Chapter 55: The Hardships of the Way

Huang Delei ate the dumplings and went directly to his uncle's house, where his grandparents have always lived in his uncle's house.

When passing by the fourth uncle's house, Huang Delei also deliberately entered the stove room and stretched out his head to give his mother a look, Huang Sanniang saw her son standing in front of him with a good appearance, and couldn't help wiping her tears, even the two aunts and the fourth aunt were a little wet.

Tall, still so thin, and black, the previous Delei was thin but white. Now he is black and thin, but he is much more mature and stable.

"This time Delei comes back, hurry up and find a daughter-in-law to marry, they are all twenty-one, and his uncle and Deluo are too, these three marry daughters-in-law together, and the family is going to be lively." Aunt Huang looked at Huang Delei and smiled while kneading her dough.

"Well, I've seen several of them, just waiting for them to come back." Huang Sanniang smiled and took Aunt Huang's words. She has been looking forward to it for several years, the two grandsons of the eldest sister-in-law's family, the two grandsons of the second sister-in-law's family, just her family, Delei has been gone for five years, but it has been delayed.

Huang Delei hurriedly took the two dishes and said that he would help send them over, but he was blushed by what his mother, uncle, and aunt said, so he quickly found an excuse to slip away.

The workers and stewards on the ship greeted Huang Delei loudly when they saw him: "Leizi, come over and have two drinks." ”

"No, no, I just ate dumplings at home." Huang Delei greeted them one by one with a smile.

"It's comfortable to get home, Lao Tzu went home this time, I had to lie down on a horse for three days and three nights without getting up, I had to let my daughter-in-law serve me food and drink for a few days." It was the shipwright Zhou Boss who spoke, he has been following the owner to run the boat, and he is a straightforward man.

"You can pull it, this trip can come back with all the mustaches and tails, I will let my daughter-in-law lie down for three days, and I will serve her food and drink for a few days." The brothers beside Boss Zhou immediately laughed.

"Zhuzi, you just said that you want a daughter-in-law, and you don't know who serves whom."

Huang Delei saw that everyone had begun to talk nonsense, and hurriedly said goodbye: "Brothers, you eat and drink first, and I'll go see my grandparents." ”

"Go, go, it's good to be home."

"Hello to the old man on our behalf."

Everyone shouted in a hurry, Huang Delei couldn't help laughing, he seemed to be used to this kind of life, talking loudly, drinking in big bowls, and eating meat in large chunks.

Huang Guigui had just finished eating, the bowl was still on the table and had not been cleaned up, he was talking to Huang Laohan and Grandma Huang about the interesting things about running boats over the years, and the two old men were smiling.

Huang Guigui said how they made money, how they made foreigners stunned, made them willing to spend a lot of money to buy their things, and how they fooled foreigners to sell their good things cheaply.

Although they knew in their hearts that they must have suffered a lot in the past five years, they didn't say it, it was also a kind of filial piety, and it was good for people to come back.

Seeing Huang Delei enter the door, Huang Guigui hurriedly asked, "Do you want a bowl of mixed sauce noodles made by your grandmother?" Meat was put in. ”

"No, the dumplings I eat at home are all supported." Huang Delei smiled and waved his hand, dragged a stool and sat down.

"Why didn't you eat noodles? The dumplings that went out entered the door, blame me, and I forgot to tell her and the young lady. Grandma Huang said and was about to get up: "I'll give you another bowl and eat some more." ”

"Grandma, don't, I'm too tired to eat. I wanted to eat the dumplings made by my sisters on the boat, and tonight the two of them made three flavors of dumpling filling, but I was so hungry that I ate too much. Saying that, Huang Delei felt embarrassed when he remembered the way he gobbled it up at the time, and couldn't help laughing.

"What three kinds of food do you eat, let the eldest sister wrap some for me tomorrow, I want to eat too." Huang De shouted outside the door.

"Leeks, eggs, shrimp, pork, celery, mushrooms, fungus and pork, let them wrap them tomorrow, you come to my house to eat, make sure you have enough." Huang Delei smiled and dragged a stool for Huang Deluo: "Oh, where is the mountain?" Didn't you say you called him along? ”

"Dashan said to send something to Doudou, and he will come right away." Huang Deluo didn't sit down, and directly stretched out his hand to help Grandma Huang clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"You kid, you just have something in your eyes, and your hands are not idle, unlike your uncle who is lazy. I don't need you, milk will serve you a bowl of noodles to eat, there is meat and sauce. Grandma Huang hurriedly blocked Huang De's hand.

"Milk, don't mention eating, I also eat noodles at night, put stewed sauce meat, I didn't stop it for a while, it all spread to my throat." As soon as Huang Deluo's words fell, he heard a voice at the door and continued: "Grandma Huang, don't mention it to me, I also eat noodles, and it is up to my throat." Saying that, Zhao Dashan strode in.

"You children, okay, you nag, grandma will wash some dates for you." Saying that, Grandma Huang cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, wiped the table, and went to the kitchen.

Huang Laohan looked at the four young people in front of him with a smile, it's good that they are all back, in the end, they have been out to sea, and there is a spirit in their bodies, but it is different.

Back in the day......

The four of them have been together for five years, and the relationship is naturally needless to say, and the brothers may not have this kind of relationship of living and dying together.

The uncle and nephew of the Huang family brought thirty taels of silver on the boat, but Zhao Dashan only brought five taels, which he borrowed. The four of them shopped for goods and exchanged goods between various docks together, and they really made a small profit.

I originally planned to come back after a year or two, and then go out to run for two years to start a family, but who knows, it happened that there was a ship going overseas, and the owners of these boats they followed were moved, and temporarily recruited twenty-five people at the dock to take them across the sea to make a lot of money.

These twenty-five people were all introduced by the familiar steward, who knew that there were two pirates mixed in it. If it weren't for one of them showing their feet and being discovered by the careful Huang Delei, they might have gone to the sixteen big ships that had formed an alliance to go overseas together and would never return.

It was Zhao Dashan, regardless of the danger, who tricked the two pirates into sending a signal in advance, and was killed by Zhao Dashan and Huang Guigui with a joint knife. It was the first time they had killed someone, and the warm blood sprayed onto the person's face, sticky and fishy, and the whole face had a hot feeling.

Huang Delei vomited on the spot, and Huang Deluo couldn't eat for a whole day. As soon as I ate, I remembered the feeling of my hand slipping through the blood of the person when I helped, and my throat itched and I wanted to vomit.

Later, they were not afraid. Dare to kill, dare to fight, dare to fight, sometimes once you are not afraid, others are afraid.

Those who are afraid of being ruthless, and those who are so ruthless that they are afraid of dying.

In a foreign country, in order to grab goods, to fight in order not to be bullied, in order to be able to sail on time and not be troubled to fight. Whoever has no wounds on his body, who has not had someone else's blood on his hands.

In the most dangerous time, Huang Guigui broke his leg, and he dragged the broken leg and stabbed the person who broke his leg to death. Zhao Dashan was almost stabbed in the heart and lungs with a knife, and he was in a coma for three days and two nights, and finally came back alive.

The three of them waited until Zhao Dashan woke up and hugged his head and cried, and at this moment, they felt scared. It was unanimously decided to go back and never run again, and if they died, it would not be worth it.

Life is the most precious, and if you lose your life, you really have nothing.

Because of their bravery, several shippers collectively took money and rewarded one of them with one hundred taels of silver, Zhao Dashan, who was the most seriously injured, with an additional one hundred taels and Huang Guigui with an additional fifty taels.

Five hundred and fifty taels for four people, plus seventy taels that began to be made at the docks in various places, together with six hundred and twenty taels, they customized ten boxes of glazed products on the Oriental side.

All to customize, choose your own style, choose your own color, even if it is expensive, it doesn't matter, it is the best.

They customized four boxes, eleven of the zodiac signs in the zodiac, and the only one who didn't dare to customize was the dragon, for fear of committing taboos. The eleven zodiac signs, fired vividly, with the base of the Zodiac below, turned a zodiac thing into an auspicious ornament.

I also customized a box of exquisite glass beads of various colors, ready to come back and sell them to jewelry stores to make exquisite hairpin rings.

The remaining five boxes are the kind of auspicious ornaments that beckoning fortune and blessings, because the requirements are strict, and the styles are customized, so the price is higher than the price of glazed products on the market.

Everyone thought the four of them were crazy. Glass, that's a brittle thing, the sea is stormy, and if you accidentally touch it, not to mention the whole thing is broken, it will affect the value of the entire item and become worthless.

Even the most sophisticated businessmen only dare to bring one or two boxes back, and they can bring it back completely, even if they make money, they can't, and they won't lose their money. And they put all their money on it. And what is this not crazy?

They made their own wicker boxes, padded them with cotton, bought pig urine bubbles from the market, blew them one by one, and tightened them in the middle to isolate them.

Each pig urine bubble only blows most of the gas, not very inflated, but not shriveled, placed in the middle of the glazed products to play a good role in isolating and shocking. Their custom-made glazed products are all of that kind of large pieces, and they win with their delicacy and color.

Ten boxes of glazed products were brought back, and some of them were broken and broken, leaving eight boxes, seven of which were sold by them to merchants from the capital at a high price of 9,800 taels.

5,000 taels were deposited into the bank as the capital to buy a ship and receive goods in the future, and 4,800 taels were divided equally among the four people, which was also regarded as returning to their hometown.

It costs more than 2,000 taels of silver to buy a cargo ship, and there are four people, one person is responsible for receiving and one person is shipping, and two people are responsible for driving the ship and transporting goods.

This experience not only earned them a lot of money, but also accumulated a number of contacts.

The merchants who went with them to the East and returned safely were especially favored by their bravery. Knowing that they were not running the boat when they went back, but were going to do some business, they said that they would provide them with supplies in the future.

There is also a box of glass beads of various colors, which are ready to come back to soybeans, and the four people feel that this box of beads that have been perforated will play a greater value in the hands of soybeans.

This box of beads is now in the Huang family's warehouse, waiting for its owner to arrive.