Li Han’s Little Farmer’s Wife from the Mountains

Chapter 45 The past of the old Zhang family [second

Since she is kind to her, and she can’t take her own life to return to others, she should find a way to help him financially and let him earn some money, which can be regarded as a kind of reward for him!

After making up her mind, she put down her chopsticks and said seriously to Zhang Eryong: “Big Brother Zhang, I have a way to make money, but I can’t do anything with my little energy. It’s a waste to keep that way, so I might as well teach you it. Do it, if you succeed, it will make more money than you hunting, and it will be much safer.”

“What are you talking about?” Zhang Eryong raised his head with a surprised look on his face: “Miss Shen, you didn’t kid me.”

Shen Ruolan coughed and sat down tightly: “Look at me, do you seem to be joking with you?”

Zhang Eryong is a sincere gentleman. Hearing Shen Ruolan’s words, he really stared at her carefully.

The little girl is still skinny, but she is wearing a new light pink padded jacket today. The color and style are very beautiful, so that her face is not as yellow as before, and it looks better than before, especially Those big fluttering eyes, black and white, bright like stars in the sky, they look dazzling, and her nose is very straight and curled, and the shape of her mouth is very beautiful, like petals. The color of the lips is a bit whitish, obviously because of lack of energy and blood. If you put on powder like a girl in the city, it must be much more beautiful.

“Eh? What are you looking at? There is something on my face?”

Seeing him staring at herself, Shen Ruolan thought there was something dirty on her face, so she couldn’t help but touch it.

“No…no.”

Zhang Eryong’s face blushed again, and realizing that he was thinking about it, he couldn’t help but cursed himself in his heart, and quickly turned his head and dared not look at Shen Ruolan again.

Shen Ruolan only understood Zhang Eryong’s blush as his sternness and didn’t care much. She solemnly said to him: “Big Brother Zhang, I’m telling you the truth, I can make spiced peanuts. If you want to learn If you do, I can teach you.”

“Five-spice peanuts? What is that?”

After recovering, Zhang Eryong asked, his face flushed, as if he had drunk too much.

Shen Ruolan explained: “It is to process peanuts into snacks with spiced flavors, like sauced beef and braised duck, after secondary processing!”

After that, I told him carefully about the method of spiced peanuts and the materials needed.

Zhang Eryong listened very carefully, the more he listened, the brighter his eyes, and with an air of admiration, when she finished speaking, Zhang Eryong had made a final decision: “Miss Shen, I will do it, you teach me.”

Shen Ruolan said: “I have all the spices for making spiced peanuts, but I don’t have peanuts. Let’s go to the county town in ten days. I will buy more peanuts when I come back. Can I teach you when I come back?”

“Okay, I will pay for the peanuts and seasonings. If it succeeds in the future, it will be considered a girl Shen.” Zhang Eryong is a deliberate person. He doesn’t want to take advantage of others by teaching him such a good recipe.

Although Shen Ruolan was very moved by his decision, she didn’t even think about his commission at all. She had many ways to make money, but she didn’t want to use his hard money. Besides, she just wanted to help him repay his life-saving. Well, I taught him the recipe for five-spice peanuts, so how could he want that one?

“This, I’ll talk about it later, but you can only know this recipe, and you must not tell others that once it spreads out, the more you can do this business.”

“Well, I know this, don’t worry, Miss Shen.” Zhang Eryong solemnly agreed.

With the spiced peanuts as an introduction, Zhang Eryong was obviously relaxed, his spirit relaxed, and naturally he spoke more. The two chatted and talked about Zhang Eryong’s housework.

This time Zhang Eryong didn’t keep silent anymore, and told her all about her own situation.

It turns out that Zhang Eryong’s father is a famous woodwork in Shili Baxiang. The so-called woodwork is a carpenter who makes exquisite objects for large families. He can carve flowers and is good at engraving. It is not the same as the rough woodwork for door frames and sledges. However, the fine woodwork is all carpenters with exquisite craftsmanship and ingenuity. The customers are rich people and earn much more than the rough woodwork.

Zhang Eryong’s father, Zhangtou, is well-known in Shili Baxiang and even the entire Nong’an County because of his good craftsmanship and the many years he has been doing. Extraordinarily substantial.

Three years ago, Mr. Duan, the richest man in Nong’an County, wanted to marry a daughter. He asked Mr. Zhang to help with the dowry. At that time, he just caught up with Mr. Zhang’s rheumatism and couldn’t make his way. However, Mr. So he asked the housekeeper to bring a cart of rosewood for dowry to Taohua Village, and let the old man sit at home to do it.

Lao Zhang headed Zhang Dayong and Zhang Eryong, and started doing three months in the dark. He was about to finish the work. Unexpectedly, when my old lady was cooking, a spark from the stove popped out and lit the firewood. Then, there was a big fire, which burned the house and the dowry of rosewood.

Those rosewood lumbers were worth two hundred taels of silver, and they were used as a dowry for his daughter. When this happened, Master Duan was furious, thinking that the old Zhang family had passed the bad luck to his daughters. , Sue Lao Zhangtou to the government.

The magistrate had an old friendship with Mr. Duan, so he naturally turned to Mr. Duan, so he immediately ordered the arrest of Lao Zhang and sent him to prison.

Fortunately, Lao Zhangtou knows how to be a man, and he has a personal relationship with those wealthy customers on weekdays. Now when it comes to hiring people, he has to ask his grandpa to tell his grandma to beg for mercy. In the end, the master can’t save face, so he has to agree to let go. I don’t want to pursue it any more, but only when he asked the old Zhang family to pay him three hundred taels of silver did he agree to give up.

The old Zhang’s family had a little wealth before, but after the fire, there was basically nothing left. Where can I find three hundred taels of silver?

In desperation, the family’s ten acres of farmland and the carriage were changed. They moved around and made up one hundred fifty taels, and then borrowed one hundred fifty taels from the bank to make up enough money.

Lao Zhang’s head was released, but when this happened, no one would come to their house for work anymore, because there were many taboos in the big family, and Lao Zhang’s head burned their dowry and spent several days in jail. Everyone thinks that he is unlucky, even if his craftsmanship is good, he can’t take the job anymore.

The whole family, young and old, had to eat and dress, borrow the one hundred and fifty taels of silver from the bank, and pay back the money with profit. The old Zhang had no trouble, so he had to take his two sons into the mountains and become a hunter.