Chapter 106 – Going ho for the New Year
Jiang Zhen bought only two rings yesterday and planned to use one to propose to Zhao Jinge. But later, when he thought of proposing, he also rembered the sa thing.
One of his comrades-in-arms talked about his girlfriend and thought about getting married all day long. As a result, he later stopped talking about it and his comrades in arms thought that he did not do well. Finally, after a long ti as a result . . . the girl who was very good to him every ti marriage was ntioned did not want to pick up the conversation.
His comrade in arms could not understand it, and after a long ti, he finally asked her about it. Then the girl said he had not yet proposed to her, so she was not in a rush to marry him.
Kneeling down to propose seed to make people happy. . . so Jiang Zhen thought about closing the door at night and giving a ring like that to tease Zhao Jinge before coaxing him to bed. He always liked to see Zhao Jinge acting shy. But . . . there was no doubt that sothing went wrong in the end. However, the result seed very good. Seeing that Zhao Jinge was touched by the ring on his hand the next day, Jiang Zhen knew that he must like this ring very much.
Zhao Jinge really liked this ring and wished that everyone could see the ring on his finger, but he was too embarrassed to show it off. Moreover, it was useless for others to only see the ring on his hand. He hoped that others could see the ring on Jiang Zhen’s hand. They wore the sa ones! Zhao Jinge frowned and looked serious. One hand rubbed on the ring intentionally or unintentionally. . .
He Chunsheng, Jiang Ming, and the others suddenly felt inexplicable pressure when they faced him.
Zhao Jinge and Jiang Zhen had been together for a long ti, but recently, they had beco more and more imposing!
When He Chunsheng and others saw Zhao Jinge, they all said hello and left in a hurry.
Zhao Jinge: “. . .”
Zhao Jinge’s mind could not be seen by others, but Jiang Zhen could see it, and after seeing it, he could not help laughing.
He originally felt that wearing a ring would be inconvenient and uncomfortable, and even thought about taking it off after he returned . . . but now he felt it would be good to wear it all the ti.
Jiang Zhen was not interested in many luxury goods at this ti. In his opinion, those expensive antique calligraphy, painting, porcelain and jade were not as good as gold and silver. If he could buy a flushing toilet for 1000 silver, he would not blink, but a jade bowl for 1000 silver . . . was still just a bowl, and jade was not better than porcelain! In the end, Jiang Zhen didn’t buy any luxury goods and bought mainly practical things, such as . . . charcoal. Even then, he did not buy expensive ones; ordinary charcoal could be used for a long ti and cost only a few silver! So although Jiang Zhen bought a lot of things in Fucheng this ti, he didn’t spend a lot of money in the end.
By the ti they returned to Hecheng County, it was only ten days before the New Year, and people in Hexi had begun to buy New Year goods. For people here, it was mainly dried bamboo shoots, salted fish, and kelp. At the sa ti, so of them would pickle so pork and prepare chicken, but there was not much more.
On the one hand, most people have no money, but on the other, there were a lot of vegetables to eat in the field this season, so there was no need to hoard other things.
As the new year approached, the village would organize young people to go fishing together, and after catching fishes, the entire village would share it. For New Year’s worship, there must be chicken, fish, and at. After the fishes were divided, it could still be saved for people visiting after the New Year.
When Jiang Zhen went back with the fleet, the people in Hexi were catching fish, and Zhao Fugui was also there. So when he ca back, Zhao Fugui brought back a basket filled with fishes.
“After a village borrowed Jiang Zhen’s fishing boat for the fishing trip this ti, the amount of fishes distributed to our family has beco especially large.” Putting down the bamboo basket in his hand, Zhao Fugui was in a good mood. In the past, he and Zhao Jinge went to help each year and had to do a lot of work, but in the end, they would get less than half of fishes they got today.
“They are giving Jiang Zhen’s face,” Zhao Liu said, then she put so of the live fish in the tank, and then asked Zhao Fugui to kill the rest of them.
If the fish was killed, so of them could be cooked imdiately while so would be preserved as needed.
“Let Cook Li take care of the fish. Dad and I will tidy up the things I brought,” Jiang Zhen said.
Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu were used to working all the ti, so although Jiang Zhen brought back Cook Li and Ruo’er, and Jiang Xiaoi was there to help, they still preferred to do most of the work themselves. However, they were not young, and they had suffered a lot in their early years. So Jiang Zhen stopped them and tried his best to make them work as little as possible. Cook Li and Ruo’er were paid, so it was really nothing for them to do sothing like killing fishes.
After Jiang Zhen left with Zhao Fugui, Zhao Liu began to talk with her son. Then she saw the ring on Zhao Jinge’s finger for the first ti.
“Jinge, did Jiang Zhen buy this for you?” Zhao Liu asked.
“Yes.” Zhao Jinge nodded in a very good mood. Finally, soone asked about his ring! “Jiang Zhen bought two identical ones, and he wore one of them. Also our nas were engraved inside the rings.”
Zhao Jinge proudly told Zhao Liu about the ring, and soon after . . . he found that nearby villagers did not look at him but at the ring on his finger! In order not to appear smug, Zhao Jinge tried to restrain himself from giggling, but then . . . People in the village thought that Zhao Jinge was becoming more and more imposing, like a landlord. Zhao Dahu was just like him walking around the village with a big belly.
Zhao Jinge: “. . .”
After he had settled the things he had brought back from Fucheng, Jiang Zhen began to make arrangents about the land he bought and began to train his n. Every day, he took his n to do all kinds of training and asked the n rescued from the pirates to help level the land. As for the won and gers, he arranged for them to weave cloth and make clothes in the county town for the ti being.
Even with New Year approaching, Jiang Zhen did not relax, so people in Hexi could not help but marvel at it. At the sa ti, more and more people asked about Jiang Zhen, hoping to join the team.
Jiang Zhen did not refuse them. He inspected them one by one and recruited dozens of people. When everything got slowly on the right track, Jiang Zhen’s first new year in Daqi arrived.
Jiang Zhen didn’t attach much importance to the New Year when he used to live alone. He did not do anything except to buy so delicious cooked food, but Zhao Liu attached great importance to the New Year. She first worshipped the Bodhisattva, then her ancestors, and finally made a big New Year al.
On New Year’s Eve, no matter how Jiang Zhen tried to squeeze his subordinates, he gave them a holiday and also stayed at ho all day.
Jiang Zhen didn’t pay attention to the previous worship, but he was still looking forward to the New Year’s Eve al. The al cooked by Zhao Liu and Cook Li really did not disappoint him, especially the stewed pig head. He found it extrely fragrant.
Jiang Zhen ate several pieces of pig’s head at in succession but only gave Zhao Jinge one pig ear. Since Zhao Jinge had already eaten all kinds of at and there was no shortage of chicken, duck, and fish, he was not allowed to eat too much at. Let him just nibble at the pig’s ear.
“The life in our family got better this year . . .” After dinner, Jiang Xiaoi, Cook Li, and the others went back, leaving only Jiang Zhen, Zhao Jinge and Zhao Fugui, and his wife Zhao Liu, who said it with so emotion.
“It will get better and better in the future,” Jiang Zhen said.
“It will get better and better in the future,” Zhao Fugui happily repeated and then suddenly took out a paper bag pasted with red paper or red envelope and gave it to Jiang Zhen.
“What’s this?” Jiang Zhen was a little surprised, Was this New Year’s money? At his age, there was no need to give him New Year’s Eve money anymore, right?
“Red envelopes,” Zhao Fugui said, “This is your first year of marriage, so I wanted to give you a red envelope.” After he finished, he closed his mouth awkwardly again. The money in this envelope was originally given to him by Jiang Zhen.
Jiang Zhen, who hadn’t received any red envelope for decades, suddenly got a red envelope, and this feeling . . . was not bad.
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