Chapter 32 Bad Luck (Update)
Jiang Youcheng was so busy that he hit his head with his feet.
Jiang Mixia, Song Jingyun and Liu were also busy cooking, making tea, serving water, and buying some miscellaneous things.
If there was any lifting or heavy work that needed to be done, Jiang Mixia would volunteer.
In addition, because the tea garden wanted a batch of bamboo mats, at night, the family had to weave mats with bamboo strips under the bright summer moonlight.
Jiang Youcheng had to do a lot of hard work during the day, running around to arrange things, and was still so busy at night. He was really exhausted, but he was afraid that the order for the mats could not be delivered on time, so he forced himself to stay awake and hold on.
Fortunately, Song Jingyun’s skills are pretty good now and he can take on most of the work, so Jiang Youcheng can also have an easier time.
Half a month passed in a flash, and because of the busyness, almost all the family members lost weight, but fortunately nothing was delayed.
The bamboo mats from the tea garden were delivered on time, and the house at home was almost ready.
The inner walls have been cleaned up, the doors and windows have been installed, and even the perimeter wall only needs some finishing work.
All that was left was to dry out the house, buy some valuables, move new furniture in, completely tear down the old house, clean out the pigpen and chicken coop, and the job would be done.
These are all small matters that are not urgent. You can take your time with them at home and inform the villagers who will come to help that they don't have to worry about any more from tomorrow onwards.
In order to thank the villagers who had helped his family during these days, Jiang Youcheng went to the town and bought a lot of pork. He divided it into almost equal portions and delivered the meat door to door.
Thank you to everyone for being willing to go to our homes and help build houses despite the hot summer weather.
Whenever there is a wedding or funeral in the village, or when building a house, other families in the village will lend a hand. The host family only needs to provide food and tea, and then visit each family to express their gratitude afterwards.
If the family is short of money, the food and tea will be a little coarse, and when people go to the door to express their gratitude, they will only pick up the white flour buns that can be presented. If the family is well-off, the food will be oily, and the thank-you gift will also include meat.
Jiang Youcheng obviously belongs to the latter, and the amount of meat given is not small.
Meat is not something you can eat every day, so those who got the meat had smiles on their faces and were filled with emotion.
I feel impressed by Jiang Youcheng’s generosity.
I feel that Jiang Youcheng's family has completely turned around and is living a good life.
I am even more impressed that Jiang Youcheng is an honest person and works hard.
After all, building a house in such hot weather is almost too hot to bear, and it is much more unbearable than in spring and autumn. Jiang Youcheng did not hesitate to give thank-you gifts like others, but gave more. It can be seen that Jiang Youcheng knows the efforts made by everyone and he is thinking about them in his heart.
Others sighed, while some people were red-eyed.
Zhang held the piece of pork in her hand with disdain, muttering, "Look at this third house, they are really capable, even sending pork as a thank you gift, and it's pork at that, a piece must weigh half a pound!"
"If we go to the town to buy meat, this piece of meat will cost at least 20 coins. There are more than 10 families who went to his house to help. So he spent about 300 coins in one go."
"Three strings of money, if you buy white flour and rice with this, it will be enough to eat for a long time. You just give it away as soon as you say it. You really have a lot of money to burn!"
"Since your family is so rich, you don't even care about the hard life your brother's family is going through. Instead, you just try to curry favor with outsiders. I really don't know what's going on in your head!"
The more Zhang spoke, the angrier she became. She looked at the piece of meat in her hand with displeasure and wanted to throw it back to the third wife's house. But when she thought that this was after all earned by Jiang Youcai's help for a few days out of face, and it was a gift of meat, she couldn't bear to give it away, so she swallowed the rest of her words.
He simply smeared salt on the piece of meat, hung it by the side of a water jar, and chilled it with the vapor, hoping to eat it in small meals over two days.
Jiang Youcai listened to Zhang's chatter, and his brows were furrowed. "Where did the third family get so much money to build such a big new house?"
"But I remember that after sending the betrothal gifts to the Song family and holding the wedding for Xia girl, we hired doctors several times because the wedding tent collapsed. The family was broke and had no money for daily expenses. It was the eldest wife who sent a bunch of money. How long has it been since we got money?"
Those brick and tile houses, plus the courtyard walls, would cost a lot of money.
Jiang Youcai made a rough estimate and concluded that it would cost at least ten taels of silver.
Even if his family cleaned up now, they couldn't come up with five taels of silver, so how could the third room have so much money? Jiang Youcai couldn't understand it.
Zhang curled her lips, "Didn't they say that the third brother was lucky enough to get involved with the manager of a tea garden in the west? The bamboo baskets, bamboo baskets, bamboo mats, bamboo hats and so on used in the tea garden were all made by the third brother. With such a large tea garden and so many things, wouldn't he make money?"
That's true.
Jiang Youcai nodded, but his face was full of indignation, "This third brother used to weave rattan baskets, but suddenly he changed his profession to weaving bamboo baskets. He met such a great benefactor after changing his profession. He is really lucky!"
As the two were talking, Jiang Chunhe came home, looking unhappy.
"What's wrong with Chunhe? Why does he look so bad?" Zhang felt sorry for her eldest son and hurried over to him. "Did you get injured while hunting in the mountains?"
"No, not really." Jiang Chunhe said impatiently, "I've been wandering around since this morning, and I haven't seen a single living thing. I'm really angry."
"On my way back, I didn't know whose wicked dog had defecated on the road, but I accidentally stepped on some dog poop. It was really bad luck!"
"I just think it's nothing. If you don't hunt, then you don't hunt. How can you hunt every day when you go into the mountains? It's okay if your shoes are dirty. Let Wu wash them for you. You are out all day long. It's not easy to have smooth sailing. Don't take it too seriously."
Jiang Chunhe went into the mountains all day long, risking his life with wild beasts. Zhang didn't want to be unlucky and was also afraid that Jiang Chunhe would say something discouraging, so she quickly called Wu to take care of it.
Jiang Youcai frowned, "I remember that Chunhe didn't seem to have caught anything during these days?"
Jiang Chunhe nodded with an increasingly unsightly expression.
Indeed, he hadn't hunted anything these days.
I go into the mountains every day, but always come back empty-handed.
The rabbits and pheasants that we used to hunt frequently, now we can hardly see any hair. "It's summer, I guess those animals are very smart and won't come out easily. I guess everyone is the same..."
Zhang comforted her again.
Jiang Youcai pulled the corner of his mouth, "But yesterday I saw the hunters from the Sun family carrying big baskets of things to sell game in the restaurant in town. They said they hunted them in the mountains. The baskets were full of things. How come they can hunt so many things, but Chunhe can't hunt anything?"
Jiang Chunhe's face turned red when he heard Jiang Youcai's words.
He didn't know why either.
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