After leaving Jiang's house with his household registration documents and entering the newly built house, the emotion left by Boss Jiang, who had been haunting Jiang Zhen's chest, disappeared.
Before, even if this emotion didn't affect Jiang Zhen, it was still heavy on his heart, but now Jiang Zhen can't feel its existence.
Boss Jiang was afraid that he had disappeared completely.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen was somewhat disappointed. He got the body of Boss Jiang, got the memory of Boss Jiang, and was able to live in this ancient times, but Boss Jiang... The person who never had a good life died.
Jiang Zhen had some sympathy for Boss Jiang, but he only sympathized with him for a while, and he still had a lot of things to do.
There is no need for bricks and tiles to build a house in the countryside. It is made of earth walls, beams, and then made of bamboo and thatch to make a roof. The construction speed is very fast. Jiang Zhen's house has the help of the whole village, and it is easy to build. Faster, but although the house has been built, it is actually not suitable for living.
There are no blue bricks and slates on the ground, only mud. The house is already very damp. The newly built mud wall has increased the humidity by a level, and there are still many things missing in the house...
Jiang Zhen first packed up a room to store food, then locked the chicken he got from Jiang's house in the thatched thatched hut that had not been demolished. Come.
Probably because he could build the house for him as soon as possible, the villagers did not get a chimney for this house that required a certain level of skill to build. The circle for the pot, but it can be used anyway, because it is low, there is no need to worry about burning the thatch on it.
Some straw mulberry strips were brought back from the thatched hut and put into the mud stove to ignite. While dissipating the humidity in the house, the mud stove was dried. Jiang Zhen thought about it, and then lit fires in different parts of the house.
The doors and windows are all open, and after the small fires are lit, the moisture on the surface of the house will almost dissipate. As for the moisture in the mud wall, it is not necessary to care about it.
The furniture moved from Jiang Chengxiang's house was actually not that much. Jiang Zhen tidied it up and put it away in the house, and then found that he still lacked a lot of things.
He doesn't have the tables and chairs that every household has, and he still lacks a lot of daily necessities... It seems that he will have to go to the county town tomorrow.
After tidying up the house, Jiang Zhen went to rebuild the thatched hut behind the house.
His thatched hut was specially made for a house, but the thatched pit... The villagers just dug a random pit!
Jiang Zhen couldn't accept such a simple thatched hut, so he planned to transform it. At least he had to dig a passage from the bottom to the outside and then dig a dung pond outside, so as to avoid the smell of his thatched hut.
Jiang Zhen, who took a nap every day a few days ago, did not take a nap for the first time in the world. He was humming a song while digging a ditch, and he was in a good mood.
However, he was in a good mood, and the Jiang family was not in a good mood.
With so much silver and grain taken away all at once, even if the Jiang family is still wealthy, it will take two years to recover.
"Then why don't the one who killed a thousand knives die!" Madam Jiang scolded Jiang Zhen while rubbing the pig's large intestine with salt.
After Jiang Zhen killed the pig, he didn't give them a piece of meat. All that was left was a mess and a pile of pig intestines and half a bucket of pig blood. These were considered good things, and Mrs. Jiang was naturally reluctant to throw them away. Also, deal with it and scold people.
Jiang Xiaomei silently listened to Mrs. Jiang's scolding by the side.
She used to be afraid of Jiang Zhen before, but now that Jiang Zhen is gone, looking back and thinking about it, she found that Jiang Zhen did nothing to her except for robbing her eggs. The fear has dissipated a lot. Hearing Mrs. Jiang scolding people now, she couldn't help feeling a little sympathy for her big brother.
Her second brother and third brother got married and married their daughters-in-law. They each spent dozens of taels of silver as betrothal gifts and furniture. For a wedding banquet, she used several stones of grain to entertain guests and make wedding cakes. What her elder brother took away was actually Really not much.
However, it doesn't make much sense to think about this now. She might as well think about how to find a rich and good husband... A few days ago, she heard from her mother that she wanted to find a husband's family who was willing to give her more dowry, so that she could use the dowry to pay off her debts. of.
Jiang Xiaomei has no idea about paying off her family's debt with her betrothal gift. The girls in the village get married, and the betrothal gifts are basically given to their parents. The parents can give a few taels of silver to the bottom of the box and prepare some quilts and furniture. She loves her daughter now. I want to choose a good one among those who are willing to pay more betrothal gifts, so as not to have a hard life in the future.
When Jiang Xiaomei was worried about her marriage, Jiang Chengxiang sent Yang Jiang, whom he invited home a few days ago, back to the county seat.
Along the way, Jiang Chengxiang kept apologizing to Yang Jiang, but Yang Jiang ignored him. After reaching the county seat, Yang Jiang even slapped Jiang Chengxiang with his waist knife: "Get out of my way!"
Jiang Chengxiang was just a thin and weak scholar. He staggered suddenly after being slapped like this, and no longer dared to follow Yang Jiang.
As for Yang Jiang...
He looked at his hands, and suddenly realized that his movements were... so similar to that of the evil star of the Jiang family hitting him
Thinking of the evil star of the Jiang family, Yang Jiang suddenly felt pain everywhere.
Although the evil star had not hit him too badly in the past few days, but every now and then he would kick him a little, but it also left him covered in bruises and wounds, and there was no good flesh on his body.
He was still tired and hungry... Although the evil star let him eat at noon today, he only let him take a small bite!
Yang Jiang walked to the house quickly, planning to eat something and sleep before thinking about other things.
The Yang family had a small yard in the county town, and as soon as Yang Jiang entered the yard, he saw his wife feeding chickens in the yard.
There are a lot of clothes in the yard that he is familiar with, and all the things around are neatly arranged. His eldest son is not there, and the younger son, a four-year-old little Shuanger, is playing with a few pieces of wood in the corner.
"Yang Jiang, where have you been? Why haven't you been home for two days and haven't gone to the yamen?" Yang Jiang's wife saw Yang Jiang, let go of the dustpan with the millet in her hand, and walked over, asking as she walked. : "Did you go to gamble again? How much did you lose?"
Yang Jiang was usually the most impatient of this woman chattering around him, but these days he suffered, and hearing such concern again made his heart warm.
"I'm fine." Yang Jiang said: "Give me something to eat, hurry up."
"Okay." Yang Jiang's wife immediately went to work in the kitchen.
"Wait," Yang Jiang stopped her, "scramble me eggs with bacon!" God knows how greedy he is when he eats this dish these days...
I still have to buy fresh meat, but bacon is still quite well-off people will prepare a little at home. Yang Jiang's wife cut off a small piece of bacon after a while, and cut it into thin shreds and used it to fry for two. An egg, and the rest of their rice was brought to Yang Jiang at noon.
Holding the bowl, Yang Jiang ate his mouthfuls, and after a few mouthfuls, he felt that he was alive.
"You eat slowly, don't eat too fast, be careful of choking, or I'll make you another soup?" Yang Jiang's wife asked.
"No need." Yang Jiang said, when the soup is ready, he will definitely finish the meal.
Just thinking about it, Yang Jiang suddenly had his youngest son standing not far away, drooling at the scrambled eggs on his table.
He is a yamen servant. He can receive two taels of silver from the yamen a month, and from time to time, he can receive filial piety from below, and he can share some extra money with his colleagues. It stands to reason that his son would have no problem eating meat every day, but in fact...
He used the money to gamble, buy things for the sweetheart, and drink spicy food for himself, but he didn't take the money home.
The children of his colleagues can go to school, and his eldest son, who is seven years old, is still playing with people in the alley in mud.
"What are you looking at? Let's go outside and play." Yang Jiang's wife saw her youngest son staring at Yang Jiang's scrambled eggs. She was afraid that Yang Jiang would be angry, so she patted the child.
"Why are you beating your child?" Yang Jiang trembled when he saw his wife yelling at his second son. He has already understood the mess of the Jiang family. It was caused by that old lady Jiang's harsh treatment of her son. He should not fall into that situation himself!
"Come on, Er Mao, come here, Dad will give you eggs." Yang Jiang smiled at his younger son.
Yang Ermao, who didn't have a serious name, shrank his neck and looked at Yang Jiang with a little fear, which made Yang Jiang feel a little uncomfortable.
Yang Jiang ate half of the bowl of scrambled eggs with bacon, and asked his mother-in-law to divide the rest among the two children. After that, he took out two taels of silver from his body and gave it to his mother-in-law.
The two taels of silver he took with him before he went to Jiang's house. Jiang Zhen beat him all the time, but he didn't steal his money.
After Yang Jiang gave the money, he went back to his room and went to sleep. In the end, it was the smell from the kitchen that woke him up.
That's the taste of braised pork! Yang Jiang didn't care about the pain, he quickly got up from the bed, and went to the kitchen with drooling.
His mother-in-law bought a pork rib and made a bowl of braised pork. The meat was oily and looked very delicious.
Yang Jiang is an only son. His parents have spoiled him since he was a child, which made him develop a disregard for others. Usually, he can put half a bowl of meat on the table by himself, but now...
After taking a piece of meat for his two children, his parents and his wife, Yang Jiang suddenly found that there was only one piece left in the bowl... If he usually eats a few more pieces, no one will have to eat it.
"I don't like meat..." Yang Jiang's wife gave Yang Jiang the meat in her bowl.
"No, no, you can eat it yourself." Yang Jiang rejected his wife, mixed the soup with braised pork in his bowl, and ate two large bowls of rice with this piece of meat. After eating, he saw two children watching There was a little more intimacy in his eyes, and he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Yang Jiang was served at home, but Jiang Zhen was the only one left alone at the moment.
In the afternoon, when he was burning the stove, he boiled the pig bones and boiled a large pot of bone soup. As a result, when he wanted to throw some green vegetables into the bone broth to boil, and then cook a pot of rice to eat, he suddenly found that... he had no rice to cook.
The Jiang family gave Wushi grain, but it was all rice with husks, not brown rice with the husks removed!
Therefore, if he wants to eat, he has to pound the rice first... But, he doesn't have the tools to pound the rice.
Forget it, even without tools, there are other ways to get some rice out...
Jiang Zhen put the rice into the bamboo tube and kept pounding it with a stick, finally getting himself a bowl of rice with some husks in it.
He picked up half of the pork bones in the pot with the gourd scoop. Jiang Zhen poured the bowl of rice that he had managed to get out into the bone soup left in the pot, and then cut a leaf of pork liver and cut it into small pieces. thrown into the pot.
As for the rest of the meat, as well as pig heart and belly, Jiang Zhen thought that it would be better to eat it slowly, so he took out a can of salt brought from Jiang's family and marinated it.
And by the time he marinated the meat, he had almost used up the jar of salt.
It seems that we must go to the county seat tomorrow. Jiang Zhen thought about it like this, and began to stuff firewood into the mud stove to cook pork liver porridge.
He needs to eat protein and fat now, but vegetables can't be lacking... Seeing that the porridge is almost cooked, Jiang Zhen went out and went to Zhao Jinge's house to steal a lettuce...
This is a time when there is really no way, who told the Jiang family not to grow vegetables in this land for him, and other people's homes are a little far away
However, the local vegetables in the countryside are not valuable, so it's actually nothing for him to take a vegetable from someone else. Moreover, he intends to eat half of this porridge for Zhao Jinge.
Jiang Zhen chopped the lettuce and lettuce leaves, and waited for the porridge to be ready and put it into the pot, and finally made his own dinner.
After eating the pork liver porridge, Jiang Zhen chewed the bones that could be chewed in the porridge.
Looking at Boss Jiang's memory, when people killed pigs or bought meat with pig bones left, they would not only use the pig bones to make soup, but also chop the pig bones into small pieces, cook them for a long time, and then... Except The middle part of the bone can't be eaten if you can't bite it open. Some bones that can be cooked will be chewed and eaten directly.
Everyone else eats like this, so he doesn't waste it. After all, this body is probably a bit deficient in calcium.
It is said that bone soup does not actually supplement calcium, he just chews bones and eats total calcium, right
Jiang Zhen was full of food and drink, and it was already dark. He lit a fire in his house, and then he pounded the rice with the fire while waiting for the dead of night.
In the dead of night, Zhao Jinge will come to him!
Jiang Zhen happily pounded the rice for almost two hours. Even if he used a bamboo tube, he made enough rice to eat for several days, but he still couldn't wait for Zhao Jinge.
Isn't Zhao Jin-ge going to come over today? Jiang Zhen frowned and threw the bamboo tube in his hand, and decided to climb the wall.
It is now about ten o'clock in the evening. It was completely dark, and everyone in the village was asleep. Jiang Zhen came to the Zhao family's house and knocked gently on Zhao Jinge's window.
After a while, the window was opened, and it was obvious that Brother Zhao Jin had not slept.
Are you shy and embarrassed to come to him and wait for him
"Brother Jin, come out." Jiang Zhen said.
"I'm going to sleep..." Brother Zhao Jin said.
"If you don't come out, I'll go in." Jiang Zhen made a gesture to climb into the house.