Brother Zhao Jin was very tired and still slept very early that day, so I didn’t know that Jiang Zhen actually came to knock on his window that night.

After knocking on the window a few times, he didn't respond. He thought that Brother Zhao was probably going to bed long ago, so Jiang Zhen went back. However, he got up early the next morning and waited on the side of the road, but he didn't talk to Brother Zhao, but gave him a wink and asked him to get a bamboo tube on the side of the road.

The fish soup that Jiang Zhen prepared last night and was hot this morning.

When they get in touch with each other now, they are completely acquainted. Jiang Zhen feels a little regretful, but he also thinks it is quite interesting.

Brother Zhao Jin looked at Jiang Zhen from a distance, then walked towards Zhao Dahu's house with the bamboo tube in his arms. His steps inevitably became much lighter. After walking for a while, he even opened the bamboo tube and slowly started eating.

The bamboo tube was still hot, and it was obvious that Jiang Zhen wanted him to eat while it was hot, so he definitely couldn't waste it.

The fish soup in the bamboo tube was cooked by Jiang Zhen after steaming the fish, and then boiled it with the remaining fish meat and an egg. Not to mention the taste, at least it is nutritious and can eat a lot of fish meat to supplement protein.

Because the fish soup was cooked last night, it tasted a bit fishy, ​​but Brother Zhao Jin didn't dislike it at all. He quickly drank it clean. He used the boiled water he would bring every day and then drank the water he had cleaned up.

He got up in the morning and ate dry rice at home, and now he drank fish soup. He felt warm and full of energy. He didn't know how tired he was when he was working in the morning.

It didn't rain all morning, so Dahu Zhao came to the fields for a walk. Seeing Brother Zhao like this, he nodded with satisfaction.

Originally, everyone thought that he was not clear about hiring Shuang'er as a long-term worker, but now after a few years, he has envied him. It is true that Brother Zhao is not inferior to a man in his work and is still serious.

But he didn't know that when he left, Brother Zhao Jin began to get distracted.

It's almost noon, it's time for Jiang Zhen to come...

Although he was a little uncomfortable to eat Jiang Zhen's things, he was still looking forward to Jiang Zhen's coming... Although he was still working, Zhao Jin's eyes could not help but look at the way Jiang Zhen used to come.

However, he glanced for a long time and didn't see Jiang Zhen. Instead, an old woman in her fifties and sixties suddenly turned around at the intersection.

Brother Zhao Jin looked at it a few more times before he recognized that he was a friend of Zhao Liu's family. However, they had not been in contact for a long time, so he did not recognize him for a while.

"Brother Jin!" The woman saw Brother Zhao Jin and immediately walked towards Brother Zhao Jin with a smile: "Brother Jin, I haven't seen him for a long time!"

"Aunt Li." Brother Zhao Jin greeted. The woman was named Li Xiuer. She was from Lijia Village nearby. She married to Qiaotou Village, which is where Zhao Liu's family is located.

When Zhao Liu was not married, he had a good relationship with this woman named Li and had contact with her after marriage. The reason why he broke up later was because the woman named Li told Zhao Jin Ge a marriage.

What she told Zhao Jin Ge was her neighbor of her mother's family. The family had a son two years older than Zhao Jin Ge, named Li Zugen.

With this name alone, you can tell how precious Li Zugen was at home... The reason why he was treasured was because the three generations of the Li family passed down, and Li Zugen was not in good health.

The Li family is in an average family and Li Zugen is not in good health. The Li family wants to make a marriage with him early, and it is best to be a Shuanger who is strong and can help the family work in the future.

Not only did Zhao Jin look very strong when he was a child, but he was also very cute. Once, Zhao Liu took him to Lijia Village to watch a show, but he was attracted by Li Zugen's mother Li Liu. She was also from Qiaotou Village. She went home to inquire about it. After learning about Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu, she became even more satisfied with Zhao Jin. She immediately found Li Xiu'er and asked him to help as a matchmaker.

The Li family came to the Zhao family several times and said that they were very sincere. Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu saw Li Zugen and found that although he was a little thinner, he actually had nothing wrong with it, so they agreed.

His family's Shuang'er is a bit too strong, so they are also afraid that he will not marry well in the future. Although the Li family has no money, Li Zugen has no brothers, so he doesn't need to be divided half of the land. The Li family is also thin and will definitely not be able to beat their son...

The marriage between the Li family and the Zhao family was settled, and Brother Zhao also had a fiancé, but the fiancé who was a little shorter than him and never liked him much.

Of course, Brother Zhao Jin didn't actually know what he liked at that time.

Later, when Brother Zhao Jin was twelve, his brother passed away. His mother was seriously ill. Something happened to the Zhao family... The Li family retired from the marriage.

They didn't want to bear the burden of the Zhao family, and it was also because Li Zugen, who was fourteen years old at the time, fell in love with a girl of the same age in Lijia Village. The girl was a child left by a married Shuang'er in Lijia Village. The Shuang'er died early. Her husband's family didn't want to support a girl, so she threw her to her grandma's house.

This girl lived a very bad life at her grandma's house. Li Zugen often helped her to deliver her things, so she got along with Li Zugen...

After resigning from the marriage, Brother Zhao Jin no longer cared about Lijia Village. At first, someone mentioned Li Zugen in front of him with ulterior motives. Later, it was probably because he could not get married, so no one mentioned it again.

As for Li Xiu'er... Li Xiu'er and Zhao Liu were really good. They had a fight over Zhao Jin's affairs, and then they probably felt ashamed of Zhao Liu's family, so they stopped coming to Zhao's family.

Because Zhao Liu's relationship with her parents was not good, she almost never went back over the years, so the two sides didn't meet much.

Now that I suddenly saw Li Xiu'er, Brother Zhao was quite surprised, while Li Xiu'er was purely happy.

"Brother Jin, I'll come to see you specifically. Let me tell you that the Li family has been retribution!" Li Xiu'er said to Brother Zhao Jin, which could be considered as explaining his purpose.

She came to see Brother Zhao Jin because Li Zugen's family was in trouble. She felt relieved and wanted to tell Brother Zhao Jin to make him happy.

"When Li Zugen was trying to marry that bitch named Xu, now...haha!" Li Xiu'er kept saying.

It turned out that after Li Zugen and Zhao Jin Ge retired, they got engaged to the Xu family in their village. When they were seventeen years old, the two got married.

They were doing pretty well at first, and Xu even gave birth to four sons for Li Zugen in one breath, making the Li family treat her very much.

But these days... the four sons are not easy to support!

The Li family has no money, and Li Zugen and his father are still very thin. Apart from growing their own land, they cannot help others work and make money, so their family lives get poorer and poorer.

Later, there was no choice, so they told Xu to help with the work of a landlord's house there.

In addition to having land, the landlord's family also does cocoon business. Several surrounding villages have raised silkworms and cocoons, and they are all sold to their families. They are very rich and built with large blue bricks and tiles, but they are not children.

Xu was very good at giving birth and always had a son, but he was noticed? The landlord's wife was quite powerful. She didn't want to get a young and beautiful fox boy to her family and cause her to fall out of favor. She agreed to Xu, who was just as old as the older Xu, to give her a lot of money and ask her to give birth to a son for the landlord.

Xu agreed, and Li Zugen's family also agreed.

In the countryside, this behavior is called a concubine, which means spending some money to rent a woman to give birth to a child. When the age is over, the woman will send it back and the child will be left behind.

For very poor families, it is actually nothing to let their wives be concubines for a few years. Anyway, they will come back to live in the end. When they are not full, no one cares about chastity or something.

It was also the Xu family who had the ability. After three years of family education, she gave birth to a son for her. When the three years were over, there was another one in her belly.

Since she became a concubine, some people have eaten and some have drinks. After she got pregnant, she has meat to eat every day. Later, when the child was born, she wanted to feed the child, and she also had good food and drink.

That was a good life that would definitely not be able to live in the Li family.

Xu didn't want to leave anymore, so she went to beg the wife of the family, wanting to stay and give birth to a child before taking care of the child.

Although the wife of the family was not very beautiful, she was much better-looking than Xu, and was even one or two years younger than Xu. Xu was not a threat to her. After thinking about it, she agreed.

Anyway, the children born by Xu will call her mother in the future, so Xu is better than the servants at home. Even if such a village woman who doesn't know her big words will have little impact on her, and she seems generous.

When those children grow up in the future, compared with her, she will see Xu, who had given birth to four sons outside when she married a long time ago, and always knows who they should get close to.

"The Xu family took fifty taels of silver to the Li family and broke off relations with the Li family. Li Zugen is now ridiculed so much that his wife is used as a concubine, but the wife is gone." Li Xiu'er laughed at Li Zugen.

Originally, some people envied his wife who could make money with a child. Now that Xu has passed away, the situation is different.

Even though Xu got back 100 taels of silver, except for what had been spent, the rest could only buy three or four acres of land. Li Zugen also dragged four sons... Unless he didn't buy land and spent the money to buy women's Shuang'er, otherwise he wouldn't have a wife to warm up the bed in the future.

"If you buy land, he will definitely not be able to grow so much. If you don't buy land, can you use the money to marry a woman... His family is so poor, how can you live if you marry someone again? There are also those four sons. It's okay now, when they grow up, they will get married... Tsk tsk!" Li Xiu'er said, gloating.

If Li Zugen had married Brother Zhao Jin, with Brother Zhao, his family would always get better and better with Brother Zhao Jin, so there was no need to worry that Brother Zhao Jin would run away.

Li Xiuer came to tell Brother Zhao Jin about this because she hoped that Brother Zhao would be happier, but in fact, Brother Zhao Jin was not very happy.

He forgot what Li Zugen looks like, and now he has no time to care about his affairs? But Li Xiu'er kept talking by his side, and didn't know if she would come again.

Brother Zhao Jin was not serious when he heard this and kept looking up the road. Because he had never seen Jiang Zhen, his heart was empty.

Fortunately, Li Xiu'er finally finished speaking and said, "Brother Jin, I'm going to your house, you can continue working."

Li Xiuer finally let Brother Zhao go and left. Brother Zhao was relieved, looked at the sun above his head, and walked towards the woods by the canal.

When Jiang Zhen came over, he would wink him out first, but today he didn't. I don't know if Jiang Zhen was here.

Of course Jiang Zhen came. As soon as Brother Zhao entered, he greeted Brother Zhao: "Brother Jin."

Brother Zhao Jin's lips immediately curled up.

Jiang Zhen had already come, and he hid when he saw someone pulling Brother Zhao Jin to talk. He didn't know the woman who talked to Brother Zhao Jin, but he thought that it was probably just gossiping, so he didn't ask too much, but took out the food.

What he cooked today was fried cabbage with bacon slices.

It was inconvenient to eat with a bamboo tube, so he brought a basket today, which contained a large sea bowl full of rice, and the meat slices were stir-fried with cabbage on top of the rice.

Compared to the fish soup in the morning, the fried cabbage with meat slices is so delicious. Brother Zhao Jin ate a large bowl of rice in a short while and felt that he could have another bowl.

But you must save some food... Brother Zhao Jin thinks it is already great to eat such a bowl of rice.

After eating and drinking, Brother Zhao Jin remembered what happened just now, but thought that this matter had nothing to do with him, and he didn't want to mention Li Zugen in front of Jiang Zhen, so he didn't mention it to Jiang Zhen.

Brother Zhao Jin didn't take Li Zugen seriously at all, but he didn't know that the Li family was going all out, and he was thinking about him.

Li Zugen was still thinking about Xu's family, but Xu's family must be unable to come back.

Their family is young and old. He is a man who should be the pillar and is still thin and weak. Even if the money sent by Xu paid off, he spent part of the debt and spent some of it. The days to come...

He worked hard for a year in their family, but he couldn't even grow food for his family. From now on, he would either buy land or sell food to eat!

"Brother Zhao Jin hasn't gotten married yet. Although he is ugly, he has the strength to do it..."
Chapter completed!