"I only hit her twice, but I didn't know she ran away quietly in the middle of the night!" Zhou Huaishan said, squatting on the ground with his head in his hands.

Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law hurried forward to comfort Zhou's mother who was crying.

She watched her family perform and thought back to the time when she cut the bezoar. She felt that everyone in her family had a talent for acting. Once they had a cell phone, the family would rehearse and shoot a short video and upload it. It is guaranteed to be a hit!

He Hongxiu turned to the middle-aged man and said, "Comrade Wu, come in and take a look?" She had just heard that the new director of the Family Planning Office was different from the previous one.

She thinks this year's director of the Family Planning Office is good!

…

Comrade Wu waved his hand and said, "No need!" What's there to see? The informant didn't see the pregnant Li Qiuyue with his own eyes. If this man really beat his wife away for 200 yuan, and you dare to rob his house, he will definitely fight you to the death!

The other people looked at him, and an older female comrade said to Zhou Huaishan: "We received a report and came here to investigate. We hope you can find your lover as soon as possible."

Zhou Huaishan looked up at her with red eyes, "Comrade cadre, I have gone to my mother-in-law's house and my sister-in-law's house, but I still can't find her. I really have no other choice, how about you help me look for her?"

“……” Several people in the town looked at him, not knowing what to say.

Comrade Wu said to He Hongxiu, "You stay and do their work well. Don't be resistant to our work."

He Hongxiu readily agreed, "Sure, I'll talk to them about it."

When Yang Chunyan and others saw He Hongxiu sending those people away and asked Zhou Huaian to pick up his load and prepare to go home, He Hongxiu came back again.

Zhou's mother and others welcomed her into the house, and Zhao Huifang hurriedly brought her a chair. "Aunt, why didn't you drive a tractor to pull the things this time?"

"Alas!" He Hongxiu sighed, "Last year, I wanted to earn some performance, but I hit a wall..."

Yang Chunyan's eyes lit up after hearing this, "Comrade Wu, did he just take office?"

"Yeah!" He Hongxiu lowered her voice and said with a smile, "After hearing this, I think your family is lucky. Now you don't have to worry about not being able to pay the fine!"

Zhou Huaishan stood up happily, rubbing his hands and turning around in circles. All his mental stress disappeared at once.

Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's right, we should be like Director Wu."

He Xiulan said with a smile: "Yes! I think this is a good idea, so we can get on with our work!"

After hearing this, Zhou's mother and the others laughed happily, "Xiu Lan, how much will the fine be for the third family?" They felt that after He Xiu Lan became the director of the Women's Department, she started to speak differently.

He Hongxiu thought for a moment, "I heard from Sister Liu from Guanyin Brigade that, for example, if the higher-ups asked for 500 yuan, she would tell the person being fined 800 yuan, and if everyone pleaded for her and gave her a little less, she would receive the 500 yuan she was assigned by the higher-ups."

Sister Liu also said that the advantage of doing this is that you don’t offend anyone, you don’t get cursed, and you can also meet the fines assigned by the higher-ups. They also get benefits.

Those who wanted to have sons have achieved their goal. Those who really cannot have one will naturally give up the idea when they can no longer have more children until they can no longer support them.

Yang Chunyan thought it was a good idea. She would wait until Jiuer was two or three years old and have another child while Wu was still in office. Not to mention three or four, two children was the minimum.

Zhou's mother said gratefully: "Don't worry, Hongxiu, we will pay whatever is due when the time comes, and we won't make it difficult for you."

"Don't worry, sister-in-law. I will help you to intercede no matter how much the higher-ups say." He Hongxiu thought about it and reminded, "Someone is watching your family, so it's better not to make it public. Just do as the Guanyin Brigade did and hide the birth and pay the fine."

Mother Zhou nodded repeatedly, "Yes, we know what's going on!"

"Then I'll go back first. I have a lot of things to do at home." He Hongxiu said as she got up and walked out.

After sending her out, Zhou's mother came back and said to Zhou Huaishan, "If this is the case, take some time to bring Qiuyue back so that she won't be alone outside, lonely and without anyone to talk to."

Zhou Huaishan nodded happily, "I can't pick her up in broad daylight. If there is still no movement after another day, I will drive the tractor to Ning'an to pick her up in the afternoon."

He felt that what happened today was an unexpected surprise.

The next night, the tractor drove directly into Zhou Huaishan's house.

"Mom, I'm back." Li Qiuyue shouted gratefully when she saw Zhou's mother waiting in the yard.

Mother Zhou nodded and helped her down. "It's good that you're back. Stay at home and don't run around!"

"Yes! I know."

"Mom!" Zhou Xiaoru shouted happily when she saw Li Qiuyue getting off the tractor.

Li Qiuyue happily touched her head and then her face, "You've grown taller and gained weight."

Zhou Xiaoru pulled her mother and said, "Grandma's cooking is delicious!"

Zhou Xiaolin looked at Li Qiuyue with her bulging belly and didn't react for a long time.

Until she reached out her hand to her, "Yaoyao, mommy is back, don't you recognize mommy?"

Zhou Xiaolin then held her hand and reached out to touch her belly, "Mom, you are just like Aunt Yao before, with a big belly. Is there a little brother inside?"

Li Qiuyue sniffed, "Do you like your brother?"

Zhou Xiaolin nodded, "Yes, my aunt's little brother likes to chew on his own stinky feet the most."

"My little brother is already biting his own stinky feet?" Li Qiuyue held her daughter's hand and felt that the two children were growing up better than when she was at home.

…

After Li Qiuyue's problem was solved, the Zhou family felt that the sky above their heads became a lot bluer.

After Yang Chunyan, Zhou's mother and the old man collected the seeds of the mature Viola yedoensis, Plantain and Rhizoma Cyperi in the medicinal field, they handed the child to Zhou's mother early in the morning and went up the mountain to look for medicinal herbs.

I didn't find any herbs near the village. I only dug some Rhizoma Coptidis, Viola yedoensis, and Snow Primrose after crossing a ridge. When I got to the place where I had dug Chuanxiong before, I filled most of my backpack with herbs.

"Yan'er, last year's young chuanxiong have all grown up. Do you want to dig them?"

"Dig!" Yang Chunyan started digging by pulling away the weeds.

The couple worked for a while and dug up several pounds of Chuanxiong, this time even collecting the stems.

Yang Chunyan took out the kettle and drank a sip of water, then said to Zhou Huaian, "Look, the red-rooted wild broad beans over there have also grown."

Zhou Huaian went over and picked at the seeds for a few breaths. "Wild herbs are just wild herbs. They grow in large quantities even if no one cares about them. But they don't grow as well as the seeds we sow at home."

Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "We grow them at home. Grandpa weeds and fertilizes them from time to time. How can they not be good?"

"That's true. It's just like people. If they have salt and oil to eat, they will have strength." Zhou Huaian picked up the backpack and put it on her back, and the two continued to walk down.

After walking down a section, they arrived at the big banyan tree. Zhou Huaian pointed at the large banyan fruits growing closely together on the tree and said, "Yan'er, do you want to eat some?"

Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Pick some ripe ones and take them with you. If there aren't many left when you come back, pick more and bring them back to eat."

Since we built a wine cellar, we can bring back the fruits we find in the mountains and eat them for two more days.

Zhou Huaian stepped on the protruding knot of the big banyan tree, picked a handful and handed it to her, "There is a dead tree in front, let's go and see if there are any fungus or ganoderma growing on it?"

Yang Chunyan stood on tiptoe to take a look. "Ganoderma lucidum grows only on maple trees. I remember that was a dead green loquat tree. I'll go over and see if there's any wood ear mushrooms."

Zhou Huaian broke open a large banyan fruit and sucked out the flesh inside. "The black fungus is also good. I brought it to Boss Zheng last time and he said that the black fungus here is delicious."

Yang Chunyan smiled and glanced at him, "Silly boy, that's just a polite remark. Fungus from the north is better. You have so much money, what do you want to eat?"

"I'm a fool, and you're the fool's wife!" Zhou Huaian jumped down with a smile, "There are more than a dozen, enough to eat."

"Um!"

Yang Chunyan walked inside with the basket. It was not raining, but the forest was very hot and stuffy. The Selaginella on the rocks looked as if they were scorched.

The two men picked some Selaginella and saw a lot of Drynaria growing on a big tree next to them. Zhou Huaian tied the medicine hoe to a bamboo pole, reached up and hooked down a large bunch.

Yang Chunyan looked at the spores on the leaves and said, "Don't break them apart. Take them back and plant them in a big hole."

After hearing this, Zhou Huaian put it in the backpack and said, "If you throw it down there, it will be alive."

"That's true!" When the two of them walked to the dead tree, Zhou Huaian saw that it was indeed covered with brown wild fungus. "Ba Shi, if we pick this one, we can't finish it in one meal."

Yang Chunyan put down her backpack, squatted in front of the tree trunk, grabbed the thick fungus and broke off one, and found that there were many underneath. "Why doesn't it rain? After the rain, the fungi will come out."

It's already June, and it's time to pick mushrooms. Everyone is looking forward to a moderate rain so that colorful elves can sprout under the pine needles in the woods.

They have already completed the preparations, and the business of collecting red mushrooms has officially begun.

Zhou Huaian put the picked fungus into the net bag and looked at the shriveled tree flowers on the tree trunk next to him. "People in Baicaoping still like to eat tree flowers. When there was no food in the past, we often ate them at home."

Yang Chunyan turned her head and took a look. "The tree flower is also a good thing. It is also a kind of herb called..." She thought for a while, "It is called Shengguyousu. I heard that it has the effect of relieving dry cough and nourishing the liver and kidneys." (End of this chapter)