Little wealth

The morning sun shines on the pier, where many large and small boats are moored. There are merchant ships passing by Anyang County stopping here to replenish and deliver goods, and fishing boats returning from fishing in the morning are moored here. Fishermen They put the fish they catch back here on the pier for sale.

There are ships parked at the pier loading goods, and there are shirtless men carrying the goods onto the ship, and there are some men who have not received work waiting for work.

Generally, when the fishing boats just come back in the morning, the wharf is the busiest and most crowded. After that, there are a lot fewer people here.

But they came a little late, the big fish and shrimp were picked away by the stewards who opened restaurants and restaurants in the town early in the morning, and the rest were small fish and shrimp that were picked by others, and they didn’t look good. excellent.

"Sell fish, my husband, let's see if there is anything he likes, sell it cheap." The fish vendors shouted.

"How do you sell this fish?" After walking through several stalls, Josh seemed a little satisfied with the fish at this stall. After asking the price, the price was really cheap, almost like picking it up for nothing, so he squatted down. Come down to pick fish, "Then come a few."

"Little husband chooses whatever he wants." The fish seller threw a basket over.

Josh put the picked fish on the basket. The leftover fish on the stall were not very big, the big ones were only three fingers wide, the small ones were less than two fingers wide, and the remaining ones were only one finger wide. bigger.

Zhao Amu also squatted down to help pick the fish. Seeing that he had picked a few fish, he felt that it was all right, so he said, "Let's just buy a few, we don't need to buy so many."

"It's okay, let's buy a few more. If you can't finish eating, you can dry it and eat slowly." Josh is not worried that there will be too much to eat. It is not easy for them to go to town, and they don't come here every day. , since we are here, let’s buy more and go back and eat slowly.

"If we can't finish a meal, we can put some salt on the leftovers, put them in the yard to dry, and dry them into dried fish and eat them slowly. You can fry them, stir-fry them, or steam them."

After hearing this, Zhao Amu also felt that it made sense, and looked around to see if there were any good ones, thinking of buying more to go back.

There is a row of willow trees beside the river. In summer, the willow trees have lush branches and leaves, and the long willow leaves hang down into the river.

Zhao He waited for someone under the willow tree with his children, and there were two wooden carts beside him.

The little baby who was held in the arms of the man was Yuxue cute, not afraid of people at all, and smiled at the strangers passing by, and the passing women often glanced at the child.

Seeing that his brother was looking at things here, Zhao Hu ran to help his brother Mo and Ah Mu pick fish, but he couldn't even tell the good from the bad, even the bad ones were taken out, and soon they were caught. Disliked by his mother.

They didn't bring their own barrels, so they had to buy another wooden barrel from the fish vendor, and put all the fish they bought into the wooden barrel.There are fish in the wooden barrel, so that the fish can live longer, and you don’t have to worry about all the dead and smelly fish when you get home.

Seeing that the purchase was almost done, Josh didn't plan to buy any more, and ordered his uncle to help move the fish.

"Brother Ah Mu, have you finished shopping? Shall we continue to buy something else?" Zhao Hu moved the wooden bucket to the wooden cart he was pulling, turned his head to look left and right, and helped his brother How to find something to buy.

"No, let's go and look elsewhere." Josh's not buying means not buying here, not not buying anything.

As soon as their son saw him coming back, he wanted to climb into his arms and hug him.

I picked fish just now, and after washing my hands, there was still a fishy smell. Seeing that his son was coming towards him, Josh passed his hand to his son to smell it, "Smell it, doesn't it stink?"

"Oh~" Xiaowaer's small face was wrinkled into a bun, her brows were tightly frowned, and she immediately turned her head, burying her face in the arms of her father who was holding him, as if hiding her little face like this It won't smell bad.

"..." Josh, who was disgusted by his son's strength, looked terribly sad.

Well, his stinky hands are a fact, if his son dislikes it, let him dislike it, he still accepts this fact, "Okay, you stay honestly with your father, don't come to my place."

Xiao Wa'er turned to look at him, as if she was afraid that he would get angry, her little face seemed to be hesitating whether to let him hug her or not.Josh was about to be hurt internally by his son's hesitant and pitiful appearance, and said to the man holding the child: "You put him in the car, let's go."

Zhao He put his son on the wooden cart, pulled up the wooden cart and prepared to leave.

"Yeah?" The little baby who was put on the wooden cart turned his head and looked back at him, Josh waved his hands hurriedly, let the child sit down, and said, "Sit down honestly, don't fall off, it will hurt It hurts, are you afraid?"

"Em~"

"...You sit down, I won't go up." But seeing the kid smiling like this, he wasn't afraid.

"Sit down, let's stop making trouble, if you are not honest, I will eat fried shredded pork with bamboo shoots tonight!"

Seeing the child moving around in the car, Josh stretched out his hand and pulled the child by the back collar, pulling him back, and he followed beside the car, so that even if the child crawled out mischievously, he could get him back in time. Pulled.

While keeping an eye on the child's movements, he raised his head and asked Eminem who was following on the other side of the car: "Eminem, didn't you say that you want to go to the husband to check the date? Let's go to the husband to check the date first. We are here. Where can I find Mr.

"On the way we came in, I seemed to see him there just now, let's go back and look for him." On the way in just now, Zhao Amu had already noticed that the fortune teller was there, "Wait After looking forward to the future, we still need to find someone to order tiles." He calculated the things he wanted to buy in his mind, except for the blue bricks and tiles to build the house, and the things that the youngest son will use when he gets married. .

"Oh, okay, let's check the date first and then deal with the rest." Josh thought about it in his mind, and probably remembered that there was such a person who set up a stall to tell fortunes.

Thinking that they were going to build a house, I asked, "Should we hire someone to build a house?"

"Well, yes, there are people in our village who know how to build houses for others, and then we can go back to the village and find someone." Only then did Zhao Amu remember that they still need to ask people to help build houses. It costs money, and he doesn't know if the little money they just earned is enough to spend, and he starts to feel a little worried.

"Oh, then go back to the village and look for it when the time comes, find a few more people, and build the house quickly." Josh didn't know these things very well, anyway, the money was in his hands, so he was responsible for the money That's it.

Just passing by a tea stall, Josh turned his head and said to the man pulling the cart and his son, "Why don't you wait for us here, let's go to that gentleman and see the day before we come to you." A fortune teller doesn't need to go with the whole family to see the date, and they also bring two carts to and fro on the road, which is not very convenient.

"After watching the day, we will come back here to buy things. You can drink water here and wait for us. We will come back to you after finishing our work."

"Xiaohu will go with you, I will wait here with Niannian." Zhao He turned his head and glanced at his younger brother.

Zhao Hu realized that his brother was asking him to follow them to protect them, and he immediately said with a smile on his face: "Mum, brother, let me go with you. I can help you with what you want to buy later. You have something, don't you?"

"That's all right, let's go together, let's go quickly." Josh said to their son, "You obediently follow Daddy here, we will go back when we go, do you know obediently?" Seeing their son With a smile on his face, he left in peace.

"ah?"

It wasn't until the departing adults could no longer see that the little boy realized that he had been left behind, his mouth shrunk, his jaw twitched, and his eyes turned red instantly.

"Don't cry, your mother will be back soon." Zhao He picked up his son who was sitting on the cart, went into the tea stall, found a seat with his son, and ordered a bowl of wonton.

Until the hot wontons were served, the little baby hadn't come out of the sadness of Ah Mu's abandonment of him, crying and eating wontons, sobbing, looking very pitiful.

Some people around looked suspiciously at the man holding the baby, and they began to wonder if the man had cast the baby somewhere.

Facing the gazes around him, Zhao He hugged his crying son, raised his head, responded to those gazes without shyness, and hugged the son in his arms tighter, as if telling others that this was his son. dear son.

The little boy who was held in his father's arms didn't know that others had misunderstood his father. He had a mouthful of food in his mouth, and kept looking out because he didn't see anyone he wanted to see, and his little mouth was deflated again. , Eye sockets reddened twice again.

The look in everyone's eyes: You said you didn't steal someone else's son, so you're all crying! ~

Carpenter Zhao: ...

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However, Josh and his party, who had gone far away, didn't know that his son was crying. They had already reached the stall of the fortune teller.

It's not hard to find a fortune teller's stall. From a distance, you can see a canvas with bamboo poles erected, with the words "Ri Ban Xian" written on it.

This half-immortal gentleman is a blind man, wearing a white robe that has been washed white. He is tall and thin, and his complexion looks a little pale. He doesn't have a goatee like other fortune tellers. His His face was fair and clean, and he couldn't tell from his appearance that he was a fortune teller.

But this Mr. Banxian is a well-known fortune teller on this street. Many people in Anyang Town and the village below come to him for fortune telling and horoscope reading.

Sensing someone standing in front of his stall, the fortune teller's eyes moved, he looked at the person, and asked, "Would you like to tell fortunes, test horoscopes, or check the date?"