MTL - Fight the Giants-Chapter 11 Harvest crabs

  Chapter 11 Collecting Crabs

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu returned to the outer city ferry, where her small black-covered boat parked quietly.

  Seeing it from a distance, Huo Xi's heart was extremely warm.

   "Father, mother, have you been waiting long?"

   "No, no, Dad happened to go nearby to buy two loads of water, and exchanged a basket of vegetables with someone."

   "Then I will eat vegetables tonight, and I don't want to eat salted fish anymore." Yang Fu let out a sigh of relief. Although there is no oil star in vegetables, it is better than eating dried fish and pickles for three meals a day.

  Mr. Yang came out holding Huo Nian, and patted him: "Many people want to eat dried fish but they can't eat it. You still choose! These few days you can't eat any more."

   "What's wrong?" Yang Fu asked. Huo Xi also looked over.

   "Your brother-in-law sold all the dried fish stored in our family to the village. Empty it."

   "Huh? Someone bought it? How much can it sell for?"

   "How could no one buy it! Do you think it is easy for a farmer without a boat to eat a piece of fish? Besides, the dried salted fish comes with salt. Your brother-in-law exchanged half a tael of silver and half a bag of coarse grains."

   "Half taels of silver? That's a lot. But..."

   "What's wrong?"

   "Hey, your daughter, Xi'er spent nearly half a tael of silver today, and my brother-in-law's dried fish, it's a waste of time, and it didn't even make a sound."

  Mr. Yang opened her mouth in surprise.

  Huo Erhuai looked at Huo Xi, who was bowing his head, and said with a smile: "It's okay, how can I save money. There is no good thing that the sky is falling into the sky these days."

   After speaking, he patted Huo Xi's head and comforted her. Thought that the uncle and nephew had just gone for nothing today, although they felt sorry for the money, they also knew that the child was not wasting it.

   Yang came back to his senses, pulled Huo Xi over, and wiped her black face with his hand: "Why did you paint it like this? Why don't you let your father do it next time."

  Huo Xi tilted his face up and asked Yang to wipe it, and Chao Nian'er pretended to put a bad face on him, but Nian'er hid back in disgust, Yang Fu made a face at him, making Nian'er laugh out loud.

  Yang Fu said to Yang Shi: "Sister, brother-in-law is not as good as Xi'er. You don't know how powerful Xi'er is today. Walking around the city, it's like going back to your own home. You have placed a lot of orders for our family!"

   "Really?" Yang was so happy that her voice was raised.

  Huo Erhuai walked to the stern of the boat, and while shaking the sculls to let the boat leave the ferry, he listened with his ears up.

  Yang Fu started blah blah. After listening to Yang, she forgot to close her mouth.

   "Thirty-eight orders? Do you want chrysanthemums?" One family has half a basket and one basket, so how many crabs do they need!

  Looking at Huo Xi is like looking at a golden doll.

   On second thought, the harvest is 10% higher than the market price. Can this make money? If you can't sell it, you will receive more and pay more... Hey, I can't think about it, my heart hurts.

  Huo Xi listened to Yang Fu's report while cleansing her face. Seeing that Yang's face alternated between happy and sad, she knew it in her heart, but she didn't explain it.

   "Mom, did you get any crabs today?"

   "That's not true, but your father caught half of the crab pot. Your father hung it outside the hull and hung it in the water. You can go and see it later, if you don't need it."

   "Okay." Huo Xi was overjoyed after hearing this, and then looked at Huo Erhuai, "Father, did you collect some baskets?"

   "Yes, I have collected a dozen of them, big and small. There is no place to put them on the boat. If there are not enough, Dad will buy them tomorrow. I have already agreed with others."

"That's good."

  Huo Erhuai turned the boat back to the waters where it docked at night.

   "Are you back? You guys came back late today, and you'll have to cook dinner in the dark later." From far away, Qian Sanduo's voice came loudly.

  Huo Xi and Yang Fu went out to say hello. From this point of view, her family was the last one to return. Almost all the twenty or so family members who stopped by usually returned.

   "We had dinner along the way. Did Brother Qian catch any crabs today?" Yang Fu raised his voice to Qian Sanduo and asked.

   "Really accept it?"

   "Take it. Are you afraid that we will cheat you? We have changed a box of copper coins, can you not accept it?"

  Qian Sanduo breathed a sigh of relief.

  When selling fish today, he deliberately kept the crabs, and also asked the price, which was slightly higher than the previous day. If the Huo family doesn't accept it, it will be a waste if they let it go.

  Just as he was about to call his son, he saw Qian Xiaoxia had lifted the crab cage out of the water, dripping water.

  As soon as the Huo family parked the boat, Qian Xiaoxia took the crab cage and jumped to the stern of Uncle Yu who was next to the Huo family, and jumped to the Huo family's boat with another jump.

   "Huo Xi, come and see, how much can I pay for these?"

  Qian Sanduo shook his head and laughed, stood on the bow of his boat and stretched his neck to look towards Huo's house.

  Yang Fu poured the crabs from Qian's crab cage into his own fishing basket, and Huo Xi squatted in front of the fishing basket and just picked and pulled.

   "You can be big or small, you can't pay the same price."

   "What, you don't want the small one?" Qian Xiaoxia was a little anxious.

   "Yes. It's just a big price, and a small price."

   "Everyone is so familiar, you can't kill them. My father and I went to sell fish today, and I know the price of crabs." You can't cheat me.

  Yang Fu pushed him, almost knocked him down, and glared at him: "We're so familiar, do you think of us like that? Xi'er won't cheat!"

  Huo Xi also visited the fish market today, and she knows the price of crabs. In a few days it will be the Double Ninth Festival, and the price of crabs changes every day, which is already more expensive than meat.

   "Twenty taels to four taels, twenty renminbi, four liang or more, thirty renminbi, six liang or more, and another price is negotiated."

   "One catty?"

   "One", Huo Xi looked at the many small crabs in the basket, and said: "Under two taels, fifteen cash a catty."

   "What?" Not only Qian Xiaoxia was dumbfounded, but Yang Fu was also dumbfounded.

   A catty of big white meat, sizzling with oil, only twenty cents a catty, this green shell crab, digging out without a bit of meat, so expensive?

  Huo Erhuai **** the boat, stowed the scull boards, and arrived at the bow of the boat. When he heard it, he was also stunned.

  He didn't go to sell fish today, and he hasn't caught crabs for a long time, and he didn't know the price of crabs for more than half a month. Is this crab more expensive than meat?

  Ms. Yang tightly held Huo Nian's hand, and Huo Nian's little finger pointed to the crab that was crawling around in the basket and was about to escape, pointing, yes.

   "You can't have it, this General Qing Ke can bite people. Biting and thinking, it hurts." Yang threatened him.

  When Huo Nian heard this, his little hands shrank back in fear. But she didn't want to go back to the cabin, so Yang stood holding him and watching.

   "For this price, if your family is willing, you can sell it to us. If you don't want it, you can keep it and sell it in the city." Huo Xi pulled the crabs that were crawling out again.

   "Sell, sell. The price is fair. Our family will sell to Xiao Huo Xi." Qian Sanduo stood on the bow and raised his voice.

  Good guy, don’t go fishing tomorrow, just search for crab nests, take advantage of the high price of crabs these days, let’s catch more crabs for money.

  There were a few people watching the fun, and they responded one after another, and went back to pick up their own crab pots.

  Qian Xiaoxia came back to his senses, and he and Yang Fu pulled his own crabs, ready to say, "Your family's harvest is more expensive than the market price, can this be sold?"

  Yang Fu was also a little worried, but looking at the calm Huo Xi, he puffed up his chest again: "That's my family's business, why don't you worry about it?"

   "You bastard! I'm afraid that your family will not be able to eat, so you have to come to my house to play the autumn wind."

   Tch.

  Yang Fu didn't bother to talk to him, so he divided the Qian family's crabs into several groups, and weighed them with Huo Xi.

   Good guy, I went back to the community last night and almost couldn't get in. Sealed several buildings in the front row, and then sealed the doorway adjacent to mine. Damn, the prevention and control line almost reached the doorway where I live. If the whole community is sealed off, you really can't get in, and you don't bring anything, which is very dangerous. Everyone should pay attention to safety~

  (end of this chapter)