Time Travel: A Fisherwoman Goes to the Sea to Raise a Baby

Chapter 462 The Grievance of the Four Seas

The people waiting to receive their cargo at the dock shouted the names of the familiar boat captains, interspersed with a few laughs and curses.

Their boat made a brief stop in Ping'an Town.

So as soon as the ship docked, the crew members began to disembark in batches to eat.

Old Lu stood up from the sack, stretched his stiff limbs, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"I'm exhausted."

Xu Yiyi hugged Wu Yuan tightly as they walked out of the cabin, finding Lao Lu's words somewhat amusing.

"You've been lying on someone's goods like a king for so long and you're still tired?"

As she spoke, she prepared to disembark.

Old Lu quickly picked up his bundle and followed, saying, "That's not how it works! This sack can be as comfortable as a bed..."

The two stepped onto the ramp one after the other, but before they could get off, they were stopped by the boatman.

He simply stretched out his hand and handed it to Lao Lu.

Old Lu looked at him suspiciously: "What are you doing? We paid as soon as we boarded the ship, directly to your captain. If you don't believe me, go ask him."

Old Lu shouted and was about to lead the boatmen into the cabin.

“You paid for the two of you to take the boat. Our boss was kind enough not to charge you for this kid’s money, but…” the boatman said, “you damaged our cargo, so you have to pay for it.”

Old Lu suddenly burst out laughing in anger.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Is this batch of goods made of tofu? It'll spoil if you just lay it down for a bit?"

The boatman shook his head and said seriously, "It's not tofu, it's banana."

Old Lu clicked his tongue.

"But the spot I'm lying on is hard. Tell me, is a banana leaf hard?"

Xu Yiyi carried Wu Yuan back to the deck.

"What's the point of arguing? Just open it and see for yourself."

Upon hearing this, Old Lu pointed at the boatman's nose and said, "Did you hear me? Open it! I want to see if this pile of goods is made of paper!"

The boatman, startled by his shout, hurriedly went forward and opened the bag.

Inside were pre-filled stone blanks, hard as a rock, still perfectly fine.

The boatmen were somewhat surprised by this sight. They hurriedly opened the other sacks and found that they were all filled with stone blanks.

Not a single banana tree can be seen.

"See that? I'm lying on this pile of sacks filled with stone blanks! The sharp edges are hurting my back, and you're blaming me for crushing it? It's a miracle it didn't break my old bones!" Old Lu said angrily.

The boatman was stunned, his face flushing red and then pale. In his panic, he blurted out, "Impossible! It's... the boss said you ruined the bananas he brought, and he told me to come and help you..."

Before he could finish speaking, a slightly overweight figure hurriedly emerged from the stern cabin; it was none other than the boat captain, Liu Laosi.

With an embarrassed smile plastered on his face, he strode forward and slapped the boatman hard on the back of the head, yelling, "You incompetent wretch, get out of here..."

After saying that, he quickly turned to Lao Lu, smiled ingratiatingly, and bowed, saying, "Brother Lu, I'm so sorry, so sorry! My men didn't know how to speak properly and caused a misunderstanding. Please be magnanimous and don't take it to heart! It's just a few bananas, how could I really make you pay for them? Please, please get off the boat!"

Old Lu glanced sideways at Liu Laosi, snorted heavily through his nose, and was too lazy to waste any more words on this guy who was pretending to be ignorant.

He picked up the bundle at his feet and shook his head at Xu Yiyi beside him.

Let's go!

Xu Yiyi, holding Wu Yuan, glanced at the boatman whose face was flushed and the boat captain who was still smiling apologetically. She understood that the boat captain had obviously tried to extort some money but had been rebuffed.

She said no more and silently followed behind Lao Lu, stepping onto the gangplank and steadily walking off the boat.

"What the hell is this!" Old Lu spat. "Don't even think about letting me ride on his boat again."

"See if you dare to sleep on other people's goods again."

Xu Yi glanced at him and said.

Old Lu shrugged: "Who would have thought he had so many ulterior motives? People really do get less and less lovable as they grow up."

He let out a long sigh, his tone somewhat affected.

This immediately made Wu Yuan burst into laughter.

"Of course, even when our little one gets old and has a full head of white hair, he will still be the cutest one."

Old Lu smiled and reached out to touch Wu Yuan's face.

Xu Yi looked around, trying to see if any of her clansmen were still at the dock.

Unfortunately, there were just too many people, so it was impossible to see anything clearly.

"Aren't you hungry? Hurry up and go back to get something to eat."

Old Lu grabbed Xu Yiyi's arm and squeezed into the dock, greeting people every now and then.

It wasn't until I passed the wonton stall that I realized the restaurant was actually open today.

"The Four Seas?"

As soon as Xu Yiyi walked in, she saw Sihai playing with a mop.

The restaurant was bustling with activity at its busiest time of day, filled with the sounds of people.

At that moment, Sihai was shakily stepping on a wet mop, treating it as some kind of magnificent mount, and rowing a boat through a puddle of water.

Her small face, no bigger than a palm, turned bright red with excitement, and she kept muttering "Giddy up, giddy up" under her breath.

The child froze at the sound, turned around abruptly, and his dark eyes were filled with unexpected panic.

The "mount" beneath his feet was already quite unruly, and after being startled, its small body swayed violently, its arms and legs flailing futilely in the air, and it looked as if it was about to fall to the ground.

Xu Yiyi's heart jumped into her throat.

Just when things were about to get really bad, the little kid did a somersault and landed right on the empty bench next to him.

Still shaken, he timidly raised his head and met her anxious and angry gaze.

Perhaps realizing she had caused trouble, her little mouth first twitched in grievance, and her eyes reddened. But her bright black eyes darted around, secretly observing her expression, giving her a look of wanting to cry but not daring to, trying to get away with it.

The surrounding diners were initially taken aback by this unexpected little incident, but then burst into good-natured laughter.

Someone joked, "Young shopkeeper, you're really cheeky, looking like a mud monkey."

Sihai is thick-skinned and doesn't take being teased to heart.

She just looked timidly at her older sister.

Xu Yiyi gave a soft snort, walked over and carried him back to the backyard.

"You'd better give me a satisfactory explanation."

Sihai stood timidly in the courtyard, while Sanchuan ran back from the second floor of the front hall in disbelief.

"Xu Sihai, you really can't stay still for a moment. I told you to stop playing around."

San Chuan said angrily.

……

"Big sister, I was wrong." Sihai quickly apologized.

Xu Yiyi didn't say anything, put Wu Yuan back on his special little stool and sat down, then went to wash her hands with a stern face.

"Grandpa Lu..."

The air in the backyard seemed to freeze for a moment.

Sihai lowered his head, his two little fingers nervously twisting the hem of his clothes, and first glanced at Lao Lu standing under the eaves.

Just now, when Xu Yiyi carried Sihai and Wuyuan back to the backyard, he was sneaking into the wine cellar to buy wine. Now he was drinking a little wine and watching this show with a smile.

Seeing Si Hai's pleading eyes glance over, Lao Lu raised his eyebrows, shrugged his shoulders dramatically, and spread his hands.

The meaning couldn't be clearer: Grandpa can't help you this time.

Sihai's lips trembled, and his eyes welled up with tears.

She turned her head again to look at Xu Anyang, who had mistakenly entered carrying a tray.

He stood in front of the food serving area, placing several dishes onto a tray, when he noticed the gaze on his back.

Xu Anyang stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and just smiled crookedly.

"May you have many blessings!"

Xu Anyang silently left a message and walked towards the front of the hall with the tray.

There's absolutely no hope now.

Sihai stood there, stunned. He looked down at the muddy tips of his shoes, then secretly glanced at his older sister's calm profile. He felt that the silence was more agonizing than any scolding.

Finally, Sanchuan couldn't bear it any longer and went up to whisper a few words in his ear.

After hearing this, the child hesitated for a while before finally walking up to Xu Yiyi.

"Big sister..." he began timidly, his voice slightly nasal as if he were about to cry, "I really, really know I was wrong."

Seeing that she didn't respond, he hurriedly added, "I shouldn't have been playing with the mop in the front hall..."

As he spoke, he quickly held up three chubby fingers and solemnly swore, "I'll never step on it again! If I do, I'll be... I'll be a puppy!"

He looked so serious.

But Xu Yiyi still kept a straight face: "Anything else?"

He blinked, trying hard to recall, when suddenly his eyes lit up: "The floor needs to be mopped up promptly after it gets wet, so that guests don't slip and fall."

"anything else?"

Xu Yiyi sat on a small stool, her eyes still cold, but there was a hint of helplessness in them.

She'd only been out for a day, and this little brat was already all messy.

He was filthy from head to toe; if it weren't for his clean face, people would mistake him for a little beggar.

"And..." Sihai scratched his head, his eyebrows furrowing into a worm-like shape, "And... I don't know."

Seeing that his older sister kept a straight face, he finally couldn't help but cry.

San Chuan covered his face with his hands. He had been taught how to admit his mistakes, yet he still managed to do it wrong.

"Sihai is just like a little pig."

Old Lu succinctly uttered this insightful statement.

Aunt Zhao chuckled. Wasn't that just saying Sihai was stupid?

Sanchuan was at his wit's end.

He walked up to Wu Yuan and picked him up.

"Grandpa Lu, how is Wu Yuan's condition? Is it curable?"

San Chuan looked worriedly at the child in his arms who had been watching the show the whole time.

"It's nothing, you can speak again."

Old Lu quickly told Sanchuan about how the child had gotten so jealous that he was so angry he could still make a sound.

Just as he finished speaking, Wu Yuan let out two cries of "Ah ah!"

"That's great, that's great! I knew Xiao Wu would be alright." San Chuan breathed a sigh of relief.

These past two days, my great-uncle and great-aunt have been looking worried and have not smiled at all. My aunt even killed the old hen in the house and went to worship the sea goddess.

If things don't go well, the chickens at home might suffer again.

When I get back, I must tell them this good news as soon as possible.

San Chuan thought to himself with a smug satisfaction.

Then, she happily hugged Wu Yuan and asked Yun Niang to cook something for him.

Meanwhile, the world around them is still in dire straits.

He racked his brains trying to remember what his third brother had just told him, but he couldn't recall it at all.

"No matter how you behave on ordinary days, your older sister has never said anything to you. Do you feel wronged today?"

Xu Yiyi suddenly spoke up.

Sihai felt somewhat wronged, but he dared not utter a sound.

Both corners of her mouth drooped down, she looked so pitiful.

"There are a lot of people in the front hall at this time, and the tables and chairs are crowded. If you keep moving around like this, you might bump into something if you can't dodge in time. What's more, the four corners of those tables and chairs are sharp. What if you hit your head and become mentally impaired?"

From a very young age, whenever Xu Yiyi saw something sharp, she would always associate it with the scene of bumping her head.

Especially when I was in school, when I was running on the playground and came to the flagpole at the corner, I felt like I was going to bump into it at any moment.

So every time I run past that place, I subconsciously slow down.

After arriving here, these associations not only did not disappear, but became even more intense.

Sihai purred and pounced on Xu Yiyi, just like a little piglet, his fluffy, smelly little head resting on her shoulder.

"I'm sorry, big sister, I won't play like that again."

The child was sobbing, crying so sadly.

Xu Yiyi felt a pang of pity upon hearing this.

My heart softened, and I wiped his cat-like face clean with a handkerchief: "It's good that you know you were wrong..."

Just as Sihai stopped crying and started laughing, Xu Yiyi immediately put on a stern face: "I'm punishing you by not letting you eat meat for three days, so you'll remember this lesson."

He froze instantly, his eyes wide open as if the sky had fallen.

The little leg kicked wildly: "No, no! Big sister is the best! Give me a different punishment!"

Xu Yiyi was knocked backward by his bump and quickly hugged the soft little body.

"No! Only this way will you remember."

Her tone was resolute and left no room for negotiation.

Sihai nuzzled against her neck like a clingy piece of candy, saying, "Just one day! Just one day, okay?"

Xu Yiyi smiled and pinched his chubby cheeks: "We agreed on three days, not a single day less. It's a good time to lose some weight so you won't be too tired to run."

He burst into tears, this time truly heartbroken, tears streaming down his face: "The meat smells so good! Big sister is mean! I don't need to lose weight!"

"Oh! Did you get beaten up?"

Xu Anyang looked on with curiosity, as he rarely saw a child cry so sadly.

"I wish I would really get beaten up."

Sihai's mouth was almost turned into a square from crying, but he still didn't forget to reply.

Wiping away her tears, she still looked at Xu Yiyi with unwavering determination: "Big sister, why don't you hit me? Hitting me will teach me a lesson."

Upon hearing this, everyone present burst into laughter.

This is the first time someone has ever gone out of their way to ask for a beating.

"Sister Yi, what did you do to him?"

As he spoke, Xu Anyang gestured with his chin: "Did you scold him?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Sihai, unable to contain his anger, ran back to the front hall.

“He will be punished by not being allowed to eat meat.”

Xu Anyang was taken aback.

"No wonder Sihai is so greedy. If he couldn't eat meat, he would definitely feel like the sky is falling."

Isn't it just gluttony?

From the moment I wake up in the morning until I go to bed at night, my mouth is almost never still, and my whole body is round and chubby.

If it weren't for her, as his older sister, occasionally skimping on his food rations, he would be even fatter now.