The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

On New Year's Eve, Jiang Zhen originally wanted to keep watch, but Zhao Liushi drove him back to sleep.

Hexi Village doesn't care much about the night watch. The villagers don't even know when it is Zishi. They usually go to bed after eating the New Year's Eve dinner and talking about the things of the year.

But on the first day of junior high school, everyone will get up very early.

Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge back to the room, and opened the red envelope in his hand to look at it. After looking at it, he realized that it was not silver but gold.

All the money he spent for Zhao Fugui and his wife was silver. It is estimated that Zhao Fugui took the silver and went to the county town to exchange the gold for him.

Jiang Zhen put it away, and once again felt that traveling to ancient times was not bad.

Although it is not convenient to take a bath here, he has a home anyway.

That night, Jiang Zhen didn't do anything to Brother Zhao Jing, but touched his stomach and talked to him a lot. As they talked, the two of them fell asleep in a daze.

The next day, they were awakened by the sound of firecrackers.

There are already firecrackers these days, but most of the people in Hexi Village can't afford firecrackers and are unwilling to waste the money. In previous years, only Zhao's family could set off firecrackers, but this year, there are more Zhao's.

What woke them up was the firecrackers set off by themselves.

Jiang Zhen thought it was very late, but when he heard the noise and looked outside, he realized that it was still dark, and he was speechless for a while.

"The earlier the firecrackers are set off, the more prosperous the family will be this year... Dad may not have slept." Brother Zhao Jin also woke up, and opened his eyes in a daze.

"I'll go take a look." Jiang Zhen put on the cotton trousers and jacket that Zhao Liushi made for him, opened the door and went out, and then saw Zhao Fugui lit a mulberry stick, and was about to light it far away from the firecrackers The second firecracker.

Now that it was cold and the wind was strong, the mulberry stick was blown out quickly, so he put it into the nearby fire, lit it, and continued to light firecrackers.

"Father, let me do it." Jiang Zhen said, the firecrackers these days are not as good as those of the later generations. Zhao Fugui did it like this, and I don't know how long it will take to ignite the second one...

Zhao Fugui was very relieved of Jiang Zhen, and was about to give Jiang Zhen the mulberry stick in his hand, but Jiang Zhen took the mulberry stick, but did not use the mulberry stick to light the firecrackers, but went directly to put the mulberry stick on the open space. The firecrackers were picked up and thrown into the fire.

Zhao Fugui: "..." Why didn't he think that he could still do this?

Just when Zhao Fugui felt a little stupid, he saw the firecracker exploded in the fire, and sparks flew everywhere. If they weren't not close, they might have been blown up.

Zhao Fugui: "..." Fortunately, he didn't expect to be able to do this!

No matter what, in the end they lit all the firecrackers that Jiang Zhen bought, and not long after the sound of firecrackers rang on their side, the sound of firecrackers rang out from Zhao Dahu's house.

The new year has arrived.

It snowed twice in Hexi Village a few years ago, but there was no accumulation of snow on the ground. The snow melted the next day, and the impact on the people of Hexi Village was worse than that of rain.

As for the next year, the weather has been fine.

On the third day of the new year, Jiang Zhen called all his subordinates back and continued training. Such behavior would probably be considered inhumane in modern times, but at this time no one thought there was anything wrong with it, and even thought Jiang Zhen was a Great employer - he has nothing to do and is willing to pay!

Especially, years ago, Jiang Zhen gave each of his subordinates a new set of clothes and some New Year's goods.

Jiang Zhen asked them to wear the new clothes when they came over. So, from the third day of the Lunar New Year, there would often be a group of people in the same dark blue clothes shouting "one, two, three, four" in the village. ran on the road.

Most of these people are not from Hexi Village, and most of the people who work on the land Jiang Zhen bought were rescued by Jiang Zhen from the water bandits. In the past, it was much more lively, and it was full of people's voices.

When Dayu controlled the floods, he would pass through the house three times without entering, but Jiang Zhen was different. He took his men passing Zhao’s house, and even if he didn’t do anything, he still had to go into the house to have a look at Brother Zhao Jing. Instead, he went outside with a hoe and turned up the land near Zhao's house.

Jiang Zhen was a little worried at first and didn't want to let him do it. Later, he saw a woman in the village with an eight or nine-month-old belly plowing the ground, so he stopped Zhao Jinge from doing things.

However, when Brother Zhao Jin turned over the land near his home and wanted to transfer to the other lands bought by Jiang Zhen to work, Jiang Zhen stopped him: "Brother Jin, if you think there is nothing to do, Why don't you help me take care of the brick kiln?"

The two craftsmen brought back by Jiang Zhen had built the first brick kiln, and fired a batch of brittle defective products, and most of those defective products were finally picked up by the children in the village.

These children usually can play with a single stone for a long time, but now that they have got some bricks, they are very surprised, and want to use those bricks to grind out wheels to play with.

It's just that those blue bricks with good workmanship can be polished into smooth wheels, and even holes drilled in the middle can't be broken. These half-red bricks with uneven heating can't do this. In the end, I just got some broken bricks.

As a result, these broken bricks were picked up by the villagers of Hexi Village in the end, and they planned to mix them with soil to build chicken coops and pig pens.

"Okay, I'll help you look at it." Brother Zhao Jin nodded and said immediately.

Zhao Jinge went to the brick kiln, Jiang Zhen continued to watch his men train, and found some people to dig out a lot of soil by the canal, and dug out a sunken port where many ships could dock.

This is a huge project, but it is not slow to do, and the cost is far less than Jiang Zhen thought.

The reason why the progress can be accelerated is because Jiang Zhen spent money to hire He Xicun and people from the surrounding villages to help.

Twenty Wen per person per day, plus a meal. The conditions Jiang Zhen gave attracted people from Hexi Village and many surrounding villages, and everyone rushed to work for him.

Although twenty Wen can only buy a catty of pork, but in the countryside, most people have no place to make money, and now it is the slack season, or when there is a shortage of food in spring...

It’s a good thing to dig and dig mud, not to mention food, and still have twenty cents for it!People in the nearby villages almost rushed to tell each other, and everyone rushed to work for Jiang Zhen.

For four taels of silver a day, two hundred people can be hired. These two hundred people work very hard because they are afraid of being fired... It is difficult to slow down the progress of the construction of the wharf.

Jiang Zhen spent money to hire nearby villagers, and Zhao Jinge did the same.

A few more brick kilns have been built, more experiments can be carried out, and more bricks can be fired, but this way, the firewood and adobe are not enough...

Zhao Jinge asked the village woman Shuang'er and her children to help make bricks, and paid according to the amount of bricks made, and did not pay for poor ones, and bought firewood at the same time.

In this way, they immediately had no shortage of bricks and firewood. Hexi Village and the surrounding villages could not get much firewood, and some people went to remote villages to buy firewood and sold it to Zhao Jinge to make a difference.

Unknowingly, it has been a year since Jiang Zhen came to this place.

It was only when he overheard someone talking about the Jiang family that he suddenly remembered it—Jiang Chengxiang and Zhu Shufen had been married for a full year.

Jiang Zhen recruited people to work, but of course it was impossible to recruit those who were annoying to look at, so he didn't want the Jiang family, and this undoubtedly made the Jiang family even more excluded.

At the same time, something happened in the Jiang family.

The first time the Jiang family sold land was to repay their debts, and also to clear up the relationship with Jiang Chengxiang for 20 taels of silver. Fortunately, there was a stable job in the county.

It was precisely because Jiang Chengxiang asked his family for money that Jiang Chengcai insisted on asking for 40 taels of silver to do business.

Later, Jiang Chengcai lost all his money, and Jiang Chengxiang said that he had found a job in the county, but in fact... he didn't take any money home.

At the beginning of the year, when the conflict between Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang was getting worse, Jiang Chengcai followed Jiang Chengxiang, and then...he found that Jiang Chengxiang didn't go to work at all, and hid in a small house after entering the city and couldn't come out!

It turned out that Jiang Chengxiang had never found any job in the county.

At that time, Jiang Tuhu and his wife were in a hurry, telling him to work in the fields when he couldn't find a job. The villagers also looked at him strangely, as if he was a waste of nothing, and he couldn't bear it.

He wanted to procrastinate for a while so that he would have more time to find a job that he could do. After much deliberation, he finally came up with a solution—lied that he had found a job and asked Jiang Butcher for some money, and then he could Live in the county seat and find a job with peace of mind!

Jiang Chengxiang got the money as he wished, but later found that he seemed to have walked into a dead end.

He lied to people that he had already found an errand. In this case, he couldn't just run around looking for errands all over the street, otherwise... what should he do if he was seen by people in Hexi Village or someone he knew?

In the end, Jiang Chengxiang had no choice but to rent a house, and hid in it every day after going to the county seat, and only came out after hiding for a day, and then went to inquire about any errands he could do.

Zhu Shufen was pregnant with the child and didn't go out, and the rest of the Jiang family didn't go to the county very often, so he kept it from him, but Jiang Chengcai's stalking finally made him discover what he did.

Jiang Chengcai has been accused by his family these days, and now it is as if he turned over, and began to accuse Jiang Chengxiang triumphantly, and felt that if Jiang Chengxiang hadn't lied to others, he would not ask for money to do business and lose money...

After arguing and arguing, the two started fighting.

The Jiang family had a quarrel just like that, and the quarrel was so violent that Huang Min and Zhu Shufen gave birth prematurely together.

Although Huang Min was lazy, it was the second time she had a baby. She gave birth to a boy very soon, and she was able to eat right after giving birth. She didn't suffer any injuries, but Zhu Shufen was different.

Zhu Shufen is the first child, it is difficult to give birth, and she loves to move around. Even if she lives in the country, she still does not go out of the house.

She ran out of amniotic fluid, and gave birth to a thin girl with difficulty, and died half of her own life.

Jiang Chengxiang couldn't even take care of himself well. Obviously, he was incapable of taking care of his wife and children. In desperation, he had no choice but to ask Mrs. Jiang for help.

Mrs. Jiang lived with Jiang Chengcai and Huang Min now, but if her youngest son was in trouble, it was impossible for her not to help... She just helped Jiang Chengxiang take care of Zhu Shufen and Jiang Chengxiang's daughters.

Mrs. Jiang wanted to take care of Zhu Shufen, so she neglected to take care of Huang Min. After Huang Min changed the unwashed diaper for her son again, she immediately became angry and told Mrs. Jiang not to take care of Zhu Shufen, otherwise , she won't support Mrs. Jiang anymore!

There are two Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang. The old lady Jiang prefers Jiang Chengcai, the second son. What's more, Jiang Chengcai's two children are grandchildren who can pass on the family line!

Mrs. Jiang loved Huang Min's two sons to the bottom of her heart, but Zhu Shufen gave birth to the thin girl. She hated it when she saw it. She even wished that she would die sooner, so as not to waste food.

Such a child who whimpers and cries all day, but can't cry louder, the mother has no milk... In the eyes of Mrs. Jiang, it is impossible to support her.

Now that Huang Min is making a fuss, Mrs. Jiang is afraid that she will drive her away so that she won't let her see her grandson, and she doesn't like Zhu Shufen and her daughter, so she doesn't take care of Zhu Shufen anymore.

When she gave birth for the first time, not only did she not have the help of her mother-in-law, butcher Jiang also served as a soldier. If she couldn't live a good life, why couldn't Zhu Shufen succeed?

That woman is hypocritical!

The old lady Jiang didn't want to take care of Zhu Shufen anymore, and Jiang Chengxiang was also angry. Originally, he turned a blind eye to Jiang Butcher helping Jiang Chengcai with farm work, but now, he doesn't allow Jiang Butcher to help Jiang Chengcai. work.

Butcher Jiang was very disappointed with the lazy and incompetent Jiang Chengcai. He liked Jiang Chengxiang even more, and hoped that Jiang Chengxiang could provide for him in the old age. Naturally, he didn't dare to offend Jiang Chengxiang, and he really didn't want to help Jiang Chengcai...

After such a quarrel...Although they were separated, butcher Jiang and Mrs. Jiang, who still slept in the same room, slept in separate rooms, and they separated again, separating the rooms clearly .

In the Jiang family's four south-facing houses, the two brothers lived in two rooms, and they all took some things to block up the boundary, which was determined not to communicate with each other.

Those farces of the Jiang family finally became the talk of the villagers, and everyone became less and less fond of their family. When Mrs. Jiang went to wash diapers by the river, she was chased away: "We are going to wash diapers here. Mi Xicai, can't you stay away from washing diapers?"

"That's right, you are too ignorant!"

"This river doesn't belong to your house."

……

Mrs. Jiang froze, and took a basin to the canal to wash, but after walking not far, she met Mrs. Zhao and Liu.

Mrs. Zhao and Liu also came out to wash clothes, but she didn't have a wooden barrel or tub, and Mrs. Li helped her with these.

Having been raised by Jiang Zhen for more than half a year, Zhao Liu's face is rosy now, and she doesn't look like an old lady anymore.

But actually?She is a few years older than Mrs. Jiang.

Mrs. Jiang looked at her increasingly thin arms, and she was a little taken aback.

But she only froze for a moment, and went to work.

There are still a lot of things to do at home, and she has to do the farm work in the field, so she must wash the diapers quickly.

When Mrs. Jiang reached the edge of the canal, she suddenly saw Butcher Jiang carrying a basin of diapers and washing them.

When she gave birth, Jiang Tuhu didn't even want to help wash a diaper, so he only brought some water for her. For so many years, this person hasn't even washed his own clothes.

but now……

Wearing stinky clothes, Jiang Butcher was washing diapers.

Mrs. Jiang and Butcher Jiang didn't speak, but they were in the same complicated mood.

Jiang Zhen heard about the Jiang family, but he didn't take it seriously.

Right now, what he cared about most was the situation of Brother Zhao Jin.

Now Brother Zhao Jin's belly is getting bigger again, and the child even moves from time to time, and Jiang Zhen, he doesn't do anything to Brother Zhao Jin anymore, and now he has some ideas, so he only asks Brother Zhao Jin to help him.

Although Zhao Jinge could still run around with his stomach upright, Jiang Zhen kept his heart full and worried.

The only thing that made him lucky was that he was strict with Brother Zhao Jin, and kept telling Brother Zhao Jin to eat less and more frequently to prevent him from overeating, so Brother Zhao Jin didn't gain weight, and the child shouldn't be too big.

In a blink of an eye, it was Qingming.

The winter wheat planted by Butcher Jiang a few years ago has almost grown, so Zhao Liu and Li went to get a lot of wheat ears and soaked them to make them grow malt, and then made malt sugar and malt pancakes with the malt.

Doing so was a bit of a waste of food, but the Zhao family didn't lack such a little food to feed their hunger, so she could cook as much as she wanted.

Brother Zhao Jin likes to eat sweets now, but he can't like these two things. It's a pity that Jiang Zhen doesn't allow him to eat more, and he must eat two malt flatbreads every day.

Holding a malt flatbread and eating it while walking, Brother Zhao Jin came to the place where the bricks were fired, and heard cheers coming from there.

The father and son bought by Jiang Zhen fired very good bricks, and they have mastered the whole process!And Jiang Zhen said at the beginning that if they can do it, they will be rewarded with two taels of silver each.

It was for that reward that they worked so hard.

"Jiang Zhen said that although you signed a contract of sale with him, he will reward you for your good work... After that, for every ten bricks you give, he will reward you with a penny, 1000 yuan. Brick, it's a hundred coins... If you are too busy, you can choose some of the people we give you as apprentices to help you." Zhao Jinge said, this is what Jiang Zhen told him a long time ago.

When the father and son heard this, their eyes lit up.

Originally, they didn't intend to accept apprentices, and they wanted to hide their skills a little bit, so that the boss could value them, but now...

If there are more people, the 1000 yuan bricks can be fired in a short time!

They immediately planned to recruit a few more apprentices to help them, and they were also full of enthusiasm for the matter of burning bricks.

In the place where they stayed before, the master craftsmen burned bricks slowly, and they were never willing to burn more bricks for the master, for fear that the master would ask them to burn more bricks in the future if they saw that they burned more bricks.

They originally planned to do the same, but now...

It's better for them to burn more bricks and make more money!It won't be long before this happens, maybe they will be able to settle down in this village!

As Zhao Jinge's belly grew bigger and bigger, Jiang Zhen's pier was finally built, and construction of his and Zhao Jinge's house had also begun.

When building the wharf, Jiang Zhen couldn't make any suggestions. He just asked someone from the Zheng family to guide him. But when he was building his own house, he was very, very attentive. heap.

Jiang Zhen's aesthetics is not very good, the biggest requirement for the house he wants to live in is firmness, and then, convenience - many designs these days are really too inconvenient for him!

Unknowingly, the time has come to the end of March, Zhao Jinge has been pregnant for more than nine months, and may give birth at any time.

But even so, Brother Zhao Jing is still very energetic, and he can go to the brick kiln to watch every day. Jiang Zhen thought it would be good to walk more, so he didn't stop him, but let Ruo'er and Li Shi follow him and pay attention to him at all times Case.

On this day, Jiang Zhen went to the place where he built his house early in the morning. After watching the workers work for a while, he suddenly saw Brother Zhao Jin coming.

"Brother Jin, why are you here?" Jiang Zhen rushed up to meet him.

"My stomach hurts intermittently." Zhao Jinge said.

"What?!" Jiang Zhen was stunned.