Chapter 288 Chapter 289: Biased

After they left, Zhou's mother said angrily, "Old man, we have already made enemies with the Xiong family. You shouldn't have called Secretary Xu and the others. You should have sent him directly to the police station."

"We know some things by heart. We should leave a way out for each other. We are all members of the same team. It's not good to let the grudges deepen!" Father Zhou said, rubbing his chest. "Could that son of a bitch, Xiong Laoer, have damaged my heart and lungs?"

"You can still breathe even though your heart and lungs are damaged!" The old man stepped forward and pressed his chest tentatively, "Let me see if you have broken any bones?"

Father Zhou hunched over in pain, "No, it hurts so much that I can't breathe."

The old man couldn't figure it out either. Everyone looked at him worriedly and said, "Let's go check it out with the third brother tomorrow morning."

Li Qiuyue said: "Old man, you should ask them to pay more."

Father Zhou waved his hands and said, "Forget it. That kind of money won't do any good." He felt that getting the bezoar was already the biggest compensation, and one should not be too greedy.

The old man looked at his watch and said, "Okay, it's almost one o'clock. We have to get up early to work tomorrow. Dasongni and Guilan, you two should go back and rest."

"Old man, are you keeping watch here?"

"Well!" The old man waved his hand. "Second and third sons, you all go back. You have to get up early tomorrow to work in the kiln." After he said that, he walked towards the straw shed.

Zhou's father and his companions had no choice but to put out the fire and go home to rest.

Over there, Xiong Dahai also arrived home. Seeing Zhou Sufang still guarding Xiong Laoer and asking about his well-being, he was furious, "What are you doing with this brainless thing?"

Zhou Sufang bared her teeth and claws like an old hen protecting her cubs, "You are so capable, you asked him to apologize after his son was beaten like this!"

"What did I tell you? Don't cause trouble. Wait until the youngest one becomes the secretary. But... Oh! I'm too lazy to talk to you." Xiong Dahai got angrier and angrier as he pointed at Xiong Laoer. "Go back to your own home and stop getting in my way."

The youngest Xiong stepped forward and advised: "Old man, if something happens, it will happen. Don't blame the second brother."

"I want you to be a good person!" Xiong Laoer said, looking at Xiong Dahai with dissatisfaction through his swollen eyes. "You are quite good at scolding us, but why didn't you dare to ask the Zhou family to go find Ma Changgui just now?"

Zhou Sufang agreed, "That's right, it's all Ma's fault. If he hadn't told my sister-in-law about the bezoar, we wouldn't be like this."

Xiong Dahai looked at the mother and son helplessly, "They just said in front of my eldest sister that they bought a cow similar to the one we have with their cattle dealer, and after slaughtering it, they got a piece of bezoar and sold it for several thousand yuan."

"I never said that the cows bought by the Zhou family contained bezoars. Use your brain full of tofu dregs to think about it. Why did I raise brainless things like you?"

Xiong Laoer retorted, "Do you have a brain? Why did Ma Changgui go to Auntie's house and say this? It's obvious that he wanted to buy the dead cow but failed to do so, so he deliberately provoked us to cause trouble for the Zhou family. We were used as a gun by him, and you still defend him."

"Idiot, idiot, no wonder you got beaten up!" After cursing, Xiong Dahai went straight back to the house, took out his pipe, filled it with a leaf cigarette, and started smoking "ba ba ba".

"You're the one who gave birth to this idiot! Do you think I don't know that we are not as good as the youngest in this family? You're so biased towards him." After saying this, the second bear glared at the youngest bear, then walked out of the yard and went towards his own home.

The youngest bear frowned as he watched him walk out of the yard, thought for a moment, and then walked into the house.

…

The next morning, Zhou Huaishan went into the city to deliver vegetables, and his father went with him to Ning'an to see Dr. Wang for treatment of his increasingly painful chest.

After the examination, Doctor Wang said that he had been hit by Xiong Laoer and had gotten a stitch in the side, and that he would be fine after two injections.

Sure enough, not long after a few injections, Zhou's father felt the pain in his chest gone, and in the end he didn't even need to take any medicine.

When the father and son were passing by the brigade on their way home, someone stopped them and asked them. Xiong Laoer was caught on the spot when he ran to Zhou's house to steal cement. Xiong Dahai apologized in front of the brigade cadres and said that the matter of Zhou's family having bezoar was caused by someone spreading rumors.

Only then did the father and son realize that what happened last night had spread throughout the Funiu Brigade.

"It's only the middle of the morning. Could it be that your mom and the others told someone about it?"

"Qiuyue and sister-in-law went to the river to sift sand early in the morning. Mom had to feed the pigs and do housework. She also had to go to the construction site to help boil water and do odd jobs. She was so busy that she didn't have time to spare."

Zhou Huaishan paused and said, "Even if that's what they said, it doesn't mean they wronged the Xiong family. Old man, I think we were too honest in the past, that's why our family always suffered losses."

"After following the youngest for a few months, you've become quite good at talking!" Zhou's father looked at him with a sullen face and said, "Old Xiong is cunning. Look at how his family is doing now."

Zhou Huaishan smiled and said, "Old man, the old Xiong family is not cunning, but shameless, okay? I don't blame you, but I think sometimes what the youngest says makes sense.

It's okay for our family to suffer a little! But for people like Lao Xiong, we should give an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If we don't beat him up, he will definitely bully us again in the future."

After hearing what Zhou's father said, he thought of past events and felt that what he said made sense, but he still couldn't bring himself to admit that he was wrong.

"I'll separate you out once the new house is built. You can do whatever you want with it in the future. I won't care about you anymore." After saying that, he left Zhou Huaishan and went to the construction site.

Zhou Huaishan looked at him, shook his head, and pushed his bicycle back.

…

In the forest farm, Zhou Yiding, who had come down the mountain to see Wan Xuejiao off home, arrived at noon. As soon as he saw Zhou Huaian, he told him what had happened down the mountain.

"Fuck..." After hearing what Zhou Huaian brought back, he was so angry that he cursed Ma Changgui and Xiong Dahai's ancestors for eight generations.

Zhou Yiding waited for him to finish greeting her, then said, "Second Mother told you to bring the dog back with you when you go down the mountain to help look after the construction site."

After hearing this, Yang Chunyan looked at Zhou Huaian and said, "We have collected enough herbs in the past two days. Let's go back this afternoon!"

"Yes, after dinner we will pack up and go down the mountain."

"I'll go make some cold salad."

"Sister-in-law!" Zhou Yiding called her, "I have already told my husband about the two agarwoods. He said he would get back to you when he gets back."

Yang Chunyan nodded. "Then have you told him to stockpile more agarwood?"

"Yes, he said to collect all the cut branches in the future."

"Okay, go wash your face and come to eat."

"Yes." Zhou Yiding turned and left the kitchen.

Zhou Huaian hurriedly said, "Ding Ding Cat, go to the cave and get the honey. I'll bring it down the mountain to sell."

"oh!"

Yang Chunyan scooped two spoonfuls of cooked chili oil into the chopped watercress, added some fermented black beans, sugar, soy sauce and vinegar, mixed it and served it on the table.

Suddenly I remembered that Laoya Xiong seemed to have been elected as the brigade secretary in that year.

Things were fine during the first few years when that bastard just became the brigade secretary, but later he treated Funius Village as his Xiong family's private property, and he and his brothers acted like tyrants in the village.

Although in the previous life, their family had a grudge with the Xiong family over the plague cattle issue, the Xiong family felt that they had won, and the two families basically kept to themselves. Now that things have gotten to this point, when the youngest Xiong is elected as the brigade secretary, the Zhou family will most likely be strangled by the Xiong family.

"Huaian, have you ever heard the old man mention whether our village should re-elect the brigade secretary?"

(End of this chapter)