Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 76
It was not yet clear, but Li Sixi had already got up, ready to sail early.

He estimated a large bamboo garden in a village not far from the Guanyin Temple. If he cut it seriously, it would be enough for him to tow four or five boats.

Thinking of another few hundred Wen in the account, he felt full of energy all over his body, wishing he could not sleep at night.

As soon as Li Sixi got out of the cabin, he saw a shadow moving in the dark bow.

The two boats were close together, and with the light in the cabin, Li Sixi took a closer look. It was Zhang Sange who was holding a bowl of corn paste and a pancake with three noodles in his hand, squatting on the bow and eating.

"Third brother, good morning."

Third Brother Zhang nodded: "It's getting late, where are you going today?"

In the whole pier, only the two of them were responsible for collecting and transporting the bamboo. They didn’t know much about it in the first few days, and the two had been together for a while.

Now, they are all acting separately, asking each other where they are going, so that they can avoid each other, so as not to meet together and take detours in vain.

Li Sixi scooped up a ladle of water and began to wash, but he did not forget to reply vaguely: "I'm going to Chenjiabazi, there is a big bamboo garden over there, I have seen it yesterday, if the price is right, I will go there. "

"Oh,"

Zhang Sange stuffed the last piece of pancake into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it: "I don't have a clue today, since you are going south, then I will look north, there is a bamboo forest in Lijiaji in the north, I gonna go see."

While the two were talking, Lu Quan came out of the cabin.

Originally, Li Sixi's boat and Lu's boat were docked next to the boat gang, but because Aunt Li was cautious, Li's boat switched places with Zhang's boat, and now it was Zhang Sange's boat that landed next to Lu's.

For this matter, Li Sixi complained a lot about his wife behind his back, but he had already changed it, and if he changed it now, he would not have the same face.

"Brother Lu, morning, have you eaten yet?" Li Sixi warmly greeted Lu Quan across the boat.

Brother Zhang also came over with an empty bowl: "Brother Lu, have you eaten? My family has porridge and pancakes. Come over and have a drink first."

At this time, the sky was twilight, the nearby ships had already moved, and everyone started to get up one after another.

Lu Quan waved his hand, raised his hand and pressed his swollen head, and stepped onto Zhang San's boat: "You don't want to transport bamboo today, stop for a while and watch the wind."

Hearing what Lu Quan said, Brother Zhang San and Li Sixi were stunned, and asked in unison: "Is it unlucky? Why?"

Why is it suddenly unlucky?
Isn't business good?

Lu Quan drank alcohol yesterday, and his head is still dizzy. He waved his hand, sat down on the bow of the boat and started to be in a daze.

Shopkeeper Li also advised him to buy more grain yesterday, and told him to find a place to store some grain.

Those who sailed, who didn't just buy food for three to five days, so they had so much spare money to buy food there.

In the past two months, Xiaosi asked everyone to buy food, and the food has not been eaten yet, and he wants to ask the big guy to buy it. I don't know if the big guy thinks that his family is deliberately looking for trouble.

Li Sixi squatted on Lu Quan's left hand side, and asked a little puzzled, "Brother Lu, what happened?"

Lu Quan supported his head, looked at the water surface blankly, and muttered in his mouth: "I have to buy food, buy more food."

Zhang San was startled: "Why do I suddenly think of buying food again, I haven't finished the food I bought last time."

It's July now. Wouldn't it be better to buy grain after the Mid-Autumn Festival when new crops of rice come out.

Li Sixi followed suit and said, "That's right, the family just had a little extra money."

Thinking about buying land and building a house!
Third brother Zhang squatted on Lu Quan's right side, his voice was a little low: "Didn't you say that you are going to buy wasteland to build a house? Why are you going to buy grain now?"

It's not winter yet, isn't it a bit early to stockpile food now?

Besides, the new rice hasn't come down yet, and it will take a month to mature at the fastest.

"Small……"

Lu Quan stuttered, couldn't help coughing and continued: "Yesterday I went to the pier and had dinner with a few stewards of the pier."

Li Sixi's eyes lit up immediately when he heard that Lu Quan had dinner with the steward of the dock.

After all, it's Big Brother Lu, and now he's mixed up with the steward of the pier as brothers, so we can have dinner together.

In the past, they wanted to go to the wharf to carry out work, and it was not easy to talk to these managers.

Brother Zhang's brows were slightly frowned, he was wondering why Lu Quan was looking for a steward on the pier, maybe there was something wrong with the transportation of the eel baskets.

But what does this have to do with buying grain?
Lu Quan didn't know what the two brothers around him were thinking. He let out a breath and continued, "I heard that the Shen family in Nanyang County was ransacked..."

"what?"

Li Sixi was so surprised that he sat down on his buttocks: "The Shen family? The Shen family with three Jinshi?"

The Shen family in Nanyang County is not an ordinary family. For a fisherman like Li Sixi, they are like gods.

The Shen family is rich and has a lot of scholars. Not counting those admitted as Tongsheng and Xiucai, the Shen family has three Jinshi.

Such a person will be ransacked?
Brother Zhang was not so surprised. He just took a breath and gritted his teeth: "The house of the owner of the Lu family can be burned. From Dongyang County to Nanyang County, who else is richer than the Lu family? Worse than the owner of the Lu family." Benevolence?"

Li Sixi nodded: "Yes."

Even if they haven't received the favor of Master Lu, they have heard the good name of Master Lu.

Third Brother Zhang looked at the decadent Lu Quan and asked, "Brother Lu, what does the Shen family's ransacking have to do with us?"

"It didn't matter..."

Lu Quan's eyes showed confusion, but Xiao Si said it was related, so the appointment was related.He replied irrelevantly, "The shopkeeper Li may have to return to Yangzhou."

Brother Zhang San frowned, what's going on with Lu Quan, why did he speak upside down.It was buying food and ransacking the house again, so why is it talking about shopkeeper Li now?

Li Sixi hurriedly interrupted Lu Quan: "Yes, why did you leave. Isn't our eel cage business doing very well?"

Because of the matchmaking by shopkeeper Li, all the eel cages they made were shipped to Yangzhou, and then sold to various places from Yangzhou. It is said that the sales are quite good.Shopkeeper Li also said that at least everyone can ship a few more shipments before winter comes.

Why is Shopkeeper Li leaving all of a sudden?

"Oh, don't talk, let Brother Lu talk." Third Brother Zhang gave Li Sixi a dissatisfied look.

Where did Li Sixi talk so much?

"Oh, oh, brother Lu, you say it, you say it." Li Sixi was not angry because Zhang Sange reprimanded him, but graciously touched a stool from the side and handed it to Lu Quan.

Lu Quan didn't pick up the stool, but just stared into the distance with heavy eyes.

At this moment, the sky was just getting a little white, and there were not many people getting up on the boat. Occasionally, there were a few, and they made some noise. Even so, everyone was not willing to light the lamps, but went to the bow of the boat to cook in the dark.

It costs oil to light a lamp, and no one is willing to part with that money.

Year after year, everyone comes here like this.

(End of this chapter)