Chapter 35 Dealing with fellow cargo

"Second girl, why don't you call me when you come here to see the bustle?"

Li Erniu is one year older than Yuer and always likes to call herself Yuer's "sister". Because the boat at home has been parked next to Yuer's boat for a long time, Yuer and she have often played with her since she was a child. Li Erniu is also a fish's best friend... So as soon as Li Erniu called her, she immediately came from the crowd like a little loach. It came out.

Li Erniu got out of the crowd and took the fish's little arm affectionately and said righteously, "Don't I want to see if there is anything new for you before calling you? I know that if the things this guy carries are too ordinary, you won't like them even if you come! But I was thinking of going back and calling you, so you came first..."

Yuer was immediately very happy when she heard this. Hearing Li Erniu's words, the goodsman who came today must have brought something rare, otherwise Li Erniu would not have said that she would go back and call her. Sure enough, this idea flashed in Yuer's little head, and Li Erniu pulled her to introduce her...

"Yuer, the Lin man has really picked a lot of new and interesting things today. There are round gourds that can blow out sounds, and there are little people who are pinched according to your face of nobles in the capital. I heard that several faces are still secretly pinched according to the appearance of the master in the palace. The latest strange thing is that they are made of colorful beads. The bead curtain..."

Li Erniu was still introducing endlessly. The fish had been tickled by her words. She couldn't help standing up and trying to look inside through the cracks in the crowd. However, this time, there were many villagers around Lin Xiaolang. The fish did not see the things that Lin Xianglang was carrying for a long time, so she could only let Li in the end. The second girl pulled her into the crowd...

Because the fish and Li Erniu were young and small, they soon drilled through several layers of crowds and came to the cargo man. It was not until this time that the fish had the opportunity to take a good man who came today and all kinds of things he picked.

The Lin man was very rough-looking and knew that he was a northerner at a glance. He was wearing a slightly white blue coat and a cloth bag with a large pocket on his shoulder. When he opened his mouth to introduce all kinds of things, he had a strong foreign accent, so that people knew that he came from other places.

At present, Lin Guanlang is carrying a bamboo pole on his shoulder, and there are two special bamboo baskets in front of him. The bamboo baskets are full of all kinds of small things, including children's favorite paper lanterns, some second-hand goods bought from rich housekeepers, and some semi-old clothes and wheat cakes, maltose and other small Eat.

The cargo man hung a bamboo pole on his shoulder, and all kinds of small things were hung with red ropes at both ends. There were various head jewelry used by women, all kinds of novel styles and colors, and paper and ink pen books used by the children to go to school.

Yuer was about to take a closer look. The anxious Li Erniu had pulled her to the big basket on the left and pointed to the thing in the frame and said, "Yuer, look, this is the bead curtain I just mentioned. The colorful beads on this bead curtain are so beautiful! If I could hang this bead curtain in my house, I would stay at home every day!"

As soon as the fish heard that there was something that could make the playful Li Erniu not go out, he couldn't help but look in the direction pointed by Li Erniu. At a glance, he found a pair of dazzling bead curtains lying under several lanterns. Although more than half of them were covered by lanterns, the bright colors It still attracts the attention of many people.

This small village is not a very rich place. Most of the villagers' homes are hung with blue or red curtains with small flowers printed on the bottom, and the richer people will only hang a delicate bamboo curtain. Like this exquisite colorful bead curtain brought by Lin Guolang, dozens of households in Xiaoqi Village have not used it... At most, the villagers of Xiaoqi Village have only seen such a bead curtain in those exquisite restaurant courtyards in the city.

And it is precisely because big guys rarely see such exquisite colorful bead curtains, the bead curtains pressed by the cargo man at the bottom of the frame were soon fished out. The bead curtains were picked up by the relatively rich Aunt Ma in the village. The second aunt Ma's family saved a few money because of the many boats, so she loved to learn from some local riches. Climbing the wind and elegance, I always like to move some things that are not in the small village back to put at home...

So there were a few people looking around the bead curtain, but no one took it out and looked at it carefully, as if they were afraid of damaging the exquisite bead curtain and losing money to Lin. Only the rich second aunt Ma saw that the bead curtain was not an ordinary thing, so she immediately fished it out quickly and in front of the big guy. Slowly unfold the whole pearl curtain.

Aunt Ma unfolded the bead curtain in order to show off, just so that the fish could have a chance to take a close look at the bead curtain. The fish came closer and found that the beads on the bead curtain were actually some small carved and smooth walnut cores, but these round walnut cores were painted with different colors, so It looks as beautiful as colored pearls.

While looking at it, the fish quietly reached out and held the hem of the bead curtain. First, he touched the walnut beads strung on it, and then looked carefully at the thread stringed these walnut beads. He found that it was only an ordinary red thread, but much thicker than the ordinary embroidery thread, but the walnut beads were not heavy, and such a thick line was enough. They are all stuck together.

Just as the fish touched the hem of the bead curtain and appreciated it, the onlookers around him had made a strange sound about the bead curtain. Aunt Ma was even more enthusiastically praised the bead curtain, and the more the people around him praised the bead curtain in his hand, the more proud the look on Aunt Ma's face, and finally raised her chin high and was angry. He shouted, "Lin Shoulang, I want this pair of pearl curtains!" Tell me how much it is, and I'll go back and withdraw the money for you!"

After saying this, Second Aunt Ma didn't forget to glance at the enviable onlookers, and she didn't wait for Lin Kuang to say how much this bead curtain was going to sell, so she directly said that she would go home to withdraw money to buy it. She obviously wanted to show off her money in front of everyone that the Ma family had at present and wanted the villagers to I envy her Ma family more...

And the Northeast man, who was called "Lin Yaolang", immediately greeted him and said with a friendly smile, "Aunuch Ma, I'm really sorry. I can't sell this pair of bead curtains..."

Linhuo lang's words greatly swept away Aunt Ma's interest and fell on her face, making her face sink and ask unhappily, "What's wrong? Do you look down on my Ma family and think that our Ma family can't afford to buy rare things in this city? Let me tell you, the things placed inside and outside, up and down of our Ma family are only available in the big families in the city! Don't think that we live in this small village and are as poor as everyone else!"

Aunt Ma's mean words immediately offended the onlookers. The people who originally looked at the lively with a smile immediately sank their faces to look at Aunt Ma's face, and those who were unconvinced or angry have begun to satirize Aunt Ma with your words and me. .

However, the satire of Aunt Ma was really not taken seriously, but thought that they were jealous of themselves. The satire of those people made Aunt Ma more energetic. Now she took out a small piece of round broken silver from her sleeve and shook it vigorously in front of Lin Cargolang!

The onlookers saw that Malthus was holding a piece of silver in his hand, and Aunt Ma said proudly, "Lin Guanlang, it should be more than enough for me to buy your bead curtains with this piece of silver, right?"

When everyone saw that Aunt Ma took out a piece of silver, they looked surprised. Even the fish were very surprised by Aunt Ma's wealth. After all, ordinary people would not carry silver with them - firstly, it was for safety reasons; second, because most of the expenses of ordinary people could only take it. Copper money to buy, you show off with silver, but the store still thinks it's troublesome and doesn't want to look for it!

Fish also experienced it first-hand after traveling, and realized that the ancients were not like modern TV series. They just went out for a meal, drank a bowl of tea and threw out a bank of silver to pay the bill, which was exaggerated for the plot effect...

In fact, most of the coins used by ordinary people in ancient times are copper plates. The "firewood, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar tea" used in daily life are not valuable things. Naturally, they can be bought with some copper plates. However, silver can be replaced with copper coins in the bank, which is convenient to use. Of course, except for merchants who do big business, gold, silver and silver will naturally be traded.

However, it was secretly surprised that Aunt Ma in a small fishing village could take out a piece of broken silver. Some good people couldn't help but wonder whether the Ma family was so rich that they could casually take out a handful of broken silver...

However, the Lin goodsman often traveled south and north, which is considered to be knowledgeable. He will not be shocked by the second aunt Ma's piece of silver. After listening to Aunt Ma's words, he smiled and did not offend him. He just kept smiling and said, "Age Ma, you misunderstood. I don't mean to look down on the Ma family, let alone think so. You can't afford this bead curtain... but I really can't sell this bead curtain.

How can a business Lin Shanglang not do it?

Linhuo lang once again refused this easy business, so that Yuer couldn't help but take his attention away from the bead curtain and pay attention to the dialogue between Linhuo lang and Aunt Ma, and also wanted to hear the reason why Linhuo lang refused to sell the bead curtain.

This second aunt is obviously an unreasonable village shrew. She doesn't think that Lin Kuolang really has any hardships that she can't sell at all. Instead, she thinks that Lin Kuolang has business to do. She must look down on her and think that she, a mountain village woman can't afford such a precious pearl curtain.

So, Aunt Ma unrelentlessly grabbed Lin Kuolang's flat pole, crossed her waist and shouted loudly, "Don't fool me with these words!" Just tell me how much this bead curtain will cost, but I don't believe that I really can't afford it today!"

The hegemony of Aunt Ma made Lin Kulang smile bitterly and retreat frequently, wanting to avoid the unreasonable Aunt Ma, but how could this Aunt Ma avoid her?

I saw Aunt Ma pressing each other step by step, "Do you say it or not? Can you tell me how much this bead curtain costs? Is it more than enough for me to buy it with this piece of money?

Lin Kuang was entangled by Aunt Ma, so he had no choice but to answer helplessly: "AUNT Ma, you happened to be right. I'm afraid your broken silver is really not enough to buy this pair of pearl curtains. Although this pair of pearl curtains is just a pleasing thing hanging on the door, the workmanship on it is very fine."

As soon as Aunt Ma heard this, she immediately raised her voice several times and asked angrily, "What are you talking about?! Do you think this piece of silver is not enough to buy your bead curtain?! Don't fool me with lies if you see that I'm a countryman! This curtain is worth a consistent price at most, right? How dare you say that my money is not enough to buy it?!"

The second aunt Ma said that a piece of broken silver was bigger than the imported one. The tone seemed to say that the money in her hand was enough to buy several cars of bead curtains like this, and these words only made the second aunt Ma look very spotless, and also made Yuer and Lin Kuolang feel that she was a typical upstart.

However, the broken silver in the hand of the second aunt Ma was equivalent to a large amount of silver tickets in the eyes of the villagers in Xiaoqi Village, so as soon as the people around them heard Lin Kuang's words, they immediately questioned the value of the bead curtain, but the expression on the fish's face was as always, without any doubt.

While Aunt Ma was entangled with Lin Hualang, the fish had carefully thought about the bead curtain. When the fish picked out a few big beads on it and took a closer look, he found that the top few big beads were finely engraved with flowers, birds, fish, insects and other patterns, and they were also vividly carved. The knife work of carving these patterns is very good.

Fish is a modern traveler. What good things have she never seen?

No matter how bad the fish lived, she often went to antiques and museums. After seeing some good things in ancient times, she also developed a good vision. Therefore, as soon as the fish looked closely at the bead curtain, she knew that it was just a few big beads stringed at the top, which was probably more valuable than the broken silver in Aunt Ma's hand.

But the villagers in Xiaoqi Village don't have the vision of fish, especially the upstart Aunt Ma, so the Lin Huolang can only explain patiently, "Aunuch Ma, don't be in a hurry to get angry. Listen to me first. This bead curtain is actually not something I sell. More than half of the beads on it are given to me in advance by the main customer. , it was the customer who gave me the beads and then asked me to take them home and let my family help with the string. At the time of the string, the customer also asked me to make up some ordinary beads..."

"When this bead is stringed, I will send it to the customer. I only earn him some ordinary bead money and processing money. I'm going to send this bead curtain to the customer today, so I will pick it out together in the bamboo basket. Otherwise, I will not bring this kind of expensive and impractical thing to you."

When Lin's goodslang said this, the onlookers believed his words. After all, these goodsmen who sell things on the streets and alleys also look at the ground and bring things to sell them. For the exquisite and beautiful bead curtain in Aunt Ma's hand, they generally don't take them to a rural place like Xiaoqi Village to buy. They can't let these reluctantly Villagers who maintain the food and clothing of the family, pay for these flashy things, right?

Basically, the goodsmen took the trouble to bring it. Except for a person like Aunt Ma who deliberately wants to show off will buy it, normal people will not be willing to pay this money to buy a flashy thing.

For more exquisite things such as bead curtains, window flowers, silk flowers, etc., the goodsman will generally pick the back door of those large families in the city to sell them and sell them to the maids, daughters-in-law and wives in the house as decorations. This time, this bead curtain is also the housekeeper of a large family in the city. He specially wrapped beads and asked Lin Baolang to help string them, otherwise Lin Baolang can't afford to sell such a precious bead curtain.

The beads given by the housekeeper the day before yesterday asked Lin Guolang to be sent to the house today, but Lin Guolang had just gone to the housekeeper's house to sell things, and naturally he had to sell them in another place. Therefore, in order to send the stringed bead curtain to the housekeeper on time, he put them together with the things he picked to sell in Xiaoqi Village... ...But Linhuo lang didn't expect that this pair of pearl curtains that already had an owner would cause such a trouble.

Lin Wang patiently explained the cause and effect to Aunt Ma. After saying that, he was afraid that Aunt Ma would not believe her words. He also pointed to the few big beads that the fish had just observed for Aunt Ma to see. Aunt Ma reluctantly came to the beads and looked at them carefully.

This second aunt has no vision and knows that it is not easy to carve patterns on beads. The silver of a famous craftsman alone is much more than the piece of silver in her own hand, so although she still feels unhappy, she can only shut her mouth in the end and take out the silver sleeve to show off. No Then mention the purchase of that pair of pearl curtains.

Seeing that Aunt Ma finally stopped messing around, Lin Kuang quickly found a piece of red cloth to wrap the bead curtain and deliberately stuffed it into the bottom of the bamboo basket, so as not to let anyone else turn it out again.

At this time, there was no excitement to see. The people who were missing anything in the family also paid after picking things, so the crowd around Lin's Lang gradually dispersed. Finally, Lin's Lang was surrounded by only a group of children who wanted to buy sugar. Li Erniu looked at it with saliva at the corners of her mouth and her eyes shining. The small noodle candy on the edge of the bamboo basket.

These children all hold one or two copper coins given by their families, drooling and pointing to the white jingle candy for Lin Hualang to cut. They will look at Lin Hualang pitifully, hoping that he can cut the sugar into large pieces.

If you have three or four copper plates in your hand, you will buy maltose made into various small animals and supported by small bamboo sticks. If you have money, you will buy those lifelike small noodles. This small noodles can not only see and eat, but also be regarded as a very popular candy for children.

There are a few copper plates given by Liu in the fish's sleeve, which is enough for her to buy every kind of sugar, but the fish did not wait to take money to exchange sugar like Li Erniu, but quietly flashed aside and waited for the children to buy sugar and run to eat it, and then the fish slowly shook to Lin Xianglang.