happy fisherman

Chapter 21 The Strange Jade Bead
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"Brother, not only do I want to go, but I also want to take Mancang with me. Then we can rent an ox cart and come back without walking." Bo Beibei did not forget the longing in Mancang's eyes when she heard her go to the county seat. I want to make Mancang happy.

The county seat is too far away and too dangerous, she dare not take a full warehouse there, but Baogang Town is different, I heard that the people there are relatively simple, so many people in the village have never had any accidents in Baogang Town, and there is a brother Go, it should be fine.

"Aren't you fooling around? It's unknown if this fish can be sold, and you rent a bullock cart. If the fish can't be sold, how can you come back?"

"Brother, I went to the county two days ago to make some money. Even if the fish can't be sold, we can rent a bullock cart. I just want to go out with a full warehouse for fun." Bai Beibei said, very naturally Bai Manchuan acted coquettishly: "Brother, why don't you take me and Mancang?"

"Have you gone to the county seat?" Bai Manchuan asked without answering, his face full of surprise.

In her own family, Bo Beibei didn't hide it, and told her brother about making shell ornaments and selling them in the county, but still concealed the bank notes and what happened in the county.

"Uncle and Uncle say I'm brave, and I think you're not too brave. Do you know how dangerous it is for a child to go to the county seat?" Bai Manchuan looked at Bai Beibei with a grimace, but felt extremely guilty in his heart.

If he hadn't been away from home for so long, Beibei wouldn't have been forced to do this.

"Brother, that's not the point. The point is that I made money and came back. We have the money to rent a bullock cart." Bo Beibei said persistently.

Bai Manchuan finally sighed helplessly: "Okay, can't I promise you?"

"Thank you brother." Bai Beibei raised a smile.

As soon as Bai Manchuan opened the fish compartment, he let out a snort.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

"Why do I feel that these fish seem to be a little fatter than yesterday." Bai Manchuan wondered.

Bo Beibei was overjoyed: "Really?"

"Seems to be."

"Brother, it's better if the fish is fatter, and you can sell it for more money." Bai Beibei happily helped catch the fish.

It should be the water in the space that played a role!Bai Beibei thought to herself.

"Maybe it's my delusion, how can I gain weight in just one night." Baiman muttered while fishing for fish.

After fishing for a good fish, Bo Beibei ran home and told Mancang that he was going to take him to the town, and Mancang was almost overjoyed.

Whether it's going to the town or the county seat, and the eldest son is with him, Feng Shi didn't stop him: "I'll go and pack some steamed buns for you for lunch."

"Mother~~" Bo Beibei called out to her mother who was about to go to the kitchen: "Mother, it took me a long time to go out when the warehouse was full. Let's eat in the town at noon."

Feng wanted to object, but seeing his youngest son looking at him expectantly, he really couldn't bear to refuse.

"Okay, just this once, remember?" Feng Shi said, went under the pillow and took five taels of silver and some small change to Bai Manchuan, and twenty copper coins to Bo Beibei, and then ordered A few words.

"Thank you mother, I'll remember." Mancang happily hugged his mother, and went out with his brothers and sisters.

Baiman boat had great strength, and he walked to the village entrance with a bucket of fish in one hand.

Bo Beibei led the beaming Mancang and followed behind her brother, turning her head inadvertently, and saw Bai Yuzhu standing on the beach looking at them from afar.

Just as Bai Beibei was about to call her, Bai Yuzhu turned around and left in a hurry.

Bai Beibei was very puzzled. When her brother didn't come back, didn't sister Yuzhu keep thinking about it?Wasn't she very happy to learn that her brother had returned safely?

Since you miss her brother so much, why don't you want to see him?
Since you don't want to see him, why do you want to watch him secretly?

The same is true for my brother, and I won’t look for others when I come back!
I don't know what these two people are thinking?
From a distance, they saw three bullock carts parked at the entrance of the village. There were only a few bundles of firewood left on one bullock cart, and several large wooden barrels were placed on the other two bullock carts. Some villagers were buying water with the barrels.

The three men selling firewood and water were not very old, only in their twenties.

Seeing that there were only a few bundles of firewood left in the man's cart, Bai Manchuan took his younger siblings to the ox cart selling firewood.

"Brother, I'll exchange half a bucket of fish with you for the remaining bundles of firewood, and you can send us to the town, okay?" Bai Manchuan asked politely.

Bo Beibei didn't know the market, so he kept silent.

This kind of bartering is not uncommon here. The man selling firewood glanced into Baiman's bucket, and immediately smiled and said, "Okay."

What a bargain!

"Beibei, Mancang, you wait here for a while, we'll take the firewood home." Bai Manchuan put two barrels of fish at Bai Beibei's feet for her to watch, then jumped into the bullock cart and left with the man.

Not long after, the ox cart returned to the entrance of the village.

After getting into the car, Bo Beibei asked the coachman, "Brother, do you sell firewood for a living?"

This man is also approachable, and he couldn't help laughing after hearing what Bai Beibei said: "Little girl, you can't make a lot of money by selling firewood. We come here every now and then, and we only earn a few tens of pennies each time." Money, how can it be enough to support a family? I usually go to pull labor, and the family has planted a few acres of land, so I can barely make ends meet."

"Brother, you are so hardworking!" Bo Beibei said sincerely, and you have to go up the mountain to cut firewood, pull labor, and farm the land. Isn't it hardworking?

"There is no other way." The man smiled.

Bo Beibei suddenly remembered the fertile land in the space, and asked again: "Brother, do you grow vegetables at home?"

There is no place to grow vegetables by the sea, if the space can be utilized, wouldn't there be vegetables to eat on weekdays?

"Hehe, which of the ordinary people living in the town doesn't have one or two vegetable plots? Our family has a large population and we have three vegetable plots." The man thought Bai Beibei's question was really funny, if he didn't know that she was a child from a fishing village, He would suspect that she was a girl from a rich family.

"Brother, can you teach me how to grow vegetables?" Bai Beibei didn't know anything, but she was eager to learn, as long as she was willing, there was nothing she couldn't learn.

Before the man could make a sound, Bai Manchuan frowned and reproached, "Beibei, we don't have any land. What kind of vegetables are you learning to grow? You're making a fool of yourself!"

"Your brother is right, you can't grow vegetables on the sandy land by the sea." The man smiled kindly, thinking that Bo Beibei didn't know this common sense.

In order not to arouse his brother's suspicion, Bo Beibei had no choice but to temporarily shelve the plan, pursed his lips, and did not mention the matter of growing vegetables.

The bullock cart was not as fast as the horse-drawn cart, and it took half an hour to reach the three-fork intersection. At the three-fork intersection, there was an ox cart pulling people to the teahouse.

The man obviously recognized the coachman, and greeted him with a smile before going their separate ways.

At this time, the sun had come out, and Bo Beibei put his arm around Mancang, and put the other hand on top of his head to help him block the sun.

(End of this chapter)