Chapter 162.1 - Captured Japanese invaders
Since many big families consolidated a lot of lands, many farmers had to find another way out, but south of Yangze river was still very prosperous, and Wexing Provine was becoming more and more prosperous.
Because many people began to do business and even went out to sea.
To a certain extent, sea trade has given many people a way to live.
Today, Jiang Zhen together with Zhao Jinge and his two children was eating breakfast in a teahouse.
The refreshments on this side of Wexing Provine were very rich, so Jiang Zhen ordered a little bit of everything.
Among them were fried buns, small dumplings, tea cakes, muffins, and tea eggs.
Jiang Zhen liked to eat the crispy skin of the fried buns the most, but his son and daughter were the opposite.
Zhao Mingzhu was changing her teeth and just recently lost her front teeth so she could not bite the fried bun with pork so she swore she wouldn’t eat it.
Since she didn’t want to eat it, Zhao Chengyu, who liked to do everything just like his sister also didn’t want to eat it.
So, they were eating only small dumplings at this moment.
“Father! Yesterday, Uncle He little An tried to bully me so I beat him up!” hao Mingzhu said happily when she was halfway through the meal.
The little An of uncle He, she was talking about was He Chunsheng’s son, a boy year younger than her, but much taller than her.
“Little An bullied you? Doesn’t he like you the most? How could he bully you?” Zhao Jinge looked at his daughter in disbelief.
“He made fun of my teeth! He said I look like an old lady!” Zhao Mingzhu said with an angry expression.
His own daughter’s toothless appearance was a bit like an old lady … Zhao Jinge thought like this but didn’t dare to say it.
If he said it his daughter would be angry.
As he was thinking this, Zhao Jinge heard Zhao Mingzhu talking about other playmates, but when she mentioned her playmates, she said nothing more than who disobeyed and was beaten by her, and who recognized her as the boss.
Zhao Jinge: “…”
He was very concerned about his daughter, knowing that his daughter was also wrestling with people but never went too far or hurt other people. Also, when she encountered weaker girl and even boys she would not hit them but protect them instead.
But even so, he still felt it was strange.
Zhao Mingzhu was his daughter, not his son.
A girl collected a bunch of henchmen …… was this really alright?
Zhao Jinge was a little worried, but Jiang Zhen felt that this was not a problem at all. At this moment, he was even praising his daughter: “My Mingzhu is the most powerful!”
Zhao Mingzhu was very proud.
Zhao Jinge sighed secretly and decided to leave this matter alone.
Since his daughter was crooked, let’s raise her crooked… It didn’t matter if she couldn’t get married, he could afford to support her.
Although two of them were children, they all ate very well so after a while they eat almost everything at the table.
It was also at this time that the storyteller came.
“What I want to tell you today about is the King of Ryukyu, who was carried into prison on a sedan chair….” As soon as storyteller said this prologue, the diners present cheered one after another.
During this time, the most famous figure at the south of Yangze river was King of Ryukyu Cheng Yongzhen.
As for Cheng Yongzhen, some people lamented over him, some sympathized or even despite him. But no matter, everyone paid attention to this person and ware willing to listen to gossip about him.
“Let’s go.” At this moment, Jiang Zhen stood up.
In order to satisfy the guests, the storyteller would always make up some nonsense when he told the story, or even add some fragrant things which Jiang Zhen did not want to hear.
He was actually never in contact with Cheng Yongzhen and Cheng Yongzhen has probably never heard of him since he was just a small sea merchant who has just emerged in recent years.
But even so, Cheng Yongzhen matter, still saddened him.
He had always felt that he was too weak and wanted to be strong so that he could have a say. But now that he really become stronger, he found out that he still did not have much of say.
Of course, this was also because he was still not strong enough.
Jiang Zhen took Zhao Jinge downstairs to meet some acquaintances.
“Escort agency boss Jiang, master Zhao!” Those few people, were merchants who had worked with Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge so in the moment they saw Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge they came up to greet them.
“Shopkeeper Liu, shopkeeper Wang.” Jiang Zhen greeted them.
Several people exchanged a few pleasantries, while Jiang Zhen soon bid his goodbye.
Those people sighed as they watched Jiang Zhen leave.
“This Jiang Zhen is really powerful!”
“Yes, he is obviously born from a farming family but he had the ability to earn so much money for his family.” Another person said.
“Also Zhao Jinge who was next to him… I heard he used to be a long-term worker who didn’t even know how to write a single word. No one would expect that he is supporting Jinzhen escort agency now…”
The group of people said one thing after another, speaking with emotion about Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge while the two of them had already went home.
Over the past three years, Zhao Liu and Zhao Fugui have not grown much older, the two of them looked every part like rich people spending their every day happily they even looked a little younger.
When Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge just got together, they have actually been very worried, worried about when Jiang Zhen would abandon Zhao Jinge but now… Jiang Zhen was as close as their blood-related family so they didn’t worry about this anymore.
They don’t even worry that Jiang Zhen would take a concubine.
They all could see how good Jiang Zhen was to Zhao Jinge, so he would never hurt their son.
Looking at Jiang Zhen and Zhao Jinge who had long since passed their prime, they couldn’t help but feel a lot of emotions.
How could they be so lucky to meet Jiang Zhen?
“Mom, dad we are going to the seaside tomorrow.” After eating, Jiang Zhen said to Zhao Fugui and his wife.
“Is your fleet back?” Zhao Fugui asked: Jiang Zhen often spends a long periods of time at the seaside. Often spending half a year at the seaside, but this time he come back just after a few days. But he wanted to go back just after few days of leaving so it most probably because something was going on there.
“It’s not that the fleet is back, but that there are pirates over there.” Jiang Zhen said.
It has been two months since Cheng Yongzhen was arrested, so Cheng Yongzhen’s men were now in complete chaos.