"No more, they must have all been distributed by now." Zhou Huaian said with a playful smile, "Brother Huang, isn't the purpose of making money to eat better? If you get something rare, of course your family should try it first!"
"I don't want to bother with you two losers!" Huang Yongcai glared at him unhappily and turned to look at other wild animals. "How much do you want to give me?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Of course I'll give you the lion's share!"
"That's good enough!" Huang Yongcai was satisfied. He took all the pheasants and rabbits they brought. In addition to the goats and wild boars, he also asked for the meat of two badgers. When he heard that Zhou Huaian wanted to leave a leg for Wang Zhen, he readily chopped off a leg for him.
The price of wild boar meat remained the same, Huang Yongcai asked for fifty kilograms. The prices of badgers, small wild boars and black goats all increased by two cents. Together with the pheasants and rabbits, the total sales amounted to nearly five hundred yuan.
The two took the money and went to Master Li again, giving him a piece of meat that looked like a strange beast, thirty pounds of wild boar meat, a black goat, a small wild boar weighing seventy or eighty pounds, and a badger boar, which they sold for more than two hundred yuan.
He drove the tractor to several other restaurants and sold about 100 kilograms of meat in total, with 40 to 50 kilograms of meat left in the basket.
Zhou Huaian and the other man were too lazy to set up the stall, so they sent a piece of the meat of the four-legged beast to Xu Changming's house, came out, took out a knife, divided the wild boar meat into two pieces, and went to North Street.
When they arrived at the intersection of Xinhua Bookstore, Li Qiuxia and her husband heard the sound of a tractor, turned around and saw that it was them, they both stood up with a smile, one was busy scooping ice jelly while the other went to greet them.
"Brother Zhou, why are you in the city at this time? Is there something wrong?"
Li Qiuxia held up the ice jelly and said angrily, "Dalin, please ask Brother Zhou to sit down and have a bowl of ice jelly."
"Yes, yes, it's terribly hot. Let's have a bowl of ice jelly to cool down first." Gao Dalin hurriedly brought stools to the two of them. "My brother-in-law came to deliver food this morning. Why are you here to buy things now?"
"We went up the mountain to hunt some game to sell." Zhou Huaian went to the truck bed, picked up a piece of meat, and handed it to Gao Dalin. "We've sold all the small ones, but there are still a few dozen kilograms of the big ones left. Let's share some among our families to prevent them from going bad."
Gao Dalin saw that he was carrying at least five or six kilograms of meat, and said embarrassedly: "Youngest brother, there are so many, it would be great to sell them for money."
Li Qiuxia turned around and said, "Youngest brother, there are too many. You worked so hard to earn them. Sell them for money!"
"Wild boar meat is very tough and hard to sell." Zhou Huaian stuffed the meat into his hands, "Take it. I'm so thirsty. I'm going to drink ice jelly."
"It will be ready soon!" Li Qiuxia hurriedly took the spoon and put it in the bowl, then brought it to the table and placed it in front of the two of them. "Try it. If it's not sweet enough, I'll add some brown sugar for you."
Zhou Yiding took a sip and said, "The taste is just right. Sister Qiuxia's cooking skills are getting better and better."
"No, it's made with brown sugar, and everyone likes it because it's sweet." Li Qiuxia sat aside, "I see that the millet in the nearby villages has been harvested, so you guys are going to start harvesting too, right?"
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "We will start harvesting tomorrow, and I will send you some new rice after the millet is harvested."
Li Qiuxia waved her hand and said, "No need to send it. There are rice sellers in the nearby village. It's cheaper to buy it in the village than on the street."
"Go to the village to buy it. Every year we also go to the village near Baima Town to buy millet and bring it back."
Zhou Huaian and his friend finished the ice jelly in their bowls, feeling the coolness and comfort. They wiped their mouths, stood up and said goodbye, went to Deshengtang, and gave Wang Zhen the meat and pheasant that they had reserved for him.
Zhou Huaian lifted the straw curtain covering the skeleton, "We heard that the bones of the Sibu Xiang can also be used as medicine, so we brought them here."
Seeing that they brought the entire skeleton, Wang Zhen smiled and pointed at the limbs of the serow. "The medicinal part of the serow is its limb bones. After being processed, it can be used to make wine and is good for rheumatic bone pain. Both the old man and Yiding's father can use it."
Zhou Yiding was pleasantly surprised when he heard this: "Then I won't sell it. I'll go find Brother Weimin and buy a few dozen kilograms of wine, and you can help us make it!"
Since Wang Zhen helped the old man take care of his health, his rheumatism and bone pain have improved a lot. Now people are willing to help prepare serow bones to soak in wine, but of course you have to buy the wine yourself.
"Okay!" Wang Zhen agreed readily, and pointed to the horn of the serow, "There is another good thing, which is its horn. Fortunately, you didn't throw it away. The horn of the serow is the best for treating convulsions in children, strokes in the elderly, and convulsions of the hands and feet. I will give it to you after I have prepared it."
Zhou Huaian and his friend had never expected that the horns of the serow could be used in such a big way. "We think the two pointed horns are very beautiful, and since you like to collect some strange things, we left them for you."
"Yeah, the youngest one said you liked me so I kept it."
"Well! Fortunately you didn't throw it away!" Wang Zhen didn't expect that the two kept the serow horns for this reason. He decided to teach Zhou Huaian about the medicinal parts of the wild animals in the mountains when he has time, so that they won't throw away the treasure as garbage in the future.
"Brother-in-law, you and Yiding chop off the bones of the serow. Leave two pounds of ribs and dragon bones here, and take the rest back to make soup."
"That's right!"
Zhou Huaian and his companion climbed up and carried the herbs and mushrooms from the truck bed down. "We brought you some half-dried matsutake and other mushrooms. They are very suitable for stewing pheasant."
Golden thread vine, rhubarb, and red root are being sold this time. The price of Paris polyphylla is not good this year, so the two plan to leave it there and sell it next year.
Wang Zhen went to get a chopping board and an axe, and Zhou Huaian and the other man helped to clean up the serow, and gave him some of the chopped meat.
After Wang Zhen weighed the herbs, he found that all the golden thread vines only cost about 1.2 jin (2.5 kg) of dried goods, and together with the rhubarb and red roots, he sold them for exactly 500 yuan.
The two men packed up the bones, Zhou Yiding ran to buy some wine, and Wang Zhen put the bones in a bamboo basket, carried it in and put it away, then came out with a box and gave it to Zhou Huaian.
"The mints that Xiaomei and I made taste pretty good."
"Let me try it!" Zhou Huaian broke off a piece and tasted it, and found that it was almost the same as the ones bought in the store. "Amazing! You can even make mint candy!"
"It's just for fun." Wang Zhen pulled a chair for him to sit down. "Master Wang will be here tomorrow. We'll load the truck when he gets to Funiu. I've told them about the price increase of sorghum liquor. Next year's truffle liquor will increase by 20 cents per pound from the original price."
"That's about right." Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "I think the price of wine will continue to rise in the future. If you can get some good wine, buy some and store it in the cellar. Maybe you can make some money in the future."
"The most expensive liquor right now is Maotai, which is about eight yuan a bottle. How about I go find someone I know at the Sugar and Wine Company and order a few bottles to put in the wine cellar?"
"The more the better. The price of sorghum liquor is rising. Who knows how much it will rise in the future! We can stock up and sell it if it's worthwhile. If it's not worthwhile, we can drink it ourselves!"
"Okay!" Wang Zhen said with a smile, "When I stop seeing patients, I'll drink with you!"
"Then I'll wait." Zhou Huaian put the things away in the truck bed. "My family originally planned to start harvesting the grain tomorrow. They'll come and take the wine away tomorrow, and we can harvest the grain peacefully."
"You have a large family, so you can harvest a few acres of land in two days."
"We have to help Ding Ding Cat collect them. After that, we will go to Bailing Mountain to collect herbs."
"I see you're busier than I am."
"I can't sit still like you, guarding the clinic all day long."
Just as Wang Zhen was about to speak, someone came in hurriedly, holding a child in his arms. "Doctor Wang, my son has a stomachache and eating pagoda candies doesn't help. Can you help me take a look?"
"Hold me here!"
Zhou Huaian stood up when he saw this and said, "You are busy, Ding Dingmao and I will leave first!"
Wang Zhen nodded and concentrated on examining the child.
As Zhou Huaian walked out of the clinic, Zhou Yiding came over from Yang Weimin's place and said, "I asked Brother Weimin to bring over 50 kilograms of wine."
"Fuck! There are only a few bones, and you want to make 50 kilograms!"
"It's better to have more. We can't let Wang Zhen pay for everything!" Zhou Yiding glanced inside the clinic. "Shall we go back first?"
"Back!" Zhou Huaian went to get the crank, "Let Xuejiao come to my place to eat and worship the mountain god."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding sat in the driving seat, started the car, and drove the tractor out of the yard.
There was no conversation along the way. It was already past five o'clock when they arrived at the village entrance. There were not many people drying the dam at this time.
He stopped at Zhou Yiding's house, and the two of them went in and divided the money. In a few days, each of them got five or six hundred yuan. They also saved up some floribunda, serow bone wine, and serow horns. Just thinking about it made him happy.
Wan Xuejiao thought for a moment, then whispered to Zhou Yiding, "Someone from above came to investigate Brother Zhou a few days ago, saying that someone went to the Agricultural Bureau to report that his family was using the land allocated to them by the village to grow herbs, thus damaging food production."
Zhou Yiding cursed after hearing this, "Fuck his ancestors, which beast did this? I can't kill him."
"What's wrong? Someone is bullying Xuejiao when you are not here? Who is this blind beast?" Zhou Huaian asked as he walked into the main room.
Wan Xuejiao hurriedly said: "Brother Zhou, no one bullied me, someone reported you..."
After hearing what she said, Zhou Huaian laughed angrily, "Fuck you, you even used an anonymous letter. How jealous are you of me?"
Zhou Yiding was so angry, "Youngest, it was a member of the Xiong family last time, who do you think did it this time? The youngest Xiong went to the flower market, could it be that third Xiong, that idiot, did it?"
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "It's not him, I think it's 99% likely Zhou Huaixing!"
Wan Xuejiao took over and said, "It could be him. I heard that Li Yinfu often speaks ill of your family outside, and also said that the business of collecting truffles and red mushrooms belongs to your family. Uncle Datian and Secretary Xu were bribed by you, so they speak for your family.
They also said that you were just trying to save face. You nominally said that you were supporting the old man, but in fact you took him over to help with the work because he was still able to work. When the old man could no longer work, you started to cause trouble for his family and the third room. "
Zhou Huaian sneered, "Old hag, if you have the guts, just say it to my face. I have a heart as black as ink, and I think everyone in the world is as vicious and filthy as her!"
Wan Xuejiao reminded: "Brother Zhou, if it was really Zhou Huaixing who did it, Second Grandfather is still alive, so it would be difficult for you to find them!"
"Why don't you look for him?" Zhou Yiding said with disgust, "When the youngest's family was having a hard time, the eldest son was always saying bad things about his family. Now that they are better off than him, it's still them. They are all sick in the head." (End of this chapter)
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