Chapter 138 Do you want a child?
Huo Xi and Yang Fu welcomed Huo Erhuai into the courtyard, and hurriedly asked him about his situation.
"It's nothing serious. I'm old, and I always have problems of one kind or another. I've been soaking in water all the time, and my body is soaked in cold air. In addition, I may have been hunting at night with us a few days ago, and I stayed up for a few nights. I can't bear it. "
"Did you spend a lot of money?" Yang Fu asked.
"It took a lot. The money from the night catch before was put into it, and I even borrowed a couple of taels from our family. The main reason is that the film is expensive."
After speaking, he shook his head again: "We poor people really can't get sick. Once sick, the little money we worked so hard to save is not enough to throw it in to buy medicinal soup."
Huo Xi was silent: "Father, let's not arrest at night in the future, stay up all night, exhausting our mind and mind, and hurting our body." If Huo Erhuai and Yang's collapse, the family will be paralyzed.
"Yes, brother-in-law, let's stop fishing at night, and just fish and sell during the day."
Huo Erhuai thought about the nearly one or two taels of silver that he was allocated today. Thinking about catching more silver at night. But... looked at the two children.
The two children are sensible and caring. When they heard about night arrests, they also followed suit and helped.
"Okay, then let's try not to catch people at night."
Huo Xi nodded happily, dragged Huo Erhuai to dinner, and even talked to Yang Fu about Yang's selling fur goods this morning to help his family get business.
Huo Erhuai forgot to chew the food and put it in his mouth: "Your mother took the job of delivering vegetables, meat and eggs for our family?"
Huo Xi and Yang Fu nodded again and again: "Yes, my sister didn't just buy these, many people still want wine, good wine!"
"Yes, many women want us to help buy distiller's grains. By the way, the aunt of the Guan family wants us to help collect some cotton cloth. Father, please charge more. People in Qionghua Lane don't wear linen, they all wear cotton Linen or fine cotton."
"Yes, there is also firewood and charcoal. I am afraid that every family has to stock up a lot in winter. We collect them from the countryside for them, which is more than they buy a little bento every day. We transport a boatload of firewood. , They can share a lot with so many people. A boat of firewood is enough for them to burn for a long time."
Huo Erhuai's chopsticks flew like flying, desperately trying to pick up the rice in his mouth: "I'll bring food to your mother. Just ask."
"Brother-in-law, are you happy?"
"Happy. At that time, I can sell goods along the river. I will tell the women who buy the goods what vegetables, eggs, and firewood I want to collect. I just let them prepare them and pick them up by the river the next day. I will collect them along the road. We don’t even have to go into the village.”
"Huh? Dad, you have so many repeat customers now? Everyone goes to the entrance of the village and waits for our boat by the river?"
Huo Erhuai nodded happily: "How much does the peddler from the village pick up in one load? Even the peddler who comes into the village with a bullock cart to sell goods is no bigger than our boat, and transports much more. Father only said ours The boat can’t go into their village, so every day there are some children waiting on the shore, seeing our boat from a distance, they go back and call the adults at home.”
"Wow. So good? Brother-in-law, you can buy more sweets, snacks, and children's toys. They must be very popular."
"There are also needles and thread brains, plain handkerchiefs and so on." Huo Xi followed suit.
Her family is not only doing business for fishermen on the water, but also doing business for villagers along the river?
Wouldn’t it be convenient to receive goods from them, such as daily vegetables, eggs, chicken, duck, pork, cloth, and firewood?
There is a source of goods in front, and there are customers in the back. Oh, mother, don't these two ends work together!
Huo Xi's heart was burning. It was faintly visible that something was breaking through the ground.
Huo Erhuai's heart was also very hot, he wanted to discuss with Yang Shi, but also worried that she was starving and guarding the boat alone, fearing that something might happen to her. In a hurry.
Quickly packed the food, and heard that Huo Nian had been crying for a while, went in to take a look at him, came out and told the two children to watch the door, and they were about to go out.
"Father, you tell mother to let her stay on the boat with you tonight, and ask her to accompany you to collect vegetables and other things early tomorrow morning, buy some cotton cloth, and then go back. Then you send mother back first, and then father Go to Shuangquan Village to sell wine."
Seeing that Huo Xi, a little worry, arranged things clearly, Huo Erhuai smiled and stroked her on the head: "Father understands, you must guard the door at home."
"Don't worry. The neighbors are all human, don't be afraid." Yang Fu assured, patted his chest.
If his mother is on the boat tonight, then Nianer can't stay at home. What to do if you get hungry at night, and cry, Xi'er and Fu'er probably can't coax them.
Entered the house and hugged Nian'er, and carried it on his back with a strap, and then went out of the yard.
All the way in a hurry. I can't stop thinking about it.
There is a baby and his mother on the boat tonight, so he and his wife will row the boat to several villages along the river during the night, and buy some time for tomorrow.
Tomorrow, he will send his mother back to sell goods, and he will also go to Shuangquan Village to sell wine. There are many things to do, and the places are not in the same place. I am afraid that he will not be able to make it back before sunset.
Huo Xi and Yang Fu spent the night safely in Qionghua Lane. Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai rowed the boat to the entrance of Yanhe Village overnight, and stopped there for the night.
Early in the morning, the husband and wife got up. Huo Erhuai was on the boat, and Yang went to the village to sell goods.
I only went to two villages, and I bought vegetables, eggs, fine grains, chicken and duck meat, and firewood.
This is also the result of not saying hello in advance. If the order is placed in advance, the firewood will be prepared early, and there is no need to go to two villages to collect it.
Went to Qianjin Village again, bought more than 20 bolts of cloth from the Zhao family, and also collected a lot of cotton and hemp cotton in Qianjin Village.
Since the boat was requisitioned, I haven't been to Qianjin Village again. Once in this time, Mrs. Yang was dragged by Mrs. Zhao's mother-in-law and refused to let her go.
Last time I gave Zhao Sui a lot of things, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were very grateful and wanted to return the gift, but they didn't expect the Huo family to come. As soon as Mrs. Yang came, she pulled her and insisted that she stay for lunch.
It was Yang who said that someone else ordered the goods and had to rush back to deliver the goods, so he released them. Otherwise, it would be enough to chat with Yang Shi for a long time.
Before leaving, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law gave Yang some more food at home.
"Sister Zhao and Aunt Zhao are so enthusiastic, I'm too embarrassed to go. Look, they took so many things from her house again." Back on the boat, Yang babbled to Huo Erhuai.
"Then let's keep it in mind, and we will come and go frequently in the future, as a relative."
"Well. Let's leave some brown sugar, and I will give them some when we go to their village next time."
"Okay." Huo Erhuai generally has no objections, and Yang will respond to whatever he says. The family also let Yang be the master.
Ms. Yang thought about what Huo Xi said about boiled eggs with brown sugar and distiller's grains, so she said to Huo Erhuai: "Father, do you think people living on the water need boiled eggs with brown sugar and distiller's grains more than people in the city?"
Huo Erhuai nodded straightly: "If the effect is really so good, it will be a good thing for the women of the fisherman's family. Isn't it better than drinking medicine?"
"Then let's keep a few stones and sell them on the boat." Mrs. Yang made the decision.
Huo Erhuai glanced at her, saw that she didn't think about him, felt a little distressed, and said softly: "We also keep ten or twenty catties to eat at home. You also cook a bowl to drink every day."
Both he and the baby's mother are cold, and the children are not easy to get up. Even if the upper body is raised carefully, several children will not be able to keep them in the end. The boy's hands and feet were as cold as ice lumps in autumn and winter, and he didn't get hot all night long.
If this prescription is effective, it can also support the body...
Yang was taken aback for a moment, understood what Huo Erhuai said, and her eyes darkened.
"Erhuai, you still want a child, right?"
Huo Erhuai was stunned for a long time, and then sighed: "If we should have it in our destiny, we will have it. If we shouldn't have it in our destiny... let's not force it."
Yang looked at him fixedly, tears suddenly filled his eyes.
"Xi'er and Nian'er are fine, aren't they? They will be filial to us in the future."
Huo Erhuai glanced towards the direction of the cabin, nodded: "Xi'er and Nian'er are fine. Let's take good care of them."
"Um."
(end of this chapter)