11. Second Story Extra 1
It wasn’t long after Tan Chunjuan moved into Gao Zhen’s room, and Gao Zhen bought a lot of New Year’s goods to go home, and this was undoubtedly the most prosperous year for Tan Chunjuan since grow up.
At this time, Da Mao had been following Gao Zhen all day long, and Er Mao had learned everything from her brother, so she naturally called him Dad, so the family that had only been together for a month or two seemed extremely close.
On New Year’s Eve, Gao Zhen gave Da Mao and Er Mao 18 copper coins each, and suddenly said, “Do you want to change Da Mao and Er Mao’s name? It’s a new year when Da Mao is going to study, so can’t keep calling him this name.
” What?” Tan Chunjuan looked at Gao Zhen in shock. study? That’s a money-burning thing, and Gao Zhen actually asked Da Mao to study? In the past, even Yao Tianhao, the biological father, never remembered this incident!
“Don’t Da Mao like to learn things?” Gao Zhen asked back.
“Father, I just need to learn how to settle accounts, so that you can count your money without having to study.” Da Mao said, he didn’t know if it was too hard when he was a child, he learned to look at people’s faces at a young age, and he could always talk when he spoke. into the hearts of others.
“Your mother doesn’t know anything. It’s better if you want to learn something or go to school. That’s it.” Gao Zhen made a final decision.
So after the New Year, Da Mao, who had gained a lot of weight, changed his name to Gao Jiang, and wore new clothes to enter the school in the town. When he first went, almost no one could connect him with the former Yao Da Mao.
Da Mao went home after three years in the school. It wasn’t that Gao Zhen stopped him from reading, but he didn’t have this talent himself. Compared with those who drew with a soft brush, he preferred to play with them. Gao Jiang’s even like to imitate Gao Zhen’s behavior everywhere.
I don’t know if it is because of this, but as time goes by, he looks more and more like Gao Zhen.
Twelve-year-old Da Mao began to sell meat with Gao Zhen, and at the same time he quickly climbed up. When he was fifteen years old, although he looked thin and small, he could already start selling meat by himself. , Tan Chunjuan gave birth to Gao Zhen’s third child three years later, this time a daughter.
Those rumors that Gao Zhen would cut off his sons and grandchildren have long since been subverted, and the Gao family even lived better than most of the people in the town.
Of course, Gao Zhen actually didn’t care about the rumors from the very beginning. Seeing that Da Mao was able to sell meat by himself, he actually wanted to do some other business.
Gao Zhen was only eight or nine years old when he left town to wander, and he was able to survive entirely because he was rescued by a cook in the army. He became a soldier and participated in a few wars, but although he had strength, he had a bad temper, and he didn’t have a good relationship with people, so he didn’t get along very well. When the uncle’s family drove them out of the house, they simply returned to the town.
Whether it was Gao Zhen’s grandfather or his parents, they all died very fast, and basically no money was spent on medical treatment. The Gao family was naturally rich at that time. After Gao Zhen’s father died, his grandmother had the money to raise him, even if he was allowed to eat and drink without worrying about his life, it was no problem. Because of this, his grandmother was even willing to give the shop to his cousin for free. For the family, as long as his cousin’s family can protect them a little, but his cousin’s family is not satisfied with this, they just drove him and his grandmother out of the house, causing his grandmother to freeze to death in the ruined temple .
Gao Zhen was always thinking of revenge, and when he returned to town, he beat his cousin’s family severely, and kicked them out just like his cousin treated him and his grandma back then.
After his cousin’s family was kicked out, his life was very miserable. Gao Zhen always knew it and was happy to see it happen. His cousin’s family spoke ill of himself outside, saying that he was ignoring his parents and his mother. I know, but it doesn’t matter.
The days of selling meat are much more comfortable than being a soldier. At least there is meat to eat every day. Gao Zhen settled down in the town. Later, as he grew older, he even bought a wife and planned to keep it for later. The wife he bought was a girl sold by the mistress of a big family. She was very beautiful, but she was not a person who could live a hard life. When it comes to beating women and forcing women, I’m not good at it. Later on, I just think that just a pair of chopsticks in the family.
As a result, half a year later, the young master of this woman’s former master’s family actually came. It turned out that this woman found a chance to send a letter to the young master with whom she had an affair. The young master was still thinking about this beautiful maid, so he came.
Gao Zhen took the money from the young master and let the young master take the woman away—the young master gave a lot of money, and he didn’t lose any money anyway.
With that woman gone, there are more and more rumors outside. Many people think that Gao Zhen killed his wife and he doesn’t care about it, because he thinks it’s troublesome to have a woman at home, and it’s better to live alone. More comfortable.
In the blink of an eye, Gao Zhen had been like this for seven or eight years, but he didn’t expect that one day when he was selling meat, a woman would rush out and offer to be his wife.
Gao Zhen had an impression of Tan Chunjuan. He remembered that this woman would come to buy meat from time to time when she first got married to the town. Later, the number of meat purchases became less and less every year. The person with the least number of times was the woman’s husband. He often saw the man drinking and eating meat in the tavern, and was willing to spend a lot of money to help others pay his debts.
He took pity on the woman a little, but had no other thought at the time, and thought the woman was joking, until the woman said that she and her two children had been swept out of the house and just wanted a place to live.
If his grandmother had been taken in, she would have lived a few more years without having to live in the dilapidated, shabby temple that kept leaking… Moreover, he knew the child next to the woman who once found him and wanted to be an apprentice. At that time, he was actually a little moved, but before he agreed, he ran into Yao Tianhao wearing a yamen service, and the child ran away without saying a word.
He agreed to take in the woman and went to the yamen to get his household registration.
He occupied the property left by his cousin’s family, and he also made money from selling meat every day. He was not short of money. He just thought it was okay to take in this woman with three more mouths to eat, but as soon as he walked to the table, someone handed over the rice bowl. It felt surprisingly good. The dishes made by this woman were also exceptionally delicious. You must know that he used to cook meat directly or stew it in cabbage and radish.
When he was at the well that night, when he was going to wash up and go to bed, the woman timidly brought him a basin of hot water, and the clothes that he planned to wear tomorrow were washed clean by the woman.
In the past, Gao Zhen never understood why his comrades-in-arms thought about wanting a wife all day long. After Tan Chunjuan arrived at his house, he suddenly understood.
When he put Tan Chunjuan to sleep, his understanding will be more thorough, but unfortunately Tan Chunjuan is a little thin, and he doesn’t dare to use too much force to hold this person’s skinny legs…
I finally made this woman a little fatter, this woman’s stomach also moved suddenly, startling him, thinking that something was wrong with this life.
Fortunately, this woman is not sick, but has his child.
After recovering from his memories, Gao Zhen took the food made by himself and Er Mao into Tan Chunjuan’s room, then stared at the little guy with few hairs beside Tan Chunjuan for a long time, and finally carefully hugged her up.
The infant found herself in a different place, and the fluffy ball in Gao Zhen’s hand opened her eyes and yawned, and then she kept turning to the left because some corners of the clothes touched her left face. She opened her mouth to bite.
Gao Zhen held her for a long time, and then carefully placed het next to Tan Chunjuan: “I hired someone to take care of you.”
“What are you hiring someone for? How much money are you burning?” Tan Chunjuan said immediately, she has born with two hairs. There was no one to help her at the time, and it wasn’t a good life. In the end, when she was pregnant with Sanmao, Gao Zhen didn’t know what was wrong. to bring people back.
Gao Zhen is a meat seller at the door of his house. If he can come back to cook, he can help, so why should he hire someone? Especially now, Er Mao is thirteen and can take care of her completely.
I want to travel far away, I don’t want to worry about you, the matter is settled.” Gao Zhen didn’t give Tan Chunjuan a chance to refuse this time. He used to think that he could take care of Tan Chunjuan at home and didn’t invite anyone, but now he wants to go out go with.
“Well, why do you want to go out?” Tan Chunjuan asked quickly.
“I’m going to get a dowry for Er mao, San mao, and Wu mao.” Gao Zhen gently touched Wu mao’s face beside Tan Chunjuan with his fingers, and then quickly stretched out his hand when Wumao turned her head and tried to eat his fingers.
With more and more children, three girls need dowry when they get married, and two sons need to marry wives, he can’t expect to live in a butcher shop.
The child in his arms was soft, but it was such a child who had no teeth and was only the size of Gao Zhen’s arm, so Gao Zhen decided to make a change.
Gao Zhen’s relationship with the garrison was actually not as hard as the master in the county government thought. He just happened to know the people here. The garrison office often sent pork to the garrison. At that time, he was only one person. The price is not high, in fact, there are not many gifts, but now he wants to develop this business.
There are many restaurants and pubs in those big cities, and the food will be dumped when he can’t finish his meal. If he finds someone to collect these leftovers and cook them with rice bran, pig grass, etc. to raise pigs, he will definitely make pigs grow. Soon – the pigs of the poor family only cook pig grass to eat, and it only takes about 100 catties to raise for a year.
After he raises too many pigs, he will definitely not be able to sell the pork alone, but if he can send it to the garrison, there are 20,000 troops stationed nearby, even if they only eat meat once a month, it is enough Consumed his pigs.
He was a soldier, and he knew that sometimes those garrisoned troops didn’t have money to eat meat, have no meat at all. Although there are many people raising pigs today, most of them only raise one or two pigs, and they will not be willing to raise them until the end of the year. Sell or kill, those soldiers who eat meat don’t say they want to buy dozens of heads, and there is no place to buy them except at the end of the year!
It’s like eating vegetables. They only ate it when they planted it themselves. Unfortunately, the pigs are too dirty and cannot be raised in the military camp.
A day’s drive south of the town by carriage, there is a big city, where the government office is located. Because there are two big rivers intersecting here, it is very rich. The person who started raising pigs has to say that his idea is correct. In the first year, he sold hundreds of pigs and made a huge profit. Even the pig manure that was usually cleaned up was surrounded by people around him. The common people bought it for a few cents in a load – this is the best fertilizer!
The Gao family is getting richer and richer. Although Da Mao is still selling meat in the town, Si Mao went to the academy in the city to study, and even Er Mao married the only son of a hotel owner in the city.
In the blink of an eye, it had been twenty years since Tan Chunjuan had remarried, and it was almost the time of Chinese New Year.
