Chapter 109 108: Falling out
Zhou's father and mother politely sent Secretary Xu and his wife out. Zhou Huaian looked at the things in his backpack and turned to look at Yang Chunyan:
"When did you save the Xu family's daughter? Why didn't you tell me?"
Yang Chunyan gave him a reproachful look, "What is there to say?"
Li Qiuyue said enviously: "My sister-in-law and I encountered... We didn't bring the snake medicine we bought, so we went to call Chunyan."
Zhao Huifang: "Even if we meet you, we won't cut you and let you bleed!"
Zhou Huaijun looked at the things in his pocket and sighed, "What a big deal! Even without mentioning anything else, the two packs of cigarettes and two cuts of meat cost more than ten yuan."
Yang Chunyan took a look and saw that both pieces of meat were ribs with pork belly, which looked to be at least eight or nine pounds. They also had malted milk and Da Chongjiu, and the wine was actually Maotai.
These things are not cheap, and the Xu family is willing to give them to the last-ranked family in the Funiu Brigade. No wonder he can become the second-in-command.
Zhou Huaian picked up the big Chongjiu in his backpack and put it under his nose to smell it. "I think it smells similar to spring plowing."
"Impossible!" Zhou Huaishan also picked it up and smelled it, "Grandpa, it's much more fragrant than your leaf tobacco."
The old man waved his hands in disdain, "It's not easy to smoke, it's boring!"
Several children gathered in front of the bag, touching it here and there. Zhou Jiakang poked a can and asked with drooling mouth, "Dad, what's in the bottle?"
Zhou Huaian rubbed his head, "You're eating one or two, your mouth is watering, what do you want to eat? Tell me, daddy will get it for you."
Zhou Xiaolin and Zhou Jiakang pointed at the can, "Dad, I want to eat that!"
Zhou Xiaoru looked at the white cloud cake and said, "I want to eat that cake!"
Zhou Jiaming pointed at the malted milk and said, "We want to eat some of this. Xu Kun said it tastes good and can help you grow taller."
Zhao Huifang patted him and said, "You want to eat everything? This thing is very expensive!"
The old man looked at the children, feeling a little sad, "If the children want to taste it, then give it to them!"
"Long live the ancestors!" Zhou Jiaming and his friends hugged each other happily and jumped up, "Oh yeah, we have malted milk to drink!"
Zhou's mother walked to the door and felt a little sad after seeing this. She thought that there were several thousand yuan hidden at home, and she could leave it for the children if they wanted to eat.
"Grandma will get it for you!"
Zhou's mother walked into the main room and picked up the things in her backpack and put them on the eight-immortal table one by one. There were two pieces of meat, two bottles of wine, two cans of pears, and two bags of white sugar, two bags of brown sugar, and two bags of cloud cakes wrapped in red paper. There were two receipts at the bottom.
The children had never eaten these things before, and they all looked at them eagerly.
Mother Zhou handed a can of malted milk to Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, open it and add more, everyone can try it."
Zhao Huifang and the others hurriedly said, "Just give it to the children, we won't drink it!"
Yang Chunyan raised the can in her hand and said, "Let's go drink malted milk with Auntie!"
"Oh, let's drink malted milk!" Zhou Jiaming and a few others followed Yang Chunyan towards the kitchen.
Zhou Jiakang looked at the cans, then at his brother and sister who had left, and after thinking about it, he decided to follow them.
Mother Zhou handed the bill to Zhou Huairong, "Take a look."
Zhou Huairong took it and looked at the two bills with big red seals on them. "Ten tons of cement, ten tons of steel bars." He looked up at Zhou's father and said, "Old man, how can we afford so much?"
After Zhou's father took it and looked at it, he sighed and said, "It's really cheap to buy things with a ticket! Look, cement without a ticket is 3.5 yuan a bag, but with a ticket it's only 2 yuan, that's 1.5 yuan less for a bag of cement. Second-grade rebar is 700 yuan for ten tons. I've never bought this before, so I don't know the price."
Zhou Huairong: "Old man, I've seen people in my team who have built new houses no longer use wooden window frames for doors and windows. Instead, they use steel bars, which are not only sturdy but also save labor costs."
Zhou's father said: "How much steel can be used for a few windows? What are we going to do with ten tons? Just save some of the cement."
Zhou Huaian said: "Old man, you can't buy steel bars without quotas. We don't need so much, so we can sell them!"
Zhou Huaijun: "Youngest is right, why not just sell it?"
Father Zhou looked at them and said, "We are selling the quotas given to us by others for money. This is not good!"
Zhou Huaian: "What's the big deal? You can't just give it back to Secretary Xu, right? You don't need these tickets, and they may expire after a while. We can sell them for money, and maybe we can earn back the money we spent on cement."
Zhou Huairong nodded after hearing this, "Old man, I think we should listen to the youngest one. We should keep some steel bars for doors and windows, sell the rest, and buy more cement to pave the courtyard with cement. Look how comfortable it is to dry grain on the drying dam in the brigade!"
Father Zhou was also very excited after hearing this, and looked at Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, I'll give you the steel bar ticket, can you sell it?"
Zhou Huaian patted his chest and said, "Old man, don't worry, I'll take care of it. If Fu Niu can't be sold, I can sell Ning An instead."
Father Zhou handed him the steel bar ticket and said, "Okay, keep it and reserve the steel bars for the windows before you sell it."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian took it and handed it to Yang Chunyan who walked into the main hall with malted milk. "Yan'er, keep it safe until we go to Ning'an to sell it."
Yang Chunyan took it, took a look at it and put it in her pocket.
Father Zhou said to the old man, "Old man, let's go to my eldest brother's house!"
"Yes!" The father and son walked out, and Zhou's mother thought about it and followed them.
Zhou Huaian called Yang Chunyan back to the house, waited for her to put away the receipt for buying steel bars, and picked up the sand gun on the cabinet, "Yan'er, look, I bought it. Lao Xiazi also gave me 20 bullets, and these bullets cost more than ten yuan."
Yang Chunyan looked at the shiny sand gun and suddenly felt a little worried. She looked at him and warned him, "Huaian, you can only use this thing for self-defense when you go up the mountain. You must never use it to fight with others!"
Zhou Huaian understood what she was worried about and looked at her with a smile, "I know. If you are worried, I will give you the gun and lock it up when we get down the mountain."
Yang Chunyan glanced at him and said, "I didn't say I don't trust you. Besides, even if I locked it, I wouldn't know if you pried it open!"
"My wife is smart!" Zhou Huaian pulled her to sit on the edge of the bed, "Didn't you see Lao Xiazi? He was eating potato dumplings dipped in chili noodles and didn't even have a sip of hot soup. How pitiful!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought of her past life and felt that Lao Xiazi was even more pitiful than herself. She sighed, "He has no children, no brothers or sisters, and he is a lonely widower with no relatives. How can he not be pitiful!"
"Yes, thanks to Erchun who often helps him fetch water and cuts some firewood for him to burn."
"It is right to do good things. It is said that only by doing more good deeds can good things be rewarded."
"Look at you, you're talking in a very old-fashioned way." Zhou Huaian hesitated for a moment and said, "In the afternoon, when Erchun and I went to buy guns, we met Cai Ermei and we had a falling out."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan looked at him in surprise and asked, "What happened?" It's good that they had a falling out, at least the source of trouble has been eliminated!
"In order to sell eels..." Zhou Huaian skipped the fact that Cai Ermei and Widow Ye had partnered to open a consignment store and told her the reason for the matter. "We are all good brothers. I can choose not to make money from him, but why should I run errands for those people? I am not so conscious yet!"
(End of this chapter)
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