The leader was an old man with a sharp face and thin beard, his eyes were shining and his face was very calculating.

But the person with the highest status in the crowd was not him, but another old man wearing a flat-top square scarf, wearing a yellow and white shirt, with an unhappy expression.

"Third uncle, this kid Changshou is so shameless. He kept telling me at the beginning that he was not marrying a wife, but just taking a concubine. Then he suddenly took on such a big thing and was deceived. Our old Xu family is the queen of the princes.

, his face was sacrificed to him like this." Old man Hu Xi said to the old man in a shirt with a look of hatred for iron.

The old man's name was Xu Deye, Xu Changshou's uncle, and he made a living making salted fish. No matter where he went, he smelled fishy.

This person loves to take advantage, and his eyes are like abacus beads, full of calculations.

Selling salted fish is always a matter of shortage. Give as little salt as possible. Take the fish you buy and sun-dry them first. After they are dried, just put a thin layer of salt on them. You have to lick them and you can taste them.

If the salty taste comes out, you should chew the whole fish together, it must be bland.

The question is, this is salted fish. If salted fish is not salty, is it still called salted fish?

It will break if left for two or three days.

When buying fish at the pier, I only pick fish that are full of fish. I fight with the fisherman who sells the fish for a copper coin.

I had a whole day of fun when I took advantage, but when I didn't, I walked around the city three times.

what?

I picked up two piles of cow dung and went back, dried them in the sun and sold them for money.

Anyway, when he goes out, he has to take some "advantage" to go home, otherwise he will not think about food and tea all day long.

Once I met a hawker selling kitchen knives and bought some salted fish from him.

The hawker hadn't opened for two or three days, and he didn't have much copper in his pocket. He was short of one copper.

It stands to reason that if a copper plate is short, it will be short. The knife vendor is no stranger. He is known as Wang Mazi. He has been selling kitchen knives in Dongcheng for more than ten years. On weekdays, he never looks up or down.

If you are generous, let alone sell it, the salted fish given to you is not worth much money.

But Xu Deye, if he can't take advantage, it's enough to bother him, and he will suffer a loss?

That would kill him and shorten his life by several years.

Seeing a whetstone on Wang Mazi's waist, he asked for it, collected the kitchen knives, scissors, fire sickles, axes, etc. at home and started sharpening them.

After the thing is sharpened, the whetstone is also coated with a layer of slurry.

Now Xu Deye was happy. The whetstone in the hand of the kitchen knife vendor must be a good thing. He took it and used it for a penny and made a profit.

The next day he told everyone he met that he used Wang Mazi's whetstone for a penny.

That's it.

It's okay to take advantage of outsiders, but he's even more unambiguous about taking advantage of his own people.

Who are your own people?

His brother, Xu Changshou’s father, Xu Dehai.

It is said that one family does not have to enter the same family, but the Xu family does not follow this path. Xu Dehai and Xu Deye are completely opposite.

Xu Deye is a picky person, while Xu Dehai has the same personality as Xu Changshou, inviting others to dinner every day.

Xu Dehai also did this when Xu Changshou treated Xu Changshou to a breakfast and left the knife in a restaurant to pay off the debt.

With such a generous "brother", Xu Deye went all out to take advantage of him.

I never dry the salted fish at my own home, I always take it to Xu Dehai's house to dry. I just pulled two clotheslines yesterday, and "pop", the next day two salted fish baskets fell on them.

I just bought two kilograms of salt after turning over the sky. After two meals, only half of the salt was left.

The half was used by Xu Deye to pickle salted fish.

I had two steamed buns in the morning and a meal at noon. I was too embarrassed to eat them at night, so I came to borrow a fire, saying that the fire sickle at home could not be used, so I turned around and took a piece of firewood as thick as a thigh from the stove and ran away.

In a word, if you can gather it, gather it; if you can occupy it, occupy it.

The things in your eldest brother's house are just like your own things.

Occupy, occupy, it becomes a habit.

If anyone dares to keep it out of his hands, it's his enemy.

For example, Yang Qiaoer.

As we said before, Yang Qiaoer was born into a fishing family and was a fisherman before marrying.

One is a fisherman and the other is a fish picker. The pier is such a big place that it is difficult to recognize them.

Not only do the two parties know each other, but they also "celebrate" each other.

Because Yang Qiaoer is one of the few fishermen who has never let him take advantage, and even blacklisted him. They would rather dump the fish back into the river than sell it to him.

In Xu Deye's eyes, those who let him take advantage are fools, and those who don't let him take advantage are enemies.

Yang Qiaoer is the enemy.

When he learned that Xu Changshou was going to marry Yang Qiaoer, Xu Deye was shocked.

If Yang Qiaoer becomes the eldest brother's daughter-in-law, if she wants to take advantage of the eldest brother's family so easily in the future, it will be just two words: dreaming.

Who is Yang Qiaoer?

A wild girl with unbound feet.

Before she got married, she had a very fierce temper. She would pick up a carrying pole and hit people, but the two men couldn't get close to her. She was famous at the dock.

Xu Deye almost got beaten by Yang Qiaoer.

After Yang Qiaoer got married and lost her husband, she gained experience and became more difficult to deal with than the "wild girl" she was at the beginning.

What a joke, can a woman with a curvy front and back who still retains her charm and run a tofu stall at the pier and not suffer much loss, be an ordinary person?

Even in Xu Deye's view, there should not be a hindrance like a daughter-in-law in the eldest brother's family.

Which lineage is passed down to which generation?

I have five grandchildren in my name, and I can hardly afford to raise them.

Forget about adopting one for you, they are both of Xu family blood, the same.

After a hundred years, if your property belongs to my grandson, it will also belong to me.

It would be great if the fertile water does not flow to outsiders' fields.
Chapter completed!