The Only Favorite Ugly Husband

"Boss?" He Chunsheng, who was standing beside Jiang Zhen, was taken aback for a moment, and quickly rushed to the side of the boat, and then saw Jiang Zhen was already swimming towards the shore.

"Boss!"

"Boss, what happened to him?"

"It's hot today, I also want to go to the river to cool off..."

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All the people on the boat came to He Chunsheng and looked towards the river together, only to find that Brother Zhao Jin was standing on the pier.

No wonder he wanted to jump into the river. It turned out that he wanted to meet his daughter-in-law earlier.

Seeing Brother Zhao Jin also ran to the edge of the pier, these people suddenly became a little envious.

Why didn't they wait?

Brother Zhao Jin didn't come to wait for Jiang Zhen on purpose, after all, he didn't know that Jiang Zhen would come back today.

However, when he came to the county to do business, as long as he was free, he would stand on the pier for a while, hoping to see Jiang Zhen.

After getting married, he almost never separated from Jiang Zhen. This time, Jiang Zhen went far away, and he felt extremely uncomfortable, but Jiang Zhen hadn't come back at the appointed time...

Today, he originally planned to stand on the pier for a short while, and then go home immediately, but...he actually saw Jiang Zhen's boat!

Brother Zhao Jin was overjoyed immediately, and then saw Jiang Zhen suddenly jumped off the boat and swam towards him...

At that moment, Brother Zhao Jin wanted to jump into the water too, but there were countless large and small boats parked on the shore, and there was no place for him to go into the water, so he didn't jump in.

After a while, Jiang Zhen climbed up from the river.

"Brother, did you accidentally fall into the water?" Someone asked Jiang Zhen when he got up from the water, but Jiang Zhen turned a deaf ear and hugged Brother Zhao Jin on the shore.

"You..." Brother Zhao Jin didn't want to push Jiang Zhen away, but subconsciously covered his face with a straw hat - there are so many people here...

"Haha!" Jiang Zhen smiled and let go of Brother Zhao Jin: "Brother Jin, are you here waiting for me?"

"I was just passing by." Zhao Jinge said, only then did he realize that he was completely soaked by Jiang Zhen's hug.

Fortunately, it doesn't matter much... It's the end of June now, the weather is very hot, and it can be cooler when it's wet.

"Yes, you were just passing by." Jiang Zhen smiled. He had seen a man wearing a straw hat standing there a long time ago, and he hadn't moved for a long time...how could anyone who was passing by just stand there for a long time?

As Jiang Zhen said, he squeezed Brother Zhao Jin's hand. Brother Zhao Jin blushed, and quickly put on a straw hat to cover his face: "You guys, why didn't you come back until today?"

"I picked up some other business on the way." Jiang Zhen said: "It's also thanks to that business, so I didn't lose money on this trip."

At present, the reputation of the Escort has not yet been established. Jiang Zhen was originally prepared to lose some money temporarily. Since he also brought some goods with him, he will sell a boatload of bricks by the way, so that the income and expenditure can be balanced.

However, this time, because I picked up a few business deals in the middle, I actually made a little profit in the end.

"That's good." Brother Zhao Jin immediately became happy. Before Jiang Zhen said that he might lose money, he was more uncomfortable than Jiang Zhen.

"However, I found a lot of problems when I went out this time... We have to find a way to recruit some people who can read and write." Jiang Zhen said again, every ship should be equipped with a person who can read and understand accounts, or else register the goods. It's really annoying that he has to deal with things.

"It's hard to recruit scholars, isn't it?" Brother Zhao Jin said immediately.

"I don't want to recruit people who are very educated. Anyone who has no serious education is fine, as long as they can read a few words and be able to settle accounts." Jiang Zhen said, because the business in the south of the Yangtze River needs many cashiers because of the development of commerce, those People who hope that their sons will be successful in the future will always spend a few taels of silver every year to send their sons to study.

Or those who can read by themselves will teach their children how to read.

They didn't expect their sons to take the imperial examination in the future, but they only hoped that they could be accountants and get one or two taels of silver a month, and they would be satisfied.

Butcher Jiang and Mrs. Jiang sent Jiang Chengcai and Jiang Chengxiang to study with this in mind.

"It's easy to find people like this. There aren't many people like this in the village, but there are a lot of people like this in the county." Zhao Jinge said, he came to the county almost every other day these days, but he gained a lot of knowledge.

"Yes." Jiang Zhen nodded, took Zhao Jinge's hand and continued talking to him.Obviously what they said was very boring, but his mood was extremely good.

"What are you two doing standing here? Get out of the way." A person carrying goods back and forth said to the two of them, and at the same time looked at them inexplicably—these two people didn't know how to sleep because their clothes were soaked. Take care of yourself, still standing on the edge of the pier holding hands... What is this for?

Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge hurried to the nearby tea stand.

Jiang Zhen was penniless, but luckily Zhao Jinge had brought money. He bought two bowls of tea for two cents, and then bought four pieces of tea cake, which he shared with the four tea eggs.

Tea cake is what the locals call a local pastry.

It is made of glutinous rice flour, a square piece with fillings, and the fillings placed inside are usually pork.

Eating glutinous rice is especially filling, and pork is loved by everyone these days, so this tea cake is naturally very popular, but most people are reluctant to spend money to eat it.

Jiang Zhen ate two tea cakes and two tea eggs while drinking tea, and then asked his daughter: "How is Mingzhu? Does she miss me?"

Zhao Mingzhu is only three months old now, how could she know how to miss someone?But Brother Zhao Jin appraised that she was thinking about it: "I miss you, she always cries at night, and she won't sleep until she cries for a while."

Hearing that his precious daughter was crying, Jiang Zhen was overwhelmed with distress, and asked about other things in detail.

Zhao Mingzhu is a child who is easy to take care of, and her body is also strong. Of course, she is so easy to take care of, which probably has something to do with the number of people who take care of her.

Usually, as long as she curls her lips, someone will immediately hug her and coax her... It's hard for her to behave badly even if she wants to.

And she would make a fuss at night, but it was only because brother Zhao Jin took her alone at night, and she couldn't take care of it occasionally.

After Brother Zhao Jin told all about his daughter's affairs in the past few days, Jiang Zhen's fleet finally docked.

Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge to register the goods on the ship together, and called someone to report to the village, telling the Zhao family that he was back.

After going out for more than 20 days, everyone was thinking about going home, and the speed of unloading and registration was very fast. When it was getting dark, everything was taken care of.

Thinking about his daughter, it was impossible for Jiang Zhen to spend the night here in Hecheng County. He asked his subordinates to tidy up, and the entire fleet left the pier in Hecheng County and headed for the pier in Hexi Village.

When Jiang Zhenhe went looking for Zhao Jingge to go home, it was already dark, but Zhao's house was brightly lit. Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge opened the door and went in. They saw Zhao Liushi hugging Zhao Mingzhu and feeding her.

Zhao Mingzhu is almost three months now, and her neck is not as soft as it was at the beginning. She turned her head when she heard the noise, and then she cried "wow", probably because she was startled by the sudden sound of the door opening.

"Mingzhu!" Jiang Zhen couldn't help feeling distressed, picked up Zhao Mingzhu from Zhao Liushi's arms, and coaxed: "Dad's precious Mingzhu, do you miss dad?"

Zhao Mingzhu stopped crying after being hugged by Jiang Zhen, which made Jiang Zhen even happier. At the same time, he found that his daughter grew more and more beautiful.

Before, her fat face was drooping, and her whole face was small at the top and big at the bottom, which was a bit ugly after all, but now the upper half of her face is also fat, and her face is round, how beautiful it is!

Zhao Mingzhu didn't know if she really remembered Jiang Zhen. When Jiang Zhen "served" her, she gave her face so much that she didn't cry.

People in Hexi Village don't bathe their babies very much for fear of their children getting sick. However, Jiang Zhen bathed Zhao Mingzhu when Zhao Mingzhu was not yet full moon. So much so that Zhao Mingzhu is different from the children in the village, and she has no smell at all.

She also especially likes to take a bath.

Jiang Zhen took a good bath for her, put her on a fiery red bellyband and let her lie on the bed. He just thought she was so cute... However, although her daughter is cute, she is not as important as a daughter-in-law at this time.

Quickly coaxing his daughter to sleep, Jiang Zhen threw Zhao Jinge down without hesitation.

The next day, Jiang Zhen took people to the county to recruit people who could read and write. The salary was two taels of silver per month. If they did well, they could add more money in the future.

There are many people who are willing. After all, although many people have learned a few words, they have never been able to find a good job. They heard that Jiang Zhen recruited a lot of people, and everyone rushed to tell them.

"Cheng Xiang, there are people recruiting at the pier today. If you need to know how to read, you will be able to settle accounts. There are two taels of silver a month! I have already written my name there!" A young man found Jiang Chengxiang and said to Jiang Chengxiang.

"Really? Where is it?" Jiang Chengxiang was delighted.Since his lies were exposed, he hasn't come to the county for a long time, taking care of Zhu Shufen and her daughter every day.

Although his daughter cried all day long, her life was tough, and she survived. After several months of raising her, Zhu Shufen's health improved a lot... Then, he came to the county again.

He is not a lofty and aloof person. After arriving in the county seat, he cried to a few of his classmates from good families, and then asked them to find him a job... And the person who came to him this time was one of his classmates. One, named Song Li.

"It's right there at the pier." Song Li took Jiang Chengxiang and hurried to the pier.

Jiang Chengxiang was full of expectations at first, but when he came to the pier and saw those people on the pier, his expression suddenly froze.

Those people are wearing uniform clothes, aren't they the people under Jiang Zhen's hands?This is inviting...

Jiang Chengxiang turned his gaze, and saw Jiang Zhen who was standing behind the people, silent but with a strong sense of presence.

"Chengxiang, hurry up." Song Li urged.

"Wait." Jiang Chengxiang stood still, unwilling to go over.

"Chengxiang, what's the matter?" Song Li looked at Jiang Chengxiang puzzled, and said again: "Hurry up, or you will be taken away by others. Your family is like that. How do you live?" Because Jiang Chengxiang told Song Li that Jiang Chengcai was cheated out of money in business, Song Li now wholeheartedly believes that Jiang Chengxiang's life is very difficult.

"I'm sorry, I can go when others recruit, but I can't when he recruits." Jiang Chengxiang looked at Song Li, shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Why?" Song Li was puzzled.

"That man... is actually my elder brother. Because my parents treated him badly, he took the initiative to marry into someone else's house, and he also hates our family. He definitely doesn't want to ask me to do something." Jiang Chengxiang sighed.

"Is there such a thing?" Song Li glanced at Jiang Zhen from a distance, and immediately decided that Jiang Zhen must be ungrateful for profit.After marrying into a rich family, he forgot about his biological parents.

"Naturally, didn't you see it? He looks a lot like me." Jiang Chengxiang smiled wryly.

The former boss Jiang and the pampered Jiang Chengxiang didn't look very much alike, but the current Jiang Zhen is indeed very similar to Jiang Chengxiang. What's more, Song Li had heard Jiang Chengxiang mention that he had an older brother.

At that time, Jiang Chengxiang was not very willing to talk about his elder brother... Song Li didn't know the reason before, but now he felt that he had guessed it.

It turned out that Jiang Chengxiang not only had an idiot second brother who was cheated by borrowing profit to do business, but also an ungrateful elder brother. Song Li felt more sympathy for Jiang Chengxiang.

"My elder brother does the job of delivering goods for others. Not to mention that he has to live on a boat all year round, and he will lose his life when he encounters water bandits. Before, someone in our village followed him out and died. Yeah...Brother Song, it's better for you to change jobs." Jiang Chengxiang said again.

Song Li's family background is good, he has money, and has been supporting Jiang Chengxiang these days. Jiang Chengxiang doesn't want him to know the real situation of his family, and naturally he doesn't want Song Li to work with Jiang Zhen.

This Song Li has a violent temper and is easy to trust others. Hearing what Jiang Chengxiang said, he immediately said: "What's the matter? How could someone die? I must expose him!"

"Brother Song, wait!" Jiang Chengxiang hurriedly pulled Song Li back, persuading him left and right, and told Song Li that Jiang Zhen had something to do with the magistrate of the county. Make a big fuss.

Jiang Zhen and Brother Zhao Jing are currently recruiting people.

They only planned to recruit [-] people, but there were quite a lot of people who came here. Jiang Zhen simply asked these people to write down their names, and then went to a rented house for the exam tomorrow.

He didn't know the level of these people, so he came up with some topics, and then chose the most suitable ones - some of them signed up after only knowing a few words, and he didn't want such people.

"Grandpa, the people we recruited are going to go to sea with us. They are too old to take it." Seeing an old man with white hair and wrinkled face, he looked a little older than Zhao Fugui They wanted to sign up too, Jiang Ming reluctantly tried to persuade him.

"I'm in good health, young man. It's okay to let me go to the pier to fight the goods now." The old man was very persistent, and he still took up his seat and refused to leave, even hoping that Jiang Ming would directly order him.

"Really not..." Jiang Ming was helpless, but he couldn't do anything to an old man.

Jiang Ming persuaded him for a long time, but the old man refused to let him go, and even performed a public performance against the sack, regardless of how old he was.

"I only want those under the age of 30!" Jiang Zhen said, looking at the old man coldly: "Are you going by yourself, or should I let someone drive you away?"

Such an old person is definitely not suitable to go with the fleet. Since it is useless to persuade them, Jiang Zhen can only scare them away.

The clothes on Jiang Zhen's body make people know that he is the leader. At this moment, his face turned cold, and the old man didn't dare to say anything. After taking a look at the men standing beside Jiang Zhen, he ran away in a hurry .

"Hmph!" The old man ran away, but a young man squeezed in. He looked at Jiang Zhen and snorted coldly, and then said to Jiang Ming, who was holding a stack of paper and asking someone to write his name and age: " I left my name here before, please cross it out for me now!"

"You don't want this job anymore?" Jiang Ming looked over in surprise.

This young man is Song Li. He wanted to expose Jiang Zhen's "true face", but he was afraid that his family and Jiang Chengxiang would be hurt, so he endured it and said, "Yes, I don't care about this job."

"Okay, you can find it and cross it out yourself." Jiang Ming pointed to a pile of paper next to him.

These days, big families don’t recruit people very much. The shopkeeper’s accountants are all cultivated by themselves or simply let the side branch do it. Even if a certain shop needs to recruit people, they will find acquaintances to find suitable people, and often even directly Invite relatives to do things.

Therefore, although many people can read, they can't find a suitable job... If it weren't for this, why would Jiang Chengxiang not be able to find a suitable job after so long?

It is also because of this that Jiang Zhen recruited people in public this time, and there were a lot of people who came. At this moment, more than 30 people have left their names... Jiang Ming doesn't care if some people don't want to come to them.

Song Li saw that Jiang Ming didn't take him seriously, but he was a little angry. He is a child who has been in school for a long time!Much better than others!

Song Li found out the paper he wrote earlier, and was about to tear it up in public, expressing that he didn't take this job seriously, when the people who were delayed by him and the old man rushed forward one after another and pushed him away. They are still scrambling to hope that Jiang Ming can have a good impression of them.

Holding the paper with his name on it, Song Li was furious.

Song Lizheng was angry when he saw an acquaintance approaching.

That acquaintance was also Song Li's classmate, named Zheng Baoning.

Although Zheng Baoning's surname is Zheng, it has nothing to do with Zheng Yi's Zheng family. It was a family hundreds of years ago at most, and his family's life is not good.

This Zheng Baoning's father is a small businessman who sells things for a living. He originally went out four times a year, and each trip made a net profit of ten taels of silver, not to mention making his family's life better and allowing him to study.

But later, his father was kicked when he met someone looking for trouble when he went out...

His father didn't take this matter to heart, but he didn't know that he was actually kicked and injured his internal organs. After he returned home, his stomach became bigger and bigger, and recently he died of pain.

Without a pillar at home, Zheng Baoning naturally couldn't read books. He was only twelve or thirteen years old at the time, couldn't find any job, and couldn't write very well, so he couldn't copy books for a living... In the end, he actually relied on giving People make money by painting patterns for embroidery.

What does it mean for a big man to paint a group of women's faces all day long?I heard that he would even paint the bellies of those prostitutes... Song Li hated Zheng Baoning a little bit, and felt that Zheng Baoning had fallen.

Every time he saw Zheng Baoning before, he would persuade him to find a serious job, but this time...

Seeing that Zheng Baoning seemed to want to work for Jiang Chengxiang's elder brother, Song Li quickly stopped him: "Zheng Baoning, that job is very dangerous, you listen to me, it's better to change to another job."

Zheng Baoning frowned immediately when he heard this.

This Song Li is really a full man who doesn't know a hungry man.

At the beginning, I always advised him to find other jobs, but I didn't think about it. His family has no background at all, so where can I find a suitable job?

As for now...he finally had a job and came to stop him.

"I'll ask. If it's really dangerous, of course I won't do it." Zheng Baoning said, and immediately squeezed into the crowd after speaking.

"It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, you don't know a good heart!" Song Li cursed, intending to wait outside, and talk to Zheng Baoning after he came out from the crowd, but Zheng Baoning disappeared unexpectedly!

Is this slipping away from the other side?Song Li was furious, but Zheng Baoning, who avoided him, was relieved.

There were a lot of people asking about the recruitment of the Jinzhen Escort, and he also asked some questions, which seemed to clarify what they were going to do in the future.

Those of them will indeed encounter a little danger if they want to deliver goods with the ship in the future, but with such a large fleet and so many bodyguards, the probability of accidents in their accountants is still very small.

To be honest, even if you work as an accountant for a shop in the county town, you have to follow the shopkeeper's boat to buy goods, and you will also encounter danger.

Zheng Baoning has made up his mind to try to get this job.His father has passed away for five years, and he has grown up. He only earns a penny by drawing pictures. I am afraid that the family will always be unable to make ends meet. It is best for him to find a serious job.

This time I go out with the boat, the owner is responsible for the food, the two taels of silver wages, he may not need to spend much, he can use it all to support the family...

I don't know how the boss will choose people from them tomorrow.

Zheng Baoning was thinking about this, and Jiang Zhen was also thinking about this.

He really didn't know how to give people the test papers.

"Ah!" Jiang Zhen was thinking, when Zhao Mingzhu, who was lying on the bed, suddenly yelled.

"Good girl! You can talk!" Jiang Zhen hugged his daughter happily, and decided not to think too much about it. He decided to ask those people to write a [-]-character self-introduction and do a few math problems.

He asked the questions according to the difficulty of elementary school, those people should be able to answer them, right?

In a blink of an eye, it was the next day.

Jiang Zhen had been waiting in that warehouse house for a long time. When he asked the carpenter in the county to make furniture for him, because he wanted to build a school for training talents in Hexi Village in the future, he asked the carpenter to make furniture for him. I made fifty small tables and benches, and now these things are just ready to be used.

There were hundreds of people who left their names yesterday, probably because some of them gave up after going home after thinking about it. In the end, there were more than 70 people who came.

Those tables and chairs were not enough at all, so Jiang Zhen had to take out the furniture made by the carpenter for himself. Because there was no room for them in the room, many people still needed to take the exam outside the room.

Zheng Baoning came a bit late, so he was not allocated those sets of tables and chairs, but a chest of drawers, and asked him to answer the questions standing up.

Those who wore uniforms gave each of them three pieces of paper. On one piece of paper, they were asked to write a self-introduction of hundreds of words. Just write on the second piece of paper. As for the extra piece of paper, they can use it to write down the questions.

This self-introduction is actually to see if they are really literate, right?Although Zheng Baoning's handwriting is a bit ugly, but at least he knows a lot of characters. He started to write immediately, and wrote more than 400 characters in a profuse manner, filling the paper before giving up.

Seeing that a person who was writing on a bed next to him had only scribbled twenty or thirty words on the paper, Zheng Baoning relaxed a lot at the moment.

And at this time, the man who looked like the leader came to ask the question.

"I have nine men who have gone to work on errands. They have done a good job. I want to reward each of them with eight taels of silver. How many taels of silver do I need to give them in total?"

"I bought thirteen rabbits. How many rabbit legs are there in total for these thirteen rabbits?"

"I asked someone to help move the goods, and I paid a penny for moving a bag of goods. The person moved 150 eight bags of goods on the first day, 170 bags of goods on the second day, and [-] six bags of goods on the second day. , How much money can he get in total?"

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Jiang Zhen came up with a total of five questions, all of which he thought were very simple. Zhao Jinge, who was beside him, wrote down a few numbers and quickly figured them out, but those who did the questions...

Jiang Zhen suddenly discovered that among these people, there were many solemn expressions, and it seemed that they had nowhere to write...

Fortunately, there are still many people who will count.

Zheng Baoning will count.

When his father was in business, he wanted to settle the accounts. If he saw too much, he would also forget them. All these problems were settled anyway.

After solving the problem, Zheng Baoning breathed a sigh of relief, and not long after, all three of their papers were collected.

After Jiang Zhen had seen those graffiti, he immediately rejected them and asked He Chunsheng to give them two eggs each to send them away.

These people had no real skills, Jiang Zhen gave the egg again, but he didn't blame Jiang Zhen at all, and left soon. Seeing this, Jiang Zhen read the remaining papers again.

It is obviously impossible for people who are really educated to help him with things, so there are basically some problems in these papers, and many people's handwriting is not as good as his. Fortunately, some of them are not bad.

Jiang Zhen had already made up his mind to teach these people mathematics first, and then let them work, so he was not too picky, and finally selected 22 people.

For those who were brushed off this time, Jiang Zhen gave them three eggs each. As for the ones who were selected...he directly gave them five eggs each, and then signed a contract with them, asking them to leave tomorrow morning Wait on the pier, he will pick you up when the time comes.

Jiang Zhen and Jiang Zhen's subordinates are all natives of Hecheng County. The government servants were very friendly to them on the pier before. These people were not afraid that Jiang Zhen would lie to them, so naturally they all agreed.

Seeing this, Jiang Zhen can be regarded as letting go of a concern.

After these people left, Jiang Zhen asked his subordinates to move all the tables, chairs and furniture in the house to the boat and bring them back to Hexi Village.

The furniture is ready for use. After tidying up, tomorrow, he can take Zhao Jinge and his daughter to move to a new house!

To Jiang Zhen, who had lived in modern times, the new house was considered crude, but at this moment, Jiang Zhen was still looking forward to moving, after all, it was much better than the Zhao family's current house.

There are two rooms in the north and south of the building where he and Brother Zhao Jin live. He and Brother Zhao Jin live in the south, but plan to live in the north for his daughter. And that room is paved with wooden boards, so he can return it when the time comes. Let my daughter crawl all over the floor.

Well, his Pearl can't even sit now...

The houses that Jiang Zhen built on the other side of the pier were not just his own house.

He built dormitories for his men and sailors, and besides that, he built warehouses and several classrooms.

"Boss, why are there so many tables and chairs here?" Seeing the layout of the classroom, Wang Haisheng asked in confusion.

"In the future, people can come here to study." Jiang Zhen said, "Your two children can come here."

"Reading?!" Wang Haisheng was both surprised and delighted, and everyone else was also full of joy.

They made money with Jiang Zhen, and they also thought about sending their children to study in the future, but they really didn't expect that Jiang Zhen would actually set up a school near the pier!