Fisherman

After deciding to sell the oysters, Zhao Qian washed the oysters on the same day, prepared the charcoal fire, and went to the market early the next morning to sell them freshly baked.

It's easy to talk about selling things, but he didn't plan to let Brother Zhou accompany him. This matter caused the two of them to have some disputes.The village is far away from the town, and it is too tiring to go back and forth every day. Besides, there are not enough two people in a small stall, and he doesn't know if the oysters can be sold well. He doesn't want to take Brother Zhou out to experience the warmth and warmth of people outside the village.

"Someone has to watch over the house. Didn't you say you want to build a yard? Let's do it while the weather is fine. Seeing that spring is coming to an end, we have to hurry up and plant some vegetables."

As soon as Zhou Geer's stubborn temper came up, he didn't speak, and his face was so calm that he couldn't get angry. Zhao Qian couldn't bear to scold him, so he said whatever he wanted, and finally the boy hummed, shut the door and went out.

What Zhao Qian decided would not be changed easily. The next morning, when the sky was still dark and gray, he got up to pack his things and go out.

He arrived at the stove lightly, and the things that were lying around last night were now neatly packed in the back basket. He took a look and found that everything was complete. He went back to the inner room and saw that he was still asleep on the ground. The young man didn't know when he got up to pack his things, he didn't even feel a little bit.

"I'm leaving." He said softly, Zhou Ge'er, who had his eyes closed, not only didn't respond, he turned over and turned his back to him.

He shook his head helplessly, he was still angry, so he didn't say much, fearing that his heart would soften and he would fuck the young man a little, sighed and turned to go out with his things on his back.

In the morning dew, the fog was covered with sticky water. He scratched his face. He didn't know when there would be an ox cart in the village. This would save him a long journey to other villages to catch a ride.

When he arrived in the city, he didn't go directly to set up a stall. He first found a blacksmith's shop and asked the master to make a barbecue grill for him. I went to buy straw paper and drew a few drawings before I understood.

With his neck bare, the man looked at what he wanted, and said, "If it's what you want, you'll have to ask for two taels of silver."

Zhao Qian's eyes widened. He still had more than 100 coins in his whole body. He knew that iron was expensive at this time, but he didn't expect it to be so expensive.

"Thinner, use less material, can you see less?"

The blacksmith is also an honest man. After pondering for a while, he said: "One or two halves, at least this much."

A clever woman can't cook without rice, Zhao Qian suddenly understood the meaning of this sentence, his face showed embarrassment, and finally asked again: "Can I get credit?"

The man looked at him seriously, then shook his head frankly: "We are all doing small business."

Your family's business is often one or two taels, it's really small!

But you can't say that, for the sake of life, you have to bow your head when you should: "I set up a stall on the east side of the market, and if I can't run away, the boss can help me."

After thinking for a while, he said again: "Let's do this, you fix the shelf with me, and after I use it every day, I take the shelf back and put it here with you. How about taking the things back after paying off the money?"

"What if I gave it to you, and you ran away halfway?"

"Why, I'm just setting up a stall in the market to do a small business, so I don't need to run away for an iron frame to stop doing business!" As he said, he took a dozen oysters out of his back basket and put them in the iron shop. Fang: "I bought some seafood and tried something new."

The man sighed: "It will be done."

Zhao Qian had a happy face: "Yes, I will give you a deposit of fifty cash first."

After handing over the money, he felt that there was a lot of emptiness in his body. He didn't take in half a copper plate when he came out, but he dumped all the remaining money. If Brother Zhou knew it, he would be so heartbroken. take him out.

After explaining the barbecue grill, he hurried to the area with the most stalls, looking for a place to vacate his things.

A thick layer of cold ashes was placed in the wooden basin used to roast oysters. Due to limited conditions, he could only do this for the time being. He first lit a firewood, and then threw the charcoal into it. I bought four oysters, scooped the minced garlic that I made yesterday onto the oyster meat, waited until the charcoal fire was almost done, and then put it on for roasting.

After such a toss, before he shouted, many people gathered around to watch the excitement.

Everyone was pointing around, and someone asked: "Brother, what are you doing?"

Zhao smiled and said, "Grilled oysters, do you want to buy two to try? Fresh oysters that are grilled now!"

"Those who don't know think you are doing acrobatics!" Everyone laughed.

In the market, people from the village often come to sell seafood, and occasionally there are villagers who sell oysters. Many people in the market know oysters, but everyone’s impression is that the meat is small and the shell is big, and they don’t know how to eat them. The method is nothing more than cooking some soup, the taste is not satisfactory, even if you have money to buy seafood, you will not buy it.

It's strange to see people using it for roasting today.

Zhao Qian gently fanned the charcoal fire with a woven fan, and after a while, the cold minced garlic became hot, and the fragrance also wafted out, and the surrounding discussions stopped instantly.

"Passing by, don't miss the fresh and delicious grilled oysters!"

After being entangled in the fragrance, someone finally couldn't help asking: "How much is it for you?"

Zhao Qian pointed out his fingers: "One for six characters!"

"Liu Wen!?" The person who asked the price stared wide-eyed, what kind of delicacy is worth such an expensive price: "Why don't you grab it!"

Zhao Qian didn't care much about the whining sound, not to mention the exhaustion of catching oysters, the price of this minced garlic is not low, in terms of cost and manpower, it is worth the price no matter what. It is not so simple to come with oysters.

"I just want to see what the oysters selling Liuwen taste like!" Suddenly, someone counted out six copper coins against the exclamation of everyone.

Zhao Qian quickly accepted the money, admiring this kind of unconventional person, took out an oyster, wrapped it in a big leaf picked in the village, and handed it over: "Be careful it's hot."

The person who bought the oysters stared at the half of the oyster meat shell, which was no bigger than a palm, took a homemade oyster toothpick made by Zhao Qian, and ate the oyster meat with it.

Under the thoughtful eyes of everyone, the oyster eater frowned and tasted it for a while, then suddenly gave a thumbs up: "It's delicious!"

Then, I smoked the minced garlic and a little soup.

Zhao Qian's hanging heart finally let go: "It's still this big brother who knows the goods!"

"It's just inconvenient to take away, otherwise I'll take two back for my family."

In this regard, Zhao Qian also expressed helplessness, and there is really no one who can pretend to take it away: "It doesn't matter, I will set up a stall here tomorrow, if you want to eat at that time, you can call your family to come, or you can buy it from home." Bring a guy."

The eyes of the person who bought the oysters lit up: "Good idea!"

"Come on, Liu Wen, give me another one!"

Zhao Qian swiftly grabbed another oyster, this time the oyster buyer didn't eat it in front of the big guys, but squeezed out of the crowd with it.

After the people left, everyone stared at the only two oysters left in the basin. After hesitating, they gritted their teeth and took out the copper plate.

"Oh, it's gone!" He sighed slowly, reluctant to let go of the copper plate.

"There are still more, if you want to buy, I'll open and roast oysters now!" Zhao Qian poured out a few oysters from the sack.

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He went out to take out one after another. In the afternoon, there were not many oysters left. Seeing that it was getting late, he sold the last few cheaply for five yuan each. He was greedy for several times and did not buy any. Hearing that it was a penny cheaper, I immediately sold it.

After selling the oysters, before he had time to count the money, he hurriedly stuffed the oysters into the back basket, carried them to the market, and promised Brother Zhou that he would buy some vegetable seeds for him.

The season was approaching the end of spring, and he ran to the vegetable market. The market was about to close at this time, and many vegetable sellers had already sold out and were ready to go home, and the leftover vegetables began to sell at a low price.

He looked around the vegetable market, only two old people were still selling vegetable seedlings, they were pepper seedlings and Chinese cabbage seedlings, and he didn't have anything to be picky about. He asked the price, ten seedlings for a penny, which was cheap, after all, he had to take them back. If you plant it by yourself, if none of them grow well, even if you only spend a penny, it will still be in vain.

After spending five Wen, he bought two handfuls of Chinese cabbage and three handfuls of pepper seedlings, but he didn't come to buy any more. All of the two old people's things were sold out and it was easy.

I took the ox cart back, and when I arrived at the village, it was already dark, but I came back earlier than yesterday.

After crossing the small river, when he arrived at the door of the house, the door was locked tightly, and the yard outside was not enclosed. He couldn't help frowning, why did Zhou Shaoyu go there.

He put down his back basket and was wondering where to find someone. Zheng Shu came out with a full stomach and yelled at the door of the house: "Zhao Qian, you're back!"

"Brother Zhou left the key with me."

Zhao Qian couldn't let a pregnant woman come over, so she hurried over to get the key: "Where did he go?"

"Go to sea with my husband."

Seeing what time it was, he hadn't come back yet, luckily he wasn't alone, he felt a little more relaxed, but after thinking about it, he didn't feel at ease going out with a man!

"Thank you." He took the key, ran back and opened the door, put the basket in hastily, and locked the door again with a snap.

The village now is not as good as before, it took half an hour to go to the sea, and seeing the sky getting darker and darker, he was very worried about the young man, and if he had known it earlier, he would not be angry with him.

He was in a panic, and estimated to walk for a quarter of an hour. He saw a fellow from the village walking towards him chattering from afar, so he quickened his pace.

"Zhao Qian?"

"Did you see Zhou Shaoyu?"

The fellow pointed to the back: "He and Hu San'er are behind."

Before the folks could say anything else, he ran over. Brother Zhou was carrying a fishing net on his back and a basket in his other hand. Zhao Qian secretly scolded the boy for being stupid. He knew what he was doing with the fishing net. There are good tools in the space, so you can just put the broken net in the fishing boat.

When he got closer, he realized that the boy's fishing net was full of oysters, and there were only two sea fish in the basket in his hand.

"Why did you take so many things and go back so late." He scolded the young man while taking all the things, but unexpectedly the young man froze and refused to let go.

His brows tightened, it's been a day, and he's still sulking!

Brother Zhou thought that he was tired all day, and it was not easy to run back and forth from the market: "I can afford it."

"I can afford you and these things together."

Brother Zhou's face turned red when he heard the words, and he let go of his hands quickly, he was afraid that Zhao Qian would really pick him up in front of the villagers, after all, Brother Zhao has always been shameless.

Hu San'er was also carrying the fishing net, looked at the couple who had met, and said, "I'm going back first! I won't talk to you so late."

Zhao Qian nodded.

Seeing Hu San'er walking towards his home, he also picked up the oysters and asked the boy beside him: "Didn't you want to circle the yard, why did you go to sea?"

"Brother Liu asked if he wanted to go to sea, so I came out, and there was nothing to eat at home, so I always wanted to catch something."

Zhao Qian responded, "What about Liu Jun?"

"Brother Zheng was worried about being alone at home, so he took the path and went back first."

No wonder he didn't meet anyone when he came.

The two talked for a while, and soon arrived home.

The oil lamp in the room was flickering, and it was so dark that he couldn't see clearly. After entering the room, Zhao Qian found that the boy's clothes were soaked through. He didn't know whether it was wet from carrying oysters, or it was wet when he went out to sea.

"Hurry up and change into clean clothes, or you will get hot."

Brother Zhou looked at the basket, opened his mouth, and was about to ask how the oysters were selling today, but he didn't say anything, and obediently went to change his clothes first.

Zhao Qian boiled hot water in the stove, and waited for Brother Zhou to come out and scoop up the water to take a hot bath, and then he would cook.After a few fires, the water was almost boiling, and the person hadn't come out yet.

He got up and went into the room to take a look, but the door of the inner room was not closed, and when he walked over, he saw the naked body exposed to the air, he stared straight at his eyes, Brother Zhou was born very well-proportioned, and his wheat-colored skin was a little nourished I haven't seen the sun for a long time, and it's a little white now.

Zhou Geer, who was looking for a coat to wear, noticed someone standing at the door, and quickly pulled out his clothes to cover himself. Seeing that Zhao Qian was still standing there in a daze, he was a little ashamed, picked up the wet clothes on the ground and threw them over.

Zhao Qian caught the clothes and came back to his senses, coughing in embarrassment.

"Back it!"

"Yes, yes, yes!" He walked outside with his wet clothes, and muttered, "It's been a long time changing clothes, so hurry up and fetch water to take a shower."

Walking to the kitchen, he touched his nose and felt that his nasal cavity was hot. He slowly raised his head and cursed inwardly: Nosebleed!

After a while, there was no flow...... He guessed that if he was not wearing pants, he would have already had a flow.

Brother Zhou came out slowly, without saying a word, he quickly slipped away with the water he had packed.