{"id":2662,"date":"2021-01-19T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/?p=2662"},"modified":"2021-01-19T09:48:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T08:48:16","slug":"tofuh-chapter-99-1-jiang-xiaomei-ran-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ontimestory.eu\/index.php\/2021\/01\/19\/tofuh-chapter-99-1-jiang-xiaomei-ran-away\/","title":{"rendered":"TOFUH – Chapter 99.1 – Jiang Xiaomei ran away"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Jiang Zhen came to this place less than a year ago, so he had not lived in Hexi for a long time. Even then, he did not have many good memories. Still, he missed Hexi a lot. After all, there was Zhao Fugui and Zhao Liu here, and he regarded them as family and his home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jinng Zhen\u2019s heart was like a compass\u2014the closer he was to Hexi, the heavier his heart felt. He felt this way for no other reason than that . . . going to and returning from the capital this time, one of his men was dead.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only one of his men had died, so he was much better than Zheng family\u2019s caravan, but a man was dead after all. That person . . . was the one he took outside with him. Jiang Zhen didn\u2019t want such an accident to happen, but he felt guilty in the end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBoss, why are you upset?\u201d Jiang Ming asked in puzzlement.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen didn\u2019t say anything; he only looked at the box beside him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The dead villager was surnamed Li Yuan. He was only eighteen years old. After the Zheng family\u2019s fleet docked, Jiang Zhen brought the people to bury him and packed all his belongings in this chest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Afterwards, the pension given by the Zheng family was also packed by Jiang Zhen, as well as part of silver he robbed from the pirates.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Now, in addition to his relics, this chest also had 300 silver in it. In addition, Jiang Zhen bought some things in the capital and put them in another box, which would also be given by him to Li Yuan\u2019s family.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Seeing Jiang Zhen do this, his subordinates also gave some things, and they were all placed in the box.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cBoss, the silver you gave is already a lot. Li Yuan\u2019s parents won\u2019t blame you,\u201d Jiang Ming said. Not to mention, Li Yuan\u2019s parents, even his own parents would not blame him after seeing so much silver.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cIn the end, the person is gone,\u201d Jiang Zhen said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He also knew that the pension he gave could already be considered to be a lot. When he originally chose people, he specifically did not choose people who were the only sons . . . In this place where human lives were worthless that even human trading was common, it was unlikely that anyone would blame him, but he was still not very comfortable at heart.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Ming and others became silent at this news. Yes, in the end this person was gone. The person who originally went to the capital with them was gone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although it was quite normal to have four children in the family these days, some people had six or seven children, and only three or four could be raised. However, this man died in front of them, so they didn\u2019t feel good in the end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The boat slowly approached Hexi, and soon, everyone disembarked. Everyone\u2019s faces didn\u2019t look too good.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cJiang Zhen! Jinge!\u201d a voice suddenly called out, and Jiang Zhen raised his head to see Zhao Fugui standing by the river.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This person who had always been silent and seemed to have limited words and smiles was smiling broadly, revealing a mouthful of heavily worn teeth, most of which were blackened or yellowed.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, he quickly closed his mouth and stopped smiling, only saying, \u201cYou guys are finally back. It\u2019s good you came back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Fugui, ever since Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge went to the capital, liked to have something to do and wandered around the river and the road to the country town. Today he was wandering around again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He was so happy to see Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge from afar, but the expressions on Jiang Zhen\u2019s face and the others made his heart thud. These people\u2019s faces did not look good; he was afraid that the journey to the capital was not a smooth one. However, it\u2019s okay. It didn\u2019t matter if it didn\u2019t go well, as long as they were back.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Fugui took a look and found that Jiang Zhen looked to be in good condition, and his son looked slightly fatter, so he finally put his mind at ease.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Then he saw something else, such as . . . these people were all empty-handed except for carrying two boxes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Actually, when Jiang Zhen went home, he also wanted to bring more things with him, but he had a lot of people and couldn\u2019t find more boats for a while, so where could he put those things? If he were to go back and forth to fetch stuff, wasn\u2019t it better to bring his men back?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After taking a look at the big men holding big and small bags, Jiang Zhen simply asked those men to leave their things on the ship for the time being and to come back tomorrow to pick them up. He, of course, would do the same. So all of them who returned home only brought a small bag full of silver and nothing else, much less than all that they took with them from the capital.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nowadays, who didn\u2019t bring something home from a long trip! Unless you\u2019ve suffered outside and spent all your money and really didn\u2019t have anything to bring home . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Fugui was becoming more and more certain that Jiang Zhen\u2019s trip didn\u2019t go well. Having come up with such a conclusion, Zhao Fugui was not in a position to ask anything more. \u201cDo you want me to help?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDad, no need,\u201d Jiang Zhen said. He carried two bags with him and let Zhao Jinge get off the boat first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

His two bags were filled with gold and silver, as well as two set of clothes for Zhao Liushi and Zhao Fugui. These bags were a bit bigger than the others, so when he walked out, he carried them both.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Jinge had been taken good care of by Jiang Zhen, so when Jiang Zhen asked him to get off the boat first, he did just that. As soon as he got off the boat, he immediately went to Zhao Fugu.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDad.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cNonsense.\u201d Zhao Fugui glared at his son. \u201cHow can you make Jiang Zhen carry all the bags? Don\u2019t you even know how to lend a hand?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

His son had become really more and more improper. How can he let his husband carry bags without taking some things himself?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Jiang Zhen paid the fare, he saw his father-in-law scolding his wife, so he hurriedly went over: \u201cDad, Jinge is not feeling well.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with him. I think he\u2019s very strong.\u201d Zhao Fugui looked at his son and found that his son<\/span> showed a circle of fur. He couldn\u2019t help saying, \u201cJiang Zhen, don\u2019t give him all the good things. Even you just wear a cotton-padded jacket, so how can you let him wear leather?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It took only less than a month to come back, so Zhao Jinge had been pregnant for over five months. In fact, his stomach was bulging a lot, but people couldn\u2019t see it because of his thick clothes, which made Zhao Fugui only think that he was wearing too much.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen was about to tell his father-in-law that Zhao Jinge was pregnant, but Zhao Fugui looked around and whispered, \u201cBesides, why are you back by boat? It cost a lot of money!\u201d He didn\u2019t earn a lot going out but was wasting money by returning by boat?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Knowing that Zhao Fugui must have misunderstood, Jiang Zhen said, \u201cDad, we made a lot of money on this trip.\u201d In such a round trip, when the goods on hand were sold. Coupled with the ships and the house in the capital, his property was valued at more than 200,000 silver, so he was definitely a rich man. Many of them took a boat together, but it only cost a few copper coins. It really didn\u2019t cost much . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although these days, silver was not as valuable as in previous dynasties, officials in the imperial court charged tens of thousands of silver for bribes, so his 200,000 was already quite a lot.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Fugui thought that Jiang Zhen loved spending money and didn\u2019t believe Jiang Zhen, who didn\u2019t even bring back a piece of pork this time, but he still gave Jiang Zhen\u2019s face. \u201cLet\u2019s go back and talk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen nodded and thought it would be better to go back and then say it. Just then, someone suddenly rushed to them, shouting, \u201cZhao Fugui, something has happened, and old lady Jiang ran to your house!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

After the man shouted, he found that Jiang Zhen was also there and said, \u201cJiang Zhen, you are back! They will be fine when you get back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen knew that this man had a good relationship with the Zhao family. Now that this man said that old lady Jiang had gone to the Zhao family\u2019s house . . . What was going on?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

With a frown, Jiang Zhen was about to go home. But after a few steps, he looked at He Qiusheng and others: \u201cYou . . . take these things to Li\u2019s house first.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Li Yuan was dead. He should go to the Li\u2019s house as soon as he was back, but something happened to Zhao Liu, so he needed to go there first.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry, boss. We\u2019ll get it done,\u201d He Chunsheng immediately said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Nodding towards He Chunsheng, Jiang Zhen immediately rushed towards the Zhao family house while asking the one who reported the news, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cJiang Chengwen was cheated of money. In order to raise money, old lady Jiang told Jiang Xiaomei but . . . It\u2019s not a good marriage, making Jiang Xiaomei run away, and the Jiang family ran to the Zhao family,\u201d the man said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen frowned when he heard that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He didn\u2019t like old lady Jiang or Butcher Jiang, nor did he like Jiang Chengwen or Jiang Chengxiang. He had no feelings for his two sisters-in-law or that nephew, but for Jiang Xiaomei . . . She was the only one in the Jiang family he liked.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Although Jiang Xiaomei also liked to be lazy and wouldn\u2019t help him work, she never bullied Eldest Jiang, and if there was anything good to eat that old lady Jiang gave her, she would still leave a little for Eldest Jiang.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen was using Eldest Jiang\u2019s body, so he also remembered the kindness that the eldest Jiang received. He did not repay the favor before, partly because he himself wasn\u2019t very capable at that time and partly because the Jiang family wasn\u2019t really particularly bad to Jiang Xiaomei.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

He remembered that when old lady Jiang cooked eggs, she would specially give one to Jiang Xiaomei.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Unlike him, Jiang Xiaomei definitely didn\u2019t want to break ties with her parents, and old lady Jiang and Butcher Jiang treated her well. In such a situation, he didn\u2019t need to do much, waiting for the future when Jiang Xiaomei got married, so he could give her some money and keep a close eye on her mother-in-law\u2019s family, which would be enough.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen had always thought that Butcher Jiang and old lady Jiang would find a good marriage for Jiang Xiaomei no matter what. At most, she would be given less dowry, but he never thought . . .<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Zhen was in a hurry, but when he saw that Zhao Jinge looked even more anxious, he said, \u201cJinge, go slowly and be careful . . .\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Zhao Jinge didn\u2019t slow down, and Jiang Zhen shivered as he watched him run and he could only protect him carefully.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Seeing this, Zhao Fugui felt more and more that his son was too preposterous.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Meanwhile, at the Zhao family\u2019s side, things were already chaotic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Old lady Jiang brought Jiang Chengwen, Butcher Jiang, and some people from the Jiang family to surround the Sun Xiaoshan and Zhao Liu. Then she looked at Zhao Liu aggressively. This matter of the Jiang family started a month ago.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

A month ago, Jiang Chengwen suddenly came home and said that there was a big business that he could do and asked for money. At that time, old lady Jiang listened carefully to his introduction of this business, but Butcher Jiang didn\u2019t believe it and was not willing to give him money. After that, Jiang Chengwen asked for money almost every day. However, even though he cried and cried and even tried to hang himself, Butcher Jiang still had no money and was not willing to give him any.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In fact, at the end of the day, Butcher Jiang was still a bit moved by Jiang Chengwen\u2019s persistence. He thought that it must be a good business. The main reason why he insisted on not giving money was because he didn\u2019t have any. For someone his age, he would not sell things to engage in this \u201cbig business\u201d thing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Jiang Chengwen had been making trouble for many days, but finally, it subsided. Butcher Jiang took it as a sign that he had given up on this \u201cbig business\u201d and advised him to do some other small business . . . such as selling food or something on the market.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If he made steamed buns, even if he couldn\u2019t sell them, he could eat them by himself so he would not lose a lot of money. But Jiang Chengwen despised this kind of business.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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