Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 3 Chapter 26
The sun was slanting to the west, and a few strands of yellow light were cast, and the evening breeze blew away the heat.

Several butcher shops not far from the wharf in the outer city closed their stalls, except Gao Butcher's.But there is no whole meat on the case, it is all leftover meat and some leftovers picked by others.

Butcher Gao was so bored that he took a shiny fly stick and waved it from time to time to drive away greedy flies.

Seeing the sound of footsteps, Butcher Gao lazily raised his eyelids and looked around.

This look, eyes bright.

"Boy from the Huo family, come here, I'll keep it for you! I'll close the stall later!" Butcher Gao stood up and waved, with a smile on his chubby face.

"Hello, Uncle Gao", Huo Xi and Yang Fu ran over while saying hello.

"Uncle Gao, can you save the pig's trotters for us?"

"I'll keep it. Your uncle and nephew came to confess early in the morning. How could I not keep it for you?"

"Thank you, Uncle Gao!" Huo Xi was very happy, and took out the money bag from his bosom.

Butcher Gao took out a pig's trotter from under the desk: "We weighed it, two catties and two liang, just give 32 Wen."

Huo Xi's hand that took out the copper coins paused.

"Why, not enough money? Then I don't want a fraction, just give me thirty cents."

Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi who was biting his lip, scratched his head, and whispered, "Today we only earned 26 Wen."

Butcher Gao took an iron spike and pricked a hole in the skin of the pig's trotter, quickly pulled out two reed poles, twisted them, and was about to string the pig's trotters together.

After two breaths, he waved his hand: "Hey, 26 renminbi is 26 renminbi, closing the business. I only hope that you will come to visit again next time." After speaking, he put two reed poles through the hole, strung up the pig's trotters, and made a Knot, hand it to Yang Fu.

"Hey, thank you Brother Gao!" Yang Fu jumped up with joy.Look at Huo Xi.

Huo Xi was a little embarrassed, looked up at Butcher Gao, with a smile on his face: "Thank you, Uncle Gao, we have identified Uncle Gao's meat stall, and will come to visit often in the future. I wish Uncle Gao a prosperous business and continuous financial resources .”

"Hahaha, okay, then Uncle Gao will borrow the good words from Huo boy."

Butcher Gao likes to hear nice things from the Huo family boy, he just feels comfortable physically and mentally.

This kid didn't even have any neat clothes, and he spent a long time thinking about buying a piece of meat, but this kid looked exquisite and good-looking, and his words were pleasant to listen to.

Butcher Gao raised the corner of his mouth, watching his uncle and nephew walk away.Thinking about sending the two boys in the family to study for two years?Otherwise, there will be a lot of rough talk every day, which is very unpleasant.

Just thinking about it, I felt a pain in my ear.

Turning her head to look: "Oh, lady, lightly lighten, it hurts, it hurts."

"Forget it! You took 32 Wen for 26 Wen! Is he your son or grandson?"

Butcher Gao yelled at the pain while flattering him: "Hey, I don't have all the hair on the big and the small ones, how can I have such a big grandson?"

Seeing his wife staring at him with her hands on her hips, she softened her body and went to appease him: "Don't think I'm missing a few pennies from them, just wait and see, we will definitely have fresh fish and shrimp to eat tomorrow."

Mrs. Gao butcher withdrew her hand, snorted at him and turned to enter.

Butcher Gao touched his ear, the strength of the lady... hiss.Quickly closed the stall, leaving a few pieces of minced meat, I kept it for my own food, and did not sell it.

Besides, on Huo Xi and Yang Fu's side, the uncle and nephew happily walked towards the ferry in the outer city with a piece of pig's trotter.

It's not the outer city wharf where they moved the goods.Their family's small broken boat can't stop there, and they can't pay for the docking fee.

The ferry is still a little away from the outer city wall.

As the two walked further and further away, the farther they were from the inner city wall, the more dilapidated the house.

The capital is divided into four layers from the inside to the outside: the palace city, the imperial city, the inner city, and the outer city.Due to the well-developed water system in the capital, the inner river is connected to the outer river, and the outer river is connected to the Yangtze River, which leads directly to the canal. People who come to beg for a living can't afford houses in the inner city, so they mostly live in the outer city.

There are tile-roofed houses, wooden houses and bamboo houses, shacks, and some without thatched sheds.

The more you go out, the more dilapidated the houses and the poorer the people.

Huo Xi greedily watched all the way, even after watching it for a few months, he still likes to watch it.This is a real life, full of fireworks.Better than being stuck in a quad.

Yang Fu couldn't understand.

Don't see what's so cool about this.It's just a little better than their small broken boat, and it has a fixed residence.Huh?Could it be that Xi'er wants to move to live on land?
Yang Fu tilted his head to look at Huo Xi, then began to calculate the assets of the family, and sighed heavily after the calculation.

"Xi'er, in the future, uncle will move more goods and earn more money." When they have saved enough money, they can move to live on land.

Um?Huo Xi was a little confused.Turning his head to look at him, he was about to speak when Yang Fu suddenly yelled: "Xi'er, run!"

Before Huo Xi could react, she dragged him and ran away.

"Wow, woof!" A dirt dog ran fast on four legs, and chased them straight.

Huo Xicai turned his head to take a look, met the bell-like eyes of the earth dog, trembled in fright, and hurriedly ran forward!

Resentment gave birth to two legs.That four-hoofed beast ran so fast.

"Uncle, it must have taken a fancy to our trotters!" Huo Xi panted while running.

When Yang Fu heard this, he quickly let go of Huo Xi's hand, and quickly stuffed the pig's trotter that he had been carrying into his bosom.

"Xi'er, don't run in a straight line, run with a twist!"

As soon as Huo Xi's two short legs twisted and ran, she jumped forward and almost fell over.With a heart pounding, he bent his body and ran for a few miles with the inertia, before standing up straight and continuing to run.

Seeing Huo Xi running far away, Yang Fu hurriedly chose a sunken earth pit and jumped in, quickly squatted down, dug two handfuls of earth on the ground with both hands and caught them in the water.

Seeing that the dirt dog also stopped, it was looking at him with its four limbs scratching the ground, showing an attacking appearance.

Enduring his fear, Yang Fu threw a handful of dirt at the dog.The dog took two steps back, then stopped moving again.

Yang Fu searched in the pit, and if he caught something, he threw it at the dog.

The dog throws it back once, and throws it back once.

One person and one dog confronted each other for a long time before the dog barked twice, turned and left.

Yang Fu lost his strength and collapsed on the ground.He touched the pig's trotters in his arms, it's okay, it's still there.Take a breath.

"uncle!"

"Hey, here it is!"

"Are you okay?" Huo Xi trotted over to pull him up.

"It's fine. It's just a dog." Yang Fu puffed up his chest, trying to show his demeanor as an elder.

"Let's bring a dog-beating stick next time." Huo Xi frowned when he saw that his chest had been heavily stained with oil.

"Okay." Yang Fu was happy when the trotters were still there.

The two quickened their pace and finally arrived at the outer city ferry.

At this moment, the sky has become dim and yellow, and the afterglow of yellow is falling in the water waves, rippling and rippling.

At this time, there were fewer ships docked at the ferry, and only three or two were dangling at the narrow ferry.The boat rope was tied to the bollard at the ferry, and the water wave supported the boat to rippling and swaying gently.

This is the outer city ferry, some distance from the outer city wharf.Merchant ships can't enter such a narrow river, and they won't come to the outer city ferry, and small fishing boats usually don't go to the outer city wharf easily.

This is a wild ferry, and no one charges a docking fee. When there are too many boats, there is a chaos, and sometimes there will be a fight to tie the boat, but usually there are many fishing boats docked.

Huo Xi found her own black-covered boat, jumped from the shore to the stern of her own boat, and shouted into the cabin: "Mom, we are back!"

Following Huo Xi's movements, the whole boat shook, not by a small amount.

Yang Fu also jumped down: "Sister, Xi'er and I are back!"

A woman poked her head out of the cabin, smiled at the two of them and said, "Are you back?"

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