The old turtle brought a sea urchin over, Haizhu took a look, she used a pointed shovel to pry open the sea urchin to feed the turtle, and when the overjoyed dolphin ran away, she changed the direction and changed the place to catch the crab.

She didn't expect the four dolphins to remember her, and they were so excited to see their long-lost friends, and when they dived, they took turns to use their snouts against her and swim with the old turtle in the sea. This was the first time that Haizhu had experienced the horror of manta rays being thrown out of the sea as a racket by killer whales, and if it weren't for their cleverness and knowing how to slow down when approaching the bottom of the sea, she would have been knocked into the bottom of the sea and couldn't get up.

The pincers of the orchid crab are exposed outside the hole, the palm-sized blue crab stands quietly under the roots of the coral stone like a stone, the finger-sized juvenile crab turns in the gravel, and the two shrimps hug each other on the leaves of the aquatic plants...... Haizhu slowly calmed down in the process of catching crabs and shrimps.

The crab wrapped its pincers and threw it into the net pocket, hugged the breeding shrimp and let them go, and the abalone clinging to the reef was pried off one by one.

The waist was hit by the old turtle, Haizhu turned her head to take a look, this glance almost scared the soul, a black and white ringed sea snake was pulled by it, the thin tail curled in the water, she screamed in fright, turned around and ran.

"Don't come along, you're stupid, aren't you? I will treat you well with food and drink, and you will take revenge on the serpent to poison me. Haizhu struck the turtle's shell with a pointed shovel, and pestled the old turtle to tell it not to follow her.

The old turtle insisted on giving her what was in her mouth, and she swam wherever it went, and a person and a turtle staged a game of her escape from it at the bottom of the sea. Passing by a reef, Haizhu passed an eel's head and shrank in, she swam in a different direction, and estimated that the snake should be suffocated in the turtle's mouth, and she stopped.

"Okay, I'll see, what good things have you caught?" She reached out to it.

The old turtle let go of its mouth, the black and white ring intertwined sea snake fell at Haizhu's feet, Haizhu stepped on the snake's head uneasily, she glanced at the old turtle, picked up the snake's tail and prepared to throw it into the net pocket, twisted her hand and felt that the touch was wrong, and the snake tail had a slippery layer of film. She put her tail on a coral fork and looked around carefully to determine that it was an eel that looked like a snake, with smooth fins like membranous on its back, two whiskers on its head, and a short and thick tail.

"I'm sorry, I'm wrong for you, you think this is delicious for me, right?" Haizhu carried the snake eel into her net pocket, she touched the old turtle's neck with a grin, and said, "I have wronged you, if you want to blame the dolphins, if they hadn't made trouble, I wouldn't have been surprised." ”

The turtle glanced into its net pocket and swam away with its fins.

When the sea pearl swam back, she used the sea urchin to summon a few swimming fish, knocked one poked on the pointed shovel and probed into the reef hole where the moray eel was hiding, and the fish blood floated into the hole along the sea, and a blue-brown moray eel quietly swam out of the hole.

The tail of the fish poked on the pointed shovel was bitten by it, and Haizhu pushed the pointed shovel into its mouth, and with a twist of his wrist, the sharp blade of the shovel cut through the eel's jaw against the reef, and the greedy moray eel was nailed to the reef. The tail still cowering in the hole flicked out, and it rolled and slapped the reef and mud, and the murky water spread out with seaweed.

The sea pearl did not move, she was in a stalemate with it, I don't know how long it took, the strength of the moray eel weakened, and the sea gradually cleared. Haizhu untied the net around her waist with one hand, she pulled the rope around the neck of the moray eel, it pouted fiercely to bite her, she threw away the pointed shovel and pulled the rope, the moray eel that had just stopped began to struggle again, and slowly lost its strength under suffocation.

Haizhu gestured, this fat moray eel was thicker than her big arms, and she stepped on her tail and lifted it up to her chest height, and it should be one or twenty pounds heavy.

In the distance, a dolphin appeared again, and Haizhu hurriedly carried the moray eel and stuffed it into the net pocket, which was full again. She was about to call the old turtle to swim upstream, but after looking around, she found that it had caught a snake eel from somewhere, and when she saw someone, she obediently opened its mouth and spit the snake eel at her feet.

"Good tortoise." Haizhu boasted, and she picked up the snake eel and put it in her net pocket.

The dolphins came, and Haizhu swam to the surface with the old turtles, and they followed, and rushed up with their snouts against her back, just like when they dived, but this time the speed slowed down, and the four dolphins took turns to enjoy it.

Dragging a net bag and climbing onto the boat, Haizhu lay on the board of the boat to relax, her chest and stomach were beaten by the sea water and she lost consciousness, and it took a while to feel the pain. When the bottom of the boat was hit, she got up and cast a net to catch the old turtle, and the four dolphins were still swimming around the side of the boat, and she scolded: "You went to learn from the killer whales? Eat enough to play with me as a ball? ”

It was still early in the afternoon, and Haizhu didn't want to go back and didn't want to be carried by dolphins in the sea anymore, so she took the old turtle to rest on the boat. The catch was emptied in the net pocket, and she sat on the second floor to watch the dolphins dive around the boat, and they were like bamboo pressed into the water, and as soon as they let go, they rose up, and spit water into the boat as if they found fun, and four columns of water poured into the boat, but with a cup of tea, water accumulated on the board.

"You're still doing it." She picked up the broom leaning on the side of the boat, stood on the board of the boat and patted the dolphins that were close with the broom, and the other dolphins spat at her, and the other two dolphins also swam over and spat at her.

Bird-like and whistle-like chirps emanate from the dolphins' noses, and Haizhu can tell that they are happy when they listen to the crisp and gentle sounds. She jumped into the sea with her broomstick, half-floating on the surface of the sea and rubbing their slippery skin, touching the hard snouts and thick flesh, and tickling them with the tip of the broom.

After bathing the four dolphins, Haizhu climbed into the boat and sat on the bow of the boat, saying, "Okay, I've said hello, let's go." ”

The dolphins spat water into the boat again, but this time Haizhu didn't play with them again, and after a while they probably felt bored, and they sprayed her with water again before swimming into the deep sea.

Haizhu raised the sails and changed places, lowered the sails, picked up the net and took the old turtle to the sea again, and caught another net of shrimp and crab snails on the bottom of the sea, but did not meet the fire pipe fish she was looking for.

The sun shifted overhead, and Haizhu raised its sails to meet the rough waves and winds of the high tide. When they arrived at the wharf, they were just in time for the official school to get out of school, and the girls and boys ran quickly to the wharf to take a boat home.

"It's only half a day's class?" She asked the boy who smashed the oysters and ate them.

"Yes, we still have to work at home, how can we spend a day in the official school, and we don't take the exam."

"Haizhu, you came back just in time, there are still a dozen or so children left who don't have a boat to go home, you send them back to the village." Du Xiaowu said.

Haizhu rocked the oar and asked which village it belonged to.

"Just go up along the river into the sea, all of them belong to Shanghe Village and Xiahe Village." Du Xiaowu pushed a dozen children onto the boat, he glanced at Haizhu and asked, "How?" ”

"I haven't met it, I'll continue to keep an eye on it for you."

Haizhu sailed to send the children home, the boat docked at the entrance of the village, and the old man on the fishing boat left her to eat at home.

"No, tomorrow you can't carry more people by your temperament, if the boat capsizes and something happens to the child, you will be guilty." She said a few words and continued to Shanghe Village to send the child.

On the way back, I thought that there were red oil crabs in the river, Haizhu lowered the sails and took the old turtle down the river, and the crab hid in the aquatic weeds.

The boat turned out of the river and entered the sea, Haizhu stood at the stern and saw the official ship coming from the sea to the west, with two flags floating on the bow, it was the official ship doing business that had returned.

The porter porter on the dock who was about to go home for dinner saw that the boats had turned back and came to work.

Haizhu docked the boat and walked up to the dock, and when the official ship docked and smashed the anchor, she tiptoed to look at the boat, the board of the ship was full of goods, and the dark-faced merchant was full of excitement.

"Send a few people to the town to inform you that there is fresh fruit and cheap mountain goods on board, and the ship is docked at the dock for an hour, you hurry." The steward of the ship shouted.

"Can you get on the boat? I want to buy it. Haizhu asked.

Some of the soldiers on the ship recognized her and joked: "Don't take your pick, half of the goods on this ship belong to the major general." ”

Chapter 162: Mad Minx

People from inside and outside the town flocked to the docks like bees, some came to buy things, some came to see the excitement, and the docks were as lively as a market. The merchants on board disembarked and set up stalls on the spot, and laid out the goods they had brought back from afar.

"Honey, sweet honey, two taels of silver in a jar, a jar weighs at least two catties."

"The ham that has been smoked for three years will not be bad if you take it back and hang it on the beams of the house for half a year."

"Dried mushrooms, dried mushrooms, all kinds of mushrooms."

"Dried fruits, dried fruits, all kinds of dried fruits."

“……”

The merchants shouted loudly, and the merchants who were not local also carried the goods down, tie-dyed cloth, coarse cloth woven by the mountain people themselves, preserved pheasants, bacon, and all kinds of flowers and rapeseeds......

"Grandma, give me ten pennies of oyster branding." The merchant with an empty stomach shouted.

"No oysters, will the grey bread work? Two pennies a piece. ”

"Okay, okay, send it to me when it's ready."

Haizhu bought a large basket of things and walked back, and when he met a food vendor pushing a wooden cart and hurriedly running to the dock, all of them running whirring and sweating.

The seaside is materially poor, but everyone has a lot of money in their hands, or the fishermen on the seaside do not lack the ability and opportunity to make money, and the official ships transport away the goods in the hands of the fishermen, and then bring things from other places, and as they come and go, the fishermen have more ways to make money, and they have money in their hands and have the desire to enjoy, and business naturally develops.

Haizhu pondered that the next time Han Ji came over, she would talk about rations again, the sea could not be planted, rice, flour, grain, oil and meat were all transported from other places, and he wanted to put it in his own hands, and it was best to keep the price down.

Thinking of this sea pearl, "oops".

"What's wrong?" The porter asked.

"It's okay, it's okay, just turn in from this alley, and you can walk a little less from the alley." Haizhu remembered that Han Ji had deducted her money again, and she hadn't given it yet.

Most of the people in the alley have gone to the dock, and every household is quiet, which makes it seem that the doll from her house is crying very loudly. Haizhu pushed the door in, the porter put down the basket and turned around, and he had to go to the dock to continue looking for work.

"Why are you crying again?" Haizhu walked over and asked.

"She was sleeping when the gong was struck, and she was scared." Grandma Qi hugged Xingzhu and patted it gently, and said, "I didn't wait for you to eat when you came back late, there was rice left in the pot, and there was hot water, so I took a shower and went to the restaurant to eat if I didn't want to eat leftovers." ”

"I'm going to go again, and the catch is still on board." Haizhu carried the empty bucket and put it on the wooden cart, she looked around and asked, "Dongzhu and Fengping went to the dock to see the excitement?" Shiohei also went? What about my third uncle? ”

"It's all gone, you haven't met?" Second Uncle Qi asked.

"No, I guess it's a fork in the road, there are a lot of people on the dock, and it's normal to miss it." Haizhu pushed the wooden cart out of the door, and out of the alley, the child's cry still echoed in his ears.

She went to the beach and brought five buckets of red oil crabs, moray eels, snake eels, sea crabs, shrimps, conchs and small yellow croakers from the boat, and all five buckets were used.

"Haizhu?" Qi Laosan shouted when he saw the wooden cart on the boat.

"In the bottom bin." Haizhu responded, "What did you buy?" ”

"I bought a few catties of fruit, Dongzhu bought a few feet of cloth, and Chaoping and Fengping bought a slingshot." Qi Laosan walked to the boat with a bucket in one hand and said, "I have gained a lot today." ”

"When I went out to sea, I met dolphins, and I couldn't catch small yellow croakers without them." Haizhu carried the moray eel and said, "Give my third aunt a pot of yellow croaker soup at night." ”

The five buckets were loaded into the car, and Haizhu called the three little ones to go home together.

"Sister, open a restaurant at night?" Turning into the alley, Dongzhu asked, she pinched her nose and said, "The yard next door is full of diapers, and my little sister poops every once in a while, so she will be disliked, right?" ”

Qi Laosan scratched his neck, he also had this worry, and when he got home, he said to Haizhu: "I discussed with your third aunt, we also saved some silver money in our hands, I can't afford to buy a house, I plan to go out and rent two rooms, and when the money from selling bird's nest arrives, I will see if I can buy a small courtyard nearby." ”

Haizhu pointed to his right hand and said, "There is an empty house here that you forgot?" At night, the table is set here, the place is spacious, and there are flowers and trees. For two years, don't spend money to buy a house here, you save more, and when I get married, you will go to Fucheng with me and buy a house in Fucheng. ”

"Let's go to Fucheng too?" Qi Laosan hesitated, "Aren't you afraid that outsiders will laugh at you and bring your mother's family with you when you get married?" ”

"This is something to envy, hey, a good relationship will move with me." Haizhu looked around, snorted and asked, "Or is any of you unhappy?" ”

"Willingly, if you are willing to run away with your home like a turtle, we will follow you." Second Uncle Qi said seriously.

Dongzhu and Fengping nodded heavily, and she said innocently: "In the future, I will find a man to marry, I will not leave home and will not marry." "She doesn't have the ability to follow her with the whole family, so she stays.

"Nonsense." Grandma Zi scolded her.

"Not really." Dongzhu stuck out her tongue, she ran to Xingzhu's side and whispered: "Xingzhu, don't marry in the future, let's recruit two men to live in the house." ”

Grandma Qi raised her hand to hit her, but she ran out of the door laughing and stood in the alley laughing.

"Mad girl." Grandma Qi couldn't help but be happy.

"Third uncle, if you are not busy at this time, just move all the tables to the courtyard of the Han family, and I will go and talk to Grandma Hong." Haizhu went out.

Grandma Hong naturally has no opinion on her words, she sees the attitude of the main family, and Haizhu is already half a master in her place. She saw that Haizhu was dressed as wrinkled as dried pickles, and asked her if she hadn't eaten yet.

"I'll take a shower and go to the restaurant to eat." Haizhu said.

"I'll go to the restaurant and buy it for you, so you don't have to run again."

"It's fine." Haizhu took out the remaining dime of silver and a handful of copper plates and gave them to her, telling her to look at them and buy them, and she would eat everything.

When she washed her hair and took a shower, Grandma Hong also came back with a food box, a bowl of scallion oil noodles, a plate of fried shrimp, and a plate of fried pea sprouts, all of which were light and easy to digest. The rest of the copper plate was placed on the table, and she rolled up her sleeves to help Grandma Qi brush the crabs and wash the snails.

Grandma Qi asked her to sit aside and rest, she said: "I am a subordinate and not a guest, what to rest, there is no one in the main house, I stay in the house every day, and I am very idle." Girl, if you have something to do here, just tell me, you are busy and I am idle, and the lady and the second young master know and scold me for being an old slave. ”

"Okay, if you work for me, I'll pay you." Haizhu should respond, if Xingzhu makes trouble, she really needs help here.

She was so hungry that she ate a bowl of noodles and two dishes, and after eating, she felt supportive, she walked up to Second Uncle Qi and glanced at it, and the baby child wrapped in swaddling clothes was already asleep.

"Hug? I think you're greedy. Second Uncle Qi glanced at her.

Haizhu pursed her lips, she glanced out, and whispered disgusted: "It's wrinkled, noisy and smelly, what am I greedy for?" ”

Second Uncle Qi looked at her with a smile and was silent.

"Okay, I'll hold you for a while." Haizhu smiled and took it carefully, alas, it was as soft as mud, and she held it stiffly and didn't dare to move.

"It's not as careless as you think, with one arm on her neck and head, and the other hand on her waist." Second Uncle Qi pointed out on the side, "No, your three younger brothers have hugged you a lot of times." ”

Haizhu didn't understand his words, she adjusted her strength, hugged the little girl and shook it in the yard, she only remembered at this time and asked, "How many catties was my little sister when she was born?" ”

"Six pounds and eight taels." Grandma Qi said, "Of the three sisters, she was born the fattest. ”