The two of them sent Wang Chunhua and her son away. Zhou Huaian picked up Xiao Jiuer and said to Yang Chunyan in a low voice, "Go home and close the gate. I have something to show you."
"I saw you had something to say just now. What good stuff did you find?"
"I'll get it. You close the door and come in." Zhou Huaian responded in a low voice and hurriedly walked towards the main room holding his son.
Yang Chunyan closed the courtyard door and went into the house to see Xiao Jiuer sitting in a rattan chair eating an apple, and Zhou Huaian sticking his butt out in front of the cabinet to get something. "What is it? It's still hidden in the cabinet."
"You'll understand if you come and see." Zhou Huaian took out the urea bag, untied the hemp rope tied to it, and looked at the golden cake inside with excitement shaking his legs.
Yang Chunyan came forward to take a look, her eyes widened in shock, her mouth opened into an O shape. Zhou Huaian looked at her with great pride, "Unexpected, right? Isn't it a good idea?"
"Yeah! I didn't expect it. It's such a surprise!" Yang Chunyan grabbed Zhou Huaian's hand and looked at him. "Is it gold?"
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian grabbed two pieces and put them in her hand, saying proudly, "You'll know if you hold it in your hand. If you don't believe me, I'll take a bite." As he said that, he really took a piece and took a bite, "Look, there are teeth marks."
Yang Chunyan looked at the tooth marks on both sides of the gold cake. She didn't know how to describe her feelings. She just felt it was too unexpected. Both times they got the gold from honeycombs. The little bees had become her treasure-hunting beasts.
"It's gold. How come there are so many? Did you dig it from the beehive?"
Zhou Huaian hugged her happily, "That's where we dug it. I told you, when I saw the honeycomb had two layers, I felt a little strange. When the shovel hit the pottery jar, I thought I had dug up some ancestor's golden pagoda...
I regretted it so much, why didn't I bring you along? I didn't even have anyone to give me the courage... Seeing these things, my heart almost jumped out of my throat, and I was worried that I would faint from excitement and someone would discover the treasure..."
Yang Chunyan pushed him away with amusement and fished out a handful of gold cakes from the urea bag. "Have you counted them? How many are there?"
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "No, I'm afraid it's several dozen. Let me get a beam scale to weigh it and see how much it weighs."
Yang Chunyan put the gold cakes back and looked at the gold cakes in the bag with some worry and concern, "Huaian has so many gold cakes, what shall I do with them?" After thirty or forty years, the value of these gold cakes is immeasurable.
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes! With so many gold cakes, I can't use them all in this lifetime. The main thing is that I don't want to sit around and play right now. It's actually quite interesting to be busy making money every day."
Yang Chunyan looked at him with satisfaction, thinking that he had really matured. "It's more fulfilling to spend what you earn yourself." She was a little worried just now, afraid that he would be dazzled by so many gold cakes and turn back into the idle, wandering Zhou Huaian.
"Yes, when we settle accounts and distribute dividends, we feel happy and comfortable." Zhou Huaian said with a smile, "These things can be kept as heirlooms. We should be down-to-earth and do a good job in the current business. This is the right way!"
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan nodded heavily.
Zhou Huaian looked at her with a playful smile, "Yan'er, if others knew that we have too many worries, would they scold us?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "I think they will not only scold us, but will simply make us hate them."
Zhou Huaian looked proud, "There's nothing we can do about it. It was the mountain god who guided the little bees to give it to us."
Little Jiuer ate the apple for a while and saw the couple hugging each other in front of the cabinet, mumbling and ignoring him. He climbed down from the chair and squeezed in between the two of them, "Jiuer, hug me, Jiuer, hug me!"
"Come, let me hold you!" Zhou Huaian picked him up, thinking of what Zhou Jiakang and the others said about his mother and old man, "Don't let him see it. The little guy says whatever he thinks, and his mouth is the most unreliable."
Yang Chunyan thought so too and nodded, "I'll hold him, and you can hide him in the mezzanine above the granary."
"I'll get a beam scale to see how heavy it is." Zhou Huaian handed the child to her, ran out, and came back with the beam scale in a moment, "Here it comes, here it comes, the exciting moment is here."
Little Jiuer looked at the happy old man with her eyes wide open. She didn't know why the old man was so happy today and kept grinning foolishly!
Zhou Huaian hung the urea bag on the scale hook and found that the 30-jin side could not be pressed down. He turned to the 60-jin side and slowly moved the line outwards. Finally, it stopped. The two looked at the crosshairs on the scale bar with their mouths wide open.
Yang Chunyan screamed, "Oh my God! It's 39.5 kilograms!"
"This is measured with a beam scale. If we use the scale like the one at Wang Zhen's house, it might be even more." Zhou Huaian rubbed his nose and excitedly pinched his son who was looking at them curiously.
"My son, these and the two pieces upstairs are all family heirlooms. I don't want you to make a golden coffin anymore. If you really want to, it will be dug out in less than three days after you bury it."
"Puh, puh, puh!" Yang Chunyan spat three times and glared at him. "You are an old man now, but I don't know what nonsense you are talking about every day. Hide it quickly. I'm going to collect mushrooms."
Zhou Huaian came forward and kissed her on the face, "The excitement is over, we still have to do what we have to do!"
"Jiuer kiss!" When little Jiuer saw him kissing his own mother, he also hugged Yang Chunyan and gave her two "bo! bo!" kisses, leaving her face covered with saliva.
"Little rascal, your mother is my wife!"
Zhou Huaian kissed him on the cheek, then carried the urea bag to the corner house, entered the warehouse, climbed to the top of the granary with a ladder, picked up two fire bricks, stuffed the bag inside, and then stuffed the urea bag in.
It was inconvenient for guests to come in and out upstairs, so he later used bricks to build a mezzanine on the top of the granary to hide treasures.
Zhou Huaian put the fire bricks back to their original place, stepped on the wooden ladder to go down the granary, folded the ladder, put it against the wall, locked the granary door and walked out of the corner house.
Yang Chunyan was standing on the steps holding Xiao Jiuer's hand. When she saw him coming out, she said, "You go filter the honey. I'll go collect the mushrooms."
"Go ahead, I'll break up the honeycomb and put it on the filter cloth and come back."
"Jiuer is here, with his dad." Yang Chunyan handed the child to him, went out and opened the gate, and saw groups of villagers walking towards this side with baskets on their backs.
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The next morning, three generations of the Zhou family and Lao Xiazi moved all the mushrooms in the warehouse onto a four-wheel tractor, loaded them up, and then lifted two bamboo baskets containing jars, stuffed them with straw, and then covered them with a tarpaulin.
Yang Chunyan gave him the deer antlers that Qu Qiulin had brought and said, "There's not much money left at home, remember to bring some back."
"I know!" Zhou Huaian started the tractor, and Zhou Huaishan and his wife followed. The tractor rumbled towards the village entrance.
As soon as it was seven o'clock, the two brothers crossed the bridge and went into the city. Zhou Huaian went straight to Wang Zhen's house, and Zhou Huaishan went to Huang Yongcai.
When we arrived outside Wang Zhen's clinic, we saw a big Dongfeng parked on the side of the road, filled with bamboo baskets. These bamboo baskets were pulled over from this side, and when the car was full, they were brought back. This way they could save a lot of money on bamboo baskets every year.
Wang Zhen saw him coming and followed him in, "I was saying I would go to your place with Master Wang later!"
Zhou Huaian jumped off the tractor and rolled his eyes at him, "It's hindsight!"
Wang Zhen said with a smile: "Master Wang has just arrived. Let's unload our things and go back together?"
Zhou Huaian saw that even his eyebrows were full of joy, so he walked up to him and looked at him, "No, that's not right! You look so happy, there must be some good news?"
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "I can't tell you yet, I'll tell you in three months!"
Zhou Huaian understood immediately and pointed at him with amusement, "My dear, there will be such a foolish day for you!"
"You're so smart!" Wang Zhen smiled and patted him, "Hurry up and unload the goods, go back and pick some tomatoes and melons and bring them back to me."
"There are still some tender glutinous corns. I'll pick some when I get back later!" Zhou Huaian patted his head. "There are also watermelons planted in the sorghum field. I'll go check to see if they're ripe later!"
"Yeah!" Wang Zhen nodded repeatedly, "Is the beef and mushroom sauce fried?"
"Okay, I fried a can of chicken mushroom oil for you. Chunyan said it's very delicious!" Zhou Huaian untied the tarpaulin, opened the car board, and pointed to the two bamboo baskets on the side, "These two baskets."
Wang Zhen grabbed the bamboo basket and said, "Let's lift this down first, and the unloading people will come later."
After the two men carried it down, Zhou Huaian opened a bamboo basket and took out two jars from it.
"One can of beef and mushroom sauce and one can of chicken mushroom oil. The remaining two cans are for Boss Zheng. The other basket contains fifty kilograms of beef and mushroom sauce!"
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "The beef and mushroom sauce fried by my elder sister and aunt is really delicious. Even my grandfather likes it and says it tastes much better than the one he bought at the supply and marketing cooperative."
Zhou Huaian said proudly: "How can the one from the supply and marketing cooperative be the same? It's pork belly beef with beef shuttlecock meat, without a drop of water, it's all fried in rapeseed oil."
"Homemade ones are definitely different." Wang Zhen put the cans away, followed him into the house and poured him a glass of water. "Brother-in-law, if we have the equipment, we can set up a factory to make fried mushroom sauce and sell chicken mushroom oil. What do you think?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Boss Zheng, what do you want to do?"
"He called me yesterday and mentioned it. I asked him if he wanted to do it. He said if he wanted to do it, he could do it like mushrooms. We would be in charge of the processing and he would just buy it. He could also invest and open a factory with us."
Zhou Huaian asked curiously: "What exactly does Boss Zheng's family do? Why are they doing all kinds of business?"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "He sells food, such as medicinal herbs and mountain products. His family has some background. If we cooperate with him, as long as the products we make are of good quality, we don't have to worry about sales or people finding fault with us."
"Making this thing is very tiring. I'll go back and discuss it with Chunyan and my mother to see what they think." Zhou Huaian thought that Yang Chunyan and her mother-in-law had been busy for several hours to make such a small thing. If they were to run a factory, it would be strange if they didn't get sick from exhaustion.
"Brother-in-law, if we really set up a factory, my elder sister and the others can just take care of the ingredients, and we can hire workers to do the cleaning and frying. This way, we can find a way for the villagers to make money, and you can also make money. It's a win-win situation!" (End of this chapter)
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