Haizhu put down her chopsticks and walked into the kitchen, and Dongzhu washed her hands with chicken wings in her mouth to get a bowl of wine.

At dusk, Qi Laosan came back with heavy legs, walked into the alley and saw the red cloth flag raised on the wall of his yard, he hurriedly walked back, and when he entered the door, he saw that the lantern had been lit in the yard, he patted his head twice, and said to Haizhu: "I didn't know that I was going to open a restaurant today, I came back late, and there was no chaos on your side, right?" ”

"No, third uncle, you go back to wash and come over for dinner."

Qi Laosan's sweat smelled sour, he went back and closed the door to take a shower with cold water, changed into clean clothes and walked over quickly, he wanted to help serve the food, but found that Haizhu could be busy alone, so he had to sit and eat.

When the night was dark and the prepared dishes were all sold, Qi Laosan wiped the table and washed the dishes, and let the three Haizhu sisters and brothers go back to wash and sleep.

Grandma Qi also squatted in the yard washing dishes and dishes, and when only she and the third child were left in the yard, she asked, "Why are you so busy lately?" It's getting late to come back. ”

"Took on a little more work."

"Got a girl you like?"

Chapter 94: A Family

"Nope." Qi Laosan denied it.

Grandma Qi didn't hear it, she didn't make a sound, Qi Laosan didn't say anything, and there was only the sound of dishes touching each other in the yard.

"Really?" After a long time, she asked again.

Qi Laosan still denied it, "I'll come back early tomorrow, I didn't know that Haizhu was going to open a restaurant to sell vegetables today."

"If you have a girl you like, don't hide it, I have some silver in my hand."

"I don't want your money, you take it yourself." Qi Laosan went out to pour the sewage with sewage, and most of the silver in her hand was given by Haizhu, how could he ask his niece for the money to honor his mother.

The mother and son hurriedly cleaned up the dirty pots and bowls, As for the bones in the yard or something, Grandma Qi will come over tomorrow morning to clean them.

Haizhu heard the footsteps and opened the door and went out, giving each of them a string of copper plates, not much, all sixty wen.

Qi Laosan took the copper plate and roughly estimated it, and said, "I didn't do anything tonight, you gave too much......"

Haizhu ignored him, she had only seen those who thought that the wages were small, and he hated the wages every day, "At this price, I just hired someone to wash the dishes and pour swill." Hey, third uncle, aren't you also pushing money out when you're carrying goods outside? People give you a few rewards, and you are not worth it for your employer. ”

"I'm not stupid."

Second Uncle Qi laughed in the room.

Qi Laosan put on the copper plate to bring water to his second brother to bathe, and when he entered the door and saw that he had changed into the short pants he wore to sleep, he wondered, "Who changed it for you?" ”

"I changed it myself, I asked Haizhu to scoop a basin of water for me, and I wiped it myself." Second Uncle Qi didn't hide his happiness in his words, he pointed to the wet clothes thrown in the corner, and said, "You take it out and wash it later, and then go to bed early, put the urinal on the table for me, and I'll come by myself when I get up at night." ”

"How do you wash when you can't stand up?"

"Sitting and washing, supporting it with my hands, I wash it slowly, I can wash it little by little, and no matter how bad it is, there is a tide level to take a hand. After that, you will give me a bath every two or three days, and I will come by myself the rest of the time. ”

Qi Laosan was silent for a moment, then walked over and sniffed around him.

"How do you look like a dog?" Second Uncle Qi pushed him away, "It's really clean, I don't do anything at home every day, I just sweat a little." ”

Qi Laosan walked out with a basin of water, walked out and turned around and said, "I'll come back tomorrow to wash you, you wash yourself don't fall." ”

"No, I'll just slow down." Second Uncle Qi still wanted to refuse.

"That's it, I don't want to bother you with a bath." Qi Laosan put down a sentence and went back to the house with a basin of water. He scrubbed off the sweat on his body, sat on the bed to remove the strength on his legs, feet and buttocks, tried to use his arms to support his legs and lift his buttocks, and after a set of movements, he found that he unconsciously bent down, and it was his second brother, and this action had fallen off the chair.

He wrung a wet cloth towel to wipe his sweat again, lay on the bed and looked at the roof in contemplation, the cloth towel in his hand on his chest, and dried little by little with the night breeze blowing in the window.

……

It was dark, and the alley, which had been quiet all night, woke up, and the first people to come and walk around were those who carried the burden to sell firewood and the cart to sell water. They looked at the third cart pulling the bucket out, and their eyes showed a little contempt, the people of this family are famous for their searching, there are boats to go to sea, and the family also has a restaurant, and the money they earn is enough to buy firewood and water from the fingers.

Qi Laosan passed by them, nodded in greeting, and walked out of the alley briskly in the gray sky. He likes the tranquility of this hour, the salty and wet sea breeze is not mixed with popularity, and the men who carry the burden to the river to fetch water on the road are all quietly and quietly, without greeting anything.

When the sun shone at the end of the sea, he took a detour of the wooden cart to the door of a stone house without a courtyard, and the girl in the gray cloth dress and trousers heard the sound of rolling wheels and came out, and when she saw him coming to bring water, she took out a gray cake from the stove and gave it to him.

There was no extra communication between the two, the water tank was full, and Qi Laosan pulled the wooden cart with the empty bucket with the cake in his mouth and went to the river to fetch water.

"Early in the morning, I picked up candy and ate it?" Grandma Qi asked with a smile.

Chaoping just woke up and was still in a daze, and when he heard the words, he was refreshed, "Where did you pick up the candy?" ”

"Ask your third uncle." Second Uncle Qi smiled, "Is there still something happy?" ”

"Third Uncle......" Chaoping was fooled, "Where to pick up sugar?" ”

"Eat your food, I want to eat sugar, I sold fish at noon and came back to buy it for you." Qi Laosan rubbed his face, "Am I happy?" I slept well last night. By the way, Haizhu, don't give your second uncle a bath in the future, I'll come back and wash him. ”

"My second uncle said he soaked his feet! He lied to me? Haizhu looked at him resentfully, "Second uncle, you are really, what should I do if I fall?" ”

Second Uncle Qi didn't say anything, "Eat and eat, and don't talk about it when you eat." ”

Dongzhu didn't speak from beginning to end, she followed Fengping to put down the bowl first, wiped her mouth and loaded things into the car, and when Haizhu finished eating, she brought the basin and stuffing basin to the car, and the tandoor was also lifted, Qi Laosan put down the bowl and carried the fishing net to pull the cart out.

Chaoping sent them out of the alley, and then turned back to wait at the door, and when he washed the dishes, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren locked the door with shovels and went to weed in the leek field.

At this time, the streets and alleys are lively, people who have not eaten pinch copper to eat in the morning, and those who get up early carry nets and buckets to chew dried beans and go to the beach.

"Weeding the leeks again?"

"The weed grows vigorously, and if you don't pull it out for a day, it can grow tall."

Grandma Qi walked away, and the people who went to catch the sea talked about her: "Mrs. Qi is also a poor person, and she has to take a small drag to paralyze when she goes to the field...... Later, when her youngest son married a daughter-in-law, she didn't know if the family would fight. ”

"Worry about it, the family is harmonious, and the juniors in the family don't dislike Qi Er, and they pick up clean every day, this kind of person doesn't recruit bad people."

"Sister Song, don't you have a niece in your mother's family? You take a thread from it, everyone is a kind person, the old and the young can do it, as long as your niece is a clear one, it will be a good life in the future. ”

Mrs. Song was also moved, not to mention the side, her niece was married and enjoyed food, clothing and housing.

"The tide is receding." The people by the sea shouted loudly.

The people who were walking slowly on the road immediately strode up, and the fishermen who received the boats on the docks scrambled to sail away.

Haizhu led the boat to the island first, and met a turtle that surfaced and paddled on the way, she shouted, and the old turtle immediately changed direction and followed her.

Haizhu cast a net to catch it and got on the boat, plucked the sails and changed direction to go into the distance, passing by a few boats, seeing the ropes on the board, she asked aloud: "Do you want to go to the sea?" ”

"yes, let's go down and have a look."

"Be careful, don't go deeper." Haizhu explained, walked for a while, she lowered the sails and stopped the boat, and looked back, the rope on the boat had hung down.

"Let's go, let's go to the sea too." She told the old turtle to tie it to her net pocket and jump off the boat with a pointed arrow, and the old turtle followed.

Today, she has a clear goal, swimming to the bottom of the sea to rummage through the mud and reef bottoms in search of seeded octopuses and squid, as well as conch and seashells.

The old turtle landed on the reef and ate a few mouthfuls and ran away, it swam around at the bottom of the sea, and did not dare to go too far from the pearl, when she floated it would chase it, and then follow it down when it came down, and when it met the jellyfish, it ran after the jellyfish, and then turned back to the bottom of the sea to find her when it was full.

With yesterday's incident, Haizhu also noticed that there were no turtles in this sea area, and she didn't want to do that hooligan stalking thing anymore, so she spent the whole morning on the bottom of the sea.

I dug up a angler shrimp at the bottom of the sand, and then two more scurried out, and once they got into the mud and sand, it was difficult to dig out, and they ran quickly. Haizhu tied the mouth of the fishing net, untied it from his waist and put it in a circle at the bottom of the sand, and then used a sharp shovel to dig up the sand quickly, the sediment was turned up, and the sea water here also became turbid, like the wind and sand of the desert, a dusk yellow.

When Haizhu squatted down to pick up the pipa shrimp, she was suddenly hit on the back, and when she looked back and saw that it was an old turtle, she was vigilant at first. She pulled the rope from the mouth of the net to withdraw from the dim mud and sand circle, and looked around to find that the sea water not far away was wrong, and a blue sea fish was swept into it, and suddenly it could not swim.

She hurriedly took the old turtle to float up with the fishing net, and the sea was still calm at this time, and the clear sea water was blown by the wind and rippled.

"There's a whirlpool underwater, pull people on board." She shouted loudly, raised the sails and prepared to go back to the dock, remembering that there was a pan in the bottom warehouse, she carried the pan and stood on the board of the boat with a shovel to knock on the bottom of the pot: "There is a whirlpool at the bottom of the sea, hurry back to the dock." ”

The sound of iron pots and shovels striking each other came far away, and the people who heard the sound did not care to inquire about what was going on, so they first hoisted their sails and returned to shore.

The fishermen at the bottom of the sea have been on the boat one after another, some people are confused, some people are afraid, the boat returned to the dock before coming back to his senses, saying: "Thanks to my second brother pulling the rope in time, damn, I am the first time to see the speed of the whirlpool moving under the water, faster than the dog, I can't run, my leg was rolled in, fortunately there is a rope on the waist, for me to pull up." ”

The guards at the pier rang a gong the size of a basin, and those who were close were buzzing in their ears, and fishermen who were catching the sea along the coastline hurried away from the beach when they heard three gongs.

"Whose son are you? Don't want to live anymore? A man went into the water and dragged up the kid standing in the water, and slapped his head out of the water, "The stunned duck is too long, and he still looks at the waves, don't you see that black pool?" If you roll it down, you won't be able to climb even if you have ten lives. ”

There were waves in the sea, a line of white waves was disconnected in the middle, and the sea water in the middle was an offshore current, which looked inconspicuous, and could sweep people away in the blink of an eye, and before they could react, they had dragged people to a few feet away.

The kid who was dragged up opened his mouth and cried, and his father came and beat him again, pressing his grandson to thank him.

"Take it back and teach it well, don't bring him to the beach, don't be long-hearted at this time, you will cry in the future." The onlookers were annoyed when they heard the crying, and the people who lived by the sea did not know how to see the wind and water, that is, the children raised by the sea could not be kept.

The whirlpool on the bottom of the sea swept to the surface of the sea, and when the tide was high, the whirlpool rushed to the shore with the tide, and sand pits appeared on the beach instantly, and the reef was also carried away by the whirlpool, and the good end of the reef beach seemed to have been blown up.

Haizhu went back and pushed the wooden cart, and the old turtle went home with her, and she still remembered the small puddle in the corner, and got down from the wooden cart and walked around the yard first, and then climbed into the puddle.

Haizhu poured two buckets of seawater down and said, "Just wait for the whirlpool of the sea to go away and then go back to live in the mansion on the island." ”

Dongzhu pursed her lips and muttered, "I hate the poor and love the rich." She shook the skewered copper plates, and the copper clanged.

"Noisy people." Grandma Qi frowned, "Haven't counted yet?" You've counted most of the hours. ”

"I just like to hear this voice, sister, guess how much we sold this morning?"

"How much?" Haizhu asked.

"Two hundred and twelve texts, I'll follow the trend in half." Dongzhu Gagale.

Chaoping carried a small bench and sat next to her lap, and he didn't speak, just stared at it, he wanted it too.

"Rub my arm." Dongzhu took out two copper plates and gave them to him.

Chaoping happily accepted the copper plate and gave the second sister a thump on the arm.

When Dongzhu shouted to stop, he went to beat Fengping's arm again and earned two more cents.

"Everyone in our family is in the eyes of money." Grandma Qi smiled and pointed, "Go find your eldest sister, she is a big finger sewn." ”

"Help me sell marinated octopus in the afternoon, and I'll pay you." Haizhu didn't let him beat his arm, "Go to the third uncle outside the door, he said to buy you candy to eat." ”

Qi Laosan still remembered that when he bought sugar, he unloaded the goods for the grain store and went to the grocery store next door to buy five-pennie caramel candy, and his four nephews and nieces all shared.

Chapter 95: The boat that sells fruit comes from the river

"Third uncle, in the future, you will be near the dock when you get out of the boat, don't go far." Haizhu chewed on the caramel and spoke, "Or you follow me when I go to sea, and you are near the dock when I don't go to sea." ”

"Okay." Qi Laosan does not make mistakes, and human life is important.

I haven't drunk chicken soup for some days, Haizhu bought two hens to stew soup when he came back, the chicken stew raked and scooped into the basin, and the remaining chicken soup was mixed with yesterday's marinade to boil the pot together, and the cleaned octopus and squid were thrown in, and there was firewood in the stove when eating, and when the people finished eating, the octopus in the pot was also marinated.

"I'll take a few more to eat on the way." Qi Laosan wrapped four in oiled paper and took them away, "I'm going to chop wood, Haizhu, you won't open a restaurant tonight, right?" ”

"No, it's closed today."

"Then I'll be back later." Qi Laosan pushed the cart out.