Chapter 115 The Fifth Snow of Winter
Li Caiyun spent the entire afternoon looking at the work account book. Both Accountant Sun and Li Baotian were very satisfied with her performance.
Zhou Yong came back at around four o'clock. Li Caiyun closed the account book and stretched her stiff neck.
There were only two of them in the office. Zhou Yong came behind his young wife and stretched out his hand to massage her cervical spine to relieve her fatigue: "Pregnant women should not sit for a long time, they should get up and move their bodies appropriately..."
Li Caiyun didn't wait for Zhou Yong to finish his words and interrupted him nervously: "Stop pinching me. It's not good if someone sees me."
Zhou Yong was keeping an eye on the door. Besides, they were a legal couple, so what if they were seen?
"If someone sees you, then so be it. You're my wife."
Li Caiyun stood up hurriedly: "Even if I am your wife, that won't work."
Zhou Yong looked at the nervous Li Caiyun and smiled softly. He walked to his desk and sat down.
"Is it okay this time?"
Li Caiyun bit her lip, smiled and sat back, which made Zhou Yong shake his head helplessly.
The days passed sweetly as they entered the autumn harvest season.
First we harvest sorghum and millet, then we harvest maoke (melon seeds), and finally soybeans and corn…
Sorghum and millet are easy to harvest. After harvesting, they are bundled and taken to the yard to dry and thresh.
It is quite troublesome to grow raw corn. Not only does it require manual threshing, but these two crops can easily become piled up in bad weather.
After rushing to harvest the crops in late October and paying the public grain tax, on October 28th the grain distribution season began for every household.
After distributing the grain, the next step was to settle the work points and issue various purchase tickets. Li Caiyun was busy until November 10th before she had some free time.
"Is it snowing?"
This was the fifth snowfall since the beginning of winter. Li Caiyun came out of the office, with her bulging belly, and reached out to catch the snow.
Li Baotian looked at the sky and frowned: "We won't be able to work in Dongshan tomorrow in this weather."
The roads are slippery in snowy weather, and it is easy to have an accident when moving things on the mountain.
Li Caiyun tightened the red triangular scarf on her head to cover her mouth and nose, and then she put on gloves.
The father and daughter walked home leisurely while talking. When they arrived home, Zhang Guifang was lighting the stove!
"Caiyun, are you cold?"
Li Caiyun walked into the house, stomped her feet, took off her gloves and her scarf.
"Mom, I'm not cold."
Zhang Guifang took the scarf and looked at her daughter's red face. She felt distressed and said, "Go to the stove and warm yourself up. Don't let the cold air invade your body."
Li Caiyun obediently walked to the stove, got closer to the hot stove, her cheeks gradually regained their rosy color, and the coldness in her body slowly dissipated.
Li Baotian walked into the house, then picked up a shoulder pole and bucket and went out to fetch water.
It was freezing cold outside, but the warmth and family affection inside the house made people feel extremely comfortable.
After a while, Zhou Yong came back wearing a cotton hat and cotton hand covers. Li Caiyun went up to him and wanted to use her hands to clean the snow off his body.
"I can do it myself."
Zhou Yong has a very cold body, and Li Caiyun is a pregnant woman, so she can easily catch a cold due to the sudden change of temperature.
"fine."
Zhou Yong shook his head, and Zhang Guifang looked at them and smiled.
He warmed himself by the fire and then took off his cotton hat.
"Did things go smoothly?"
Zhou Yong nodded: "It went smoothly, the bill was settled for us..."
In the early stage of cooperation with the Agricultural Bureau, the payment and goods were settled in full. Starting from October, due to the lack of financial funds, they were owed two payments.
Zhou Yong went to the Agriculture Bureau today. One issue was to settle the bill, and the other was to increase the purchase price of game.
Now that it is winter, there are no more medicinal herbs or mountain products to pick, so we can only hope to make some money from wild game.
After all, hunting involves certain risks, and even if the price is not raised, the money will go into Zhou Yong's pocket.
Moreover, based on his relationship with Chen Pingliang, he didn't have to talk much and the other party agreed very readily.
Li Caiyun was very happy when she heard this: "If the villagers knew about this, they would definitely be very happy..."
Zhou Yong smiled, and Zhang Guifang continued: "Director Chen is so nice. He raised the price once before and raised it again this time. I really don't know how to thank him..."
Chen Pingliang did raise the price last time, but in Zhou Yong’s opinion, that price was equivalent to no increase.
In order to avoid what happened last time, Zhou Yong directly quoted his own price this time.
Zhang Guifang, who didn't know the truth, praised Chen Pingliang, and Zhou Yong couldn't help twitching his mouth when he heard it.
Zhou Yong opened his handbag and took out a large piece of pork, apples, large pears, oranges, candies and other snacks.
"I told you not to give me any more food. We haven't finished the apple crisps at home yet!"
Li Caiyun said this, but she felt sweet in her heart.
Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Save it for later consumption. The weather is getting colder day by day, and I'm afraid I won't be able to buy such fresh fruit next time..."
It is said that eating more fruits is good for both adults and children if pregnant women eat more fruits, so since Li Caiyun became pregnant, there has never been a shortage of fruit snacks in the house.
Li Caiyun smiled sweetly. Zhang Guifang sighed and said, "When mom was pregnant with you, I was so greedy that I couldn't even eat a bite of apple..."
Life more than 20 years ago cannot be compared with that of today. After all, being able to have enough food was already very good back then.
Li Caiyun hurriedly stuffed a big red apple into Zhang Guifang's hand and said, "Mom, eat the apple."
Zhang Guifang smiled and said, "Mom doesn't want to eat it, so put it away!"
Li Caiyun shook her head. Zhang Guifang couldn't persuade her daughter, so she smiled and put away an apple.
Li Caiyun had just taken the things to the west room when Xing Laoqi came to find Zhou Yong.
"Let's go to Masan's for dinner?"
Xing Laoqi winked at Zhou Yong, suggesting that they go out and talk later.
Zhou Yong said something to Li Caiyun and Zhang Guifang, put on their cotton hats and hand covers, and went out with Xing Laoqi.
"What's going on?"
Xing Laoqi lowered his voice and said, "Ma San hunted a pig and asked us to go to his house for dinner..."
Even though Ma San lost a leg, this guy still goes up the mountain to hunt from time to time.
Moreover, he was extremely lucky and almost never returned empty-handed.
Zhou Yong paused: "I have to take my wife to eat meat."
Xing Laoqi held Zhou Yong and said with a pout: "Your wife is pregnant and it's snowing, what if she falls down?"
Well, Xing Laoqi's words dissuaded Zhou Yong from taking his wife to Ma Sanjia for dinner.
The two of them went to find Cao Biao chatting and laughing, but wow, they came at a really bad time, as Cao Biao was arguing with his wife!
Cao Biao's wife Zhao Chunhua was definitely a powerful character. If she had been a little weaker in character, she would have had no place in the Cao family.
Zhou Yong looked at Zhao Chunhua who was sitting on the edge of the kang wiping her tears, frowned slightly, and moved his gaze to Cao Biao who had a face full of anger.
Xing Laoqi smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, what happened between you and the captain?"
Zhou Yong thought he was really good at talking nonsense. Anyone with eyes could see that the couple were arguing.
Zhao Chunhua sniffed, turned her face away, and ignored Xing Laoqi.
Xing Laoqi was very annoyed and looked at Cao Biao to ask what happened.
Cao Biao pursed his lips and said nothing. Zhou Yong smiled and said, "Old Cao, if you have something to say, talk it over nicely. Quarrels hurt feelings..."
Zhao Chunhua told the whole story in a tearful tone and with a look of grievance on her face, leaving Zhou Yong and Xing Laoqi silent.
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