Early the next morning, Han Ji bought breakfast again and sent it over, and when he saw Grandma Qi's black face, he shouted, but she didn't care.

Haizhu saw it and grinned, and she called him out of the door, "Let's go, go to work." Don't worry, there are many people who come to eat, and we must be in order. ”

"You dead girl." Grandma Qi looked around, picked up the stick that Chaoping rode every day to beat her.

Haizhu ran away with a smoke, and Han Ji stubbornly stayed, staring at the ground silently with the old lady's eyes that wanted to eat people.

"Get out."

"Okay, I'll help Haizhu light the fire." He ran on his legs.

As soon as the person left, the tense look on Grandma Qi's face relaxed, she sat down and glanced at the second child, and said angrily: "See what I do?" ”

"My dad wasn't a regular man when he was young." Second Uncle Qi spoke, "Men are all virtuous. ”

"I think you're going to be beaten too." Grandma Qi scolded with a smile, she just made a gesture, she couldn't let her granddaughter not come back in the middle of the night, she also pretended to be stupid and thought that she was watching the stars and the moon outside.

"Haizhu knows it." Second Uncle Qi said.

"I know."

Chapter 185: Teasing

There were many people who came to eat at Han Ji, and he was afraid that there would not be enough tables and chairs, so Qi Laosan borrowed five tables and twenty benches from a good neighbor's house, and now the courtyard was full, and it was crowded with people walking.

"Boss, the place should be bigger." The diners who came to eat for the first time were a little dissatisfied.

"Usually the neighbors come to take care of the business, and we don't specialize in restaurants, one yard is enough." Qi Laosan pointed to the kitchen and said, "As soon as the young general leaves tomorrow, most of you will not come again." ”

"That's just as well."

Han Ji listened to the sound of talking outside and kept scooping up the powder and cooking the powder, the rising heat was fumigating, he took the pu fan and fanned it, thinking that Haizhu was also guilty of making this thing, and he was tossing it all with enthusiasm.

The bone broth hanging in the crockpot has bottomed out, Haizhu walked to the stove and opened the lid of the middle stove, Last night I also boiled two pots of soup in a big iron pot, the meat on the pork leg bone was scraped clean, and the stewed soup was cool and not greasy, and the bonito meat was fresh, and it was not boring to drink in the mouth.

"I also tried a crockpot of soup with pork leg bones, and I tasted the same soup as you." The little sister-in-law in front of the window said.

"I have a secret recipe." Haizhu smiled, she picked up the pork leg bones and put them in the basin, These are all small yellow, it is brought back and there is no need to go out, gnaw bones and grind teeth at home every day, change one a day, and it will not be the same for a month.

The rice noodles were soaked in one pot after another, I don't know how much water was added to the pot, and the firewood was burned in two bundles, Han Ji looked out from time to time, but he was looking forward to the sun, and after breakfast, no one came over again.

"It's hot." He took the pu fan and fanned it vigorously, Grandma Qi was washing the dishes in the yard, and he was one step away from fanning Haizhu.

Haizhu deliberately teased him and took his hand and rubbed it.

"Don't touch me." He whispered, "You want to see me in the mouth?" ”

"You've done all the more excesses."

"Be quiet." Han Ji couldn't wait to cover her mouth.

Haizhu laughed, "Okay, I won't tease you, it's hot in the kitchen, let's go out." Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you, my grandma won't let me go out with you at night. ”

"You've got it? You didn't tell it all, did you? Han Ji panicked.

"I told her you kissed me here, here, and here......" Haizhu pointed to her mouth, eyes, forehead, face, ears, and neck.

Han Ji was numb, he stood motionless in the kitchen as if he had been struck by lightning, and muttered, "Are you stupid? How can you tell anyone else about this? I don't have the face to see anyone, I'm so afraid of being beaten. ”

Haizhu happily patted her thigh and smiled.

"What do you mean so funny?" Grandma Qi looked over.

"Don't ask, you don't like to hear it." Haizhu said deliberately.

"Didn't say anything." Han Ji hurriedly explained that he didn't dare to stay alone with Haizhu anymore, and when he walked out, he pinched her and threatened: "Let you make it bad, you wait." ”

"Wait, wait." Haizhu also went out, she carried a stool to sit under the eaves to blow the wind, brought the cash box and counted the copper coins on the table, and successively paid the people who gave the force, and Han Ji did not fall.

"You're leaving tomorrow morning? To the east or to the west? She asked casually.

"To the west, I'm going to patrol the sea."

"There may be another typhoon." Qin Jingniang answered.

"When the boat is cruising the sea, it is not a problem to go to the nearby river or pier if the wind direction changes." Han Ji explained, he said to Haizhu: "I went to the shipyard to see your ship, and the shipwright is already measuring the size of the shipboard, if the speed is fast, the board of each part can be cut out when the sea is opened." ”

"Buying a boat again? Isn't your boat only two years old? Qin Jingniang asked.

Han Ji looked at Haizhu and asked her with her eyes: Your mother doesn't know?

"I want to buy a merchant ship, and the deposit has already been paid." Haizhu said gently, "Because the merchant ship has not yet taken shape, it has not been mentioned." ”

Qin Jingniang let out an "oh", she wanted to say that it would cost a lot of silver to buy a merchant ship, but she was not sure whether to ask Haizhu where the money to buy a ship came from.

"My third uncle and I went to sea to collect bird's nests, and asked Han Ji to sell them, and this is how the silver to buy the merchant ship came from, not from him." Haizhu explained.

"Bird's nest picking? When? After Qin Jingniang finished speaking, she realized that something was wrong, she had been here many times before, but she didn't notice it at all, which showed that Haizhu deliberately concealed it. I don't know why, she lost her strength all of a sudden, she couldn't bear to think about it, it was to hide it and prevent it, the child she gave birth to believed in her uncle and grandmother more, but she guarded against her, even Dongzhu and Fengping never leaked a mouth.

Qin Jingniang felt that the slap in her face after two years had been slapped heavily, she left the child born with her deceased husband and started a family again, but she has always had a good relationship with this side, even outsiders did not talk about and laugh at her, everything was fine, and now the situation she was proud of has opened up. Her choice was not without retribution, and the three children were separated from her and used her as an outsider to defend her.

"We are worried that my Uncle Yu has an idea, so as not to refuse the injury and divide the estrangement, and you will be caught in the middle of it. Bird's nest picking is an extremely dangerous thing, and I plan to stop picking it at the end of the year, and I can't bring anyone else with me, and I don't plan to bring anyone else there. Haizhu saw that her face was wrong and hurriedly explained, "It's not to prevent you, you just think I want to make a fortune and pity the swallows, there are many people who know, the swallows' nests can't be kept, and if they don't have a nest, they have no habitat at sea, and they may die in a few years." ”

"I understand, don't worry, I won't say anything outside." Qin Jingniang hung her head and continued to wash the dishes, she just took it slowly, and after thinking about it for a few more days, she wanted to open it.

No one in the courtyard spoke anymore, Han Ji wanted to smack, but it was not smooth from early in the morning today. He pondered for a while, then said, "If you don't want others to know about bird's nest picking, then it's best to change your story." ”

"I know, I was going to tell the public that I picked a good red coral in the sea and asked you to sell it to Kyoto to make a fortune." Haizhu glanced at her mother and added: "Look, I didn't plan to hide it from you, let alone guard against you." ”

Qin Jingniang felt much better, and said again: "I don't tell Yu Laishun, and I won't let him know even in my life." ”

"I believe it." Haizhu nodded.

The atmosphere in the courtyard was a little better, and Haizhu didn't sit still anymore, she leaned over to help wash the dishes.

Han Ji felt funny when she looked at her weak and flattering appearance, and she was also afraid.

It was noon after the house was cleaned up inside and outside, Haizhu was tired, too lazy to cook again, hugged the money box and said, "I have a treat at noon today, and I will go to the restaurant to eat." ”

"Please have another meal in the evening, and practice it for me." Han Ji hit the snake stick.

"Okay, don't come another month on the next trip." shouted a few small Dongzhu, and the group slowly went to the restaurant.

After the meal, Qin Jingniang came out of the restaurant and went home directly, the others went first, Haizhu stayed at the end to settle the bill, Han Ji waited on the side, and when she got out of the restaurant, he said: "Your mother is sad, you may be able to hide it from her." ”

"I don't want to lie to her." Haizhu subconsciously told the truth in front of Qin Jingniang, rejected lying from the bottom of her heart, and came out when she opened her mouth.

"My mother won't blame, she can understand." Haizhu has this confidence, Qin Jingniang is a transparent person.

"Okay." Han Ji raised his feet and walked back, saying, "Let's go, I'm worried that your third uncle will find you for a while." ”

"When my third uncle didn't get married, I went to deliver water to his mother-in-law every morning, and we followed him, and he also had a story with my third aunt." Haizhu walked with her hands behind her back, jumping from time to time.

"It turns out that I am the same as him." Han Ji smiled.

After being tired for a long time, Haizhu went back to take a bath with the sundry water, lay down in the cool clams bed, slept for half a day, and woke up when it was almost dusk. She sat in the courtyard in a daze, completely awakened, and went to the restaurant for dinner.

"I'll send my life back." After the meal, Haizhu packed two dishes and prepared to send them to her mother, worried that her grandmother would object, she pulled Dongzhu and Fengping and said, "Let's go together, take a walk, and eliminate food." ”

"I'll go too." Longevity opens.

"And me, I'm also hungry, I want to eat." Chaoping raised his hand.

Qi Laosan glanced at Han Ji and said with a smile: "Go all of them, you all go." ”

Han Ji was silent, there were many more mouths and chatters along the way, and it was not his turn to talk to Haizhu, so he followed all the way quietly and honestly, and sent all five Haizhu sisters and brothers home, and then led the long life back.

The next morning, Haizhu sent him to the dock, Han Ji invited her to sit on the boat, she glanced at him, turned around and left.

"Be less slimy, don't delay my business."

Chapter 186: Overdone

It's sunny and rainy, it's raining and it's sunny, every time there is a strong wind, don't wait for the dawn, the people who live on the beach run to the beach first, and the idlers who have nothing to do to pass the time in the bluestone alley also go to the beach every day, but they have never been able to cast their nets to catch the big fish that washed ashore like last year, and no big fish rushed up. But there were a lot of fishing nets, planks, seaweed, and clothes rushing up, and the broken planks were soaked and rotten, and the black color turned black, and the nets and clothes were covered with green shells, and they rotted at the slightest pull.

Some women who wanted to seek solace would prepare wooden boxes, choose some rotten fishing nets and clothes and bury them, and if there was no one to take them, the government sent a servant to pick them up, and they all dug a pit and buried them in the soil, and set up a tombstone without writing.

Early in the morning after the rain, Haizhu accompanied Dongzhu and Fengping to the beach to pry oysters, at this time the sky was bright, the sun had not yet come out, the blue sky was floating with white clouds, the sea water was dark blue, looking into the distance, the color was slightly gray, the rain on the shore stopped, and it was still raining on the sea.

"Huh?" Feng Ping pointed to the east and said, "Someone came to catch the sea so early?" The tide has not ebbed yet. ”

Haizhu and Dongzhu looked over, and an old woman with gray hair stood on the seashore, staring at the surface of the sea with her head down, looking like she was looking for something. Dongzhu felt familiar, Haizhu had already recognized people, this old grandmother sat on the beach whenever it didn't rain, there was a whirlpool on the sea at the beginning of May, and her son went to sea and couldn't come back.

It's been seven months, two months have passed, and she still hasn't been able to get out.

The old grandmother got closer and closer, and when she saw Haizhu, she had a moment of swaying.

"Grandma, have you had breakfast?" Haizhu greeted first.

"No, I'll take a look at the beach first, have you seen anything rushing up to the shore?" Grandma's voice was a little muffled.

Haizhu understood what she was looking for when she came to the beach early in the morning, she shook her head and said, "No, we'll help you keep an eye on it." ”

The other muttered vaguely, raised his legs and continued walking, his eyes wandering over the junction of the raging waves and the sand.

The iron rake and the oyster shells clanged, the sound was rapid and slow, the oyster meat piled on the oiled paper in the bamboo basket became more and more piled up, the waves on the beach began to become rapid, and the submerged reef gradually emerged from the water and began to recede.

"Leaving?" The fishermen who came to collect the nets talked to Haizhu.

"I'm going back." Haizhu picked up two flat fish and was about to take them back to feed the turtle, she glanced into the distance and said, "Big brother, you keep an eye on that old woman, she came over early in the morning without eating." ”

The man glanced over, and he was familiar with this old woman, so he said: "Don't worry about her looking for death, she is now bent on finding her son's bones and relics, and she probably has no intention of looking for death." ”

"Is there anyone else in her house?" Dongzhu asked.

"It seems that they are all dead, two sons, the eldest one died a few years ago, leaving a child who was taken away by his daughter-in-law, this son has not yet married, and now she is the only old woman left, fortunately, there is a nephew who is still in charge of her three meals a day." The tide receded, the nets were exposed, and the man had no heart to gossip any longer, so he stepped into the water with a bucket and pulled the nets.

"Mi—I'm back." Feng Ping shouted to the cat who was grabbing the fish with someone, "Let's go, go back to eat." ”

The three cats got wet in the water, dragged their heavy tails and chased people with their paws on the wet sand, and squatted on the ground to lick their fur, licked a few mouthfuls and then ran along.

"Haizhu, is the tide receding?" The man who came to catch the sea asked.

"The tide is receding, and there are already people passing by."

"Let's go too." The rice cake was stuffed into his mouth, and the man ran up with the child.

When the others saw this, they also ran along, but the sand on the ground was still wet, otherwise they would have raised half of their ashes.