Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 23 Mat Grass
It was not yet clear, and there was already a slight movement at the wild pier.

Lu Xiaoli was the first to get up in the Lu family. When she woke up, everyone was still sound asleep.

Lu Xiaoli stepped onto the bow of the boat lightly, carried the stove to the front of the shed, and lit the fire to boil water.

After a while, my mother got up to cook, and the hot water just happened to be boiled.

The Lu family's fishing boat is not too big, with an inner cabin divided into front and back, and the four siblings sleep in the rear cabin.

When the gangway is removed at night, it is not easy for others to get on the boat.

What's more, the boats here are next to each other, and there is a little wind and grass, which can be heard from the boat next door.

Lu Quan and his wife took Xiao Wu to sleep in the shack on the shore, and they would only squeeze together on the boat when it was windy and rainy.

The back cabin was originally small and not big, but now, after picking up Xiaosi, the four siblings sleep together, and when they sleep at night, they only feel that there are legs everywhere under the quilt.

In this way, the place where they sleep is much better than the room where parents sleep.

The room where the Lu family slept was more like a shack than a house.

Use old wooden planks and sticks to make a wall, surrounded by a circle of reed mats, put up wild grass and touch mud, it is considered a wall.The roof is even simpler, using sticks to build a herringbone shape, spreading reed mats, and then pressing dried thatch, compacting layer by layer.

Speaking of a house, it can barely shelter from the wind and rain.

It is said to be reluctant, and it is indeed very reluctant.

The shack is low, built with chopped sticks and woven reed mats, covered with yellow mud, and covered with unkempt weeds.

Even these huts are not built just as they like. They need to chop sticks, weave reed mats, and gather wild grass.

Everyone wanted to settle down on the shore, but despite all their efforts over the years, none of these families could settle down on the shore.

Everyone can only rely on their daily savings and piece together a shack on the shore, which can be regarded as a fixed nest that can shelter from the wind and rain and can stay.

Just like this nest, they were allowed to build it only after spending money to buy land.

It doesn't cost money, and they don't even have a place to build a nest.

The sky turned slightly pale, and Lu Xiaoli, who had washed himself clean, lifted the curtain and entered the cabin with the cool breeze outside.

Lu Xiaoqing turned over and sat up, leaned over and glanced at the sky outside the cabin: "So, early?"

"It's late, I saw just now that the Li family's boats have all left." Lu Xiaoli said as he lifted the quilt off Lu Xiaoyu's body, "I haven't gotten up yet, Li Guanguan must have gone to pick reed leaves. If you don’t go there, you won’t be able to pick reed leaves and sell them for money.”

Yesterday, he sold reed leaves to buy meat for a penny, and ate pig intestines at night. Lu Xiaoli was so excited that he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.

She made a plan, the four brothers and sisters would get up earlier and pick a few more handfuls. It is not impossible to say that they cannot be sold for a hundred coins.

Xiao Si disagreed, he said that it would definitely not be easy to sell today.

Lu Xiaoli doesn't believe it, why is it not easy to sell?

There is still one day before the Dragon Boat Festival, so it should be better to sell.

Both Lu Xiaoyu and Lu Yange were woken up by Lu Xiaoli, and they washed their faces and brushed their teeth sleepily.Lu Xiaoqing and Lu Xiaoli supported the boat and left the river.

There is no fisherman's child who knows how to punting.

Since Xiaosi of the Lu family came home, Lu Quan specially asked the steward of the dock to carry the bag so that Xiaosi could eat rice porridge.

Carrying bags may not make more money than fishing, but it is more stable than fishing. As long as the dock manager is not embarrassed, at least you can see copper coins every day.

The money the Lu family had saved over the years was spent by Lu Xiaosi on medicine and porridge in just half a month.

Lu Quan does not fish, and Qiu has to take care of Xiao Wu.The Lu family's boat is in the hands of the two sisters, Xiaoqing and Xiaoli.

As the sun rose, the brothers and sisters of the Lu family picked zong leaves and went to the dock market.

At this time, the market is full of zong leaves.

Not only did the aunt who sold vegetables next door picked a big basket full of zong leaves, but even the children of three of the seven families on the same wharf picked zong leaves for sale.

Jiangba Town is not small, but it is not too big, because there is a wharf, and there are many merchants traveling from south to north.

As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, most people will choose to spend the festival at home, and the number of boats on the pier is more than half that of the past.

There are fewer people and more zong leaves. At first, some people called for two handfuls for one penny, and five handfuls for two pennies. Now some people sell three handfuls for one penny.

There are reed leaves on the river beach, and you can go there if you have a boat. If you don’t have a boat, the smaller reed leaves by the river beach are not unusable.

No matter how good the zong leaves of the Lu family's four brothers are, they are just zong leaves by the river beach, and they are not the only ones in Jiangba who have boats.

Yesterday his family picked reed leaves to sell meat and bones, and everyone saw it.

Who can not be moved.

Lu Xiaoli looked at the basket full of zong leaves in front of him, and he hadn't sold a bundle in half a day, so he almost cried out.

Just because she wanted to pick more zong leaves, she pulled the elder sister, Xiao Yu and Xiao Si up before dawn.Just because she wanted to pick more zong leaves to earn money, but Xiaosi wanted to cut the mat grass, the siblings almost quarreled because of their differences of opinion.

In the end, it was the eldest sister who made the decision. She and the eldest sister picked zong leaves, while Xiao Yu and Xiao Si went to cut the mat grass.

Because there were only two baskets at home, Xiao Si took a bamboo basket to cut the mat grass, and she blamed Xiao Si at that time.

Because one less basket means less zong leaves to sell.

Now, the zong leaves in front of him are still full of zong leaves, but Xiaosi and the others have sold half of their mats.

She is so stupid, how could she have forgotten that the zong leaves need to be matted.

Mat grass is tough and elastic. It is called mat grass because it can be used to weave mats. It is also cut to bind rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Even if you can't sell it, it's not impossible to take it back to make mats for your father.

"Little Four,"

As the eldest sister, Lu Xiaoqing couldn't bear to see Lu Xiaoli looking like she was about to cry, and moved to Lu Yange's side: "I can't finish it, what should I do?"

If you can't sell it, isn't it a waste of hard work?

They are not afraid of hard work, but they just think about the fact that they sold more than 60 articles yesterday, and no one cares about them today. This feeling of loss is really uncomfortable.

"Who told you not to listen to Xiaosi."

Lu Xiaoyu pouted angrily: "Xiao Si asked you to cut the mat grass, but the second sister refused to listen and even quarreled with Xiao Si. If it can't be sold now, it won't be sold. We can't go home and do it ourselves."

In fact, it is not impossible to pack it yourself, but their family is poor.

How can I have money to buy glutinous rice dumplings!
Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, my mother just wrapped a few fake zongzi with reed leaves, and then cooked a chicken for each of the three sisters, which was already the best.

"It's what you sell."

Lu Yange took a straw mat and held it in his mouth, with an indifferent expression on his face: "If we can't sell them all, we will buy glutinous rice and go back and wrap it ourselves."

Pack it yourself, how can there be glutinous rice?

Lu Xiaoli opened his mouth to retort, but under Xiaoyu's fierce gaze, he held back again.

It's because she didn't listen to Xiao Si's words, now mat grass is easy to sell, but no one wants the zong leaves, what right does she have to choke with Xiao Si.

That's right, I feel uncomfortable.

I want to cry.

(End of this chapter)