The river is a little small
Zhao Liu looked at the river in front of him puzzled, how small the river is, and it is no problem to rock three boats side by side!
Zhao Liushi was wondering, all of Jiang Zhen's subordinates in Hexi Village came over, and even his subordinates who lived in Qiaotou Village and the county seat all came.
After these dozens of people went out with Jiang Zhen, their temperament has all changed. Because they have been eating well, they have all become very strong. Standing together now gives people a great pressure, let alone After seeing Jiang Zhen, they opened their mouths and shouted in unison: "Hello, boss!"
That voice was so loud that Zhao Liushi felt anxious.
"Well." Jiang Zhen nodded towards them, then pointed to the river: "You guys go first."
"Yes, boss!" Everyone responded in unison, and then, He Chunsheng said again: "Run-walk!"
After He Chunsheng finished speaking, these people ran towards the distance in unison.
Zhao Liushi was a little stunned by this scene, but soon, she was even more proud - these are Jiang Zhen's subordinates!
But... what are they doing by the river
"Mother, do you want to go over there with me?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"I'm washing rice..." said Zhao Liushi.
"Auntie, can you help my mother put the rice back?" Jiang Zhen took a bamboo sieve made of bamboo for rice from Zhao Liu's hand and gave it to a middle-aged woman next to him who was also washing rice.
These days, after people husked the rice, a lot of husks often fall into the rice, so be sure to wash it and soak the rice in water to let the husks float away.
"Oh..." The woman responded and subconsciously took the bamboo sieve from Jiang Zhen's hand.
"Thank you." Jiang Zhen said.
In this rural area, very few people would solemnly thank people, especially Jiang Zhen is now famous... The woman hugged the bamboo sieve, and was stunned for a while, and saw Jiang Zhen and Zhao Liu's leaving, and then she greeted the person beside her. Humanity: "Did you hear it? Jiang Zhen thanked me!"
"I heard." The humane beside her said that Jiang Zhen was not vicious at all, but made people feel that he could be trusted.
Originally, they heard from Zhao Liushi how much Jiang Zhen loved Zhao Jinge and how good he was to them. They always thought that she was bragging, but just now Jiang Zhen was a mother and was smiling... Maybe Zhao Liushi didn't tell a lie.
"They all went to the river, what do you say there?"
"Let's go see too."
"Okay, let's go see everyone."
…
The big guys discussed it and made a decision, but they all have things to go home and put away, especially the woman who picked up Zhao Liu's bamboo sieve, and even ran two places to put things away: "Wait a minute. me!"
"It's such a short journey, what's there to wait for! Can't you just go slower?" someone said, and then went home.
In winter, the days are short, and although the sky is barely bright now, the people in Hexi Village are basically awake. The man who is waiting for breakfast at home sees his mother-in-law hurriedly running back from the outside, so he has to ask, "Why are you running? So fast?"
"I'm going to see the fun."
"What's the fun?"
"Jiang Zhen brought a large group of people to Zhao Dahu's house!"
Jiang Zhen took someone to Zhao Dahu's house? what happened
There are so few interesting things in this country that no matter what happened to anyone, everyone would rush over to watch the fun. Now that I heard that Jiang Zhen brought a group of people to Zhao Dahu’s house, everyone went to watch the fun. .
The village chief Jiang Ping also hurried over.
His son went to Zhao's house early in the morning, and now I heard that he followed a group of people to Zhao's house. I don't know what he was going for... He had to watch it.
Zhao Dahu's family had also woken up at this time.
They live a bit far from the villagers. When they first saw a group of people running over from a distance, they were all terrified. They were afraid that someone would come and rob their house. , even more afraid.
They didn't treat Brother Zhao Jin very well before, so Jiang Zhen, shouldn't he be here to trouble them
They were worried when they saw the group of people running neatly along the road next to his house and then towards the canal.
Zhao Dahu breathed a sigh of relief, and then became curious—what are these people running to the canal for? He... go and see
Zhao Dahu's family cleaned up and went out to watch the fun.
At this time, next to the canal, a large boat stopped, and some people ran to the shore, and then tied the boat to some trees on the shore with ropes.
The carrying capacity of a boat is much better than that of a carriage. After all, it depends on the buoyancy. As long as the boat is bigger, it can hold a lot of things, and such a big boat can hold more things... Those people want to fix it. To hold it, I had to come up with some extra rope to keep it firmly in place.
When they were finished, they found some planks and laid them between the boat and the river bank.
After doing all this, those busy people looked at Wang Haisheng: "Brother Wang, is this here? When will the boss come over?"
"Soon." Wang Haisheng said. Seeing the people on the boat respecting him and calling him Brother Wang, he was very excited.
He used to be just a fisherman, but he didn't expect to have such a day...
As soon as Wang Haisheng finished speaking, He Chunsheng came with someone, and after a while, Jiang Zhen also came.
After Jiang Zhen called Zhao Liushi, he walked towards the canal, and on the way, they met Zhao Jinge and Zhao Fugui.
Brother Zhao Jin strode, and Zhao Fugui, who has always been silent, looked at him dissatisfiedly, and said, "Brother Jin, be careful, pay attention..." How can anyone still take such a big step while pregnant with a child? His son doesn't look like a twin, isn't he afraid that Jiang Zhen will dislike it
"Father, what are you paying attention to?"
"What else can I pay attention to? Of course I want you to walk slower!" Zhao Liu said immediately, and Jiang Zhen also looked over with a smile.
When Zhao Jinge saw Jiang Zhen, he immediately slowed down.
Their family was not walking fast, so that the villagers caught up in a short while, and at this time, they had already reached the canal.
Jiang Zhen had a lot of dates with Zhao Jinge by the canal. Looking at this side, his eyes showed nostalgia. He just felt that everything here was very cordial, especially the large clump of bamboos that were a little yellow due to the cold weather. Even more cute.
Before, it was here that he took Zhao Jinge's hand and kissed Zhao Jinge.
Jiang Zhen was thinking about the past, but Zhao Liu's and Zhao Fugui's eyes were attracted by the big boat by the river.
There are many boats on this side of the canal. Whether it’s Zhao Liu’s family or Zhao Fugui, they’ve all seen big boats. Zhao Fugui used to help people fight goods at the wharf and even boarded such a big boat, but this…
He Chunsheng and those people all ran to the boat, this boat, this boat...
"Why is there a big boat here?"
"Those people under Jiang Zhen's hands have boarded the boat."
"Did you see Jiang Ming? He moved something off the boat!"
…
The people of Hexi Village did not dare to approach, and parked far away on the slope of the river, which was much higher than the river bank.
The village chief has always known a lot of things, and Jiang Ming went to the boat. At this time, if you have any doubts, don't ask Jiang Ping. Do you want to ask the vicious Jiang Zhen? !
Jiang Ping: "..." He really doesn't know where this ship came from!
His stinky boy said he had something on the boat and didn't bring it back... Could it be this boat? This ship belongs to the Zheng family
Jiang Ping thought about it and felt that it should be the case, and said, "Isn't Jiang Zhen helping the Zheng family? This ship should belong to the Zheng family."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Jiang Zhen walking towards the boat, and the people on the boat nodded and bowed to Jiang Zhen: "Boss!"
Wait, this ship... isn't it Jiang Zhen's
"This ship... shouldn't it belong to Jiang Zhen?" Jiang Ping, who was far away, was so suspicious, and of course Zhao Liushi couldn't help but doubt it.
Before, Jiang Zhen said that his ship was coming.
"What nonsense, how much money does such a big ship cost!" Zhao Fugui glanced at his mother-in-law and reprimanded. Many rich people in this county do not have such a big boat!
"Also..." Zhao Liu also felt that this ship should not belong to Jiang Zhen.
"Father, mother, this is Jiang Zhen's." Zhao Jinge said embarrassedly, and then he remembered that he forgot to tell his father and mother about this.
Zhao Liushi shivered and was a little unsteady, and Zhao Fugui's expression froze: "Brother Jin, what are you talking about?"
"That boat belongs to Jiang Zhen." Brother Zhao Jin said.
Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu were stunned, and after a while, they looked at Brother Zhao Jin together.
Zhao Fugui: "Where did you come from?"
Zhao Liushi: "How can Jiang Zhen even afford such a big boat? Brother Jin, you have to watch, don't let him be hooked by those goblins!"
"Mother, Jiang Zhen won't." Zhao Jinge replied to Zhao Liushi's words, but he didn't know how to answer Zhao Fugui... It can't be said that Jiang Zhen grabbed this ship, right
Fortunately, Zhao Fugui was restrained and did not continue to ask.
Jiang Zhen had already boarded the boat. He directed the people and began to move things down from the boat.
The one who moved down first was the big guy who bought the things in the capital to take home. Jiang Zhen also allowed his subordinates to move the things home first - anyway, there are many sailors on this ship, and he has no shortage of helping him carry things. people.
Jiang Zhen's men cheered and picked up their belongings.
He Chunsheng bought some brightly colored fabrics, took them and found his younger brother He Qiusheng: "Qiusheng, these are all for you, you can take them to make clothes."
"Brother!" He Qiusheng's eyes suddenly lit up.
"Father, I bought you a chamber pot! Didn't you say that the mouth of your chamber pot was broken and accidentally scratched... oops!" Before Jiang Ming could finish speaking, he was beaten on the head by his father.
This stinky boy really dares to say anything!
Jiang Ping looked at the people around him embarrassedly, and sure enough, he saw that the people in the village were looking at him in amazement, and their eyes were still on a certain part of him.
Jiang Ping: "..." He has given birth to a debt collector!
"Cough," Jiang Ping coughed twice, and pointed to the large and small bags around Jiang Ming: "You bought these?"
"Yes, Dad." Jiang Ming said: "I bought something for everyone in the family."
"That ship..." Jiang Ping asked again.
"That ship, that's the boss' ship." Jiang Ming said.
"Jiang Zhen's boat? Where did Jiang Zhen get such a big boat?" Jiang Ping was shocked, and the people around Hexi Village were also shocked.
Where did Jiang Zhen get such a big ship! Didn't he make money
"Isn't it just a boat? Dad, why are you so surprised?" Jiang Mingdao said that this boat was nothing special.
"Is this an ordinary ship!" Jiang Ping was angry.
"This is a very ordinary boat. The boss has five boats that are about the same size, and a few that are slightly smaller." Jiang Mingdao.
Jiang Ping: "..."
People from Hexi Village: "..."
How did Jiang Zhen get so many ships? Did he rob? !
Zhao Dahu's family was in the crowd, and naturally they listened to the conversation between Jiang Ping and his son, and then...
They were the richest in the village before, but they probably won't be in the future.
There is also the name "Zhao Dahu"... In the future, everyone will call Zhao Fugui like this, right
Suddenly a little depressed ah!
The people of Hexi Village, except Jiang Butcher's family, basically went to the river.
As for why the Butcher Jiang family didn't go... It's too late for them to hide from Jiang Zhen, how could they get together
Because all the people in Hexi Village ran away, the whole village seemed empty. At this moment, Zhu Shufen came back with her parents and relatives.
She didn't say hello to the Jiang family yesterday. After packing up her things, she went back to her parents' house. She wanted to find her parents' home and forced the Jiang family to split up. Today, they came over early in the morning.
Afraid that the people in Hexi Village would not agree to the separation, the Zhu family called a lot of people today, and Zhu Shufen's father Zhu Xiucai also came in person.
They rushed to Hexi Village angrily, and then suddenly found out... How can this Hexi Village be so quiet that there is no one there
"Where are the people in this village?" Zhu Xiucai looked left and right, his face puzzled.
"I don't know either." Zhu Shufen was also full of doubts. At this time, there shouldn't be smoke from cooking in the village. Is everyone cooking breakfast? Why is there no one at the moment
"Shouldn't he run away? Uncle, let's go to Jiang's house to see!" Someone said.
A group of people quickly ran towards the Jiang family, and then blocked the Jiang family in the house.
Yesterday, the Jiang family was blocked by Jiang Zhen, and today they were blocked by the Zhu family. The chair that Jiang Zhen sat in yesterday was also moved by Jiang Chengxiang to his own father-in-law.
One-sided negotiations began.
People in Hexi Village knew nothing about the Jiang family.
They are still in shock.
However, they can talk now...
"This Jiang Zhen is really capable!"
"Yeah, it's only been a few months since I went out, and I got back such a big ship, and there are more than one."
"He's definitely a lucky guy."
"It's true that Mrs. Jiang has been treating him badly. If the Jiang family treated him better, they would have developed a long time ago."
…
The second uncle of the Jiang family also came, and when he heard these words, he was so angry that he blew his beard and stared, and felt that Jiang Zhen was not up to his expectations.
You said that you are so capable, why do you still want to move into someone else's house? Wouldn't it be great to be self-reliant
You can also marry three wives and four concubines, and spread branches and leaves for the Jiang family...
Jiang's second uncle thought so, and wanted to talk to Jiang Zhen again, but his son quickly grabbed him.
Jiang Zhen is so powerful now, it would be too stupid to offend him again!
At this time, Zhao Fugui had already boarded the boat to help Jiang Zhen move things.
In fact, Jiang Zhen has no shortage of people who move things, but Zhao Fugui was happy and insisted on moving, so Jiang Zhen let him go, but let him carry the things he brought back to him and Zhao Liu, and let him not have many move.
Then Zhao Fugui only moved a little every time, and moved back and forth.
"Mother, let Dad come back." Brother Zhao Jin felt distressed when he saw his father running back and forth, so he ordered something and asked the sailors on the boat to help, and it was finished in one trip.
"Your father is showing off, don't worry about him." Zhao Liu said to his son, in fact, she also wanted to go to move things! But the plank was too narrow for her to walk.
Zhao Liu turned his eyes and looked at those people in the village not far away.
A few people who often talk to Zhao Liushi and have a good relationship with her, when they meet her eyes, come over immediately, and once they come over, they praise: "I said that Brother Jin has been blessed since he was a child! He must be married! "
"Zhao Liu, you are waiting for a good day!"
"Our village, you have the best life."
…
Zhao Liu didn't even need to show off, he was praised, and he was very happy.
At this time, these people sounded again: "Why does Jiang Zhen suddenly have such a ship?"
Zhao Liu froze when she was asked, she didn't know!
Zhao Liu immediately looked at Brother Zhao Jin.
Brother Zhao Jin coughed twice: "Jiang Zhen... He is very powerful... um... "
He wanted to show off like his mother, but he didn't know what to say. Hey, if he talked about Jiang Zhen too well, would someone come to rob him
"This child is clumsy!" Zhao Liu said, she didn't know where Jiang Zhen's boat came from, but it didn't affect her boasting: "Jiang Zhen has always been a capable person, a few boats are counted. what?"
"The master of the Zheng family appreciates him!"
"But he's not all right. No, it's too clingy. When he goes out to do business, he has to take Brother Jin with him. When Brother Jin is pregnant, he has to run outside."
"Of course, he has such a big boat, and he can't be tired of Brother Jin."
"It's this young couple, they're so sticky... Hey, if you don't think Brother Jin will hold two in three years, I don't know if I can bring them here..."
Zhao Jinge suddenly admired his mother a little bit. His mother said so, let people know that Jiang Zhen likes him very much, and others will definitely not want to rob him of Jiang Zhen!
very nice!
"Madam, old madam." At this time, the cook, Mrs. Li, came with Ruo'er. Their accents were a little different from He Xicun's, but because they had learned all the way from Zhao Jinge, the title was not so good. Let Zhao Liu not understand.
"This is..." Zhao Liushi didn't know these two people, and... this was the first time someone called her old lady...
It's really weird that no one of Zhao Dahu's mother called her that.
"Jiang Zhen asked them to take care of me." Brother Zhao Jin said.
"Hey, you see, this Jiang Zhen is too good at spending money. My brother Jin is so strong, how can I find someone to take care of him?" Zhao Liu said immediately: "But I don't have to worry about how to take the child, someone help!"
Everyone in Hexi Village who couldn't get in the word: "..."
Suddenly, I want to fight Zhao Liu's...
Zhao Jinge smiled reservedly, he suddenly understood why his mother liked to talk to people like this...
Zhao Fugui ran back and forth more than a dozen times before he finished moving the things. Then Jiang Zhen found someone and asked him to help deliver the things to Zhao's house.
This person took a burden and picked up all the things that Zhao Fugui had moved for so long, leaving only a few small burdens for Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui to carry.
In fact, Ruo'er was originally going to carry this burden, but Zhao Liu wanted to take it.
"Such a good material is actually used as a furoshiki." Zhao Liu was stroking the furnishing in his hand with a tangled expression.
Because Jiang Zhen came over, the people around were scattered at this moment. When Zhao Liushi saw this, he pulled Zhao Jinge and whispered, "Don't listen to what Mother said just now."
"What?" Brother Zhao Jin was puzzled.
"It means that you are too sticky to go out with Jiang Zhen... Mother thought about it, it's better for you to follow in the future, lest Jiang Zhen be hooked away!" When the Zhao family hadn't fallen, even Zhao Fugui, who was honest and friendly He was once targeted by a widow and wanted to get money from Zhao Fugui and let Zhao Fugui help with the work. Now Jiang Zhen is so rich...
She felt that it would be better for her son to follow Jiang Zhen all the time, so that even if a little goblin wanted to stick up, her son could beat people away!
Zhao Jinge nodded solemnly, and he also felt that as long as he could follow, he must follow.
When Jiang Zhen walked in the front and returned to the village with the people from He Xicun, everyone was a little dizzy, so that no one noticed the movement of the Jiang family.
Especially, after Jiang Zhen put down his things, he went to the river again.
Everyone cheered and went after them.
Jiang Zhen had calculated it for himself before, and calculated that his entire net worth was more than 200,000 taels, and this counted all the real estate like his boat.
Really want to talk about cash... After he bought a lot of goods in the capital, the cash was only 20,000 taels.
And the 20,000 taels of cash was what he planned to hide at home as a way out for himself.
20,000 taels of silver is 2,000 catties. In modern times, it is one ton. When you use taels to calculate it, it looks like a lot, but it’s not much when you put it together. After all, one cubic meter of water has one ton, and silver is heavier than water. .
If the ten thousand taels of silver were put into the box, there were only four boxes in it. This was because the shape of the silver was not regular.
These boxes were locked on the boat by Jiang Zhen before, but now Jiang Zhen personally brought them back to Zhao's house. After doing all this, he arranged for some of his subordinates to serve as nursing homes for him.
At the same time, there is one thing that is imminent.
That is building a house.
Jiang Zhen was not in a hurry to build a house before, mainly because he had no money on hand, but now that he has money, since this is the case, he must build a house well.
Even, he didn't want to just build a house.
Jiang Zhen remembered that Li Mingzhe, a silk businessman in Lijiacun, not only built his house by the river, but also built a small wharf so that people from ten miles and eight villages could roll boats to sell silkworm cocoons to him, and his heart moved.
Shouldn't he also get some land, build a pier, and then build a house
Speaking of which, although there are various flaws in the ancient times, there are also some places that Jiang Zhen likes very much. For example, when you buy a piece of land these days, you can toss on it at will, unlike modern times, where you have to build what you want to do. Plan to come.
If a private person wants to build a wharf, it is even more troublesome, and it may even be impossible to approve it at all.
If he can build a big pier in Hexi Village, and then build a house next to it...
Jiang Zhen took out a piece of paper, drew the topography of Hexi Village, and then began to pick a place.
At this time, Zhao Fugui and his wife opened the boxes that Jiang Zhen specially brought back.
As soon as they opened the box, they were shocked. There was so much money in the box!
Zhao Liu clutched his chest, feeling that he was out of breath.
"My son, you can't talk about this." Zhao Fugui swallowed and said, "I'm going to kill a chicken."
"Don't just kill a chicken, kill a duck too... Jiang Zhen likes to eat braised duck meat very much." Zhao Liushi said.
So much money... The chickens and ducks they raise can indeed be eaten by themselves...
Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui went to cook, but when Zhao Jinge saw this, he came to Jiang Zhen.
He has some knowledge now. When he saw Jiang Zhen's paintings, he immediately saw that Mingtang was coming: "You painted He Xicun?"
"Well." Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Jinge, and then pointed to the blueprint to show Zhao Jinge: "You say, how about we build a house here?"
"Okay!" Zhao Jinge said immediately, he was worried that his home was too small to live in!
After all... he might hold two in three years, right? Maybe after five years, there will be three children!
Jiang Zhen didn't know Zhao Jinge's thoughts at all, and he was thinking about how to build the house: "Although a house with mud walls is easy, it still has many defects, and it is still damp. If I want to change it, I will build a brick house. The layout of the house can’t be the same as it is now. Every house has to be carefully planned. I will design a unit first… It’s better to build a building…”
"Building a building?" Zhao Jinge looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise.
"Yes, build a building. Even if the floor can be paved with bricks and tiles, the ground floor is too damp. It's better to build a building and live upstairs," Jiang Zhen said. "You said, should I first get a brick kiln to burn the bricks? "
Jiang Zhen didn't know how the glass was fired, but he roughly knew how the bricks were fired. After all, firing bricks is too simple... Isn't it just using clay to make some molds and burn them
Moreover, there were also brick kilns in ancient times. He went to dig a few old masters who could burn bricks and came back, wouldn't everything be solved
Jiang Zhen quickly made a decision, and of course, Zhao Jinge agreed with his decision without even thinking about it.
They are going to buy land tomorrow.
When Jiang Zhen planned to buy land, the Jiang family was taken by the Zhu family, went to the county town to sell the land, and then went to repay the debt and split up the family by the way.
The Jiang family still has eleven mu of paddy fields, plus ten mu of mulberry land and ten mu of dry land. This time, in order to repay the debt, they sold three mu of paddy fields, plus two mu of dry land and two mu of mulberry land.
When Zhu Xiucai came forward, Jiang Chengcai owed all the debts this time. When the family split up, Jiang Chengxiang got more things as a matter of course. He got five acres of paddy fields, five acres of mulberry land, and five acres of dry land.
However, even so, what Jiang Chengxiang got was much, much less than what he had expected.
It is just a little bit of land now, working in the field for a year, it is estimated that I can only have enough food and clothing, and it is difficult to have a surplus.
Jiang Chengcai was even worse. He only had three acres of paddy fields, three acres of dry land, and three acres of mulberry land. Even if each piece of land was well served, he could only eat enough... After all, he was going to have another baby.
Moreover, he and Jiang Chengxiang agreed, Mrs. Jiang followed him, and the butcher Jiang followed Jiang Chengxiang, which means that there are three adults in his family... Fortunately, Mrs. Jiang can raise silkworms to subsidize the family.
In fact, to be honest, the Jiang brothers have a lot of land now, and there are many poorer people in Hexi Village, but it is difficult to switch from extravagance to thrift, and they can't accept it.
And... the land that is allotted must be sown, and then there will be a harvest!
They don't even farm.
The Jiang family disliked each other, and returned to Hexi Village in dejection, only to find out... This Jiang Zhen came back after making a lot of money? !