With a boat, ye Xiaoxian and his men could catch fish much faster.
In the past, when two servants cast nets on the lake, they could catch at most five or six fish a day, but now with a boat, they can catch twenty or thirty kilograms a day after casting nets for two hours.
Although there is a bargain to make, ye Xiaoxian feels that she can't always take advantage of others. They still want to have their own boat. Therefore, she tells the firewood cutting team to cut more wood when cutting wood. When she has nothing to do in winter, she can build a boat at home.
After the language class that day, ye Xiaoxian specifically asked aunt Bayer about doriku.
She said, "we were fishing by the river, and doriku lent us his boat, aunt Bayer. What kind of man is this doriku...?"
Aunt Bayer smiled unconsciously when she heard doriku.
"What do you say about that boy? He is a famous prodigal son of the tribe. His parents died early and he is the only one left in the family. Because no one cares about him, he is very wild, and even the head of the clan can't take him. But he also has his own skills. He is a good player in the tribe, such as fishing, firewood cutting, horse riding and archery. Some people wanted him to be an archer two years ago, but he refused He said that he wanted to have a free day, and he was the only one left in his family. He was afraid that there would be no queen at home. In fact, even if he was worried about this, he just didn't want to be controlled. "
Aunt Bayer said again, "he said he was afraid of being the last, but in fact he didn't care about his life. Many girls in the tribe wanted to marry him. He didn't see any of them, and he didn't know what kind of girl he wanted to find, which made the girls angry to death."
Ye Xiaoxian also smiled.
Aunt Bayer said again, "I'm not surprised that he lent you the boat. He's the kind of warm-hearted man. Now the patriarch wants to bully you new refugees, but he does the opposite."
Ye Xiaoxian breathed a sigh of relief and said, "no wonder at the beginning, I thought he wanted to rent the money he lent us, but he didn't accept the money."
Aunt Bayer smiled and said, "since he lent you the boat, you should seize the time to fish well. It's cold here in winter, so you don't have to move with the herdsmen, so you live in the original place. If the yurt is not warm, strengthen it more and store more firewood."
Ye Xiaoxian said, "OK, we know. Thank you, aunt Bayer."
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The next day, when ye Xiaoxian was making potato chips, she specially made an extra bag, wrapped it in oil paper and planned to put it on doriku's ship.
Doriku also fished every day. When he came to punt, he could naturally see potato chips.
However, as soon as ye Xiaoxian put the potato chips away, she heard a whistle behind her. She was so frightened that the potato chips in her hand almost fell off.
Doriku grinned, but not ridicule, but the kind of proud smile after teasing people.
Ye Xiaoxian paused, then handed him the potato chips and said, "here you are. Thank you. Lend us the boat."
Doriku took the potato chips, opened them first, smelled them, and then took out a piece to eat. After eating the crispy potato chips, he couldn't help nodding and said, "delicious, good."
Ye Xiaoxian smiled: "if you like to eat, I have it, and."
With that, she planned to go back, but doriku blocked her in front.
She couldn't help asking, "what else?"
Doriku just grinned, then flashed to a side and said, "it's all right, walk slowly, walk slowly."
Knowing that he was just a skin, ye Xiaoxian smiled at him again, and then walked away without looking back.
……
During this time, ye Xiaoxian was just busy making French fries. Later, she added another project: drying dried fish.
Liu Yuanwai's mother-in-law and Liu Qianqian all came to help, kill and pickle the fish, and then dry the fish to dry.
It's the end of autumn and the weather is colder, but fortunately, the sunshine here is strong and the weather is dry, so the dried fish can be cured before winter comes.
Looking at the neat rows of dried fish in front of the yurt, everyone has a special sense of security. Don't worry about having no meat this winter. Fish is also meat.
I don't know if I heard they caught a lot of fish. The patriarch came again that day.
The patriarch first came to ask Liu Yuanwai for money. He asked Liu Yuanwai, "I heard that people on your side can go out and make money. How much have you made?"
Liu thought: how much do you earn?
But on the surface, he smiled and said, "how many are there? Just fry some potato chips. A kilogram of potato chips can't sell for dozens of Wen. We can only change some rations for the day."
The patriarch said, "we agreed that if you don't help the tribe raise sheep, the money you earn will be handed over to the tribe. Now winter is coming, should you pay?"
"Yes, but the patriarch, you see, there are more than 20 people here. The old and the young have to eat. There is really no money left."
"Hum, you people in the pass are smart. You can earn everything cheap. When you want to give money, you won't give it."
Liu asked, "I don't want to give it. I just want to know a general standard. Since people who can make money in the tribe have to pay silver, but what's the standard? For example, how much do each household pay per head? Before we came here, the internal officials said that when we came to the tribe, we would be regarded as tribal people, and the treatment is the same as that of other people in the tribe."
Seeing that Liu Yuanwai actually talked about the standard with himself, the patriarch couldn't help humming coldly: "there is no standard. What I said is the standard. I allowed you to be independent at the beginning, and now you refuse to pay public food?"
"The patriarch said, how much do you want to pay?" Asked Liu Yuanwai.
The patriarch looked at them carefully. Now they all cut new clothes and put on new shoes. So many dried fish were hung in front of the yurt, and the smell of potato chips floated everywhere. The patriarch said, "give me two liang of silver."
Two liang of silver is not much for Liu Yuanwai. Most of the silver he brought out from home has not been spent. If he has to pay, he can take it from his private money.
But member Liu was not easy to bully. He smiled and said, "yes, but the people in the pass usually pay public food and other things. There are official receipts. If I give money, the official will have to give us receipts. Our tribe also wants to give receipts?"
Naturally, the patriarch didn't want to stand up, but he saw that member Liu was about to get two liang of silver. How could he not stand up.
Besides, now this group of people live on the wrong side. If people from the government really come to check, they can't find anything.
Just stand.
The patriarch patted his thigh: "OK, you want to establish evidence, so I will establish it for you now. Do you have a paper smile here?"
Liu Yuanwai also left a hand and said, "there are some paper and pen. Even I don't know the words here. Let's go to sister Bayer and write a bilingual one, so that we can be clear."
The patriarch was suspicious: "what do you want to write so detailed?"
Member Liu said, "the rules are like this. Whether it's renting shops or paying taxes, it's like this."
The clan leader knew that Liu Yuanwai wanted to stay, but he thought, what can happen to these people? Dare you report him? You know, he is also familiar with internal officials. Their relatives in charge of trade in the city can't manage this one.
The patriarch said, "OK, then go and stand."
They were about to go to Aunt Bayer's house, but the patriarch saw the dried fish temporarily and asked, "these dried fish... Very fat."
Liu Yuanwai knows what the patriarch means. He just wants some dried fish.
Liu is not a stingy man. He simply took two and handed them to the patriarch: "these two are for you. You can eat them in two days."
The patriarch was immediately coaxed into smiling.
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In the evening, ye Xiaoxian and others cooked dinner and asked everyone to come for dinner.
Their dinner was really not rich, that is, Nang, potatoes and cabbage.
But ye Xiaoxian's cooking skills are good. She just makes these things in different ways, such as adding bacon, stewed fish slices with cabbage and some mountain pepper in Nang.
Therefore, they are very excited at dinner time.
This evening, Jia Zhenbo and Xiao Tieshu, who are responsible for selling potato chips in the county, also came back. They are really hard in the county, because they have to stay for one night. They can only sleep on the carriage at night and eat badly.
So every time they come back, they will sigh that the food at home is good and hot.
They also said that after a while, let Ye Xiaoxian open a restaurant in the county.
Ye Xiaoxian smiled. Now she doesn't want to be busy with business. She thinks it's good to stay at the foot of Tianshan Mountain. When she opens the yurt every day, she can see the towering Tianshan Mountain, vast grassland, rivers and Tianchi like gemstones.
She also plans to learn to ride horses later, so that she can ride horses on the grassland.
Ye Xiaoxian said, "by the way, I heard from Aunt Bayer that herdsmen will migrate later. They have to walk for two days and two nights to raise sheep in places with plenty of water and grass. We will have snow here, but we can play in winter and ski in the mountains."
As soon as she talked about skiing, the big guy started talking.
Especially the children, Baoyang said. Listening to the local children, winter is very fun.
Lao Xiao asked, "will Baofeng come back then? He studies with the children of the sixth Lord every day. He doesn't know what's going on now. He will always come back to spend the new year with us?"
Speaking of Baofeng, everyone stopped talking.
He studied at the sixth Lord. They can't go to the sixth Lord's residence if they want. Even if Xiao Tieshu goes to the city, he can't visit for no reason. If he interrupts too much, he's afraid of being annoyed by others and affecting Baofeng.
Ye Xiaoxian said: "later, let uncle find childe Li. If childe Li is in the city, maybe he can help arrange it."
……
Unexpectedly, Xiao Tieshu hasn't gone to find Li Chengru yet. Li Chengru came unexpectedly.
That day, he rode a white horse, led several followers, and rode in this way.
Feng Sheng's horse is still carrying Xiao Baofeng.