He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng knelt in front of Jiang Zhen and kowtowed.
They had always been like headless flies before, but after listening to He Qiusheng's retelling of what Jiang Zhen said, and thinking about Jiang Zhen's past experience, he suddenly felt a sense of clearing the fog in front of him.
Jiang Zhen was almost forced to death before, and he was often beaten, but it was not Liu Heitou but Mrs. Jiang who forced him to beat him. Later, Jiang Zhen got everything done, and now no one dares to provoke him.
If they can learn as well as Jiang Zhen, do they need to be afraid of Liu Heitou
He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng didn't know how to become like Jiang Zhen. After thinking about it in the end, they simply came to Jiang Zhen, hoping that Jiang Zhen could show them a clear path.
"Boss Jiang, please teach us." He Chunsheng said again.
Jiang Zhen looked at the two people in front of him, and raised his brows slightly: "Tomorrow, you all come to help me with my work."
After dropping such a sentence, Jiang Zhen immediately walked towards Zhao's house.
"Work? Big brother..." He Xiasheng always listened to He Chunsheng when he did things, but at this time he looked at He Chunsheng in a puzzled way - what did Jiang Zhen mean by asking them to work? Did he promise to teach them
"Tomorrow we will come earlier, then you must work harder and work hard!" He Chunsheng said to He Xiasheng.
"Why?"
"If we want to learn our skills from others, we must work, even if they confiscate our money!" He Chunsheng said. At this time, to find a master to learn something not only has to work, but also to give gifts. After leaving the school, you should also be filial to your master during the New Year and festivals.
"What about the family? If we don't go to work, the family will run out of food." He Xiasheng said.
"When we go to work, isn't the family still without food?" He Chunsheng sneered. He and He Xiasheng worked hard and earned less than a few taels of silver a year. Where is their father? Without blinking your eyes, you dare to borrow thirty taels from others...
In fact, the debts their father owes outside are more than thirty taels? Everything he could borrow was borrowed by him! It's just that those people saw that their life was not good, and they didn't have much money to lend to his father, so they didn't come and force him to ask for it.
He Xiasheng thought it too, but He Chunsheng said again at this time: "Don't worry, little brother, he won't be hungry, he will also get some food for his mother. As for the two of us, we can live by digging some wild vegetables."
When He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng were discussing there, Jiang Zhen had already gone home.
Those bird eggs and a snake were all burnt by Zhao Liu's.
Jiang Zhen bought soy sauce and came back, and then Zhao Liu fell in love with braised pork.
The sliced snake meat tastes very good. The boiled bird eggs, which are cooked first, then peeled and boiled, are also delicious when dipped in the soup. In addition, there are a bowl of stewed eggs, a bowl of boiled peas, a bowl of Fried garlic sprouts, plus a bowl of mustard soup.
A month ago, garlic was just fine to eat garlic leaves, but now the garlic leaves are already old, take out the garlic sprouts, and the garlic cloves below have begun to grow. The tender garlic cloves are not very spicy. Can bring it for a drink.
"I didn't eat like this during the Chinese New Year before." Zhao Liu looked at the dishes that he and Zhao Jinge had cleaned up, and he was very emotional.
"We have been eating like this from now on." Jiang Zhen laughed.
"How can this be? You have to save some money. It's better to buy a few more acres of land, so that you can leave it to your children in the future." Zhao Liu said.
Although Jiang Zhen knew that Zhao Jinge was a twin and could have children, but he didn't feel too much. He didn't take it too seriously when he heard Zhao Liu's talk about it at this time.
It was only two days away from getting married, but the next day, Jiang Zhen went to the field early in the morning, and then saw that He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng were already working.
Jiang Zhen chopped down a lot of bamboo yesterday, and the two of them cut the bamboo into sections to make a fence.
"Master." Seeing Jiang Zhen, He Chunsheng shouted, and then looked at Jiang Zhen's expression again, hoping that Jiang Zhen would respond.
"Just call me the boss." Jiang Zhen said.
He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng were a little disappointed, and also felt that it was a bit disrespectful to call them "boss". After all, here, the parents of the oldest child in the family often called "boss" intimately.
However... After they heard Wang Haisheng respectfully calling Jiang Zhen "Boss", they suddenly realized that this title seemed to be quite imposing.
He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng called the boss like this, and there were two more people under Jiang Zhen's hands.
Jiang Zhen had a good impression of them when he saw that they knew how to protect his younger brother. Now that he observed it, he found that they were not the ones who cheated and played tricks.
Of course, he just accepts two younger brothers, even if he steals and plays tricks, it's fine, as long as he doesn't have the guts to play tricks on him.
Thinking of this, Jiang Zhen also mentioned these two people a few words.
Jiang Zhen has always felt that when parents give birth to children, children should be filial to their parents, but they should not be filial.
Compared with He's father, He Chunsheng's three brothers cannot avoid giving him old age, but giving him money to let him continue to gamble should not be done.
That's not helping him, but hurting him.
It is because there are children who can help him find out, that Father He has the courage to borrow money from Liu Heitou.
In the same way, parents do the same to their children. If the children are really in trouble, it’s okay to help a little bit, but if the children get into any bad habits, the parents will not stop them, but they will always give them money... This is not about loving their children at all, but about harm children.
Jiang Zhen is not a talkative person. He didn't say much the first day, so he only said a few words at random.
"Actually, we didn't give him any money." He Chunsheng said, he never gave his father any money.
"Knowing that your mother will give everything to your father, you still give money to your mother, don't you just want to give money to your father through her?" Jiang Zhen sneered.
He Chunsheng was speechless for a while. He always felt that it was right for him to earn money to support his family, and it was also right for him to give money to his mother, but now...
Yes, if he doesn't give the money to his mother, but takes it himself... He and his younger brother have also worked for people for six or seven years, so they can save twenty or thirty taels of silver, right
Jiang Zhen didn't continue talking to them because Brother Zhao Jin was here.
"Brother Jin!" Seeing Brother Zhao Jin, Jiang Zhen showed a smile on his straight face and walked towards Brother Zhao Jin, but the He brothers were embarrassed.
Although they did not intend to marry their younger brother to Jiang Zhen, their parents had this idea, which made them somewhat embarrassed when they looked at Brother Zhao Jin.
When Zhao Jinge saw them, he was stunned. He didn't expect that he would see He Chunsheng and He Xiasheng in his own land.
"If they want to learn to fight with me, they will help with some work first." Jiang Zhen explained.
After listening to Jiang Zhen's explanation, Zhao Jinge immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
That's fine, he thought it was He Qiusheng who fell in love with Jiang Zhen...
Brother Zhao Jin is here to deliver food, but there is no He Chunsheng or He Xiasheng in it.
The He brothers saw that Jiang Zhen not only had a big bowl of rice full of compacted meals at noon, but also a big bowl of fried garlic sprouts, boiled broad beans with pickled vegetables, and marinated eggs, and couldn't help swallowing. saliva.
"There are some peas growing there, you can go pick some and cook them." Jiang Zhen noticed their expressions and pointed to the distance.
Hearing that, the He brothers went to pick some peas, put them in a bamboo tube, and threw them into the fire to burn. If the peas and fava beans were older, they could just pull out the whole one and set it on fire, but I can't do that now.
Peas are edible even if they are half-cooked. The two of them picked a lot of peas and put them on their stomachs.
The He brothers worked for Jiang Zhen for two days. Jiang Zhen didn't teach them anything, and even Zhao Jinge didn't agree to bring them meals.
However, two days later, Jiang Zhen greeted them and asked them to go to Zhao's house for wedding wine tomorrow.
"Can we go?" He Chunsheng looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise.
"Yes." Jiang Zhendao added, "Only you can come." He felt that whether it was Zhao Liu's or Zhao Jinge, they were full of vigilance against He Qiusheng, so He Qiusheng absolutely couldn't come.
As for why the two He Chunsheng brothers came here... It's just that there are too few relatives in the Zhao family.
They invited the village chief Jiang Ping's family, and also invited relatives and a few friends from Zhao Fugui's mother's side, adding up to less than three tables.
It's good to have a lively marriage. Jiang Zhen called the two people plus Wang Haisheng, and even Yang Jiang called him, and asked Yang Jiang to bring his wife and children together.
On the day of the marriage, Jiang Zhentian got up before dawn, and after he got up, he started... slaughtering pigs.
There are people in Hexi Village who are married, and if the conditions are better, they all want to kill a pig, called Shaxi Pig.
The man's house kills a pig, and then sends the whole pig to the woman's house, the woman's house takes half of the pig, and sends the remaining half back to the man's house with the pig's head. .
Jiang Zhen pondered that he could not do without this, so he spent money to buy a pig to come back. Because the weather was a little hot recently, he did not kill the pig a day earlier, but killed the pig himself this morning.
There is no way, there are too few relatives in the Zhao family, and there are even fewer who can help.
"It's not good for the groom to see blood..." Zhao Liu looked at Jiang Zhen, hesitant, how could the groom kill pigs by himself...
"It's okay, it's booming, this is a good sign." Jiang Zhen added water and salt to the wooden barrel that had received the pig's blood and stirred it. After stirring the pig's blood, water and salt, it would coagulate for a while, and then put it in the water. When it is cooked, there will be pieces of blood tofu, which tastes very good, and if the pigs are killed here, they will usually give some pig blood and pig intestines to the neighbors.
And this statement? Zhao Liushi was fooled and nodded.
Because not many people came to the wedding banquet, and there were only five tables, Jiang Zhen did not kill the chicken, but only prepared some fish.
With a pig and some fish, he and Zhao Jinge's wedding banquet can be held very decently.
Looking around, he found that everything that should be prepared was already prepared, Jiang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, then went to take a shower, and changed into the set of wedding clothes he had made by the tailor in Fucheng.
Dahong's wedding dress can't be worn again after wearing it once. At this time, almost no one in the countryside will make a special suit, and Jiang Zhen did not do it either, but made two sets of regular clothes.
The two sets of uniforms are all moon-white, with a little bit of thought on them—it is stitched with dark red fabric, and a dark red waistband is attached, bringing a festive touch.
Jiang Zhen didn't have the slightest fat on his waist. When he put on this dress and tied his waist, he immediately appeared to be extremely energetic, and so did Zhao Jinge.
Of course, Jiang Zhen couldn't see Brother Zhao Jin at this moment.
Last night, the Zhao family put the new bed that had been made useless and put it into the new house. Then, Jiang Zhen took Wang Haisheng's youngest son, Wang Daniu, to sleep on it for one night, pressing the bed.
It was obviously his own and Zhao Jinge's new bed, but he had to sleep with Wang Daniu first... Jiang Zhen was a little unhappy, but as the custom was, he couldn't do anything about it.
In addition, there are other customs. For example... Jiang Zhen slept in Zhao's new house last night, but Zhao Jin-ge slept in his house instead.
But today he was busy at Zhao's house. After changing into new clothes, he would set off from Zhao's house, go to his own house to marry Zhao Jinge, and then take Zhao Jinge back to Zhao's house to worship.
Even if it is a marriage, it is still a man who marries a twin or a woman.
About ten o'clock in the morning, Jiang Zhen set off from Zhao's house.
He had no relatives and no reason, so he brought a young man Zhao Fugui found for him and Wang Haisheng to welcome him.
And his residence, Zhao Jinge, accompanied by Sun Xiaoshan and another young woman in the village, was already waiting.
Others are getting married, and at this time they will ask for a red envelope to open the door, but Zhao Jinge and Jiang Zhen’s situation are different, so these are all saved. In the end, it took almost no effort, and Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge back to Zhao’s house.
There is no such thing as a sedan chair with a high head and a horse. Jiang Zhen led Zhao Jinge, who had a red hijab, and the two walked back just like that, and then went to the church to marry.
The Jiang family had few relatives, but when they visited the church, many villagers came to watch the fun, and these people looked at Brother Zhao Jin, and all whispered.
"Brother Zhao Jin's clothes are so beautiful."
"I heard that Jiang Zhen made the clothes in Fucheng, Fucheng..."
"Jiang Zhen went to buy a pig specifically. The Zhao family's wedding banquet is expected to be very grand."
"Jiang Zhen has so much money, even if he can marry a daughter-in-law and come back, why did he agree to join the family?"
"Speaking of which, he is really capable. He used to be quiet in Jiang's family, but now he has developed immediately as soon as he came out of Jiang's family."
…
Everyone's mood was somewhat complicated, and the most complicated one was undoubtedly the butcher Jiang who came here specially.
Jiang Zhen was wearing new clothes, and his expression was not as cold as he had seen before. He was full of energy and handsome... Butcher Jiang suddenly found out that this eldest son was the one who most resembled himself among his three sons.
Speaking of which, Jiang Zhen also learned all his craftsmanship, killing pigs and farming anything.
Before, why did he think this son was a fool and always hated him? He has always worked neatly, where is he stupid
Butcher Jiang still didn't like Jiang Zhen, but at this moment, he also had an opinion on Mrs. Jiang, who spoke ill of Jiang Zhen in front of him all day.
If Mrs. Jiang hadn't talked ill of Jiang Zhen all day long, saying that Jiang Zhenke's parents, he would never have hated this son so much...
Butcher Jiang came, and Mrs. Jiang came, but she didn't think too much about it, but kept telling people that Jiang Zhen was unfilial.
Her words are still recognized by many people. Although some people in the village admire Jiang Zhen and others envy Jiang Zhen, everyone also feels that Jiang Zhen is not filial.
It's just... People Jiang Zhen are so powerful, they don't dare to offend.
Madam Jiang was talking, and the hall was already worshipped inside. Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge into the new house, and the banquet was also held outside.
The Zhao family also invited a cook to cook, and now the dishes were brought to the table, which looked very tempting.
Braised pork trotters, kelp stew, braised pork belly, braised fish…
The Jiang family hadn't eaten meat for a long time. Looking at these, Mrs. Jiang couldn't take her eyes away.
She wanted to go to the seat a little bit. She was Jiang Zhen's mother, so no one would stop her? Maybe she can bring something to eat for Yuanwen... Madam Jiang was just about to go there, when a mighty group of about 20 people suddenly came not far away.
Most of the people in Hexi Village didn't know each other, but there was someone they knew. That person was Liu Heitou who came to Hexi Village a few days ago to rob people.