Chapter 12: Gypsy at Sea
"It's windy at sea, don't catch a cold, go change into my dry clothes." Looking at Bo Zhu's warm eyes, Hong Tao could only cater to him. Taking off her clothes and letting her go to the stern to change into them is the most appropriate way to express and thank her. Without this outspoken girl who dares to love and hate, I am afraid that I will not be able to gain a foothold in these Tan family groups so quickly. As for whether to marry her in the future, Hong Tao doesn't plan to resist, resistance is also futile, if you want to develop, you must have help, and these Tan families are his only help. In order to develop in the future, many people can marry an old lady and marry a yellow flower girl, no loss!
"Good boy, with this cage, you will be able to marry a daughter-in-law soon!" Huang Hai didn't look at the first acquaintance of Hong Tao, but he is a warm-hearted person, and he has always been supportive of Hong Tao's innovative moves, and at this time, these hundreds of catties of fish, shrimp and crabs also proved his own vision, so he smiled very happily.
"It's not mine, the net belongs to everyone, the fish and shrimp are also everyone's, let's go back and divide it, Azhu, open the boat!" Hong Tao is not modest, but he is not proud, how to use the interests to tie others to his side for his own use, he has practiced for two lifetimes, and he has a lot of experience. Give others a hope at the right time, and you can gain trust. Trust this thing usually seems useless, but at critical moments it is more valuable than gold, and money can't buy it, so you must deliberately accumulate it at ordinary times.
"Grandpa, brother, let's sail!" Bo Zhu hid behind the broken sail, changed out of wet clothes on his back, wore Hong Tao's man's shirt, pulled the wooden oar loosely, and shook it very vigorously. The power of the spirit is infinite, and this small boat is in the lead, and even her brother can't catch up with her. Of course, Hong Tao's sail is also very good, and in a downwind situation, he can make the most of this rag.
On the second day of the Great Song Dynasty, Hong Tao found his own home and won the recognition of the people of this era, which made Hong Tao very happy. Regardless of whether there are many people who identify with themselves, at least it shows that their life skills and skills in interacting with others have grown again, and they have not crossed these three times in vain, and they have improved each time. More than 100 catties of fish, distributed to the hands of the three families, there is not much, but everyone is very happy, the more primitive the society, the more important the reasonable distribution system, even if it is a fish, it is also warm.
The catch was caught by Hong Tao, this is the consensus of the three families, no matter how humble Hong Tao is, even the Bo Zhu who made the ground cage with him does not take the credit of Hong Tao. In their opinion, Hong Tao is a person who has read books, so he has this kind of good method, which is a natural thing, and others can't rob it, and they can't take it away. Since the catches are his own, then Hong Tao has the right to deal with them, so Hong Tao began to benefit again, these catches cannot be said to be given, but must be said to be deserved!
What do you mean by deserved? Shares! Out of one fishing net, that is two shares; helps to make the ground cage, and also has a share; If you come up with an idea, take a large share and have three shares, a small cooperative will be established. The Bo family accounts for two and a half of the shares, a fishing net and the output to make the ground cage; The Huang family accounts for two and a half of the shares, a fishing net and the income from the contribution to the ground cage; The Chen family accounts for 50% of the shares, a fishing net and Hongtao's technology.
Everyone doesn't know what a share is, and they don't understand cooperatives and joint-stock companies, but they all give a thumbs up to Hong Tao's distribution method, two words, fair! It's good to come up with ideas, no one feels that they are losing, and no one feels that anyone is exploiting whom, this is a good way!
As a major shareholder, Hong Tao took out a part of his catch, let Bo Zhu and several sisters-in-law and nephews clean it up, and then eat rice and seafood pot in the evening. It doesn't matter if there is not much rice, tomorrow Chen Mingen will row a small boat up the Ningyuan River and go to Yacheng Town a few miles away to exchange rice. Everyone can also see that Hong Tao's mouth is very greedy, and he is not used to eating taro, since there is a catch, even if he eats rice every day, it is not too much.
Of course, Bo Fu is still the opponent, he is not against Hong Tao, but against his style and arrogance. This old man is more conservative and doesn't like change, so he can't get used to Hong Tao. This is not against Hong Tao, on the contrary, he thinks that he is caring about Hong Tao, eat a few less rice, eat a few less seafood pots, don't use those seafood goods to exchange for new cloth for the Li people, save up and have his own boat as soon as possible, and he can marry Bozhu through the door. In the Tan family, men who do not have their own boats are considered to be servants, which means that they eat their parents and drink their parents' children, and they are not respected.
The Tan family likes to drink, they live on the water all the year round, and they have arthritis and other diseases after they are old, in order to resist dampness, they only drink alcohol, or they brew their own medicinal wine, which contains several kinds of seafood, it is said that drinking a little every day can dispel dampness, and it seems that it can also aphrodisiac.
On this issue, Hong Tao paid attention to it, he didn't want to get old and his bones would be swollen into steamed buns, and it would hurt if he didn't move, so he would have to commit suicide, and he couldn't bear it! At present, he can't solve this housing problem, even if he has his own ship in the future, he still can't solve it. He asked Chen Mingen and Bo Fu if they could go to live on the shore, and the answer they got surprised Hong Tao, they said yes!
The Tan family lives on the water all year round, but they also have their own houses, but they don't often go back to live. The house was built on the edge of the beach, a bit like the Dai family's stilted house, supported by bamboo underneath, covered with wooden planks, and shaded with bamboo and leaves on all sides and roof. At high tide, the water is more than a meter below the planks, and after low tide, the house is on the beach, and you have to climb ladders to go up and down.
These Tan families fish in a different area of the sea each season, and at this time they can only live on boats, and only during the season when there are fewer fish and shrimp do they return to the place where their houses are located. It's a bit like the nomads of the north, like the Mongols. They lived in pursuit of water and grass, and wherever the water and grass were abundant, they drove their sheep to wherever they went, and then set up a tent and lived. The Tan family chased after the fish, and they went wherever there were fish, fishing during the day and sleeping in rowboats at night.
Comparatively speaking, the Tanka people have a larger area of activity than the Mongols, and they can be found from the South China Sea to Southeast Asian countries. In this respect, they are more like the gypsies of Europe, driving a caravan and going wherever they go, with no fixed place to live. Moreover, the social status of the Gypsies and the Tanka family is also very similar, they are also in Europe, their grandmothers do not love their uncles, no country is willing to let them settle, and they are not allowed to engage in many industries, all of them are the lowest struggling ethnic groups in society. The only difference is that the Gypsies wander on land, while the Tanka wander on the sea.