Zhou Huaian thought so too. "Many people asked us to buy some cotton, cloth, hoes and grain for them next time we go in. I plan to buy everything for them tomorrow and then go in and give them the money the day after tomorrow."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought about how few people knew about their first trip, and that they would go to pay the rest of the money the day after tomorrow, and it would still be a lot of cash. She looked at him worriedly, "You carry so much money, will there be any problems on the way?"
Zhou Huaian lazily nestled in the rattan chair, watching her put away the account book, "It's okay, Secretary Lin said he would bring people to Baicaoping to pick us up. Besides, there are four of us and three guns, how dare ordinary hooligans attack us?"
I brought so much cash into the mountains this time, and came back with so many valuable goods. It would be a lie to say I wasn't worried or afraid.
The four of them were extremely alert on the road and slept with one eye open at night. They didn't relax until the tractor entered the Fangtian fork in the road. After arriving home, their tense nerves finally relaxed.
Yang Chunyan was still a little worried. "I'm worried that you guys are carrying so much cash. If someone knows about it, the tiger will be no match for the wolves."
"Don't be afraid! Ding Ding Mao brought back a lot of bullets from the forest farm. Even if dozens of people come, we are not afraid!" Zhou Huaian said with a playful smile as he approached her, hugged her and gave her a kiss, "Honey, did you miss me?"
"Why do I miss you?" Yang Chunyan slapped his mischievous hand away and glared at him in reproach, "Let me go and stop making trouble. You've only been out for a few days? You're already thinking about that kind of thing when you come back."
"No, I'm hugging my wife, not someone else!" Zhou Huaian hugged her tightly, "If I go out for a few days and don't miss you, you'll worry again! I'm afraid you'll cry and say that I have someone else outside... mmm..."
Yang Chunyan supported his head, pushed him away, and glared at him fiercely, "Mom is coming back, let go quickly, the lice on your head need to die, you need to rinse your hair, otherwise it will be poisonous."
"You can let me go, but you have to treat me well tonight, or I will..."
Yang Chunyan heard footsteps coming from outside and angrily grabbed his soft flesh and twisted it, "Someone is coming, let go!"
"It hurts, it hurts..." Zhou Huaian gritted his teeth and grabbed her hand that was twisting the soft flesh on her waist. The scarf wrapped around her head fell to the ground.
At this time, Zhou's mother's voice rang out in the yard, "Chunyan, is the youngest one back?"
"You're back!" Yang Chunyan patted him with a red face, "That's good, Mom knows!"
"We are a happy couple, and I am happy." Zhou Huaian said as he picked up the towel that fell on the ground, "You go out first, I will wash it later."
Yang Chunyan rubbed her hot face, took the towel and walked out. She saw Zhou's mother holding Xiao Jiuer sitting on a stool, "How many duck eggs did you collect?"
Mother Zhou looked at her with a smile and said, "I received more than 300. I will pack some for myself tomorrow and send some to Dr. Wang's family and your mother's family."
Yang Chunyan blushed again after seeing this, "Huaian and Yiding got lice outside..."
"What's so strange about lice? Some people even have bedbugs at home!" Zhou's mother happily carried Xiao Jiuer in her arms and walked towards the kitchen with her. She was happy that her son and daughter-in-law had a good relationship.
Zhou Huaian sat in the house for a while before going to the backyard to rinse his hair. He saw several lice that had been killed by drugs floating in the water in the porcelain basin. "Fuck! There really are some!"
Yang Chunyan rinsed him several times and combed his hair to look for lice. She was relieved when she didn't see any lice. "Tomorrow I'll go to the mountains to get some lice. We won't need lice medicine next time."
"Just use a hundred copies, right?"
"The root tubers of Stemona radix can be used externally to kill head lice, body lice, and pinworms. They have a good insecticide effect and are harmless to the body, but you have to use a larger amount. You can talk to Secretary Lin and the others and ask them to dig some and boil water to wash your hair and take a bath."
Stemona bulb, also known as mother-in-law grass and lice medicine, is a plant of the Stemonaceae family.
Stemona is a perennial herb with clusters of spindle-shaped fleshy tubers underground, and the upper part of the stem climbs up other things. The leaves are ovate, with 2-4 leaves arranged in whorls on the nodes. In early spring, light green flowers bloom, and the pedicels grow on the main veins of the leaves, as if the flowers grow from the leaves.
Stemona: sweet, bitter, slightly warm. The root can be used as medicine, which is toxic and has the effects of moistening the lungs, lowering qi, relieving cough and killing insects. It can repel mosquitoes when applied externally and relieve cough when taken internally.
Zhou Huaian nodded repeatedly, "That's fine, I'll tell them when I get there."
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The next morning, Zhou Huaian, feeling refreshed, went to Ning'an with Pueraria powder and yam. Huang Yongcai asked for some of the yam, and the rest were all sent to Deshengtang.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding carried the three bags of kudzu root powder from the truck bed to the backyard, and then carried them directly to the main room and put them down. "This is the kudzu root powder that we just dried at home. You can keep one bag for yourself, and let the truck driver take the rest back to Boss Zheng."
Wang Zhen nodded and said, "It just so happens that they are here too. Come with me to the hotel later to see the tractor."
Zhou Huaian nodded happily, "Let's go check it out first. There are too many cases of conjunctivitis in the village. Let's go back when we start harvesting truffles."
"It's the same in every village!" Yang Dongmei untied the hemp rope and looked at the white kudzu root powder inside. "Brother-in-law, are these all ground from the kudzu root that we dug out from the big pit in your house?"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian handed her the basket, "There are also preserved eggs and yam here. The preserved eggs will be edible after a while, and the yam was specially picked for you by your sister."
"Thank you, brother-in-law!" Yang Dongmei went to the kitchen carrying a basket of vegetables.
After Wang Zhen and the other two weighed the yams, they went to the backyard of the hotel and pulled back the tarpaulin, revealing a four-wheel tractor painted in bright red with a large truck bed.
These days, small four-wheel tractors are still standard equipment for households with an annual income of 10,000 yuan.
Zhou Huaian walked around happily, "This is good, I don't have to worry about wind or rain anymore."
"I'll go up and give it a try first." Zhou Yiding opened the door of the cab, sat in it and said to Wang Zhen, "Have you refueled?"
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "It's full. Master Wang took me for a run on the road yesterday."
Zhou Yiding smiled and waved at the two of them, "You two come up too!"
"I'm still busy over there, don't go too far!" Wang Zhen said after going up.
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding started the tractor and drove out of the backyard. "This one is more comfortable to drive."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "You get what you pay for. Of course it's An Yi!"
The three of them drove around in a circle, then drove the tractor back to the hotel, parked it, and returned to Desheng Hall.
Zhou Huaian and his companion took the list and helped the villagers buy everything. They went to the bank to withdraw money and drove back on the tractor.
As soon as we arrived at the Fangtian fork in the road, we saw a group of people running towards us carrying a stretcher. The people in the front saw the tractor and waved their hands excitedly.
"Zhou Laoyao, help! Zhou Laoyao..."
Zhou Yiding stood up and looked over. "Youngest, they seem to be from the Guanyin Brigade. They seem to be carrying someone behind them."
Zhou Huaian hurriedly braked the tractor and asked, "What happened?"
Several men came running over with a stretcher, sweating profusely, "Wu San's wife is having a difficult labor, please help take her to the town clinic."
Zhou Huaian said without hesitation: "Wait for me to turn around, and you guys hurry up and carry it up!" He then drove the tractor into the field, quickly turned around, and got on the mechanized farming road, "Hurry up and get up."
"Hey, hey!" Several men carried the stretcher into the truck bed. The old woman who had caught up with them climbed on with the midwife with red eyes.
Zhou Yiding turned his head and saw that the woman was pale and even her moans were very weak. He thought of Wan Xuejiao who was about to give birth at the end of the year, and his heart tightened.
The midwife comforted the worried mother-in-law and Wu San, "This is your wife's first child and she is weak. If we take her to the hospital, the doctor can perform surgery to remove the baby. She will be fine."
Wu San didn't know if he heard it or not. He just held his wife's hand and kept shouting, "Xiao Xiu, don't sleep. We'll be at the hospital soon..."
The two people in front felt their noses sore after hearing this.
Zhou Huaian drove the tractor to the town at the fastest speed. Several men jumped off the tractor and ran quickly towards the hospital under the guidance of the midwife.
Mrs. Wu got off the tractor and said to Zhou Huaian and the others with gratitude, "Zhou Laoyao, I'll give you the fare when we get back. Don't worry, we will go over to hang red and set off fireworks."
"It's okay!" Zhou Huaian waved his hands repeatedly, "Just go! There's no need to make a fuss about lending a hand!"
There is a saying among the people that when a woman gives birth, there will be blood, and the evil spirit on her body will be very heavy. If she is attacked by the evil spirit, she must hang red and set off firecrackers to drive away the evil spirit.
"What a good man!" Mrs. Wu wiped her tears, turned around and ran towards the hospital.
Zhou Yiding looked at the people who were running so fast that they couldn't even touch the ground. "Youngest, let's wait here for a while and see how Wu San's wife is doing."
Zhou Huaian nodded after hearing this. Seeing his worried look, he understood what he was thinking. "Don't worry, we're already in the hospital. We should be fine."
"Youngest, when Xue Jiao gives birth, I'd better send her to the hospital first."
"To be on the safe side, it's better to send him to the hospital."
The two sat outside for a while before they saw the man who had helped carry the woman in labor come out.
Zhou Yiding waved at them and asked, "How is Wu San's wife?"
Wu Lao Er replied, "She's been sent for surgery. I heard they'll need a cesarean section to take the baby out."
Zhou Yiding heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, "That's good, that's good!"
"Are you going back?" Zhou Huaian walked towards the nose of the plane with the crank in his hand, feeling relieved.
"Yes!" Wu Laoer said gratefully, "Thank you very much, Zhou Laoyao. I will go to your house to thank you after Lao San is done with this busy period."
"It's okay. There's nothing to thank my fellow villagers for their help." Zhou Huaian drove the tractor back.
"That's because you are a good person. Some people from the same village go to ask for help, but they don't even... Humph!" Wu Laoer thought of the family in the village who had just bought a tractor and who said that having a baby was an unlucky thing and refused to take his brother and sister-in-law to the hospital.
Unexpectedly, Zhou Laoyao from the next village agreed without hesitation. The doctor said that if it was delayed any longer, my brother-in-law and the child would be in danger. No wonder the Zhou family's business is getting better and better, God sees it all! (End of this chapter)
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