Chapter 359 360: Unreasonable Mother
As soon as Zhou Huaian drove his tractor to Zhou Yiding's house, Xu Erchun arrived.
He looked at the two of them with a grin, "When I saw the tractor coming into the village, I knew it was you!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him sideways, "What's wrong? Do you miss me after not seeing me for a few days?"
"You are not money, so why would I care about you?" Xu Erchun said with a smile, "I have built the foundation at the grove."
Zhou Huaian and the other man looked at him in surprise after hearing this, "Ah! You don't live with your mother and husband?"
Xu Erchun hesitated for a moment. "I don't know how the Yang family knew that my mother had a bad temper. They were worried that Yang Hui wouldn't get along with my mother. They said they didn't need a dowry, but she had to have her own house and live separately after marriage."
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes at him and said, "How come you have no principles at all? Your mother has a bad temper, but she is still your mother. She will always be good to you!"
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "That's right, you complain about your mother before you even get married. Even if she is Chunyan's elder, I still look down on her."
Xu Erchun's face turned red like a cooked shrimp, "I know you are doing this for my own good, and I won't give it up if there is any way.
You have all experienced how difficult my unreasonable mother is. If she had been more obedient, my two sisters-in-law would not have quarreled with her like that."
He sighed and said, "To be honest, every girl I went on a blind date with was doing well, but her family came to the village to inquire about the relationship and then they disagreed."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian and the others felt uncomfortable thinking of Xu's mother. She was a typical snob, not only was she very talkative, but she also had a lot of ears for whatever happened in the village. She was just like the know-it-all in the novels.
"Last time my mother-in-law came, she didn't ask us about your family. How did the Yang family know about your family?"
Zhou Yiding rolled his eyes at him and said, "Fang Nao Ke, even if your mother-in-law wanted to help find out about Erchun's family, she wouldn't ask you. Aunt Xu's reputation in the village can be found out by just asking anyone who comes to your house to drink Shangliang wine."
Xu Erchun said hurriedly, "I don't blame the youngest mother-in-law for telling Yang Hui's family about my mother, because no matter which girl is betrothed to someone, someone will find out. You know our village is short of everything except gossipy women."
"This time, too, the Yang family came to the village to inquire and learned that my mother and her two sisters-in-law were worse than enemies, so they told their request to the matchmaker, Sister Zhang."
"I thought about it for a long time, and I thought that the Yang family didn't ask for a dowry to let me build the house, which was actually for our own good. Besides, things far away smell better than things close by. I think the reason why my mother and my sister-in-law and her family are so upset is probably because they live too close to my sister-in-law and her family. It might be better if Yang Hui gets married and we live farther away from each other."
"After I told my mother about this, she went to my sister-in-law and her family to make trouble, insisting that they pay 100 yuan to repair my house. Oh, the three of them almost broke down the sky."
Zhou Huaian and the other man shuddered when they thought of how powerful the quarreling old women in the village were.
Xu Erchun smiled bitterly and continued, "I calculated that I have saved nearly 500 yuan now. I don't need to buy a dowry now. With the wood at home, even if I'm short, it won't be much."
"I went to find my eldest and second brothers and told them to ignore my mother and help me with some rough work while I started. They readily agreed."
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "You are right. Your mother's temper is indeed bad. In this case, you brothers don't have to act like enemies."
Zhou Huaian patted Xu Erchun on the shoulder and said, "Actually, I have no right to say anything to you. After my brothers and I built our new house, my mom and dad didn't live with us anymore. They lived in the old house with grandpa."
Seeing his two good friends say this, Xu Erchun felt better and said to Zhou Huaian, "I asked your husband to lend me the drying shed for a while, and he agreed. I came to you to borrow your sand screening net.
He said with a smile, "My money is not enough to buy cement. I plan to learn how to burn lime yourself. I have picked up a lot of limestone these days. I will ask you to help me pull a few trucks when the time comes. Just give me a preferential price for the wages."
Zhou Huaian said readily: "That's no problem. I'll say hello to my brother and ask them to go get it for you when I'm not around."
Zhou Yiding also said: "Yes, if you need help, just let me know. I'll be here these days."
Xu Erchun looked at the two of them gratefully. "I plan to build the main house first. I have more than enough bricks and tiles from two kilns. My brother and sister-in-law asked me to help them dig yellow mud and make adobe bricks before the rapeseed is planted. There is no other help needed for the time being."
Zhou Yiding: "Just let me know if you need anything in the future."
"Okay!" Xu Erchun looked at the two of them happily, "Then I'll go back first. I still have to chop trees and dig stumps in the afternoon."
"Yes." Zhou Yiding walked two steps forward, returned to the yard, took out a piece of meat from the bamboo basket, went to the kitchen and saw Wan Xuejiao filtering rice, "I cut a pound of meat and brought it back, you can fry it."
Wan Xuejiao nodded, "Brother Zhou, are you eating here with us?"
"I'll go back and eat." Zhou Huaian yelled, went to the main room and took out the money from his waist bag, "Ding Ding Cat, let's settle the bill and divide the money!"
"Here it comes!" Zhou Yiding looked at the eight-immortal table piled with ten-dollar bills, five-dollar bills, two-dollar bills, and some dimes, "More money is coming in!"
Zhou Huaian put the big unity in a pile, "That's it! Two yuan and sixty cents a pound, and sold 105 pounds in several canteens and the guesthouse. Including the deer penis, deer tendons and honey, the total sales were 486 yuan. The rest was the money from retail sales and deer skins."
Zhou Yiding sorted out the dimes and put them aside. "What are you reporting? Help me count the money and distribute it!"
Zhou Huaian laughed and said, "Why are you panicking when you're at home?"
The two of them sorted out the money and went through it. Zhou Yiding narrowed his eyes and smiled, "Not bad, including the 350 yuan from the deerskin, I made more than 800 yuan this trip, so each of us can get more than 400 yuan."
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "It's troublesome to sell it in retail, but the price is really good." He counted out three hundred and said, "The rest are yours."
Zhou Yiding glared, "What do you mean?"
Zhou Huaian pressed down his hand that was about to pay, "Listen to me, you haven't taken a penny from selling herbs, I'm really sorry for you. If you still treat me as a brother, you can take this money."
"No!" Zhou Yiding looked at him seriously, "I treat you as a brother, so I can't take more. Don't tell me that brothers should settle accounts clearly. If you say that, it proves that you don't treat me as your brother at all."
Zhou Huaian looked at him lovingly, "Okay, I'll take it."
"That's good enough." Zhou Yiding counted out the money and handed it to him, saying unhappily, "Take it, and don't complain anymore."
Zhou Huaian took it and slapped him, "Then you are not allowed to complain to me from now on."
"I never do that kind of thing." Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "I'll go take a look at your new house this afternoon, and bring the furniture back when it's finished."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian packed the money and said, "I'll go back first. I'll call you to see the house after dinner and take a look at the medicinal seeds that have been planted."
(End of this chapter)
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