A fish was divided into three parts by Wei's mother, one was eaten today, and the other two sections were put in jars, sprinkled with a little salt and pickled, and prepared to be eaten after two days when they couldn't stay up.

Only then did Wei Bao know that there was no food at home.

Originally, this kind of fish was salted, then some ginger and garlic were added, some cooking wine, and some chopped green onions were sprinkled when the pot was raised, even if it was steamed, the taste would be very delicious.

After thinking about it for a while, I realized that even if there is no shortage of salt on the seaside, salt is also a rare product in Daming, and the sea salt secretly made by the villagers is very poor, just a simple boiling and filtering process, which is authentic coarse salt, and this kind of inferior salt will get big neck disease and various lymphatic diseases if you eat too much.

Not to mention cooking wine, ginger, garlic and green onions, originally each family still stored some pickled cabbage and radish before winter, but a big earthquake left nothing.

Because there was no vegetable oil to light the lamp, if it weren't for the fire, you could use the light of the firewood, and the inside of the house would have been dark.

By the time the fish was ready, it was already dark outside, and Wei Bao's father, Wei Dakang, happened to be home.

"It was so cold, and it was snowing all the time, and everyone wanted to hunt, but they couldn't even touch a single hair." Vedakon pushed open the door, a longbow and a pair of arrows in hand, and a shower of snow drifted into the small hut.

"Uncle Wei, you're back." Luo San was stunned and hurriedly said, "There is fish to eat today!" ”

Through the dim light in the house, Wei Bao looked at his father Wei Dakang in this life, Wei Dakang is in his early thirties, the same as Wei's mother, put it in modern times, saying forty years old, no one doubts, Luo San and Liu Chunshi are also like this, the two of them are actually less than ten years younger than Wei Dakang, and they all look like people in their thirties and forties.

"Fish? Where do the fish come from? Did you catch it? Wei Dakang's eyes widened in surprise, staring at the fish on the table served as a round pile, his eyebrows were covered with ice and snow, thinking that it was a fish caught by Luo Sanzi.

"Wei Bao's fish." Wei Mu had a proud smile on her face.

"The fish that Wei Bao caught?" Wei Dakang's eyes were just wide, but now even his mouth is wide open, and he can throw a hard-boiled egg into it, looking at Wei Bao as if he doesn't know his son, "Wei Bao, is this the fish you caught?" Where did you catch it? The river is frozen? Could it be caught by the sea? ”

A black line swept through Wei Bao's head, isn't it just a fish? He actually has common sense, in the offshore sea in winter, it is basically impossible to catch fish, let alone winter, even if it is summer, unless it is farmed, otherwise he wants to pull fish up just with a broken net? If you don't have a particularly powerful bait, it's almost funny, but you don't have to be surprised by everyone, right?

"Good luck, catch up." Wei Bao can only be so perfunctory.

"It's good luck." Wei Dakang glanced at Wei Bao, and slightly felt that his son was a little different from usual today, but he didn't care, he still couldn't close his mouth happily, sat next to Wei Bao, and rubbed Wei Bao's shoulder, with a doting look.

Most of the restlessness of parents like Wei Dakang and Huang Ying comes from worrying that Wei Bao will be hungry, but they didn't expect that Wei Bao would let him not be hungry today.

There was no rice, no noodles, no cakes, and just eating the fish steamed with a little salt was too fishy.

Wei Bao couldn't eat a little bit, but Huang Ying and Wei Dakang still wanted Wei Bao to eat more, which made Wei Bao's heart warm, but his stomach was uncontrollable spasms, bursts of acid reflux, and he wanted to vomit.

"What's wrong? Don't have an appetite? Huang Ying asked with concern, "You like to eat fish the most on weekdays." ”

"Is it a cold? In this cold day, you must have contracted the wind cold when you go out to catch fish alone, so don't go out alone in the future, it's too dangerous. Wei Dakang touched his beard, his face full of concern. There is another sentence he didn't say, that is, in this kind of year, it is not impossible for people to eat people who are extremely hungry! But everyone knows this kind of thing, and you don't need to say it during the meal to affect your appetite.

Wei Mu heard Wei Dakang say that Wei Bao was infected with a cold, so she hurriedly touched Wei Bao's head, and said with confidence: "No fever, it's okay." ”

"Eat more." As a modern person, although Wei Bao is not a wealthy family, he is also pampered, and he can't eat one or two meals, so he can naturally withstand it, where can he get this level of food?

"If you don't eat it, don't eat it, put it aside, and when you can't stand it tomorrow when you're hungry, you'll naturally eat it." Huang Ying said, "Wei Bao, you sit on the edge of the stove to warm up, and I will boil some hot water with you to drive away the cold." ”

Wei Bao snorted, in this small dilapidated house with air leaking on all sides, only the stove was a little heated, and the embers of the firewood that were still red emitted heat.

"I'm not going to hunt tomorrow, this area, even the rats have been eaten, where is the prey? Wei Bao, where did you catch the fish today? I'll go tomorrow. Vedacom asked.

Luo San was stunned and hurriedly said, "Well, I will follow Uncle Wei with Liu Chunshi tomorrow." ”

"Just the area where the Haihe River estuary." Wei Bao was dizzy, I can go to the warship to get food, where do you go to get it? What else can you do but run to the beach to blow the wind? He casually pointed in the direction where he had taken the wrong path today, where there was a river that flowed into the sea, "Don't go, it's a coincidence, where is this kind of good thing every day?" ”

"This fish alone can't survive the winter! I can't say, I have to try my luck every day in the future, Uncle Wei, Chunshi, Godmother, Wei Bao, we can't let people know that there are fish there! Luo San was stunned and said mysteriously.

Wei Mu, Wei Dakang, and Liu Chunshi nodded along with him.

Wei Bao sighed silently, knowing that if he couldn't convince them, if he didn't let them run for a few days, they would definitely not be able to dispel the idea of going to the beach to fish, and he didn't say anything anymore.

"If you are lucky, not only will you have enough to eat, but you can also get Shanhaiwei to sell it for some food, if you can have a dozen catties of buckwheat noodles, our family, and the two of you, will have a way to live." Veda Kang's eyes lit up excitedly.

"Yes, if you can catch one fish, you can catch two fish and three fish!" Liu Chunshi, an old boy who didn't talk much, echoed.

"There's hope now." Luo San was stunned and rubbed his hands together with joy, as if he already had dozens of catties and hundreds of catties of fish in his arms.

Luo San's stunned appearance reminded Wei Bao of a cartoon he often saw on the Internet, a humanoid cat holding a big fish in his arms, with a satisfied, arrogant, and afraid expression of being snatched away.

The crowd talked hopefully about how to catch the fish, how to transport it, how to sell it, and all kinds of details, before they dispersed.

Huang Ying asked Wei Bao to go to bed early.

Wei Bao was stunned by them, the people of the Ming Dynasty were really not calm, wasn't it just a fish?

However, he was attracted by the information they said about Shanhaiwei, which was the largest market town in the vicinity except for Yongping Mansion, even bigger than Yongping Mansion, because the trade inside and outside the Guanxi was there, and even the merchants from the south and merchants from outside the Sai would also come, which was good news for Wei Bao, who already had the idea of reselling items.

Shanhaiguan is very desolate, and even the entire Beizhili, Yongping Mansion, Xuanfu Town, and Jizhou are very desolate, mostly border troops and military households.

The reason for such desolation is, on the one hand, that Jiannu kills him from time to time, and on the other hand, everyone is afraid that Jiannu will kill him one day and fight a big battle!

But Wei Bao, who knows history, does not have this worry, Wei Bao feels that Shanhaiwei is actually a very good place, it is true that it is the place of the four wars, but it is convenient to go anywhere, and it is close to the sea, secondly, the Ming Dynasty fell on finances, and finally perished was also brought down by the anti-people army, not by Jiannu in the military victory, the Ming Dynasty did not fall, where did Jiannu fight to Shanhaiguan?

In history, Chongzhen was hanged, and Shanhaiguan was still in the hands of the Ming army.

The first level in the world is a joke, huh?

Although Wei Bao is not a thorough fan, but he is a loyal Han heir, if the Han family is destroyed, whether it is in Shanhaiguan, or in Taiwan, the south and the north of the world, all for the world of slaves, what is the difference?

However, Wei Bao will not talk about these historical insights with others, let alone sell them to others.

He is not a high-profile person, his life credo is to make a fortune without a sound! Money is called money when it is in your pocket, and when you eat oil and water in your stomach, it is your own.

Wei Bao has secretly accepted his current identity and social status, and at the same time, he has also recognized the desolate Yongping Mansion, Shanhaiwei, and Jinshanli.

As the birthplace of his career, although it is too difficult, it is not completely impossible.

This is Wei Bao's first night in Daming, the simple thatched hut, the wind blew all night, the branches outside the house whirred, the doors and windows moved, and it was so cold that Wei Bao almost collapsed.

Wei Dakang and Huang Ying got up and filled the earthen stove with firewood several times in one night, so that the embers in the stove would not be extinguished, otherwise, it would be even colder and unbearable.

Remembering that I was in ancient times at this time, I was frightened in vain, I didn't know what the future would be, my thoughts fluctuated, and I couldn't sleep for a while.

You have to hurry up and have money, hurry up and make money, eat enough for every meal every day, build a big brick house and a big yard for Wei Dakang and Huang Ying, have a full meal and a hot kang, and live a life in cotton clothes first!

Planning his vision for the future in the cold wind, it wasn't until the middle of the night that Wei Bao fell asleep.

In the morning, Wei Bao was sleeping in a daze, and was pulled up by Huang Ying, "Wei Bao, where did your shoes and your cotton clothes and pants come from?" ”

As soon as Wei Bao opened his eyes, he saw Wei Dakang and Huang Ying looking at him suspiciously, and he was suddenly frightened awake, it was too dark in the house last night, and everyone didn't notice that Wei Bao had changed his shoes, so he only found out today.

How do I explain this?

"Oh, that's right, yesterday I met a merchant ship passing by the river, they were going to Liaodong, I showed them the way, they gave it to me." Wei Bao said nonsense for a reason, and he didn't know if he could pass the test.

Huang Ying and Wei Dakang looked at each other, obviously not believing it.

"And such a good thing? What a great man this merchant is! Wei Dakang was puzzled, "No, those who have eaten at sea in these years have only heard of robbing houses and houses, and they are also businessmen and bandits, but they have not seen good people." And the boatman who dares to go to sea in this weather still needs to ask you for directions? ”

"If you haven't seen it, can you say that you haven't? Maybe it's because of our Wei Bao, and it's pleasing to the eye to see our Wei Bao. Our Wei Bao is so honest and has never been out, not to mention who can have such good leather boots in this area? It can't be stolen by our Wei Bao, right? Huang Ying's mind was wide open, and he was not willing to listen to Wei Dakang's words.

"What my mother said makes sense," Wei Bao hurriedly nodded at Huang Ying's words, and interrupted: "By the way, Dad, you and Luo San were stunned, didn't Liu Chunshi say that they were going to fish today?" ”

Wei Bao saw that Wei Dakang's suspicion was relatively serious, and Huang Ying was obviously at the mercy of the point, so he had to take Wei Dakang away first.

"Hmm. It's good material. Wei Dakang actually picked up Wei Bao's leather boots and smelled them, and touched the cotton clothes and cotton pants that Wei Bao was wearing, with a smile on his face, wearing it on his son, it seemed to be as warm as wearing it on him, and he was no longer entangled in how Wei Bao's 'good things' came about, and went to clean up the fishing nets, "Don't run around today, no matter how difficult it is at home, you don't need to go out to find food, there is a father, do you hear?" ”

"Oh." Wei Bao nodded perfunctorily.

"I'm going to listen to your father, and I'll eat some fish before I go back to sleep." Wei's mother also said, "If you sleep more, you will feel less hungry." ”

Wei Bao sighed again, secretly thinking that you are raising me as a hibernating animal.

However, as soon as Wei Dakang went out, Wei Baobao said to Wei's mother: "I went to Fan's big head house to go around, and I was bored at home all day long." ”

"People are going to Shanhaiwei to sell firewood soon, right? What are you going to do? Just honestly at home. Wei Mu immediately rejected Wei Bao's proposal.

"Selling firewood?" As soon as Wei Bao heard that he went to Shanhaiwei, he immediately came to his senses, "Don't we have a lot of firewood at home?" I'm going to sell firewood too! ”

"I can't sell it for money, what are I going to do?" Wei Mu sighed, "This radius of dozens of miles, there is a lack of everything, but there is no shortage of firewood!" Moreover, even if someone asks for it, the price is very cheap, thirty or forty miles back and forth, a load of firewood can only be exchanged for a few pennies, which is not enough to buy a piece of cake. ”

"I'm going to be a gym! Besides, didn't I learn some four books and five classics from Liu Chunshi, and I knew a few words, and it was not a matter of being bored at home all day! As he spoke, Wei Bao went to tie the firewood with ropes.

Fitness?

Wei Mu thought Wei Bao's speech was interesting, but she could understand it, and she was still nagging Wei Bao not to go, saying that eight out of ten people carried firewood on their backs, and how did they carry them back, and it was very likely that they would run in vain!

Wei Bao kept nodding perfunctorily, but the movements of his hands did not stop, and when Wei's mother was chattering, he had already gone out.

Wei's mother couldn't stop screaming, and said: "This kid, how does it seem to be a different person, and he never wanted to play with others before." ”