Brother Zhao Jin stood blankly, not daring to respond.

Zhao Liushi said again: "Why don't you tell me that you actually made Jiang Zhen burn all the clay pots at home. Even if you have money now, you can't waste things like this..."

Brother Zhao Jin still didn't respond and slowly moved to the bed, intending to lie on the bed - Jiang Zhen closed the door when he went out, but that was all that. With the door bolt inside not tied, the door could be opened as soon as he pushed it.

Fortunately, Zhao Liu left after saying a few words without hearing the response. She just thought that Brother Zhao was still asleep, so there was no sound, so she did not disturb her son's sleep.

Brother Zhao Jin sat on the bed and found that his mother had left. He breathed a sigh of relief. Then he realized that the quilt he was wrapped in was covered in black and gray.

After Jiang Zhen lit the fire last night, although he cleaned it briefly this morning, he did not clean up all the ash on the ground. He was a little scared just now and accidentally dragged the quilt to the ground.

If the quilt is dragged on the ground, it will inevitably be covered with a lot of dust. The quilt horns are black now...

After wrapping the quilt again, Brother Zhao Jin put on his clothes, he began to remove the quilt cover and prepare to take it to wash.

At this time, Zhao Liu discovered that Jiang Zhen seemed to have more than just tossed out a few clay pots last night...

There was less egg oil and bacon in the kitchen, less leftover rice, and the bag of charcoal bought for money disappeared.

She did smell the scent of her son's room last night. Did these two people go to cook in the middle of the night?

It's so hard to mess up!

Zhao Liu was too busy to get free, so he took the initiative to cook rice, but cooked it by cook Li, cooked it by Jiang Xiaomei, and Ruoer helped wash the vegetables.

Zhao Liu was idle and went outside, but he saw his son washing his quilt.

"Brother Jin, I just washed you this quilt before, why did you wash it again?" Zhao Liu asked with a frown.

"It's a little gray." Brother Zhao Jin said.

Zhao Liu took a look and found that the water washed out was black now. The quilt was probably stained with dust: "Jiang Zhen came out to wash the quilt today because it was stained with dust? Did you knock the copper foot stove over the bed? Be careful if you know it in the future."

"Yes." Brother Zhao Jin lowered his head and responded. After hearing that Jiang Zhen had washed the bed sheets, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Also, don't let Jiang Zhen wash the bed sheets in the future. When others see it, they will definitely think that we treat him, the son-in-law, so they will let him, a big man, wash the bed sheets." Zhao Liu said again, moving a small stool to help Brother Zhao Jin wash. After finding that the water was cold, he frowned again: "Why are you washing with cold water? Are you not afraid of being frozen in such a cold day?!"

Brother Zhao Jin was driven back to the house, and Zhao Liu asked Ruoer to wash the quilt together. Both of them were weak, and each of them held one end and slowly twisted it to wring it out. Then they lanched it with Jiang Zhen's washed bed sheets together.

When Jiang Zhen came back, he saw the bed sheets and quilts sunburn together, floating in the wind.

Hexi Village does not pay much attention to this morning meal. In the past, Zhao Liu always drinks porridge for breakfast, which means changing the dishes that are served. But now, when Li cooks, there are many ways to eat.

For example, today I ate rice porridge with green vegetables and buns.

The vegetables were kneaded by Li's hands last night with salt. After marinating them all night, they not only had the fragrance of fresh vegetables, but also because the moisture was pickled and kneaded. They did not become soft and rotten like fresh vegetables.

Brother Zhao Jin likes this bun very much and ate it better with the porridge in one go.

Jiang Zhen also liked this bun, and also ate a lot. After eating it, he told me about himself and Brother Zhao’s going to the city.

"Those goods should be sold quickly." Zhao Fugui nodded, without any objection at all, but Zhao Liu blamed Zhao Jin Ge: "Why do you still have to take Jin Ge? Did he pester him to go? This child has to run out with a big belly, which is too unreasonable!"

"Mom, I'm just going to the Mansion City, it's okay." Jiang Zhen said that Brother Zhao's situation is indeed not suitable for traveling far away, but if you go to the Mansion City, which is only one day away, there is no problem at all.

Brother Zhao Jin: "..." Mom, you asked me to follow me before...

After saying a few words to Brother Zhao, Zhao began to tell him what to bring: "If it's cold today, it's best to bring more quilts and so on. Mom will find someone to make a few quilts for you later, and also have some food and drinks for you..."

Brother Zhao Jin cooked it as soon as he said he had breakfast, and after he went to call someone familiar with the village to help make the quilt.

Every household in Hexi Village raises silkworms, but they don’t plant much cotton. The quilts they cover are all silk quilts. However, it is good to make silk quilts, but it is not suitable to make mattresses on the bed, so the mattresses are basically made of cotton.

When Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge got married, Zhao Liu paid someone to help make cotton mattresses and pulled two silk quilts.

Most of the silkworms raised by people in Hexi Village will sell for money after they form cocoons, but some of them will be left for their own use. They will cook these cocoons in a pot and soak them in water for a few days.

After a few days, the woman or Shuang'er will peel off the soft-soaked calluses, dig out the silkworm pupa inside, then pull it open and put it on his hands. After putting a few layers, he will also pull it into square silk slices.

After this thing is dried, it will be called a cotton bag by people in Hexi Village. When you want to make a quilt or a silk cotton jacket, you will take it out and lay one or two door panels. Finally, the two people stand on both sides of the door panel to pull the cotton bags open, covering the door panels with the quilt cover layer by layer, and finally pull out the silk quilt.

The Zhao family has not raised silkworms for many years. Not only did Zhao Liu not prepare cotton bags, but he also forgot his skills in pulling quilts. He spent money to buy some cotton bags with people, and then found a few more people to help pull the quilts.

Although silk in the north is very expensive, in Hexi Village, the price of cotton bags is not expensive, so if you ask someone to help pull the quilt, you just need to take care of a meal.

Given that the Zhao family's food was so good, Shuang'er, the woman in the village, was still rushing to come.

The Zhao family suddenly became lively. Finally, Zhao Liu simply found a few cotton jackets and asked someone to help attract new ones.

"Sister Liu, your life is getting better and better now." Seeing that Zhao Liu was wearing a golden hairpin on his head, someone sighed.

"Yes." Zhao Liu said, and couldn't help laughing.

"Although your brother-in-law came late, he was lucky and his life would be better and better in the future." Someone said again.

When Zhao Liu heard this, he nodded in agreement.

She didn't want to show off at first, but after being flattered by someone, she couldn't help it: "My brother Jin is a lucky person. The matchmaker He said before that he didn't have children... Look at it, how long has he been married! He got pregnant!"

"But now, he is really becoming more and more charming. He felt cold last night and asked Jiang Zhen to light a brazier for him, but he even ordered a bag of charcoal."

"It was midnight and I was eating pork and eggs, and most people couldn't stand him."

...

Zhao Liu was just talking happily, but suddenly someone touched her with his elbow.

"What's wrong?" Zhao Liu asked.

"Zhao Liu, we know that Jiang Zhen is kind to Brother Zhao Jin, but... I'll just tell you a few truth... I'm going to tell you, right? Is this Jiang Zhen a big man or a promising person? You should be kind to him."

"Yes, I heard you asked him to do laundry... How inappropriate is this."

"Don't treat others too badly, otherwise he will run away..."

...

Zhao Liu suddenly felt a little wronged.

Zhao Liu was pulled and told by several of his friends. Jiang Xiaomei suddenly rushed in from outside excitedly: "Aunt Zhao! Aunt Zhao, my brother got a horse back! A horse! This is the first time I have seen a horse!"

"Ma?" Zhao Liu was shocked. The person who was pulling the quilt became curious.

"The horse has entered the village!" Jiang Xiaomei said again.

The people in the room immediately ran out in a hurry. After going out, they saw a majestic horse standing not far from the Zhao family.

In the countryside of Hexi Village, there are still cows. Although there are not in their village, there are people in the next village who raise cows.

But horses are very rare, and they can occasionally see horses pulling carriages in the county town.

And this horse was a very precious thing in the eyes of everyone, and now, Jiang Zhen actually brought back a horse!

People stood far away and didn't dare to get close to the horse at all, but they couldn't bear to leave.

This horse was brought back by Jiang Zhen.

After taking the horse and the carriage back to Hecheng County, Jiang Zhen suddenly realized that the carriage could not be used at all here.

Not only that, the horse had been on the boat for a long time and became very uneasy, but he had no one under his command who could serve the horse...

Jiang Zhen thought about it and simply fostered the horse in the Zheng family. He then chose one from the people he rescued and went to learn how to raise horses from the Zheng family's groom.

Half a month passed, the horse had been raised, and the person who served the horse was already familiar with the horse and could take good care of the horse. Jiang Zhen brought the horse from the Zheng family to Hexi Village.

As for the carriage... I can't use it for the time being, and I can't bear to use such a good carriage to load the goods, so I still sent it to the Zheng family.

Jiang Zhen actually got a horse from the capital! Zhao Liu looked at the horse and felt very proud. He was a little afraid of a horse that was much taller than him, so he refused to come forward...

Before setting out for the capital, Jiang Zhen did a lot of things. In addition to taking the horse home from the county town, he also taught the two families a lesson.

One of them is the family of Zhao Liu.

When Zhao Liu's family made trouble at the wedding of Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge, they were beaten by Jiang Zhen. Jiang Zhen even asked them to pay back the money... As a result, they insisted on not paying it back.

Jiang Zhen had a lot of things at that time, so he didn't care about them. Later, he went to the capital and didn't care about them anymore. Instead, he let them live a comfortable life. This time he heard that Jiang Zhen had made money and came back from the Zhao family to try to fight Qiufeng and ask Zhao Liu for money.

Although the Zhao Liu family was sold by them at the beginning, they still felt that if Zhao Liu family had money, they had to take care of their parents' family.

However, they thought it well, but before they could implement it, Jiang Zhen's subordinates in their village told Jiang Zhen their plans, and then...

Before they could see Zhao Liu, they were beaten by Jiang Zhen's men. Not only that, the money they borrowed from Zhao Liu was doubled.

Jiang Zhen found an opportunity to give this money to Zhao Liu.

Zhao Liu did not know that this was coming back from his parents' home, and he thought it was the household purchase that Jiang Zhen paid. Jiang Zhen had given her several times before, but he always said that it was household purchase.

Jiang Zhen didn't explain to Zhao Liu, and then went to do something else after laughing.

The second family member that Jiang Zhen taught a lesson was Liang Fufa, who had wanted to buy Jiang Xiaomei.

Originally, Liang Fufa had little to do with Jiang Zhen, but... Jiang Zhen accidentally learned that after they had not bought Jiang Xiaomei, they had deceived a little girl in another village. They thought they would marry someone without spending money and asked the little girl to make a cow and horse for their family.

Jiang Zhen did not teach a lesson in person, so he only asked his subordinates to beat Liang Fufa, which made him feel the feeling of being beaten. After learning that his original wife had already been hiding back to her parents' home, he also helped the woman get a document of divorce.

A man who likes to beat women is worse than letting them not marry a woman!

After Jiang Zhen returned from the capital, he lived in Hexi Village for twenty days, and it was already December.

The New Year will be held in less than a month. If he doesn't sell the goods, he will have to keep them for the New Year.

Taking Zhao Jinge and his fleet, Jiang Zhen left Hecheng County and went to the capital city.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, the city becomes very lively and all kinds of things are easy to sell. After Jiang Zhen contacted several merchants introduced by Zheng Yi, the medicinal materials, jewelry, fur and other things he brought were immediately sold out.

Although the Zheng family lives in Hecheng County, they have some connections in this mansion. Jiang Zhen naturally did not get trouble with Zheng Yi’s post. He just unloaded goods and inspected goods and received money, and always had to delay in the mansion for a few days.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhen inquired about the brick kiln.

There are several brick kilns near Fucheng, and these brick kilns are all under the command of several wealthy families in Fucheng. The people who burn bricks inside have signed contracts with those wealthy families.

Jiang Zhen inquired about it and finally bought one of the families. It took some effort to buy two craftsmen who could burn bricks from that family.

Both of these craftsmen's surname are Zhang, and they are a father and son. The son is only fifteen or sixteen years old and has not yet married. The father has a wife, and in addition to the eldest son who can burn bricks with him, he also has five children.

Jiang Zhen bought the father and son, and the children also came as gifts.
To be continued...