Holding the knife, Jiang Zhen walked out of the gate of Jiang's house.
In Hecheng County, most families eat three meals a day. Of course, poor families can only eat two meals a day.
The big guy gets up just after dawn in the morning, does some work first, and then eats the first meal of the day at about seven o'clock. Zhuang households basically eat porridge this time, of course, rich people can eat it in a different way.
After they have eaten, they will continue to work. When it is almost noon, that is, around 12 noon, they will have a second meal. Families with enough basic food will eat dry meals this time. If there is not enough food, they can only Continue to eat porridge.
And in the evening, everyone will have another meal. Most of the peasant families eat porridge just like in the morning.
Although they eat three meals a day, the most serious meal is the lunch at noon, and the Jiang family just ate it at noon.
Because they were very busy yesterday, the Jiang family ate their first meal much later than usual today, and because they ate the dry rice cooked for the guests yesterday, they were very hungry, so this second meal was also postponed. After eating for an hour, Jiang Zhen looked at the sky, and knew that it was estimated that it was almost one or two o'clock now.
It's been a day and a night after waking up, and it's not bad to eat well and rest well. Jiang Zhen already has some strength, and now he doesn't feel tired at all while carrying a ten-pound knife, but after lying down for a long time, his body is very sore.
The wind in early spring was a bit cold, but this body was probably used to being frozen, but it adapted well... Jiang Zhen flipped through Boss Jiang's memory, observed the surrounding situation, and began to understand the world.
This place is a plain. As far as he can see, Jiang Zhen can only see a small hill that is not high at all. At the same time, there are many people here and many rivers.
Although the "Daqi" dynasty was not known to Jiang Zhen in history, the environment here is similar to that of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River in ancient China.
This Hexi Village not only has a river, but also several ponds. The river is full of vegetables such as lettuce and lettuce, and there are houses scattered about two or three hundred meters away. The villagers of Hexi Village 's residence.
The sun is very good at the moment, and on the steps made of stones by the river, a few women are washing vegetables or laundry, talking while washing.
They saw Jiang Zhen walking by the river, but no one was going to say hello to Boss Jiang, who always said nothing, and when they saw Jiang Zhen holding a big knife, they only asked the people around them: "Boss Jiang is holding a knife. , which family wants to kill pigs?"
"I haven't heard of it."
"I'll follow and see. If someone kills a pig, I'll weigh a pound of meat."
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A few women said a few words, and someone followed behind Jiang Zhen. However, Jiang Zhen did not go to kill the pig, but turned a corner and came to the thatched hut belonging to the Jiang family where he lay before.
This thatched hut is a little far away from the houses in the village, so when the Jiang family became rich, they moved away, leaving only straw and bundles of mulberries in the house.
Apart from the fact that the house was too dilapidated, Jiang Zhen quite liked it, at least it was quiet and he could see the Zhao family's house from a distance.
After moving a bale of straw from the house to the door, Jiang Zhen sat down and put the knife next to him.
It was boring to sit there. After thinking about it, Jiang Zhen found another bundle of mulberry strips and began to peel the skin of the mulberry strips.
In order to make the leaves of the mulberry trees grow larger and easier to pick, the families who raise silkworms and grow mulberry trees cut off all the branches of the mulberry trees every year. After the skin of these branches is peeled off, some people will buy them for a few copper plates, and the wooden poles of the thickness of the fingers in the middle are used to make fires and cook like straw.
The original Boss Jiang didn't know what the mulberry strips were collected for, but Jiang Zhen could guess that most of the mulberry strips were used to make paper.
In ancient times, if you could make paper yourself, it would be considered a means of earning a living. However... Jiang Zhen's understanding of papermaking was limited to what the teacher said when he learned about the Four Great Inventions in a history class, and what he occasionally turned to when he read books later. In other words, he didn't know anything about the specific matters, not to mention that he was poor and had no capital.
How will you support yourself in the future? To kill pigs
In the past, Boss Jiang worked with Old Man Jiang. He learned to kill pigs. The butcher was also responsible for dirty work such as turning pig intestines. Old Man Jiang stopped doing it a long time ago, and he did it all. These tasks have little technical content. Jiang Zhen learned it after flipping through his memory, but he also knew that it would be difficult for him to live a good life by relying on this alone.
Forget it, the big deal is to work as a long-term worker for others first, doesn't Zhao Jin-ge just live by being a long-term worker for others
Jiang Zhen slowly peeled off a bunch of mulberry strips, and was about to walk around when he saw Zhao Jinge walking by the road in front of his door.
"Brother Zhao Jin!" Jiang Zhen shouted and stood up.
Zhao Jinge looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise and walked towards Jiang Zhen, but stopped a few steps away: "Is something wrong?"
After he asked, he said again: "Boss Jiang, how is your health?"
"I'm fine, thank you yesterday." Jiang Zhendao took out two eggs and handed them to Zhao Jinge: "Here you are."
"I can't accept your eggs, and a bowl of sweet potato porridge is worthless." Zhao Jinge immediately refused. He didn't have any extra food to raise chickens. Things like eggs were very precious to him.
"This egg is not used to return the sweet potato porridge, but to repay your life-saving grace. Isn't my life worth two eggs?" Jiang Zhen wanted to stuff the eggs into Zhao Jinge.
Zhao Jinge avoided subconsciously, paused for a while, and said, "You keep your body..."
"I still have it here, look." Jiang Zhen took out three more eggs and showed them to Brother Zhao Jin.
Zhao Jinge looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. He also knew that Boss Jiang had been mistreated by his parents. Where did this man get the five eggs now
"You rescued me once yesterday, and you rescued me from the river once before. You can't help but repay your kindness." Jiang Zhen grabbed Brother Zhao Jin's hand and forcibly shoved two eggs into him.
Butcher Jiang is very tall, and the eldest Jiang is tall in this village, while Zhao Jinge is about the same height as him, and his hands are also very large, so he can easily hold two eggs.
Jiang Zhen grabbed this very rough hand, and suddenly felt a little confused, but before he could understand his mood, Zhao Jinge had already thrown his hand away.
Jiang Zhen raised his head, and saw that Zhao Jinge said "thank you" with his head sullen, and left without looking back.
Originally, I wanted to say a few more words to Zhao Jinge. Jiang Zhen was a little stunned, but he soon realized... Zhao Jinge seemed to be shy just now
With a whistle, Jiang Zhen hid the remaining three eggs in the thatched hut, intending to give them to Zhao Jinge tomorrow.
He has already eaten two chicken legs this day, and he probably won't be able to absorb it no matter how much he eats. Why don't he use eggs to start a conversation with Zhao Jinge.
And... The body of Boss Jiang he was using was a bit deficient and needed to be taken care of, so why not Zhao Jinge's body? The Zhao family has no land, and there has always been a shortage of food. Zhao Jinge used to be a part-time worker and was called by the main family. His health is not much better than that of Boss Jiang.
After seeing the savior, Jiang Zhen picked up the knife and walked to Jiang's house again, planning to go back and wait for dinner.
At this time, Zhao Jinge had already returned to his home, holding two eggs, his demeanor was rather unnatural.
He once saw a good-looking woman brother in the village being given eggs and things by his admirers, but he has grown so big that no one has ever given him...
But Boss Jiang's egg delivery is definitely different from those people. He is no different from a man now, and everyone else treats him as a man.
"Brother Jin, are you back?" When Zhao Liu saw his son, a smile appeared on his face.
"Yeah." Zhao Jinge responded and gave her the eggs: "I gave Boss Jiang a bowl of porridge yesterday, and he gave me two eggs."
"Which bowl of porridge is worth two eggs? You should return it quickly." Zhao Liu felt that the eggs could not be taken.
"He also said he wanted to thank me for saving him." Zhao Jinge said again.
Speaking of this, Zhao Liushi felt that holding eggs was nothing: "Yes, he should thank you, if it weren't for our brother Jin, his boss Jiang would have been drowned." Zhao Liushi said Then, thinking about the way the Jiang family didn't say thank you that day, he was a little dissatisfied: "Although Boss Jiang doesn't say a word all day, he is still sensible, his mother is too much, Jin Ge'er, you saved that day. Boss Jiang, she doesn't even know how to say thank you."
"That's nothing." Zhao Jinge said, when he saw Jiang Boss drowning at that time, he remembered his drowning eldest brother, so he went into the water to save people without even thinking about it, but he didn't plan to ask for anything in return.
"It's nothing, you saved someone's life. If it was in the play, they should have promised each other." Zhao Liushi said.
"Mother." Brother Zhao Jin interrupted his mother's words, how could anyone be willing to make promises to him
Seeing this, Zhao Liu sighed again. Since their brother Jin dug up the beads between his eyebrows, the people in the village actually regarded Brother Jin as a man, and he was rescued from the water. When a big man came up, no one thought it was wrong.
It would be great if Boss Jiang could join their family. Although he doesn't like to talk, he is honest and willing to work. .
She knew that Mrs. Jiang wanted to keep Mr. Jiang at home to work, but she was an outsider and couldn't say anything.
Zhao Liushi was a little disappointed and filled a bowl of porridge, peeled an egg, put it in and brought it to Zhao Jinge.
"Mother, eat this porridge, you are not healthy, you should have eaten a few eggs to make up for it." Zhao Jinge said, and cut the remaining egg with a knife: "Half one of my father and I will do. "
Zhao Liu couldn't compete with his son, so he ate the egg in the end, and Zhao Jinge also cherished his half of the egg.
Eating eggs, he inevitably thought of Boss Jiang, and then he felt that something was wrong.
Today's Boss Jiang speaks generously and clearly, and he keeps his head up and his waist straight, as if he was a different person than before.