15. Other twins
The Shuang'er who talked to Jiang Zhen was named He Qiusheng.
He Qiusheng's family is also very poor. To be honest, it is actually similar to Brother Zhao's family.
The Zhao family was poor because Zhao Liu was in poor health and Zhao Fugui sold land to treat him. He Qiusheng's family was poor because He Qiusheng's father was addicted to gambling.
He Qiusheng's father loved gambling very much and could not help but want to gamble. Although the bet was not too big, he also lost all the family's annual output and valuable things. In the end, he even lost the fields, and the He family's life plummeted.
Neither family has money, but compared with Brother Zhao Jin, He Qiusheng's life is one in the sky and one in the ground. This is because He's family has many, and it is because He Qiusheng grew up so well.
He Qiusheng's father is a mud that cannot be supported by the wall, but He Qiusheng's two brothers are both down-to-earth and hardworking, and his father has several brothers.
The uncles of the He family were very disgusted with He Qiusheng's father who had been unchanged and were no longer willing to care about him, but they would help him with a few nephews, and He Qiusheng and his two brothers grew up well.
Now He Qiusheng's two brothers have grown up, and their family life is getting better.
He Qiusheng is also very good-looking, which makes his life particularly comfortable.
Although He Qiusheng is just a Shuang'er, he looks a little better than the most beautiful girl in the village. Naturally, he has been loved since childhood, and the boys in the village are particularly willing to take care of him.
He doesn't have to do anything when he goes out to cut pig grass with others. He only needs to call him a few sweet words.
When he went fishing with others, he didn't have to go into the water, so someone gave him the biggest fish he caught, and he just gave him a smile.
In Hejia Village, He Qiusheng has always been held by boys of the same age. If he hadn't been young, the He family would have spoken to him to wait until he was sixteen before discussing his marriage. The threshold of his family would have been broken by a matchmaker.
That's right, He Qiusheng is not sixteen yet, only fifteen years old, and is ten years younger than Boss Jiang. Therefore, the two had no contact at all before, and Boss Jiang did not have a deep impression of him - such a beautiful Shuang'er, Boss Jiang used to dare not take a look at him.
This was the first time Jiang Zhen saw the so-called beautiful Shuang'er. He couldn't help but look at it a few more times, but after seeing it, he was a little disappointed. He has always liked strong and well-informed men, and He Qiusheng... He not only looks like a woman, but also behaves more like a woman, which is really not to Jiang Zhen's appetite.
"Brother Jiang, can you give me the snake you caught?" Seeing Jiang Zhen staring at him, He Qiusheng smiled at Jiang Zhen, and his voice became sweeter.
He looked down on Boss Jiang, but the snake that Jiang Zhen caught made him a little envious, so he wanted to bring the snake from Boss Jiang, but he didn't think Boss Jiang would be unwilling.
An old bachelor like Boss Jiang usually gives him what he wants as long as he goes up and talks.
"Do you want this snake?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"Yes." He Qiusheng looked at Jiang Zhen and blinked his big eyes, his eyes full of desire.
"This snake weighs about five pounds, and it's enough to catch a chicken. You can exchange it with me and I'll give you the snake." Jiang Zhen said.
He Qiusheng's face changed suddenly. He didn't expect that Boss Jiang would reject him. He thought so beautifully... It was just a snake. This old bachelor actually wanted to exchange a chicken for himself?!
Jiang Zhen came from modern times. At that time, a pound of snake meat costs hundreds of dollars and a pound of chicken costs ten dollars, so he didn't think there was any problem with using snake meat to exchange for chickens. But for He Qiusheng, he said such words, which was definitely a brain problem.
Can the snakes caught outside compare with the chickens raised at home? Even if Jiang Zhen was carrying a chicken, he would not ask for it because he felt that others would definitely not give it to him.
Men in the village often give him things, including loaches, eels, and eggs, but no one will give him a whole chicken. After all, for the villagers, chickens are considered important property in the family.
"You want me to exchange the chicken?" He Qiusheng asked again, thinking that he had heard it wrong.
"If you don't want to change, just get out of here and don't block me." Jiang Zhen said again, going straight to the river to wash snakes, and never looked at He Qiusheng again.
This was the first time that He Qiusheng was so untook so seriously, and he was so angry that he glared at Jiang Zhen fiercely: "Hmph! Who cares about your snake!" After that, he left without looking back.
"Boss Jiang, you are so tough-hearted. You don't care about such a beautiful Shuang'er." A middle-aged woman washing vegetables next to her said. Although He Qiusheng likes to take advantage of some small gains, he is still quite sensible and only takes things from men who have not married. Therefore, the villagers do not hate him and are quite considerate.
This pair of sons is not lucky enough to have a father who is poor and doesn’t even have land, so they don’t have much food to ask for.
Jiang Zhen didn't say anything, he didn't think He Qiusheng was beautiful at all, let alone the snake was cooked and taken to share with Brother Zhao Jin. Why give it to someone who was inexplicable? Of course, if someone was willing to exchange the chicken... Compared to the snake with a little old meat, he now wants to eat relatively oily chicken.
Peel off the snake's skin and ripped off the snake's intestines, and Jiang Zhen washed the snake cleanly.
The snake gall was considered to be the same good thing in Hexi Village, but Jiang Zhen was not interested in it, so he gave it to the middle-aged woman next to him and asked the woman to take it back for her grandson to eat.
When Jiang Zhen returned home with a big snake, Old Lady Jiang and Jiang Xiaomei were making dinner, while Jiang butcher Jiang was talking to Jiang Chengcai and asked Jiang Chengcai to go to the ground with him tomorrow.
Obviously, after he was unwilling to go to work in the fields, the Jiang family's farm work was a little too late.
Of course, that has nothing to do with Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen didn't hold a knife today, but he was carrying a snake, which made Jiang butcher still dare not call him to do things. Jiang Zhen just thought that he didn't know that the farm work at home was endless, and sat on the threshold and waited for dinner to be ready.
On the other hand, Zhao Jinge quietly left the river while Jiang Zhen was washing the snake and had already returned home.
Before he could wash his hands and feet by the river, he used a gourd ladle to scoop the water from his own water tank to wash. After washing it, he stared at his reflection in the water tank again.
If he was a man, his appearance was too rough and not good-looking for the city people, but he was pretty good in the country, but he was a twin.
Jiang Zhen was even able to act like a hooligan when he was so handsome, and even said he wanted to kiss him...
Even Jiang Zhen rejected He Qiusheng.
Although Jiang Zhen may not have rejected He Qiusheng for his sake, Brother Zhao Jin was still very happy at this moment, but he didn't dare to show his face.
He tried hard to raise his face, and then he saw that he seemed to frown in the water tank, not gentle at all, and he was suddenly a little discouraged.
"Brother Jin, what are you doing?" Zhao Liu saw his son staring at the water tank with a bitter and revengeful look and kept shouting.
"It's okay." Zhao Jin Ge said: "Mom, there's no water in the water tank, I'll pick some more back."
"Okay." Zhao Liu nodded in agreement. There were many rivers here, and they went to the river to wash clothes, but the water tank also had to prepare cooking water. She was in poor health and could not keep walking, and she even used water in the water tank to wash dishes.
When Brother Zhao Jin was carrying a load to the river, he passed by several families in the village and heard someone talking about Jiang Zhen, and he stopped again.
"Then Boss Jiang is like a different person. I heard that he not only doesn't work now, but also wants to eat and drink well and have two eggs a day!"
"The Jiang family used to treat him too harshly, otherwise how could he be forced into this?"
"But he has passed this way. How miserable his mother cried today. I just want to say that I have raised this son for nothing."
"She didn't raise Boss Jiang very much..."
"But she is Boss Jiang's mother after all. Boss Jiang can even use a knife to his own mother, which is too much."
...
Everyone was talking about it. Although they thought Jiang Zhen was understandable, they also felt that he had done it.
When Brother Zhao Jin heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Zhen was really eating well now and did not save food for him, which made him not feel too guilty.
The Zhao family still drinks porridge at night. The weather has been a little hotter recently, and the vegetables in the fields are about to bloom. They have to be eaten early. The dishes are big bowls of boiled vegetables.
After drinking two bowls of porridge and eating a large bowl of vegetables, Brother Zhao Jin was considered to be full of water.
After eating, Zhao Fugui took out the money he earned from working in a short-term job these days and gave it to Zhao Liu.
The Zhao family was reluctant to light the lights. After Zhao Fugui talked about the money he had made in the past few days, he went back to his room to sleep with Zhao Liu. Zhao Jin and Geopeng should have gone back to his room to sleep, but in the end, he was so stupid that he actually opened the door and went out next to the thatched hut of the Jiang family.
"Brother Jin, are you waiting for me?" Jiang Zhen's voice suddenly sounded again. Brother Zhao turned his head and saw Jiang Zhen holding two bamboo tubes.
"Jiang Zhen..."
"Brother Jin, I caught a snake today, let's eat it together?" Jiang Zhen shook the bamboo tube in his hand.
After dinner today, he went to Jiang's kitchen and chopped the snake into pieces and cooked it.
Old Mrs. Jiang hid all the soy sauce, lard, rapeseed oil, and so on, leaving only a little salt in the kitchen. He was too lazy to ask her for seasonings, so he planned to cook the snake and eat it casually. As a result, Old Mrs. Jiang insisted on talking nonstop outside the kitchen, despising him that it took too much firewood to eat with the snake meat.
Then... Jiang Zhen forced Old Mrs. Jiang to take out the vegetable oil and soy sauce with a knife.
He took out the snake meat that had been boiled in the water for a while, put the oil in the pot first, then put the snake meat in and stir-fry it briefly, and finally added soy sauce and a little water to boil it for a while... Although Jiang Zhen was a good cook, he also made a pot of fragrant snake meat.
Then, he took the snake meat back to the room and did not leave it to the rest of the Jiang family.
Jiang Yuanwen, the treasure of the Jiang family, cried because she didn't eat snake meat. Old Mrs. Jiang kept criticizing her. Jiang Zhen was annoyed and simply put two bamboo tubes of meat on the door and locked the door. He planned to find Brother Zhao Jin.
He was a little worried at first, worried that Brother Zhao Jin was already asleep and could not call Brother Zhao Jin out of his house. Unexpectedly, he saw Brother Zhao Jin from a distance and was immediately delighted.
Chapter completed!