After taking the two bags of colorful shells given by Granny Yao, Zhan Zhao and the others followed Bai Yutang and left her mother-in-law's house and walked along a path along the coast.

The outer side of this path is a large grassy slope, and below the slope is the beach on the east side of Xingkong Island.

The beach is all fine white sand. The weather is fine today. Looking from a distance, we can see the blue sky and blue sea on the white sand beach. On the beach, a group of children are flying kites.

When one of them saw Bai Yutang and the others, he jumped up and down and waved, "Little Fifth Master!"

Bai Yutang also reached out and waved at the children.

A child shouted to him, "Fifth Master, Grandpa Sihai is in the market!"

Bai Yutang nodded and nodded.

Zhan Zhao and the others are quite curious, who is Grandpa Sihai?

After walking along the path for a while, I saw a few young people coming in front, pulling a cart. There were two large baskets on the cart, one basket of fruits and one basket of vegetables. There was also an old man carrying two bottles of wine.

The altar followed behind.

When several people saw Bai Yutang, they all greeted him, calling him anything, "Fifth Master, Brother Bai, Xiao Bai, etc..."

Fifth Master asked them if they had prepared so many dishes and wanted to treat them?

Several people said to prepare pickles.

The old man took out a few pears from the basket, gave them to everyone, and then happily continued walking to the village.

Zhan Zhao took a bite of the pear and exclaimed - so sweet!

Lin Yehuo didn't like pears very much, so he asked Bai Yutang, "Are there any peaches?"

Bai Yutang gestured to him to take the pears, which should be available at the market in front.

After a while, everyone came to the "market" that Master Wu mentioned.

This market looks like a street, with shops on both sides and no one around. There are a lot of things piled up, including fruits, firewood, rice, oil, salt, cloth and utensils, etc.

Wu Zouliang pointed to the fruits displayed in a fruit shop and said to Lin Yehuo, "There are peaches."

Huo Feng saw that the peach was not bad, so he wanted to buy one to eat, but there was no one in the shop.

Bai Yutang put the pears in his hand on the pile of pears, and then gave him a peach.

Huofeng held the peach and felt that this operation seemed familiar, and opened his mouth wide - it appeared! Bartering!

Lin Ye stomped his feet with fire - just like the Devil's City!

Zhan Zhao finished eating the pears and thought Xing'er looked good, so he asked Bai Yutang, "What if I don't have anything to change?"

Bai Yutang pointed to the shell in his hand that Granny Yao had given him.

Zhan Zhao asked, "How many shells does Xing'er sell?"

Fifth Master shrugged, "Whatever."

Lin Yehuo rubbed his chin and muttered, "Oh, he actually has his own coins, and he is even more powerful than those idle people in Devil City!"

Zhan Zhao took a shell and put it in the basket beside the table. He saw a basket of shells inside, and then took an apricot and tasted it.

Everyone continued to walk forward, and before they had gone far, they heard the noise.

Turning the corner, there was a large grain drying field in front of us. It turned out that there was no one on the street in front, everyone had gathered here.

Many young people were pounding rice cakes with their shirts off.

This method of pounding rice cakes is quite novel. Instead of pounding with a hammer, a large tree stump is tied with four ropes. The four young men raise their hands and swing the rope upwards, letting the tree stump fly into the sky, and then smash it down with a thud.

With a thud, a ball of snow-white rice cake was smashed.

Huofeng thought that pounding rice cakes might not be the purpose, but mainly to play with the rope.

There was a group of aunts and grandmothers making pastries nearby, probably for sacrifices, like they were trying to make a big dragon out of the pastries.

There were several large wine jars in front, and many uncles and uncles were queuing up to drink with their empty wine jars. A very stylish uncle led a group of people to share the wine, and the scene was quite lively.

Everyone knows this uncle, he is Wang Lin's father, Wang Sihai.

"Yutang!"

When Wang Sihai saw Bai Yutang and the others, he waved.

The Fifth Master took Zhan Zhao and the others over and introduced them to Zhan Zhao and the others, "Don't Wang Lin's family keep a lot of bees? At this time every year, they come to divide the mead and honey. If Uncle Sihai is here, he will divide the wine, and if his sister-in-law is here, he will divide the honey.

Honey."

"Oh..." Everyone understood. No wonder the child just told Bai Yutang that Grandpa Sihai was at the market.

Mr. Wu and the others went over to line up together, and everyone was fed honey pastries by the aunties making pastries on the side.

While eating the pastries and waiting, an aunt came over and asked Bai Yutang, "Yutang, will you pass by the study soon?"

Fifth Master nodded and said he would probably pass by.

"Bring me some noodles to my dad. He said he wants to make fried noodles tonight."

With that said, the aunt brought a basket of noodles to Bai Yutang.

Master Wu took the basket, and Zhan Zhao and the others also lined up to get the wine.

Zhan Zhao and Lin Yehuo asked Wang Sihai for a drink first, but neither of them had ever drunk honey wine.

Taking a sip from the bamboo tube, both of them smacked their lips - oh, what a sweet wine!

Zou Liang carried two jars of wine, Lin Yehuo and Zhan Zhao ate the pastries given by the aunts, and Fifth Master carried a bamboo basket of noodles, and the four of them left the market together.

Zhan Zhao asked him, he spent a bagful of shells to buy wine, where did he spend the remaining bagful?

Fifth Master said, why not go to the study in front and see what you want to buy.

Everyone is very curious - is there anything else for sale in the study?

…

After leaving the market, everyone walked along the paths between the houses.

The terrain of Xiangkong Island is undulating, so there are many ups and downs. The paths are winding and varied. There are houses on both sides of the road. There are no courtyard walls but there are many fences. The fences are covered with vines. There are flowers everywhere in and outside the courtyard.

, vines and particularly tall trees.

Zhan Zhao and Lin Yehuo looked up at the trees and asked Bai Yutang, "What kind of tree is this?"

Fifth Master said they were all longan and kapok.

Many people were basking in the sun in the yard, some drinking and some riding horses. When they saw Bai Yutang and others passing by, they all waved.

Zhan Zhao and Lin Yehuo were stuffed with all kinds of delicious food. Each of them held a bunch of grapes and ate while walking.

The study is not far away. It is probably the largest building on Skyfall Island and is very well built.

Almost all the children on the island study here, and classes are divided according to different ages. However, the study is closed during the fishing season, and there are a few older children studying with an old master.

Zhan Zhao and the others walked into the study and listened to the sound of reading. They felt that the atmosphere was a bit like Taixue, although the study was built more decently than Taixue.

Fifth Master told Zhan Zhao that these students are probably going to take the imperial examination next year.

An old master, with his hands behind his back, was listening to the children reciting something. When he looked up and saw Bai Yutang and the others coming, he waved out.

"Master." Bai Yutang took the vegetable basket to him.

This master should be the father of the aunt who just asked Bai Yutang to help bring the noodles.

The master nodded and motioned to Bai Yutang and the others who were leaving after delivering the things to wait.

The old master took out a piano and handed it to Bai Yutang, telling him to take it to the piano store to give to his second sister-in-law.

Bai Yutang nodded and led Zhan Zhao and the others to the study.

There is also a small shop in the study, which is full of calligraphy and paintings and all kinds of strange things, many of which look like antiques, and there are many exquisite shellfish ornaments.

"What is this?" Zhan Zhao was curious.

Mr. Wu said that when he went to sea, he would sometimes fish it out with a net, and he would catch some things left in the sea from previous shipwrecks, as well as things made by the children here with shells, all of which were sold here.

Lin Yehuo picked out a very delicate mother-of-pearl bracelet, and Zhan Zhao helped the fourth son pick out a very cute little turtle shell.

The two successfully spent the remaining pocket of "money".

Everyone took the piano and left the study, then walked a short distance forward and came to a small piano building.

In the building, there are several children who are learning the piano.

Han Zhang's wife, Bai Yutang's second sister-in-law, is teaching piano here.

The fifth master gave her the piano, saying that it was the master's piano and the sound might be a little inaccurate.

The second sister-in-law left Qin behind, waved to a little girl, and asked Bai Yutang to help take her home.

The girl came jumping up and down. Zhan Zhao gave her a piece of pastry and took her hand out of the piano store together.

This little girl was born unable to speak. She held a pastry in her mouth and "chatted" with Bai Yutang with gestures.

Fifth Master also gestured with her a few times, and Zhan Zhao and Lin Yehuo followed suit.

Surprisingly, Zou Liang was also proficient in sign language, and he and the little girl had a great time making signs and chatting happily.
To be continued...