Chapter 124 Chapter 123: Coming to the Door
Yang Chunyan poured the herbs from the sack into the basket, and Zhou Huaian came out with a shoulder pole. "Rain is troublesome. There is no place to dry the herbs after washing them."
"Youngest, leave it there and we'll go wash it." Zhang Xiuxiang stood up and took the carrying pole. "Go and see why your second brother hasn't come back from collecting eels yet?"
"Which brigade did he go to collect today?"
"When he left at noon, he said he was going to Guanyin to collect the goods. He came back by this time two days ago."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian walked towards the door.
After he left, Zhao Huifang whispered, "Chunyan, I think the youngest has really changed a lot during this period of time."
Yang Chunyan, "He was lazy before because he felt there was no hope in his career. Now he can see income after working for a day, so he is motivated."
"That's right!" Li Qiuyue took over the conversation. "Last year, the six strong men in our family, plus the youngest mother and the old man, earned work points throughout the year. At the end of the year, after deducting the money and food borrowed from the team, we only got a few dozen yuan. Sometimes when I think about it, I really get more and more heartless the more I work."
Zhang Xiuxiang sneered: "Get lost, those who stick their butts out to grow crops eat sweet potatoes every day, and those who cross their legs eat white rice every day."
Yang Chunyan didn't expect that her quiet sister-in-law had such a tough side: "Sweet potatoes are good for fighting cancer!"
"Anti-cancer?" Zhang Xiuxiang laughed, "Chunyan, you are so humorous!"
Li Qiuyue, "I feel heartburn after eating it, and you still say it can help with cancer!"
"Speaking of cancer, I forgot to tell you something!" Zhao Huifang looked at them with a gloating look on her face, "Didn't everyone spread the rumor that the secretary of Fangtian Brigade had cancer last year?"
Li Qiuyue nodded. "Yes, we didn't know what cancer was at the time. Later, the barefoot doctor in the team said that cancer was an incurable disease. The people in their team were so happy that they almost set off fireworks to celebrate."
"Listen to me!" Zhao Huifang said, "I heard from Xiuying that he fainted a few days ago, and his family sent him to the city hospital.
After the doctor cut open his stomach, he saw that his intestines were rotten. The doctor cut out his rotten intestines, put some dog intestines on top, and told him to leave the hospital!
Li Qiuyue: "I also heard that in the future we can even replace pig hearts with human ones!"
Yang Chunyan smiled crookedly after hearing this, "If you replace it with a pig heart or dog intestines, is it still considered a human being?"
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled evilly, "They always say bastard, bastard, now we can see with our own eyes what a bastard looks like!"
"That's right, that damn bad guy is to blame. Not only did he set the grain tax for Fangtian Brigade too high, but he also reported that other brigades paid too little grain. People from several nearby brigades are cursing him, and now he's getting his comeuppance."
Yang Chunyan picked up the basket and said, "Let's go. It will be dark if we don't leave now."
"I don't want to leave once I start talking nonsense." Zhao Huifang smiled, picked up the basket, and followed Yang Chunyan out the door toward the ditch.
When they arrived at the ditch, the water in the ditch was much fuller than when the weather was dry. The two men stood on the rocks by the ditch and began to wash the herbs.
Zhao Huifang put the cleaned plantain in her bag, thought for a moment and said, "Chunyan, I heard from my mother that Ning'an's mushrooms are not selling well. I think that in the future, except for the mushrooms that we pick and send to the canteen, we should just keep the rest and dry them."
"I think we can dry mushrooms, wood ear mushrooms, green bar mushrooms, chanterelles, and bigfoot mushrooms and store them, and then sell them in the city in the second half of the year. The price should be better."
"I picked up a lot of mushrooms today. I found a few logs full of mushrooms in the forest and filled a basket with them! The big-foot mushrooms weighed about 20 to 30 kilograms. They had to be washed and sliced before being dried."
"Have you seen any maple stumps in the woods? Ganoderma lucidum likes to grow on them."
"We don't have any. I heard that the Zhang family picked up a few, and two of them had worms." Zhao Huifang put down the herbs in her hand and asked, "Are we going into the mountains to pick mushrooms or dig herbs tomorrow?"
"We plan to go to the place where we picked up the purple Ganoderma tomorrow. We left two small ones behind last time."
"It's better to go that way. You don't know that these days, the nearby hills are full of people picking mushrooms."
Yang Chunyan washed the lung-shaped grass clean, and Zhao Huifang also washed the pieces of wild yam clean with a grass brush.
The two men picked up the baskets and walked back. When they reached the door, they saw Zhou Huaian carrying a bucket into the yard, followed by Zhou Huaijun, who was covered in black mud.
Yang Chunyan looked at him in surprise, "Second brother, did you fall into the paddy field?"
"Pah~" Zhou Huaijun spat out a mouthful of blood, "I had a fight with Ye Xiaoshuang's brother-in-law."
Yang Chunyan and the other person only then noticed that the corner of his mouth was cracked and there was a large tooth mark with blood on his face. They were stunned.
Li Qiuyue turned her head and said, "Oh my god, do men have to bite each other when they fight?"
Zhang Xiuxiang stood up and walked quickly to him, "Second brother, which brother-in-law of Ye Xiaoshuang did this?"
Zhou Jiaming and the other two stopped doing their homework and gathered around.
Zhou Xiaoqian looked at him worriedly, "Old man, ask Auntie to get some medicine to rub on you."
Zhou Jiaming, "Second Dad, who bit you?"
Zhou Jialiang took a stick and said, "Second Dad, let us help you beat him!"
Zhou Huaijun rubbed their heads and said, "Ye Dashuang. I just weighed the eels of that family in Guanyin Brigade, and that bastard came to the door and shouted for eels, 29 cents a pound...
The seller of eels to me quit immediately and asked me to either pay him 20 cents more or return the eels to him. I thought that I had received a lot of eels from this seller, so I paid him 20 cents more.
That bastard got excited now, and followed me wherever I went. I asked for 28 cents and he asked for 29 cents. He happened to meet the same family that he had bought eels from the day before. They said their scales were not big enough, so they would not sell them to him at 29 cents a pound, and sold all the eels to me.
That bastard got jealous and started to curse me. I endured it for a long time, and when I walked from Guanyin to the winter paddy field, he was still cursing me. I put down the bucket and started to fight him.
Zhou Huaian put down the bucket, "I walked to the pond, and the two were still fighting in the winter paddy field. When the brother-in-law saw me coming, he got up and ran away, saying that he would go back and call someone to settle the score with us!"
Zhang Xiuxiang's face was dark. "He is still looking for us to settle accounts. They think our family is easy to bully!" She grabbed Zhou Huaijun and said, "Let's go to the agency store to find Widow Ye!"
Before Zhang Xiuxiang finished speaking, seven people, three women and four men, rushed in aggressively. Ye Xiaoshuang was also inside, "Auntie Zhou, why did your Zhou Laoer dump the eels that my second brother collected?"
Zhou Huaijun stepped forward and said, "Bullshit, how long have I been cheating on you? I haven't come to settle accounts with you yet, and you still dare to bring people to my door!"
Before he could finish his words, Ye Dashuang, with a bruised face and nose, raised his stick and pointed at him menacingly, "You bastard, you dumped my eels into the winter paddy field, you have to pay me back!"
"Fuck you, you immortal boss! How dare you come to my house to bully me." Zhou Huaian pulled out a carrying pole and rushed forward.
"Youngest~" Zhou's mother hurried forward to stop him and looked at Ye Dashuang, "You were the first to scold my second child. What gives you the right to come here and cause trouble?"
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