Chapter 486 Chapter 487: Show off
"Ah~" Xiong Dahai's head was buzzing after hearing this, "What did Xu Huli say?"
The youngest bear's face turned pale, "...Damn it, he must have been bribed."
"The township proposed that the village praise Zhou Huaian. After discussion, the village committee decided to give him an enamel basin, two enamel cups, and a certificate as encouragement..."
Secretary Xu's voice continued to ring in the ears of the Xiong family, "Zhou Huaian, come and receive the certificate and reward. I hope you will continue to lead everyone to prosperity!"
"God is blind..." Xiong Dahai didn't finish his words when he felt his tongue was out of control. His eyes went dark and he fell to the ground.
"Old man, what's wrong with you?" Boss Xiong shouted loudly and hurried forward to help him up. He saw that one of his hands was hanging stiffly at his side, and the other was trembling constantly. His mouth and eyes were crooked almost to his ears, and he shouted in panic.
"Hurry up, the old man is having a stroke..."
Hearing the sound, Xiong Laosan turned his head and saw Xiong Dahai's saliva flowing down the crooked corner of his mouth, "Ah! Old man, what's wrong with you... It's bad, I'm paralyzed..."
The youngest Xiong looked at Xiong Dahai, whose mouth and eyes were crooked, and his vision went dark. He forced himself to shout, "Old Third, quickly unload the things on the cart and send the old man to the clinic..."
"Oh oh!" Xiong Laosan, who had been staring at Xiong Dahai in a daze, finally reacted and hurriedly moved the baskets and other things from the cart outside. The two brothers pulled Xiong Dahai towards the health room.
Xiong Da's wife grabbed Xiong Da and said, "If your husband becomes paralyzed, don't forget what the youngest said that day, he and his wife will live in the old house, and we will live in the new house!"
At this point, he said with a look of regret, "Oh no! We didn't agree that day, and now the old man is paralyzed, will he still agree?"
"What's the use of him being willing? His wife who isn't married yet has to be willing too." Boss Xiong sneered at her and got on the cart.
As the youngest Xiong and Xiong Dahai walked to the brigade headquarters, they saw Zhou Huaian coming out of the office with a big red porcelain basin in his hand, and Zhou Yiding holding a big red award certificate in his hand. He looked so happy, as if he was the one who won the award...
When he saw Zhou Huaian raised his eyebrows and looked at Xiong Dahai on the cart, he gripped the handle of the cart tightly and walked stiffly towards the infirmary in front.
Could it be that this bastard and I are born to be my nemesis? No matter what I do, I can't defeat him...
Xiong Laosan didn't even dare to look at Zhou Huaian. He lowered his head and supported Xiong Dahai, who was lying on the cart with a crooked mouth and eyes and drooling.
Zhou Huaian looked up at the sky, "Ding Ding Cat, I think God can really see what we are doing!"
Zhou Yiding glanced at the Xiong family and said, "Ha! As the old saying goes, God sees what we do. Of course, God can see what we do!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I think! People should still have some conscience. Don't just want to harm others. In the end, not only will you not harm others, but you will also harm yourself!"
Xiong Dahai was so angry that his mouth and eyes became crooked. His hands kept shaking and he made a series of "huhu" sounds, while his saliva kept flowing down...
After seeing this, Zhou Huaian no longer had the heart to ridicule them, "Let's go, Ding Ding Cat, let's go back and pack up and drink soup and wine."
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding nudged him, "I think Old Bear must have been paralyzed by the news of you winning the award!"
Zhou Huaian felt that this was entirely possible, "As for the report, I'm sure they were the ones who did it."
As soon as the two walked out of the drying dam, they met a few villagers who were returning from selling truffles. They were all looking at Zhou Huaian's certificate with a smile.
Zhou Huaian showed off proudly, and everyone urged him to try his best to take on the truffle harvesting job next year to avoid it being snatched away by others.
Zhou Huaian agreed readily and walked back showing off.
Before they got home, the news that Lao Xiong had suffered a stroke and was paralyzed had spread throughout Funiu Village. Whenever they met villagers on the road, they would talk about how Xiong Dahai had suffered a stroke because he was so angry about Zhou Huaian winning the award.
"Have you heard about this? I heard that Youngest Zhou won the award and Old Bear got so angry that he had a stroke. Is that true?"
"It's true. The youngest Xiong took Xiong Dahai to the clinic to see a doctor. They happened to meet Zhou Huaian who came out with a certificate. I saw that the youngest Xiong's eyes almost popped out of their sockets and fell to the ground."
"Could it be that the Xiong family really reported Zhou Laoyao?"
"Everyone can dig truffles and sell them, but his family can't. I can't think of anyone else who would do such a thing."
"As the old saying goes, there is no filial son for a long-term patient's bed. Xiong Dahai has been coaxing the sea cow for decades, but his life is miserable now that he is old!"
"Of course not. I've noticed that since Zhou Dasong's family was blackmailed by the Xiong family, their lives have been going from strength to strength. Xiong Dahai's family, oh! There really is retribution in this world!"
"Of course there isn't one. There used to be one in my mother's village..."
“We also have…”
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As soon as Zhou Huaian reached the gate of his own courtyard, he raised the prize in his hand and shouted to Yang Chunyan on the steps, "I got the prize, a porcelain basin and two enamel cups."
Zhou Huairong saw him grinning with smugness and felt it was unbearable to watch, "He has been like this since he was a child. Now that he is old, he still has this temper!"
"Brother, look at what you said!" Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile, "I'm only in my early twenties, how can I be considered old?"
Zhou Huaijun also laughed and said, "You will soon be an old man, not a child anymore!"
"And you guys, I'm still the young one!" Zhou Huaian smiled and handed the porcelain basin to Yang Chunyan, "Secretary Xu said that two porcelain cups were a little short, so he found a porcelain basin for me."
She took it and looked at it with a smile, "Not bad, quite festive."
Zhou Yiding unfolded the certificate and said, "Brother, sister-in-law, look, the youngest one is now advanced."
Li Qiuyue took it and looked at it and laughed, "Chunyan, put the youngest's certificate on the wall of the main room."
Yang Chunyan nodded with a smile, "I plan to frame it and hang it up."
Everyone burst into laughter after hearing this.
Zhou Huaian was not embarrassed at all, and looked at Yang Chunyan and the others in a very good mood, "You know who did Yiding and I meet after we got the certificates?"
"Why keep it a secret?" Zhou Yiding interrupted and told the whole story of Xiong Dahai's stroke.
Everyone was stunned.
Li Qiuyue thought she had misheard, "Yiding, what did you say? Did Xiong Dahai really have a stroke?"
"That's right, the youngest and I saw it with our own eyes!"
Li Qiuyue gloated and said, "It's what he deserves. This old guy is the most shameless one."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan recalled that in his previous life, Xiong Dahai had lived a glorious life in Funius Village. She did not expect that retribution would befall him in this life.
"It's what he deserves, karma!" Zhou Huaijun felt that he had finally gotten rid of his anger. "This is called retribution in this life. Now he's paralyzed on the bed and can't even speak a complete sentence. Let's see how he'll think of evil ideas to harm others in the future."
Seeing that they were talking excitedly, Zhou Huaian picked up the bamboo basket full of truffles and went to the backyard to talk to the old man about this.
Yang Chunyan looked at the time and said, "It's getting late. We'll save the truffles we harvested today for tomorrow. Let's quickly put them in the backyard and go to the old house to eat truffle soup."
"That's right! Hurry up and go over to have a drink!"
Yang Chunyan scooped up some rice bran and corn crumbs, mixed them together, and sent them to the chicken coop, then poured them into the chicken feed trough. She also heated up some leftovers for Wangcai and Lai Fu and poured them into the dog bowls.
As soon as they packed up their things, Zhou Jiaming ran into the yard, panting, "Dad, my grandma asked you to bring the certificate over to show them."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian went back and picked up the certificate and porcelain cup.
The group arrived at the old house where Secretary Xu and his wife, Zhou Datian and his wife, the old couple in the first house, and Aunt Zhou's family were all there.
After exchanging greetings, the men huddled together to talk and chat.
Mother Zhou looked at Zhou Huaian's award certificate with joy, and couldn't close her mouth with a smile, "The youngest child has been smart since he was young, and he won many awards when he was in school. I didn't expect that he would win another award certificate when he is almost an old man."
Aunt Zhou was also very happy, "Second sister-in-law, it was a reward from the brigade!"
Li Yinfu curled his lips, thought about what Zhou Dachun said before he came, and sat down obediently.
Dachun said that the second branch is different now. The second son is no longer as supportive of their family as before. Even the meat sent to his family during the Spring Festival pig slaughter is not as good as that of the third branch.
If things continue like before, we might not even have meat to eat next year!
Zhou Jiaming and others also came over to watch the fun, "Grandma, the award certificate says that my dad is an advanced youth who led the masses to prosperity!"
Zhou's mother tapped his forehead with her finger and said, "If you guys don't study hard, you will be worse than your father. Learn from him!"
Zhou Jiaming touched his forehead and looked at her with an aggrieved expression, "Grandma, you used to tell us not to learn from our dad, saying that he was lazy and didn't learn well!"
"..." Mother Zhou looked at Zhou Huaian, who was talking to Secretary Xu, with a guilty look on her face, and patted him, "That was in the past. Your father has learned well now. He is filial and capable. You should learn from him!"
"Understood!" Zhou Jiaming and others responded quickly.
Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law passed the dishes to the tables. There was one table in the main room and three tables on the steps.
The large earthenware plate was filled with stir-fried pork liver with pickled peppers and onions, steamed spareribs with rice flour, cold-mixed pork head, and two kinds of stir-fried vegetarian dishes with hot peppers.
The earthenware bowls contained braised pork, pig lungs stewed with radish, maoxuewang, and a large porcelain bowl of pork stewed with sauerkraut and tofu.
When eating soup, some people stew cabbage, radish, tofu and meat slices in a pot, while others stew sauerkraut, tofu and meat slices.
Of the two soup dishes, Yang Chunyan’s favorite is the sauerkraut and tofu stewed with pork. It tastes like both tofu and pork, and the light sour taste of the sauerkraut can just cut through the greasiness of the pork. It’s also very delicious even without dipping sauce!
The sweet potatoes used as the base for the steamed spareribs are soaked in oil and water, and the red-hearted sweet potatoes taste oily, sweet and sticky.
Secretary Xu's wife picked up a piece of cold-mixed pig ears and praised it after eating, "It's delicious! Guilan's cooking skills are really good. When the brigade slaughtered pigs for the New Year, I thought your dishes were delicious!"
Zhou's mother laughed and said, "No, the blood soup and braised red meat you cook are delicious. I always eat a big bowl of blood soup, but it's a pity that the family can only get a few pieces of braised pork, and they're gone before we can even taste them."
Aunt Zhou laughed and said, "Don't even mention eating braised pork. My kids get diarrhea every year during the Chinese New Year when they eat braised pork!"
He Xiulan: "There is less oil in my stomach. If I eat something greasy during the Chinese New Year, I will have diarrhea."
(End of this chapter)
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