Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 245

At the entrance of Guangfengshui shop, a man and a half of the family picked up a load of hemp skins to sell.

Having won fifteen copper coins, he happily held them in his arms, and was walking outside with an empty load.A woman who got out of the slanting thorns searched for it.

"You give me back, give me back!"

The young man stepped forward to fight with her, and the two immediately scuffled together.In an instant, many people surrounded the door of the shop.

Huo Erhuai was stunned: "Why is this in broad daylight, why did you grab it?"

Huo Xi also looked at the noisy place: "I should know him."

Sure enough, the woman yelled: "Bitch, if you dare to hide it, see if I don't beat you to death! Give you food and clothes, how dare you hide it!"

"I earned it, you pay me back!"

The woman grabbed the boy several times, and her hair and clothes were scattered. Huo Erhuai frowned: "Is this a family or a mother and son, making trouble outside like this?"

Seeing the boy being scratched several times on the face by the woman, his face twitched, and the pain was tight for him.

"It doesn't look like a real mother and child." There was such a commotion in the street, a mother called her son "Bitch?"

"Father doesn't think so either."

But it’s just raised, so it’s not like this, right?Both he and his mother were reluctant to cherish their son Nian'er's suffering, but if Nian'er was not feeling well at all, he and his wife could not sleep all night.

Seeing the boy was kicked twice by the woman and fell to the ground, he sighed with emotion.

The two were fighting at the door of the shop, and Huo Xi couldn't enter the shop at this time.I had no choice but to continue to sit down and drink tea, and watch the excitement by the way.

He just took a sip of tea and almost spit it out, his eyes immediately widened.

I saw a middle-aged man rushing over from the street, pulling away the two who were quarreling: "Stop it, this is the street, we're going to go home and make trouble."

Huo Xi stared at him tightly.

The woman was pulled away by the man, brushed her hair with her hands, and stared at the boy fiercely: "Hey, you bastard, you left your younger siblings alone, and ran out to earn money for your own house, and you dare to hide it for yourself. You have fattened your guts!"

"I earned that." The boy argued weakly.

"Hey, you eat and use what's at home, how dare you say it's yours?" The woman had a fierce look on her face.

Huo Xi stared closely at the middle-aged man, saw him looking back and forth between the two, picked up the basket that fell on the ground, and handed it to the boy: "Go home."

"Father, I earned it." The young man was wronged.

The middle-aged man glanced at him and saw that his hands were covered with black stains that couldn't be washed off from peeling the hemp skin, his eyes darkened.

"Go home."

"father……"

"Go back."

The boy's eyes dimmed immediately, he took the empty burden silently, and walked away with his head lowered.

Huo Xi followed him, seeing that he turned a corner and disappeared, then looked at the middle-aged man again.The man asked the woman, "Where are you going?"

"You don't care about me!" The woman glared at him, raised her head and walked away.

The onlookers shook their heads and sighed or whispered, and finally dispersed.

Seeing that Huo Xi was staring at the man, and got up and walked two steps after him, Huo Erhuai hurriedly stepped forward to hold her back: "Xi'er?"

Huo Xi came to her senses and took a look at Huo Erhuai. When she looked back, the man had already gone away.

"It's okay. Dad, let's go to the shop."

The father and daughter entered the shop.Hearing that it was someone sent by the owner, shopkeeper Sha was very enthusiastic, and several fellows also came to say hello.

Huo Erhuai was led by Shopkeeper Sha to check around the shop and warehouse, while Huo Xi flipped through the ledger.

Seeing that the prices of wood and bamboo materials above have all risen, I asked Qi's accountant for a few words.

"Recently, the prices of wood, bamboo, hemp, hemp rope, lime, and tung oil have all gone up. Glutinous rice can't be collected. However, the price of those dried aquatic products has dropped slightly. We charged more this time. We will transport it to Beijing when we have collected half a ship and a ship. We dare not put it in the warehouse. The weather is hot, and buying ice will cost a lot of money.”

The accountant Qi saw Huo Xi for the first time, and thought that she was just going through the accounts as a formality, how could this little boss be able to point out the differences one by one.

So put away two minutes of indifference.

Huo Xi glanced at him, nodded and said a few words of approval, saying that he had done a good job in accounting.

"It's what the subordinates should do." Wiping the sweat on his forehead.Thinking secretly, I don't know what kind of family the boss is, such a small boss has such vicious eyes.

Huo Xi finished flipping through the ledger, and asked him, "What price did you pay for the load of hemp skin that you picked up during the quarrel at the door?"

"Fifteen cents. Usually, it only takes twelve cents to collect a full load, but the price of hemp skin has also risen these days."

Huo Xi nodded, and asked casually, "Why is that kid arguing with his family at the door? Is he a regular customer of our shop? Do you know him?"

"Why don't you know him? His father works on the street in front of him, so he knows everyone."

Seeing Huo Xi's expression of interest, Accountant Qi simply sat down opposite her and told her a story.

"It's a pity to say that the man's name is Wu Dayou, he is a talented man. Earlier shopkeeper Shen came to Pingjiang to open a shop, and he was planning to find him to be the shopkeeper of our shop."

"Oh? Then why not use it?"

"That's why I said it's a pity. Originally, he came to the shop to recommend himself, and shopkeeper Shen was interested in him. I didn't expect that after inquiring about his family's situation, he would be abandoned."

"What's the situation at his house?"

"His mother-in-law, the young boss has just seen it, she is hot and unreasonable. The family also opened a shop, but she was the only one born, and she was spoiled since childhood. In the early years, I recruited a son-in-law for her. Years later, he thought he was bad, so he drove him away, leaving behind a daughter."

"Huh? You have already given birth to a child with someone else, and you still chased away your daughter's father?"

"That's right. Her parents can't stop her. She has been married like that and is a fool. Even if all the family property is left to her, her parents haven't found a suitable person to match her."

"I don't know how Wu Dayou bumped into him later. I recruited Wu Dayou, and I didn't dislike him for having a son. But after two years of his birthday, he also gave birth to a son for the family and kept the queen. Only later It can’t work anymore, I owed a lot of debts for eating, drinking and gambling outside, and the family’s shop was sold, and the fields were sold, so I paid her back, and my parents were also mad at her.”

Accountant Qi sighed with emotion: "Now the Gan family is getting worse. She has snatched all the money Wu Dayou earned, even the few copper coins that Wu Dayou's son earned quietly."

"That Wu Dayou used to manage the shop at her home, but after the shop was sold, she went out to find work and worked as a shopkeeper and accountant, but the woman always went to the shop to pester Wu Dayou for money, and no one came anymore. Ken wants Wu Dayou to be the treasurer and accountant. He will go to the pier to carry bags and work as a man for others."

Accountant Qi shook his head and sighed.

Huo Xi was overwhelmed with emotion after hearing this, she never thought that this nanny would live such a life all these years.

"Then he is a big man, and let that shrew treat him?"

"Who asked him to bring a mop bottle? He still lives in someone else's house, so he can decide who he wants."

(End of this chapter)