Qi Laosan went into the house to get his clothes, and when he left, he went to say to his second brother, "I'll go pick up the doctor for you." ”

The last packet of medicine was boiled yesterday, and according to the agreement, the government doctor from the Admiralty's Mansion will come over today.

Haizhu is also worried about this, she is not going to sea today, after getting up, she went to the reef by the sea to pry a bowl of oyster meat back, mixed the batter with eggs and fried two plates of oysters, blanched a plate of cabbage and mixed with scallion oil, this is the breakfast of the three sisters and brothers.

"I'll go to the dock to buy some fresh meat and vegetables and come back, you two clean up the house." Haizhu put on the three-way copper plate, put on a hat and walked out.

Dongzhu heard a "bang" from the wooden basin in the yard, and she looked out, and saw the big turtle crawling out of the basin, and the water splashed on the ground.

"Oh, she's going to buy meat, not to catch fish, you're waiting at home." She ran to close the door, "Fengping? What are you doing in the house? You stand in the yard and watch the turtle, and don't let it climb out into the water. ”

"Okay, this is coming out." Feng Ping ran over and straddled the turtle's back, muttering, "You old guy is more clingy than me." ”

*

On a fine day, the sea shines with the rising sun, sails race across the sea, and seabirds follow the fishing boats out to sea.

The sky is high and the birds fly, the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the day full of vitality begins.

The porters and goods workers on the wharf squatted in the corners and waited to take their jobs, and the women who rushed to the market to buy and sell vegetables crowded into the wharf and scattered like beans.

"Girl, buy an oyster, just from the pot, two pennies a penny, I'll make it bigger for you."

Haizhu carried the basket and waved her hand, "That's what I ate in the morning." ”

"Does the girl buy a purse? The good goods shipped from the capital are beautiful in color. ”

"Fishing nets, mending fishing nets, selling fishing nets."

The shouting on the wharf continued, but when it came to the street it was quieter, the restaurant had not yet opened, the tavern door was ajar, and the men of the commissary were busy wiping the dust from the window frames.

Haizhu first went to the pork shop to buy a pork leg and ribs, cut two catties of tenderloin, paid the money and turned around to buy a hen, and saw that there was a duck seller who also carried one. Passing by the blacksmith shop, I scattered the last fifty wen and ordered a frying pan, which was about the size of the pot for frying oysters on the dock.

"The merchant ship is docked."

I don't know who shouted, the shops on both sides of the long street came out one after another, Haizhu mixed in to listen to what they discussed, and the price rose again, and the business was not good.

The merchant ships docked, and the portmen and goods workers also came to work, scrambling to be the first to grab the docks to find work. Haizhu was in the way, and she was about to go around, when a familiar back was squeezed into the afterglow. She turned her head to look over and saw her third uncle carrying a bag of rice or beans and getting off the boat with his head down.

Haizhu ducked for a while, she put the things she bought on the boat, and the people stood on the reef beach and waited. Thinking that Grandma Qi had said that her third uncle felt stressed because she had taken everything over, Haizhu pondered for a moment and quietly propped up the boat and left.

The sun shifted a little bit, and no boat came in on the river, so Grandma Qi looked at it again and again, and went into the courtyard and said, "Haizhu, don't kill the chickens and ducks yet, people are estimated to arrive in the evening." ”

"If the guests don't come, then we will eat by ourselves, and after lunch, I will hold the boat and go to the pier to buy it." Haizhu had already boiled the water, she went out with a kitchen knife and slaughtered the chickens and ducks, "Milk, how has my third uncle been on the boat these days?" ”

"It's okay, I went out early, I came back late, and the copper plate I got back was forty or fifty wen. He's on the dock today, and you didn't run into him? ”

"No, there's a lot of people on the dock." Haizhu chose to cover it up, "My second uncle's hand has a feeling, and it may be better if he the needle for another half a month." ”

Grandma Qi moved a stool to pluck duck feathers, and she also looked forward to getting better.

"Sister, there's a big boat on the river." Feng Ping stood outside the door and shouted, "It seems to be Shen Liuge and them." ”

They are the only ones who can turn the official boat into the river, Haizhu covered the pot and took off the apron to go out, and watched from a distance that someone was waving at the bow of the boat.

"What's delicious? So fragrant, guess we're coming over today? Shen Sui ran off the boat, and Han Ji followed him calmly.

Haizhu had this guess, she greeted Han Ji, looked up, and saw a girl walking down the boat, who had still dealt with her.

"Remember her, right? Her name is Pearl Girl. Shen Sui introduced.

Haizhu nodded, and saw that Dr. Mu also got off the boat, she said, "Come into the house and sit, the meal is almost ready, you can eat after drinking saliva and resting for a while." ”

Grandma Qi looked up the river, and her stupid son was still nowhere to be seen.

"Mrs. Qi, it's hot outside, you can also come into the house and sit." Han Ji passed by and shouted.

"Hey, you don't need to greet me, you go into the house to rest, and you're tired of taking the boat."

"Where did you come from?" Haizhu asked Shen Sui, his eyes circling around the bead girl who was following him.

"From home, Dr. Mu took a boat from Fucheng to Yongning Wharf and picked him up and we came together."

As soon as a few people sat down, the little maid on the boat came in with two bags of fruit, Han Ji saw that Dongzhu and Fengping's eyes were shining, and he chuckled and asked Dongzhu to take the fruit into the house.

Feng Ping ran into the kitchen and told Haizhu, Haizhu thought that the three of them were a lifelong friendship, so he didn't say politely to them, and continued to give it, without saying polite words.

"This turtle is still in your house?" Shen Sui was idle, he first looked at the water tank with crabs, and then went to tease the old turtle sleeping in the water, "It has to eat a lot of fish and shrimp a day, can it afford it?" ”

"It goes to the sea with my sister every day to hunt for food, and if my sister doesn't go to sea, she catches fish and shrimp in the river in front of her house, and comes back when she is full." Dongzhu said with great interest, "The old turtle is sensible, and it is not difficult to raise it at all." ”

"Got in the water and came back?" Han Ji was surprised, "Matured?" ”

"My family has good feng shui, and I have attracted a spirit turtle." Haizhu wiped the water on her hand and walked out, she looked out, "Milk, my third uncle hasn't come back yet?" ”

"Ready? Without waiting for him, we will eat first, he is estimated to eat at the pier. Grandma Qi said.

The hour was indeed not early, and Haizhu did not insist on waiting, and such a big person could not starve him. She asked Shen Sui to move the table to a shady place, thinking that she should build a shed for eating, but she didn't want to bother with the violent typhoon.

One by one, the fragrant dishes were brought to the table, and Haizhu took a kitchen knife to cut the thread on the chicken belly, and the abalone stuffed in the chicken belly rolled out one after another, so that the stewed abalone was more tender than the stewed one.

"I originally wanted to buy pork belly to make pork belly chicken, but I didn't buy it when I went late, so I changed the way to stuff the abalone into the chicken belly, and I tasted it." Haizhu beckoned everyone to move their chopsticks.

There was no one here who didn't eat meat, they didn't listen to her, and the chopsticks went to the pork leg in unison. The pork leg was fried out of the tiger skin and stewed, and the fat outside was fried out of oil and water, and the stewed rake was soft and glutinous, and the meat was fragrant in the mouth, not greasy at all.

"Do you have anything else in here? What is the soup base? Han Ji tasted something else.

Haizhu smiled mysteriously, "Fish, believe it or not?" ”

Han Ji took another bite and didn't say believe it or not.

Other people don't talk either, their mouths are busy, and they have a sense of satiety before they have the heart to talk about it. Shen Sui wiped the hot sweat and said: "If I am hungry in the future, I will come to you to eat, you don't know, I am floating on the sea every day, and I eat fish for seven days out of ten days, and I smell enough fishy smell." ”

"Okay, I'm sure I can't let you go hungry when you're here."

Grandma Qi was full, she just put down the dishes and chopsticks, and Dr. Mu also put down the soup bowl and said, "You eat and drink slowly, I'll go over and take a look first." ”

"Dongzhu and Fengping have also passed, you two look at Chaoping and don't make trouble." Haizhu sent the three small ones away.

As soon as the miscellaneous people left, Shen Sui smiled at Haizhu, "Sister, the sixth brother entrusts you with something." ”

Haizhu saw that eighty percent of it was related to the pearl girl. The pearl girl was in a state of flux from the time she got off the boat to the time she ate, not like she was playing with a boat. And he talks or laughs, and it looks like he has something on his mind.

"This is Zhu Nu, you also knew before, she is a poor girl, there was a sick old lady before, and a good gambling brother, half a month ago her old lady was gone, her brother sold her at the gambling table, fortunately I went back in time." Shen Sui sold Haizhu miserably for Zhunu, trying to arouse her sympathy and righteousness, seeing that her face was really moved, he continued: "She will definitely not be able to go back to that home, and she can't run with me on the sea, I think that your villagers have a good style, and you are an acquaintance, so it is better to arrange her in your village." Are there any empty houses in your village? I'll rent the silver for her for two or three years, and you can take care of it on weekdays. ”

Haizhu tapped his fingers and didn't speak, his eyes repeatedly swirled on the faces of this man and woman, with Shen Sui's personality, he could make this kind of move to save people from the predicament, but Zhu Nu's eyes were not innocent when he looked at him.

"Why didn't you put her in your house? People stay in your house, and those scoundrels and her gambler brothers dare not come to the door. Haizhu asked.

Han Ji sat on the side and watched the play, and when he heard this, he clenched his fist under his nose and smiled, and when he saw Haizhu looking over, he returned to his normal color.

Shen Sui was a little embarrassed on his face, he wanted to speak and stopped, and said hesitantly: "I quarreled with my family, it's not good to beg them again." ”

Haizhu understood, I am afraid that it was because of the conflict between the pearl girl, she tentatively said: "What is the plan for the pearl girl to live?" There are a lot of bachelors in our village, and she lives in the village as an orphan girl, so it is difficult to guarantee that someone has ideas. ”

Shen Sui looked at the pearl girl, and the pearl girl shook her head with a white face, "I don't want to get married." ”

"I'll go and say hello to the village chief, there is Haizhu you supervising by the side, and the people in the village don't dare to disobey the sun." Shen Sui looked arrogant.

Haizhu snorted, she was too lazy to go around in circles, got up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and the movements in her hands did not stop and did not delay her mouth: "Shen Lao Liu, I don't know if you are really confused or pretending to be confused, your family doesn't want you to take such a big girl to your family, don't say you don't know what the reason is." If you want to keep the outer room casual, don't tear me out of the water, let me be infamous for nothing. ”

"How do you speak? Your sixth brother is such a filthy person in your eyes? Shen Sui was angry, he got up angrily, and followed behind Haizhu, "I still take you as a confidant, I thought you knew me as a person, and you had the same mind as me to hoe the strong and help the weak, but I didn't expect that I, Shen Lao Liu, looked away again." ”

Haizhu didn't scare him, she wiped the table and went into the house to wash the dishes, and the pottery bowl clanged on the iron pot.

Shen Sui stood at the door and glared at her, seeing that she was silent, he patted the door and reminded: "You speak!" ”

"Say what? Say you didn't look away? ”

Han Ji laughed silently.

"Sixth brother, why don't I take a boat back to Yongning in the afternoon." Pearl Nu sobbed and whispered.

"If you don't go back, you will live in this village." Shen Sui still believes in Haizhu's character, if someone really wants to find trouble with the pearl girl, she will not sit idly by.

He led the pearl girl to find the village chief, Han Ji and the others left, he walked to the kitchen door and said: "I heard that most of the maids in his house were brought back by him from outside, and those who were young and did not have a crooked heart stayed in the house to do things, and those who came in with a heart were sent away by his mother." ”

"This terrible thing, all the hard-working girls in ten miles and eight towns have been met by him." Haizhu made up her mind not to mix with his business.

"He doesn't seem to have that kind of mind, and he wants to be an admirable hero in the book." Han Ji thought it was funny, this kind of person was also pure in mind on the other hand, "If he runs with me in the sea in the future, it shouldn't be bad for women." ”

"You're guaranteeing him?" Haizhu asked.

Chapter 31: Rejection

"It doesn't matter if I don't do it, unless you're like the Pearl Girl." Han Ji pointed meaningfully, "In my opinion, you don't have that mind." ”

Haizhu glanced at him, "Are you Fang Ling?"

Han Ji choked, "Fang Ling eighteen."

It's funny, Haizhu smiled, "I'm only fourteen years old, it's too early for you to tell me this." ”

"Okay, I'll stop talking." Han Ji shut up.

Haizhu washed her hands and wanted to go to her second uncle's house to have a look, and she asked Han Ji if she was sitting at home or going back to the boat to rest.

"You're busy, I'll go to the village chief later to find out the situation. By the way, we won't stay overnight tonight, you don't have to prepare any more meals. Han Ji explained.

"When is the next time?"

"I don't know, the bandits on the island have been unstable lately, and I don't know if they will go to kill a nest. I don't worry about you going to sea, close the door early when it's dark, and don't come out at night if you hear something wrong. ”

It's a heavy and powerless topic, Haizhu takes a breath and walks out, "Lock the door when you go out, I'll bring the key."

She had just walked past the three stone houses, and caught a glimpse of Uncle Wutang hurrying over, and she quipped, "Where is Uncle Five?" What's so urgent? ”

"You come here, I'll ask you something, what's the matter with that girl that Shen Guan Ye brought? How do I arrange it? Uncle Wutang came over with the eyes of the village chief, and asked directly in a hurry: "Is he planning to raise a woman in our village, or will he settle that girl in our village?" ”

Look, everyone has this suspicion, and in the future, Shen Liu will marry a wife, and he should not be killed if he is true or false to the outside world.

"According to the arrangement of settling down, let the village chief's uncle take her to change her household registration later." Haizhu helped sweep the tail, "Fifth uncle, I remember if there is a spare room in Grandma Bei's house?" You ask her if she rents or not, and arranges people to live in it, and the old and the young can also be companions. ”

Grandma Bei is a widowed old lady, she looks a little fierce, and she never loses the wind in scolding, and the children in the village are afraid of her, and others dare not provoke her. But people are not bad, the pearl girl lives in it, as long as she is unwilling, no bachelor dares to harass her.

"Okay, I'll ask."

Haizhu continued to walk, and when she arrived, she found that Dr. Song in the medical hall was also there, and she was listening intently to Dr. Mu's lecture on which acupuncture point to put the needle from.

*

"Sixth brother, can I do things on the ship? I can also cook and help under the stove. Zhu Nu whispered, "I don't know anyone here." ”