Ningtang County is a small small county town. This county town has only two streets in total, one east-west and very long, and is made into a vertical street by the people here, and the other is north-south and relatively short, and is called a horizontal street by the people here.

This county town is located in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are not many rivers, but even so, there is a river that runs through the entire county town.

The people in the county town wash clothes and vegetables here, so it is always very lively. Later, some people from nearby villages would drive a boat to the river after collecting their own vegetables and then stop by the river to sell.

Over time, the river became the vegetable market in the county.

Just as it was dawn every day, many people came around the river, making a lot of noise, and some people took out fresh vegetables from their boats for sale.

At this moment, everyone found that a boat was parked on the shore, but there was no one on it. Is it a piece of clothing hanging on the bow of the ship? There were a few words written on the clothes.

However, most of the people present did not recognize those words.

"What is this ship for?"

"Yes, what are you doing when you stop like this?"

Someone looked at the boat curiously, and some people walked up to look...

"Ah!" A scream came, and a man approaching looked at the ship with horror.

This man seemed to be frightened, but it was precisely because of this that he attracted more people to see the boat. It was at this time that they found that there were several men with blood-stained and tied up in the cabin where the curtain was lifted.

This...what is going on?

"Go and report to the official!" Someone said, and soon ran to report to the official.

The people of Ningtang County discovered the ship and the people lying on the ship and reported to the officials. At the same time, this speculation spread rapidly in the county town, and the initiator of all this had already left Ningtang County at this time.

It was already dawn, and Jiang Zhen asked Wang Haisheng to row the boat, but he washed the blood stains on the boat and sorted out the shelves.

During this period, Wang Haisheng was secretly watching him, shaking the boat with great carelessness.

When Wang Haisheng looked over again, Jiang Zhen looked over and frowned: "What are you looking at?"

"No... nothing." Wang Haisheng hurriedly said.

Jiang Zhen looked at Wang Haisheng a few times. Yesterday, he did not avoid Wang Haisheng whether he was hitting and hurting people at the beginning or later forced confessions. Later, when he put the few bandits with some wounds on their boats and sent them to Ningtang County, he even asked Wang Haisheng to carry the people.

He did this to test Wang Haisheng.

Wang Haisheng always thought he was a good person, but he himself was actually different from what Wang Haisheng imagined.

"What do you think of what I did before?" Jiang Zhen asked.

"Jiang Zhen, you actually know how to read!" Wang Haisheng looked at Jiang Zhen with admiration: "I didn't expect you to read. No wonder you calculated money so quickly before. You are so awesome!"

The admiration in Wang Haisheng's eyes cannot be ignored, but Jiang Zhen was speechless. Could it be that Wang Haisheng kept peeking at him before just because he thought he was very good at literacy?

"I ask you, what do you think about the incident of us fighting the water bandits?" Jiang Zhen said.

"This... all the water bandits deserve to die." Wang Haisheng said: "Why should we send officials?" People like them who live in a place of residence have always stayed away from the government and liked to solve the matters themselves instead of sending officials. At the same time, it is probably because they have seen too many life and death, and they are actually much more accepting of things like killing people than modern people.

Jiang Zhen smiled and said, "Wang Haisheng, if you follow me in the future, as long as you listen to me, I will definitely let you live a good life."

"I've been following you." Wang Haisheng said.

"That's right... by the way, you call me boss in the future." Jiang Zhen said.

Wang Haisheng agreed, and then Jiang Zhen gave him a ingot of about ten taels of silver: "Take it."

"This...this..." Wang Haisheng looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. He always felt that he could work with Jiang Zhen and have food and accommodation. Unexpectedly, Jiang Zhen would even give him money.

"I performed well last night, I gave it to you." Jiang Zhen said, thinking that in the coming days, he must train Wang Haisheng well and instill some ideas into Wang Haisheng.

This should not be difficult. People like Wang Haisheng who have never been to school and read are definitely easy to fool.

Of course, the most urgent task is to copy the nests of those water bandits.

Yesterday, the few water bandits had already recruited the location of their nests, but it was too dark last night, so Jiang Zhen didn't go there. Now it's dawn.

The so-called old nest is actually a house in a remote place. The bandits live on boats during the day and come here to sleep at night. Most of their money is carried with them, but the stolen goods are piled up here.

Jiang Zhen went into the room and looked at it, and he felt like he was getting rich.

These water bandits are lazy and are unwilling to sell the goods after robbing them. So much cargo is piled up here. Although the food inside is broken, the others can be sold. Moreover... these things are more valuable than the goods on his ship.

Without hesitation, Jiang Zhen moved all the goods onto the ship. Because there were too many goods, their ship almost couldn't even load them up.

These goods contained fabrics, porcelain, large bundles of candles and even... some books.

There is no book in the place of Hexi Village, so Jiang Zhen has never read a book after traveling through time.

He sent Wang Haisheng to row the boat. When he was doing nothing, he opened the book in his hand and started reading it, and then found that... he couldn't understand it.

Jiang Zhen was actually very knowledgeable in the army. Not only did he learn guns and also knew three foreign languages, namely English and Southeast Asia.

He studied English as he tried hard to memorize and listened to tapes when he was studying, and learned it for exams. The latter two languages ​​were taken to be locked up with relevant teachers to learn it for tasks. Later, when he was doing tasks, he lived in such an environment for a long time, and in the end he spoke the same way as the locals in just one year.

But he knows three foreign languages, but has never learned traditional Chinese.

Now the books he has in his hand are not only traditional Chinese characters, but also punctuation, so how can people not understand how to read the words and sentences?

Can't you write some vernacular... He can understand the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Water Margin at least...

Jiang Zhen looked at the book in his hand and stared at it with big eyes.

Wang Haisheng looked at Jiang Zhen, but his admiration was even stronger.

I really didn’t expect that Jiang Zhen was still a scholar!

On the other side, in the county town of Tangning County, the county magistrate frowned at the clothes that had been picked from the bow of the boat and wrote the words: "What is it written on it?"

The few people on the ship were more or less injured and looked to have been tortured. I don’t know what they encountered or who they met again…

"Sir, I look... it seems that these people are all water bandits, and they have robbed many people, so they come to send officials." said the master of Tangning County. These words were written in a mess. If he had not been dealing with those yamen runners, he had seen those yamen runners who did not recognize a few words wrote a bunch of missing arms and legs, he would definitely not be able to recognize them now.

I think that the person who caught these water bandits and sent them to the officials was probably the one who just learned a few words randomly.

The county magistrate of Tangning County would not take the initiative to catch the traitors, but he was still very satisfied and happy that someone arrested and sent the robbers to him.

After interrogating and finding that these people were indeed water bandits and had harmed some foreigners, the county magistrate of Tangning County directly sentenced them to death. At this time, Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng were still selling various goods.

In addition to selling things, Jiang Zhen would also tell stories to Wang Haisheng every day, and take half an hour to come in the morning and evening to let him exercise and teach him fighting skills.

Wang Haisheng is not young anymore, so it is impossible to learn more thoroughly, so Jiang Zhen mainly asked him to learn to poke with a bamboo pole.

Wang Haisheng is a hard-working man. Although he is so tired every day, as long as Jiang Zhen asks, he will complete it seriously. He is definitely the most obedient soldier Jiang Zhen has ever led.

At the reward, Jiang Zhen would buy pounds of pork every day and cook it and eat it with Wang Haisheng.

Now, Wang Haisheng worked harder.

It took Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng more than ten days to buy all the goods in their hands, but Jiang Zhen had already planned to meet Hecheng County.

He is still waiting to go back and get married to Brother Zhao Jin!

Jiang Zhen now has 320 taels of silver and several boxes of copper coins in his hand. If he really wants to convert, this is not as good as the Jiang family's wealth. After all, the land in the hands of the Jiang family is still very valuable, but even so, it is also a considerable amount of wealth.

Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng were shaking the boat and returning to the mansion first.

After arriving in the capital, Jiang Zhen first went to get the clothes he had made, then went to the blacksmith shop to buy an iron pot, a kitchen knife and a few farm tools, and then soy sauce and sugar and some seasonings...

This time, Jiang Zhen could be said to have made a big purchase, and he spent almost twenty taels of silver and bought all the things he wanted at home.

Wang Haisheng looked at the red toilet and felt that Jiang Zhen was like a different person. He had bought the cheapest cloth for Brother Zhao Jin before, but he didn't expect that now he would choose the expensive toilet.

Jiang Zhen didn't know what Wang Haisheng thought. He was not a stingy person. He didn't spend money before, but now he has money, so he naturally has to spend it.

He even bought a hairpin for Brother Zhao Jin.

In the city, some Shuang'er, who were born well, were raised by their parents as sons, and even read and read. They were usually dressed up and were not feminine, but they did not wear crowns like men, and usually tied their hair up with a hairpin.

Jiang Zhen picked a hairpin that he thought was good and bought, which was the most expensive of all the things he bought.

Carrying a ship of cargo, Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng embarked on the return journey.

At the same time, the villagers of Hexi Village are talking about an extraordinary event at this moment.

The Zhao family is going to hold a marriage!

Although Jiang Zhen had fallen in love with Brother Zhao Jin in public, the villagers actually took it seriously. They just thought that Jiang Zhen wanted to stay in the Zhao family and asked the Zhao family to serve him.

Later, they saw that Jiang Zhen was either having dinner at the Zhao family or asking Zhao Liu to deliver food to him, and they were even more sure of this and even sympathized with the Zhao family.

As a result...When Jiang Zhen left Hexi Village and didn't know where to go, the Zhao family actually started preparing for the marriage!

At first, someone heard that when the Zhao family went to the blind to ask about the marriage day, they thought they wanted to marry Zhao Jin while Jiang Zhen was away. As a result, someone went to Zhao Liu's place to ask, and they were told that they wanted to marry Zhao Jin to Jiang Zhen!

No, they were not going to marry Brother Zhao Jin to Jiang Zhen, but... they wanted Jiang Zhen to marry into the Zhao family.

This... are the Zhao family crazy?

They really dare to think about it, did Jiang Zhen agree?

In the countryside, it is normal to be a son-in-law for others, but none of the people in Hexi Village think that Jiang Zhen is willing to be a son-in-law for others.

"Jiang Zhen is actually quite good. He is sincere to our Brother Jin. He has always been thinking about Brother Jin!" Zhao Liu talked about this matter again to a friend of his troubles.

The friend looked at Zhao Liu with pity, but still didn't believe it, and just felt that Zhao Liu was deceiving himself.

There is a Shuang'er in their village who is like this. Although her family is so poor, she tells others that his family lives well and eats meat every day... This is probably what the Zhao family is like.

The Zhao family is making furniture and quilts. Zhao Fugui is not going to work yet, so he has taken care of the house cleanly...

His family wouldn't have much money at all. If it weren't for being forced by Jiang Zhen, he would definitely not have spent it like this!

And Brother Zhao Jin, who is like that, is it possible that Jiang Zhen is sincere to him and still keeps thinking about him?

"Jiang Zhen is really good. He gave us money." Zhao Liu said again, showing the bracelets on his hands: "He also bought me the bracelets."

"You..." The person from here sighed. Zhao Liu even lies. At first, she said that Jiang Zhen wanted to be a son-in-law for their family. Since he was a son-in-law, how could Jiang Zhen give her money and buy her bracelets?

Jiang Zhen and his parents were both clear about it. Could they be so stupid at this time? Moreover, the marriage was almost ready, and Jiang Zhen still had no one to see him and didn't know where he went. He obviously didn't care about the marriage at all.

Therefore, it was probably Zhao Liu's nonsense. As for her bracelet... "I didn't expect you to have a bracelet hidden." This man only thought that the bracelet was given to Zhao Liu by Zhao Fugui back then. Because he was very young, there was something wrong with the Zhao family before and it was not sold.
Chapter completed!