Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 212

Huo Xi dragged the family towards the food seller.

As soon as those people came to see the customers, they were very happy and enthusiastically pointed to the things on their booths and talked about it.

The family looked at each other, not knowing what the other was talking about.Huo Nian didn't listen at all, he raised his head and stared at the other party curiously, while Huo Xi pursed his lips and smiled.

After he finished speaking, he pointed to the string of taupe things on the ground.

When the man saw it, he took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket and compared it.Huo Xi took a look, it cost a penny, his eyes widened, one penny?
The man nodded.

Huo Xi squatted down to check, this is very strange, it is really not easy to see this thing in the south of the Yangtze River, but Huo Xi, can she not know coconuts?This old coconut is paid for a penny?
Huo Xi fiddled with a dozen or so coconuts on the ground, checking their buds.He picked it up again, weighed it, and shook it again, listening to the sound of water inside.

The whole family stared at her blankly, not knowing why, or whether this thing was for food, drink or use.

Huo Xi took out a copper plate from his purse, stretched out his left hand, five coins, one, whether to sell it or not.

The man's eyes widened, he shook his head desperately, and jiliguala said again, it was nothing more than how hard it was to get here after crossing many oceans.

Huo Xi thought it was the same, he might be too hard to counter-offer, turned his palms over, ten coins, one.

The man still didn't agree.

Huo Xi pointed to the mouth of the sprouts, speaking fluent English, and said that although you have shipped them all the way, they have sprouted, the water in them has disappeared, and the flesh has changed, and you still need a penny?
The man stared at her, staring blankly, unable to close his mouth.

It took a long time to react, and he rushed forward with a big stride, holding Huo Xi's hand tightly, just like meeting an old friend in another country, as if seeing a fellow countryman, he was almost teary-eyed, that's called enthusiasm.

Huo Erhuai, Yang Fu and the others came to their senses, and rushed forward to pull him away. The man was pulled away, and he looked like a relative, but he looked like he found you, and stared at Huo Xi without letting go.

Huo Xi was amused.

Although this Middle English is slightly different from modern English in pronunciation and grammar, for example, the consonants g and k in modern English are not pronounced, but know and k in Middle English are pronounced, but such as I know, it is not incomprehensible, the difference Not so big.

Seeing his tears and snot telling about what happened along the way, Huo Xi pursed her lips and smiled as she listened to his rambling talk, and echoed a sentence or two from time to time.

Yang Shi, Yang Fu and the others were all stunned and stared at Huo Xi blankly. Xiao Nian'er was even more exaggerated, her mouth was in a circle, her sister was so amazing that she could understand the words of the red-haired monster.

Not far away, Mu Yan, Li Yi, and Kan Er were also stunned.

"Master, Miss Huo actually knows how to talk?"

"I don't know how she learned it? Are all the current fishermen so powerful?"

Mu Yan shook her head: "I guess she learned it from her maternal grandfather's family. Her uncle once worked in Honglu Temple."

The younger brother dares to ride a camel, and the older sister dares to chat with other people. These two siblings are really brave.Mu Yan shook his head and laughed.

On Huo Xi's side, those people said his name was Noke and he was from Java.

Java was Indonesia in ancient times. This person did not look like an Indonesian, but rather a mixture of Westerners and Indonesians. I don’t know if Java was colonized by the Netherlands and other countries at this time.

The man put the dozen or so coconuts in a sack and said he would give them to Huo Xi without money.

Huo Xi declined for a while, but then accepted.

He asked him if there were any more on the boat, and he said that there were dozens of them, and he was afraid that there would be no fresh water on the road, so he brought them as fresh water for drinking.Huo Xi said he wanted to buy it, and he said that he would sell all ten coins to Huo Xi.

After a long time, it will also sprout in vain.

Huo Xi went to look at other things on his stall, saw some sago, bird's nest and so on, and bought some of them.

The quality of his bird's nest is very good. The bird's nest is bright, with less down, good dryness, high elasticity, and good appearance, but the price is expensive. It is not worthwhile for Guangfeng Shui to do this small-scale business. I only buy some for my family to try. taste.

I also saw that there were several very nice saving boxes inlaid with colorful shells, one was two taels of silver. Seeing that Mrs. Yang liked it, she planned to buy two.

"Xi'er, mother don't want it, it's too expensive."

"It's okay, mother. Fortunately, you can talk, and it's not expensive to sell. Let's keep it and give it away or sell it later."

As soon as Mrs. Yang heard this, she went forward to choose happily.

Seeing that he happily accepted the money, Huo Xi teased him, it's not worth the risk to come all the way here with only these things.

He said that there were still things on the boat, and then counted the things on the boat, and asked Huo Xi if he was interested, and if he dared to, he could sell her at a low price.

When Huo Xi heard it, she was amused, and here are spices and cloth?I want to go aboard with him to see.

Both Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai disagreed, this boarded the ship, who knows what dangers there are, they insisted on letting the other party take the goods off the ship.

Huo Xi wanted to get on the boat to see how many things were there, and she didn't want him to move down and be bombarded by others, but Mrs. Yang held her back and refused to let her get on the boat.

Worried, "Miss Huo? You are here too."

Huo Xi turned his head to look, and saw that it was Mr. Mu's family walking over with his two attendants.

Seeing that they were familiar, Yang and the others greeted the three of them.

"My son saw that Fanren's bird's nest was good, and was about to buy some to go back to honor the elders in the family. We couldn't communicate with Fanren, and the price couldn't be negotiated. I heard that Mrs. Huo actually understands Fanyu?"

"Ah? Ah, I understand a little bit. I learned a little bit from others when I was young."

After Huo Xi finished speaking, she hurriedly changed the topic and introduced it to Noke. When Noke heard that the rich man wanted to buy bird's nest, he happily invited him to board the boat.

"Father and mother, don't worry, these elder brothers are here. It's just that you are going to hire a cart to transport the remaining coconuts."

Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai asked Mu Yan and the others to take care of them, and wanted to drag Huo Nian away, but who knew that Huo Nian would not let go of Huo Xi, and wanted to follow the boat.

Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi had no choice but to let it go, and after giving him a few words of advice, the husband and wife carried their things to look for the cart.

A group of people went to the boat.

"Miss Huo, what are those taupe things you bought?"

"It's a kind of...Fan people's fruit, it can be used as food."

"Then, I wonder if we are lucky enough to eat it?"

Huo Xi glanced at Kan Er, then at his young master, okay, I want to hug this golden thigh.

Smiling and nodding: "Okay, when I go back to Beijing to make some food, I'll give you a copy."

"Then I'll thank Mrs. Huo first."

Huo Xi nodded with a smile, she could see that this Kan Er was a foodie, his young master had a pale complexion, it shouldn't be delicious, it seemed that Kan Er had said last time that the young master had a bad appetite.

When they got on the boat, there was no need for Huo Xi to introduce him, the noble young master picked up the bird's nest by himself.

Look at this familiarity, yes, people eat bird's nest as a meal, and they use her, an ignorant little fisherman, to introduce them?
Huo Xi only looked at the spices.

Yang Fu looked at the cotton fabrics of the foreigners, while Huo Nian looked around on the boat.

(End of this chapter)