After picking up the daughter of the lucky star, the whole village prospered

Chapter 22 Selling Fish
When I got home, it was already dark.

The clothes on the three brothers' bodies were frozen, and they were shivering with cold.

Jiang Dalang was still sneezing and rubbing his nose.

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhou quickly pulled her husband to the stove and asked him to take off his clothes and warm himself by the fire.

The old man Jiang and his wife were also busy walking around, first asking the grandson to get the clothes, and then telling the granddaughter to boil hot water, wash the face and hands of the eldest son, the second son and the third son, and change clothes.

"Oh, how did you get your whole body wet, alas, your hair is frozen."

Mrs. Jiang was in a hurry, so she hurriedly searched for dried cornel and boiled water for the children to get rid of the cold.

Jiang Sanlang warmed up to the fire for a while, and soon recovered. Together with his 13-year-old nephew, he put the fish in the large water tank at home for temporary preservation, and ate two bowls of hot gnocchi before returning home.

At this moment, Chunniang was dozing off on the kang with the children, when she saw her husband come in through the curtain, she got up quickly.

"Why is it so late? Have you eaten yet? I'll go and heat up the meal." Chunniang gently got off the kang, ready to prepare food for her husband.

"Don't worry, I've already eaten at my brother's house."

Jiang Sanlang sat on the edge of the kang, took off his shoes, got into the warm bed, and sighed, "It's so warm."

Chun Niang took the cloth towel and went back to the kang. While wiping her husband's hair, she asked in a low voice, "Why is my hair all wet and fell into the river?"

"No." Jiang Sanlang said with a low smile: "Today's harvest is bumper, and several big fish have been caught, each of them is four feet long."

Chunniang was surprised: "Four feet? How heavy is that? The biggest fish we usually see by the river is only three or four catties, and the length is no more than two or three feet. Why do we always encounter big fish this year?"

Jiang Sanlang rested his hands behind his head, and said leisurely: "Our river is deep, and there are no serious fishermen, so we don't have a chance to see it."

Turning to look at his wife: "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the town to go to the market. You can see what else you need at home, and I will buy it together. It will be New Year's Day soon, and we have to prepare all the new year's goods at home. Yingbao is getting bigger now." , I also buy some clothes for the little girl."

"Okay, let me think about it, what to buy..."

Before dawn the next day, Jiang Sanlang got up early and went to the kitchen to fetch water from a pole and bucket.

After filling the water tank, he hurried out of the house to meet his elder brother's house.

Seeing her third uncle coming, Mrs. Zhou hurriedly greeted him for breakfast and said, "Your elder brother seems to be ill, and he may not be able to go to Jishang today."

"Sick?" Jiang Sanlang was surprised, and asked, "Do you want to see a doctor?"

"I'll ask Dacheng to invite you later." Zhou said with a sad face, "Your elder brother still has a fever at night, I'm a little worried..."

Jiang Sanlang: "Why don't I go to the town to hire a doctor, the ones in the village are not very good after all."

There is a person in their village who knows a little about Qihuang, but he can only look at common minor illnesses, and he can't do it if it is a little serious.

"Then please trouble Saburo." Zhou was a little relieved.

After dinner, Jiang Sanlang saw that his second brother hadn't come for a long time, so he asked his nephew Jiang Quan to visit his house.

As a result, Jiang Quan ran around and came back and told him that his second uncle was also sick and had a fever.

Jiang Sanlang had no choice but to go to Chen Cunzheng's house to borrow a donkey cart, and he and his second nephew Jiang Quan went to the town to sell fish and ask for a doctor by the way.

There are a lot of people in the town today, because it is the end of the year, and every family goes to the market to buy new year's goods.

Jiang Sanlang weighed a big fish in advance, about seventy catties.

At ten renminbi a catty, the whole fish can be sold for more than 700 renminbi.

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Jiang Sanlang told his second nephew that live fish were sold by strips at nine hundred yuan a piece, and dead fish were sold by weight at ten yuan a catty.

This price can be said to be quite expensive, but Jiang Sanlang is confident that his fish will be sold.

Sure enough, a lot of people came to watch, asking a lot, buying a little, and everyone thought it was expensive.

Then a rich man came, and after buying two big live fish at a time, the rest of the people were in a hurry to pay.

Because there were only eight big fishes in total, and only five were alive, and if two were bought at once, there would be only three left.

The second nephew, Jiang Quan, smiled from ear to ear, and said to Jiang Sanlang while weighing the fish, "Third Uncle, our fish is really easy to sell."

Jiang Sanlang smiled, but his eyes turned to the crowd.

He saw the Xiangzhi again, and there was another person beside the Xiangzhi, who seemed to be also a tax collector.

Jiang Sanlang sighed inwardly, and quickly picked up two live fish of moderate size and put them in the donkey cart.

There are many tax items in the imperial court, including land tax, household tax, young crop tax, city tax, fishing tax, vehicle and horse tax, etc. Jiang Sanlang now accounts for three of them alone.

The city tax must be paid, but the fishing tax, carriage tax, and horse tax are hard to say.

Because this donkey cart is not his own, maybe Chen Cunzheng has already handed it over.

But if these tax collectors are unreasonable, you have to pay it again after using it, and you will not accept refutation.

As for the fishing tax, even though he catches fish and sells them at the market, if it is true, he must pay it.

"Chen Village, come to sell fish again?"

Xiangzhi, who is in his 40s, walked over with a blank expression and pointed to the remaining fish on the ground, "You have opened the market, it's time to pay taxes."

Jiang Sanlang hurriedly responded with a smile, took out ten papers and handed them to Xiang Zhi, and took out a fish hidden in the donkey cart, and handed it over: "It's almost the holidays, and we don't have any good things at home, so I specially leave this for you to taste." Try it out."

Xiangzhi was not polite, he stretched out his hand to take it, and pouted to the side, "This is my colleague, he is in charge of fishing tax."

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Jiang Sanlang quickly took out another fish and handed it to the person next to him: "A little heart is not enough respect, Xiaomin also came here at the end of the year to sell some fish to supplement the family."

Yuzhi took it with a smile, "Well, I know, but I'm not going to make an example."

After seeing off the two great gods, Jiang Sanlang finally heaved a sigh of relief.

At this moment, there are still two big live fish left unsold, but seven or eight dead fish are sold.

Jiang Sanlang asked his nephew to take care of the stall, and he went to the only pharmacy in the town to seek medical treatment.

Unexpectedly, when I arrived at the pharmacy, I saw that it was full of people, all of whom came to see the doctor.

The only doctor sitting in the shop was so busy that he didn't even touch the floor, he refused to go to the doctor at all.

Jiang Sanlang begged for a long time, but the old man still refused and asked Yaotong to invite him out.

There was no other way, Jiang Sanlang had no choice but to ask him to prescribe two sets of antipyretic medicine for typhoid fever, and walked back with them.

When I got back to the donkey cart, I saw the fox fur hat puffing out his belly, bargaining with Jiang Quan.

"I'm a regular customer of yours. Why, two fish will cost you a hundred pennies?"

Jiang Quan felt aggrieved and said: "There is no one who bargains like you. Once you go, you can get a hundred coins. I, how can I sell it to you?"

The fox fur hat raised his eyebrows, saw Jiang Sanlang at a glance, pointed at him and said, "What do you say?"

Jiang Sanlang smiled and said: "One hundred wen less is still too much. This fish does not belong to my family. You saw it last time. We are a partnership of three people."

Seeing the fox fur hat's face darken, Jiang Sanlang hurriedly said again: "How about this, I have a fish here, it's fresh, and it weighs four catties, I'll spare it to you, what do you think?"

The fox fur hat turned pale, and reluctantly nodded, "Okay."

After paying the money, the fox fur hat asked the porter to come and carry the fish.

He picked up the four-jin fish, and said to Jiang Sanlang, "I came here from the county, and I wanted to see if there was any white sturgeon that day. Our master likes to eat fresh fish. If you catch it again, Just send it to the county seat, and I will pay for the trip."

Jiang Sanlang smiled and cupped his hands to him: "That's a good relationship. If you catch him in the future, you will definitely send him to the county seat. May I ask who is your family..."

The fox fur hat gave an address and left with the porter.

(End of this chapter)