The name of the pair who talked to Jiang Zhen was He Qiusheng.
He Qiusheng's family is also very poor, and it is actually similar to Zhao Jin's family.
Zhao's family was poor because of Zhao Liu's poor health, and Zhao Fugui sold the land to treat him. He Qiusheng's family was poor, but because He Qiusheng's father was addicted to gambling.
He Qiusheng's father loves to gamble very much, and he can't help but gamble for money. Although the gamble is not too big, he also loses everything in the family's annual output and valuables, and finally even loses the fields. , the life of the He family plummeted.
The two families have no money, but compared with Zhao Jinge, He Qiusheng's life is one heaven and one underground.
He Qiusheng's father was a muddy man who couldn't support the wall, but He Qiusheng's two older brothers were both down-to-earth and hard-working people, and his father had several brothers.
The uncle of the He family was very disgusted with He Qiusheng's unrepentant father, and he was unwilling to take care of him, but he would help a few nephews, and He Qiusheng and his two brothers grew up well.
Now He Qiusheng's two older brothers have grown up, and life at home is slowly improving.
And He Qiusheng is still very good-looking, which makes his life particularly comfortable.
Although He Qiusheng is only a twin, he looks a little better than the most beautiful girl in the village. Naturally, he is loved since he was a child, and the boys in the village are especially willing to take care of him.
Going out with others to mow hogweed, he doesn't have to do anything, someone else will give him hogweed, and he just needs to call out a few sweet brothers.
When he goes to catch fish with others, he doesn't need to go into the water, someone will give him the biggest fish he has caught, and he only needs to give him a smile.
In Hejia Village, He Qiusheng has always been held by boys of the same age. If it wasn't for his young age, the He family would say that they would wait until he was sixteen before discussing marriage with him. The threshold of his family would have been long ago Trapped by a matchmaker.
That's right, He Qiusheng is not yet sixteen, he's only fifteen years old, and he is ten years younger than Boss Jiang, so the two had no contact at all before, and Boss Jiang didn't have a deep impression of him - so good-looking Shuang'er, the former Boss Jiang didn't dare to take a second look.
It was the first time that Jiang Zhen saw the so-called good-looking Shuang'er. He couldn't help but take a few more glances, but he was a little disappointed after reading it. He has always liked strong and decent men, and He Qiusheng... He not only looks like a woman, but also behaves more like a woman, which is really not to Jiang Zhen's appetite.
"Brother Jiang, can you give me the snake you caught?" Seeing Jiang Zhen staring at him, He Qiusheng smiled at Jiang Zhen, his voice a little sweeter.
He didn't look down on Boss Jiang, but the snake that Jiang Zhen caught made him a little jealous, so he wanted to get the snake from Boss Jiang, but he didn't think that the General Assembly was unwilling.
For an old bachelor like Boss Jiang, as long as he goes up to talk to him, he will give him what he wants.
"You want this snake?" Jiang Zhen asked.
"Yeah." He Qiusheng looked at Jiang Zhen and blinked his big eyes, his eyes full of desire.
"This snake weighs about five pounds, and it has caught up with a chicken. You can exchange a chicken with me, and I will give you the snake." Jiang Zhen said.
He Qiusheng's face changed suddenly. He didn't expect Boss Jiang to reject him, and he thought it was so beautiful... It's just a snake, and this old bachelor actually wanted to exchange a chicken for himself? !
Jiang Zhen came from modern times. Back then, a catty of snake meat cost hundreds of yuan and chicken was ten yuan a catty, so he didn't think there was any problem with exchanging snake meat for chicken, but for He Qiusheng, he said this There's definitely something wrong with the brain.
Can a snake caught outside be compared with a chicken raised at home? Even if Jiang Zhen was carrying a chicken, he would not ask for it, because he felt that others would definitely not give it to him.
The men in the village often give him things, such as loaches and eels, and eggs, but no one will give him a whole chicken. After all, for the villagers, chickens are an important family property.
"You want me to exchange chickens?" He Qiusheng asked again, thinking he heard it wrong.
"If you don't want to change, get out of the way, don't block me." Jiang Zhen said again, and went straight to the river to wash the snakes, never looking at He Qiusheng again.
It was the first time that He Qiusheng was not taken seriously, and he was furious. He glared at Jiang Zhen viciously: "Humph! Who cares about your snake!" After he finished speaking, he walked away without looking back. .
"Boss Jiang, you are so hard-hearted, you don't care about such a beautiful pair." said a middle-aged woman who was washing vegetables next to her. Although He Qiusheng likes to take a little advantage, he is still measured, and he only takes things from unmarried men, so the people in the village don't hate him, and they are quite considerate.
This pair of children is unlucky to have such a father, the poor family has no land, and there is nothing to ask people to eat.
Jiang Zhen didn't speak. He didn't think that He Qiusheng was beautiful at all. What's more, he was still waiting to cook this snake and share it with Zhao Jinge. Why should he give it to someone inexplicable? Of course, if someone is willing to exchange chicken... Compared with the snake whose meat is a bit old, he now wants to eat chicken that is relatively oily and watery.
After peeling off the snake's skin and ripping off its intestines, Jiang Zhen washed the snake cleanly.
Snake gallbladder was considered a good thing in Hexi Village, but Jiang Zhen was not interested in it, so he gave it to the middle-aged woman next to him and asked the woman to take it back for her grandson to eat.
When Jiang Zhen came home with a big snake, Mrs. Jiang and Little Sister Jiang were cooking dinner, and Butcher Jiang was talking to Jiang Chengcai, asking Jiang Chengcai to go down to the ground with him tomorrow.
Obviously, after he was unwilling to work in the fields, the Jiang family's farm work was a bit unfinished.
Of course, that had nothing to do with Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen didn't have a knife today, but he was carrying a snake, which made the butcher Jiang still dare not call him to do things. Jiang Zhen just pretended he didn't know the unfinished work at home and sat on the threshold waiting for dinner to be ready.
On the other side, Zhao Jinge quietly left the riverside while Jiang Zhen was washing the snake and had already returned home.
Instead of going to the river to wash his hands and feet, he scooped up the water from his own water tank with a gourd scoop. After washing it, he stared at his own reflection in the water tank again.
If he were a man, although his body and appearance were too rough for city people, he was not good-looking or gentle, but he was not bad in the country, but he was a twin.
Jiang Zhen can still play a hooligan in front of a pair like him, and even said that he wants to kiss him...
Even Jiang Zhen rejected He Qiusheng.
Although Jiang Zhen did not necessarily reject He Qiusheng because of him, Zhao Jinge was still very happy at the moment, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.
He tried his best to straighten his face, and then saw that he in the water tank seemed to be frowning, not gentle at all, and was suddenly a little discouraged.
"Brother Jin, what are you doing?" Zhao Liu shouted when he saw his son staring at the water tank with a look of bitterness and hatred.
"It's alright." Zhao Jinge said: "Mother, there is no water in the tank, I'll go pick some more."
"Okay." Zhao Liu nodded in agreement. There are many rivers here, and they all go to the river for washing and washing dishes, but the water tank is also prepared with water for cooking. She is not healthy and can't walk around all the time. The water in the water tank used for washing dishes.
When Zhao Jinge was carrying a load to the riverside, he passed several households in the village and heard someone talking about Jiang Zhen, and he stopped again.
"Then Boss Jiang is like a different person. I heard that he not only does not work now, but also eats and drinks two eggs a day!"
"Jiang's family treated him too harshly before, otherwise how could he be forced like this?"
"But he's gone a bit too far. His mother is crying so badly today. She said she raised this son for nothing."
"She didn't take care of Boss Jiang too much..."
"But she is Boss Jiang's mother after all. Boss Jiang can use a knife to his own mother, which is too much."
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There was a lot of discussion among the people. Although they felt that Jiang Zhen was excusable, they also felt that he had done too much.
When Zhao Jinge heard this, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Jiang Zhen is really eating well now, and he didn't save food for him, which made him not feel too guilty.
The Zhao family still drank porridge in the evening. The weather has been a little warmer recently, and the vegetables in the fields are about to bloom, so they should be eaten early. The dish is a large bowl of boiled vegetables.
After drinking two bowls of porridge and eating a large bowl of green vegetables, Zhao Jinge was also full of water.
After he was full, Zhao Fugui took out the money he had earned from working part-time these days and gave it to Zhao Liu.
The Zhao family was reluctant to light the lamp. After Zhao Fugui talked about the money he had earned from the things he had done these days, he went back to the room with Zhao Liu's to sleep. Brother Zhao Jin should have gone back to the room to sleep, but in the end, he was a ghost. He opened the door and went out, and he arrived next to the thatched hut of the Jiang family.
"Brother Jin, are you waiting for me?" Jiang Zhen's voice suddenly sounded again, Zhao Jinge turned his head and saw Jiang Zhen holding two bamboo tubes.
"Jiang Zhen..."
"Brother Jin, I caught a snake today, let's eat it together?" Jiang Zhen shook the bamboo tube in his hand.
After dinner today, he went to Jiang's kitchen and chopped the snake into pieces and cooked it.
Mrs. Jiang hid everything in soy sauce, lard, rapeseed oil and so on, and there was only a little bit of salt left in the kitchen. He was too lazy to ask her for seasonings, so he planned to cook the snake casually and eat it. As a result, Mrs. Jiang kept talking outside the kitchen, disliking him for burning snake meat and eating too much firewood.
Then... Jiang Zhen took a knife and forced Mrs. Jiang to take out the vegetable oil and soy sauce.
Take out the snake meat that has been boiled in the water for a while, put oil in the pot first, then put the snake meat in and stir-fry for a while, and finally add soy sauce and a little water to cook for a while... Although Jiang Zhen is average in cooking, he also cooks A pot of fragrant snake meat.
Then, he took the snake meat back to his room, leaving nothing for the rest of the Jiang family.
Jiang Yuanwen, the precious pimple of the Jiang family, kept crying because he didn't eat snake meat. Mrs. Jiang kept pointing at Sang and scolding Huai outside. Jiang Zhen got tired of hearing it, so he just packed two bamboo tubes and locked the door to go to Zhao Jinge.
He was a little worried at first, worried that Brother Zhao Jin had fallen asleep and couldn't call him out of the house. He didn't expect to see Brother Zhao Jin from a long way, and he was instantly happy.
Jiang Zhen once again pulled Zhao Jinge into the thatched hut.