Sister Hua was a little confused, and nodded as if a chicken was eating rice, "Believe, why don't you believe it?" Big brother, in fact, you are the same as the people who came to collect dried seaweed, and we are very satisfied with the price of one penny and one catty. ”

The more she spoke, the more embarrassed she became, and looked at the reef in front of her, "You see, the seaweed we dug was not planted by us, it was a gift from the sea to our children by the sea." ”

Yang Huairen was a little stunned, this eldest sister called Sister Hua looked like she was only about thirty years old, and she looked a little rough, although she was wearing a bamboo hat, her face was still tanned, and the sea breeze blew every day, and her simple facial features and face were also blown with a slight vicissitudes.

But what she said was really a bit unusual, one is that it is not like words, people pay two pennies to collect your dried seaweed, you are real, you actually said that you can do it for a penny, and you cut the price in half for yourself, is it a little unreasonable?

The second is that the literary and artistic ones are too unreasonable, comparing the seaweed to the simple people by the sea as a gift, and comparing all the fishermen who rely on the sea to eat the sea like him to the children of the sea.

Yang Huairen gave a price of two cents and a catty, in fact, he was already a little embarrassed, if it wasn't for the fear that the price would be too high to scare them, Yang Huairen was really willing to pay ten cents or even higher to buy it.

For him, if he buys hundreds or even thousands of catties of dried seaweed in a nearby fishing village, the price of two cents a pound and ten cents a pound is just a difference between a few taels of silver and dozens of taels of silver.

Think about the rich and eunuchs in the capital now eating a big meal in Suiyuan, dozens of taels of silver are very shabby, Yang Huairen spends thousands of taels of money and feels like a drizzle, how can there be a difference between a few taels and dozens of taels of accounting?

"Sister Hua, after saying that I will charge two pennies a catty, the price will be set, you don't have to be embarrassed, I will make more money after I take it back and resell it."

Several other little daughters-in-law and little ladies also felt that Yang Huairen was a rich man at first glance, and people were willing to pay this price, so they didn't have to meet with others too much, so they persuaded the "eldest sister" Sister Hua to accept Yang Huairen's proposal.

Sister Hua smiled innocently, "Okay, I'll take you back to the village to harvest dried seaweed." ”

Everyone surrounded Yang Huairen and Sister Ghost, the two rich people, and returned to the village, Brother Hei Niu, they didn't know the situation yet, they only knew that Yang Huairen had found something delicious and wanted to buy it from the fisherman's house, so they also followed the team with great interest to a fishing village not far away.

The fishing village is not large, and a flat ground has been reclaimed in the small forest by the sea, and more than a dozen wooden houses on stilts have been built, which is roughly a dozen families, and less than a hundred fishermen live here.

Sister Ghost's personal little girl was resting in the shade outside a house at the entrance of the village, and when she saw Sister Ghost coming to the village, she happily greeted her.

When Sister Hua saw that they were together, she was more relieved, and she stood at the entrance of the village and shouted at the top of her throat, "Everyone is out, take out all the dry goods stored at home, and the good people who collect the dry goods are here!" ”

This voice can startle Yang Huairen, this will be put in the future generations, and it is enough to sing soprano.

Sister Hua shouted like this, and the originally leisurely and peaceful village suddenly came alive, and the old people and children walked out of the house one after another, and saw that Sister Hua really brought back a living person who looked like a merchant, and turned around and carried all kinds of sacks out of the house.

It turned out that the family at the entrance of the village was Sister Hua's family, don't look at Sister Hua's age in the village, but she is of high seniority.

An old man who looked to be more than fifty years old and dragged three or four sacks on his shoulders and walked over, and the little lady who had just taught Sister Hua to identify the authenticity of the silver hurriedly stepped forward to follow the old man and called out to her father-in-law, but when the old man saw Sister Hua, he respectfully shouted "Auntie".

Sister Hua was a little embarrassed, and said to the old man, "Oh, sixth, don't call me that in front of outsiders, they all call me old, hehe......"

Only then did Yang Huairen understand that just now Sister Hua and those little sisters in the village, it was because of their closeness that they did not call each other according to their generation, and on formal occasions or in front of the old people in the village, Sister Hua naturally became an aunt and grandmother.

When the people in the whole village who didn't go out to sea to fish almost gathered in front of Sister Hua's house, Sister Hua stood on a high place and loudly told everyone about someone paying two pennies and a pound to buy dried seaweed.

The villagers cheered for a while, and then chattered, "No one has come to collect it for more than a year, so I'm afraid that these dry goods will not be stored well, and they will be ruined if they are accidentally damp." ”

Yang Huairen now understands why Sister Hua said that even if it is the price of a penny and a catty, she can accept it, the businessmen who usually buy the dried seaweed in the fishermen's homes only come once a year, and sometimes it takes longer to buy, so the fishermen's small business of making change is not so easy to do.

Sister Hua then instructed a few little ladies to roll their straw mats out of the house and spread them on the flat ground in front of the house, and then asked the villagers to pour their dry goods onto the straw mats from door to door, and then weigh them one by one.

It is said to be a scale, but it is actually a self-made scale-like earth scale, a wooden bracket, a hemp rope tied to the wooden beam in the middle, a hard bamboo in the middle, and two rattan dustpans are hung under the two ends of the bamboo.

Sister Hua carefully adjusted the position of the rope tied to the bamboo stick, and only after the two ends could maintain balance did she show a satisfied smile.

Two hanging dustpans, one is used to hold dried seaweed, and the other is used to hold stones, those stones are common stones on the ordinary seaside, and the surface is very smooth by the seawater, but Yang Huairen found that these stones have been cut, and they should be cut to a certain weight and used as weights.

Seeing Yang Huairen watching them busy watching with relish, Sister Hua also explained with a smile, "This shopkeeper Yang, although our scales are rougher, they are very accurate, and I promise that there will only be more and not less, you can rest assured." ”

Yang Huairen hurriedly said "oh", "Sister Hua is very real, I am absolutely relieved." ”

Sister Hua showed a simple smile again, and then went to command the others to line up to weigh one by one.

The "big nephew" old man at the head of the row first poured his family's sacks on the straw mat, and Sister Hua did not rush to put these dry goods on the scales to weigh, but beckoned everyone to spread the old man's dry goods on the straw mat and carefully picked them up.

Only then did Yang Huairen discover that the fishermen did not store several kinds of dried seaweed in a separate manner, but many kinds of dried seaweed stored together.

For example, in the old man's sack, it is mainly dried seaweed, as well as dried kelp, dried shrimp and scallop meat, and even some dried abalone......