Fight the Giants

  Chapter 7 Selling Fish

  Huo Erhuai strode forward carrying a load of fish catches, Yang Fu carried a small basket on his back, and pulled Huo Xi to follow.

  The three of them walked all the way from the ferry, passed through the Jiangdong Gate, and entered the outer city.

   It took more than an hour to walk from Jiangdongmen to Shichengmen in the inner city. Through the Shicheng Gate, you can enter the inner city, which is the most lively location in the waist and abdomen of the inner city. And this road is also the shortest road from the outer city to the inner city.

  It takes half a day to ride in a carriage on other roads.

  Yang Fu pulled Huo Xi, murmured, and urged her to enter the inner city.

  There are a lot of rich people in the inner city. With a wave of their hand, if they leak a little, they don’t need to squat on the ground to set up a stall and yell, maybe they will be rounded up.

   Sometimes he yelled until smoke came out of his throat, but he couldn't sell half a catty.

   And maybe there will be a reward.

   Besides, sell the fish quickly, they can find other ways to make money, maybe they can still earn money to buy a piece of pig's trotter today, maybe they still have enough money to buy a piece of meat to satisfy their hunger.

  It's easy to talk about it, but Huo Xi just doesn't agree.

  Huo Xi Neng doesn't want to make money?

   No, she wants to make money more than anyone else. She still has a lot to do. The family spent a lot of money for her siblings during this time, and she couldn't reach out to them.

  Even if you reach out, the family can’t get much.

  She has to earn it herself.

   But now is not the time to enter the inner city.

"It's what you said. There are many rich people in the inner city, but we can't afford to provoke the rich. If mud splashes on his clothes while walking, he can beat and scold the people walking next to him. We can't provoke them." rise."

  Yang Fu choked.

Just when he was about to refute, Huo Erhuai nodded: "Xi'er is right, we have no power or power, we just need to earn some real money. The business in the outer city is also good. This area is the closest to the inner city, and the people living there are concentrated , Our family’s load of fish will be sold in a short time.”

   Today, the boat has been rolled to the mouth of the Yangtze River. If you are lucky, the fish you catch are also big, and you should be able to sell them at a high price. Huo Erhuai was not worried about not being able to sell.

  If it is like this every day, there will be a lot of money left after paying the fishing tax at the river park this year.

  Yang Fu followed behind with a slumped face. He didn't want to enter the inner city for fun, but to earn more money.

  Huo Xi looked at him, thought for a while, and shook his hand.

"Uncle, it will be the Double Ninth Festival soon. If Dad catches fat crabs by then, we might be able to sell them in the inner city. People in the inner city like to appreciate chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, and eat crabs." .”

  Yang Fu's eyes lit up after hearing this, no, the Double Ninth Festival is coming soon!

   Immediately, the wind cleared and the air cleared up.

   Pulling Huo Xi to the front all at once: "Brother-in-law, Xi'er and I are going to occupy a good booth!"

  Huo Erhuai watched the two of them run away, shook his head and laughed, and trotted to keep up with the burden.

   "Selling fish, selling fish, the fresh fish caught in the river just now, it's big and fat, it's too late..."

  Yang Fu stood in front of the booth, shouting loudly.

  Huo Xi didn't follow the yelling, but stood beside Yang Fu with a smile, and every time he passed by, he asked each person, "Master, mother-in-law, aunt, do you want to buy fish? It's fresh and still alive."

   Staring at you with round eyes, smiling at you. Whoops, as long as you want to buy fish, you will come to the stall for this delicate and neat kid.

  So his family's business is much better than others.

Huo Erhuai fished fish from the fishing pole with a smile, Huo Xi took out the scale from the basket carried by Yang Fu, and then passed the reed pole over, Huo Erhuai took it, uncovered the gill cover of the fish, and took the reed Put the rod in, string the fish up, and then hang it with a weighing hook, "Three catties and four liang, I don't want a small change, and you will benefit forty coins."

  Huo Xi took the copper plate and put it in his small satchel.

  The three cooperated tacitly.

  People gathered around and took a look, "Your twelve cents a catty? So expensive? They only have seven or eight cents!"

  Huo Erhuai scratched his head and looked at Huo Xi.

  Huo Xi smiled and said: "Auntie, there are also seven-liter fish, look..." He picked up the fish from the fishing pole on the other side and showed it to the other party.

   "It's too small, not even a catty."

"Yes, here are all under one catty, and we sell seven cents at a low price. It is not easy to fish them up and raise them in water on the boat, and raise them in water all the way. They are still alive, look, they are still alive and kicking of it."

   After she finished speaking, she threw the fish back into the fishing box, and the fish broke free from her grasp and huddled with the fish inside in a panic, with water droplets splashing out.

  The woman stepped back. Look around, can't make up your mind.

   "I, I'll take a look again." The price is the same in other places, so how come this one divides the price.

  The man left, but Huo Xi didn't care.

  She insisted on classifying the fish into different grades, otherwise, who wouldn’t want to buy the big ones for the same price? The leftover small ones often cannot be sold, and Huo Erhuai has to work all the way to pick them back. I dry and eat dried fish every day, and I don’t finish it until I vomit.

you get what you pay for. If you are willing to eat, you will naturally choose the good ones, and you don't care about the few pennies. For those who are reluctant to spend money, there are also small fish to buy. If the price of fish is lowered, the money will be less, and it will always be sold.

   "Sell fish, sell fish, big and fat, sell cheap..."

  After selling for a while, the big fish on the stall were sold out, and the small fish under a catty were finally sold out for six or seven yuan.

   "Sold out, sold out."

   "Why is it sold out? Isn't there more in it?"

  The eldest lady just walked to the fish stall with her little feet. She saw two boys standing in front of the fish stall from a distance. Although the clothes were patched and patched, they looked clean, so she was willing to come and buy them.

   "Auntie, we will keep the rest here as gifts."

   "Can't you just give me one?" The aunt looked into the fishing basket, and was delighted to see the fish was still alive and kicking, so she didn't want to let it go.

   "Xi'er..."

  Huo Erhuai couldn't bear to let people down. Knowing that Huo Xi kept two big ones, one was to be given to Butcher Gao, and the other was to be exchanged with Butcher Gao for meat. Or just sell one and use the money to buy meat from Gao Butcher later?

  Huo Xi thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, I will give you one."

   "Okay." The aunt was very happy, and let go of her hand from the fishing basket, "Then you help me clean it up."

   "Okay. I must clean it up for you."

  Huo Erhuai answered, picked up the fish and put it on the chopping board, slapped the head of the fish with the back of the knife, then pressed the head of the fish to quickly remove the scales, disembowel and viscera.

   "Can you cut into sections?"

   "No, just the whole article."

   "Okay."

   Packed up and washed with the water in the fish basket, put the fish in her basket, and watched her go away.

   Within an hour, the fish was sold out. All three are very happy.

  Huo Xi looked at the bulging small satchel full of copper coins, and was very happy. Today he earned at least three or four coins!

  The three of them quickly poured out the water in the two airtight fishing baskets, leaving only a little water to keep the fish and about twenty shrimps that were given to Gao Butcher, and they carried the load to Gao Butcher's stall.

   "Uncle Gao, I brought you fish."

   "Oh, how embarrassing this is." Butcher Gao grinned at Gao. He just said that these two boys will definitely bring him fish, isn't it here? His wife twisted his ears.

   "How come there are shrimps here? I can't take this. The fish weighs two catties, so I can't take it." Butcher Gao refused.

  Huo Xi saw that there was still a piece of pig's trotter on his stall. Although she didn't plan to buy a pig's trotter today, there was crucian carp at home, so her mother told her to drink crucian carp soup.

  Glancing at Huo Erhuai, he said, "Why don't Uncle Gao give us this pig's trotter, and we'll pay you another ten cents?"

   "I don't want ten coins, you take it." Gao Butcher picked up the pig's trotter grandly, quickly strung it up, and stuffed it into Huo Xi's hand without weighing it.

   "How can it be done? I can't let you lose money." Huo Erhuai refused.

  Finally, Butcher Gao accepted ten Wen and happily watched the family of three leave. Hey, honest people. He likes to deal with honest people.

  Receive the fishing load they put on the stall into the shop.

   "Xi'er, brother-in-law is going to move the goods, where are we going? Are we also going to the outer city wharf?" Yang Fu and Huo Xi walked behind Huo Erhuai, whispering to Huo Xi.

   Today’s Goddess’ Day, the goddesses are all built, chopping hands, eating and drinking~ In the past, Goddess’ Day was a half-day holiday, but now the benefits are gone, crying~

  (end of this chapter)