When Jiang Zhen went to deliver meals to Zhao Jinge this time, he didn't avoid people specially, but Zhao Dahu's land was close to the canal, and all the land over there belonged to his family, so there were generally no people in the village.
Zhao Jinge was a little tired after working all morning, but when he saw Jiang Zhen, he felt refreshed again, and the corners of his mouth twitched to both sides unconsciously.
Before, he had secretly ate the food Jiang Zhen brought in the woods, but this time, he was sitting on the ridge to eat. He hoped that others could see and know that Jiang Zhen was kind to him.
However... even if someone saw it, they were quickly told that Jiang Zhen himself ate at Zhao's house.
He was delivering meals to Brother Zhao Jin, but this was the Zhao family's meal... Isn't this a generosity to others
No one envied Zhao Jinge at all.
Brother Zhao Jin was a little depressed like Zhao Liu, but Jiang Zhen didn't take it seriously.
He has always cared about other people's eyes. When he has time to care about what the villagers are thinking, he might as well find time to make more money.
This is not a modern peaceful society. In modern times, even if you are very poor, you can find a relief center to feed yourself. Here, if you have no money, you may starve to death.
With too little money on hand, he could never feel at ease.
"I'm going to the county seat in the afternoon." Seeing that Brother Zhao Jin had almost eaten, Jiang Zhen said to Brother Zhao Jin.
"What are you going to do?" Brother Zhao Jin was a little puzzled.
"Go sell things, don't worry, I'll be back in the evening." Jiang Zhen smiled at Brother Zhao Jin.
What Jiang Zhen wanted to sell in the county seat was his leftover kelp and salted fish, as well as the fish he just caught this morning.
He had this plan for a long time. The kelp was soaked in yesterday, and the goods were ready. After saying hello to Zhao Jinge, he took Wang Haisheng out.
When they arrived at the county seat, it happened to catch up with the evening market in the afternoon. At this time, many people have dinner at four or five in the afternoon, and before that, some of them will go to the street to buy a dish.
Jiang Zhen parked the boat near the dock, and just like when he was in Fucheng before, he started to grab a handful of kelp for a penny, and sold it like this.
There are far fewer people in the county than in the prefecture, but there are still people who come to buy it. After all, a penny is really small, and once more people come to buy, out of herd mentality, even if some people don’t actually buy, they will come. have a look.
Now that I've come to see it... it's inevitable that someone will buy it.
Most people come to buy kelp, but some people buy more expensive salted fish, and fresh fish are also selling well...
In modern times, saltwater fish are sold frozen, but freshwater fish are sold alive. After all, the taste of dead fish is not good and will be very fishy, but not at this time.
At this time, people basically sold dead fish.
They caught fish and piled them up and sold them on the street. Even if the fish were alive at the beginning, they would die soon after, and there was nothing they could do about it. At this time, it was not like modern faucets come out as soon as the water was released. There are also oxygen pumps. Get oxygen in the water, get a bigger bucket...
These days, if you get a big wooden barrel to sell live fish, it will be very troublesome to move the barrel around... So, except for the more sophisticated rich people, the big guys usually buy and sell dead fish.
But Jiang Zhen still sells live fish.
The live fish that he and Wang Haisheng caught in the morning were not piled up on the boat, but kept in fishing nets to ensure that they would not die after falling into the boat. When they reached the county seat, they took them out one by one and put them in wooden barrels for sale. .
At this time, the fish was still alive and kicking.
Wang Haisheng can already deal with the kelp business, and Jiang Zhen is responsible for selling salted fish and fresh fish.
There are still many people who join in the fresh live fish, and for a while, it sells very well.
Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng were the first in the county to sell live fish and soaked kelp, so there were a lot of people. They sold it for three taels this afternoon, which means they made another three taels.
Although kelp sells more, the money is mainly from selling fish, but the cost of kelp is low, and the cost of salted fish is high. If you really want to make money, it is estimated that kelp is better.
"Is it you?" A voice sounded, Jiang Zhen raised his head, and found that a seafood merchant who had gone with them to buy goods was standing in front of them.
"Your selling method is quite good." The seafood merchant looked at the kelp in front of Wang Haisheng with a thoughtful look. There is no doubt that he will follow the same way when he goes back, and then sell it like this.
This method is too simple, and it can be easily learned by others... Jiang Zhen knew that he had better find a way to do other business in the future. Of course, he had to have capital first.
"How are your goods selling?" the seafood merchant asked again.
"Sold out." Jiang Zhen finally answered.
Hearing the words, the seafood merchant looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. The profit of the seafood was okay, but they didn't make a lot of money. The main reason was that they couldn't sell too much.
But now, the goods these two people bought are sold out
This seafood merchant is a little jealous, but he can't do anything other than jealousy. He really wants him to row a boat and sell it elsewhere, but he doesn't want it.
Jiang Zhen sold it in the county town all afternoon, and the rest of the seafood was almost sold out. If he sells it again tomorrow, it is estimated that it will be all sold out.
He packed his things and returned to Hexi Village before it was completely dark.
When Jiang Zhen arrived at Zhao's house, it was past the time when the Zhao family used to eat dinner, but the Zhao family hadn't even moved their chopsticks. Seeing Jiang Zhen's return, Zhao Liu's family put all the dishes that were kept warm on the steaming rack. He brought it out, and then greeted Jiang Zhen to eat.
Zhao Liu is an introverted and attentive person, and is willing to spend his time on cooking.
Now is a good time to eat garlic. Of course, this garlic does not mean garlic cloves, but whole garlic.
Zhao Liu plucked some garlic, cut off the root, put it in salted fish and steamed it, cut the garlic leaves into small pieces, and made a pot of tofu with garlic leaves. In addition, she also used cold seaweed and fried a plate. Cabbage, even…
"What is this?" Jiang Zhen looked at a dish on the table with some curiosity. It was a plate of fried wild vegetables, but it seemed that there were other things in it.
"I picked some snails and took off the snail heads to stir-fry wild vegetables." Zhao Liu said. She saw that there were a lot of snails, so she boiled some, and then used a needle to pick out all the snail meat one by one.
She used the snail's tail to feed the ducklings, but the snail's head was put together and used to stir-fry dishes, which was considered to add a bit of meat to the dish.
Jiang Zhen used to eat snails when he and his comrades had supper together, but they always cut off the whole snail with the tail and sucked the meat out to eat it. I have never eaten such a single-edged snail head... This is definitely A huge project.
"The snails are relatively small. If there are snails, there will be more meat." Zhao Liushi added, the snails in the river here are only the size of fingernails, but there are snails in the paddy fields, and the largest snails can even be as big as eggs. There is more meat.
Jiang Zhen was very satisfied with this meal.
After he traveled back to ancient times, he had been eating very ordinary food. Until this time, he had eaten delicious food. He suddenly felt that it was a correct decision to come to Jiang's house to eat.
When he has money in the future, he must buy more seasonings for Zhao Liushi.
After dinner, it was completely dark, so the Zhao family lit a small oil lamp. It was pitch black and couldn't see anything clearly. It would be difficult to chat under such circumstances, and Jiang Zhen soon left.
That night, Jiang Zhen slipped into Zhao Jinge's room again.
"The bed board hasn't been changed yet?" Jiang Zhen asked after touching the bed.
Zhao Jinge was stunned for a moment, then a little embarrassed: "I forgot..."
"If you don't change it, don't change it. After a few days, I'll go get some wood and make a sturdier bed, otherwise it will be too inconvenient." Jiang Zhen said.
Zhao Jinge was not completely ignorant. Hearing Jiang Zhen's words, he immediately blushed.
When he came back from work the next day, he specially took down the broken bed board in his house, and then re-laid the rest of the bed board.
"This bed board is so good, why did it suddenly break? There are no moths." Zhao Liu looked at the bed board with some puzzlement.
"I accidentally used a little force..." Zhao Jinge lowered his head and said awkwardly.
"Also, this bed has been used for a long time." Zhao Liu said: "By the way, Brother Jin, your father and I have already had dinner, and when Jiang Zhen comes back, the two of you will eat together. Now, we don't have to wait and we don't have to leave us meals."
"Mother, what are you doing?" Zhao Jinge asked.
Zhao Liushi was delighted: "We're going to the next village to find a blind man and ask for a suitable date to get married." Here, when we choose the auspicious date for marriage, we all have to ask people, and those who count the days are usually blind.
The master is blind, and he accepts apprentices as well as blind people, which is actually a way of life for those blind people.
"Yeah." Brother Zhao Jin replied.
"We might not come back at night. Your father has a friend over there. We may stay there for one night at that time." Zhao Liushi said again. In addition to asking the blind man for an auspicious date this time, she and Zhao Fugui have to go there to order two quilts and some furniture. Zhao Fugui's friend is a carpenter. If they delay too late, they will not come back. , spend the night at his house.
Zhao Jinge responded again, and Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui went out together.
The people in the village they went to didn't know much about Hexi Village. At most, they had vaguely heard a few rumors that Boss Jiang was very powerful. Therefore, when Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui went to ask the day, the blind man was very calm, and then gave out for three days.
Usually people come to ask about the date of marriage, and they choose the auspicious day several months later, but the Zhao family has always emphasized that the sooner the better, the blind man gave the three most recent days.
One after twelve days, one after one month, and one after two months.
Zhao Liu recorded the three dates, but he had already made up his mind to marry Zhao Jinge and Jiang Zhen in twelve days.
This marriage, the sooner the better, lest Jiang Zhen run away.
Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui asked that the day was going well, and the ordering of two quilts went smoothly, but when they finally made the furniture, they encountered a little trouble.
It was already dark, and the road was very difficult to walk at night and there might be snakes, but Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui were still rushing back.
"What's the matter with that friend of yours? You treat us as poor and poor? You even drove people out without saying a word..." Zhao Liushi looked at Zhao Fugui with dissatisfaction.
She and Zhao Fugui felt that they could not feel wronged by Jiang Zhen, so they wanted to find a friend to buy two pieces of furniture. As soon as they entered the door, they told people that their Jin brother was getting married, and Zhao Fugui's friend's wife couldn't wait. To drive them out, Zhao Fugui's friend didn't even stop him.
Zhao Liu felt extremely aggrieved.
Zhao Fugui said nothing.
"Aren't they just afraid that we will borrow money from them? Don't think about it. We all sold our land back then, so we didn't bother them..." Zhao Liushi said again.
He and Zhao Fugui were both unwilling to bother people. In fact, they could borrow money at the beginning, but after they sold the land, they felt that it was not good to borrow money from people without relatives.
After so many years, they have never bothered them, and this time they also brought money for furniture, but they were actually kicked out.
Zhao Fugui didn't feel good either. His friend was somewhat related to him. When they were young, the relationship between the two was very good.
It's just that Zhao Fugui is not very good at speaking, so he can only be silent.
"Tomorrow, I'll find another carpenter. He accidentally crushed the bed plank in Brother Jin's room. You can wait for the rest. You must buy a bed quickly." Zhao Liu said, suddenly again He frowned and looked into the distance: "Dad, how come there is light in Brother Jin's room?"
Zhao Fugui looked at it from a distance, and as expected, there was light shining through his son's house, and the window was still open.
"This child is not afraid of spending lamp oil." Zhao Liushi said with some distress.
However, Zhao Fugui faintly sensed that something was wrong. His brother Jin was not someone who could light up lights at night.
He pulled Zhao Liushi and didn't go any further. He was thinking about his thoughts when suddenly he saw a figure climb in through the light-transmitting window, and then the window was closed.
This... this... Zhao Fugui was taken aback.
Zhao Liu was also taken aback, how could someone sneak into Brother Jin's room
"Let's walk lightly." Zhao Fugui's face darkened, he almost knew who was climbing the window, and now he is particularly uncomfortable!
It's not married yet!