Shopkeeper Li walked out of Laifushun with his hands behind his back and walked all the way to the vicinity of the Lu family's wild wharf.

Entering the embankment, he stopped in the shade of the trees, and above his head, the leaves of the trees blew in the wind, making a sound of sparse foliage. Shopkeeper Li looked at the busy people in front of him and let out a slight sigh.

It's a pity that if it weren't for the difficult world, maybe he would have stayed in Jiangjiaba for ten or twenty years.

After a while, a child ran noisily, and when he saw the shopkeeper Li standing under the tree, he suddenly stopped.

Naked with small birds exposed, tanned is plum cans, he tilted his head to look at the shopkeeper Li, scratched his bald head, and looked back at the bamboo shed not far away.

As if remembering something, Li Cancan jumped back and shouted, "Uncle Lu, Uncle Lu, Shopkeeper Li is here." ”

"Shopkeeper Li is here!"

"It's Shopkeeper Li who is here."

Several children shouted behind the plum can, and the crisp children's voice permeated the entire river embankment.

Lu Quan, who was busy under the embankment, had not yet heard the children's shouts, and Li Sixi, who was busy moving bamboo on the embankment, heard it first. He immediately stopped and glanced at the riverbank in the direction of the town, and made sure that the person in plain clothes was indeed the shopkeeper Li, so he turned his head and called Lu Quan.

Shopkeeper Li is only in his early thirties, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. doesn't look like a shopkeeper, but like a chivalrous man walking the rivers and lakes.

The busy crowd was also awakened by the shouts of children, and they all got up and greeted Shopkeeper Li politely.

"Lee's."

"Shopkeeper Li, you're here."

"Shopkeeper Li, hurry, sit in the shed, it's hot outside."

Everyone greeted Shopkeeper Li warmly, and adults and children surrounded each other.

There was hope in everyone's eyes, whether the shopkeeper Li had changed his mind this time, and whether the eel cage business could continue to be done.

Seeing Lu Quan striding over with sweat, Shopkeeper Li politely clenched his fists at the big guy: "You guys are busy first, I'll talk to Brother Lu." ”

Lu Quan hurriedly stepped forward: "Shopkeeper Li, sit on the boat, the boat is cool." ”

The Lu family's boat was tethered to a tall willow tree, the shade of the tree just shrouded the hull, and the river breeze blew through and rippled, and the cabin was extremely cool.

Little Five and Little Four are resting in the cabin, and although it is a hot summer day, as long as they are in the cabin, they basically don't feel the heat. These two children would walk around the river bank in the shade in the morning and evening, and when the sun rose, they would not easily leave the cabin.

Lu Quan was in front, and Shopkeeper Li was behind, and the two entered the Li family's cabin one after the other.

On the river embankment, Li Sixi stood on tiptoe and watched the shopkeeper Li enter the cabin with a low body, and then hurriedly came to Brother Zhang's side and muttered quietly.

"Third brother, what do you think is the matter with this shopkeeper Li?"

Third Brother Zhang put away the bundle of bamboo in his hand before looking at the Lu family's boat: "I can't tell, I have to wait for Brother Lu and them to come out and ask back." ”

"I think maybe this eel cage business can continue."

This was said by Li Sixi, but it hit everyone's mind.

If, shopkeeper Li said, the eel cage continued to be knitted, and the goods were out as usual.

Even if the rebel army and the imperial court fight, it won't take a while. While the rebel army has not yet come, do more to earn more copper money, and one penny more in your hand is good for one penny. The more the court had to fight with the Red Silk Army, the more money and food had to be in their hands to survive.

Even if you are fleeing, you can buy food if you have money, and you are not afraid of starving to death if you have food.

Anyway, everyone has a boat, but it's really not good, just like the big guys discussed before, more than a dozen boats are quite in the lake.

When the court and the Red Silk Army are finished, when they will come out again.

Don't talk about Li Sixi, even the people who were busy weaving eel cages on the river embankment rarely stopped, leaned over to Qiu's side and stretched out their heads to ask, what is the shopkeeper Li doing here?

"I don't know." Qiu smiled and responded vaguely.

She really didn't know what the shopkeeper Li was doing, but when there were guests at home, there was no tea, and she always had to boil the kettle to send hot water.

After dealing with a few words casually, Qiu got up and dusted off the bamboo crumbs on his body, straightened his sideburns and prepared to go to the boat to boil water: "I won't tell you, I'll go make tea first." ”

Xiaoqing hurriedly put down the eel cage in his hand: "Mother, I'll go boil water." ”

said, regardless of whether Qiu agreed or not, he got up and walked to the place where he was shacking.

It was rare for her to be so stubborn, which made Qiu stunned for a while.

The sun grew bigger and bigger, and the piece in front of the shack was shrouded in sunlight. Watching Lu Xiaoqing pack up the firewood and squat under the bright sun to boil water, Qiu was a little speechless for a while.

How could Qiu not understand his daughter's careful thoughts about feeling sorry for him, thinking that his daughter who was so well-behaved and submissive, because of her stuttering, she was afraid of being ridiculed and had been hiding behind people silently like a shadow.

Now it's okay, I don't know what Xiao Si taught, Xiaoqing is getting better and better at speaking, and her courage is getting bigger and bigger.

Because Lu Quan started the eel cage business, several people came to her to beg for words, and they all had the intention of getting married.

Lu Xiaoli glanced at the eldest sister who was burning the fire, wanted to get up, thought about it and sat back.

It's just a pot of water, and the eldest sister can do it alone, but she goes to help but makes the eldest sister unhappy.

Forget it, forget it, let's make a few more eel cages.

Take advantage of these days to make money by weaving eel cages, earn more silver money, and buy a pair of silver studs for the eldest sister when the time comes.

In the past few days, Aunt Li, Aunt Zhang, and Aunt Wang have all been around her mother, and she doesn't understand what these aunts and aunts mean.

Thinking of earning money to buy silver earrings for his eldest sister, Lu Xiaoli lowered his head, and the work in his hands became faster and faster.

Earn more, and when the time comes, buy a big and good-looking silver earring for the eldest sister, just the orchid-shaped one, the eldest sister will definitely like it.

She and Xiaoyu have been to see it, and the pair of orchid silver earrings cost one or two or seven dollars of silver.

Lu Xiaoyu, who was sitting on the side, lowered his head and was seriously busy sorting out the bamboo strips, and didn't notice who was boiling the water at home.

She is very busy, and she is not as good as the eldest sister and the second sister when she is small, and she earns less money.

Xiao Yu can only try his best to press his playful mind, and definitely does not listen to the temptation of Xiao Si, saying that it is cool in the cabin, and that the eel cage can't earn money.

Why can't they earn money, my mother said, weaving an eel cage costs ten cents, which is all theirs. Other people's children have to cut bamboo strips and eel cages by themselves, and the money they earn cannot be kept.

Her family's bamboo strips are all cut by her father, and the four of them only need to weave them.

She is so young, she can still earn 20 yuan a day. Twenty wen, why isn't it money?

Because they can earn money, the children of the wild wharf families are almost idle, and they all help under the shed.

But like Lu Xiaoyu, who is so small, can sit willingly from morning to night, except for the little girls like Chen Shao Ma Lanhua, there are not many.

It's like a plum can, it's fine in the morning, but in the afternoon, it's like a needle under the buttocks, and I can't sit still.

(End of chapter)