Next to Zhao Dahu's house, there is a large piece of river beach. Because it is difficult to grow things, no one has ever cultivated them. However, there are also some people in the village who have little land and are relatively idle. They will go there to grow some beans and pumpkins. Even if the harvest is small, at least they can still harvest some things.

And now, there is a small forest nearby, all of which are Jiang Zhen’s.

Jiang Zhen took the land deeds given by the yamen, invited the yamen runners and officials who came to measure the land deeds to give them to dinner at home, and then gave them one duck each, found a boat to send them back to the county town.

"Jiang Zhen is so awesome. Those yamen runners are so polite to him!"

"He wants such a large piece of land and doesn't know what he is doing..."

"You guys say, do he still want his subordinates? My youngest son wants to follow him too."

"Aren't you afraid that your son is the same as Li Yuan?"

"My youngest son's luck may not be so bad, right? And you know the situation in my family. The family is almost out of trouble. If he doesn't try it out, he will never have a good life in the future."

...

The villagers were talking about Jiang Zhen, but at this moment, the Jiang family had no idea about it. Each of them shrank their heads, for fear that Jiang Zhen would cause trouble for them.

They asked Mrs. Jiang to go to the yamen to report Jiang Zhen. I guess Jiang Zhen already knew about it, and he didn't know how to deal with them...

Just thinking about it, they were worried that they would not be able to do it. That day, Mrs. Jiang, who had been waiting for a long time at the yamen, had fallen ill directly. She had not gotten off the kang yet, which made Huang Min complain constantly.

Old Mrs. Jiang lived with them, but she didn't even want to help with the work, but she even asked her to serve her...

Fortunately, the Jiang Butcher, who had agreed to live with Jiang Chengxiang and his family, would help them take care of the fields, so that she could at least have a little balance.

The Jiang family lived a trembling life, but Jiang Zhen did not plan to do anything to them.

Boss Jiang's obsession has dissipated, and those people are just some annoying strangers to him...

Moreover, this is ancient.

In modern times, when children have the responsibility to support their parents when their parents are unkind, otherwise some people will have to say that they are unfilial, let alone in ancient times.

If he ignores his biological parents' affairs, he will probably not be able to make any mistakes in this era. If he does anything to the Jiang family, he will definitely be criticized.

After all, in the eyes of many people at this time, the butcher Jiang, the butcher, raised him, was just not good to him. He was not enough to raise him, and he could not even get enough to pick his bones and cut his flesh.

If he was alone when he first came to this world, he naturally would not have to be afraid of anything. But now, he plans to live well in this place, and he still needs children.

Jiang Zhen did nothing to the Jiang family, but just completely ignored the family. His attitude actually made it difficult for the Jiang family.

His subordinates, including Hexi Village, are not those scholars who are particularly filial. When these people see that Jiang Zhen does not like the Jiang family, they will bully them when they face the Jiang family. Even Shuang'er, a woman in the village, is unwilling to talk to the Jiang family.

The Jiang family was so isolated, and their lives in the village became increasingly difficult.

At this time, Li Yuan's funeral was held.

In Hexi Village, attending a funeral is called "eating tofu" or "eating tofu rice". Because of the funeral, the most important dish served is tofu.

It is probably because the corpses are difficult to preserve these days. The village does not pay attention to the matter of stopping the soul. Generally, after someone dies, they will call people from the same clan on the same day and start discussing what to do about the funeral. At the same time, they will start preparing filial piety clothes, such as cutting a sack to make a hat for the filial son, or preparing some white, blue, red, strips of cloth.

These cloth strips are worn on the heads of guests who come to mourn. Generally, peers or nephews wear white cloth strips, grandchildren wear dark blue cloth strips, great-grandchildren wear red cloth strips, and those who go downward wear black cloth strips.

Because every household has some such cloth strips, there is actually no need to cut too much. Of course, there are also wealthy families who do not lack money and do not need cloth strips. They prepare a hat of the corresponding color and a belt for everyone who comes to "eat tofu".

Women prepare these things, while men have to go to the funeral one by one, and then buy vegetables, tables, chairs, bowls and chopsticks... Usually, the funeral will officially start the next day.

On the evening of the next day, all relatives and friends would come to deliver some things to kowtow to the deceased and have a tofu meal at this restaurant. On the third day, the deceased will be arranged to be buried.

On the day of the burial, everyone needs to go to the funeral. After the delivery, they still have dinner at the host's house, and it is still tofu rice.

Of course, some families have few families and take a long time to prepare. They will hold funerals one day in the evening, while others die in the early morning. It happens to be summer. The funeral will be completed that morning. In the evening, the funeral will be officially started and buried the next day.

Li Yuan had already passed away, and all he brought back was his clothes, so he didn't have to worry about the decay of the body. Therefore, the Li family did not hold the funeral immediately, but instead found a blind man to see it for a suitable day before it started.

Li Yuan later joined Jiang Zhen's team. Jiang Zhen was actually not familiar with him, but he was his own subordinate, and the Li family came to report the death...

On the night when Li Yuan's funeral was held, Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jin to the Li family. At the same time, all his subordinates from He Xi Village also went there.

When attending a funeral, according to local customs, you have to bring some things to you, which can also be regarded as a helping hand, including incense, candles, a piece of meat or eggs, and some rice and flour. At the door of the Li family, Jiang Ping, who knew the whole village and even the people in the next village, was taking a pen to record for people, recording which basket belongs to which one.

Some of these things sent by others will be used up when the host family holds the funeral. For some very poor families, they rely on these things to finish the funeral.

But the owner will not use up all the things, and will return part of them according to custom, so you must remember who gave what the family gave. After that, the owner will go to the house to "eat tofu rice" and will usually give the same thing.

Before, there was a family in Hexi Village who was particularly stingy and only gave two eggs and a handful of Chenmi when they went to other people's houses for dinner. Later, his house held a funeral, and the same thing was given by others, so in the end, their family's funeral could hardly be handled.

Jiang Zhen didn't know these things, but Zhao Liu was very proficient. The gifts she prepared for Jiang Zhen were also very rich, including a pot of oil, two big candles, two chickens and a basket of eggs.

Jiang Zhen put down these things and gave another two taels of silver.

Jiang Ping recorded it briefly. At this moment, the people who came to the Li family were discussing the funeral of the Li family, and sincerely felt that the funeral of the Li family was very decent.

"The coffin was painted!"

"Did you see that? I have lit two candles and eight oil lamps in total! I have to lit them all these two days and cannot be wiped out."

"The Li family also hired a chef and someone to play the suona."

"The Li family's juniors didn't fool them with a piece of cloth. They all wore blue hats and blue belts. Even the filial piety clothes of Li Yuan and his brothers were newly made."

...

"I heard that after Li Yuan disappeared, Jiang Zhen gave a lot of money."

"I also heard that... Although the Li family has no son, their life will be better."

"Actually, it's not a loss..."

"You guys are quiet, Jiang Zhen and Jiang Zhen's men are all here."

...

Jiang Zhen heard a lot of these comments and felt a little complicated.

At this time, people are really far less concerned about human life than modern people... Of course, this is not a bad thing for him. Just look at these days, countless people are rushing to be his subordinates.

Every time someone comes, the people who play the suona will play for a while, and when everyone comes, they will deliver things, and the banquet will start.

There is no one in Hexi Village who wants to eat vegetarian food when they go, but usually, the funeral is only vegetarian tofu the first day. You have to wait for the night of the funeral, and you will only see a meat dish on the table... After all, everyone is poor.

But the Li family is different.

After the meal, we first served four large bowls of green vegetable tofu on each table. There were lard residue on top of these bowls of tofu. Then, the braised oil tofu served was also meat. The last tofu soup was also beaten with eggs and shredded pork.

Four bowls of green tofu, two bowls of braised oil tofu, and two bowls of tofu soup. There are eight bowls on the table, each with some meat and fish in it. Such a mat is definitely very rich in tofu rice.

On some tables, some children wanted to eat oil residue and meat, but they all started to make a fuss. However, Jiang Zhen was sitting on the table with several subordinates from Hexi Village. Everyone had a good meal these days, so they didn't go to grab food.

Everyone ate silently, even Jiang Ming, who had been relatively free, said nothing and was quiet.

"This green vegetable tofu tastes good." Jiang Zhen said to Brother Zhao Jin, then picked up the bowl of green vegetable tofu in front of him and plucked some into Brother Zhao Jin's bowl - this tofu is tender tofu, and it is difficult to pick up with chopsticks.

"Yes." Brother Zhao Jin nodded and lowered his head to make rice. Seeing this, Jiang Zhen started eating himself.

As soon as Jiang Zhen moved his chopsticks, a man came over from the side and walked to Jiang Zhen, lowered his head and begged quietly: "Boss, can you not drive me away? I was wrong before... I am willing to follow you."

"I always keep my word." Jiang Zhen looked at the other party.

This man was also from Hexi Village, one of his former subordinates. When he met a water bandit, Li Yuan and another Hexi Village were seriously injured. This man said a lot of discourageous words and expressed regret to follow Jiang Zhen.

Jiang Zhen was very unhappy at that time, so he told the man not to follow him in the future... He said so, but when he was away, this man was still regarded as his subordinate by everyone.

This man was a little injured at that time. Later, Jiang Zhen went to fight the bandits and did not follow him, but received compensation from Zheng Yi. Later, Jiang Zhen gave very little bonus, but his wages were not lacking... Seeing so much money, he wanted to continue to follow Jiang Zhen.

Jiang Zhen never told him not to say anything he didn't want him. He thought that Jiang Zhen had forgotten about this. Unexpectedly, after returning to Hexi Village, Jiang Zhen told him that he was no longer his subordinate.

He brought back a lot of things and a lot of money back from the capital. Everyone was envious of him and he was a little arrogant. As a result... he was driven away by Jiang Zhen?

He was unwilling to give up and only came to talk to Jiang Zhen today. Now he begged again: "Boss, I will be obedient in the future..."

"You are useless to say these things now." Jiang Zhen said.

Seeing that Jiang Zhen had a cold face, he didn't dare to speak anymore and left in shame.

"I knew that sooner or later he would regret it." Jiang Ming said: "It's great to follow the boss, you can eat delicious food and drink spicy food!"

Jiang Zhen glanced at Jiang Ming: "I will increase my training in the future. If you can't finish it, you won't be able to eat delicious food and drink spicy food."

This time he went to the capital, Jiang Zhen found that he had many shortcomings. Not to mention anything else, his subordinates had a little short training time.

Now, he is not short of money and can already make Brother Zhao live a good life. Since this is the case, it is better to calm down and train his subordinates and lay the foundation, so that he can develop better in the future.

Of course, before this, he would sell the goods he brought back from the capital and build the house.

Early the next morning, the Li Yuan family gathered a lot of people again. Everyone helped dig a hole in the place that the Li family had already chosen, buried the coffin with Li Yuan's clothes, and held some ceremonies. After two more meals, Li Yuan's funeral ended.

The tofu rice from the Li family is very rich for the villagers, especially the last meal, which not only includes braised pork, but also white-cut chicken. The tofu soup is also cooked with the soup of the cooked chicken!

However, such meals are very ordinary for Jiang Zhen. After all, the Zhao family’s food is quite good now.

However, he was not going to be able to eat the Zhao family's food for the time being. After attending Li Yuan's funeral, Jiang Zhen planned to go to the city and sell the goods he brought back.

That night, after "prenatal education", Jiang Zhen told Brother Zhao Jin about his plans.

"I'll go too." Brother Zhao Jin said immediately.

"Brother Jin, you are pregnant..." Jiang Zhen hesitated. He didn't plan to take Brother Zhao with him this time, after all, he only went there for a few days - the goods are very easy to sell these days, and Zheng Yi introduced him to a few merchants, so the goods were not worried about selling them at all.

"I want to go too." Brother Zhao Jin said.

Jiang Zhen thought about it and agreed, and then approached Brother Zhao Jin: "Brother Jin, are you reluctant to part with me?"

Brother Zhao Jin said "yes", of course he couldn't bear to part with Jiang Zhen, and... he was afraid that some little fairy would take advantage of his absence to seduce Jiang Zhen.

When Jiang Zhen heard Brother Zhao’s answer, he felt so happy that he couldn’t do it. He pounced on him and overwhelmed him, and then kissed him several times.

"Be careful..." Brother Zhao Jin hugged his stomach.

"I've always been very careful." Jiang Zhen said, lowered his head and kissed Brother Zhao Jin's stomach, and then took off Brother Zhao Jin's clothes.

Brother Zhao Jin always felt that his body was not good-looking. Now that he was pregnant, he felt that his body was a little ugly. Fortunately, he was as cold as today, so he always stayed in the quilt, so Jiang Zhen couldn't see it.

Today was just like usual. After a while, Brother Zhao Jin was stripped of his clothes by Jiang Zhen and finally lay naked in the quilt.

Jiang Zhen touched Zhao Jin's hand in the Bible quilt. After touching for a while, he suddenly stopped.

The weather has been getting colder recently, and it has become very inconvenient when he and Zhao Jin Ge do business, and they have to be in bed throughout the whole process.

Because of this, he hasn't seen Brother Zhao Jin well for a long time, and many positions are not convenient - it would be fine if Brother Zhao Jin was not pregnant. Brother Zhao Jin is now pregnant, so he can't freeze Brother Zhao Jin anymore.
To be continued...