Chapter 43 43 Oh my god! So comfortable
By the time Yang Chunyan and her two sisters-in-law had packed up, it was already dark.
Yang Chunyan came out of the kitchen and saw Zhou Huaian sitting listlessly against the old man at the door of the main hall. She said to him, "Huaian, take out the flashlight and go catch the lazy cicada."
"It's boring. I don't want to go!" Zhou Huaian leaned back in the recliner, too lazy to even move.
Yang Chunyan glanced at him and walked towards the room.
Mr. Zhou tapped Zhou Huaian with his pipe and said, "Go, bring some back for me to drink with."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian stood up slowly and walked towards the room.
Yang Chunyan came out with a flashlight and saw the listless Zhou Huaian. She looked at him with contempt, "You are a grown man, you can't afford to lose at all!"
"Who can't afford to lose? I'm just about to go!" Zhou Huaian glared at her resentfully.
Yang Chunyan followed him into the house and asked, "Do you regret bringing the sisters-in-law to dig herbs?"
"Where is that?"
"Why didn't you tell me during dinner?"
"I forgot! It's the same if I tell them later." Zhou Huaian put on his worn-out rubber shoes and said, "Let's go!"
Zhou Huairong came out with a sack and a flashlight, "Youngest, let's go."
"Let's go!" Zhou Huaian saw that several brothers were holding flashlights, and then he realized that they had bought them a long time ago. He suddenly felt a little uncomfortable and pulled Yang Chunyan, "Let's go!"
The four couples walked out of the courtyard together. Zhou Huairong said, "The old man asked us to go to the corn field. I think we should go to the forest in front of the corn field to catch lazy cicadas!"
Wherever there are trees, there are cicadas. When it gets dark, that’s when the cicada larvae start to burrow upward from the ground, and you can catch them in any tree.
As long as Zhou Huaian has someone to go with him, he will go anywhere. "Okay, let's go to the forest."
Zhou Huaijun walked over to Zhou Huaian and hugged him, "Youngest brother, how much did you make from selling herbs today?"
Zhou Huaian gave him a smug look and cunningly concealed the money he earned from selling the Polygonum multiflorum. "I sold it for 10 to 20 yuan, and used it to buy meat, hoes, tobacco leaves, and flashlights. I still have two yuan left."
Zhou Huaijun thought he was bragging, so he turned to look at Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, can those weeds really be sold for so much money?"
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "I sold it for 21.3 yuan."
When Zhou Huaijun heard Yang Chunyan say this, he believed what Zhou Huaian said. He suddenly felt that his younger brother was born with good fortune. He was spoiled by his grandmother when he was a child. He was a second-rate lazy man, but he married a capable wife.
Zhao Huifang said enviously: "It's still easy for people with ability to make money. I made 21 yuan in just two days."
Li Qiuyue pulled Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, please take us with you! We will help you, just give us two dollars a day."
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "Two dollars a day is not a small amount. It will be sixty dollars a month."
Li Qiuyue thought it was true and excitedly pulled Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, if you think two yuan is a bit too much, you can give me less!"
The three Zhou Huairong brothers also looked at Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, if possible, bring your sister-in-law and the others along!"
Yang Chunyan looked at Zhou Huaian and motioned for him to speak.
Zhou Huaian stopped and looked at them and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, Chunyan told me this afternoon that you guys always helped me in the past. This time, she can take you to dig herbs and teach you how to identify them."
Li Qiuyue looked at Yang Chunyan excitedly, "Are you really willing to take us with you?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "I can take you there, but the youngest brother said we need to make some things clear first, so as not to hurt the relationship between brothers and sisters-in-law in the future!"
Li Qiuyue glanced at Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law. Chunyan took us there, and we are so grateful to her that we can't wait to thank her. How can we hurt our relationship? Don't you think so?"
Zhao Huifang nodded, and Zhang Xiuxiang looked at Zhou Huaian, "Listen to the youngest one first!"
Zhou Huaian coughed dryly and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, we won't do as Third Sister-in-law said and pay you two dollars a day. We decided to take out half of the money from selling herbs, no matter how much, and divide it equally among the three of you."
Zhou Huairong looked at him in surprise, "Half, isn't that a bit too much?"
Zhou Huaishan also nodded, "Yeah, half is a bit too much!"
Zhou Huaian stood up straight and looked at them seriously, "You are my brother and sister-in-law, so we decided to divide it this way. I don't want to give even a cent to outsiders!
But let me be frank first: some herbs are expensive and some are cheap. Don’t complain if you have little money, and don’t feel like you have too little if you have a lot of money!
Also, Chunyan can bring some sisters-in-law to dig herbs and bring them to the branch family at most. After the branch family is divided, we can each do our own thing, so as not to damage the harmony between the brothers over time. If you want to go it alone in advance, you can always ask for it! "
Zhao Huifang, her three sisters-in-law, and Zhou Huairong all looked at him in surprise, unable to believe that such words came from the mouth of the bastard youngest brother.
Zhou Huaishan flashed him with the flashlight: "Youngest, was it really you who was talking just now?"
"What do you mean?" Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him. He was just lazy, not stupid.
Zhou Huaishan smiled innocently, "I just feel that such words don't sound like coming from your mouth."
Zhou Huaian: "Humph! Forget about looking down on me, but if my husband and I go, we can dig more and sell them for money."
Li Qiuyue hurriedly said, "Youngest, ignore your third brother, he has a stinky mouth!"
"That's right, the eldest brother is a good guy, the second brother is cunning as hell, and the third brother has a foul mouth. I don't need to say anything more, he's a prodigal and a second-rate guy."
Zhou Huaian looked around and said, "Wow! I just realized today that my mother and father have a really good eye for daughters-in-law. The four daughters-in-law they brought home are all good, but the sons they gave birth to are much less capable."
After hearing this, the three sisters-in-law felt that Zhou Huaian still had some conscience, and that their tolerance towards him over the years was worth it.
Zhou Huaijun and Zhou Huaishan were not satisfied. They grabbed him and hit him under the armpits, "You kid has been playing for too long!"
"Brother, hurry up. Second and third brothers are going to murder their own brothers. Second and third sisters-in-law, hurry up and take care of your men." Zhou Huaian curled up into a ball and laughed like a goose.
Zhou Huairong: "He deserves it. He even dares to bring up my mother and my husband. He should be punished!"
Zhao Huifang and her friends laughed as they watched the three brothers playing together.
Yang Chunyan followed behind, watching them laughing and playing, then looked up at the sky, where she saw the upside-down Milky Way and a sky full of shining stars. She took a deep breath of the air with the scent of grass and felt that such a day was really great!
When they reached the foot of the mountain, Zhou Huairong said to them, "You guys go to the forest over there to catch cicadas, and Lao Er and I will go to the corn field to take a look."
Zhou Huaian hurriedly handed him a sack and said, "If anyone steals, put them in the sack, beat the hell out of them, and then drag them out to the sun on the dam to expose them to the public."
Zhou Huairong hesitated for a moment, and then Zhou Huaijun took over, "Yes, if you catch him, break his legs."
Zhou Huaishan said: "That's right. We worked so hard to grow corn, but we couldn't bear to eat it ourselves. Yet, so much of it was wasted overnight!"
"Let's go and have a look first!" Zhou Huairong and his brother left with a flashlight.
Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang went to the woods with a flashlight. When they shone the flashlight on the trees, they saw strings of lazy, yellowish-brown cicadas struggling to climb up the trees like ants moving house.
I feel like there are so many lazy cicadas these days.
Li Qiuyue felt goose bumps all over her body, "Oh my god~ so many lazy cicadas!"
"Oh my god~ Good An Yi, hurry up and catch them and put them in the sack." Zhou Huaian grabbed several with one hand, "Chun Yan, you hold the tree trunk and I'll put them in the sack."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan was shining a light on the lazy cicadas on the tree with one hand and holding a sack with the other hand. Zhou Huaian and Zhang Xiufang kept putting things into the sack.
(End of this chapter)
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