Coming to the back door of an alley, Steward Yang led them straight in, "Come on, you are here to watch them don't run around, I'll go find the third young master to come and watch the fish," he finished speaking, tidied up his clothes, and ran to the front yard with his things.

"How do you know he understands?" Zhou Xingping saw that he was happy to leave, and asked in a low voice.

"I look at the clothes he wears and know that he is not very literate, this color head fish is not a common thing, he just can't say one, two or three no matter how knowledgeable, only people who are full of poetry and books know the meaning of the names of these fish."

"What's more, water things are hard to come by, and sometimes you don't necessarily have them if you want them, so the nobles of the Gaomen Xun like this mystery, thinking that this is the blessing and gift of the ancestors to them," Shui Qing explained in a low voice for a long time.

Zhou Xingping hugged the bucket tighter after listening, and his eyes were still staring at the gap in the bucket.

After a pillar of incense, several people hurriedly came to the hood.

"They're the ones who sell fish?" A young boy asked Butler Yang.

"Third Young Master, it's the fish in their bucket."

"Open the bucket and show me," said the young man, who walked briskly.

Zhou Xingping looked at Shui Qing, carefully opened the lid of the bucket, and showed it to the young son.

"It's a rare and good fish!"

Take a glass basin and look at it, he turned his head to the person behind him.

The little guy quickly ran to find the glass basin and sent it over.

He couldn't stop looking at the fish bucket, and his eyes were full of satisfaction.

"Young master, the glass basin is here," the little guy ran sweating profusely.

Shui Qing gave Zhou Xingping a look, he quickly poured the bucket and slowly poured it into the transparent glass basin, and the three fish looked even more brilliant in the transparent basin!

"This golden fish can be used for birthday celebrations, but also for sending color heads, has the young master seen that it is red and golden? It has a nickname called 'Leaping Dragon Gate'! ”

"Red is "vulgar" and gold is "change", this third young master knows more than us, and he is generally fortunate enough to concentrate on three names on a fish that is rarely seen. ”

"The one with black and red flowers on both sides of the belly is the 'full bed' that the wives and old ladies want."

"The other one is the fortune red, if you take it out separately and look at it, it's not a big deal, if you put them together, I don't think any one can overpower them when you send them to the birthday."

"Steward Yang carried the fish with me to celebrate my grandmother's birthday, so I took advantage of the fact that there were many guests to celebrate my birthday," the young man had a satisfied smile on his face.

"Our Fish Money ......"

Steward Yang waved to the little girl who carried the fish and walked first, he walked over with a smile, "The fish money is indispensable to you, if the old lady is happy today, you will be lucky!" Take them to the corner for a meal, and the third young master will come over to reward them after celebrating his birthday. ”

The maid next to her got the order, agreed and led them into a utility room, and asked the kitchen to bring three meat and one vegetable, all of which were white-flour steamed buns and rice.

Shui Qing sat down unceremoniously and took the bowl and filled a bowl of rice, "Don't eat the steamed buns, take them back to the stones to eat, the rice is not good to take us to eat," she said, got up and put down the bowl and took out a piece of cloth, poured the steamed buns into the cloth bag and put it in the basket, took out the water bag and poured the water inside, most of the meat dishes were poured into the water bag, tied up and thrown into the basket, and the rest she divided into two parts, one for each person, "Don't waste it if you eat it, they will pour it to the pig if we can't finish eating." ”

Zhou Xingping saw that Shui Qing did not twist, a set of smooth movements were clean and neat, and the two of them were like starving ghosts, eating food and vegetables in a big gulp.

After eating and drinking, the two of them came out with a full burp, and the people in the back room saw that they came out, went in to collect the dishes and chopsticks, and found that the dishes were slippery and slippery, and they came out with empty bowls, and their eyes were indescribable.

Shui Qing smiled at her, "Our fishermen work hard, and we can eat three bowls of rice when the bowl is open."

The servant who collected the bowl paused and did not speak to them.

After eating, he waited for almost another hour, and the third young master came over with Steward Yang with a happy face, followed by several maids holding things.

Shui Qing saw it and knew in his heart that it must be three fish that made him out of the limelight.

"Uncle Yang, give them money, and give them some snacks to eat."

"Okay, Third Young Master," Steward Yang hurriedly whispered to the people around him to go to the kitchen and get ready to bring it.

"Thank you, Third Young Master," Shui Qing thanked him very naturally.

"And what! This is our old lady's reward for you," Steward Yang said with a smile, pointing to the person holding something next to him.

"Give it to them," he said, and gave Zhou Xingping a bulging red embroidered purse.

Shui Qingyu looked at it, it should be enough for thirty taels, she quickly said with a grateful face, "Thank you for the old lady's charity." ”

She straightened up and stood, and the maid put a few pieces of cloth in her arms, and the maid gave her a big burden.

The kitchen also sent six food boxes to Guo Xingping to hold.

"Send them out! Don't let them collide with the visitors, find someone to serve the fish well, many people handed messages to the ancestors to come to see the golden bodhisattva at night, don't let the fish wilt and lose spirit. ”

"Third Young Master, don't worry, the slave is personally looking for someone to serve," Steward Yang smiled toothlessly.

"Come to Xizi, you personally send them out of the house," after instructing the young master who followed him, he hurried to the front.

Zhou Xingping picked up his bucket, took the cloth in Shui Qing's arms and went out the door.

Laixizi sent them out the back door and went back, and their house was so busy that they didn't have time to chat.

"Is the money loaded?"

"Loaded, I'll give you the money?"

"Pretend! Don't take money out on the street, let's go to the cloth shop. ”

"Isn't this a cloth?"

Shui Qing looked back at him, "Although this cloth is not good in their mansion, are you willing to wear it in our hands?" This is all good ayaluo cotton, isn't it wasted when fishing and wearing? After selling it, I can buy some food for the whole family. ”

Zhou Xingping was speechless when he heard this, and obediently followed Shui Qing to the inconspicuous shop.

"Do you collect the cloth from the shopkeeper?"

"Close," the shopkeeper glanced at Shui Qing, and then at Zhou Xingping, who was lame behind her.

When Zhou Xingping heard this, he hurriedly put the six pieces of cloth on the counter.

"Are you selling or trading?" The shopkeeper opened the cloth and checked it, and asked.

"Four horses are sold for two horses," Shui Qing glanced up at the coarse cloth around him.

"Ayaluo's four horses will give you six taels of silver each, although you are Ayaluo's, but you are also an old cloth," the shopkeeper explained more with Shui Qing's expression.

Shui Qing knew that he was losing money when he heard it, but it was estimated that he would take it away at this price, and the general cloth shop recycled cloth was charged at half price.

"I'll take out another horse and add two cotton, and exchange two bags of cotton and three coarse cloth with you......"

"A bag and a half at most," the shopkeeper interrupted Shui Qing.

Shui Qing didn't say a word, and he was about to leave with the cloth.

"Agreed, it's not easy to see your husband lame," the shopkeeper found himself under the steps.

"Carry two bags of cotton and come over for them to test," the shopkeeper said and took out three large stators of five taels, and took out scattered pieces and four copper coins.

Shui Qing counted the money, put it in his clothes and wrapped it, and took out a copper coin to Zhou Xingping, "Let's go to the side and hire a cart to go to the dock in a while." ”

Zhou Xingping took the money and nodded.

The guy opened the cotton to show them, and Shui Qing reached under the bag and pulled a handful out to see.

"My little cotton lady here is self-taught," the shopkeeper couldn't help but open his name when he saw Shui Qing.

Shui Qing ignored him, put his hand into another bag of cotton and looked at it for a long time, and after making sure that there was no problem, he tightened the bag tightly, and came out with three coarse cloths to find a car and put it on.

"Uncle, please push it to the grain shop, you go to buy food, I will go to the spice shop to buy other things," Shui Qing explained in a low voice.

"Got it," Zhou Xingping followed the cart to the grain store.

Shui Qing first bought a pot in the grocery store, then went to the salt shop next to him to buy more than a dozen catties of salt, and finally came to the spice shop, she looked at the open bags one by one, the number of spices was not much, she picked a few scales and bought a bag of sesame seeds.

When she came out, Zhou Xingping was already waiting for her.

"Have you bought it all?"

"Let's go!" It's still some distance from the dock in town.

Shui Qing put everything in the car, passed by the butcher shop, and she bought two pieces of meat back.

When I came to the pier, it was already two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and the pier was no longer as lively and crowded as it was in the morning.

Zhou Xingping took out the boat license plate and handed it to the guy, untied the boat and rocked it to an open place on the other side, the person pushing the cart helped hand the things to the boat, and Shui Qing took a sample of things and put them on the boat.

"Uncle, your car money," Shui Qing saw that there was nothing in the car, and took out twenty copper plates from his purse and handed them to him.

The old man in the cart received the money, and his face was full of excited smiles, and she gave an extra five dollars when he said that he was good, and the surprise came so suddenly!

Shui Qing settled the car money and jumped on the boat and sat down, and when she went back, Zhou Cripple rocked the boat, she sat and rested comfortably, and opened a few food boxes with interest to see what they were.

Two boxes of pastries, two boxes of pastries, and two boxes of meat and vegetables, Shui Qing was a little disappointed, what pastries did they want! It's not practical to be delicate and good-looking, what they need is meat dishes!

"How can you be sure that the shopkeeper is willing to change cotton?"

"Didn't you listen to what the young master said when you left? It only takes a noon effort to deliver the fish, and someone officially hands over the post to the door to watch the fish! What is Fish Watching? It's just a matter of climbing the relationship from the beginning,"

"Generally, the people who are climbed are definitely very powerful, so how bad can the cloth he reward be? Everyone has their own cloth shop for wearing, even if it is not their own home, it must be someone else's gift past, can give him cloth away friendship, do you think the gift will be bad? Don't you see that the shopkeeper who collects our cloth is reluctant to let go? ”

"Aren't we selling at a loss?"

"Anyway, it's a white cloth, and there's nothing to lose," Shui Qing was still very happy touching the coarse cloth.

When the boat rocked until it entered the house, Zhou Xingping jumped down, pushed the boat to the shore and tied it, carried the cloth into the house, and when he came out, he carried two bags of cotton into the house and hid it.

Shui Qing hurriedly carried the food back, and the two of them sent the things back to the house one by one to put them away.

Zhou Xingping took the basket out and prepared to pick up the fish and come back.

"Daddy, I've got the fish back," the stone came out of the house, touching the wall.

"Why haven't you slept yet? Have you eaten? Zhou Xingping turned around and asked.

"No, my little aunt brought two cakes at noon."

Shui Qing walked in and heard it, turned his head and took out the water bag and steamed buns from the back basket and went to the pot house to heat them up.

"Go and stuff the fish and come back to eat quickly," Shui Qing said with the lid on the pot and his head stretched out.

Stone followed his father to the back of the house with the fish to help make it.

The water was clear and the fire went into the house, woke up the grass foam, got up to eat, and divided the things given by the people and put them away.

"Can my mother eat?" Stone ran in and asked.

"It's okay," Shui Qing took him two steamed buns, put a lot of meat dishes in a bowl and handed them to him, and took a steamed bun for Cao Mozi, who also sandwiched meat dishes, "If the steamed buns are not enough to eat, come and get them." ”

"Okay," replied the little girl, munching on the meat and vegetables.

Shui Qing gave a little of the remaining meat and vegetables to Zhou Xingping and himself.

She allows her two children to eat more, but they are not allowed to eat alone, and the life of material scarcity must develop the habit of restraint, and no one can be infinitely tolerated.