On New Year's Eve, Jiang Zhen originally wanted to watch the night, but was driven back to sleep by Zhao Liushi.

Hexi Village doesn’t care much about the night watch. The villagers don’t even know when it’s midnight. Usually, after the New Year’s Eve dinner, everyone goes to bed.

However, on the first day of the New Year, everyone will get up very early.

Jiang Zhen took Brother Zhao Jin back to the room, then opened the red envelope in his hand and looked at it. After opening it, he found that it was actually not silver but gold.

The money he spent on Zhao Fugui and his wife was all silver. It was probably Zhao Fugui took the silver to the county town and exchanged it for him.

Jiang Zhen put him away and once again felt that traveling to ancient times was not bad.

Although it is not convenient to take a shower here, he has a home at least.

That night, Jiang Zhen did not do anything to Brother Zhao Jin. Instead, he touched his stomach and said something to him. As he spoke, the two of them fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, they were awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

There have been firecrackers these days, but most people in Hexi Village cannot afford firecrackers. In previous years, only Zhao's family would set off firecrackers. This year, more people set off firecrackers.

What woke them up was the firecrackers they were set off at home.

Jiang Zhen thought it was already very late, but when he heard the noise, he looked out and found that it was still dark, and he couldn't help but feel speechless for a moment.

"The earlier the firecrackers are set off, the more prosperous the family is this year... Dad may not have slept." Brother Zhao Jin said.

"I'll go and have a look." Jiang Zhen put on the cotton pants and jacket made by Zhao Liu, opened the door and went out, and then saw Zhao Fugui lit a mulberry strip, and was about to ignite the second firecracker far away from the firecracker.

As it was cold today and the wind was strong, the mulberry strip was blown out soon, so he put it into the fire next to him, lit it before continuing to light firecrackers.

"Dad, let me do it." Jiang Zhen said, the firecrackers these days are not as good as those in later generations. Zhao Fugui did this, and I don't know how long it would take to ignite the second one...

Zhao Fugui was very relieved about Jiang Zhen and was about to give Jiang Zhen the mulberry strips in his hand. However, Jiang Zhen took the mulberry strips, but instead of using the mulberry strips to light the firecrackers, he walked over and picked up the firecrackers placed in the open space and threw them into the fire.

Zhao Fugui: "..." Why didn't he expect that he could do this?

Zhao Fugui was just thinking that he was a little stupid, but he saw the firecracker explode in the fire, sparks splashing everywhere. If they weren't close, they might have exploded.

Zhao Fugui: "..."

No matter what, they finally ordered all the firecrackers that Jiang Zhen bought. Not long after the sound of the firecrackers on their side, the sound of firecrackers also sounded from Zhao Dahu's house.

The new year is here.

It snowed twice in Hexi Village before the New Year, but it did not accumulate snow on the ground. The snow melted the next day, and the impact on the people of Hexi Village was not as good as rain.

As for the New Year, the weather has been very Qin Lang.

On the third day of the Chinese New Year, Jiang Zhen called all his subordinates back and continued to train. Such behaviors in modern times will probably be considered inhumane, but no one thought that this was wrong at this time.

Especially, Jiang Zhen made a new outfit for his subordinates a few years ago.

Therefore, starting from the third day of the Chinese New Year, there were often a group of people wearing the same dark blue clothes running across the village, shouting "one, two, three, four".

Most of these people are not from Hexi Village. Most of the people who work on the land that Jiang Zhen bought are the most. They are rescued by Jiang Zhen from the water bandits. For a moment, Hexi Village was much more lively than before.

When Dayu was controlling the flood, he passed by his house three times but did not enter, but Jiang Zhen was different. He and his men passed by the Zhao family. Even if he did nothing, he had to go into the house to see Brother Zhao Jin. Later, Brother Zhao Jin simply stopped staying in the house, but instead turned over the land near the Zhao family.

Jiang Zhen was a little worried at first and didn't want him to do it. Later, after seeing a woman in the village with a stubborn belly and still turning over the ground, she stopped stopping Brother Zhao Jin from doing things.

However, when Zhao Jin's brother flipped over the ground near his home and wanted to transfer it to the other fields that Jiang Zhen bought, he was stopped by Jiang Zhen: "Brother Jin, if you think you have nothing to do, why don't you help me manage the brick kiln?"

The two craftsmen brought back by Jiang Zhen had already made the first brick kiln and burned a batch of very crisp defective products. Most of the defective products were finally picked up by the children in the village.

These children usually can play with just a stone for a long time. Now they get some bricks, so they are very strange. They also want to use those bricks to grind out wheels to play with them.

However, those well-made blue bricks can be polished out of wheels, but these semi-red and non-green bricks that are not evenly heated cannot do this, and they end up only getting some broken bricks.

As a result, these broken bricks were finally picked up by the villagers of Hexi Village, intending to mix them with soil to build chicken coops and pigpens.

"Okay, I'll help you watch." Brother Zhao Jin nodded and said immediately.

Brother Zhao Jin went to the brick kiln, while Jiang Zhen continued to stare at his subordinates in training, and found some people to dig a lot of soil by the canal, creating an inverted port where many ships can be docked.

This is a huge project, but it is not slow to do, and the expenses are much less than what Jiang Zhen thought.

The reason why the progress can get faster is because Jiang Zhen spent money to hire Hexi Village and people from the surrounding villages to help.

Each person had twenty cents a day, plus a meal. The conditions given by Jiang Zhen attracted people from Hexi Village and many surrounding villages, and everyone was rushing to work for him.

Although you can only buy a pound of pork for twenty cents, in the countryside, most people have no place to make money. Now it is the slack farming season and it is still a time when food is short of food in spring...

Not only can I go to dig and dig to manage food, but I still have twenty cents to take it. This is a good thing! People from nearby villages almost ran around and told each other, and everyone was rushing to work for Jiang Zhen.

I can hire two hundred people for four taels of silver every day. These two hundred people are afraid of being fired and work very hard... It is difficult to build the dock even if I want to slow down.

Jiang Zhen spent money to hire nearby villagers, and Brother Zhao Jin did the same thing.

Several brick kilns have been built, and more experiments can be carried out and more bricks can be fired, but in this way, firewood and brick blanks are not enough...

Brother Zhao Jin asked the woman Shuang'er and the child in the village to help make bricks, and paid according to how much money they made. If they were not done well, they would not pay for them, and at the same time they bought firewood.

As a result, they immediately had no shortage of bricks and firewood. There was not much firewood available in Hexi Village and the surrounding villages. Some people even rode boats to buy firewood and sold it to Zhao Jinge to make a difference.

Before he knew it, Jiang Zhen came to this place for a year.

He also accidentally heard people talk about the Jiang family, and then suddenly remembered it.

When Jiang Zhen recruits people to work, of course it is impossible to recruit those who are annoyed by him. Therefore, the Jiang family doesn’t want it, and this undoubtedly makes the Jiang family even more excluded.

At the same time, something happened to the Jiang family.

The first time the Jiang family sold land was to pay off their debts, and to give Jiang Chengxiang twenty taels of silver to clear their relationship, and to find an errand in the county town. It was also because Jiang Chengxiang asked his family for money like this that Jiang Chengcai insisted on asking for forty taels of silver to do business.

Later, Jiang Chengcai lost all his money, and Jiang Chengxiang said that he had found a job in the county town, but in fact... he didn't take a penny home.

Just at the beginning of the year, as the conflict between Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang became increasingly serious, Jiang Chengcai followed Jiang Chengxiang, and then... he found that Jiang Chengxiang had not worked at all, and after entering the city, he hid in a small house and couldn't come out!

It turned out that Jiang Chengxiang had never found anything he could do in the county town. However, Jiang and the butcher and his wife were urging him to work in an urgent manner, so they could not find work. The villagers also looked at him with strange eyes, so he couldn't stand it.

He wanted to delay for a while and give himself more time to find errands. After thinking about it, he finally came up with a way - lied that he had found the errand and asked the butcher Jiang for some money, and then he could live in the county town and find errands with peace of mind!

Jiang Chengxiang got the money as he wished, but later he found that he seemed to have entered a dead end.

He lied to the fact that he had found an errand. Since this is the case, he naturally could not go all over the streets to find an errand, otherwise... what should I do if I saw it by people from Hexi Village or know people?

In the end, Jiang Chengxiang had to rent a house. He hid in the county town every day after going to the county town, and then came out after hiding for a day, and then asked for any errands that could be done.

When Zhu Shufen had a child, the rest of the Jiang family didn't go to the county town much, so he actually hid it. However, Jiang Chengcai's follow-up still made what he did know.

The Jiang family started to make trouble. This trouble was so big that Huang Min and Zhu Shufen actually gave birth prematurely together.

Although Huang Min was lazy, it was his second time to give birth to a baby. He soon gave birth to a boy and could eat it after giving birth. He was not injured, but Zhu Shufen was different.

Zhu Shufen has the first child and is difficult to give birth. She doesn't walk much. Even if she lives in the countryside, she doesn't go out and goes out. This premature birth... ends up with a difficult delivery.

She had run out of amniotic fluid, and she had difficulty giving birth to a thin girl, and she lost half her life.

Jiang Chengxiang couldn't even take good care of himself, and obviously he was incapable of taking care of his wife and children. In desperation, he could only ask for help from Mrs. Jiang.

Old Mrs. Jiang is now with Jiang Chengcai and Huang Min, but when her youngest son is in trouble, she can't help... She just helps Jiang Chengxiang take care of Zhu Shufen and Jiang Chengxiang's daughters.

Old Mrs. Jiang wanted to take care of Zhu Shufen, so she naturally neglected her care for Huang Min. After Huang Min didn't have enough diapers to change her son, she became angry and told Old Mrs. Jiang not to take care of Zhu Shufen anymore, otherwise she would not support Old Mrs. Jiang!

Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang, Mrs. Jiang Chengcai, is a fan of her second son, and not to mention that Jiang Chengcai gave birth to two grandsons for her!

Old Mrs. Jiang loved Huang Min's two sons to the core. However, the thin girl born by Zhu Shufen hated her as soon as she saw it, and even wanted her to die early to save food.

Such a child who sobbed and cried all day long but couldn't cry loudly, as she was not as a mother... In the eyes of Mrs. Jiang, she was just unable to support her.

Now that Huang Min is having a fuss, Old Mrs. Jiang is unwilling to take care of Zhu Shufen again.

When she gave birth to a child for the first time, not only did she not have the help of her mother-in-law, but Jiang butcher Jiang also joined the army. She didn't live a good life, so why couldn't Zhu Shufen?

Old Mrs. Jiang was unwilling to take care of Zhu Shufen anymore, and Jiang Chengxiang became popular. He turned a blind eye to Jiang Chengcai's butcher helping Jiang Chengcai to do farm work, but now he did not allow Jiang Chengcai to do work for Jiang Chengcai.

Jiang Chengcai was extremely disappointed with Jiang Chengcai and liked Jiang Chengxiang more. He also hoped that Jiang Chengxiang could support him, so he naturally did not dare to offend Jiang Chengxiang and did not really want to help Jiang Chengcai...

After such a fuss... Although they had separated the houses, Jiang Butcher and Mrs. Jiang, who still slept in the same house, both slept in separate rooms. They also divided the houses and separated the houses clearly and clearly.

The four south-facing rooms of the Jiang family, one brother and two rooms, all of them took some things and blocked the boundary. They made up their minds to stop coming and going.

The farces of the Jiang family eventually became topics of conversation among the villagers, and everyone became less and less happy with their family. When Mrs. Jiang went to the river to wash diapers, she was driven away: "We want to wash rice and vegetables here. Can't you stay away from washing diapers?"

"That's right, you are too ignorant!"

"This river is not yours."

...

Old Mrs. Jiang froze, took the basin to wash the canal, and then walked not far away, she met Zhao Liu.

Mrs. Zhao Liu also came out to wash clothes, but she didn't even hold a wooden barrel and a basin. All of these were taken by Mrs. Li for her.

After being raised by Jiang Zhen for more than half a year, Zhao Liu's face is now rosy and doesn't look like an old lady.

But in fact, what? She is a few years older than Old Lady Jiang.

Old Mrs. Jiang looked at her increasingly thin arms and was stunned.

But she was stunned for a while and then went to work.

There is still a lot of things to do at home, and she also needs to do the farm work in the field. She must wash the diapers as soon as possible.

When Mrs. Jiang arrived at the canal, she suddenly saw Jiang Butcher holding a basin of diapers and was actually washing.
To be continued...