn't hide her delicate appearance, which made her look very pleasing to the eye.

"Thank you, Lord and Madame, you can sit down and rest first."

Guo Zhu'er thought about it and didn't continue to refuse, she diligently moved two benches, put a small table in the yard, and quickly picked a few fresh cucumbers to wash them, put them in a basin in front of the two, and then poured two bowls of water before saying to the two: "I'll go out and come back." ”

Before the words fell, she went out of the courtyard directly like a gust of wind, and left the two strangers who had just met at home with great confidence.

"She's not afraid that we'll run away from her family?" An Ruyi couldn't help laughing, she couldn't help but let go of her sense of consciousness to look, she was also curious about what Guo Zhu'er was doing.

I saw that Guo Zhu'er first ran all the way to a small courtyard a few rooms apart, and called in: "Grandpa." (To be continued.) )