28. The county receives a younger brother
Brother Zhao Jin climbed out of the window.
The windows in the countryside are quite big, and they are actually very easy to climb. However, Brother Zhao probably was the first time he did such a thing and was very unskilled to climb.
Jiang Zhen wanted to go up and help, such as helping him to help him hold his waist and pinch his butt, but he was afraid that if he really did, Brother Zhao Jin would go back and ignore him, so he could only endure it.
When Brother Zhao Jinclimbed out of the window, Jiang Zhen took him to his home.
The fire he had created before had not completely extinguished. Jiang Zhen added a straw to cause the fire, and then put it in mulberry strips. When the fire became strong, he also pumped a few lit mulberry strips into the mud stove, intending to heat up the porridge in the pot.
Jiang Zhen was busy there, and Brother Zhao Jin looked at him and felt guilty again. Jiang Zhen had to live alone in the future, but he couldn't help much. He also wanted Jiang Zhen, a man, to cook for him, Shuang'er...
Brother Zhao Jin wanted to go up and help, but Jiang Zhen had already done the work himself.
"Come on, drink a bowl of porridge." Jiang Zhen handed the pork liver porridge cooked in meat and bone soup to Brother Zhao Jin.
Brother Zhao Jin took a look and found that there were a lot of pork livers in the porridge: "You don't have to keep giving it to me..."
"I just like to give it to you." Jiang Zhen said. It was two hours before he had supper. He was hungry again, so he served a small bowl and ate it with Brother Zhao Jin, taking a bite to look at Brother Zhao Jin.
The room was quiet, and there was only the sound of the two of them drinking porridge, but Jiang Zhen felt very happy.
After he was discharged from the army, he lived alone, and now he finally had someone to accompany him.
Brother Zhao Jin was a little uncomfortable when Jiang Zhen saw it, and he couldn't even taste the porridge in his hand.
"I brought you something." Brother Zhao Jin said when Jiang Zhen looked over again, breaking the atmosphere in the room that seemed to him.
"What?" Jiang Zhen asked.
Brother Zhao Jin took out a few small bamboo tubes from his arms and pointed at one of them and said, "This is green seeds. Now is not the time to plant green vegetables, but it can sprout even after sowing seeds. You can eat small green vegetables."
After saying that, he pointed at the remaining bamboo tubes and explained, all of which were filled with vegetable seeds.
"Why did you remember to give me this?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"This..." Zhao Jin Ge hesitated and didn't say anything. In fact, it was his mother who said that Jiang Zhen stole his lettuce, and he remembered that Jiang Zhen had no food to eat now.
They can eat a lot of vegetables here, and they don’t lack vegetables all year round. However, people prefer to grow grain, so they usually sow some seeds in front of and behind the house to plant vegetables, so that they can eat at home.
However, other people's families don't lack vegetables to eat, but Jiang Zhen is different. He doesn't grow anything and he still has no vegetables to eat now.
"You plant the seeds first, and it won't take long to eat the vegetables. As for these days... I'll send you some vegetables every day from now on." Brother Zhao Jin said again.
"Did your mother see me stealing lettuce?" Jiang Zhen looked at Brother Zhao Jin and smiled.
"You can eat a lettuce, it's not considered stealing." Zhao Jin Ge said. In fact, no one would say anything when the neighbors eat some vegetables. After all, it was grown in the field and it didn't cost money. However, Jiang Zhen recently took on the title of a bad star, and when he went to pick the lettuce, he was shocked.
He didn't care about Jiang Zhen going to his house to get food, but it was not good if Jiang Zhen went to get it too old and asked his mother to have any objections to Jiang Zhen.
"Okay, I'll wait for you to deliver the food to me in the future." Jiang Zhen smiled, hugged Brother Zhao Jin and kissed him on the face.
I have been kissed before, but this time I just kissed my face, but it did not scare Brother Zhao Jin. But even so, Brother Zhao Jin was very uncomfortable and unconsciously exerted force with his hand holding the bowl.
Jiang Zhen let him go: "Drink porridge quickly and eating some pork liver will be good for your body." He was not panicked when he had flesh on his hands, and Jiang Zhen had already started to think about how to condition his and Brother Zhao Jin.
Jiang Zhen took out all the remaining porridge in the pot and ate it with Brother Zhao Jin. Then he took Brother Zhao back to the Zhao family. When Brother Zhao Jin climbed into the window and said goodbye to him, he hugged the other person's head, aimed it at the mouth and kissed him again.
Jiang Zhen slept a little late that night, and got up late the next day.
He cooked a pot of rice with the rice grains he had worked hard to shed yesterday, and steamed a small piece of bacon and pork liver on the steaming rack.
These ancient pigs did not eat feed and were purely natural and pollution-free, but in fact they tasted no better than those of later pigs.
I think so, these days, pigs can only eat some pig grass and do not gain fat. If you want to raise a young man, you have to raise it for more than ten months. The pigs raised in this way... are a bit old, with too little fat and too thick skin.
It smells so good, but for someone like him who lacks oil and water in his stomach, it is better to lack such flesh.
Of course, this may also be because the pig breeding is not good enough. Nowadays, if you want to buy a pig breeding, you have nowhere to buy it. He has seen chickens and ducks raised by villagers before, and it is generally smaller than what he saw in later generations.
However, even if the taste of the meat is not perfect, it is also meat! Jiang Zhen ate two bowls of rice in one go, then filled it with a bamboo tube of rice and a piece of pork as big as a two-finger, waiting to send it to Brother Zhao Jin on the way to the county town later.
Thinking of going to the county town, Jiang Zhen specially changed into new clothes, combed his hair with his fingers, and then took the silver to go out. Before going out, he also went to see his chicken. Maybe because of the change of place, the chicken was a little scared and didn't lay eggs, which made him feel quite a pity.
Jiang Zhen went to find Brother Zhao Jin, but did not talk to Brother Zhao Jin. He just looked at each other and placed the bamboo tube in his hand in the grass not far away, asking Brother Zhao Jin to wait and get it for food.
For a long time in the future, he and Zhao Jin Ge may have to "have an affair", which is quite exciting to think about.
Boss Jiang rarely goes to the county town, but he still recognizes the road to the county town. After all, there is only one road to the county town in the village.
Hexi Village is not far from the county town. Jiang Zhen left less than half an hour before he arrived in the city and saw the county town that Boss Jiang thought was very prosperous.
To be honest, Jiang Zhen was quite disappointed when he saw the county town. He had traveled to those water towns before, and always felt that Hecheng County should be as prosperous and beautiful as those water towns, but in fact...
People would paint them from time to time and specially renovated tourist attractions, but the reality is different.
The roads in Hecheng County are very narrow. Except for the main road in the middle, the other roads are very narrow. The houses on the street look quite dilapidated... Of course, the most important thing is that there is no bustling commercial street with shops on both sides.
Although there are shops on the street, those shops are really a bit shabby in Jiang Zhen’s opinion.
Of course, it is not good to look at this era from the perspective of later generations. Jiang Zhen quickly adjusted his mindset and walked towards the pier not far away.
Hecheng County is said to be the richest among the nearby counties, because there is a wharf here, and the vicinity of the wharf is also the most prosperous place in Hecheng County.
After arriving here, Jiang Zhen finally saw the ancient city he imagined. At the same time, he also saw two acquaintances, Yang Jiang and Jiang Chengxiang.
Jiang Zhen saw those two people, and those two people also saw Jiang Zhen.
After Yang Jiang rested for a night last night, he went to the county government to report today and continued to patrol.
He is very afraid of Jiang Zhen now and dare not cause trouble for Jiang Zhen at all. He has all the crimes he suffered a few days ago. So, after he came out to patrol, he came to ask Jiang Chengxiang for trouble.
As a result, before he could teach Jiang Chengxiang a lesson, he looked up and saw Jiang Zhen standing not far away.
Yang Jiang's movements subconsciously became stiff, and he had the urge to turn around and run, but Jiang Zhen saw him. If he ran away... Yang Jiang took a deep breath, and the arrogance on his body disappeared without a trace.
Walking towards Jiang Zhen, Yang Jiang, wearing the uniform of a yamen runner, subconsciously showed the expression he would show when he saw his boss at the beginning, and looked flattering: "Boss Jiang? What's wrong with you coming to the county town?"
Jiang Zhen glanced up and down at Yang Jiang: "I'll buy something. Also, don't call me Boss Jiang, it's better... just call me Boss."
Before, in the Jiang family, Jiang Chengxiang and Jiang Chengcai did not call him elder brother, but followed Jiang butcher's father and called him eldest. He was a little unhappy because they had no respect for him when they called him, but now he made Yang Jiang call him "Boss" differently. I think Yang Jiang dared not disrespect him when he called him.
Jiang Zhen's eyes narrowed slightly.
Yang Jiang was very good at speaking. Not only did he change his name, but he was also very enthusiastic: "Boss, what do you want to buy? I will accompany you, the price will be cheaper." He actually didn't know what the boss really meant, but he didn't dare to offend Jiang Zhen, so he did whatever Jiang Zhen said.
"Okay." Jiang Zhen nodded and agreed.
Seeing that the man had no disgust towards him and had no intention of hitting him, Yang Jiang breathed a sigh of relief and immediately took Jiang Zhen away from the dock.
Jiang Zhen wanted to buy a lot of things, and the first store he went to was a place where the seasonings were sold.
"Give me five kilograms of salt...how do you sell it?" When Jiang Zhen bought salt, he suddenly remembered that the price of salt did not seem to be cheap.
Old Mrs. Jiang did not let Boss Jiang touch money, and Boss Jiang's memory did not have detailed prices, but even so, from Mrs. Jiang's words, it can be seen that the price of salt is not cheap.
"Forty-money per pound." said the shopkeeper.
Forty Months? The price of this salt is twice that of pork? Jiang Zhen was a little surprised and immediately changed his words: "Just give me two kilograms of salt."
The shopkeeper had already started to take salt. He frowned when he heard Jiang Zhen change his mind. However, when he looked up and saw Yang Jiang standing beside Jiang Zhen, he immediately smiled and became enthusiastic about Jiang Zhen.
The King of Hell is very difficult to deal with when he sees the little ghost. People in this county are unwilling to offend the yamen runners.
"Shopkeeper Zhang, they are all acquaintances, they are cheaper!" Yang Jiang said carelessly, and then Jiang Zhen's two pounds of salt only cost 70 cents.
After buying salt, Jiang Zhen wanted to buy vinegar and soy sauce, but as a result... the vinegar and soy sauce in the store here were all in a jar. When the customer came to buy, he scooped out some and put them in the container that the customer brought. Jiang Zhen did not bring the container at all.
Fortunately, Yang Jiang was there, and the shopkeeper was easy to talk to. He also asked his son to buy two clay pots with wooden plugs to fill Jiang Zhen with vinegar and soy sauce. Of course, Jiang Zhen had to pay for the clay pot.
Jiang Zhen had already spent 200 yuan from this shop, which was because he didn't care much about food and drink, so he didn't buy spices and sugar.
It was not easy for people in ancient times to get money, but because of the low productivity, the price of goods was very expensive...
"I didn't expect salt to be so expensive." After leaving the shop, Jiang Zhen frowned slightly. This is still a coastal area. Salt is so expensive. What should I do inland?
"Boss, if you don't buy it here, there will be cheaper..." Yang Jiang said, and suddenly closed his mouth.
After thinking for a while, Jiang Zhen had already guessed what Yang Jiang meant. What Yang Jiang said was private salt?
Jiang Zhen didn't ask again and said, "I want to buy some cloth."
"The cloth shop is there!" Yang Jiang hurriedly pointed out the way.
Jiang Zhen was taken to the cloth shop by Yang Jiang, and behind him, Jiang Chengxiang's expression was particularly ugly.
When Yang Jiang saw Jiang Zhen and ran away with Jiang Zhen, he followed him. At first he thought Yang Jiang would cause trouble for Jiang Zhen, but what happened? Yang Jiang not only did not cause trouble for Jiang Zhen, but also nodded and bowed to Jiang Zhen!
What's going on?
Jiang Chengxiang didn't understand how all this happened. He had just married a wife whom he was satisfied with and was about to usher in a wonderful life. Why did everything change in a blink of an eye?
Thinking of himself returning to his home in the county town last night, because Zhu Shufen hadn't come back yet, he could not cook and could only eat hungry. Today, he dragged his injured leg to work and was also in trouble by Yang Jiang. Jiang Chengxiang felt that he was unlucky.
Forget it, what is his big brother? How could he make Yang Jiang so flattering?
Chapter completed!