Chapter 30 The wish of two generations

Then the fish family went to the meat shop to cut half a catty of pork, beat a catty of rice wine, and then bought a whole bag of snack that several children in the family wanted to eat but couldn't afford to eat. Then the family pretended to be nothing had happened and rushed to Xiaoqi Village.

When the fish family rushed back to the ship, Yang Erzhu's family and Mr. Yang had taken the lead in setting up a low table to eat on the next boat. Usually, because the family is set up a big table on the boat to eat together, the Yang family does not eat together every day. They only eat at the first and 15th of the lunar new year. On weekdays, they divide the prepared food and eat it separately on their own boats.

Because the Dafang family rushed to the city to pawn pearls before dinner, this visit also delayed Liu's cooking time. Therefore, at present, Mr. Yang and the second-room family's dinner are reluctant to be cooked. Fang Shi regrets Liu's laziness to leave the work of preparing dinner to her, so he deliberately only prepared the dinner of their second-room family.

When Fang saw the big house family, he did not forget to pretend to be surprised and shirk responsibility: "Ouch! I just couldn't find my eldest brother, sister-in-law and several children inside or outside. I thought your family had gone to visit relatives together. I thought you would stay at your relatives' house for dinner and then come back, so I didn't cook any more food for you.

Liu is very happy at present and doesn't want to ruin her good mood because of Fang, so she not only didn't care much about Fang, but also said in a very cheerful tone, "As long as there is delicious food, it's not too late to do it now. Anyway, we are not hungry."

Sometimes a good mood can really reduce people's hunger. As soon as Liu's words were finished, Yang Sanlang and Yang Silang agreed together: "Yes, we are not hungry! We will help your mother light firewood. Mother, you can prepare the food slowly. It would be great if you could make more effort to stew braised pork for us!"

"You are greedy. OK, my mother will stew braised pork for you today."

Liu deliberately said such words in front of Fang, and then went into his cabin with his jealous and envious eyes. The family carefully took out the silver ticket, put it in a small wooden box of Fang's dowry, locked the wooden box in a camphor wooden box cage, and then hid the box in a hidden place.

After hiding all the silver tickets one by one, Liu took Yang Dazhu and told him not to tell the second wife about this matter first. After repeatedly emphasizing it several times, Liu took the fish brother and sister off the boat to cook.

After that, the fish family put dinner in the kitchen. The big guys had a big dinner lively and happily. After eating, they cleaned up the kitchen together before returning to the boat quietly. After freshwashing, they fell asleep and had nothing to say the night.

The next day, when Yang Dazhu came back from sea, the fish took him and his two brothers to the place where the pearl picker was killed. First, he took a grass mat to roll him up and carried him in after the coffin he bought yesterday was transported.

Generally speaking, people would hire people to carry the coffin up the mountain, but Yang Dazhu was used to being thrifty and reluctant to spend the money, so he asked the fish to go home to call Yang Erzhu and his son, and then the six men slowly carried the coffin to the top of the mountain and buried him in the highest mountain in Xiaoqi Village according to the wishes before the pearl picking. Up.

Because the fish did not know the pearl picker and didn't know his name, so after digging a pit, lowering the coffin and filling the soil, the fish began to make it difficult to set up a monument, but the fish had previously checked the things on the pearl picker and found nothing that could prove his identity, so finally The fish could only set up a blank tombstone without an engraved name for the pearl picker.

After burying the pearl picker who had great kindness to the Yang family, the fish completed a heartfelt and a long sigh of relief. Since Yang Dazhu asked Yang Erzhu and his son to come to help, he told them about the pearls given by the pearl pickers. After hearing this, Yang Erzhu and his son praised the fish for their good intentions.

After this first-class event was completed, the fish family also had time to think about something else. This small village has such a custom - the unexpected money is like a hot potato, and you have to spend it quickly so that it won't cause trouble!

Although there are some superstitious factors in this custom, the fish knows that people who have been very poor all of the time suddenly have a lot of money, which is not necessarily a good thing.

After all, there is no impenetrable wall in the world. When the Yang family suddenly has a thousand taels of silver and accidentally let others know about it, it is inevitable that some people with bad intentions will make crooked ideas. At that time, it will be a small matter to lose money, but if the family is hurt because of this money, it will outweigh the gains and losses!

What's more, Yang Dazhu, who has been treating his younger brother frankly, has told Yang Erzhu about this matter. Since Yang Erzhu has known it, the representative Fang will soon know. Yuer believes that with Fang's selfish and greedy nature, he will try his best to get a piece of the pie after knowing this...

But the money was obtained by the fish to save the pearl picker. Why did he give it to the insatiable Fang?

After having these ideas, when Yang Dazhu was convinced of the customs and proposed to discuss how to spend the unexpected money as soon as possible, the fish responded without thinking about it. Then the big house family sat around the low table in the cabin and began to discuss how to make good use of the 1,000 taels of silver obtained by pawn pearls.

The first thing fish thought of was to use this money to improve their living environment. In addition, the fish was most unaccustomed to living in a ship with slight bumps for a long time, especially not used to living in a narrow cabin with a large family. Although curtains will be hung in the cabin at night and the cabin will be separated into several separate spaces, this is really unaccustomed to the fish who have lived in spacious and bright rooms since childhood.

In addition, the fish's hearing has always been much sharper than others, so it is difficult for her to fall asleep at night. She either hears Yang Dazhu's purring or Yang Sanlang and Yang Silang's turning over. Sometimes even the sound of the surging waves outside the boat can be heard clearly, and often has to turn over where she sleeps. After a long time, the fish can fall asleep in a daze...

So being able to have a small yard of their own on land like Xiao Boltzi and Ma Siniang became the biggest wish of the fish after crossing. When this wish first came to the bottom of her heart, it filled her heart with a sense of sourness and powerlessness - in her previous life, the fish had been working hard to have a piece of her own roof tile on her head to shelter from the wind and rain, but she did not expect that she still had to bear the pressure of no house and no tiles after crossing.

It seems that whether it is modern or the Northern Song Dynasty, the house has always been a mountain that weighs heavily on the people! Yuer thought that after winning the first prize and crossing, it was not a problem to build a small villa on any piece of land. After all, why was the ancient land not as nervous as modern times?

But when the fish really experienced the life of the Northern Song Dynasty, they knew that it was no less difficult to own a house in the Northern Song Dynasty than modern times! Even many officials in Tokyo have been renting houses to live. The salary given by the court is not to mention letting them buy a real estate in the bustling Tokyo, even renting a decent first-class house in Tokyo is not enough!

However, Yuer guessed that this small village was just a rural place in a remote country. The Fujian and Guangdong generation was also a poor and undeveloped place in the Northern Song Dynasty, not as rich as the north. Since the gap between the rich and the poor in the north and the south is so large, the land houses in southern Fujian must be much cheaper than the prosperous Tokyo.

Yuer thought that in this case, the existing 1,000 taels of silver should be more than enough to buy a piece of land to build a house in Xiaoqi Village. Although the house in Xiaoqi Village is not as good as the high-house courtyard in the city, it is better than living on the boat anyway, isn't it?

So after turning his mind, the fish boldly said, "Father and mother, I'm afraid it's a little difficult to spend all this thousand taels of silver at once. Why don't we just use this money to buy a big house in the village?"

"Buy land and build a house?"

Yu's words made Yang Dazhu and Liu subconsciously look at each other, and then a cluster of exciting fireworks rose together - "Get off the boat to buy land and build a house to take root". This has always been a dream and lifelong goal for Yang Dazhu and Liu, fishermen like their ancestors living on the boat. !

Yes, who in the world is willing to wander on the vast sea all his life?

Who doesn't want to have a place to return to the roots when he is old?

But how can people who have been drifting on the water have a root?

Yuer's proposal can be said to be in the hearts of Yang Dazhu and Liu. After letting them exchange eyes and pass each other's hearts, they said with one voice: "Okay! Let's use this money to buy a big yard so that our family can live in a spacious and bright house! Let the Yang family also become a rooted fisherman!"

The words of Yang Dazhu and his wife deeply infected the fish brothers and sisters, making them look forward and longing together, and they can't wait to live in a big house.

Since everyone has unanimously decided to use the 1,000 taels to buy land and build houses on land, the next thing is naturally to inquire about the market of land and land trading. The wisdom shown by Yuer when she went to the city to sell tofu milk has always been praised by the Yang family, so this time Liu's arduous task of "exploring the market" is still handed over to Yuer. Of course, Yang Silang, a clever ghost, will also accompany Yuer. After all, there is Yang Silang, who is full of poetry and books to compare the terrain of the city. With the familiar helper, others dare not fool and deceive the fish at will.

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The house is really a mountain that sits on the heads of the people!

After checking some information, Xiaoyun found that in Tokyo, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, in addition to local natives and rich people, many people could not afford to buy a house and could only rent a house! Alas~