Chapter 26: Uncle gossip
The ship that Huang Laohan was looking for was a merchant ship from Xiangyang Mansion that sold grain, and he collected the mountain goods here and prepared to return to Xiangyang Mansion.
Nanshan Town is close to Nanshan, rich in mountain goods resources, Xiangyang Mansion, Dongyang County have merchants here to open shops to collect mountain goods. Dried mushrooms, mushrooms, pecans, pine nuts...... Fresh critters, or nitrated animal skins...... Dried fish, dried shrimp......
Such shipbuilders have shops in Xiangyang Prefecture or Dongyang County, and there are also special shops in Nanshan Town to purchase local goods and sell goods from other places.
The ship was not very large, part of it was loaded with cargo, and part with people. Soybeans couldn't stay in the cabin, so he pulled his uncle to go to the deck.
She was scared again, she didn't dare to walk when she got to Class A, the wind blew people trembling, and she was dragged around by her uncle.
I was still not satisfied after walking around, I didn't want to enter the cabin, and I didn't dare to walk alone on Class A, so I simply sat on the deck of the bow of the ship.
When the uncle saw her sitting on the deck, he didn't care about her, walking back and forth on the boat, looking at the sails and touching the side of the ship. It made Huang Dou scared, and he was afraid that he would accidentally fall into the lake.
However, some people are naturally bold, such as Huang Guigui, who has no feeling on the boat.
There was no one on the deck, most of them were traders who often traveled back and forth by boat, and they didn't have the curiosity of soybeans, so they all stayed in the cabin to rest and chat.
The cabin is also a place where information circulates, prices in various places, where there is a source of goods, and clever people can capture business opportunities from chatting in the north and south of the sea these days.
Sodou sat on the deck for a while, feeling less scared, and slowly got up again, wanting to look around the cabin.
As a result, the boat shook slightly, which frightened her to exclaim, and she sat down again, and there was a crisp laugh behind her.
Huang Dou looked back a little embarrassed, and it was a beautiful pair of master and servant.
In fact, the soybeans noticed them in the cabin, not only the soybeans noticed them, but the old and young masters in the cabin did not pay attention.
The maid was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, with a slender figure, wearing a light blue dress, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, and very beautiful. Standing respectfully behind the master, he looks like a rule-abiding person.
The master is a young brocade-clothed beauty, not very old. Wearing a light purple brocade dress, her eyes are fluttering, and her demeanor is charming.
The hair is loosely pulled up, and a silver step with pearls is inserted obliquely, the silver filament is bent into a flower shape, the fine millet beads are coiled into stamens, and the tassels hanging down are strung with round pearls, and the slender three strings hang down in the ear, which is really indescribably good-looking.
Age, twenty years old at most, Huang Dou thought to himself.
However, I don't know how such a beautiful woman who doesn't look like an ordinary family would only bring a maid alone to appear on the ship of this trader.
Compared to them, Huang Dou felt like a fire girl. Fortunately, Huang Dou has a big heart, and she is not embarrassed to be laughed at, she only smiling and sitting on the deck with the wind blowing, and she is a little drowsy in the sun.
The boat was moving steadily, and when Soybean opened his eyes again, he saw that the master and servant had no idea where to go, and either went to the stern or entered the cabin.
Huang Dou was afraid that he would really fall asleep, so he quickly moved his position, rubbed to the side of the cabin, leaned on the cabin and looked at the scenery by the river in a daze.
The East Lake is very large, you can't see the front and back, the boat can go on the right side, there are no villages on the lake, and there are basically desolate weeds and weeds.
There are also shoals, where a large number of migratory birds fly south, which should rest here and replenish food.
Looking at the vast water, Huang Dou suddenly felt homesick, and there was an indescribable melancholy in his heart, where did I come from, why did I come, what can I do when I come, just live like this?
As soon as the wind blew, Huang Dou touched his face, and he didn't realize that he was already crying. Before Huang Dou came out of his melancholy mood, Huang Guigui walked over: "Doudou, how about you say that I will also buy a boat to do business in Xiangyang Mansion and Nanshan Town in the future?" ”
Huang Dou was suddenly dragged into reality by his uncle: "Of course you can." ”
"But it costs a lot of money to buy a boat! And I don't know how to sail. Huang Guigui touched his head and sat next to Huang Dou.
"Doudou, I decided that when the ice breaks in the spring, I will go to sea with the boat, which will not only make money, but also learn a lot of things, and see the world like you said."
"Uncle, my grandma won't agree, grandpa walked across the boat, it's too dangerous and bitter." Huang Dou couldn't hold back and poured a basin of cold water on him. She actually didn't want her uncle to follow the boat, it was too dangerous.
In fact, soybeans really belong to people who have no ambitions, what she prefers is that the present world is stable, and the relatives around her can be safe.
"If I want to do it, I can definitely do it, if it doesn't work, I'll run away, and when I get on the boat, my father and mother can't do anything, they can't hire a big boat to chase me." Huang Guigui is purely the kind that is not cleaned up, and what he says is just a brain.
Huang Dou couldn't help but glance at him: "You want to kill my grandma in a hurry, when the time comes, my grandma and my grandmother don't do it, my uncle and they can smoke you to death." ”
"Can you think of me well, I still want to make money for you to be the eldest lady. I also bought you two girls, so that you have someone to serve, and you don't have to do it yourself when you eat. ”
"Don't fool me, you don't have to do anything to eat, that's a fool." Huang Dou pushed the uncle hard: "If you talk nonsense, I'll tell grandma to go, let grandma marry you an aunt, and see if you can't run away." ”
Huang Guigui was pushed by the soybeans and shook it, and hurriedly sat down: "You just cheated me, your second brother and third brother haven't married a daughter-in-law yet." ”
"But they are brothers, you are uncles, they can be late, you can't." Soybean pursed his lips and looked at the uncle with a wicked smile.
"Let me tell you, your second brother's family affair seems to be going yellow." Huang Guigui suddenly gossiped.
This sentence immediately aroused Huang Dou's curiosity: "What's the matter, didn't you say that you got married a year ago?" If it weren't for this flood, it would have been almost over the dowry. ”
"I listened to what your grandmother said, that is, this time she went to the mountain, didn't she wash away our house, and now her family should dislike our family for not having a house and want to regret the marriage."
Huang Guigui lay on his back on Class A, watching the white clouds drift by in the sky: "The daughter-in-law that your second brother said, this year's disaster in their village is not serious, and the grain can be mixed, so she began to dislike your second brother, and it is also a disaster for such a daughter-in-law to marry back." ”
"Then don't do it, the second brother is small-eyed, and I don't know what it will be like when the time comes." Huang Dou didn't think it was anything, so if it didn't work, he would change it.
"Well, the key is that your second brother is quite willing, and your second uncle is also an honest person, and she listens to your second uncle and your second brother for everything. If it was replaced by your eldest uncle, she would have quit early. Huang Guigui thought about it and patted Huang Dou's arm: "What about peanuts?" ”
Huang Dou took out the peanuts from his pocket bag and handed them to the uncle: "I think the second uncle is very good, but the second brother is sometimes a little cautious." ”
Huang Guigui untied the paper bag wrapped in peanuts and threw a peanut in his mouth: "Don't say this about your second brother, your second brother is just careful and careful, a little bit of self-care, the essence of people is not bad, just get by in general." ”
"I'll just talk to my uncle, and my sister and my mother won't talk about it." Soybeans also leaned over and twisted a few peanuts in their hands: "Why do I think my uncle is the closest?" ”
"Cut, it will coax people, and it's useless to coax me." As he spoke, he reached into his pocket and took out a money bag, and counted out ten copper plates from it: "Here you go, take it and buy snacks." ”
Soybeans were not polite, took it with a smile, and put it in their money bags one by one. The reason why Huang Li likes to follow the soybeans is because the soybeans have change in their hands to buy snacks, and most of the change of the soybeans is coaxed from the hands of the uncle and brothers.
In the distance, a white bird flew by, rushed headlong into the water, and flew out of the water with a fish in its mouth.
The lord entered the city smoothly, Xiangyang City and the rural town are much more magnificent than they are, there are shops on both sides of the street, there are many pedestrians on the road, and there are many vendors.
There are ten copper plates given by the uncle in the soybean money bag, as well as the change that my mother stuffed when I left, and I always feel that I have a huge amount of money. After a while, touch it with your hand, and touch it after a while, for fear of losing it.
Huang Guigui looked at her angrily and funny, and thought to himself, they all say that Huang Dou is clever, I think this is a stupid, whoever picks up the pearl and doesn't keep it secretly, even if it is handed over, it can't be handed over, and one must be left behind!
Only she was stupid and handed it over. You said that your big pearls are not rare, but why are the 20 or so copper plates in the money bag so rare, for fear that people will not know that you have money, so they will touch and touch.
According to Huang Ronggui's meaning, he directly found the largest and most magnificent jewelry store and sold it directly.
Huang Laohan shook his head: "Let's find a place to stay first, and then we'll talk after eating." ”
Huang Laohan has not been to Fucheng for more than 20 years, and he still came twice with the owner Qian Dafu. This time I came to sell something, and I also had the intention of taking a look, but as for what to see, it seems that I haven't thought about it yet.
For more than 20 years, the Fucheng in my memory has changed greatly, but fortunately, many old stores are still there.
Huang Laohan led his children and grandchildren to walk in the city for a while and then turned into an alley, which was lined with shops on both sides, which was smaller than the shops in the city and looked lively.
Huang Dou looked around while walking, and felt that Xiangyang Mansion was Xiangyang Mansion, and the goods in these small shops were indeed more complete than those in Nanshan Town.
There is a small inn in the alley, the shopkeeper is a gray-bearded old man, the work in the store is the children and grandchildren of the family, and the kitchen and cleaning are the daughters-in-law and granddaughters of the family.
This is a typical family-style inn, which has been open in the alley for a long time, and is very famous among the merchants. One is that the price of cleanliness and sanitation is not high, and the other is safety, the shopkeeper is an old local resident, and this piece is old by in-laws.
As soon as Huang Laohan entered the alley, the child ran in, and before Huang Laohan walked to the inn, the shopkeeper already knew that there were four strange faces entering the alley.
The four of them asked for two upper rooms, one for three to live in, and one for soybeans.
If Huang Laohan took his son into the city, he would be reluctant to live in the upper house, and the chase shop would be crowded. But he brought soybeans and treasures, and it was much safer to live in the house.
Usually a nine-year-old child, if you want her to live alone in an inn, you will definitely not dare.
But Huang Dou has been used to sleeping alone since she was a child, even if she lives in a room with her sister Huang Tao, she refuses to sleep in the same bed, she takes the initiative to ask to live alone in a room.