Chapter 102: The Fish on the Wall (8)
You know, the goods unloaded from the big ships are marked with the names of the various ordering companies.
After loading the unloaded goods onto the ship, the delivery shipwright has to carry the ship to the firm according to the trade name.
Finally, after the shopkeeper of the firm checks and confirms, he can go to the account office of the firm to receive the hard-earned money for delivery.
If you lose someone's goods, you have to pay for them.
Therefore, in that year, the shipwrights who supported the ship to deliver goods had to know how to read, at least they had to read through the "Hundred Family Names"!
It was precisely because of the time that Li Kaigu stood outside the school hall and listened intermittently to the books that the gentleman who had read it for several months, and he could recognize a total of one or two hundred words before and after.
Only then was he able to find a delivery messenger on the dock.
Otherwise, there are countless laborers who are willing to work this wharf, and there are not a few of them who can support the boat, so why can he be cheaper than a foreigner?
Li Kaigu picked up the booklet and flipped through it, and found that this was actually a strange book that recorded when the fish in the sea migrated to the inland river, when they spawned and fattened, and when they would float to feed.
That Li Kaigu was originally from a fisherman, and he couldn't help but feel a little itchy when he saw his old business at first glance.
So he took advantage of the rest of the day labor, bought some bait and fishing line from a fisherman near the wharf with a few pennies, and ran to a ditch to test whether the contents of the book were true or false.
However, Li Kaigu never expected that the content recorded in this book would be very effective, so that he caught a basket full of fish at once.
At this time, Li Kaigu realized that he had inadvertently picked up a treasure, and he couldn't help but be ecstatic.
The next morning, he quit his drudgery of supporting the boat to deliver the goods, and from then on he fished all kinds of fat and rare catches near the wharf, according to what was recorded in that book.
Coincidentally, just because Li Kaigu was alone in a foreign land before, he was particularly attentive to every boat delivery, for fear of smashing his subsistence job again.
Even if the goods were successfully delivered, he, Li Kaigu, would not immediately go to the account office to collect the money and leave.
If you see that the owner's family can't spare manpower to move the goods for a while, they often don't say a word, and they will directly send the goods to the warehouse of Zheng
In this way, the shopkeepers of the big businesses near the wharf left a good impression of the hard-working boat man surnamed Li.
The pier is close to the sea, how can there be a shortage of foodies who are accustomed to seafood nearby?
Therefore, Li Kaigu took the rare catch he had worked so hard to catch and sold it door-to-door to the business where he had delivered the goods before.
has the good impression left before, and the catch sent by Li Kaigu is exceptionally fresh and fat, most of those shopkeepers appreciate their faces and pick out a few favorite ones from the fish sent to the back kitchen of the business.
The price given in the end was also a few percent higher than that of Li Kaigu directly sent to the fish market.
After coming and going, Li Kaigu saved a lot of money.
Later, he returned to his hometown, bought land in his hometown of Yantou, and became a well-known rich man.
This is the reason why Li Lizheng and Li Dahu are sure that this book will not let go.
Although the Li family, who has made a fortune, no longer eats the bowl of rice of fishing on the water, as long as this "Collected Notes" is in their hands, even if the family is in the middle of the road in the future, the future generations will have the hope of turning around.
That Li Lizheng finally told Yang Congxun and Hu San that the fish and aquatic products recorded in their Li family's "Collection Notes" were collected according to the provinces of distribution.
As long as it is a province near the sea, the seafood produced by it is recorded in the book.
Li Lizheng bluntly said that when his father Li Shanren was alive, he wanted to simply divide the book into two halves, but his father's proposal was unanimously opposed by the Li brothers.
The reason for this is none other than that the Li family lives in Shandong, and only the part of the book that records the seafood produced along the coast of Shandong is meaningful to the Li family.
In case the half of the book that I got was recorded as a product of the coastal area of Guangdong, I couldn't move my family to Guangdong just because of this reason.
Seeing that both sons were strongly opposed, Li Shanren also dispelled the idea of splitting the book.
However, before Li Shanren could come up with a new solution, he drove the crane to the west due to a sudden illness, and now the two sons of the Li family competed like a pair of red-eyed fighting cocks.
Seeing that these two were going to fight at their father's funeral, the Li clan uncle who was pushed out of the troubled waters was so angry that he stomped his feet again and again.
"Two bastards, what's the matter that can't wait to be sent to my father? This coffin is still waiting to be buried! ”
At the end, the patriarch leaned on his crutches again: "Since neither of you will back down."
Then lock the book in the Li ancestral hall, and each of you take a lock to lock the wooden box containing the book.
In the future, unless you two brothers discuss a solution, hold a clan meeting, and distribute the book in front of everyone in the ancestral hall, this book will be locked in front of the ancestors of the Li family!
Now, get out of here and break the pot for your father! ”
At that time, the Li brothers also felt that they were too disrespectful to end at their father's funeral, so they had to nod and agree to the patriarch's disposal.
However, when the two brothers went home after the funeral and thought about it carefully, they found that they didn't fall for this uncle's 'dang'.
When Li Shanren was alive, these two brothers stayed under the same roof, and they didn't discuss why they met.
Now that the brothers have separated from each other, if they want to discuss a solution, they have to bow their heads and run to each other's house to discuss......
Why is this? No way!
From this incident, the brothers of the Li family secretly competed like this, and they had to press each other no matter what, so that the other party would bow their heads and give in as soon as possible, and come to discuss a solution with them.
It's not a matter for this book to be kept in the ancestral hall, and once the time drags on for a long time, there may be other branches surnamed Li who will jump out to grab the book.
"It is precisely for this reason that the contemptible people came to visit Daoist Yang at night, and I hope that Daoist will be tired tomorrow in front of the ancestral hall to summon the souls of my two brothers and divide the book, please beg and please."
As soon as he heard that Li Lizheng actually came to Yang Congxun to summon spirits for the reason of dividing the family property, the fox wanted to wave his paws and blast the man out.
However, just when Hu San was about to attack, Yang Congxun, who had been silent, suddenly reached out and pulled Hu San's big tail.
"It turns out that this is the case, and the poor road understands. Li Lizheng is also invited to convene a clan meeting in the ancestral hall at noon tomorrow (12 noon-1 o'clock), and then Dao Dingluo will perform a spell to summon the soul for the honorable driver. ”
Seeing that Yang Congxun agreed, the smile on Li Lizheng's face was even stronger.
"If this is the case, then there is a labor chief. I also hope that the Taoist chief will bother a lot when he summons the soul tomorrow, and Li will be grateful after the matter is completed. ”
When Li Lizheng said goodbye with a smile and left, Yang Congxun pulled Hu San and put his mouth in his ear and instructed.
"I saw that the third brother had some experience in the way of using fire, especially good at setting fire in the box.
Therefore, my brother has something to ask for, Hu San, you should go to the Li family ancestral hall now and burn the book locked in the box for me! ”
At the end, Yang Congxun was not at ease and instructed: "Don't forget to leave that box!" ”