Fight the Giants

  Chapter 214 The long-lost taste

   Finally reached an agreement, Huo Xi took 30%.

   All the spices of Nok are rounded, including pepper, cloves, and Piper striata, as well as ambergris, benzoin, and agarwood.

  In the end, the carts hired by Huo Erhuai and Yang couldn't fit, so they rushed to hire several more.

   "Tell me, the little liar smiled just now, did he squeeze it out?" Mu Yan put her hands behind her back, watching Huo Xi and others push the cart away.

   "Master, aren't you being too ruthless? If we don't do anything, it will cost 70%? We don't have much money now." Kan Er couldn't bear to see Huo Xi faltering while pushing the cart.

   "Do you think you have too much money? Don't claim that month's money."

   "Don't, young master!" Kan Er was terrified, and hurried to pull Mu Yan's sleeve, but Mu Yan brushed it away in disgust.

   "Master, my good master!"

Kan Er smiled apologetically around him: "What I mean is, we swallowed up a lot of the Jun family's properties in the southwest, and now we are not as short of money as before. It's not easy to be a lady Huo, and I don't have all the wealth you have today." Bring a lot of banknotes."

   "There are so many people in the southwest, and they all reach out to me for money. I support so many people, how easy is it for me?" Mu Yan glared at him.

  Kan is poor in words, so he can't help but look at Li Yi.

   Li Yi ignored him and turned his eyes away.

"Young Master, please be reasonable. Mrs. Huo has a lot of people to support, and there is also Shangyong. She just sent a thousand taels of silver to her not long ago. She is afraid that people will find out and secretly say what kind of aunt it is. Mother-in-law, you take 70%..."

   Seeing the young master staring at him, he quickly swallowed his words and rubbed his nose embarrassingly.

"In the future, if there is any news, let her know. Now the government is lifting the sea ban, wanting to develop sea trade, and talking about building the city of Beiping. There is endless debate. When the news is confirmed in a few days, tell her something." Mu Yan said something lightly.

   "Okay. Mrs. Huo is always one step ahead of the business opportunities that others can't see." Kan Er was very happy, so he said that the young master is soft-hearted.

   "Master, why did His Majesty build Beiping City? Could it be that everyone's speculation is true, that His Majesty really wants to move the capital?" Li Yi frowned.

   "It's so easy to move? How much is involved in this?" Mu Yan's eyes were cold.

"The generals objected one wave after another. If the capital is set in the north, there will be a flat plain. Tatar, Wala, and Wulianghana are all ethnic groups on horseback. The Wu Dynasty ruled the Han people for a hundred years. Isn't it a lesson? As for the civil servants, The aristocratic family has a lot of entanglements. I am used to living in the south, but can I get used to going to the north? And there are disputes."

   On Huo Xi's side, Huo Erhuai, Yang and others pushed a dozen or so carts back to the berth of their own ship, and loaded the goods onto the ship.

  Guangfengshui's guys who came with the boat all came up to carry the goods.

   Before the things were finished, Yang Fu and Huo Erhuai followed the staff to transport the remaining goods with the car.

   On her own boat, Mrs. Yang is also sorting out the things she bought.

   It’s rare to come here, and I bought a lot of things for myself, except for the dozens of coconuts, box decorations, food, and fabrics.

  Mr. Yang liked those mirrors very much, and bought several of them, saying that he would use them for himself and keep them as gifts.

  The mirror is a glass mirror of lower quality. Although it is not as good as the quality that Huo Xi has seen, it is much better than the bronze mirrors and glazed mirrors of this dynasty.

  Huo Xi also bought some, and planned to sell them at the shop in Sanyuan Alley.

  Mr. Yang was yarding things, Huo Nian came up to him to help out, and looked at the strange things by the way, while Huo Xi set up the ledger to keep accounts.

  I bought a lot of things, I saved boxes of decorations, hand towels and sent them to Sanyuan Lane as high-quality goods for sale. Rattan and palm bamboo are sent to the shipyard.

The silk in the cloth is sent to Sanyuan Lane, green cloth, floral cloth, Zhubu, burlap, fur, etc., a small half of which are sent to shops in the outer city, and the rest are sent to shops in the north, or sent to Tianjin Port and Hebei Province along with spices. Peking City.

  Kingfish feathers are sent to Qionghua Lane for processing by female workers before selling.

   There are still a few barrels of Suhe sesame oil from the Dashi Kingdom. At that time, I will find exquisite porcelain bottles and disassemble them and sell them in twos and twos.

  With Mr. Mu's 10,000 taels of silver, I bought a lot of spices, so I didn't put them in the capital to compete with big merchants, and shipped them all to the north.

  Huo Xi was thinking about it in his mind while writing it down.

   "Sister, sister..."

   Pi Xiaozi came to shake her: "Sister, what are those strange things? You told the Mu family brothers that they were the fruits of Fan people, but Nian'er saw that they were all thick-skinned."

  Huo Xi poked him with a smile, Pi Xiaozi, after a while, he couldn't hold back anymore.

   "Go to the bow and get the woodcutter, and a big bowl of water."

   "Good!" Dendenden ran away.

   After a while, he ran back again: "Sister, here it is."

  Huo Xi took the knife, brought a coconut, sat on the deck, held the coconut halfway in one hand, and held a hatchet in the other, and chopped it on the coconut coat.

   "Mother, mother, mother!"

  Mr. Yang stepped out of the cabin with concern, and snatched the knife in her hand: "This hatchet is sharp. Tell your mother what to do."

Huo Xi directed her to put the coconut on the deck, and asked her to half hold the coconut in one hand, and split the coconut with a knife in the other hand, and then inserted the knife into the gap, with the tip of the knife pointing outwards. With the other hand, I half-hold the coconut and turn it in...

  The gray-brown coconut coat is separated from the coconut shell.

  The brown coconut velvet is still attached to the coconut shell and coconut shell, and it comes off with a light hand. Cut off the coconut velvet, and only the round coconut shell is left.

   Then, from the three coconut eyes on the head, split a small piece of coconut shell with a knife, and you will see the coconut meat. Open the small piece of coconut meat with the tip of the knife, and the coconut water will spray out.

   "Nian'er bring the bowl."

  Nian'er heard it, stretched out the bowl, squatted down, and stared intently.

  Seeing that my sister picked up the coconut upside down, and the water flowed into the big bowl, she cried out, "Wow, there's water!" and licked her lips.

  Huo Xi was afraid that the water would deteriorate if left for a long time, so he picked it up and took a sip.

sweet! Sweet in the throat!

   Just like the taste in memory. Long ago almost forgotten.

   "Sister, what does it taste like?" Pi Xiaozi licked his lips and approached.

  Huo Xi smiled and fed it to him. Pi Xiaozi gulped down several mouthfuls and let out a contented ah.

   "It's so sweet, it's so delicious! Mother drink!" She took it to feed Yang Shi, but Yang Shi took a few sips of it, and she was full of praise.

"It's no wonder that people have to take them all the way on the boat. If there is no water on the way, what kind of coconuts can be used as water. However, this is only used as water. Let's buy it and eat it as a surprise. You still need to spend money Buy that much."

   Wrapped the coconuts of Fanren, dozens of them.

  Huo Xi smiled: "Mother, there are many ways to eat this coconut."

   "Sister, sister, I want to eat."

Huo Xi directed Yang to hold the emptied coconut in the palm of his hand, and tapped it lightly in the middle with the back of the knife. After counting, the coconut cracked from the middle. The upper and lower halves.

  The thick milky white coconut meat inside is exposed.

  Ms. Yang scratched a piece of coconut meat with the tip of the knife, and Piboy couldn't wait to pick it up, put it in his mouth and bit it, and looked at Huo Xi: "Sister, it's a little hard."

   "Chew slowly, eat it after chewing, isn't it sweet?"

   Pi Xiaozi nodded and gave his mother a mouthful, and his sister also gave a mouthful.

  Huo Xi smiled: "This meat is old, it is a bit hard to eat like this. Squeeze it into juice and grind it into juice, or grate it into shreds, and make it into shredded coconut. It can be used as stuffing for buns and dim sum. It is also delicious."

   "Sister, Nian'er wants to eat!"

   "Okay, let's eat when my sister goes to the blacksmith's shop to get some shredding tools. Tomorrow, I'll buy a chicken and cook something delicious for you."

   After hearing this, Piboy looked at the dozens of coconuts with anticipation.

  (end of this chapter)