Chapter 161 The Sound of Reading
"Aze, did you catch such a big turtle?" Zhang Huihong was picking bayberries with her daughter and daughter-in-law on the boat, and she killed the big wild rabbit that was given to her.
Just after I skinned the wild rabbit, I saw Zhang Ze coming back with a bamboo basket on his back.
When she looked over, she saw an old turtle in the bamboo basket that seemed bigger than a washbasin. The wild duck and wild duck eggs hanging next to it were ignored by her.
"Yes, this thing may have lived for a hundred years. It is a great tonic. I plan to sell it. There should be a lot of people who need tonic who will want it."
Hearing that it was going to be sold, Zhang Huihong stopped asking questions and looked at the wild duck: "This wild duck is good, but it's too late for lunch. I'll go back early this afternoon and make some duck soup for you."
The morning time always feels especially short. Even though we set out early in the morning and just caught some wild rabbits and found some wild duck eggs, it was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Zhang Huihong went to make lunch, and the others also prepared lunch on their own boats.
"Aze, eat some bayberries, they're very sweet." Tong Shuyao washed a small bowl of bayberries and brought it over, picked up one and stuffed it into his mouth without saying a word.
Zhang Ze subconsciously opened his mouth and took a bite. His whole face immediately wrinkled exactly like Zhang Qinghe's in the morning. Saliva secreted from his mouth very quickly, just like he had eaten a lemon.
His embarrassed look immediately made the three women burst into laughter.
"Okay, you're using bayberry to tease me. Who among you came up with this idea?"
"Shuyao?"
Having been fooled, Zhang Ze immediately chose to retaliate. Seeing his posture, Tong Shuyao immediately wanted to run away and repeatedly stated that it was not her.
He was so scared that he quickly grabbed her and hugged her, then kissed her lips heavily on her red lips after eating bayberries, and said viciously: "Why are you running away? Stay here obediently, you are a pregnant woman, be quiet."
Then he let her go, picked up a bayberry that looked very sour, and went after his two sisters.
Zhang Qian ran a step slower and was caught first. Zhang Ze did not even give her a chance to beg for mercy. He simply pinched her cheeks with his hands and applied a little force. She immediately opened her mouth in pain and the bayberry was stuffed in.
"Eat it, or I'll squeeze these sour bayberries into juice and feed it to you!"
Zhang Qian, who was holding the bayberry in her mouth, was suddenly frightened. She nodded repeatedly and took a bite. She immediately shuddered from the sourness: "Hmm~ so sour (*T_T*)"
When Zhang Ze saw that she had eaten it, he went to find Zhang Qing and caught her from hiding at Zhang's mother's house.
"Wow, sister-in-law, my brother is bullying me!"
Tong Shuyao gave him a helpless look: "I can't do anything about it. Who told you to come up with this bad idea? Now you are reaping the consequences!"
Zhang Ze and Zhang Qing widened their eyes at the same time.
"I was wondering why Shuyao would play a prank. Little sister, it turned out to be you."
"Sister-in-law, I didn't expect you to be such a person!"
After playing, the four people stood on the side of the boat and admired the river view.
"Sister-in-law, your taste really changes after pregnancy. You actually think the bayberry, which tastes so sour to us, is delicious?" Zhang Qing blinked, her face full of curiosity.
Tong Shuyao tilted her head slightly: "I don't know what other people are like, but I just want to eat sour food."
"Pregnancy is amazing. It can actually change a person's taste." Zhang Qian exclaimed.
Zhang Ze gently touched Tong Shuyao's smooth hair and said, "You may want to eat more often when your belly gets bigger. Don't hold it back. Just tell me what you want to eat."
"Hmm~" Feeling the man's thoughtfulness, Tong Shuyao felt sweet in her heart and leaned on him subconsciously.
"Brother, you are so good to my sister-in-law. If I get married in the future, I want to marry a man who is so good to me." There was a hint of envy in Zhang Qing's eyes.
After Tong Shuyao married into the family, she realized what a good man her elder brother was. Unconsciously, Zhang Ze became her ideal man.
Although Zhang Qian remained silent, she actually had the same thought in her mind.
Zhang Ze glanced at his two younger sisters and sighed in his heart.
The reason why he is so family-oriented is that he has experienced an unhappy family life and has learned a lot of lessons as he grows older.
After being reborn, he will naturally cherish his family and become a man who can make money and take care of his family.
If he had not been reborn as a young man, what difference would he have made from those men in the village who worked in the fields and were rude to their wives? Now that he had a new family, Zhang Ze no longer resented the things that happened in his previous life and had let them go.
After a while, Zhang's mother's voice came from the cabin, calling them to eat.
Lunch was simple, a big bowl of fish balls that Zhang's mother had made in the morning.
There was a plate of fried cabbage, a plate of fried radish, and a plate of fried duck eggs. These duck eggs were the wild duck eggs that Zhang Ze had found in the water plants before.
After lunch, they sailed on the Oujiang River for a while in the afternoon. Zhang Ze also taught his sister how to fish. Unfortunately, today was not the right day, and the novice buff was not triggered, so they didn't catch any fish and quickly lost interest.
It was still early when I got home, only three in the afternoon.
However, Zhang's mother was already busy, boiling water and plucking the duck's feathers in preparation for a pot of duck soup.
The old turtle stayed quietly in the bamboo basket. No one in the family liked soft-shelled turtles very much, and it was not suitable for Tong Shuyao to eat it during her early pregnancy. Otherwise, even if Zhang Ze did not kill the old turtle, he would have caught a few smaller ones.
She has to wait until the fetus is stable before she can eat a moderate amount to supplement nutrition.
At that time, their family might have already been in Nanfang. Fortunately, the water system in Nanfang was also well developed, and there were not only soft-shelled turtles but also crocodiles.
He would only go to Nanfang. If he were at the Yangtze River, he would definitely go and bully the "shame among crocodiles", the Yangtze alligator.
Time passed quickly and it was evening. Today, Zhang Wu did not play with his classmates for a while before coming back as he did in the past. Instead, he rushed home immediately after school.
As soon as I got home, I smelled the rich aroma of meat, and there were two kinds of meat aroma.
One tasted like old duck soup, and the other was the spicy aroma of meat. When he saw Zhang Ze busying himself, his eyes lit up and he immediately came over: "Brother, what are you cooking? It smells so good!"
"This is called spicy rabbit meat. I guarantee you'll drool after eating it tonight."
"Rabbit meat? Where did you get the rabbit meat?"
"Of course, it was caught when we went to pick bayberries today. You will never guess how we caught this wild rabbit. Let me tell you." Zhang Qing came over and described vividly some scenes of visiting Bayberry Mountain. Her little mouth was talking in an attractive way, and what she said was quite attractive. Her eloquence was quite good.
Zhang Ze looked at his younger sister in surprise. His younger sister has an extroverted personality and it seems that there is room for improvement in her eloquence. It seems that she would be good at sales.
Zhang Wu's face was filled with longing as he listened, and he wished he could be there today too.
"Brother, let's go again when I have a day off! I also want to catch wild rabbits and wild ducks!"
"Okay, I'll go again when you have a holiday." Zhang Ze nodded and agreed casually.
Seeing that he agreed, Zhang Wu happily went to Zhang Qing again to listen to the "story".
The evening was a sumptuous one, all game; a wild duck didn't actually contain much meat, but there was a lot of soup.
Zhang's mother first made a bowl of meat soup for Tong Shuyao, and then the few of them started eating without any burden.
First drink a bowl of soup, then pick up a piece of duck meat. I have to say, the wild duck tastes really good.
It's just a little thinner, and the meat is firmer. The wild ones are indeed not as fat as the domestic ones.
Although he is a fisherman, it does not prevent him from collecting fish from land, sea and air.
There was nothing to do after dinner, so we all went back home, listened to the radio, and then went to bed.
Holding his delicate and soft wife in his arms, Zhang Ze felt his whole body burning hot. Could it be that wild ducks are too nutritious?
He tried to contact Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, hoping that their cold hearts would melt the heat in him.
But Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan was so unethical that not only did she fail to appease him, but she added fuel to the fire.
Tong Shuyao rolled her eyes charmingly, then turned around and said, "Aze, I recently learned some poems in night school. Can I read them to you?"
"Okay~" Zhang Ze was stunned, but then he didn't want to spoil the fun, so he nodded in agreement.
Soon, the sound of Tong Shuyao reading could be heard in the room.
I know you hate reading, so I'll skip this paragraph. The next morning, there were no roosters crowing in the city, but Zhang Ze's biological clock had already been fixed, so he woke up naturally.
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He slept very soundly that day. Seeing Tong Shuyao sleeping soundly, he got out of bed quietly, picked up his clothes and left the room.
After closing the door and putting on clothes outside, Zhang Ze stretched and felt refreshed.
The sound of reading was very pleasant to his ears last night. Tong Shuyao successfully used the books of sages to make him enter the sage mode.
After eating the breakfast made by Zhang's mother, she rode her bicycle and took the old turtle with her to go out to sea.
When we arrived at the dock, diesel and fresh water in the tank were all ready.
After a while, Zhang Zhenghong and his two brothers came to the dock together. They were obviously a little surprised when they saw Zhang Ze.
Because they owed money, they had been going out to sea frequently recently, so their funds were accumulating quickly. After a while, they would be able to pay off the 3,200 they owed while ensuring their living. They did not slack off or try to default on the money just because Zhang Ze was about to go to Nanfang.
"Aze, you are going out to sea today!" Zhang Zhenghong asked his two younger brothers to arrange for the replenishment of diesel and fresh water, and he came to Zhang Ze.
"It's okay to stay at home, and I'm going to Nanfang in two months and I'm going to spend money everywhere, so I have to save more."
"You have to save more. Wait a few more days and I'll be able to pay you back the money I owe you."
"It's okay, don't worry."
Since Zhang Ze dared to lend the money in the first place, he knew that they would definitely pay it back.
And it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t pay it back. The boat is still in his hands. The purchase price of grouper and other fish has always been cheaper than that of Tong Yuanhang. All of this can be regarded as interest. Overall, he makes more money.
Zhang Zhenghong smiled, chatted for a few more words and then told the purpose of his visit: "Aze, actually I have something I want to ask of you."
"Just tell me if you have something to say. What's the relationship between us?"
"It's like this. I see that your shop has been doing very well. Since you plan to settle down in Nanguan, can you transfer the shop to us?"
These words immediately made Zhang Ze's heart move. He not only had to sell the fishing boat before leaving.
Because the fishing license, including the fishing vessel certificate, has regional restrictions, and the endurance of this fishing boat is too poor, it is okay to use in the East China Sea, but it is not enough to go to the South China Sea.
If you want to go to the South China Sea, how can you not go to those archipelagos whose resources are excellent even in later generations? It is very necessary to change to a large ship.
Selling a fishing boat is one thing, renting a house is another.
The market development in Wenshui City has already started, and the demand for storefronts is increasing day by day, especially for stores like his with good locations.
Recently, many people have come to ask him if he wants to rent the store here, but Zhang Ze rejected them all.
He is going to Nanguan, and he will not rent the store to someone he doesn't know even if it is vacant.
But if they are cousins, then it’s not a big problem.
"Of course it's no problem for me to transfer the store to you, but who are you going to assign to run it?"
"I'm planning to bring my parents and my uncle over here and let them learn from my aunt. After you leave, we'll let them take over. The three of us have discussed this. Life in the countryside is too hard. It's better to live in the city!"
Originally, Zhang Ze would not refuse if his cousin wanted a store. When he heard that he wanted to bring his uncle and aunt over, he did not hesitate and agreed immediately.
"Okay, then find some time to bring your uncle and aunt over, and arrange for your cousin to transfer to another school. Then you can learn how to cook those dishes from us, and you can open a restaurant and live a good life."
"Okay, thank you, Aze." Seeing that he readily agreed, Zhang Zhenghong also showed a happy smile on his face, "Aze, I have an idea of how much your two houses are worth, so that I can prepare the money as soon as possible before you go to Nanfang."
"What house, how much?" Zhang Ze was stunned, and then he didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What are you thinking! I won't sell those two houses, I'll rent them to you."
Zhang Zhenghong had a nice idea and wanted to buy his two stores on the popular street. Even though the housing prices in Wenshui City were far lower than those in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, they were not low either.
These two stores are very valuable in later generations, and even if his two uncles had taken good care of them in the past, he would not sell them.
Moreover, this is the house given by his mother-in-law, and it is also the house where they left many memories in Wenshui City. He will not sell it regardless of whether it appreciates in value in the future.
If the house hadn't been empty and deserted, he wouldn't even consider renting it.
Zhang Zhenghong was stunned. He didn't expect Zhang Ze to refuse so bluntly.
"This is my first home since I came to Wenshui City. My mother-in-law gave it to me. It's really hard to sell it to me."
"Is that so? Never mind. Let's rent it as you said!"
“Well, if you save more money, you can buy more houses in Wenshui City in the future. These houses will be very valuable in the future.”
Zhang Ze finally gave a few words of advice. If Zhang Zhenghong could really take it to heart, he would be able to make a fortune from demolition in the future. Being a landlord, collecting rent and drinking tea, isn't it a good life?
After a preliminary discussion about the house, Zhang Zhenghong stopped fishing and sailed directly to Yuewan County to pick up his family.
"Hey, where are Ahong and the others? They went out to sea so early today?" Zhang Qinghe and Zhang Qinghu arrived the latest. They found that Tong Yuanhang, Zhang Ze and others were there, but they did not see Zhang Zhenghong's boat, so they couldn't help but ask.
When Zhang Ze saw that the two of them were not busy with their own affairs but came to him, he knew that something happened to them.
"Why, do you have something to ask me?"
Zhang Qinghe was stunned: "How do you know we have something to ask you?"
"It's not important. What do you want from me?"
"Look, you're going to Nanguan to sell this ship, right? Why don't you sell it to us?"
Zhang Qinghe handed him the black bag in his hand. Zhang Ze opened it and found that it was full of brand new ten-yuan bills.
"Here are two thousand five hundred. Please count them. I will pay you back first. When you are ready to go to Nanfang, I will use the money to buy your boat."
(End of this chapter)
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