16. It’s better to be fat
Jiang Zhen brought two bamboo tubes of snake flesh, but did not give Zhao Jinge a bamboo tube on the spot.
If he gave Brother Zhao Jin a bamboo tube, each of them would hold a bamboo tube and eat snake meat silently... How could he develop his relationship?
Sitting down with Brother Zhao Jin at the place they sat down yesterday, Jiang Zhen opened a bamboo tube, took out a pair of chopsticks, picked up a piece of snake meat and fed it to Brother Zhao Jin.
Today, Jiang Zhen did not light a candle, and the surroundings became darker, but Brother Zhao could clearly feel the existence of the people around him.
"I burn this snake meat, you can try it." Jiang Zhen's voice sounded, and at the same time, a piece of snake meat was put to Brother Zhao Jin's mouth.
The snake meat emitted a fragrance, which was very tempting, but Brother Zhao Jin could resist this temptation. He only thought that He Qiusheng and Jiang Zhen asked for the snake, Jiang Zhen, but now he gave it to him for food... He suddenly couldn't wait to taste the smell of the snake meat.
Brother Zhao Jin opened his mouth and ate the piece of snake meat, and then he saw Jiang Zhen ate a piece himself.
The snake meat was a little old. Brother Zhao chewed it for a while, then took the hand again before removing the bones inside. After doing these, he felt a little embarrassed.
Zhao Dahu’s children are not allowed to use their hands when they have dinner.
Jiang Zhen didn't pay attention. Seeing that Brother Zhao Jin had finished eating, he picked up another piece and fed it to Brother Zhao Jin: "Is it delicious?"
"It's delicious." Zhao Jin Ge said. He had eaten snakes, but had never eaten such delicious snake meat.
"I'll catch you tomorrow." Jiang Zhen deliberately came to Zhao Jin's ear and said.
Brother Zhao Jin felt a heat squirting into his ears, causing his hands and feet to tremble. He calmed down and finally had the strength to bite the snake flesh in his mouth. He asked a question that had been puzzled by him for a long time: "He Qiusheng asked you for a snake before, why didn't you give it to him?"
"How did you know that He Qiusheng asked me for a snake?" Jiang Zhen asked, but he felt a little funny. He had already developed the habit of checking the surrounding situation anytime and anywhere. At that time, Brother Zhao was hiding behind the tree, so he naturally discovered it. After all, Brother Zhao was the one he was most familiar with in this world.
However, he didn't want to expose it from the beginning, but instead performed well. Of course, even if Brother Zhao was not here, he would still perform well. Shuang'er, who was so thin, was really not his dear.
"I... I heard from others." Brother Zhao Jin lowered his head, and was very confident when he spoke.
This person really doesn't even know how to tell a lie... But Jiang Zhen likes this: "That He Qiusheng is not as good as you, and it's not mine. Of course I won't give him the snake... My things will be yours in the future."
Jiang Zhen was showing loyalty, but Brother Zhao felt that he was talking nonsense.
This person actually said that He Qiusheng is not as good-looking as him... He has no problem with his eyes? But the latter sentence is the truth.
No matter how He Qiusheng did, he would never like Jiang Zhen, and he would not be the one who was Jiang Zhen... Jiang Zhen knew this, so it was normal not to give him the snake.
If he had worked hard to catch something, Zhao Dahu's son, who had passed the scholar's examination, asked him for something, but he wouldn't give it to him. Even though Zhao Dahu's son was the most capable man in Hexi Village.
After thinking about this, Brother Zhao Jin figured it out and was no longer confused. He ate a few more pieces of snake meat, thinking that he would give Jiang Zhen something to him: "I can catch eels, and I will go fishing eels for you in a few days." Before his brother had not passed away and he had land at home without worrying about not having enough food, his father would often take them to find eels and loaches to satisfy his cravings.
It only takes time to do these things. Not only do they do this. Often, they often get up early in the morning and turn up the river bank for half a day, and only catch two or three eels.
They had this free time and the mood in the past, but now they are gone.
"You still have to work, don't do these things, I'll just catch them." Jiang Zhen said.
"Do you know?" Zhao Jin Ge asked. This is also a skill in fishing eels.
"Just learn slowly, I'll dig a ditches first." Jiang Zhen ate another piece of snake meat. Most of the fields here are paddy fields. Because rice is all planted, there are ditches around the fields.
There are loaches in the fields, and these are naturally indispensable in the ditches by the field. If people here want to catch fish and loaches from the ditches, they usually choose a section of the ditches, blocking them with mud on both sides, and then using a gourd ladle to scoop off the water inside. Then the fish, shrimps, loaches and even eels in this section of the ditches can be caught casually. Occasionally, you can even see turtles.
However, these wild, pollution-free things are very valuable in modern times, but these days are not very valuable, so they only change their taste. Some fish that are too small can only be eaten by ducks when they take them home.
Jiang Zhen had this idea long ago, but he didn't have time to do it before.
"You are not in good health yet..."
"I'm in good health, do you want to try it?" Jiang Zhen couldn't help but start teasing Brother Zhao Jin again.
Brother Zhao Jin didn't understand: "What to try?"
Jiang Zhen laughed. When he laughed, his breath fell on Brother Zhao's ears again, which made Brother Zhao blush again. At the same time, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something wrong with what Jiang Zhen said before.
Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jin Ge finished the two bamboo tubes of snake meat together. When they left, Jiang Zhen took away Zhao Jin Ge's bamboo basket.
The Zhao family has little food, and now it is spring, and it is even more time to have food shortage. In the past, he would sleep hungry at night, but today he has snake meat in his stomach, so he is particularly satisfied when he sleeps.
But he was full, but his parents were hungry, which made Brother Zhao feel a little guilty.
Because of this guilt, after Brother Zhao got up early the next day, he scooped a few porridge soup from the pot and left all the rice grains behind.
At the same time, Jiang Zhen was busy catching the rice from the pot and ate it, hoping to take out the dry rice from the pot of porridge.
Speaking of which, this ancient porridge is completely different from the porridge cooked in modern times using pressure cookers and rice cookers or even stew pots.
A pressure cooker or something can boil all the rice grains and grains, but ordinary iron pots in farmers' homes need to do this... not only will it take for a long time, but it will also have to be stuffed for a while.
Who has time to spend so much time cooking porridge? And that would be too much of a firewood... Therefore, the porridge cooked by people in Hexi Village often contains many boiled rice grains in a pot of rice soup.
In the past, Boss Jiang always drank porridge soup with not much rice grains, but now Jiang Zhen specializes in fishing rice grains to eat.
After eating in the morning, Jiang Zhen went to dig a ditches to catch fish, but Old Mrs. Jiang was so angry that she wanted to kill her eldest son.
But she is just a village woman after all, and she dares to curse and beat people, but she has no courage to kill people. What's more, she is a village woman, and what ability can she kill Jiang Zhen?
The weather is still cold now. Although the children in the village can use some net bags and bamboo baskets to find ways to catch fish, there are still a few people doing this. Therefore, the ditches in the village have not been harmed, and Jiang Zhen’s harvest in the morning was also pretty good.
However, there are no big fish in the ditch, basically small fish and loaches the size of fingers. After a long time, Jiang Zhen caught only a few two wide crucian carp.
The small crucian carp has many bones, but it tastes good when steamed, and it is very tender. Other small fish... The fish that is so small is the best when fried in oil. Unfortunately, every family lacks oil these days, and they can't bear to eat a few drops of oil when steamed, so who is willing to use oil to fry a worthless small fish?
Jiang Zhen threw the fish that was too small to eat and was back to the ditch, dug up the place he blocked with mud, and placed the bamboo basket containing the small fish and shrimps in the bamboo bushes by the canal, and then walked home.
After Old Mrs. Jiang prepared the meal, Jiang Zhen put two bowls of rice from the pot and put two eggs in his arms, but he didn't eat them. Instead, he took the snake meat he had not finished eating yesterday and went to find Brother Zhao Jin.
When Jiang Zhen, who had brought several bamboo tubes to the canal, Brother Zhao was already waiting there again.
Brother Zhao Jin was not sitting and waiting for Jiang Zhen. When Jiang Zhen passed by, he was chopping wood, and his strong body was exposed in front of Jiang Zhen with his movements.
In fact, Brother Zhao doesn’t have much muscle. He can’t have enough muscles when he can’t intake enough protein and does not undergo special muscle building training.
But there was no fat on his body, and there was a strong power hidden.
"You are here." Seeing Jiang Zhen, Brother Zhao immediately stood up and his eyes firmly stuck to Jiang Zhen.
When Jiang Zhen saw Brother Zhao's gaze, he was a little excited. He simply looked over even more presumptuously, making Brother Zhao look away.
Jiang Zhen had a lot of experiences eating some cold rice and cold dishes in the wild. He used to eat dry food with his comrades when he was on missions, but he never felt as happy as he is today.
Although the food tasted bad at all, he still felt that it was awesome.
Brother Zhao Jin didn't want to eat Jiang Zhen's lunch. Although Jiang Zhen brought a lot of things, he could drink four bowls of porridge and drink... Jiang Zhen definitely finished two bowls of rice.
But Jiang Zhen always had a way to let him eat.
When Brother Zhao Jin was eating rice and was unwilling to eat the egg that was distributed to him, Jiang Zhen suddenly said, "You should eat more to make yourself fat... Shuang'er, who has a big butt, is easy to raise." He said, and looked at Brother Zhao Jin's butt.
Chapter completed!