Little wealth

Seeing a fleet of large ships approaching their pier from a distance, someone on the shore shouted, "We are back, we are back... Our fleet is back..."

"Your family will also follow the boat?"

"That's right, Dalang and Erlang of our family have gone out of the boat together. Have the three boys of your family gone too?"

"I've gone, all three boys have gone, and the three boys only went in May this year."

"Oh, our family Erlang is similar, he went there in March."

"..."

Seeing the return of the fleet, all the people at the pier were in a rush. Some people ran back to inform their family members, and some ran to the pier to wait. All of them stretched their necks and waited for them. The men and boys at home go back.

Since the establishment of the caravan in Anyang, the young men and boys in the entire Anyang Town and many villages have gone out to run business, only the elderly and children are at home.The young woman and her buddies had found something to do, and there was scarcely a single idler in the whole town.

Now many villages have opened village schools, and there are county schools in towns, which are much better than village schools, and the government schools in Lucheng are farther away.There are special boats from Anyang to Lucheng every day, even traveling between Anyang and Lucheng is very convenient.

After people in many villages have made money, they are willing to spend money to send their children to study. The village school only teaches children to read and write, but if they want to get fame, they have to go to the county school to study.However, not everyone accepts the county school. Only after passing the county examination can one enter the county school. After passing the college examination, one can go to the prefectural school in Lucheng. Both the county school and the prefectural school are run by the government. The school has clear requirements.

Today's Anyang Town has undergone earth-shaking changes compared with ten years ago. The entire pier has been expanded more than ten times than ten years ago. The silt at the bottom of the river has been cleaned up, and large ships can also approach the pier.

Most of the houses on the shore are built with two or three floors, and the roads are spacious. Most of the goods stores and shops on this street, the largest goods stores are Guang'an goods store and Baijia goods store.

The Baijia goods store was longer than the Guang'an goods store, and the Guang'an goods store was opened later. The two stores are adjacent to each other, and their stores are larger than other stores.

The Baijia goods store is the property of the Bai family, and the Guang'an goods store was established by Josh later. These years, he has not only been hiding behind men to be a full-time husband, he still has his own ambitions and pursuits.In the early years, with the help of his good friend Bai Luoxi, he built this goods store single-handedly.Now many of their caravan's goods go out and come in through the two goods stores. After deducting the cost and various expenses from the money they earn, the annual profit they can make is also very considerable.

Large ships lined up to come in, docking at the entire pier, and there were still people behind who couldn't get in, so they had to park behind, and wooden boards were built between the ships for people to pass through.

The goods on the ships behind will be transported to the south for sale. They will only come back to Anyang temporarily to stay for two days for supplies. After two days, they will continue to go south, so it doesn’t matter whether the ships are close to the front or not. They stop at the back and they go. Sometimes even more convenient.

As soon as the big ship approached, I heard someone shouting below——

"Da Lang Da Lang..."

"Father..."

"Em I'm here!"

"..."

The elderly and children waiting at the pier ran forward one by one when their son and father came back.

The scene of relatives meeting is always very lively, although this scene will be staged here at the pier almost every ten days and a half months.But every time I see family members who have gone out and come back from outside, these old people, children, wives and buddies who are waiting at home are very happy. For a while, there are many pictures of recognizing each other hand in hand at the pier.

However, there are still things to be busy at the moment, and these returning men can't go home with their families immediately, they have to wait until the work on the ship is over, and they can go home after taking leave from the steward, so many of them are I hurriedly said a few words to my family members, and asked them to go home first and wait for them to go back.

Didn't see the eldest son coming back with their eldest master, someone asked: "The second master of the eldest master is back, why don't you see the eldest son coming back? Did the eldest son stay in the capital as an official after being the number one scholar?" Already?"

"Well, yes, he's on duty in the capital, and he won't be back until later." Zhao He responded to the questioner.

"The eldest son is really powerful."

"Young Master is really amazing..."

Knowing from the mouth of their eldest son that the eldest son has really become an official in the capital, these villagers all smiled brightly, as if their own children became an official in the capital, and there were a lot of praises for their eldest son up.

Everyone knows that the eldest son of the Zhao family was admitted to the first prize, and the county magistrate even sent yamen to beat gongs and drums to Sihe Village to announce the good news. People in the entire Anyang Town and several nearby villages knew the news. This is their Anyang The town's first number one scholar in hundreds of years, all of them looked proud, as if their own kid had been admitted to the number one scholar, and they felt honorable when they said it.

Ever since a champion was born in Anyang, these parents have urged their children to study hard, hoping that their own children can also read more books.Even if you can't be an official in the future, you can still go to the restaurant to be an accountant, and you don't have to do the hard work like their parents.

Over the years, the Zhao family opened a shipyard in Anyang, formed a caravan, and also had a big oil workshop and a furniture workshop. I don't know how many people from the vicinity have been hired to work.There are more than a dozen villages under Anyang Town, each of which has a large number of young people working in caravans and oil factories. If it moves, replace it with a young person.Over the years, even the poorest villages in Anyang Town are now living a better life than before. Every village has newly built many green brick and tile houses, and life is getting better.

Now in the entire Anyang Town, whoever saw the two elders of the Zhao family did not call out the first master and the second master, as well as their husband and several boys, all the people in Anyang Town knew each other.In addition, as soon as the news that Mr. Zhao was admitted to the number one scholar came out, the Zhao family's reputation in Anyang Town became even greater.

A group of people passed through the path left by the crowd, and many people crowded over to give them things.

"The two young masters have grown taller again... Come, eat a pear, which is grown by us, it's so sweet."

"Second young master eat fruit, our fruit is sweet and delicious."

"The fruit of our family is also juicy, eat our family."

Seeing a few young masters following in the middle, the old man and woman selling fruit at the pier grabbed the fruit and stuffed it into the hands of the children.

Now most of them live a better life than before. If there are several sons in the family, the sons and wives all go out to work to earn money, and the family has no worries about food and clothing, but those who are used to work Old people still like to find something to do for themselves. Many old people like to grow some fruit trees and vegetables in front of and behind their houses, and sell them in the town if they can’t finish them. With a job to do and a little income, their life will not be too boring.

Therefore, these old people are not soft-hearted in giving the fruits, as if they wished to give these fruits to the young masters of the Zhao family to eat.

"Don't give it to a few children, you can keep it for yourself and sell it for money, how can you eat it if you give them so much." Seeing these old people running small businesses stuffing fruits into the hands of several children, Josh They can't be stopped.Several children's hands were stuffed with fruit, and even his own hand was stuffed with two pears. He couldn't laugh or cry about this, and hurriedly asked the people around him to give money.

"We don't want money or money. They are all the fruits grown by ourselves, and they are given to you to eat."

The old people refused to ask for money, and ran away with their baskets, as if someone was chasing them.

"Forget it, forget it, let's keep it for now, and give it to them when we see them." Josh saw a few old people who were scared away by them. He was afraid that they would chase them down, so he had to put himself The man shouted back.

Seeing that they were not chasing them, the old men who ran away ran back to the pier again.

Some young brothers and girls also came with fruit baskets, stuffing fruits and flowers into the hands of some young boys and children.

Even the hands of His Highness the Second Prince were stuffed with several fruits, and the brave brother took advantage of the chaos and stuffed a flower into his hands.Looking up again, I saw that the second cousin was holding more flowers than his. It seemed that the second cousin was more popular than him in Anyang!

"You people in Anyang are so enthusiastic." Although it was not the first time he came to Anyang, it was the first time for Situ Taian to feel the enthusiasm of the people in Anyang, as well as the boldness of the little brothers and girls.

"Well, yes. Second cousin, why don't you go back in a hurry, and Bufan will stay with us for a little longer to experience the enthusiasm and hospitality of our Anyang folks." Er Bao was holding his hands full of things, and there were people behind him He kept stuffing things into their hands, and he couldn't hold so much with both hands.If he still tried to resist at the beginning, then he simply gave up struggling later, you can give as much as you like, as long as you are happy.

The brothers grew up here in Anyang, and many people know them. Every time the brothers went out, they never went back empty-handed. As long as they went out, they would be stuffed with all kinds of benefits. Eat back.In many cases, it's not that they don't want to refuse, but that the other party doesn't give them a chance to refuse at all.

Over time, they all gradually got used to the enthusiasm and the habit of giving them things from the folks in Anyang.