6. Give the benefactor eggs
Holding the knife, Jiang was shaken out of the Jiang family's gate.
In Hecheng County, most families eat three meals a day. Of course, if the family is poor, they can only eat two meals.
Everyone got up just dawn in the morning, do some work first, and then eat the first meal of the day at about seven o'clock. The merchants basically drink porridge this meal, but of course, rich people can eat it in different ways.
After eating, they will continue to work. It is almost noon, that is, it is almost twelve o'clock in the afternoon. The families who have enough food are all eating dry food. If there is not enough food, they can only continue to drink porridge.
In the evening, everyone will have another meal. Most farmers eat porridge, just like in the morning.
Although I had three meals a day, the most serious one was the lunch meal, and what the Jiang family had just eaten was the lunch meal.
Because I was busy late yesterday, the Jiang family ate the first meal today much later than usual. Because I ate the dry rice I cooked in the morning yesterday, and I was very hungry, so the second meal was delayed by an hour. Jiang Zhen looked at the sky and knew that it was already two o'clock now.
I woke up for a day and a night, and I had a good meal and rest. Jiang Zhen already had some strength. Now I don’t feel tired at all with a big knife that weighs about ten pounds. I just lie down for a long time and my body hurts very much.
The wind in early spring was a little cool, but this body was probably used to being frozen, so it was well adapted... Jiang Zhen looked over Boss Jiang's memory and observed the situation around him, and began to understand the world.
This place is a plain, and wherever you see, Jiang Zhen only saw a small hill that is not high. At the same time, there are many people and many rivers here.
Although Jiang Zhen, a dynasty of "Da Qi", was not well known in history, the environment here is similar to that of the ancient Chinese fish and rice town of Jiangnan.
There is not only a river in Hexi Village, but also several ponds. The river is full of vegetables such as vegetables such as vegetables and lettuce. A distance of two or three hundred meters, houses are distributed one by one, which is the residence of the villagers in Hexi Village.
The sun is very good now. On the steps built with stones by the river, several women were washing vegetables or washing clothes, washing and talking.
They saw Jiang Zhen walking by the river, but no one planned to say hello to Boss Jiang, who always said nothing. When they saw Jiang Zhen holding a big knife, they only went to ask 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 pigs, I'll weigh a pound of meat."
...
After a few women said a few words, someone followed Jiang Zhen. However, Jiang Zhen did not kill the pig, but turned around and came to the thatched hut belonging to the Jiang family that he had lying before.
This thatched hut is a bit far from the village house, so after the Jiang family got rich, they moved away, leaving only straw and bundles of mulberry strips in the house.
Apart from the fact that the house is too dilapidated, Jiang Zhen likes it very much. At least it is quiet and you can see the Zhao family's house from afar.
He moved a bundle of straw from the house to the door. Jiang Zhen sat down and placed the knife next to him.
It was boring to sit down. 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 mulberry trees grow more and more large and easy to pick, families who raise silkworms and plant mulberry trees cut off all the branches of the mulberry trees every year. After the skin of these branches is peeled off, people will buy them for a few copper plates, and the wooden poles as thick as fingers in the middle are used to make fires and cook like straw.
The original boss Jiang didn't know what the mulberry stripe was used for when they collected it, but Jiang Zhen could guess that this mulberry stripe was mostly used to make paper.
In ancient times, if he could make paper by himself, he would have had a way to make a living. However... Jiang Zhen's understanding of papermaking was limited to what the teacher said when he learned the Four Great Inventions in history class, and the few explanations he occasionally read about the books, but he didn't know any specific matters, not to mention that he was poor and had no capital.
How do you support yourself in the future? Go and kill pigs?
In the past, Boss Jiang followed Old Man Jiang to work, and learned to kill pigs. The pig slayer was also responsible for dirty work such as turning pig intestines. Old Man Jiang had stopped doing it for a long time and was all done by him. These work had no technical content. Jiang Zhen learned it after reading through the memory, but he also knew that it was difficult to make himself live a good life by relying solely on this.
Forget it, at worst, you can just be a long-term worker for others. Didn’t Brother Zhao rely on being a long-term worker for others to live?
Jiang Zhen slowly peeled a pile of mulberry strips and was about to walk around when he saw Brother Zhao Jin walking past the road in front of his door.
"Brother Zhao Jin!" Jiang Zhen shouted and stood up.
Brother Zhao Jin looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise and walked towards Jiang Zhen, but he stopped when he was a few steps away: "Is there anything wrong?"
After he asked, he said, "Boss Jiang, how are you in good health?"
"I'm fine, thank you yesterday." Jiang Zhen said, taking out two eggs and handing them to Brother Zhao Jin: "For you."
"I can't collect your eggs. A bowl of sweet potato porridge is not valuable." Brother Zhao immediately refused. His family did not have any extra grain to raise chickens. Things like eggs were quite expensive for him.
"This egg is not used to repay sweet potato porridge, but to repay your life-saving grace. Isn't my life worth two eggs?" Jiang Zhen wanted to stuff the egg to Brother Zhao Jin.
Brother Zhao Jin subconsciously avoided it, paused, and said, "You keep yourself to nourish your body..."
"I have it here, look." Jiang Zhen took out three more eggs for Brother Zhao Jin to show.
Brother Zhao Jin looked at Jiang Zhen in surprise. He knew that Boss Jiang had been treated unfairly by his parents. Where did this person get five eggs now?
"You saved me once yesterday and once before, you rescued me from the river. You must not let me repay my kindness." Jiang Zhen grabbed Brother Zhao Jin's hand and stuffed two eggs to him.
Butcher Jiang is very tall, and Boss Jiang is tall in this village. Brother Zhao Jin is about the same height as him, with a pair of hands large and two eggs that can be easily held.
Jiang Zhen grabbed the very rough hand and suddenly became a little distracted. However, before he could figure out his feelings, Brother Zhao Jin had already shaken his hand away.
Jiang Zhen raised his head and saw Brother Zhao Jin say "Thank you" and leave without looking back.
Originally, he wanted to say a few more words to Brother Zhao Jin, Jiang Zhen was a little stunned, but soon realized... Brother Zhao Jin seemed to be shy just now?
After whistling, Jiang Zhen hid the remaining three eggs in the thatched hut and planned to give them to Brother Zhao Jin tomorrow.
He had already eaten two chicken legs this day, and no matter how much he ate, he would probably not be able to absorb it. Why not just use eggs to chat with Brother Zhao Jin.
Moreover... the body of Boss Jiang he used was a little deficit and needed to be well maintained. Isn't Zhao Jin's body the same? The Zhao family has no land and has always lacked enough food. Brother Zhao Jin used to do short-term work everywhere, but was even more urged by the master's family. His body is not much better than Boss Jiang.
After seeing his life-savior, Jiang Zhen picked up the knife and walked towards the Jiang family again, intending to go back and wait for dinner.
Brother Zhao Jin had already returned to his home at this time, holding two eggs, and his expression was quite unnatural.
He once saw a beautiful woman in the village being given eggs by admirers, but no one has ever given her to him...
However, Boss Jiang’s eggs are definitely different from those people. He is no different from men now, and others regard him as men.
"Brother Jin, are you back?" Zhao Liu smiled when he saw his son.
"Yes." Brother Zhao Jin responded and gave her the egg: "Yesterday I gave Boss Jiang a bowl of porridge, and he gave me two eggs."
"Where is a bowl of porridge worth two eggs? You should return it soon." Zhao Liu felt that he could not take the egg.
"He also said to thank me for saving him." Brother Zhao Jin said again.
Speaking of this, Zhao Liu felt that taking eggs was nothing: "Yes, he should thank you. If it weren't for our Brother Jin, Boss Jiang would have been drowned." Zhao Liu said, thinking about the way the Jiang family didn't say thanks that day, he was a little dissatisfied: "Although Boss Jiang doesn't say anything all day, he is still a sensible person. It's too much. Brother Jin, you saved Boss Jiang that day, but she didn't even know how to thank him."
"That's nothing." Zhao Jin said. When he saw Boss Jiang drowning, he remembered his drowning elder brother. Therefore, he went into the water to save the person without thinking, but he didn't plan to repay him.
"Nothing is nothing, you saved someone's life. If you were in the play, they should have promised you." Zhao Liu said.
"Mom." Brother Zhao Jin interrupted his mother's words. Who would be willing to give him a promise?
Seeing this, Zhao Liu sighed again. Since their brother Jin dug up the beads between their eyebrows, the people in the village have actually regarded Brother Jin as a man. He saved a big man from the water, and no one thought it was wrong.
It would be great if Boss Jiang could marry into their family. Although this person is not talkative, he is honest and willing to work hard and can live... Unfortunately, someone in the village helped them to find out about the situation in the Jiang family a few years ago, and Old Mrs. Jiang refused.
She knew that Old Lady Jiang wanted to keep Boss Jiang at home to work, but she was an outsider and couldn't say anything.
Zhao Liu was a little disappointed and served a bowl of porridge, peeled an egg and put it in and served it to Brother Zhao Jin.
"Mom, if you eat this porridge, you are in poor health, so you should have eaten a few eggs to replenish it." Zhao Jin Ge said, cutting the remaining egg with a knife: "My father and I can just half of it."
Zhao Liu couldn't fight for his son, so he ate the egg, and Brother Zhao cherished it and ate half of his egg.
While eating eggs, he inevitably thought of Boss Jiang, and then he felt something was wrong.
Today, Boss Jiang spoke generously and spoke clearly, and kept raising his head and waist straight, as if he had changed his body.
Chapter completed!