Yang Chunyan and her friend walked to Zhou Huaishan's medicinal field and saw that everyone was building a bamboo fence around the field.
Zhou Huaishan's house is the simplest. The fences adjacent to the medicine field, Zhou Huaian's house, and Zhou Huaijun's house have all been surrounded. All that needs to be done is to fence in the front and back.
The two saw Zhang Xiuxiang coming over with a bundle of bamboo strips and bamboo strips hanging on her shoulders. Luo Haili stepped forward and said with a smile, "Cousin, where are Qiaoling and Xiaowen?"
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the place where the kids were playing just now and didn't see anyone. "They were all there just now. Go to the edge of big brother's field and see if he was fishing in the ditch."
"Oh!" Luo Haili hurried over there.
Yang Chunyan stepped forward, took the bamboo strips and followed her forward. The several ridges in the middle of the field were paved with gravel using stones picked up during land clearing. Walking on them would not dirty the cloth shoes at all.
"It's pretty fast. Only the third brother's house is left to be fenced off."
Zhang Xiuxiang pointed at the weeds in the field and said, "The wheat grass in the field is taller than the herbs. Tomorrow we will have to weed and fertilize after we build the fence."
"Take your time. There is no end to the work."
Yang Chunyan and the other person arrived at the place where the bamboo strips were to be inserted, and saw Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun inserting the bamboo strips into the soil. Zhou Huaishan crossed the bamboo strips and tied the fixed long bamboo strips with bamboo strips, and Li Qiuyue reinforced them.
The two men put down the bamboo strips and bamboo strips and helped to place the bamboo strips at appropriate distances.
Zhang Xiuxiang thought about it and smiled: "I went to the old house yesterday to check it out. The Chuanxiong you planted are growing well, but they are a little scarce."
Yang Chunyan: "We only found a few seeds. When more stems sprout next year, we can cut them and divide them into plants."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Yes, it will only increase year by year. Plant all the remaining seeds in the spring, and there will be nearly twenty kinds of herbs in the medicinal field."
Yang Chunyan counted and said, "We already have 20 species. We also planted epimedium and clover in the forest. Next year, we will plant chicken shit vine around the fence."
"Yeah! As long as you don't rub it, it will look pretty when it blooms." Zhang Xiuxiang said, looking at Li Qiuyue who was helping to insert the bamboo strips. "Qiuyue is so angry. Her scoundrel brother and sister-in-law said they would send their son here so that Qiuyue can teach him how to make money."
Yang Chunyan pointed to the uncultivated mountain land and said, "Why is this so annoying? It would be better to give her free labor!"
Zhang Xiuxiang clapped her hands and laughed, "Yes, there are still dozens of acres of forest on the top of the mountain that have not been opened. When we get here, let Lao San drag us up the mountain every day to open the land."
"Second sister-in-law, which one do you think we should let the third brother take to go up the mountain to open up the land?" Li Qiuyue came over and asked.
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "I told Chunyan..."
Li Qiuyue said angrily: "That bastard is too lazy to roast the snakes to eat, he is too lazy to dry the snakes to eat, will he do it if he is asked to work on the land?"
Zhang Xiuxiang: "He is here to be an apprentice, not a patriarch. If he doesn't work, just kick him out with a big broom!"
"That's right. The job is in your hands. Why are you afraid of him?" Yang Chunyan said, "Third sister-in-law, if your nephew is really as lazy as you say, he will run away after a few days of hardship without you having to chase him away."
Li Qiuyue said with disgust, "How lazy! My ancestral son doesn't have to do anything but sit with his legs crossed. If he is well-raised, he will help the Li family to continue the family line. My daughter is raised to help my son exchange for betrothal gifts and to be his maid."
When she was at her mother's house, she loved to go against her grandmother. Fortunately, she had her mother and husband to protect her, otherwise she would have...
Zhou Huaishan interrupted, "Qiuyue, I think your sister-in-law's idea is good! If your second brother and his wife really dare to send their second son here, I will take him to the mountains to open up the land every day. This piece of mountain land cannot be completed by next year if it is only done manually."
Zhou Huaijun laughed and said, "That's right. If he doesn't do his job honestly, I'll beat him up. If he doesn't do his job well, I'll beat him up twice!"
Li Qiuyue nodded and said, "Then I won't care. Just deal with him when he comes."
At this time, Luo Haili came over with a few children with runny noses, "Cousin, your clothes and pants are all wet, we have to go back and change."
Zhou Jiakang patted the bamboo basket and grinned at Zhang Xiuxiang, "Mom, we also caught a lot of mountain crabs and sandworms."
Zhou Xiaoru picked up the small fish and shook it, "Mom, chop up the small fish and loach and feed them to the chickens to lay eggs."
Zhang Xiuxiang and the others turned around and saw Zhou Jiakang with a bamboo basket tied to his waist, Luo Qiaoling and the other girls each holding a bunch of small fish, their hair and faces were covered with mud...
Li Qiuyue pointed at Zhou Xiaoru and said, "Look at you..."
Zhang Xiuxiang was so angry that she picked up the bamboo strips on the ground and walked towards Zhou Jiakang, "One or two of them climbed up the roof and ripped off the tiles if they were not disciplined for three days. I am so busy every day, and I only changed my clothes this morning..."
Zhou Jiakang pulled Zhou Xiaowen and said, "Run, your mom and my mom are going to beat people up..."
"Run faster!" Zhang Xiuxiang picked up a bamboo stick and chased after him...
*****
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding arrived in Ning'an and went straight to Douhua Zhuang. Huang Yongcai was there as expected. When he saw the python meat the two men brought, he was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth.
"Bashi, there are many people in the city who eat wild game. The more exotic the wild delicacies are, the easier they sell."
Zhou Huaian laughed and said, "This is the first time we have encountered it. We saw that it could even swallow a wild boar weighing more than 100 kilograms. We were worried that someone who came up the mountain would be entangled by it and unable to escape, so we shot it to death."
Huang Yongcai nodded, "That's right. If it was hiding in the deep mountains and forests, who would go there to fight it?"
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding took the bamboo basket off the tractor and took out two pig's trotters. "These two pig's trotters are specially reserved for you."
Huang Yongcai happily took it and smiled at the two of them, "Thank you, thank you. I've eaten a lot of game from you this year."
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Hey! Brother Huang, it's too polite for you to say that!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That's right, we have troubled you many times!"
Huang Yongcai patted the two men on the shoulder and said, "We are all brothers, so I won't say polite words."
Zhou Huaian nodded and pointed at the bamboo basket. "There are also wild boar meat, pig stomach, and pig head. They are all cleaned up. There are about 120 kilograms of clean meat. How much do you want?"
Huang Yongcai thought for a moment and said, "Leave 30 kilograms at the guesthouse, and leave the rest here."
Zhou Huaian said happily after hearing this: "Brother Huang's business is making a fortune now!"
Huang Yongcai said happily: "How can we sell all of these in one day? I asked Dr. Xiao Wang to help me get a freezer. When I come across rare items, I buy them and put them in the freezer to sell slowly."
Zhou Huaian looked at him enviously, "It's still better in the city. We don't even have electricity and we still have to light kerosene lamps!"
"Take your time, it will work sooner or later."
Several people moved the things to the back kitchen. After weighing, there were still 45 pounds of python meat left. They sold it for 70 yuan at 1.5 yuan per pound, and the wild boar was sold for 156 yuan.
Zhou Huaian and his friend came out of Douhua Village with smiles on their faces.
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "Could it be that your house is really a prosperous place? After you moved in, we made a lot of money every time we went out."
Zhou Huaian put the bamboo basket in the truck bed. "This is a lot of money. Have you forgotten the time we sold musk deer?"
"A man should be content with what he has!" Zhou Yiding glanced at him, picked up the crank, walked over and started the tractor.
"Thuh, thhuh!" A puff of black smoke came out of the tractor, and a strong noise sounded. (End of this chapter)
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