Chapter 71: My feet are getting bigger from running
"I know!" Zhou Huaishan said in a muffled voice, "Mom told us when we came back, and she gave each of us more than a hundred!"
Li Qiuyue said sourly: "We went up the mountain again this afternoon and got a lot back. The youngest couple wants to sell them for hundreds more!"
Zhou Huaishan finally reacted and said in a low voice, "You mean the youngest should share equally with us?"
"I won't talk about what they sold in the morning. They found it themselves. We got those magnolia officinalis in the afternoon, so they should be divided equally!"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaishan finally understood why the youngest said those words that night. He sat up and looked at her coldly, "I think you have forgotten what you said when you begged Chunyan to take you there the night before last!"
Li Qiuyue felt a little ashamed and angry after hearing this, "Why am I doing this? I just want to save some extra money!"
"You said that the youngest couple sold it this morning, so why did they give you more than a hundred?"
Zhou Huaishan became angrier and angrier as he spoke, "I think the youngest couple should have done as you said and paid you two dollars a day.
People are always greedy, and you feel it is unfair and don’t want to do it. Tomorrow I will tell the youngest couple that you are not going."
After Zhou Huaishan said this, he turned on his side and fell asleep angrily.
"I just said that. I didn't force you to split it equally. Why are you doing this?"
"I haven't told you about that day yet!" Zhou Huaishan said as he sat up again, "That day the youngest one killed the cow, and it was you who gave them a bad look.
I think if Chunyan hadn't found the bezoar, you would have made the youngest couple pay the compensation to the Xiong family themselves!"
"Zhou Huaishan, so I am so vicious in your eyes? The youngest has never worked properly in these years. Have I ever said a word to him?"
"The eldest and second sisters-in-law married into the family before you. Did they tell anyone about it? Why didn't the eldest and second sisters-in-law give the youngest one a cold shoulder? Why didn't they complain about the little money?"
"I……"
"Just be content! Before going to bed, didn't you hear what the youngest said about the second brother?"
"I……"
"The youngest is just lazy, not an idiot who knows nothing! He is willing to share the money because we tolerated him in the past."
After saying this, Zhou Huaishan lay down and ignored her.
Li Qiuyue also lay down and tossed and turned until she fell asleep in the middle of the night.
The next morning, before it was even light, Zhou's mother woke Zhou Huaian and his partner up and said, "Eat your meal and leave early, so that the villagers won't ask you questions when the sun comes up."
Zhou Huaian narrowed his eyes, "Got it!"
When Yang Chunyan went out, she saw Magnolia officinalis flowers packed in bamboo baskets and Magnolia officinalis barks packed in sacks tied to the chicken bus.
After the two of them finished their meal, they took some water and dry food, and Zhou Huaian pushed the chicken bus out the door with a "creak, creak" sound.
Yang Chunyan held a flashlight and watched him walking steadily in front of her. She felt that Zhou Huaian's movements in controlling the chicken bus were more natural than the previous two times.
The two of them walked one in front and one behind. When they reached the steep slope, Yang Chunyan walked to the front to hold the body of the bus, helping to reduce the speed of the bus sliding down.
Zhou Huaian worked hard to steady the car as it went down, and the bus went smoothly to the other side of the river.
"Yan'er, take a break!" Zhou Huaian put down the chicken bus, wiped his sweat, and sat on the shaft of the bus, panting. "I go to Ning'an every other day, and my feet are getting tired."
"Usually you like running outside the most. I think running outside every other day is just what you want!"
"Haha, playing and working are two different things, don't you understand?"
"I can't get my money back if I go out and play!"
Hearing her talk about money, Zhou Huaian recalled what he hadn't said last night, "Yan'er, my second brother said some sour words last night, and I said a few words to him. When the old man heard it, he said I was right!"
Yang Chunyan found him very amused when she saw his proud look, "Are you so happy when an old man praises you?"
"It's common for the old man to scold and beat me in front of others." Zhou Huaian sighed, "He praised me for the first time in my life!"
"Don't you think about what you did before? You're over 20 years old, but you haven't done as much as Jiaming and Xiaoqian!"
"Look at my mother, my husband and my eldest brother. They work in the production team all year long, but in the end they still have to eat cornmeal and shredded sweet potatoes every day. I just can't bear to work like that!"
"You think there's no money in farming, so what do you want to do?"
"I didn't find a goal before, but now I think growing herbs is a good idea. They're both growing things, and they make a lot more money than growing food!"
"Growing herbs also requires learning planting techniques. Wait for Doctor Wang to find the planting book for us, and you can take a good look at it."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian stood up, "Let's go, stop a tractor on the road and go into the city!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan carried the backpack, and the two of them walked towards the road, one in front and the other behind.
When they reached the roadside and rested for a while, the tractor didn't come. So they pushed the cart for about ten minutes and heard the rumble of a tractor coming over.
After Zhou Huaian waved his hand to stop the car, it was still 1.5 cents per person. This time he did not sit in the driving seat and got on the back of the truck with Yang Chunyan.
After Yang Chunyan sat down, she glanced at Zhou Huaian, who was squeezing her down with a drooling face, and whispered, "Why are you squeezing in here when there's so much room over there?"
Zhou Huaian patted her shoulder and whispered in her ear: "I'll make a pillow for you!"
As he spoke, a slightly warm breath lingered in her ears. Yang Chunyan's face turned red. She turned her head away from him and lay down on the sack of the chicken bus, her heart pounding!
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan, whose ears were red, and leaned on the truck bed with a smug smile on his face.
The tractor swayed from side to side as it rumbled along the road. Soon both of them fell asleep, their heads gradually leaning against each other.
Yang Chunyan heard her master calling her in a daze, and when she opened her eyes she found that the two of them were leaning against each other.
Zhou Huaian wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth and stood up, "Falling asleep!"
Yang Chunyan stood up, picked up the backpack, and together with Zhou Huaian, lifted the sack off the car. They also asked a master to help lift the chicken cart off the car. After paying the fare, the two of them lifted the sack onto the car, tied it up, and pushed the chicken cart towards North Street with a "creaking" sound.
When they arrived at the North Street pharmacy, it was already open. Doctor Wang was taking a patient's pulse. Wang Zhen, who was sitting nearby studying, saw the two men coming and took them to the backyard.
"Did you go up the mountain again yesterday?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "Go early, so as not to miss the buds blooming."
"It's so tiring to come here early in the morning and then rush back to the mountains to collect herbs!"
"As long as I can make money, this little bit of hardship doesn't matter at all!"
Yang Chunyan curled her lips: "..." You said it better than singing. It's you who are making a fuss about not wanting to go!
Wang Zhen dragged the scale to the chicken bus and found that this batch of Magnolia officinalis was more than three times more than the last time, with a total of 193.7 kilograms for a total of 484.25 yuan, and 137.6 kilograms of Magnolia officinalis flowers for a total of 412.8 yuan.
Haha! I made a few hundred dollars again!
Zhou Huaian was so happy that his teeth were showing. He diligently helped Wang Zhen put the Magnolia officinalis flowers into the basket.
Wang Zhen was also very happy. After seeing the magnolia bark yesterday, his grandfather said that the quality of this batch of magnolia bark was quite good and he planned to keep it for his own use:
"Sister Yang, have all the Magnolia officinalis on the mountain been harvested?"
Yang Chunyan nodded. "We finished harvesting yesterday, and there are still some small trees that have not grown into timber."
Zhou Huaian looked at Wang Zhen with a smile, "Doctor Wang, did you buy the book on herbal medicine that the old man bought for me?"
Wang Zhen was stunned for a moment before he realized who he was talking about. He smiled and shook his head, "You have to ask grandpa to know!"
As he was talking, Doctor Wang walked into the backyard, looked at the Magnolia officinalis that had been sent to him, and said to Yang Chunyan, "Next time you go up the mountain and meet herb collectors, teach them how to harvest them, so that they don't destroy all the old trees."
Yang Chunyan said respectfully: "I'll remember that."
(End of this chapter)
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