Grandma Qi: ......

Second Uncle Qi was amused, "Go into the house and burn the fire, your second sister is not as good as you, don't burn the vegetables." ”

If you have something to do, you can sleep again after eating, and when you wake up, you will take a wooden cart to the beach to catch the sea, and Fengping will not be sad. He was worried that his eldest sister and second sister were going home, but he didn't plan to take him.

Only Haizhu, Dongzhu and Qi Laosan went back this time, and Grandma Qi stayed here to take care of Second Uncle Qi, and Fengping and Chaoping went back and didn't work and were left behind.

*

After a night, the sky was bright, Haizhu pushed a wooden cart to take the old turtle to the sea to hunt, and when it was full, she sent it to Shen's house, and asked Shen to help take care of it for two days.

The Zheng family's luggage had been moved to the dock, Haizhu and Dongzhu went over empty-handed, and the official ship also docked.

There were also twenty or thirty patrolling guards on the official ship, and their black and red uniforms stood out on the docks.

There were two soldiers on the boat who had seen Haizhu, and they got off the boat to help carry all the luggage, and the boat that had docked less than a cup of tea left the shore again.

"Who is this? Dare to take the official ship. "There was a lot of talk on the docks.

When I went back, I had a tailwind, and I arrived at Hui'an Wharf in less than half a day, Qi Laosan, Zheng Haishun and Haizhu all got off the boat at the wharf, and took the stored fishing boat to support the boat and went back.

When they returned to the village, the patrol boat had already left, and the message was to come and pick them up in two days.

After only walking for a month, and then returning to the village to look at it, Haizhu felt that she no longer had a sense of belonging here.

"Haishun is back? We're still wondering when you'll come back. The man washing the bucket by the river said, "It's a loss for you to go out, and there are no bandits in the village." ”

"That's a good thing." Zheng Haishun smiled.

When the fishing boat landed, Haizhu stood at the door of the house and looked at the stone house with the gate closed, and then turned to look at the sea.

Qi Laosan sighed, he walked home with a sad face, he was really reluctant to the small fishing village he grew up in, and this move was to move his roots.

"Third uncle, only pick up what you can use, don't bring bottles and cans." Haizhu confessed that she didn't enter the house, so she went to the village chief to explain the situation first.

In the next two days, people kept coming to her house, some wanted to borrow a house, and some wanted to buy this stone house with a small courtyard. Haizhu refused, she was still a little reluctant, and felt that she could come back to live for a while in the future.

As for the things that she wasn't going to take away, she asked Wei Jinhua to choose them first, and then give the others away.

On the morning of leaving, Pearl Girl came over while waiting for the boat.

"Because you live in this village, the sixth brother thought that he had an acquaintance and sent me over. I just settled in, and you're moving out again. She was very resentful.

"I can't expect this, even if you don't have me, you'll be in another village." Haizhu looked at her and said, "The people in our village are good, and your life here won't be too sad." ”

Zhu Nu didn't answer her words, and asked instead, "Have you seen Sixth Brother in Yongning?" Did he ask about me? ”

"I've seen it, but I haven't asked." No matter what else Zhu Nu thinks, Hai Zhu doesn't plan to meddle in this kind of thing, she is clean.

"Can you help me ......"

"I can't." Haizhu decisively interrupted her words, pointed to the river and said: "Take a boat to the wharf, take a merchant ship from Hui'an Wharf to Yongning Wharf, go out in the morning and arrive in the afternoon, if you want to find someone to find it yourself, it is not difficult." ”

An official boat turned around on the river, and Haizhu shouted to Qi Laosan, who was still inking at home: "Third uncle, the boat is coming." ”

There were a lot of things piled up on the shore, bedding and cages took up the most space, and when the boat docked, the aunts and sisters-in-law in the village helped carry the things onto the boat.

The guards on the boat came down to carry the fishing boat, and the two boats, one large and one small, did not take up much space on the board.

"Haizhu, are you back?" Someone asked.

"When you come back, this is also my home." Haizhu lay on the side of the boat and waved to the people by the river, and when he turned his head, he saw Qi Laosan slumped on the board of the boat and shed tears.

"If you want to come back, you can still come back, and it's very convenient to take a merchant ship back and forth." She was a little embarrassed, how could she have a feeling of being extremely guilty.

Farther and farther away from the village, Qi Laosan stood up and looked back, so sad that he wiped his tears and blew his nose, it was different, and he was a guest when he came back.

The sea was windy and the waves were strong, and the sea pearls were blowing a little cold, so she went upstairs and turned out a small cotton jacket to put on her body, and her hat was also put on, wrapped tightly, and sat on the board of the boat to enjoy the blue sea.

Dongzhu also followed her example, looking at the sea for a while and the sky for a while.

The seabirds that spread their wings and flew tired and landed on the side of the ship, and the bright red beaks buried under the wings to clean their feathers.

When the tide is low, the underwater beach is exposed to the sun, crabs and conch that can't keep up with the tide rush to the bottom of the sand, stranded fish swing their tails weakly, and the seaweed hanging on the reef drips and drips.

The people who were chasing the sea came, and they rushed to pick up the stranded fish first, and then scattered and used shovels to dig up the small bulges on the beach, and the conch and mussels scrambled to retract the meat of the snails and mussels into their shells.

As the sun sets, the number of people on the beach gradually decreases, and the dug and potholed sand is flattened at the moment of high tide, and the clams buried in the sand escape take the opportunity to flee into the sea.

The tide brings a new wave of seafood to fishermen by the sea.

*

When we arrived at Yongning Wharf, it was at the height of the tide, the sea crashed against the reef and splashed three feet of waves, and the docked fishing boats swayed in the tide.

The ship's guards helped carry all the luggage down, and then asked Haizhu where he planned to put the fishing boat.

"I'm sorry you to help me carry me into the sea, and the anchor will be smashed." Most of the fishermen in the town parked their fishing boats at the pier, and there were guards to see that no one would steal them, so Haizhu had to put the boats here.

Qi Laosan was also going to help, but Haizhu stopped him and said, "You go back and pull the wooden cart over, and Dongzhu and I are here to watch the luggage." ”

"Be marked on the ship, don't mix with others." Qi Laosan explained.

"Don't worry, leave it to me." Haizhu saw Mao Xiaoer, she went to ask: "Second brother Mao, are there any rules for the boat to be parked at the dock?" ”

"Pay the money monthly, write your name on the ship in red paint, and show your household registration when you pick up the ship." Mao Xiaoer yelled at the dozing man, "Brother Du, someone has a boat." ”

A boat is 100 yuan a month, and Haizhu happens to have silver on her, and she directly pays the boat fee for a year.

The ship has settled, only the people have settled.

Chapter 47: The days are rushing

The luggage was loaded into seven cars, from afternoon to sunset, and it took a long time to load and pull back all the things piled up on the dock.

Haizhu and Dongzhu's lunch was oysters, and when they got home, they were already so hungry that their chests were close to their bellies, and they didn't care about tidying up their things, so the sisters went into the kitchen to make dinner first.

When they were not at home, Grandma Qi never bought vegetables, cooking porridge in the morning and evening, steaming rice or boiling rice noodles at noon, stir-frying either vegetable moss or leeks, and steaming two bowls of egg custard was meat dishes.

"I'm going to buy groceries, do you have anything you want to eat?" Haizhu asked.

"Meat." Qijiawan is close to the water, go back for two days to eat fish, Dongzhu is hungry for meat, she called Fengping to come in and burn the fire, "I'll go with my eldest sister to buy vegetables, you come to see the fire."

"I want to go too." Feng Ping was reluctant.

"You can't help with things, what are you going to do with it?"

"You both stay in the house, I'll go alone." Haizhu didn't want to end the lawsuit, so she hurriedly pushed the wooden cart out of the house.

Yongning Wharf is a big town, there are also fresh pork sold in the afternoon, Haizhu first went to cut two catties of lean meat, weighed two catties of dried fungus, dried mushrooms are in good condition and weighed five catties, there are not many rice noodles at home, she went to the grain store to weigh rice noodles, and saw that there are soybean flour and buy two catties.

It's just for my family's food, and I only have about 20 copper plates left after buying it all the way.

Haizhu went to buy ten more rice cakes, she was so hungry that she stood on the rice cake stall and ate two to fill her stomach before pushing the cart to Shen's house to pick up the old turtle.

The old turtle has had a good life in the past two days, Shen Sui arranged for the little guy to go to the fishing market to buy thin live fish and live shrimp to feed it, throw a few to it every other hour, it eats and sleeps every day, except that it can't swim in the sea or is quite happy.

From the Shen family back to the Qi family, the old turtle's nest was changed from the pond to a large wooden basin, Haizhu looked very shabby, and when he took a bath, he pondered digging a pit for it in the yard, and brought water from the beach every day to change the water for it.

"Haizhu, what are you going to do with the meat you bought?" Grandma Qi asked.

"Don't move, I'll get it."

Haizhu came out of the bathroom, now that the whole family lives together, she can't take a bath in the courtyard as soon as the door is closed like before, so she has a small room from the firewood room for bathing.

"Cook rice noodles at night, and I'll fry a pork dumpling and eat it." Haizhu rolled up her sleeves and entered the kitchen, "What about my third uncle?" ”

"I'm going to carry water."

"Sister, do you want to make a fire?" Feng Ping ran in with Chaoping.

"Wait a minute, I'll call you when the fire is about to be lit." Haizhu called Dongzhu in, "Take out the soaked fungus, you and the milk choose the fungus clean, and break the big one in half." ”

She scooped up the lean meat that had been soaked in blood from the basin, sliced it first, then cut it into strips, then diced it, scooped a spoonful of soybean flour and poured it on the lean meat, grabbed and mixed evenly.

"Eldest sister, the green onion is for you, wash it." Fengping peeled the green onion and sent it in, "Do you want to burn the fire?" ”

"Have you finished choosing?"

"There are only a few left, and they'll be right away." Dongzhu shouted.

"Then light the fire." Haizhu took a knife and chopped the green onion, patted two garlic, cut two slices of ginger, the pot was red and poured oil, the oil was hot and the ginger, garlic and pepper were poured into it, and the diced meat with thin flour water was poured in, and there was a stinging sound, and the fragrance came out of the pot.

Dongzhu came in with the cleaned fungus and stood by the stove to see the meat in the pot change color.

Qi Laosan came back with water, washed the water tank before pouring the water, filled the water tank with four buckets of water, wiped his sweat, went into the house and poured the bath water out and poured it under the wall.

The sunset reflected half of the walls, the laughter of children in the alley drifted to the neighborhood with the smoke of cooking, and a series of crackling footsteps rushed along the outer wall into the door, and Shiohei grinned and ran straight to the fragrant kitchen.

Qi Laosan stood under the wall and was stunned for a while, such a day seemed to be good.

"It's time to eat." Haizhu shouted.

The dinner table was moved to the courtyard, and Grandma Qi and Qi Laosan washed their hands and went into the house to serve food.

The rice noodles are covered with diced pork fungus, and the soup is filled with tender green green onions, which are steaming hot, blurring the faces.

The rice cake still has a little residual heat, cut it into small pieces and put it on a plate and take it out, Haizhu first took a piece for Chaoping and let him pinch it and gnaw it slowly.

"It's still my sister's cooking that is delicious." Feng Ping means something.

Grandma Qi looked at him and didn't speak.

"Well, I'll make lunch and dinner at home in the future." Haizhu can't get used to her milk's cooking, and the old lady's cooking is just fooling her stomach, and she will be a meal.

"Tomorrow morning, I will buy 50 catties of noodles for setting up pancakes and grind 50 catties of glutinous rice, so as not to run every three or five times. In the afternoon, I went to cut leeks and pluck wild onions, and then walked around to find an open space to open up a waste of land and plant a leek. Haizhu said of her plan, "After these are ready, my plan is to take Dongzhu and Fengping to set up a stall to sell cakes in the morning, and when they are finished, they will cut leeks as soon as possible, and go to sea in the afternoon." Milk, you will take care of my second uncle and Chaoping at home, and you can talk to the people in the alley, go out for a walk in the morning, and choose leeks and wash leeks at home in the afternoon. My second uncle too, you can choose leeks to exercise the dexterity of your hands, and also help the family with things. As for my third uncle, the matter of carrying water and chopping firewood at home is yours, and you don't need to do the rest. ”

After speaking, Haizhu looked at the others, "Is it okay for me to arrange it like this?" ”

"Yes." Second Uncle Qi nodded first.

Grandma Qi has no opinion, she is very interested in planting leeks in the open land, and said: "I will dig the ground after the place is chosen, and I will pull out the weeds and water the leek roots when they are planted. She was quite reluctant to sit with the old lady in the alley, saying that the east family was short and the west family was short.

Things went smoothly, the work of the family was assigned to everyone, Qi Laosan felt that the days were quite rushing, he swept away the frustration on his face, snorted a few times and swept the powder in the bowl, and added: "The rice, flour and rape at home are all paid by Haizhu, and all the money I earn in the future will be handed over to her." ”

"This ......" Haizhu pondered, it is true that she can't bear all the expenses of the family, but she can't give it all to her, "That's it, third uncle, you can just give me half of it, and you can save the remaining half by yourself, and you have to treat yourself with two friends who are compatible with you to drink." The other is that when you meet a girl you like, you can also find us an aunt. ”

Speaking of marrying a daughter-in-law, Qi Laosan was still a little unable to wipe his face, and he drank soup with a bowl.

"The third uncle's ears are red." Feng Ping laughed.

Grandma Qi also smiled, "Listen to Haizhu in the matter of money, she suffers a little loss in this regard, you will rely on yourself to marry a daughter-in-law, save enough money to marry someone back, if the silver is not enough, Haizhu is not allowed to post it no matter how rich she is." This is for Qi Laosan, and it is also for Haizhu, "In the matter of the ship, your third uncle has taken a big advantage, and you don't care about me." Where he has money in the future, you can borrow but not give it, and if you lend it to him, let him make an IOU. ”