Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 62

Huo Erhuai sat down on the board of the boat.

After staring blankly for a while, he looked at the full load of things on the boat again: "This boat is about to be requisitioned, and you still buy so many things? It won't be able to hold food by then, so I'm afraid they will be thrown into the river?"

It's all money, if someone throws it away roughly, Huo Erhuai's heart will hurt.

"No way, can you still be thrown away?" Yang was a little dumbfounded.

"Why are they levying ships? You are asked to help transport food, and you pack a bunch of other things, and if you don't throw them away, who else will you throw away!" Huo Erhuai just felt tired.

Yang Fu also looked at Huo Xi in horror: "Xi'er, will so many of our things be thrown away?"

Seeing the terrified faces of the whole family, Huo Xi hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, Mom and Dad, can I just watch the things we bought with money being thrown into the water?"

Yang Fu gave Yang Fu a blank look, adding to the chaos.

Said to Yang Shi: "Mother, go in and collect the money first. It's true that you don't let it fall into the water."

When Yang heard this, she hurriedly touched the purse in her arms.

I got 15 taels for selling silk and 11 taels of silver at Zhao's house. Later, I spent two taels for chicken and duck meat, and seven taels for cloth.Not to mention that I didn't take out any money this trip, but I got back three, two or five.

Yang carried Huo Nian in to sleep, and put the money by the way.

Huo Erhuai was not comforted by Huo Xi at all, he went in with Yang Fu to put things in his mind.

After packing up the things, Huo Erhuai rocked the boat, and Yang Shi and Yang Fu brought out two wooden basins, preparing ingredients for chickens and ducks to make air-dried meat and so on.

The family sat in the stern, working and discussing countermeasures.

Huo Xi rested her chin and thought about something.

It was the first time for Huo Erhuai and Yang's to call for ships to transport grain this time.Although they have been begging for life on the river for ten years, their boats were only rented by farmers to transport tax and food from the villages along the river to the county government.

And get some money.

This time he was conscripted by Hebo, and he wanted to transport grain to the warehouse in Huai'an.The whole family was caught off guard.

The capital went downstream to Huai'an for two days, and had to go upstream when they came back.It takes at least two and a half or three days for the return trip, and five days for the round trip.

If it takes too long to wait for the connection at the Huaian warehouse, it may not be possible to return within five days.

To transport food, it is estimated that the cabins on their ship will be lost, and the top cover will probably be dismantled by the yamen servants.

Huo Xi's gaze staring at the cabin was too burning, Yang Shi and Yang Fu, who were planning to listen to Huo Xi while working, also followed her gaze.

Seeing this, my heart skipped a beat.

"Xi'er, you, why do you see our hatch?" Yang's voice trembled, there were too many frightening things this day.

Huo Erhuai's men paused, and also looked at the three hatches on his own ship.

"Mom, we probably won't be able to keep these three hatch covers."

"Ah, how come, why can't you keep it?" After finishing speaking, his body became weak, and he wanted to fall back.

Yang Fu's eyes widened: "When the time comes, let's move the things on the boat and put the food in the cabin, won't it be enough? Why do we need to remove the hatch cover of our house?"

Yang Fu looked at Huo Xi in horror.

His cabin is so big and spacious, is it going to be lost?Are you going to take the sky as your seat again?
Huo Xi ignored him, and only looked at Yang Shi: "Mother, do you think how much food can be loaded on the boat like our family is now?"

Of course you have to take it apart to install more.

The government's boats are not enough, and the fishermen's fishing boats are all recruited. Can you transport more or not?
Mrs. Yang just felt a throbbing pain in her head, "God! This is a new ship, how long have we lived? I removed our hatch cover, can you subsidize our money? Can you put it back for us?"

Yang looked at this and that with some hope.

Huo Xi didn't call her back.Even Huo Erhuai felt that her question was a bit silly.

Seeing it, Yang wailed again and again.

Since the family bought a big boat, she and Huo Erhuai can sleep in a big cabin, which is spacious and comfortable, no different from living on the shore, and there is a bright window on the top, which is bright, ventilated and breathable.

It's only been a few days, and I'm about to lose it!

Yang dropped the work in hand, ran in, looked left and right in the cabin, just wanted to slap her thigh and cry.

After coming out, the whole person froze, wanting to cry but not crying.

"What can we do? It will cost a lot of money to build it back at that time. Damn it. I don't know how much we can reduce the fishing tax for us. Confiscating our boats will make us lose our jobs. We want to dismantle our ship. We still don’t pay the money!”

Yang said tears were about to fall.

The whole family was silent.

Huo Xi comforted her: "Mother, everything has been settled, it's useless to think too much, let's think about what to do next."

Yang smeared her face, came back to her senses, and pulled Huo Xi: "Xi'er, what do you think, I won't be able to fish or do business for a few days, and I have to give money to repair the boat... ..."

Huo Xi patted her hand: "Mother, these are trivial things. Just earn the money back. The most urgent thing now is to rent a house first."

"Rent a house?" Huo Erhuai and Yang Fuqi of the Yang family looked at her.

Huo Xi nodded: "Yeah. A ship as big as ours will definitely load more food. At that time, not only the hatch cover, but the entire cabin part will be dismantled. It's nothing to my lord, Nian'er will never be like us He went to the north. Not to mention the wind for so many days, he probably couldn’t stand it for a day.”

Yang came back to her senses suddenly, and nodded straightly: "That's right, Nian'er can't blow the wind of the river so unobstructed."

Looking at Huo Erhuai: "Father, let's go, let's go to the city now, let's rent a house first."

Huo Erhuai was about to turn the boat, Huo Xi hurriedly stopped him: "Father, don't worry, let's discuss it first."

"Xi'er, tell me, Dad listen."

Huo Xi then said again: "Let's rent a house first, let mother stay with Nian'er..."

Yang Shi pulled her back: "Xi'er, you stay with Mother too."

Huo Xi shook his head: "Mom, I want to follow along."

Several people took turns to talk, but they didn't understand Huo Xi.So he had to listen to her.

Huo Xi said again: "We have a lot of things on board. Let's rent a room first, and store our things in the room, together with the sundries. There are also those big pots we bought for soaking silk cloth, which are useless now. Gotta find a place to sell them cheap."

Looking at the two pots of meat again: "This journey northward, the time is tight and the tasks are heavy, I am afraid it will be difficult to supply along the way. The meat we bought today, my mother took us to make it first, and then we sold it to the grain transporter. "

"Sell to people who transport food?"

Huo Xi nodded: "Yes. There are not only fishermen like us, but also many farmers, escort officers, government servants, people in the army, guards, etc., who are probably quite a few people. These people are better than our fishermen. Rich. Maybe we can sell it along the way and make some money back."

When they heard that they could make up some money, they nodded again and again: "That's fine, we'll listen to Xi'er."

After hearing this, Mrs. Yang immediately spread the sauce on the chicken and duck, and Yang Fu also helped.

While helping, Huo Xi was thinking about where to rent a house: "Father and Mother, where would you like to rent a house? Do you want to rent until next spring or just for ten days and a half months?"

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