50. Other Bullies
Jiang Zhen has been there for more than 20 days and has not come back. Zhao Liu is actually very worried, worried about what happened to Jiang Zhen outside.
"Xiaoshan, do you think Jiang Zhen will come back?" Zhao Liu asked Sun Xiaoshan in front of him who was feeding ducks for him.
Sun Xiaoshan has been following Wang Haisheng to fish over the years. Although there are no fishing boats now, he can still catch some fish with a fishing net and bamboo basket.
For example, today, he brought back two special bamboo baskets containing fish. The bamboo basket had a big hole, and the hole became smaller and smaller as the hole went in. It filled it with earthworms, and the fish crawled in to eat earthworms, and then it couldn't come out if it came out.
When Sun Xiaoshan heard Zhao Liu ask him, he paused and whispered: "I don't know either." While saying that, he took out the fish in the bamboo basket and started chopping the fish.
Sun Xiaoshan would rather eat wild vegetable porridge than fish. These days he went to catch fish and touch snails and lions, all for feeding ducks. However, Zhao Liu often reluctant to feed the fish to the ducks. Every day he would pick big fish and cook them.
Their family has eaten this way for more than 20 days. Although they are tired of eating the fish, their family members' health has improved a lot, especially Brother Zhao Jin.
He thought that Jiang Zhen asked him to eat fish to nourish his body. His family is not short of fish now, so he tried to eat as much as possible, and his complexion is getting better now.
"They probably won't encounter danger, right? Jiang Zhen is very powerful. Even if he encounters trouble, he should be able to solve it?" Zhao Liu kept muttering.
Sun Xiaoshan said nothing and threw the chopped fish on his hands to the ducks to eat.
Two ducks bought by Jiang Zhen were sick and died these days, but the others were pretty good. They have grown a lot now and can eat anything, which looks very lively.
In this countryside, chickens and ducks will be raised. Those who have been raised for a long time will be free. At that time, chickens and ducks can already recognize their way home, but those who are still young will generally not free. Even if they are released, they will have to be watched, so as not to be lost.
It just so happened that Zhao Fugui hadn't gone to work these days, so Zhao Liu asked him to use wooden stakes to create two fences behind their house. She raised the ducks in a larger fence, and raised the five chicks and the hens that Jiang Zhen brought from the Jiang family to lay eggs in a smaller fence.
The hen was eating well, and it became hot today. She lays an egg almost every day. The eggs were saved by Zhao Liu over time. Only after laying eggs for more than ten days would it be made for the family to eat, and the fresh ones were kept, waiting for Jiang Zhen to come back for him to eat.
She felt very unhappy when she saw Jiang Zhen crawling into the window of her son before, but now she can't help but think about it. She hopes that Jiang Zhen can come back early so that the villagers can know that she is not telling lies.
Jiang Zhen did not come back early, but Brother Zhao Jin had come back long ago.
Now he eats well and has endless energy to use, so he can finish the farm work quickly every day and then go home to work hard.
Their family didn't have much money and couldn't afford to build a house, but he carefully cleaned up his house, cleaned it up, and even found mud to paint it all outside the house, making his house look like a new house.
After coming back today, Zhao Jinge looked inside and outside and couldn't find any work. Finally, he thought about it and simply started to mess with his own earthen stove. He cleaned up all the ash in the stove, moved the iron pot out of the stove, and moved it outside to scrape the ash at the bottom of the pot.
After cooking with an iron pot for a long time, a thick layer of pot bottom ash will always accumulate under the iron pot. When cooking later, the food will be much slower. Therefore, every once in a while, people in Hexi Village will move their own iron pot off the stove and scrape off the pot bottom ash.
Brother Zhao Jin was scraping the bottom of the pot with bamboo slices when an old lady suddenly came to Zhao's house.
Brother Zhao Jin glanced at it and then frowned. The old lady who came to his house was Jiang Zhen’s mother, Old Lady Jiang.
Logically, he should go up to entertain people at this time, but Jiang Zhen and Mrs. Jiang have a grudge at all, so he definitely doesn't want him to please Mrs. Jiang.
"What a shameless little bitch, ugly and seductive." Old Mrs. Jiang saw Brother Zhao Jin look over and immediately said, "I have never seen Shuang'er, who is so shameless. I just said why did you go to save the debt collector when he fell into the river? It turned out that he had fallen in love with someone for a long time, and he was really not ashamed at all."
Old Mrs. Jiang said a lot like a cannon, which made Brother Zhao Jin a little unresponsive. At this time, Old Mrs. Jiang continued to say: "But it is true, you are so ugly, and no one wants you except for this! I don't know if you spread your legs apart to make people fall in love with you!"
The Jiang family has been living a bad life these days, and Old Mrs. Jiang has been living even worse. The reason... is that Boss Jiang ran away.
Without Boss Jiang, a sturdy laborer who works neatly, the Jiang family was too busy with farm work at all. However, Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang refused to go to the ground.
Jiang Chengcai refused to go to the field, just because he was just lazy, and Jiang Chengxiang...he said he wanted to go to the county town to find out if there was any work he could do, and then he went out early and came back late every day.
Originally, even if Jiang Chengcai often refused to work, he would still go to the fields to work for half a day after calling too much. But now he saw that Jiang Chengxiang did not work, so he was even more reluctant to work.
In the end, the work in the field was all the work that Jiang butcher, Old Lady Jiang, had to do! They really couldn't do it, so they had to call Jiang Xiaomei to the field!
As a result, even though I was slower, I could finish the work at least, but something happened to my family again.
In the past, the Jiang family always took Mrs. Jiang Xiaomei to cook. Now they both have to go to the fields to work, so Mrs. Jiang asked her two daughters-in-law to cook and feed pigs together, and then took care of the vegetable fields in front and behind her house.
It was fine in the first few days. Huang Min and Zhu Shufen had prepared the meal and fed the pigs, but a few days later...
Huang Min is said to be a very diligent girl when she became a girl before marriage, but now... I don’t know if it is the one who is close to Zhu, the one who is close to Mo, and she has become lazy since she married Jiang Chengcai.
Originally, there were many people working in the Jiang family. She got pregnant as soon as she entered the door and gave birth to the first grandson of the Jiang family. Old Mrs. Jiang never let her work very much, so her habits were not exposed, but now...
After cooking for a few days, Huang Min felt tired. When Zhu Shufen was unwilling to feed the pigs, she first ignored the matter of cooking, but later on, even if she was feeding the pigs, she was not happy.
Why is Zhu Shufen like an old man, and she wants to feed the stinky pig when she walks three feet away from the pigpen?
Just as Jiang Yuanwen suddenly felt uncomfortable, Huang Min simply stopped feeding the pigs, saying that she wanted to take care of her son.
Zhu Shufen alone had to cook for a whole family, and then she had to wash dishes and clean the table to water the vegetables in the vegetable fields outside. Now Huang Min refused to feed the pigs, so the errand would also fall on her...
Zhu Shufen, who was picking vegetables from the garden and was picking vegetables leaves, couldn't help feeling disgusted when she saw the twisting vegetables on the leaves. She no longer wanted to work, so she simply threw the vegetables leaves and went back to her house to sleep.
Of course she can do it too if she doesn’t work!
On that day, Mrs. Jiang, butcher Jiang, was tired all day and went home. She found that not only were the cold pots and stoves at home, but no one was feeding the pigs.
Jiang Butcher and Mrs. Jiang were immediately angry.
But Huang Min held her son and kept saying that her son was sick. Zhu Shufen was sobbing there in a low voice, but they were helpless with the two of them.
These two daughters-in-law are protected by their sons, but they are not as good as Boss Jiang, who can let them beat and scold them.
Life in the Jiang family suddenly became chaotic.
Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang had a good relationship, but now they have become worse. Jiang Chengxiang felt that Jiang Chengcai was too lazy and ignorant, and Jiang Chengcai felt that Jiang Chengxiang looked down on him just like him, and in the end he stopped talking.
The Jiang family, which was originally happy, now there are people quarrels at home every day, and the villagers have seen a lot of jokes.
Old Mrs. Jiang, who has always been strong, was so angry that she became more and more resentful of Jiang Zhen. She did not dare to trouble Jiang Zhen. At first, she didn't even dare to ask for trouble from the Zhao family, but Jiang Zhen had not come back after leaving for more than 20 days, but she became bolder.
Then she found the Zhao family.
"You think that debt collector really likes you. He just wants free labor, so you can watch it..." Old Mrs. Jiang pointed at Brother Zhao Jin and scolded him constantly, specifically picking up Brother Zhao Jin's mistakes.
Brother Zhao Jin became more and more angry the more he heard it. Old Mrs. Jiang said that Jiang Zhen would not like him, which made him even more angry.
After throwing the iron pot on the ground, Zhao Jinge stood up and said to Old Mrs. Jiang: "Do you think Jiang Zhen won't come back? Do you want Jiang Zhen to come back and then go to your house to make a fuss?"
Old Mrs. Jiang is a woman, not tall, and she looks dark and thin these days. Now she faces the tall brother Zhao Jin, and she doesn't dare to talk nonsense.
At this time, Wang Yuer pulled his younger brother Wang Daniu and ran towards him: "My father is back! My father is back!"
"Where is Jiang Zhen?" Brother Zhao Jin asked hurriedly.
"Uncle Jiang is back too!" Wang Yu'er smiled happily.
Brother Zhao Jin was delighted, stood up and ran out. He couldn't wait to see Jiang Zhen.
Old Mrs. Jiang also ran out quickly... She couldn't wait to avoid Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng have indeed returned, but they have too many things on the boat, so it is difficult to go home directly for a while.
He and Wang Haisheng parked the boat on the river closest to the Zhao family, and asked Wang Yuer, who happened to be playing by the river, to go back to find Zhao Jin Ge Zhao Fugui to help carry things, and then began to organize various goods.
The money Jiang Zhen got was not visible to the people in Hexi Village, but the things Jiang Zhen bought and the goods he had not sold out were still visible to the people in Hexi Village.
Where did Boss Jiang go? He actually got so many things back? He... got rich?
Everyone in the village looked at Jiang Zhen in shock, but no one dared to go up and ask. At this moment, someone suddenly ran towards him while calling for help.
"Help! Save me!" A Shuang'er stumbled and ran from a distance, and several men followed him.
These two men were thin and didn't run fast. After a while, they were caught by a man in his thirties and fierce face behind him. The man even slapped him directly: "Damn, your father has sold you to me, and you actually want to run away!"
The two-anti-an staggered and burst into tears.
The villagers are all familiar with Shuang'er, and even Jiang Zhen knows this. It is the most beautiful Shuang'er He Qiusheng in the village where Jiang Zhen asked for snakes.
Jiang Zhen just came back and didn't know the reason, but everyone in the village knew about it. The matter started with He Qiusheng's gambling father owed Liu Heitou in Qiaotou Village a few days ago.
Although He Qiusheng's father likes to gambling, he has no money in his hands and he has sold out all the land at home. In this case, not to mention that he has borrowed all his relatives and friends, even those who lend money to him at high interest rates are unwilling to lend him money. Therefore, even if he wants to bet big, he has no chance. Generally, he just loses all his money and then steals some money from his family to continue losing.
As a result, for some reason, such a person borrowed thirty taels of silver from Liu Heitou a few days ago and lost all of them.
Thirty taels of silver, where can the He family still pay? Not to mention that Liu Heitou also said that the interest on the money had doubled in one month. So, just one month later, the money that He's father owed Liu Heitou had turned into sixty taels. If he didn't pay it back, it would turn into one hundred and twenty taels next month.
At first, He's father hid the debt from his family, but then he couldn't hide it from him - Liu Heitou came to him with his brothers!
As soon as these people came to the door, they beat He's father and He Qiusheng's two brothers, and then asked the He family to pay back the money, so that the He family must pay it back within five days, otherwise... they would take He Qiusheng away and let He Qiusheng be his wife for Liu Heitou. Today is the day when they will take He Qiusheng away.
There are many men in the village who like He Qiusheng, but they dare not offend Liu Heitou, so they can only watch He Qiusheng be taken away by Liu Heitou.
Originally, no matter how bad He’s father is, he is He Qiusheng’s father. If he wants to sell He Qiusheng, the people in the village can’t control it.
"You'd better give me a little good deed, otherwise there would be something nice to you!" Liu Heitou slapped He Qiusheng again.
Just like Jiang Zhen is now a dominant in Hexi Village, Liu Heitou is a dominant in Qiaotou Village.
Liu Heitou's father and brothers were all brave and fierce. At that time, no one dared to provoke them in Qiaotou Village. Later, the three brothers got married and had children. When it came to Liu Heitou's generation, the Liu family actually had ten cousins in total.
And Liu Heitou is the oldest among these ten people.
With too many people in the family, life will naturally not be too easy. Liu Heitou has several younger brothers and sisters. He often doesn’t have enough food to eat, so he starts to have bad thoughts.
He first took advantage of other people's families in the village, and later he began to take his younger brothers to help others collect debts and make money. Over time, he became famous.
There was a reason why he lent money to He’s father this time - he accidentally saw He Qiusheng’s appearance.
Liu Heitou already has a wife and a child, and the oldest child is even twelve years old. However, He Qiu grew up well, which made him feel itchy, so he lent He's father some money...
Now, He’s father didn’t pay the money, so He Qiusheng became his.
"Tie him back for me." Liu Heitou said to his two younger brothers. He liked He Qiusheng's face, but he was not the men who admired He Qiusheng, and he had no sympathy for He Qiusheng. He just wanted to get the person back to the bridal chamber as soon as possible.
He Qiusheng cried even harder. He also thought about his future. He wanted to find a rich man in his family to marry and live a good life in the future. As a result...
Marrying Liu Heitou is still a young man. I think he knows that he will definitely not have a good life, and he may even be tortured to death...
When Jiang Zhen saw this scene, he frowned.
He is not a person who likes to meddle in other people's business, and he doesn't even have a good impression of He Qiusheng, but... He Qiusheng is only fifteen years old this year, and he is a minor who is still in junior high school in modern times...
Chapter completed!