Late Ming sea owl

Chapter 2 Flower Boat Water Chicken
Just as Lin Hai was thinking wildly, a gentle saltwater song came, disrupting his thoughts.

Shi Zhuniang's voice sounded next to her: "Aunt Chunhua, how has business been lately?"

"Is she Zhu Niang?" The saltwater song suddenly stopped, and a woman's voice came from afar.

Lin Hai followed the sound and looked towards the bow of the ship, only to see a brightly lit six-canopy flower boat approaching.The flower boat has a high head and a big belly, as open as a pavilion. The six cabins at the front and rear are all decorated with red railings and embroidered curtains.

The flower boat gradually approached, and the salty sea breeze was filled with the fragrance of powder. Then the bead curtain of the bow tent moved, and a woman with heavy makeup walked out with beaded flowers in her hair and a fragrant handkerchief in her hand.

"Zhu Niang, I've never met him before. How is your father's health?" The woman's face was pink and she had a rather colorful smile. She must be the Aunt Chunhua that Zhu Niang said.

"It's still the same. I can't go into the sea, so I can only row a boat." Zhu Niang said and nuzzled at the old man paddling on the boat. That was her biological father, Qizai's grandfather, whose name was Shi Wusi.

Among the three people in the Shi family, Zhu Niang and Qizai, the aunt and nephew, were both talkative, but Shi Wusi was the only one who was boring and didn't even say a few words to Lin Hai all day long.

When Shi Wusi heard Aunt Chunhua mention him, he smiled and nodded as a greeting.

Aunt Chunhua knew his temper and didn't talk to him. Then she smiled at Pearl Mother and said, "I tell you, with your pretty appearance, why are you fishing for pearls? Why don't you go to my aunt's boat to make a living? The reddest water in the Pearl River Estuary is I'll give you a chicken as well."

When Zhu Niang heard this, she spat lightly and laughed and scolded: "What the hell, I'll starve to death and I won't even eat this bowl of rice!"

Aunt Chunhua didn't think she was dissatisfied, she covered her mouth and said with a smile: "Who is that handsome guy next to you? Is he the guest brother you asked for?"

"You chewing tongue old godly woman, let me see if I don't poke your mouth to pieces." Shi Zhuniang quickly came to the bow of the boat, snatched the bamboo pennant from Qizai's hand, and pretended to poke it at Aunt Chunhua's face. It's just that the two boats are still far away, and the pennies are not long enough.

Shi Zhuniang made two gestures, put down her pennies and said, "This man's name is Lin Hai. He was rescued by me from a shipwreck. He was originally from a wealthy family. He could write and calculate, but now he is down and out."

As she spoke, she turned to Lin Hai behind her and said: "Brother Lin, your destiny is here. Just now, you said you were going to Haojing to find a living, and now you have bumped into Aunt Chunhua. Her son-in-law is from Folangji, and he is also from Haojing. She is a powerful person, please greet her as soon as possible and say a few nice words to her."

Only then did Lin Hai understand that Shi Zhuniang's so-called access to Hao Jing was the woman in front of him. He never expected that the madam had a Portuguese son-in-law.

Thinking that Zheng Zhilong's uncle was in Haojing, Lin Hai quickly said with a smile on his face: "Hello Sister Chunhua, Xiao Ke is a businessman, and he can do all the work in the accounting office. If Sister Chunhua can help find a living, she will be able to make a living after she succeeds. Thank you very much!"

Aunt Chunhua became happy when she heard the word "sister": "Who is your sister? How old are you?"

This woman looks about 36 years old. Could it be that she has too much makeup to tell her age?Lin Hai smiled without changing his expression: "Xiao Ke is twenty-five this year, should I call you sister?"

Aunt Chunhua covered her chest and chuckled: "Looking at you, you must be in your early twenties at most? Younger young people have learned to be sweet and talkative. I already have a grandson in my arms, so being your mother is more than enough."

Early twenties?Lin Hai was a little surprised. In order to make the madam happy, he deliberately lowered his age.However, he quickly realized that modern people generally take good care of themselves, which makes them look younger in the eyes of the ancients.

He didn't bother to explain. He slapped his thigh exaggeratedly and sighed: "Oh! Has Aunt Ya already given birth to her grandson? She looks too young!"

Aunt Chunhua was very happy when she heard this: "If you don't care about Mother Zhu's face, I will give you a honey-smeared mouth, and I will accept your matter." Lin Hai climbed up the pole: "Thank you Aunt Ya, since it's so bad Given your seniority, then I accept you as my concubine?"

The young man rocking the oar on the flower boat was happy when he heard this, and joked: "Sister Zhu Niang, your guest brother has accepted my mother as my mother-in-law. Isn't that the boss of my family? From now on, I will change my name to you Ya." Sister-in-law."

Shi Zhuniang pretended to be flirtatious and hit her with a bamboo pen: "You slut with a bird in your mouth, just pick up your mouth."

"Sister-in-law, don't beat me. It hurts me. Sooner or later, I'll bring the boss to play on the boat. Let's see if you can eat it." The young man dodged the pennant with a playful smile, rocked the oar vigorously, and the two boats Passed by.

"Uncle Ya, take me to play! Take me to play!" Qizai shouted at the young man's back.

The young man was too lazy to pay attention to this little brat, but beside him there was a young prostitute who was in her prime, scratching her nose and smiling: "Shameless, has your hair grown all the way, Little Boy?"

"Not yet." Qizai told the truth, and then asked curiously, "Sister, have you grown up yet?"

"She just grew full-grown last year." The boy rocking the oar turned back and smiled at Qizai, "Would you like Uncle Ya to pick up two of them and give them to you?"

The little prostitute blushed and stretched out her hand to scratch the young man's face. The young man laughed and dodged: "What an iron rooster. He can't pull off a single hair."

Qizai said seriously: "She is a strong hen."

Shi Zhuniang gave Qizai a slap in the face, pointed at the laughing young man and said to Lin Hai: "That's the devil incarnation of Aunt Chunhua's family, his name is Zheng Xiaobao."

Lin Hai nodded and smiled: "This name is interesting. He is indeed the son of Aunt Chunhua. By the way, you just said that Aunt Chunhua's son-in-law is Fo Langji. So, does Zheng Xiaobao have a sister above him?"

"Exactly, his sister's name is He Xiang. Aunt Chunhua was originally from the water chicken business. About eight or nine years ago, Sister He Xiang also boarded the flower boat. Fortunately, that night she met a wealthy ghost man. . The ghost guy redeemed Sister Hexiang's body and gave Aunt Chunhua a large sum of money. Because of this opportunity, she bought this flower boat and started working as a madam."

Zhu Niang couldn't hold back her chatterbox as soon as she opened it: "Well, speaking of it, Aunt Chunhua also came from a poor family. When she was young, she and my grandmother went fishing for pearls, and our family soaked in the sea. Until the year I was born, she and I were together. When I encountered a big fish underwater, my mother died, but Aunt Chunhua saved her life."

"From then on, she never dared to go into the water, so she had no choice but to do the water chicken business. She was also good at telling fortunes. How many girls from our Dan family entered this industry, but they either contracted leprosy, or they lost their livelihood because of old age and sex. …”

The boat continued to move forward, and met several familiar villagers along the way. Some were returning from fishing, and some were selling aquatic products. They exchanged some items, or joked a few words. Everyone talked in village dialect and made random remarks. It is a series of stories that are as playful and spicy as Ming and Qing novels.

Lin Hai is also a good talker, making jokes from time to time.Gradually, he felt that he was beginning to integrate into this era.

Not long after, the boat sailed into an inland river. Shi Zhuniang held a bamboo pen at the stern of the boat and turned back to Lin Hai and said: "This is the Luohu River, and my family lives in front."

"Luohu River..." Lin Hai felt that the name of the river was familiar. After thinking for a long time, he remembered that someone just told him that the ancient name of the Shenzhen River was Luohu River.

It turns out that this is Shenzhen in the Ming Dynasty, so the other side of the river is Hong Kong.

Lin Hai admired the scenery along the way with great interest. He saw vast smoke and water, dots of fishing villages, sparse thatched cottages and huts, wild bamboos and wild trees, and from time to time, smoke curled up in the dusk. Everything was original and ecological. In the pastoral scenery, is there any trace of the reinforced concrete forest of later generations?
(End of this chapter)