Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Chapter 258 Meeting the Li family at the dock
There are few people around here, and it is deep in the mountains, so no one will come.

Jiang Xiaoxiao is relieved to keep Ah Huang here.

When leaving, Ah Huang was extremely reluctant to leave and pestered Jiang Xiaoxiao for a long time.

Jiang Xiaoxiao had no choice but to stroke its head to comfort it, then dug a hole in the forest where Ah Huang was kept, and put some supernatural water in it.

Ah Huang reluctantly let Jiang Xiaoxiao leave.

After returning home, Jiang Xiaoxiao began to pack things non-stop.

It was late autumn now, and the weather was getting colder. It was expected to get even colder after arriving in Xuzhou, so she needed to bring more thick clothes.

She put on the rabbit fur hat Qiulian Niang knitted for her, and brought several sets of warm woolen sweaters and woolen coats.

But on the day of the final departure, as soon as Jiang Wei saw Jiang Xiaoxiao carrying large and small bags, he waved his hand and put them all into the space.

Finally, the mother and daughter set off carrying a small baggage.

On the day of departure, Jiang Xiaoxiao and her mother left Yuhe Village on foot and went to the pier in the town.

There, they saw the Li family whom they had not seen for a long time.

On the dock, people were coming and going, mostly workers carrying goods.

Most of these workers are young and strong rural men, but among these young men, there is a short and stooped figure.

He carried a heavy bag of goods and tried his best to walk to the ship in front. He was so tired that he was sweating profusely and breathing heavily.

There are many grain ships with a hull of nearly ten feet. Each grain ship has a cargo capacity of nearly two thousand stones. There are two masts erected on the ship, which are majestic and majestic, making the short and hunched back even smaller.

Mr. Li, who was carrying a heavy load, could no longer hold on. He fell to the ground from exhaustion and the grain bag on his back fell to the ground.

The grain bag was damaged and the grain inside was spilled on the ground.

"You old man, do you know how to work?" The middle-aged steward who managed the loading and unloading of goods finally couldn't bear it anymore and stepped forward angrily with a whip.

When the people around him saw this, they all got out of the way.

"I said you are quite old. If you don't let your son respect you at home, why don't you come to this dock and suffer a lot?"

After all, the middle-aged manager was not a cold-blooded and merciless person like the Sun family. The whip in his hand did not fall on Mr. Li in the end. He usually carried the whip only as a deterrent.

"Forget it, stop doing this job and go back."

In the end, the manager didn't care about the grain that Mr. Li broke, but drove him away and gave him half a day's wages.

Mr. Li knelt on the ground and hugged the steward's thigh tightly and refused to leave.

"Please do well, please don't drive me away. The whole family is just waiting for me to have this little money to support the family..."

The steward said impatiently: "You are quite old, don't you have a son who is willing to support you?"

"I……"

Mr. Li was suddenly speechless.

It’s not like he doesn’t have a son to support.

But...

His son was dead, and the only one left hated him.

Since they were kicked out of Yuhe Village, they had nowhere to go and could only live in a shabby temple in Yong'an Town.

During the half month they lived in the temple, they were so lazy that they almost ate all the food they brought from home.

As the weather became colder and colder, the clothes and bedding brought by the family were snatched away by beggars who lived in the temple. They were penniless, and Li Shoucai did not go to the town to find work to make money. He lay in the temple all day long, beating and scolding the old couple.

In the end, he had no choice but to come to the town to find work in person.

It's a pity that he is very old and no one in the town wants him.

I can only rely on my strength from doing farm work all year round to carry big bags at the dock.

Now that the steward wanted to drive him away, Mr. Li, who had no livelihood, naturally went crazy and knelt down to beg for mercy.

"Please, have mercy on me. Don't drive me away. There is still a big family waiting for me to eat..."

Mr. Li cried till he had runny nose and tears.

The manager was getting more and more impatient. Although he didn't attack the workers on the dock casually, he couldn't stand being harassed like this.

"Are you bothered? What kind of work can you do at your age? Look at all the food you left on the ground. It's a good thing I didn't ask you to compensate!"

The steward kicked Mr. Li away and left cursing.

Mr. Li still wanted to chase after him shamelessly, but the whip in the steward's hand was not a vegetarian.

"Get lost! If you come here again, be careful and I'll slap you!"

A whip hit Mr. Li's side hard, and dust instantly rose from the ground.

Mr. Li's face turned pale with fright, and he didn't dare to say anything anymore, so he had to leave angrily.

But when he turned around, he saw the person he least wanted to face - Jiang's mother and daughter.

"Oh, Miss Jiang, you are finally here."

The man who had just smiled at Mr. Li's ferocious steward immediately rushed towards the mother and daughter: "Mr. Bai's merchant ship is parked there. I will take you there right now."

Jiang Wei nodded slightly: "Okay, trouble."

Jiang Xiaoxiao held her mother's hand and couldn't help but glance at Mr. Li when she passed by him.

As if grabbing a life-saving straw, Mr. Li rushed forward and grabbed Jiang Xiaoxiao tightly.

"Erya, my obedient granddaughter, do you still remember that I am your grandfather? I have nothing, not even a stutter. Can you bear to see your grandfather in such a state of desolation?"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was in pain and wanted to break free from Mr. Li's hand, but he tried his best to hold her hand tightly and not let go, wailing and miserable at the same time.

"Grandpa knows that he was wrong. You can take grandpa home and provide for him in his old age. I promise that I will only love you as my granddaughter..."

When the steward saw this, he immediately became angry: "You damn old man, why don't you leave? When did Mrs. Jiang's daughter become your granddaughter? Don't talk about it!"

With that said, people pulled Mr. Li away and drove him out of the dock.

Jiang Wei looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao's red wrists, and the coldness in his eyes flashed.

She said calmly: "It seems that your dock is really short of manpower. Although the owner of Fu'an Trading Company is kind-hearted, he can't take in even the old, weak, sick and disabled, right? This old man is old. If something happens, it is said that It’s not good to have a good reputation when you go out.”

"Yes, yes, Miss Jiang is right. I will be careful in the future and will never take in such a person again." The steward wiped the sweat from his head and quickly apologized.

The wharf here is one of the properties owned by Fu Yen Trading Company.

Before Jiang Yu left, it was well known that he had a good relationship with the Jiang family.

Now that the old man had caused him to almost leave a bad impression in front of the Jiang family and their daughter, the steward was so angry that he ordered everyone on the dock to ban the old man from entering and not give him any more work.

The mother and daughter boarded the boat under the leadership of the steward.

It was a merchant ship, and Mr. Bai had been waiting on it early.