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38. Tiqinhe Fishing Village

Zhao Liu asked in surprise, but soon smiled awkwardly again.

She felt that... the possibility of matchmaker He coming to their house to flee is much greater than that of matchmaker He who came to propose marriage to Brother Zhao Jin.

"Yes, someone is going to propose marriage to your brother Jin!" Zhao Liu said.

"Really?" Zhao Liu asked in disbelief. He never expected that after several years of disappointment, someone would propose marriage to Zhao Jin.

"Of course it's true." said matchmaker He.

She kept rubbing her hands, and the smile on Zhao Liu's face could not be concealed: "Who is it? What's the situation at home? Do you want to marry into a marriage partner or marry Jin Ge'er?" She asked, and she couldn't help but blush. No one was willing to marry into a marriage partner in his family.

Sure enough, matchmaker He quickly said, "That family wants to marry Brother Jin."

Zhao Liu was a little disappointed, but asked: "What's going on in their family?" Although she wanted to tell Brother Zhao Jin about a marriage, she would not be happy if the man was too bad.

"The man in that family is two years older than Brother Jin. The family is pretty good. The wife in front of him has four children left behind..." Matchmaker He looked at Zhao Liushi, and when she saw Zhao Liushi frowning, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

As for Brother Zhao Jin's situation, someone who wants to marry him should burn incense, but Zhao Fugui and his wife think he is a treasure. She told Brother Zhao Jin about a marriage to fill a house for a widower, but the two of them were not happy.

"There are four children in the front..." Zhao Liu was a little unhappy when he heard this. It was not easy for her brother Jin to be a stepmother for so many children.

"These children are still young, so I will raise them well and wait until they grow up, and they are no different from their own children." said matchmaker He.

Zhao Liu was still a little reluctant, but thinking about Zhao Jin Ge's situation, he endured it again.

After all... that person is not old, isn't that?

"Which company is it?" Zhao Liu asked.

"It's Li Zugen from Lijia Village..."

"If it doesn't work, this person will definitely not work!" Zhao Liu became angry when he heard the three words Li Zugen. The guy's wife ran away, leaving a mess, and wanted Brother Jin to take over. That was too beautiful!

Not to mention anything else, those four sons are not something that ordinary people can afford! Four sons, even if they have found a wife who doesn’t want a betrothal gift, how much does it cost to build a house for so many people to hold a banquet and make furniture? What’s more, is there anyone in this world who doesn’t want a betrothal gift?

What's more, Zhao Liu has always hated the Li family. At that time, it was the Li family who asked to come up to get engaged, but later kicked them... If Zhao Jin Ge didn't get engaged with Li Zugen, they would choose another family for him to make a decision early, so why are they now twenty-five and can't get married?

"By the Zhao family, Li Shugen is pretty good. He now has seventy or eighty taels of cash... "Matchmaker He persuaded.

"No, this person is not possible anyway! Go out for me!" Zhao Liu became angry.

After saying that, she thought that she might have to rely on matchmaker He to say kissing, and her face calmed down again: "Sister He, I have a bad temper, I'm sorry... But the Li family really doesn't work. Even if I agree, my wealthy family will definitely not want to... Just help me find other people."

Matchmaker He's face was also very bad now. She frowned and looked at Zhao Liushi, sneering: "It's not so easy to find people? Your brother Zhao Jin looks like a man. Which man would want to marry like this? What's more, with his figure, you can tell at a glance that it's not easy to give birth to, and he's still old..."

Zhao Liushi was really popular now and drove matchmaker He out.

When matchmaker He left, she became upset again, and the more she thought about it, the more sad she felt.

The body is soft and the butt is petite, and the red mole on the eyebrows is bright. Shuang'er, which is similar to a woman, is the easiest to give birth to, and Brother Zhao Jin... is exactly the opposite.

So, the last thing that matchmaker He threw down was actually not fake.

But it was precisely because it was not fake that he became more and more sad...

Zhao Liu was a sensitive person, and she couldn't help but feel sad. In the end, the five little ducks were shouting at her feet, and she came to her senses.

Zhao Liu took great care of these little ducks, so the five little ducks were all alive and grew very fast. Now they were surrounded by Zhao Liu and they were going to eat.

Before, Jiang Zhen would chop the small fish or fish intestines caught by Wang Haisheng and feed them every day. Even if they didn't want to eat from Zhao Liu, they wouldn't be hungry, but Jiang Zhen was not here today.

Zhao Liu cut the lettuce leaves and fed them to the ducks, and looked at Jiang Zhen. Why didn’t she see Boss Jiang today? Only the two children of the fisherman were digging earthworms?

Zhao Liu has always liked children very much. She took a few glances and went out to dig earthworms with five ducks. Her original sadness disappeared a lot.

But even so, she couldn't help but blush when she saw Brother Zhao coming back.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Brother Zhao Jin couldn't help asking.

"Brother Jin..." Zhao Liu called out, wanting to cry, but when he thought that he couldn't make his son sad, he still endured it: "Brother Jin, be hungry, come and eat something."

Brother Zhao Jin was really hungry, so he didn't ask.

These days he had lunch every day, and he couldn't stand it if he had no food at noon today.

Now that he saw Jiang Zhen every day, he suddenly couldn't see Jiang Zhen, and he couldn't stand it anymore.

Zhao Liu didn't say anything in front of Brother Zhao Jin, but after Zhao Fugui came back, he still told the story of matchmaker He's proposal to Li Shugen, but he hid the story of matchmaker He's saying that Brother Zhao Jin could not have children.

Zhao Liu was very angry when he said that, and Zhao Fugui was also very angry: "Er Jin would not marry him even if he didn't get married!"

In fact, there is one thing that Zhao Fugui never told his family that he had actually gone to Li Shugen after the Li family regretted their marriage.

He wanted to ask for an explanation for his son, but he heard that Li Shugen was slandering Brother Zhao Jin and saying that Brother Zhao was like a man. If he really wanted to marry Brother Zhao Jin, he would not want to sleep with Brother Zhao Jin.

Zhao Fugui was extremely arrogant, and later he slapped Li Zugen before returning home.

"Well, I won't marry him." Brother Zhao Jin said with great certainty, and began to think of Jiang Zhen again.

Jiang Zhen was also thinking about Brother Zhao Jin.

While on the way, they met people from Hongjiang Salt Farm at a river intersection and boarded the boat to check. Finally, they charged a toll of 200 cents for one of their boats before they let them go. Then, they came to a fishing village by the sea.

This fishing village is not big, with a total of more than twenty families living in. They rely on fishing for a living and live a poor life, even more poor than the people in Hexi Village, because there are many things that cannot be bought here, and because they can’t get a good harvest every time they fish, and the fish are often not sold at a price.

For these reasons, they are very welcome to merchants who come to the fishing village to buy seafood.

The merchants who came with Jiang Zhen were old acquaintances of the villagers here. As soon as they saw people, they surrounded them. It was at this time that Jiang Zhen discovered that these merchants were carrying more or less cargo on the ship.

Some of them brought cloth, some of them brought small things like oil sugar dishes, but more of them brought food.

They didn't sell those cloths for sale, but brought them to the villagers and exchanged them for food. The food they brought was all agreed with the villagers.

Everyone in the fishing village went to find familiar merchants to get what they wanted, and took those merchants to their homes to see the goods. However, Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng, two strangers, were not interested for a while.

But it is obvious that those merchants could not eat all the goods in the village. After a while, a young man in his twenties came to Jiang Zhen: "I still have some kelp and fish at home, do you want it?"

"Let's take a look." Jiang Zhen said. He listened to those people chatting with the villagers and knew the approximate price of the things here, and now he planned to check out the goods.

The man nodded and took Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng to his house.

There were a lot of sea fish in front of his house, and the house was filled with kelp, which radiated a strong smell of sea.

Many businessmen who came here could not stand the smell of the sea here. This man also looked at Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng with concern, but Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng were not affected at all.

"Look at it. If you want it, you can exchange it with me for food or spend money to buy it." The man said.

Jiang Zhen looked at it and found that these goods were no different from others. He spent money to buy most of the pickled sea fish and many kelp, which surprised the man.

This kelp always sells well during the Chinese New Year because many people nearby buy some kelp for the New Year during the Chinese New Year, and improve the taste at the end of the year, but not many people usually buy it.

The man looked at Jiang Zhen and hesitated whether to talk to Jiang Zhen, so as not to buy too many goods and cannot sell them.

However, he was afraid that Jiang Zhen would not want his goods anymore, so he still didn't speak out.

"Is there anything else?" Jiang Zhen asked. He originally thought he brought too little silver, but he bought a lot of goods, but he only used up two hundred kilograms of rice and three or four taels of silver.

"It's gone." The human said.

Jiang Zhen was a little surprised when he heard this. He remembered that there were many types of seafood, so why was there only salted fish in kelp? There were quite a few varieties of salted fish, and the main selling point was that it was salty - the salt price was so expensive, so buying salted fish in many people's eyes is very cost-effective.

Or, in fact, it’s not that there are nothing else, but that many things, these people don’t treat them as goods at all…

Jiang Zhen immediately asked a different question: "What can you catch when you go out to sea? What do you like to eat yourself?"

Now the man said a lot of things. After thinking about it, he took out a wooden barrel and gave Jiang Zhen a bucket of clams.

After the sea water falls into the tide, you can see these things everywhere on the beach. If you pick them up, you will find a bunch of them. They are not valuable and cannot even be sold because they will die in no time and cannot be marinated with salt and there is no meat.

People today are not very welcome to food that has no meat and is full of shells.

"Take me to pick up some." Jiang Zhen said.

Of course the man would not disagree. It was not long before the tide would fall, so he took Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng to the beach.

When Jiang Zhen was in modern times, he had been to the beach and also to some undeveloped beaches. Therefore, he was not surprised to see the sea. However, Wang Haisheng was very curious and looked at the sea. When he saw shells on the beach, he picked up several of them and said he wanted to take them back for the children to play.

"If those clams eat meat, the shells outside can also be used to play with them." The humanitarians who brought them said that the children here and their toys are all kinds of shells.

After the tide fell, many clams appeared on the beach, densely packed and even looked a little scary. After a while, Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng picked up a bucket.

"Do you want to pick up a little more?" Wang Haisheng asked.

Jiang Zhen nodded, spent a few cents to buy a very fine fishing net they used to hold small fish, and then picked up more clams, which would probably be three or four hundred kilograms.

Their boat is not small, but the load is just that. They also have to put salted fish and kelp. Jiang Zhen did not continue to pick it up, but took the things he bought and the clams he picked back to the boat with Wang Haisheng.

In addition to clams, there were actually live crabs and other living things on the beach, but those were small crabs with no meat. Jiang Zhen did not make any decisions about them. Instead, after seeing the load of the boat, he got four or five taels of silver kelp salted fish.

These things can be sold to Hexi Village at least twice the price. If they can be sold, the profit will be good, but...

"You have been in so many things for the first time. How long does it take to sell them?" The people who came with them looked at Jiang Zhen and Wang Haisheng in surprise. They were both selling in the county town and near their homes. Usually, they only bought once every one or two months, and they only had a little more at the end of the year. These two new arrivals have been in such a bunch of them... Can't he finish eating it?
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