Chapter 212 Two teary eyes
Huo Xi dragged the family towards the food seller.
As soon as those people came to see the customers, they were very happy and enthusiastically pointed to the things on their booths, and talked about it.
The family looked at each other, not knowing what the other was talking about. Huo Nian didn't listen at all, he raised his head and stared at the other party curiously, while Huo Xi pursed his lips and smiled.
After he finished speaking, he pointed to the string of taupe things on the ground.
When the man saw it, he took out a piece of broken silver from his pocket and compared it. Huo Xi took a look, it cost a penny, his eyes widened, one penny?
The man nodded.
Huo Xi squatted down to check, this is very strange, it is really not easy to see this thing in the south of the Yangtze River, but Huo Xi, can she not know coconuts? This old coconut is paid for a penny?
Huo Xi fiddled with a dozen or so coconuts on the ground, checking their bud openings. He picked it up again, weighed it, and shook it again, listening to the sound of water inside.
The whole family stared at her blankly, not knowing why, or whether this thing was for food, drink or use.
Huo Xi took out a copper plate from his purse, stretched out his left hand, five coins, one, whether to sell it or not.
The man's eyes widened, he shook his head desperately, and said again, it was nothing more than how hard it was to get here after crossing many oceans.
Huo Xi thought it was the same, he might be too hard to counter-offer, turned his palms over, ten texts, one.
The man still doesn't agree.
Huo Xi pointed at the mouth of the sprouts, and speaking fluent English, said that although you have shipped them all the way, they have sprouted, the water in them is gone, and the flesh has changed, and you still need a penny?
The man stared at her, staring blankly, unable to close his mouth.
It took a long time to react, and rushed forward with a big stride, holding Huo Xi's hand tightly, just like meeting an old friend in another country, just like seeing a fellow countryman, only two tears are in tears, that's called enthusiasm.
Huo Erhuai, Yang Fu and the others came to their senses, and rushed forward to pull him away. The man was pulled away, and he looked like a relative, but he found you, and stared at Huo Xi.
Huo Xi was amused.
Although this Middle English is slightly different from modern English in pronunciation and grammar, for example, the consonants g and k in modern English are not pronounced, but know and k in Middle English are pronounced, but such as Iknow is not incomprehensible, the difference is not small too big.
Watching him tell his story with tears and snot, Huo Xi pursed his lips and smiled as he listened to his rambling talk, occasionally agreeing with one or two sentences.
Yang's family, Yang Fu and the others were dumbfounded and stared at Huo Xi blankly. Xiao Nian'er was even more exaggerated, her mouth was in a circle, her sister was so amazing that she could understand the words of the red-haired monster.
Mu Yan, Li Yi and Kan Er who were not far away were also stunned.
"Master, Miss Huo can actually say something?"
"I don't know how she learned it? Are all current fishermen so powerful?"
Mu Yan shook her head: "I guess she learned it from her maternal grandfather's family. Her uncle once worked in Honglu Temple."
The younger brother dares to ride a camel, and the older sister dares to chat with other people. These two siblings are really brave. Mu Yan shook his head and laughed.
Huo Xi's side, those people said his name was Noke, and he was from Java.
Java was Indonesia in ancient times. This person doesn’t look like an Indonesian, but looks like a mixture of Westerners and Indonesians. I don’t know if Java has been colonized by the Netherlands and other countries at this time.
The man put the dozen or so coconuts in a sack and said that he would give them to Huo Xi without money.
Huo Xi declined, but then accepted.
Ask him if there are any more on the boat, he said there are dozens of them, afraid that there will be no fresh water on the road, so he brought some fresh water for drinking. Huo Xi said he wanted to buy it, and he said that he would sell all ten coins to Huo Xi.
Huo Xi went to look at other things on his stall, saw some sago, bird's nest and so on, and bought some.
The quality of his bird's nest is very good. The bird's nest is bright, with less down, good dryness, high elasticity, and good appearance, but the price is expensive. It is not worthwhile for Guangfeng Shui to do this small-scale business. I only buy some for my family to try. taste.
I also saw that there were a few nice-looking saving boxes inlaid with colorful shells, one for two taels of silver. Seeing that Mrs. Yang liked it, she planned to buy two.
"Xi'er, mother don't want it, it's too expensive."
"It's okay, mother. Fortunately, you can talk, and it's not expensive to sell. Let's keep it and give it away or sell it later."
When Mrs. Yang heard this, she happily went forward to choose.
Seeing that he accepted the money happily, Huo Xi teased him, it's not worth the risk to come all the way here with only these things.
He said that there were still things on the boat, and then counted the things on the boat, and asked Huo Xi if he was interested, and if he dared to, he could sell her at a low price.
When Huo Xi heard it, he was amused. There are still spices and cloth here? I want to go aboard with him to see.
Mr. Yang and Huo Erhuai disagreed, this boarded the ship, who knows what dangers there are, insisted on letting the other party take the cargo off the ship.
Huo Xi wanted to get on the boat to see how many things there were, and didn't want him to move down and be bombarded by others, but Mrs. Yang held her back and refused to let her get on the boat.
was worrying, "Miss Huo? You are here too."
Huo Xi turned his head to look, and saw that it was Mr. Mu's family walking over with his two attendants.
Seeing that they were familiar, Yang and the others greeted each other with the three of them.
"My son saw that Fanren's bird's nest was good, and he was about to buy some to go back to honor the elders in the family. He couldn't communicate with Fanren, and couldn't negotiate the price. I heard that Mrs. Huo actually understands Fanyu?"
"Huh? Ah, I understand a little bit. I learned a little bit from others when I was young."
After Huo Xi finished speaking, he quickly changed the topic and introduced it to Noke. When Noke heard that the rich man wanted to buy bird's nest, he happily invited him to board the boat.
"Father and mother, don't worry, with these older brothers here, you just went to hire a cart to transport the remaining coconuts."
Yang Shi and Huo Erhuai asked Mu Yan and others to take care of them, and they wanted to drag Huo Nian away, but they didn't know that Huo Nian was holding on to Huo Xi, and they wanted to follow the boat.
Huo Erhuai and Yang Shi had no choice but to let it go, and after a few words of advice, the husband and wife carried their things to find the cart.
A group of people walked to the boat.
"Miss Huo, what are those taupe things you bought?"
"It's a kind of fruit of... Fanren, it can be used as food."
"Then, I wonder if we are lucky enough to eat it?"
Huo Xi glanced at Kan Er, then at his young master, okay, I want to hug this golden thigh.
Nodding with a smile: "Okay, when I return to Beijing to make food, I will give you a copy."
"Then I will thank Mrs. Huo first."
Huo Xi nodded with a smile, she could tell that this Kan Er was a foodie, his young master had a pale complexion, it shouldn't be delicious, it seems that Kan Er said last time that the young master has a bad appetite.
When they got on the boat, there was no need for Huo Xi to introduce him. This noble young man picked up the bird's nest by himself.
Look at this familiarity, yes, people eat bird’s nest as a meal, and they are introduced by her, an ignorant little fisherman?
Huo Xi only looked at the spices.
Yang Fu looked at the cotton fabrics of the Fanren, while Huo Nian looked around on the boat.
(end of this chapter)