Chapter 722: Curse
Zhou Erlang and Zhou Liulang looked around Zhou Silang, and then pulled Manbao to ask him for a long time. They were relieved after confirming that Zhou Silang would not be disabled. They immediately picked up their bags, thanked their neighbors, and went home with them.
"Old Four only told us that you lived in the second alley after entering Kangxue Street, but he didn't say which house it was. We had no choice but to ask along the way."
After entering the yard, Zhou Lijun immediately poured them some water. Manbao then asked, "Second brother, why are you here?"
Zhou Erlang drank some water and said, "How could we not come? Our family was terrified when they received your letter, so we packed up and came here the next day. We caught a ride for half the distance, but the caravan had to take a different route, so we had no choice but to walk. We hurried as fast as we could, and only entered the city today."
Zhou Erlang said, "We were very worried the whole way here. Your letter was also very vague. It only said that the fourth child was robbed, his belongings were taken, and he was beaten, but it didn't say anything about his condition. My parents couldn't sleep all night, and before dawn the next day they asked me to go to the county town and get the sixth child to come and see us."
In fact, his father's original words were, "If something happens to a person, at least he should return to his roots and not be left outside. Manbao and Erya are still young, so don't let the fourth child suffer."
At that time, the Zhou family members were all feeling very heavy-hearted. The Zhou brothers were more optimistic than the old man Zhou. They felt that the fourth child was really dying, and it was impossible not to state it in the letter.
However, I was still very worried about Zhou Silang's condition. After all, it was a robbery. Who knows how badly he was injured?
Now that they had received Manbao's repeated assurances and knew that Zhou Silang's arm would not be disabled, they began to teach Zhou Silang a lesson.
Zhou Erlang: "I told you long ago to be low-key, especially when it comes to making money. If you don't shout it out, who would know you're transporting wheat seeds? And how could anyone steal your business?"
Zhou Silang was angry. "I didn't yell. How would I know how those people knew there were wheat seeds in my car?"
Zhou Liulang said, "Fourth brother, you are too stupid. If they want to rob you, just let them carry you away. You think you can fight with more than ten of them by yourself? You are not Daji."
He said, "When my fifth brother and I were little, we fought. It was you who taught us to run away if we couldn't win. But you ran away."
"That's right," Zhou Erlang found another reason to scold Zhou Silang, and he scolded him even more confidently, "You're still the bully of Qili Village. You've become a gangster by hanging around for no reason, and you don't even know how to run away when you can't win. I think you've been so busy making money in the past six months that you've lost your mind, haven't you?"
"Who said I didn't want to run? That's only if I could run away!" Zhou Silang shouted. "They rushed over and pulled me off the carriage, threw me to the ground and started beating me up. What could I do? If I had just cowered like a turtle, they would have beaten me to death."
"Besides, can I really run? It's okay if I don't want the wheat seeds, but can I lose the horse? Do you know how much a horse costs? It's still our horse." That's why Zhou Silang wanted to keep the carriage so much when he met Chen Erlang, who had a tendency to rob.
Seeing that Fourth Brother's face was red with excitement, and thinking that his mind was still not fully recovered, Manbao quickly spoke up for Zhou Silang, "Second Brother, Sixth Brother, please stop talking about Fourth Brother. Who wants to encounter something like robbery? No matter how those people knew about it, they are bad guys anyway."
"That's right, that's right," Zhou Silang said aggrievedly, "Why are you scolding me instead of scolding the person who robbed me?"
"Who said we won't curse?" Zhou Erlang said, "We've been cursing all the way here. Aren't we cursing you because we've had enough?"
Zhou Liulang: "Not only did we curse them, but my father and mother also cursed them at home. They cursed them so fiercely that they even went to pray to the Lord of Heaven to send down thunderbolts to kill those evil people."
Manbao: "There hasn't been any thunder in Yizhou City in the past few days."
Zhou Silang: ...
After chatting for a while, they finally got down to business. Zhou Liulang asked, "Have you started harvesting grain at home?"
"What the hell is the point of collecting food? Knowing you were robbed, we can't even eat, how can we even think about collecting food?" Zhou Erlang said, "If it weren't for the urgent need to harvest yams, privet fruits, and ginger at home, even the eldest brother and the third brother would come."
Zhou Silang immediately said, "Second brother, I've already found a seller for those herbs. Please don't sell them cheaply while they're still fresh."
"I know. Old Fifth's wife knows how to prepare medicinal herbs. She does it better than we do. We took it to the county pharmacy and asked, and Manager Zheng said it was better than what we had before. So, apart from the ones Manager Zheng wanted, we've collected the rest and will ship them to Yizhou City for you later."
Zhou Silang finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Manbao, signaling her to mention the matter of hiring people to transport grain.
Before, Manbao wrote a letter back home asking his family to prepare a large amount of wheat seeds, but Zhou Erlang and others didn't pay much attention to it. After all, Zhou Silang's life and death were more important than business.
But now that Zhou Silang is alive and well, the business seems much more important than Zhou Silang.
Zhou Erlang thought for a moment and said, "Buying so much wheat seed at once, and not even being able to buy it on credit, would drain our family's savings, wouldn't it? Not to mention you'd have to rent a car and hire people in Yizhou City. How much would that cost?"
Manbao called Zhou Lijun to fetch the abacus and did some calculations for Zhou Erlang. "Second brother, winter is coming in a few days. County Magistrate Tang wants to distribute all the wheat seeds before the New Year. So we have to hand over all the wheat seeds to him before the winter solstice. I've calculated..."
Manbao and Zhou Lijun calculated how many kilograms of wheat a cart could carry, and how much money they could earn after taking into account the purchase price of the wheat, the transportation costs, and the labor costs.
And they planned to transport fifteen carts of wheat seeds at once...
Zhou Erlang was stunned and asked, "Can you earn so much?"
Manbao nodded and said, "Ask Fourth Brother how much money he can make on a round trip?"
Zhou Erlang didn't even need to ask him, because he and his brother had settled accounts many times in the past six months, and he certainly knew how much money Zhou Silang could earn on this round trip.
"Although Fourth Brother earns more money per car than we do by renting a car or hiring someone, his car only makes one trip. How much can we earn per trip?"
Zhou Erlang struggled fiercely in his heart for a moment, then slapped his thigh and said, "Okay, I'll go find a car dealer tomorrow and take a car back to tell my parents. My brother and I have searched several nearby villages, and finding 15 lanes of wheat seeds is not difficult. I can get it for you in three days at most."
Zhou Erlang said, "So, how about this? Three days after I leave, you guys go rent a car, hire some people, and have Lao Liu take them home to transport the food?"
Zhou Liulang nodded. "That's it, but Second Brother, I'm running low on money. Hiring people is easy. I can hire them on credit until I get settled with County Magistrate Tang. But renting a car from a car dealership not only requires rent, but also a deposit. You can't pay on credit."
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