"Grandma, wow..." Zhou Qianqian cried even louder when she saw Aunt Qiuju. Children are like this. When they are hurt, they will immediately seek shelter from their relatives. Aunt Qiuju is usually very kind to her grandchildren. Seeing her, Zhou Qianqian suddenly felt that she had found a backbone.
"Grandma Qiuju, please take Sister Qianqian to the doctor right away." Zhou Yuanyuan saw that Zhou Qianqian looked miserable with blood all over her mouth, and was afraid that she might have bitten her tongue with her teeth when she fell, which was no small matter.
"Yes, yes, let's see a doctor." Aunt Qiuju came to her senses, picked up her granddaughter, and ran to the barefoot doctor's house in the village.
After running for a while, Aunt Qiuju realized that Yuanyuan and her brother were not keeping up.
"Yuanyuan, Jiasheng, hurry up and catch up." Aunt Qiuju called out.
"Grandma Qiuju, my sister and I are waiting for our mother to come back home." Zhou Jiasheng was reluctant to leave home. He still remembered Zhao Yunxiang's instructions before she left, asking them not to run around and to wait for their mother to come back at home.
"Well, go home first and don't run around, ah!" Aunt Qiuju had no choice but to turn around and give instructions. Aunt Qiuju thought, if she ran quickly to her door to tell her daughter-in-law to take Qianqian to the barefoot doctor, she would come back and look after Yuanyuan and her brother and sister. It wouldn't take more than a few minutes.
"Auntie Qiuju, I got it!" Zhou Yuanyuan waved her hand, reassuring Aunt Qiuju. Zhou Qianqian's current condition warranted seeing a doctor sooner rather than later. As for her and her brother, if those clueless Zhou family members really came after them, they wouldn't be polite.
Aunt Qiuju ran all the way with Qianqian in her arms. Before she even reached her doorstep, Xiao Baozhu came back and called out, "Grandma, grandma, there's no one at your house."
"Huh? My daughter-in-law isn't home?" Aunt Qiuju was a little stunned.
"Grandma, Mom went to the fields." Qianqian remembered that when she went out, her mother said she was going to the fields to cut some cabbages and there were no vegetables at home.
Aunt Qiuju was in a daze when she saw Zhou Chunping coming towards her.
Seeing Zhou Chunping ready to go home, Aunt Qiuju finally breathed a sigh of relief. Zhou Chunping was the head of the Zhou family. With him around, he couldn't just watch his grandson bully the grandchildren of another branch, right?
As soon as Aunt Qiuju left, Zhou Jiaqin appeared out of nowhere, waved at Zhou Jiasheng, and shouted, "Boy, come here."
Zhou Jiaqin finally managed to get Aunt Qiuju out of the way, and now it was time for him to teach the two brats a lesson. Zhou Miaomiao had said that the two brats had been acting very arrogantly these past few days, not only saying bad things about their eldest brother in front of their grandmother, but also secretly eating delicious food in their own kitchen.
Damn it, when there's something delicious, why don't they think of contributing some points to his second brother? It seems like these two brats from the third room need a lesson!
"What do you want to do?" Zhou Yuanyuan stopped Zhou Jiasheng who was about to move his legs and asked crisply.
Of the third generation of the Zhou family, Zhou Jiaqin was the most ruthless. In his previous life, Zhou Jiasheng was deliberately pushed onto broken tiles by Zhou Jiaqin, leaving two long wounds on his face, which were dripping with blood.
Because of that facial injury, Zhou Jiasheng was disfigured. After the wound healed, two hideous scars appeared on his face.
"What? Why would I need to tell you, a little brat, what I'm going to do?" Zhou Jiaqin's eyes widened. When did these two brats from Third Uncle's family stop being afraid of him? He asked him to come over and asked why?
"If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it, brother. Let's go home." Zhou Yuanyuan took Zhou Jiasheng's hand and dragged her brother towards her home. Zhou Jiaqin was such a jerk that Zhou Yuanyuan felt it was a waste of time to even look at him. She certainly didn't want her brother to have any contact with Zhou Jiaqin again.
"Yoho~! Since when did you, Zhou Jiasheng, a grown man, have to listen to a little girl? Is it because you, Zhou Jiasheng, are cowardly and don't have anything growing in your crotch?" Zhou Jiaqin started swearing as soon as he opened his mouth.
Zhou Jiasheng's face flushed with anger at Zhou Jiaqin. For any man in Yuyuan County, no matter how young or old, being pointed at and called a coward was something they couldn't tolerate.
As for Zhou Jiaqin's suggestion that Zhou Jiasheng listen to Zhou Yuanyuan, Zhou Jiasheng didn't care at all. His sister was smart, so what if he was willing to listen to her?
"Zhou Jiaqin, did you brush your teeth when you got up this morning?" Zhou Yuanyuan glared at Zhou Jiaqin, with a look of contempt on her face, which made Zhou Jiaqin feel annoyed no matter how he looked at her.
Zhou Chunping was walking past Aunt Qiuju's house when he was stopped by Zhou Hongming who had hurried over. Zhou Hongming told Zhou Chunping that his father Zhou Dazhu wanted to talk to him about something and asked Zhou Chunping to go to his house.
Zhou Chunping, of course, didn't put on airs when the old village chief invited him. He turned around and immediately followed Zhou Hongming. Therefore, Zhou Chunping also missed the conflict between his grandchildren.
Zhou Jiaqin's eyes widened when Zhou Yuanyuan asked him if he'd brushed his teeth. Did this little girl notice that he'd squeezed the toothpaste out of the tube into the courtyard drain this morning? Otherwise, why would she threaten him with brushing his teeth?
Back then, every village had a peddler carrying a shoulder pole, offering goods for sale. The peddler's load included needles and thread, as well as snacks like candy and melon seeds. Empty toothpaste tubes could be traded for candy, a primitive form of barter. Every so often, the peddler would collect empty toothpaste tubes, broken iron pots, kitchen knives, and even chicken and duck feathers from the villages and sell them at a purchasing station for cash.
In order to eat candy, Zhou Jiaqin often secretly squeezed out some of Zhou Zhiqiang's toothpaste, because doing so would quickly turn the toothpaste into an empty shell.
Zhou Zhiqiang and his wife don't give their children money to spend. In their opinion, it's good enough for the children to have enough food. Want snacks? Midea!
As for the broken iron pieces and toothpaste tubes at home, Zhou Zhiqiang allowed the children to go to the peddler to exchange them for other things. In his opinion, those rags could be exchanged for a few candies, which was considered a good use of waste. He did not expect to be cheated by Zhou Jiaqin.
Which is more expensive, the toothpaste or the toothpaste tube? Anyone with accounting skills knows this, let alone Zhou Zhiqiang, the accountant from Zhoujia Village.
Zhou Yuanyuan didn't expect that her words would make Zhou Jiaqin think so much. Seeing Zhou Jiaqin staring at her, she thought he didn't understand the sarcasm in her words, so she made a face and explained, "Zhou Jiaqin, I told you that your mouth stinks!"
"What? You damn bitch, how dare you laugh at me? I won't be named Zhou unless I beat you up and make you look like you're rotting in the face." Zhou Jiaqin was furious. Being laughed at by a little girl, and a little girl who was even less capable than him, was something Zhou Jiaqin could not tolerate.
"You dare to touch my sister?" Zhou Jiasheng saw Zhou Jiaqin walking towards him with his hands rubbed, looking fierce and ready to hit someone. He hurriedly pulled his sister behind him and used his weak body to block Zhou Jiaqin.
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