About half an hour later, Haizhu was so hungry that he was ready to go to the sea to catch shrimp and eat, and Shen Sui and Han Ji pressed down with three hideous-looking thieves.

"Girl, we've got it." Shen Sui was so excited that his heart trembled, eager to share the joy with others, he strode towards Haizhu, grabbed her hand and laughed, and slapped her back as a gong, "Let's get married, we are closer than brothers, we live and die together, and I will have a bowl of meat in the future, and the three of us will share it." ”

His heart was boiling, he looked like a deranged madman, Haizhu was so slapped by him that he was about to vomit blood, and had to push him into the sea with his backhand to sober up.

"Hahaha, I'm a bandit!" Shen Sui lay in the water and laughed, "I'm a big hero, my father can't scold me anymore." ”

Haizhu and Han Ji glanced at each other, the other party had no choice but to look for the boat alone, he was also excited, his brain was buzzing, and he couldn't tell the direction of the hidden ship for a while, but fortunately he saw the thief's boat, and he dragged two of them over.

"I'm holding the three of them alone to hold a boat, and you're tired of carrying her and him." Han Ji pointed at Shen Sui, who was still going crazy, and he wanted to tie up Shen Sui too, so as not to overturn the boat again by making trouble on the road.

Haizhu agreed, she asked Han Ji to eat something to rest before leaving, and took the opportunity to go over and tell him: "I plan to jump into the sea and swim back when I am close to the pier, so as not to be seen." You tell Shen Sui to erase me from it when you report to the government, and I will help steer the boat. ”

Han Ji frowned, "Why is that?" You've done a lot of work, and I'm going to take credit for you. ”

"I can't be a slaughterer for the official, what kind of merit do you ask?" Haizhu smiled, "Even if you ask for credit, you will also give pen and silver, and there is a false name, but that false name is useless to me, and it may still be a scourge if it is passed on." You and Sixth Brother Shen are the young masters of the official family, and there is no way for the bandits to hate you, but I am different, Qijiawan is connected to the sea, and the bandits went overnight, and the whole village will be buried for me. ”

"Okay, I got it." Han Ji knew what was important, he glanced at the seaside and said, "These four people who have seen you, I promise that they will not be able to get out of the prison." ”

Haizhu believed this, she pursed her lips behind her back and smiled, and said: "You take it with a false name, but you can't shorten my money, and I won't be happy without it." ”

"Definitely, definitely." Han Ji couldn't help laughing, he remembered what Shen Sui said a few days ago, and he also wanted to say that her happy temperament was very satisfying.

"I'll help you get more, and I'll send it to you when the money arrives." Han Ji said, "Then let's go?" No, I'll go and drag Shen Sui over first. ”

The two of them discussed on the side, Haizhu drove the four thieves onto the boat, she stood on the side of the boat and thought for a while, and when Han Ji came over, she asked him if he knew a doctor with more powerful medical skills.

Han Ji understood it at one point and said, "Next time, I'll go over and bring the house doctor over." ”

Shen Sui calmed down, he got on the boat and hoisted the sails, came back to his senses and asked Haizhu, "I haven't even noticed, when did your relationship with him become so good?" Why do you call him the second brother? Where did you leave the second brother who was saved by you? ”

Three sentences and two sentences were not in shape, Haizhu squeezed a smirk at him, "Life and death are friends, you are going to pull me to live and die together, marry Jin Lan, and ask me when my relationship with him is so good?" What about dreaming? Come back to your senses! ”

The wind blows the sails, and the fishing boats sail away.

When the dock came into view, Haizhu asked Shen Sui to prop the boat to the shore, she took out the silver in his purse, jumped off the boat and said, "You are busy with yours, don't think about looking for me, I will buy clothes and have a meal later and take the boat back." ”

After an adventure outside, it's time for her to go back to her comfort zone, thrills and excitement are the flavoring, and peaceful and ordinary days are the staple food that can't be tired.

When Haizhu returned to Hui'an Wharf, she was just in time to catch the boat that went out to fish, her tanned and red faces on the boat, her frowning brows when she bargained, and her joy and sorrow when she got the silver.

"What a fuss, I'm going home." Qi Laosan slapped Haizhu, "Look where you have gone, the sour smell all over your body." ”

Haizhu pursed her lips, and a few unclear sounds came out of her mouth, and she swaggered behind her back to follow her third uncle to board the boat.

"Are Dongzhu and Fengping alright?" She asked.

"Okay, guarding the four hanging bananas is very angry in the village."

Chapter 24: Repairing the House

The stone house is shady, the light is dim, and the sound of boiling water is in the ears, and the sound of bubbling water is particularly good for people to sleep, Haizhu woke up several times in confusion, and her heavy eyelids made her have no time to think about it, just as the sky was just bright, she turned over and fell asleep again.

Dongzhu quietly entered the house several times, she walked to the side of the bed and didn't see the person on the bed notice, she tiptoed the door and went out.

At noon, Grandma Qi came over and called Chaoping to go back to eat, and when she entered the house and saw that the yard was still quiet, she walked into the kitchen and asked, "Is your sister still sleeping?" ”

Dongzhu was chopping vegetables, and when she heard the words, she said "shhhh

"Went out to be a thief?" Grandma Qi muttered, she picked up her little grandson who was sitting on the ground, and said, "When the meal is ready, call her to get up and eat and go to sleep again, don't starve your stomach after being hungry for a long time." ”

"I know, I'll shout when I'm cooking it."

Grandma Qi wanted to leave, Chaoping refused, he flicked his legs and reached out to Fengping to hug him, and shouted "brother" vaguely in his mouth.

Feng Ping raised his hand to scare him and hit him, "Shut up, don't scream." Instead, he quickly ran into the house and picked two bananas and stuffed them for him.

Chaoping suddenly smiled, holding the banana tightly and silently.

"It's not that there is nothing at home, save your own food for your brother and sister." Grandma Qi slapped him on the ass.

Listening to the sound of talking and footsteps out of the courtyard, Haizhu opened the door with a wooden comb and unkempt hair. As soon as the door opened, the sunlight crept in through the crack in the door, and the fine dust mixed in it shimmered, Haizhu raised his hand to cover his eyes, yawned and said, "It's noon." ”

"Sister, are you awake?" Dongzhu came out with a kitchen knife, "You didn't call you if you didn't eat in the morning, are you hungry?" Feng Ping, get a few bananas for the eldest sister. ”

"No, I don't have an appetite now, do you have hot water? I'm thirsty. ”

Almost as soon as her words landed, Fengping poured a full bowl of hot water and brought it out, and when she finished drinking, he took the bowl and asked with a smile, "Do you still drink it?" ”

Haizhu tugged at his face, "Good brother, I'm not thirsty anymore." ”

Fengping blushed shyly, made a few noises, and hid in the stove kitchen with a bowl to continue to burn the fire.

Haizhu sat down against the wall with a chair, her bones were soft after sleeping for a long time, she raised her hand to comb her hair a few times, her arms were weak and sore, listening to the slow sound of chopping vegetables in the room, she slumped on the chair and squinted in a daze.

A boat slowly rowed on the river outside the door, Qi Laosan tied the boat and came in with a bucket, and when he entered the door, he saw Haizhu sitting lazily with his hair scattered, he called Dongzhu to come out and get fish, walked over and asked, "You just woke up?" ”

"Hmm...... Third uncle, you didn't go to sea? ”

"No, just cast a net on the beach, just like you." Although the harvest is less, I can come back every other hour, turn over and move his second brother, and I don't have to hold it in my pants/crotch when I and pee.

"What are you doing running out these days? Accumulate this virtue. Qi Laosan said in an interrogative tone, "I almost didn't recognize you when I saw you yesterday, my eyes were straight, my expression was stunned, and my body was sour, like a refugee who had fled." ”

"I went to the uninhabited island with the two young masters to hunt for treasures, but I didn't find the treasures, and I almost exhausted people to death." Haizhu raised her hand and began to comb her hair, she said casually: "Third uncle, you and my grandmother can rest assured, Shen Sui and Han Ji are both serious young masters of the official family, don't worry about me when I go out with them, I don't have anything they can plot." ”

Qi Laosan glanced at her face twice, the fourteen-year-old hairy girl had not yet opened, her body was immature, her beautiful facial features were covered by her tanned complexion, she looked calm, only the simple and delicate of a young girl was missing.

He also came from the age of the hairy boy, and he almost knew what kind of girl the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy had fantasies. Thinking of this, he let go of those worries and only advised: "There are many insects and snakes on the island where no one lives, so it's better for you to go less." In the future, when you go out, talk to me or your grandmother first, before you slapped your ass and ran away, we were hanging at home in vain. ”

"Okay, okay, third uncle, go back to dinner."

"I knew you didn't like to hear it, but Fan...... That's it. Qi Laosan walked out with a bucket, "I'm leaving, will you go to sea in the afternoon?" ”

"No, I still want to rest."

"Sister, the meal is ready, I can eat after steaming the fish, you wash your face." Dongzhu drilled out of the stove room and said.

"My little sister is really capable, what kind of food does she cook?" Haizhu stretched her waist and jumped up, scooped water and washed her face.

Lunch is steamed rice, the grate is a little hard, the vegetable moss is fried for a long time and boiled rotten, the steamed fish is a little salty, Haizhu is not disgusted at all, and it is eaten with relish.

"It's not tasty." Dongzhu pouted unhappily, "It's a waste of things." ”

"If you do it a few more times, you will be proficient, my sister can make money now, and she can withstand your spoilage." Haizhu turned out the roe in the belly of the fish, divided it into three bowls for his younger brothers and sisters, and said, "Eat it, I won't dislike it if it can be cooked." ”

Two dishes for three people, and there was nothing left over from the meal.

Haizhu was the last to put down the dishes and chopsticks, she poured the fish bones and cleaned up the dishes and went in to wash the dishes, Fengping took a rag and wiped the table, Dongzhu had nothing to do, she turned around and wanted to wash the soaked rice pots.

"Don't move." Haizhu didn't let her wash, "The cook doesn't wash the dishes, you go out and sit." ”

"Then I'll cook tomorrow."

Haizhu agreed, but didn't give her a chance. The next day, she went to the pier to buy pork belly, fished sea vegetables from the sea, chopped the pork belly into minced meat and mixed with sea vegetables to make stuffed steamed buns.

The clay pot can still cook rice and stir-fry vegetables, steaming steamed buns and steamed buns are not very satisfactory, Haizhu has spent a lot of effort, the buns are still squeezed out, the oil and water flow out, and the taste is not very delicious.

In the afternoon she did not go out to sea, but went to the wharf with the boat, and went to the blacksmith to make an iron pot, and from him she found a mason who could make a stove, and she went to someone's house and hired someone to work for her.

The masons went out and said to Haizhu, "You can't make a chimney from the wall, you can only lift the roof, and the chimney sticks out from the roof." ”

"Then lift the roof, you just help me repair the roofs of the other three rooms, I haven't seen if there are any problems after the typhoon."

Haizhu took Dongzhu and Fengping to move out all the things in the stove, there are seven clay pots for cooking, stir-frying, steaming fish, and stewed meat, as well as jars for crab sauce and shrimp paste, large clay pots for rice, noodles and beans and peanuts, and clay pots that have broken their corners or broken in half are also piled up in the corners and are not willing to throw away. If you don't clean it up, I don't know, there are four gourd scoops for scooping water, not to mention the palm-sized oil tank salt tank, Haizhu is going to throw away the unusable, and Dongzhu is reluctant.

"This jar is just a broken handle, and the others are fine, and it can still hold rice and noodles." Dongzhu grabbed a clay pot, picked out another cracked pot, and said, "This can be used to cook clams and clams, those things are dirty...... This scoop is still good, but it is a little old, and it can still be used. ”

The two sisters wanted to throw one away and keep the other, and the mason felt amused when he saw it on the sidelines, and he said to Haizhu: "Your sister is quite thrifty and housekeeper, and she can live." ”

"Rags are more and more accumulated, and more and more broken." The stone house where the stove was used was cleaned up, and it was much more empty. Haizhu stood inside and gestured, according to her assumption, after wrapping the pot and stove, only one stove for cooking soup was left, and the others were pushed, the room would be much more pleasing to the eye, and there would be no stumbling when cooking and turning around.

Since Dongzhu was reluctant to throw away those broken pots, Haizhu dug up the silt from the bottom of the river and filled the jars, dug up wild garlic and wild onions and planted them, and planted a row of wild flowers along the corner of the wall.

"What do you pout? You keep it for use, don't I use it? Haizhu smiled proudly at Dongzhu, clapped his hands and said, "In the future, they will be handed over to you to take care of, don't feed them to death." ”

Dongzhu has nothing to say.

Haizhu took this opportunity to clean up the house, and when the weather was good, she moved all the suitcases out, and the yard was gray, so she set up a pole to dry her clothes in the open space outside the door.

Feng Ping wore small clothes in the first two years, she chose out, and she saved it for her younger brother Chaosheng to wear, but now that Chaosheng is away from home and there is no shortage of clothes, she will take it to Chaoping to wear. As for the old clothes she wore before Dongzhu, as well as the few cotton clothes left by her mother, Haizhu didn't keep them and gave them to the girl in the village who had no father and no mother.

"Old clothes that you don't wear can be dismantled and made into shoes." Dongzhu muttered.

"Buy new clothes, new shoes." Haizhu flipped through last winter's cotton clothes and weighed them on her, touched her chin and said, "The sleeves are short, give them to Uncle Wutang's Fluttershy." ”

Dongzhu was reluctant, "I've been wearing it for half a month, and I haven't washed it yet." ”

"The color is old-fashioned, let's go tomorrow to pull the flower cloth to make a flower jacket." Haizhu sighed, this girl is too sensible, and she is a little picky, knowing that there is no shortage of silver at home, she is reluctant to spend it. She touched the top of Dongzhu's hair and said, "My sister is good-looking, suitable for wearing brightly colored clothes." ”

Dongzhu puffed up her cheeks a little embarrassed, looking at the indigo jacket and hesitating, "But this is what my mother made for me, and it will be gone this year." ”

Clothes that don't fit should be thrown away, useless regrets should be forgotten, and things that bring people a low mood are not worth keeping. Haizhu didn't hesitate to throw the blue jacket into the pile of clothes that she didn't want, and said, "It's not that I won't see my mother again, when you see her next year, you will ask her for a new dress that fits, and she will make you two pieces if you want one." ”

Dongzhu thought about that scene, and smiled in a very good mood, she no longer thought about it, and took the initiative to choose the clothes that didn't fit and didn't like to send them to the little sisters who played well.

Haizhu chose to leave two changes of clothes for each of the three sisters and brothers, and gave the rest away. The old sheets and old mattresses were taken to her for milk, and Second Uncle Qi had difficulty moving before, so he had several quilts that were dirty, and these were just enough to replace the dirty and smelly cotton wool and throw them away.

It took two days to build the chimney and another two days to rebuild the roof, so repairing the roofs of the other three rooms was easy, and it was completed in less than half a day.

Haizhu paid the mason and sent him to the docks, where she went to the cloth village to carry the ordered bedding and sheets to the boat. She bought a few more pieces of lotus pink and pale yellow cotton cloth, and planned to decorate the two rooms next door, and she wanted to sleep in the same room as Dongzhu and Feng.

The bedroom where Qi's father slept before his death was locked after Qi's mother remarried, worried that Dongzhu and Fengping would cry at night when they slept, Haizhu decided that she would move over. The stone house where the three sisters and brothers lived together before was left for Feng Ping to live, she used cotton thread to measure the size, cut a pale yellow cotton cloth as a wall cloth to hang on, and the whole wall was colored, and the room suddenly lit up by three points.

Dongzhu's bedroom is also furnished, that is, the yellow wall cloth is replaced with lotus pink, the sheets and quilts on the bed are her favorite sky blue, and Haizhu asks the embroiderer to embroider flowers and butterflies on the quilt and sheets.

With such an arrangement, the dullness and depression brought by the bluestone wall dissipated, and the room was much warmer.

Dongzhu and Fengping came back to see it, they were so excited that they screamed and jumped, took off their shoes and clothes on the spot, climbed up and rolled, Haizhu just proposed to sleep in separate rooms, and the two small ones went to move things non-stop.

Haizhu distributed the rest of the cloth to the two who were overjoyed, "I arrange my own house, and I clean up after it is dirty." ”

Dongzhu and Fengping agreed, and Dongzhu looked into the bedroom in the middle, "Sister, what is your house like?" ”

"It's still the same, do you want to go in and have a look?"

Dongzhu subconsciously took a step back, at first she was reluctant to go in, if she didn't go in, she could imagine that her father was still inside, and after a long time, she was a little afraid, she had seen what he looked like after he died.

Haizhu pushed open the door, the wooden bed against the wall wiped off the dust, the cobwebs on the roof were also swept away, and she used to make the newly bought mattress on the bed, the stone sheets, the apricot yellow and white quilt, the very quiet color.

Before she could figure out how to set up the house, she took a bunch of wild flowers from the courtyard and put them in a clay pot and placed them on the table at the bedside.

The stone house has changed greatly in a few days, the dim light and shadow have faded, and the wildflowers on the wall seem to dispel the smell of mold and decay in the corners, and people are much more comfortable to live in.