Zhao Liu asked in surprise, but soon laughed awkwardly again.
She thinks... The possibility that the matchmaker He comes to their house is more likely than the chance that the matchmaker He comes to propose marriage to Zhao Jinge.
However, the matchmaker actually smiled and said, "Yes, someone is going to propose to your brother Jin!"
"Really?" Zhao Liushi asked incredulously. She never thought that after years of disappointment, someone would propose marriage to Zhao Jinge.
"Of course it's true." He matchmaker said.
She kept rubbing her hands, and she couldn't hide the smile on Zhao Liushi's face: "Who is it? What's the situation in the family? Do you want to join the family or marry Brother Jin?" She asked behind When the question was asked, I couldn't help but blush a little. In her family's situation, I'm afraid no one would want to join the family.
Sure enough, the matchmaker quickly said, "That family wants to marry Brother Jin."
Zhao Liu was a little disappointed, and asked again, "What is that person like?" Although she really wanted to give Zhao Jin a marriage, she would not be happy if the man was too bad.
"That person is two years older than Brother Jin, and his life at home is not bad, that is, the daughter-in-law in front left four children..." The matchmaker looked at Zhao Liushi, and she saw Zhao Liushi's brows furrowed. , could not help but secretly pouted.
As far as Zhao Jinge is concerned, someone who wants to marry him should burn high incense, but Zhao Fugui and his wife regarded him as a treasure. A few years ago, she told Zhao Jinge a marriage for a widower to fill the house. willing.
"There are four children ahead..." When Zhao Liushi heard this, she was not as happy as she was at the beginning. It was not easy for her family to be a stepmother for so many children.
"These children are still young, take good care of them, and when they grow up, they will be the same as their own." Matchmaker He said.
Zhao Liushi was still a little reluctant, but thinking about Zhao Jinge's situation, he endured it again.
Anyway... That person isn't very old, isn't he
"Which one is it?" Zhao Liu asked.
"That's Li Zugen from Lijia Village..."
"No, this person is absolutely impossible!" When Zhao Liushi heard the three words of Li Zugen, he became angry. That guy's own daughter-in-law ran away, leaving a mess, and wanted Brother Jin to take over? That's too beautiful to think!
If nothing else, those four sons are not something ordinary people can afford! Four sons, even if these four find a daughter-in-law who doesn't want a betrothal gift, how much will it cost to build a house, hold a banquet and make furniture for so many people? What's more, is there a daughter-in-law who doesn't need a betrothal gift in this world
Moreover, Zhao Liu has always hated the Li family. It was obviously the Li family who asked for a marriage, but then they kicked them... If Zhao Jinge didn't marry that Li Zugen, they chose another family for him. People make a decision early, how can they be twenty-five now, still can't get married
"The Zhao family, this Li Zugen is not bad, they have seventy or eighty taels of cash in their hands now..." Matchmaker He advised.
"No, this person can't do it anyway! Get me out!" Zhao Liushi became even more angry.
After she finished speaking, she thought that she might have to rely on the matchmaker He to kiss her, and her face softened again: "Sister He, I'm not very good-tempered, I'm sorry... It's just that the Li family really can't do it, so I agreed. , my rich family is definitely not willing... you just help to find other people. "
Matchmaker He also looked very bad at the moment. She gave Zhao Liu a dissatisfied look and sneered: "How can this person be so easy to find? Your family Zhao Jin looks like a man, you Who do you think would want to marry such a man? What's more, just because of his figure, he knows that it is not easy to have children at first glance, and he is still old, and he may not be able to have children at all..."
Zhao Liu's family is really hot now, and he kicked out the matchmaker He.
When the matchmaker He left, she became annoyed again, and at the same time, the more she thought about it, the more she wanted to be sad.
The body is soft and the butt is big and petite, and the red mole between the eyebrows is still bright, and the twins are similar to women. They are the easiest to give birth to, and Zhao Jinge... just the opposite.
Therefore, the words that the matchmaker He finally dropped were not fake.
But precisely because it wasn't fake, she became more and more sad...
Zhao Liu was a sensitive person, and the more she thought about it, the more sad she became. In the end, the five little ducks kept barking at her feet, and she came back to her senses.
Zhao Liu's took care of these little ducks very carefully, so none of the five little ducks died, all of them are alive and well, and they are growing very fast. Food is coming.
Before, Jiang Zhen would chop up the small fish or fish intestines that Wang Haisheng caught every day and feed them to them. Even if they didn't ask Zhao Liushi to eat, they would not be hungry, but Jiang Zhen is not here today.
Zhao Liu didn't have earthworms, fish and shrimps at hand, so he cut up the lettuce leaves and fed them to the ducks, and even looked at Jiang Zhen.
Strange, why didn't she see Boss Jiang today, only the fisherman's two children were digging earthworms to feed the chickens
Zhao Liu has always liked children very much. She took a few glances and went out to dig earthworms with five ducks. The original sadness has dissipated a lot.
But even so, seeing that Zhao Jinge came back, she couldn't help but redden her eyes.
"Mother, what's wrong?" Brother Zhao Jin asked in confusion.
"Brother Jin..." Zhao Liushi called out. He wanted to cry, but thinking that he couldn't make his son sad, he finally endured it: "Brother Jin, you are hungry, come and eat something."
Zhao Jinge was really hungry, so he didn't ask.
These days, he had a meal at noon every day, and he couldn't stand it without lunch today, and when he saw Jiang Zhen every day, he couldn't see him suddenly, and he was even more worried about it.
Zhao Liu didn't say anything in front of Zhao Jinge, but after Zhao Fugui came back, she still told the matchmaker He's marriage proposal to Li Zugen. Of course, she hid the thing that matchmaker He said that Zhao Jinge couldn't give birth.
What Zhao Liu said was very angry, and Zhao Fugui was also very angry: "Even if Brother Jin doesn't marry, he won't marry him!"
In fact, there is one thing that Zhao Fugui never told his family, that is, after the Li family regretted their marriage, he actually went to Li Zugen once.
He wanted to have an explanation for his son, but he heard that Li Zugen was slandering Zhao Jinge with others, saying that Zhao Jinge was like a man. If he really wanted to marry Zhao Jinge, he would not want to sleep with Zhao Jinge.
Zhao Fugui was extremely arrogant, and he didn't go home until he slapped Li Zugen.
"Well, I won't marry him." Zhao Jinge said with great certainty, and began to think about Jiang Zhen again.
Jiang Zhen has also been thinking about Zhao Jinge.
On their way to the seaside, they met people from the Hongjiang Salt Field at the mouth of a river to board the boat to check. They finally let them go after charging them a toll of 200 yuan per boat. Then, they came to a fishing village by the sea. .
This fishing village is not big, and there are about 20 families living in it. They rely on fishing for a living, and they live very poor, even poorer than the people in Hexi Village, because many things here can’t be bought and grown. There is no food, and because they do not always have a good harvest every time they fish, the fish often cannot be sold for a price.
For these reasons, they are very welcome to merchants who come to the fishing village to buy seafood.
The merchants who came with Jiang Zhen are all old acquaintances of the villagers here. As soon as the villagers saw people, they surrounded them. It was at this time that Jiang Zhen discovered that these merchants were carrying more or less goods on their ships.
Some of them brought cloth, some brought small things like oil and sugar dishes, but most of them brought food.
Those things such as cloth, they are not sold, but brought to the villagers, and then exchanged with them.
The people in the fishing village went to the merchants they knew to get what they wanted, and took those merchants to their homes to see the goods, but Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng, two strangers, were ignored for a while.
But obviously, those merchants could not eat all the goods in the village. After a while, a young man in his twenties came to Jiang Zhen: "I have some kelp and fish at home, do you want it? "
"I'll take a look." Jiang Zhendao, he listened to those people chatting with the villagers, he already knew the approximate price of the things here, and now he plans to go and see the goods.
The man nodded and took Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng to his house.
There were a lot of salted fish drying in front of his house, and the house was piled up with dark dried kelp bundled up in bundles, giving off a strong smell of sea fish.
Many businessmen who come here can't stand the smell of the sea here. This man also gave Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng a worried look, but Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng were completely unaffected.
"Let's take a look. If you want, you can exchange food with me, or buy it with money." The man said.
Jiang Zhen took a look and found that these goods were no different from other people's, so he spent money to buy most of the marinated sea fish and all the kelp, and the man gave him a surprised look.
This kelp always sells well during the Chinese New Year, because people in Hecheng County will buy some kelp for the New Year and improve the taste at the end of the year, but there are not many people who usually buy it.
This man looked at Jiang Zhen and hesitated to talk to Jiang Zhen, lest Jiang Zhen buy too much and not be able to sell it.
But he was afraid that Jiang Zhen would not want his goods, so he didn't speak in the end.
"Is there anything else?" Jiang Zhen asked. He originally thought that he brought a dozen taels of silver would be too little, but when he bought so many goods, he only used up two hundred catties of rice and three or four taels of silver.
"No more." The man said.
Jiang Zhen heard this, but it was a little strange. He remembered that there were many types of seafood, so how could there be only kelp and salted fish? There are quite a few varieties of this salted fish. The main selling point is that it is salty. The price of salt is so expensive. In the eyes of many people, buying salted fish is very cost-effective.
Or, it's not that there is nothing else, but those things that people here don't treat as goods at all
Jiang Zhen immediately changed his question: "What do you usually catch when you go out to sea? What do you like to eat?"
Now this person said a lot of things. After thinking about it, he also took out a wooden bucket and gave Jiang Zhen a bucket of clams.
This kind of thing can be seen everywhere on the beach after the tide is low, and there are piles of it if you pick it up.
Of course, the most important thing is that they have no meat and all shells - people today, such food is not very popular.
"Can you take me to pick up some?" Jiang Zhen asked.
Of course that person would not disagree, just as the tide was about to ebb soon, he took Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng to the beach.
In modern times, Jiang Zhen had been to the seaside and some undeveloped beaches, so he was not surprised to see the sea, but Wang Haisheng was very curious. There were shells, and he picked up several, saying he would take them back to play with the children.
"Those clams have eaten the meat, and the shells outside can be used to play with." The people who brought them here are humane, and the children's toys here are all kinds of shells.
After the tide ebbs, there are a lot of clams on the beach, and they even look a little scary.
There were so many of them that within a while, Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng picked up a bucket.
"Would you like to pick up more?" Wang Haisheng asked enthusiastically, he really liked the beautiful shell of this small river mussel.
Jiang Zhen nodded, and spent a few cents to buy from the man a very finely woven fishing net that they used to hold the small fish. Then he picked up more clams and wrapped them in the fishing net. It is estimated that there will be three Four hundred pounds.
Their boat is not small, but it can't hold too many things, and they have to put salted fish and kelp. Jiang Zhen did not continue to pick it up, but together with Wang Haisheng, brought back the things he bought and the clams he picked up. on board.
In addition to clams on the beach, there are actually live creatures such as crabs, but those crabs are very small, so Jiang Zhen did not try to attack them.
After loading everything on the boat, Jiang Zhen estimated the load of the boat and put in kelp and salted fish of four or five taels of silver.
If you sell these things outside, the price will at least double. If you can sell them all, it will be good, but...
"You bought so many things the first time you came here. How long does it take to sell?" The people who came with them looked at Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng in surprise. They were all selling in the county town and near their home. Usually, it took a month or two before they entered the market. One time, and only a little more will come in at the end of the year, these two new arrivals have come in so many... Can't they sell them all
These people looked at Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng as if they were looking at two fools.