46. ??Someone climbs the window
This time Jiang Zhen went to deliver food to Brother Zhao Jin, so he did not specifically avoid people. However, Zhao Dahu's land was close to the canal, and the land there was still his home, so there was usually no one in the village.
Brother Zhao Jin had been a little tired after doing the work all morning, but when he saw Jiang Zhen, he felt that he was energetic again, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously pulled the corners of his mouth.
He used to secretly eat the food that Jiang Zhen brought in the woods, but this time, he sat on the ridge of the field to eat, hoping that others would see it and know that Jiang Zhen was good to him.
However...even if someone saw it, they were soon told that Jiang Zhen was eating at the Zhao family.
He delivered food to Brother Zhao Jin, but this was the food from the Zhao family... Isn't this the excuse of others?
No one envies Brother Zhao Jin at all.
Brother Zhao Jin was a little depressed like Mrs. Zhao Liu, but Jiang Zhen did not take it seriously.
He has always ignored other people's gazes. He cares about what the villagers are thinking when he has time. He might as well find time to make more money.
This is not a modern peaceful society. In modern times, even if you are too poor, you can find a relief center to have a full meal. If you don’t have money here, you may starve to death.
He couldn't feel at ease with his money.
"I'm going to the county town in the afternoon." Seeing that Brother Zhao Jin had almost eaten, Jiang Zhen said to Brother Zhao Jin.
"What are you going to do?" Brother Zhao Jin was a little puzzled.
"Go and sell things, don't worry, I'll be back tonight." Jiang Zhen smiled at Brother Zhao Jin.
What Jiang Zhen wanted to sell in the county was the remaining salted kelp fish he had, as well as the fish he had just caught this morning.
He had already made this plan. He soaked the kelp yesterday and the goods were ready. After saying hello to Brother Zhao Jin, he took Wang Haisheng out.
When they arrived at the county town, they happened to catch up with the evening market in the afternoon. At this time, many people had supper at four or five in the afternoon, and before that, some of them would go out to buy some vegetables.
Jiang Zhen parked the ship near the dock, and just like when he was in the capital city before, he started to grab a handful of kelp for people for a penny and sold it like this.
There are much fewer people in the county than in the capital, but there are still people who come to buy it. After all, there are really few pennies. Once there are more people coming to buy it, out of herd mentality, even if some people don’t actually buy it, they will come to take a look.
Since I've come to see it... I'll have to buy it.
Most people come to buy kelp, but some people buy more expensive salted fish, and fresh fish is also sold well...
In modern times, seawater fish will sell frozen, but freshwater fish will sell live. After all, dead fish don’t taste good and will be very fishy, but it is not at this time.
At this time, people basically sold dead fish.
They caught fish and piled them up on the street to sell them. Even if the fish were alive at the beginning, they would die soon. This was impossible. At this time, it was not like a modern faucet that would come out as soon as it was released. There was also an oxygen pump that could pump oxygen into the water and make a larger bucket...
If you build a large wooden barrel to sell live fish these days, it will be very troublesome to move the wooden barrels around... Therefore, except for the rich people who are more particular, the big guys usually buy and sell dead fish.
But what Jiang Zhen sold was live fish.
The live fish he and Wang Haisheng caught in the morning were not piled on the boat, but were kept in fishing nets and fell on the boat to ensure that they would not die. When they arrived at the county town, they took them out and put them in wooden barrels for sale.
At this time, the fish were still jumping around.
Wang Haisheng can already handle the sale of kelp, so Jiang Zhen is responsible for selling salted fish and fresh fish.
There are still many people who support the fresh live fish, but for a while, it sold very well.
Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng are a person selling live fish and soaked kelp at the head of the county town, so there are many people supporting them. After selling it for an afternoon that day, they actually sold three taels of silver, which means they made another three taels of money.
Although kelp is sold more, the main thing is to sell fish. However, kelp is low and salted fish is high. If you really want to make a profit, kelp is probably better.
"It's you?" A voice sounded. Jiang Zhen raised his head and found a sea merchant who had been purchasing goods with them at the time standing in front of them.
"Your way of selling is pretty good." The sea merchant looked at the seaweed in front of Wang Haisheng and looked thoughtful. There was no doubt that he would learn as he would after he went back and sell it like this.
This method is too simple and can be easily learned... Jiang Zhen knew that it would be better to find a way to do other business in the future. Of course, he had to have capital first.
"How are your goods sold?" the sea merchant asked again.
"Sold out." Jiang Zhen finally answered.
When the seafood merchant heard this, he looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. The seafood profit was still OK, but they did not make a lot of money. The main reason was that they could not sell too much.
But now, the goods that these two people bought have been sold out?
The seafood merchant was a little jealous, but he couldn't do anything except jealousy. He was unwilling to take a boat to sell it elsewhere.
Jiang Zhen sold it in the county town for an afternoon, and the remaining seafood was almost sold. I will sell it again tomorrow and I will probably be able to sell it all.
He packed up his things and returned to Hexi Village before it was completely dark.
When Jiang Zhen arrived at the Zhao family, it was already past the time for the Zhao family to have dinner, but the Zhao family had not yet moved their chopsticks. Seeing that Jiang Zhen was back, Zhao Liu took out all the dishes insulated on the steaming rack and then called Jiang Zhen to have a meal.
Zhao Liu is an introverted and careful person. He is also happy to spend time cooking.
Now is a good time to eat garlic. Of course, this garlic does not refer to garlic cloves, but to the whole garlic.
Zhao Liu pulled out some garlic, cut the roots, put them into salted fish to steam it, and cut the garlic leaves into smaller sizes, making a pot of garlic leaf tofu. In addition, she also used cold kelp, fried a plate of cabbage, and even...
"What is this?" Jiang Zhen looked at a dish on the table with curiosity. It was a plate of fried wild vegetables, but there seemed to be something else in it.
"I picked some snails and picked the snail heads and stir-fried wild vegetables." Zhao Liu said. Seeing that there were a lot of snails, she cooked some, and then used a needle to pick out all the snail meat one by one.
She used the tail of the snail to feed the duck, but the heads of the snail were put together for cooking, which could be considered as adding some meat to the dish.
Jiang Zhen used to eat snails when he had midnight snacks with his comrades, but he cut his tail and sucked out the meat himself. He had never eaten a snail head that was picked out like this... This is definitely a huge project.
"Snails are relatively small. If there are snails, there will be more meat." Zhao Liu said again. The snails in the river here are only the size of nails, but snails will grow in the fields. The largest snails can even be as big as eggs, so there will be more meat.
Jiang Zhen was particularly satisfied with this meal.
After traveling to ancient times, he continued to eat very ordinary food. It was not until this time that he had eaten delicious food. He suddenly felt that it was a very correct decision to come to Jiang's house for dinner.
After dinner, it was completely dark, so the Zhao family lit a small oil lamp, which was so dark that it could not see anything. It was difficult to chat under such circumstances, so Jiang Zhen quickly said goodbye.
That night, Jiang Zhen slipped into Zhao Jin Ge's room again.
"Have you changed the bed board yet?" Jiang Zhen asked after touching the bed.
Brother Zhao Jin was stunned and then felt a little embarrassed: "I forgot..."
"If you don't change, don't change it. After a few days, I'll make some wood and make a stronger bed, otherwise it would be too inconvenient." Jiang Zhen said.
Brother Zhao Jin was not completely ignorant. Hearing Jiang Zhen say this, he blushed.
When he came back from work the next day, he took down the broken bed in his house and re-stacked the remaining bed.
"This bed board is so terrible, why did it suddenly break? It's not mortal." Zhao Liu looked at the bed board and was a little puzzled.
"I accidentally used some force..." Brother Zhao Jin said awkwardly.
"Yes, this bed board has been used for a long time." Zhao Liu said, "By the way, Brother Jin, your father and I have had dinner. Let's wait for you and Jiang Zhen to eat. We have to go to the next village to ask the blind man, and come back to find the blind man to ask for a date suitable for marriage." When we choose auspicious days for marriage, we have to ask people, and those who can count the days are usually blind.
The master is blind, and he accepts disciples and blindness. This is actually a way out for those blind people.
"Yes." Brother Zhao Jin responded.
"We might not come back tonight. Your father has a friend there. We may stay there for one night." Zhao Liu said again. In addition to asking the blind man for a good day, she and Zhao Fugui also had to go there to order two quilts and some furniture. Zhao Fugui's friend is a carpenter. If they delay the floor too late, they will not come back.
Brother Zhao Jin responded again, and Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui left together.
People in the neighboring village didn't know much about the people in Hexi Village, and at most they could hear a few rumors that Boss Jiang was very powerful. Therefore, when Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui went to ask about their days, they were very calm and then gave them three days.
When people come to ask about the date of getting married, they choose auspicious days several months later, but the Zhao family has always emphasized that the faster the better, and the blind man gave the last three days.
One is twelve days later, one is one month later, and the other is two months later.
Zhao Liu recorded the three dates, but he had already made up his mind to let Zhao Jinge and Jiang Zhen get married twelve days later.
The sooner the marriage, the better, so as not to escape Jiang Zhen.
Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui asked about the fact that life was going well and that it was also smooth for two quilts to be ordered, but in the end, they encountered some trouble when they were putting on furniture.
It was already dark, and it was difficult to walk on the night road and you might even encounter snakes, but Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui were still walking back with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
"What's wrong with your friend? He treats us as poor? He actually drove people out before he could say a few words..." Zhao Liu looked at Zhao Fugui dissatisfied.
She and Zhao Fugui felt that they could not feel wronged Jiang Zhen, so they wanted to make some furniture. As soon as they entered the door, they said that their brother Jin was going to get married. Zhao Fugui's friend's wife couldn't wait to drive them out.
Zhao Fugui didn't say anything.
"Aren't they just afraid that we will borrow money from them? They don't think about it. We sold land at the beginning and didn't bother with others..." Zhao Liu said again.
He and Zhao Fugui were both unwilling to bother others. They could actually borrow money at the beginning, but later they sold the land, and they felt that it was not good to borrow money from others because of their relatives.
After so many years, they have never troubled anyone, but they were driven out.
Zhao Fugui felt uncomfortable. His friend had some relatives with him. When he was young, they had a very good relationship. He also helped each other a lot. But now, he turned against him...
However, Zhao Fugui was not very good at speaking, so he could only remain silent.
"Tomorrow, I'll find another carpenter. He accidentally broke the bed in Brother Jin'er's house. You can wait for anything else. You must buy one soon." Zhao Liu said, and suddenly frowned again: "Children's father, why is there light in Brother Jin'er's house?"
Zhao Fugui looked from a distance and found that there was light in his son's house and the window was still open.
"This child is not afraid of consuming lamp oil." Zhao Liu said with some heartache.
Zhao Fugui faintly realized something was wrong. His Jin Ge'er was not the one who could light the lights at night.
He pulled Zhao Liushi and walked forward no further. He was thinking about his thoughts when he suddenly saw a figure crawling into the translucent window, and then the window closed.
This... this... Zhao Fugui was shocked.
Zhao Liu was also shocked. How could anyone get into Brother Jin'er's house?
"Let's walk gently." Zhao Fugui's face turned dark. He almost knew who was the person climbing the window. He was very uncomfortable now!
This is not married yet!
Chapter completed!