Other people who got the news also brought vegetables and rice, and there were also people who brought melons and fruits, and then the chopsticks were not enough, and the neighbors of Qingshi Lane took their own chopsticks and bowls out.

The alleyway became an open-air restaurant, Haizhu provided an idea, and the group put together ten tables full of food and wine, and the men drank wine and talked freely about the dangers encountered at sea, and used plain words to accompany the wine to hide the fear of death.

Mrs. Hou sat at one of the tables and listened carefully, in this atmosphere, she downplayed life and death, no wonder the children by the sea can go to the sea from generation to generation to fight, and it is the elders who lead the way.

Full of wine and food, everyone was not in a hurry to leave, everyone cleaned up the mess together, Haizhu took the three small ones to work during the banquet, the end of the plate, the sweeping of the floor, and finally the table moved into the yard, the four sisters and brothers were so tired that they sat side by side on the bench to watch the cat gnaw bones.

Xingzhu cried again, Qi Laosan hurriedly ran into Han's house to pick up the child, Haizhu also followed, she found the maid who had washed her hair, and said, "I'll take a shower and wash my hair here tonight, and you will press my head again." ”

"Okay, I'll go get some hot water."

"Haizhu, come here, talk to me." Mrs. Hou beckoned under the corridor, she hesitated for a night, but still chose to persuade: "In the future, this kind of laborious thing will keep the subordinates busy, you see how tired you are, the old ones are tired, and the young ones are also tired." ”

Haizhu shook her head and asked, "Do you want to say that I don't need to spend money when I can?" ”

Mrs. Hou acquiesced, she really wanted to send a few maids over, laundry, cooking, carrying water and chopping firewood, it was completely possible for the subordinates to do it, and Dongzhu and Fengping didn't have to mix stuffing every morning to set up a stall to sell cakes, they could do other more useful things.

"The situation in my family is different, the old one, the young one, and my second uncle, everyone's steps are uneven. If I had opened a restaurant on the street from the beginning, and had hired men and cooks, I would have been idle, and my family would have been idle, and I would have money if I didn't have to worry about it, and my body would not be tired, and my heart would be empty. We are busy as a family, we can choose vegetables, we can burn fires, we can carry water, we are busy together, we are tired and make money together, we work together, our hearts are together, and our feelings are real. Rest when you're tired, eat when you're hungry, and worry less, better. "Haizhu doesn't plan to hire someone to help now, and probably won't in the future.

opened a family restaurant, cooked and sold vegetables within her ability, and the whole family ran forward hand in hand, what touched her was feelings, not money.

Chapter 177: Gluttonous Cats and Dogs

The night passed, and the smell of food in the alley was carried away by the sea breeze, and the sun did not rise, and the sea breeze was cool, but the men who sold water and firewood were already sweating.

"Buy water? I'll give you an extra load. The water seller knocked on the door and asked.

Haizhu waved her hand, she walked out and said, "My third uncle has already pushed the cart to fetch water, and you are here today?" ”

"If you don't go to sea, let my dad rest at home, and I'll deliver water during the sea ban." The man was pushing a cart of water, and when he saw someone open the door, he hurriedly pushed the cart over.

There was movement in the house, Dongzhu and Fengping opened the door one after another, the sister and brother carefully washed their faces and rinsed their mouths, and then drank a bowl of warm water before taking off the bamboo basket hanging outside the wall, taking the iron rake and walking out.

"Milk, we're going to pry the oysters." Dongzhu explained.

"I'll go too." Haizhu said.

The three sisters and brothers walked out, and the three fat cats followed. As soon as they turned out of the alley, Bei Niang came over with Xingzhu who woke up, She gave the child to Grandma Qi, went back and moved the cradle, and put the Xingzhu in the cradle to lie down, The child was watched by her milk, and she went into the kitchen to boil water and cook.

Grandma Qi was not idle, sweeping the floor, brushing the table, wiping the doors and windows, occasionally shaking to the side of the cradle to take a look, Seeing that Xingzhu was sleeping again, she took a piece of washed diaper and put it on the cradle to shade the light.

"This girl is much more sensible when she is full moon, unlike before, she must be hugged when she wakes up, and she cries when she doesn't see anyone." She muttered.

Bei Niang smiled and shook her head, in fact, Xingzhu stayed with her and behaved, crying and hugging her father when she was there, and it didn't matter if she couldn't see anyone and couldn't hear it. She also felt strange that the baby with the long mallet could already watch people get off the plate.

Just as he was pondering, he heard the sound of cars in the alley, and the sound was getting closer and closer, and the familiar footsteps walked in. Bei Niang stretched out a finger to her mouth, and pointed under the eaves, Qi Laosan understood, only walked around and didn't speak.

A cart of water filled two water tanks, and while the Haizhu sisters had not returned, Qi Laosan pushed open the door of his second brother's house, exhausted the feces and urine, and took a shower before pushing it out.

"It's time to wash the sheets, and it's time for me to wash my hair." Second Uncle Qi said.

"Okay, I'll go out and pull two ropes, and take the things on the bed out to dry, I heard that there was a heavy rain on the day of the eighteenth." As soon as the words fell, Qi Laosan suddenly felt bad, and sure enough, the next moment, the girl sleeping under the eaves hummed.

"Knowing you're awake, come, lie down a little longer." Qi Laosan pushed his second brother to the yard, quickly tied the rope, and then hurriedly ran into the house and took out the futon and put it on the clothesline, and hugged it in his arms before Xingzhu couldn't hold back and cry.

"Let her cry twice, don't hug her as soon as she cries, otherwise you will be like this in the future, and you will go home like a thief." Grandma Qi said.

"If you can't cry, you won't cry, why make her cry? It's not like I can't hold it. I'll hold it for a year at most, and when she's one year old, she'll leave, and when I want to hug her, she's not necessarily happy. Qi Laosan has practiced the skills of holding the baby, holding it with one hand, and doing other things with the other hand, he took down the small wooden shovel from the wall to dig the sand, and went out with the baby with the commode.

"The third child is a spoiled child." Second Uncle Qi laughed.

"The first one is the flesh of the heart, when Haizhu was born, your eldest brother also held the child at home and did not lose his hand, and he was not happy to hug him if you wanted to." Grandma Qi came out with hot water, moved a bench and put down the stuck back of the chair, and when the person lay down, she carried the basin and went over to wash his hair.

The hot water slid across the scalp, Second Uncle Qi looked at the clear blue sky and was distracted, and the five birds spread their wings and passed by the sky overhead, their flexibility was enviable.

"Mother, I've made you hard." He whispered.

"What's the hard work, our mother and daughter have a deep fate, you owe me in this life, and you will still be my son in the next life."

"Okay." Second Uncle Qi smiled.

The birds in the sky flew to the seashore together, and the people sitting at home knew that the tide was low when they saw the birds, and the early risers went out with the guys who were catching the sea.

Haizhu carried two fish and shouted to Dongzhu and Fengping to go back, she looked at the two old women sitting on the reef beach from a distance, they were sitting here when she came, maintaining the posture of looking at the sea and not moving.

"Sister, are they ......" Dongzhu also looked over.

Haizhu let out a "hmm" and said, "There are guards watching at the dock, and it will be fine." ”

"Big White, Little White, Little Gray, go home." Feng Ping shouted.

The three cats immediately dropped the uneaten fish and came up wet with their hairy feet.

The three of them walked back, and met the seafarers who went to the beach, and the two people greeted each other, and many people told Dongzhu that they wanted to buy her baked cakes.

Walking to the street, Dongzhu went to the pork shop to buy meat, and when he went back, he hurried to cut meat and stir-fry meat with leek filling. Haizhu and Qi Laosan helped move things and put them on the wooden cart, and Dongzhu and Fengping went out energetically after eating Ejiao stewed eggs.

"Huh? Auntie, have you eaten? Dongzhu asked.

Mrs. Hou stood outside the door and watched, indeed as Haizhu said, Dongzhu and Fengping were in good spirits, she nodded and said, "Go make money?" ”

"Hey!" Dongzhu responded loudly, she was in a hurry to set up a stall, waved her hands and ran, and said loudly: "Uncle, let's talk later, I have a hunch that today's business is good, so I won't tell you yet." ”

Mrs. Hou couldn't help laughing, she thought about it, went back to the house to change into cotton clothes, learned from the dress of the woman here, and went to the street with a bamboo basket.

Haizhu ate breakfast slowly at home, and when she was full, she took the old turtle to the dock, and there were half fewer boats moored in the bay, and she was busy carrying the boat home. She called Du Xiaowu to help carry the turtle onto the boat, and then called someone to support the boat to go to the island with her, and the boat with the turtle was left on the island, and then she took someone else's boat back to the dock.

"Were those two old grandmothers here yesterday too?" Haizhu asked.

The owner of the ship sighed and said, "My son is gone, sit on the beach and cry and take a look, and it will be good to recover after a while." ”

When they arrived at the wharf, Haizhu got off the boat and thanked the people, there were fishing boats on the sea to send their children to study, there were businesses on the shore to sell food, and there were people coming and going on the wharf, and no one bothered the two old grandmothers who lost their children. She didn't bother, she went to the town to buy some food, went back to get two cloths, and took Grandma Qi and Chaoping to Hongshi Village to see Pingsheng.

During the forbidden period, it was inconvenient to sell along the village, and most of the small merchants living in Hongshi Village returned to their hometowns, leaving behind local fishermen, and the village was deserted. As soon as Haizhu entered the village, she met the yellow-haired dog raised by her mother, she hadn't seen it for a while, she had gained a lot of weight, her ass was round, and it was funny when she wagged her tail to meet her.

"Why are you so enthusiastic today?" Haizhu wondered, she said to her grandmother, "It used to bark at me a few times when I came over. ”

"When I came, too, I didn't feel happy if I didn't scream a few times." Grandma Qi even suspected that the dog had been told by Yu Laishun in private to prevent their family. She glanced at the yellow dog again and muttered, "Maybe like Xingzhu, you have grown up and become sensible." ”

The three ancestors and grandchildren were welcomed into the door by the dog, and they sat under the eaves to dial the abacus beads, and when they heard the footsteps, they looked up, and immediately showed a smile on their faces, "Milk, eldest sister, Chaoping, you came to see me?" ”

"Yes, I heard from my mother yesterday that you were sick, are you okay?" Haizhu looked around the yard and asked, "Where is my mother?" Are you home alone? ”

"My mother went to do the laundry, and I was alone at home." Pingsheng ran into the house and took out the food to entertain Chaoping.

Haizhu put her things on the table, and she stood in the courtyard and looked at the roof, which looked like it was newly repaired, with two layers of fishing nets on the grass cover, and new windows, which should be able to survive the typhoon season safely.

The yellow dog who was lying on the ground eating dried shrimp suddenly got up, wagged his tail and rushed out, and said, "It's my mother who is back." ”

"Go, go, step on your dog's paws. Hey? Mother, are you here? Haizhu is also here? Qin Jingniang came in with a laundry tub.

"Let's come over to see Pingsheng, if he gets better, he will go to Bluestone Lane with us to play." Haizhu said.

"Okay, okay, I'll go with you." Pingsheng immediately threw away the old abacus.

"Then take him over and give him some hot water." Qin Jingniang said to Grandma Qi, she put down the laundry basin, wiped her hands and walked into the house, and after a while, a round bamboo sifted out of the back, which contained sun-dried clam meat.

"You take some back, grab a handful and throw it in when you stew the soup, and I'll go find two pieces of oiled paper."

Haizhu grabbed a handful of clam meat and rubbed it in her palm, choked her hands, but still pinched and moved.

Qin Jingniang took out two pieces of oiled paper, folded them out into the shape of clam jerky, and said: "The previous heavy rainstorm was the time when I sent you buckets of clams, I went to the beach with Yu Laishun to buy four big baskets and came back, and then went to buy again a few days, and in the end we couldn't sell it, so we took it back and boiled the shell, peeled the meat, and dried it." ”

"I flayed it too, and I bleeded from my hands." Pingsheng stretched out his fingers, and there was a scar on his thumb.

"I gave you a chicken stew at noon, do you want to eat it?" Haizhu took his hand and said, "Mother, you will also go over to eat at noon." ”

"I'm not going, I'm still busy at home." The oil paper bag was tied in a knot and handed it to Haizhu, Qin Jingniang said, "When you are free, you will come to my place for dinner." ”

"Okay, I'll come when I'm free." Haizhu dragged Pingsheng out, and she noticed that the big yellow dog had been following her, and she quipped, "You want to go to my house too?" You watch the door at home, and let Pingsheng bring you bones back at night. Mother, remember to close the door when you are home alone, there are no one living around, you should be careful. ”

"Okay, Xiao Huang is back."

The big yellow dog didn't listen, it ran closely after Haizhu, its eyes stared at the oiled paper bag she was carrying, and when it found that she was going outside the village, it immediately changed its dog face and pricked up its ears to bark at her.

Haizhu was startled and couldn't help but curse the stupid dog.

"Go back-" Pingsheng pushed the dog, and he shouted loudly: "Mother, call Xiao Huang to go back." ”

Grandma Qi pondered some meaning and said, "Haizhu, let Pingsheng hold the oiled paper bag in your hand." ”

Pingsheng took the oil paper bag, and the big yellow dog suddenly shut up, licking its tongue and changing to a dog.

"You don't want me to take anything from it?" Haizhu was shocked, she didn't believe in evil, took the oil paper bag and walked out of the village, and the big yellow dog followed with a blank eye, barking out of his mouth.

"Xiao Huang - come back." Qin Jingniang stood at the door of the house and shouted.

"It's really a good dog, only in and out, abacus into fine? Quite calculating. Haizhu stopped teasing it, and handed the oiled paper bag to Pingsheng, she patted the dog's head and said, "Go back, take care of your home, don't wander around." ”

The oil paper was wrapped in Pingsheng's hand, and the big yellow dog was satisfied, and it stood in place and watched Haizhu walk out of the village empty-handed, and then wagged his tail and went home.

"Rhubarb... Xiao Huang is a good dog, let your mother take care of it, don't let it go out of the village, lest you be beaten to eat meat. Grandma Qi advised.

Pingsheng nodded, he glanced back, and there was no dog shadow in sight, so he handed the oiled paper bag to Haizhu.

"Xiao Huang is like my father, he is very shrewd." He whispered slyly.

Grandma Qi and Haizhu both laughed, laughed and reprimanded him for talking nonsense, "You can't say it anymore, others will scold you for being a stupid child when they hear it, how can a dog look like a human." ”

Walking to the street, it happened that Dongzhu and Fengping had finished selling cakes, and the surrounding vendors had already helped them pack up their things, Haizhu went over to thank her, and she pulled the car and led people back.

Passing by the Han family, Dongzhu, Fengping, Chaoping and Pingsheng turned in directly, Changsheng was practicing with Wufuzi, and the four of them passed over and stood aside and watched.

Master Wu got Mrs. Hou's instructions, he let Changsheng practice first, and went to the other side to let the four children come over, Dongzhu and Fengping were older, and he taught a few moves to let the two sisters and brothers practice the game. As for Pingsheng and Chaoping, he asked the brothers to jog around the yard and walk quickly, and instructed them to exert force in the place where their legs and waist were, so as not to hurt their feet and damage their bones.

After a pillar of incense, Haizhu also came, she passed by to take a look, the five children including the longevity were doing a handstand, Chaoping and Pingsheng were staggering, and they were tired and lay on the ground in the posture of falling. She watched for a while and left quietly, and was led by the maid to the study to read with Mrs. Hou.

"This is the record that you arranged for a few girls to inspect the official school before, you can take a look, and there are words you don't know to come and ask me." Mrs. Hou handed her a wad of paper, then handed over two account books, and said, "This is the family business, you see, I am planning to buy some more family business in Guangnan, you help me to staff the staff." ”

"Let me intervene so early?" Haizhu joked.

"Sooner or later, it will be handed over to you, let you open your eyes first."

Chapter 178: You're Shy

Haizhu looked at the account book, There are more than ten shops in Beijing, jade, cloth villages, grain shops, inns, teahouses...... are making money, no wonder it is said that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and the family has moved, that is, the monthly income of these shops in hand is enough for ordinary people to live for a few lifetimes.

"Fortunately, you withdrew in time, if your house is raided, these family properties will be taken away by others, and you will not be willing to die." Haizhu sighed.