Tuan Chong is five and a half years old and started his fortune from farming.

Chapter 34 People’s hearts are separated from each other’s belly

After lunch, Brother Chuan continued to play with the two puppies at the door of the west house.

Fu Bao took the branch and scrawled on the sand.

I forgot to mention that since she said she wanted to learn to read, her father shoveled basketfuls of sand home from the river beach.

It rained the past two days, so I didn't take out the sand table.

It's a sunny day today, and she's practicing calligraphy on the sandbox, which is just right.

After Song Yu taught a few words, he returned to the east room and continued copying books.

If you work harder at copying, you can submit the manuscript in advance and get paid in advance.
  Mrs. Xu took over the job of washing pots and dishes, braised pigs, and sent her daughter-in-law to do embroidery.

This family does not care about who does more work and who does less work. The important thing is that it is enough to have this intention.

Mrs. Liu had no choice but to follow her mother-in-law's advice. When she entered the house, she anointed her hands with halal oil.

Then thread the needle and thread, put it on the shelf, and continue working.

On the blank embroidery surface, there are now many outlines of flowers and plants.

If you look closely, you can see that the embroidery work is very lifelike.

For Mr. Liu, once the embroidery is finished, it is nothing but money.
  Just when the Jiang family was having fun and busy, a sneaky figure outside the courtyard door kept looking through the cracks in the door, trying to peek inside.
  "Wow~"

Maybe he smelled a strange smell. Little Black and Little Yellow didn't treat their little master docilely. They raised their tails one by one and roared in the direction of the courtyard door.

Brother Chuan was not frightened, but clapped his hands and clapped his hands with great heart.

Fu Bao noticed something was wrong, so he put down his legs, held a branch in hand, and went to open the courtyard door——

"Squeak~"

No one is empty.

No, no, footprints!
  A pair of fat footprints were clearly printed on the door, and they extended to...
  Zhang family!

Ok?
  It must be Bao's!

Fubao's sharp eyes discovered that there was still a hem of skirt sandwiched between the door of Zhang Family Courtyard. There really was no three hundred taels of silver in this place!

After closing the door, Fu Bao rubbed the two dogs' heads and praised:
  "Little black and little yellow, good job. When the marinade is ready, I'll get some for you to try."

"Wow~"

The two pups changed their ferocious expressions and waggled their tails docilely, exposing their bellies to their little masters.

Brother Chuan was fed up. He wanted to touch the puppies’ bellies, but they wouldn’t let him!

If it were my sister, they would take the initiative to expose their bellies!
  Woohoo, bully him!
  The Zhang family next door.

Mrs. Bao was shocked, and then she lay on the door. After hearing no movement, she said proudly:

"Fortunately, I can run fast!"

"What kind of dog are you raising? What a waste of food!"

When Mrs. Bao turned angrily and walked into the yard, she heard the sound of the fabric of her skirt tearing——

"Tear it apart~"

"Hahaha~"

"My mother's legs are so thick!"

Two brothers, Zhang Dalang and Zhang Xiaolang, saw this and started making fun of their own mother.

Mrs. Bao was very embarrassed, but she couldn't get angry at her two precious sons, so she had no choice but to hold the broken fabric in despair and run away to the room.
  In the kitchen, Xiaohua, who was making lunch for a large family, turned a deaf ear to what she heard.

Anyway, this family is the same with or without her.

Ping'an Town——

pier.

It was time for lunch again, and half of the porters who had been doing dirty work for a long time chose to take dry food and hot water and eat from a distance.

The other half of the people happily went to buy braised food to eat.

If you buy it alone, you won’t be able to part with it, but if two, three, four, or five people share a bowl together, it’s still okay.

As usual, Jiang Changfa gave the contractor a beating first.

Then he gave half a bowl to Brother Zhang, and then filled the bowls for everyone who was queuing up to buy braised food. “Brother Jiang, please give me more soup. This soup is used to make rice and steamed buns. It’s perfect for rice!”

"Okay, okay, give me more soup."

"Xiao Jiang, if you do this business, you must not lose money."

"It's okay. We are all workers. It doesn't matter if we make less."

"Hahaha, Brother Liu, do you want to buy it? If you don't buy it, give in. We brothers managed to scrape together five copper coins, and our mouths are watering. We don't want to delay our braised food."

"I know, Xiao Zhao, look at how greedy you are~"

"Hahaha~"

Everyone burst into laughter, and then swallowed tacitly.

This fragrance is so fragrant, who wouldn’t be greedy for it?

Finally, the jar Jiang Changfa brought was bottomed out, leaving only some soup.

After thinking for a while, he held the jar in his arms, went to the group of workers who were just eating soup, and said:
  "I still have some marinade left. If you don't mind it, you can make it as a topping for your meal."

"I don't mind it, can you give me a spoonful?"

"Uuuuuuu, Brother Jiang, I also want a spoonful of marinade, it tastes so good~"

"I want it too~"

Almost everyone here is too poor to open the pot, and they can't bear to spend an extra penny. They can't bear to have free marinade as a topping for their meals.

"Humph~"

Just when most of them were grateful, there was a man who snorted coldly and said bitterly:
  "hypocritically!"

"Duan Laosan, if you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute."

"It's just that Brother Jiang's family is not in a good situation. He comes to work at our dock to make ends meet. He kindly gives us marinade. We can't repay kindness with enmity."

"Repaying kindness with hatred? Just a little bit of marinade to bribe you? Your hearts are so cheap."

Duan Laosan sneered, then stood up, patted his butt, and left.

Before leaving, he glanced sideways at Jiang Changfa, idiot!
  Jiang Changfa frowned. He couldn't figure out, when had he ever offended such a person?
  "Brother Jiang, don't worry about Duan Laosan, he is just like that, he doesn't support himself."

"That's right. Thank you Brother Jiang for the marinade. It's really delicious."

"Hahaha, it's delicious. When I have money in the future, I will definitely buy braised food from Brother Jiang to try!"

The atmosphere calmed down a bit and nothing unpleasant seemed to have happened.

Jiang Changfa carried the empty jar, sat down next to Brother Zhang, and began to eat the rice balls he had brought.

It contains sausage, peanuts, and cucumber shreds. No need to braise the vegetables, and it tastes delicious to him.

"Xiao Jiang, if you meet that Duan Laosan in the future, you'd better stay away. This guy is a bit evil."

Zhang Dacheng is soft-spoken and short-handed when taking advantage of others.

On weekdays, he helps Jiang Changfa win business, and when he encounters some people talking behind his back, he will also speak out to defend him.

He didn't tell the other party this.

"Brother Zhang, what do you know? Tell me."

Jiang Changfa kept an eye out. The other party was very hostile to him and he didn't know why. This was not good.

If you know something about it, maybe you can pay more attention.

"That man has been working at the dock for three or four years. He used to be the contractor's henchman and confidant, but later he committed a crime and all the goods that passed through his hands were lost."

"Originally, the contractor wanted to send him to the government, but later there was insufficient evidence and nothing was known."

"Perhaps because of the old friendship, the contractor didn't rush the other party out of the dock, but he no longer reused him, and gradually he started moving goods like us."

"Perhaps I feel unhappy because I see you getting involved with the contractor. People are at odds with each other. Anyway, please stay around and be careful."

"Hey, I understand, Brother Zhang."

Jiang Changfa listened carefully, that's why.

But, he always felt that something was wrong~
  What's wrong, I can't tell.

His instinct told him that he should stay away from this person.
  (End of this chapter)