Chapter 71 The Consequences of Leaving Huaxi Village
Along the way, several people from the sideline group took turns walking at the back of the car and pushing things.
The sun was not very strong today, but it was bright enough to make the group of people who woke up at around three in the morning feel drowsy.
When they arrived at the entrance of the village, the ox cart drove towards Yu's house. Yu Zhile asked everyone to go back and rest first, and put the stove and other utensils in the yard. They would hold a meeting in the evening to summarize and arrange the work for the next week.
After everyone left, Yu Zhile felt so exhausted that he fell asleep as soon as he hit the bed.
When Zhang Wenxin returned home, there was a pot of cold water on the table in the main room. She drank it in one breath and went back to her room to rest.
Today, the main beam of my aunt’s new house was being put up, so all the family members except her went to Xishan Village and will not be back until tomorrow.
Ge Tai lost both his parents when he was young and lived alone. He would fall asleep as soon as he got home.
But the three sisters of the Zhang family were not so lucky. As soon as they entered the house, they were stopped in the yard by Aunt Huang.
Aunt Huang looked at the three people who returned empty-handed, glared at them and said, "Didn't I tell you to bring some rice noodles back for Yaozong? Where's the rice noodles? Don't you know your brother must be very hungry after going to the market?"
"Didn't you buy him fried dough sticks?" Zhang Haimei's eyelids were so heavy that she could hardly open them. She said unhappily, "There are so many people who can't eat them. Why should I bring them back for him for free?"
"You, you really learned bad things from Yu Zhile. How dare you talk to me like that?" Aunt Huang was so angry that she grabbed her hair.
The intense pain woke Zhang Haimei up instantly and she shook her hand off.
Aunt Huang staggered back two steps, sat down on the ground, and screamed like a pig being slaughtered.
Old man Zhang and Zhang Yaozong, who were sleeping soundly in the room, put on their coats hastily and walked out cursing.
"Daniu, Yaozong, this damn girl hit me. My waist hurts so much. Beat her to death." Aunt Huang covered her waist and shouted. It looked like she had sprained her waist.
Zhang's father and son glanced at her coldly.
"It's so noisy." Zhang Yaozong said impatiently, turned back to the house and slammed the door.
Old man Zhang said irritably, "Zhao Di, help your mother into the house."
"Don't think you can just help me up. This matter is not so easy to resolve." Aunt Huang pointed at Zhang Haimei, "You, you have to get our family back to the sideline group, otherwise I will not let you go easily."
Hearing this, Zhang Haimei sneered. It turned out that he was waiting for her here.
"Zhao Di, listen to your mother and ask the branch secretary to move our family back to the sideline business group." Old man Zhang said in a rough voice.
He didn't go to the market, so he didn't know that the sideline business was booming, but he knew his wife and started to cooperate without saying a word.
Zhang Haimei said coldly: "I just help to serve the dishes, I don't have the ability to do this."
After hearing this, Old Man Zhang got angry.
Although Aunt Huang is the main person in charge of the family, it does not mean that he can accept being humiliated by his daughter.
"Do you want to pull it?" His nostrils flared and his cloudy eyes stared at Zhang Haimei.
Zhang Haimei looked him straight in the eye without fear and said word by word: "I. Can't. Do. It."
The next second, Old Man Zhang swung his big palm towards her.
"No, you can't hit my sister." Zhang Hailan suddenly pushed him from the side.
At the same time, Zhang Haizhu opened his arms and stood in front of Zhang Haimei.
Seeing this, Aunt Huang immediately got up from the ground, pointed at the three sisters' noses and cursed: "Get out, get out of here!"
Shouting, she grabbed a wooden stick from the wall and waved it around, driving the three men out of the house.
"Let's go to the threshing ground to sleep." Zhang Haimei took a deep breath and walked to the threshing ground with her two sisters.
There are two small warehouses next to the threshing ground, with two straw mats hanging under the eaves, which are prepared for the people who guard the grain during the autumn harvest.
The three sisters spread out mats and lay down on them. Zhang Hailan and Zhang Haizhu soon fell into a deep sleep.
Zhang Haimei thought of Aunt Huang's vicious eyes, and was worried. She fell asleep in a daze and suddenly woke up.
After this happened several times, she lost the desire to sleep and fanned her two younger sisters with a palm-leaf fan.
At around five in the afternoon, the sun completely disappeared into the clouds.
The factories in the town were off work, and many people were walking together to the market.
Unlike others, they did not order delivery for the next big market directly, but planned to try it today and then place an order on the spot if they liked it.
Most stalls are only open during the morning and afternoon hours. The gathering place is half empty in the evening, during which time the roads become wider.
By then, Brother Tao had already loaded the remaining pottery into the car and was waving his braid, ready to leave.
"Comrade, has the pickled pepper stall closed down?" someone asked.
Brother Tao replied: "Oh, yes, we sold out at noon and closed the stall."
With disappointment on their faces, Brother Tao drove the ox cart away from the market.
Soon, several more waves of people came and ran to the side to ask Xu Yu.
Although those who failed to get their chance felt a little regretful, they actually became more interested in pickled pepper powder.
Xu Yu casually threw the small straw animals and other things into the basket, looking at the backs of those people, with a gleam of light in his eyes.
In the Yu family’s courtyard, six people from the sideline group sat around a long table, and Yu Haiguang was busy in the kitchen.
"Today we sold 60 servings of seafood rice noodles and 70 servings of pickled pepper powder." After a nap, Yu Zhile made a simple statistics.
Zhang Wenxin was half asleep, but his brain started to calculate automatically, and he said stupidly, "That means we made at least thirty-nine yuan."
When this number came out, Ge Tai and the three sisters of the Zhang family held their breath.
"Yes, all customers do not order any side dishes." Yu Zhile responded.
Then, she opened the cash box, poured all the change onto the table, and asked everyone to bundle the banknotes of the same denomination into a bundle. Zhang Wenxin did the final coordination work.
"Fifty, sixty, seventy, seventy-one..."
"Seventy-six." Zhang Wenxin counted carefully and finally gave a clear number.
At that time, her mind was completely clear, and she murmured: "There will be 62 deliveries at the next market, and we collected a total of 25, which means we made 51 this time. After deducting the initial investment and the money for oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, rice noodles, we made--"
"Twenty-six!" she said loudly.
At the same time, Yu Zhile stopped writing and affirmed her result.
"Wow, awesome! You guys are awesome." Chen Zhao was the first person to react and applauded.
Zhang Wenxin's eyes were filled with tears, and her brain was still calculating the total annual income. She did not disappoint everyone's expectations.
The others were visibly excited, except Zhang Haimei, who smiled and then lowered her head.
"Okay, I'll give a work summary." Yu Zhile noticed the change in her expression and brought the meeting back on track.
First, she affirmed the efforts made by everyone at their jobs, and then mentioned their shortcomings.
Zhang Wenxin and Zhang Haimei are more extroverted, and although Ge Tai is dull, he is not at all shy when receiving guests.
On the other hand, Zhang Hailan and Zhang Haizhu are sometimes too timid and speak in low voices.
"Haizhu, you are very smart and have a good memory. You can speak loudly and confidently in the future, just like when you answered Wenxin." Yu Zhile said. Zhang Haizhu nodded thoughtfully.
Zhang Hailan, who was sitting next to her, had sweaty palms and she wiped them nervously on her clothes.
"Hai Lan, you are very careful in your work." Yu Zhile said softly, "Keep it up, okay?"
Zhang Hailan smiled, looked at her, straightened her back and said, "Okay!"
After she finished speaking, she was stunned for a moment, and her voice was so loud that even she was a little surprised.
"Keep it up." Yu Zhile smiled brightly at her.
Zhang Hailan nodded at her seriously.
The last process is the work arrangement for this week.
Ge Tai was in charge of the village work as usual, the three Zhang sisters maintained the vegetable fields, while Yu Zhile and Zhang Wenxin went up the mountain to make pickled peppers, pickled radishes, etc.
After the meeting, Zhang Haimei stayed with her two younger sisters.
"I, I've thought about it seriously. The three of us sisters are going to withdraw from the sideline group." Zhang Haimei lowered her head, her voice getting lower and lower.
Zhang Hailan and the other two were unaware of this decision and grabbed her hand: "Sister, we don't want to--"
The next second, the two of them shut up tacitly and lowered their heads.
"We don't want to implicate you." Zhang Haimei's voice was choked with sobs. She really likes the work in the sideline group.
The three sisters took turns talking and pieced together the farce that happened in the afternoon.
Yu Zhile pondered for a few seconds: "If you were given a chance, would you cut off ties with them?"
"Yes, I will." Zhang Haimei answered eagerly.
Since Zhang Yaozong was born, the three sisters have suffered so much that they dream of leaving this hell.
"Okay, go find Wen Xin and ask her to come see me tonight." Yu Zhile thought about it and decided to give them a heads-up, "Maybe you have to suffer first--"
"We believe in you. As long as we can leave, nothing matters." The three Zhang sisters said in unison.
After saying this, they went to Zhang's house, their steps were much lighter than when they came here.
The three of them passed Zhou Yuesheng at the end of the path.
Zhou Yuesheng stayed in the hospital for the entire afternoon, and his body was covered with the smell of disinfectant and blood.
"I'm back." He said to Zhile.
Yu Zhile smelled an unpleasant smell, frowned slightly, and hummed.
"Eat!" Yu Haiguang said loudly.
He looked at Zhou Yuesheng, and from the other party's slight movements he learned the positive news, and he felt a little happier.
"Uncle, you are a great cook. These two side dishes are so delicious." Chen Zhao suddenly appeared and interrupted the eye contact between the two.
He held the pickled shallots in hot sauce in one hand and the fragrant braised tofu in the other, and frankly his mouth was watering.
Yu Haiguang patted his head: "Then eat more."
"Okay, I want to drink three big bowls of porridge!" Chen Zhao said loudly.
Zhou Yuesheng went back to the room to change clothes and made sure that the strange smell on his body was gone before he went to the table.
At noon, he went to Ning Tan's house to confirm the final outcome of the Huaxi Village incident, and then went to the train station to pick up an old acquaintance and take him to the town hospital.
The subsequent scenes would affect his appetite, so he stopped recalling them.
Yu Haiguang and Yu Yue wanted to know the outcome of the matter, while Yu Zhile was concerned about the three Zhang sisters.
Chen Zhao was the only one at the table who was eating wholeheartedly.
Halfway through the meal, Zhang Wenxin ran to Yu's house angrily, and Yu Zhile pulled her to the backyard.
The two chatted for a long time before she completely calmed down.
She cooked porridge for the Zhang sisters, arranged for them to sleep in their own rooms, and planned to stay at Yu's house tonight.
At night, the candles in the east and west rooms stayed on for a long time.
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