Zhou Huaian thought so too. If Yan'er hadn't led the way, the whole family would still be living in the old house!
The three of them went home. The old man and Zhou Huaian went up the mountain to cut grass for the pigs. Yang Chunyan cooked a pot of paste at home and waited for Zhou Huaian and the old man to come back to put up Spring Festival couplets.
More than half an hour later, the two men came back with the pig feed on their backs and fell in the yard. They carried some more and threw it into the trough to feed the pigs. They raked the rest of the pig feed with a bamboo rake and hung it up to dry.
Zhou Huaian carried the wooden ladder and went with the old man to paste Spring Festival couplets on the doors of the front and back yards, the main room, the kitchen and all the room doors.
After pasting the Spring Festival couplets in the front yard, they went to the backyard and pasted "Prosperity of Six Livestock" on the pigpen, cattle and sheep pen, and chicken coop at the back.
Zhou Huaian smiled and pulled Yang Chunyan to stand at the gate of the courtyard, "It looks much more festive!"
"Well! Go and move the low table in the backyard back to the kitchen, and I'll go sweep the yard."
"Okay! After the table is set, I will go to the old house with Grandpa to put up the New Year decorations. My brothers and their friends will have to wait for them to come back and put them up themselves."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan suddenly remembered what Ma Chunhua said, "Huaian, I met Sister Ma at the old house yesterday, and she said..."
"Fuck!" Zhou Huaian cursed inwardly, "Don't listen to those old women's nonsense. My third brother is such an honest man, there is no way he would argue with that White Bone Demon."
Yang Chunyan: "I think so too, but since Sister Ma has said so, I think you should find a chance to remind him."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I'll find a chance to tell him!"
Yang Chunyan: "Then go and ask Grandpa to help you put up the Spring Festival couplets in the old house, and ask Sister Yumei to come over for dinner."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian went to the backyard and moved the low table back to the kitchen, then left with the old man carrying the Spring Festival couplets and paste.
Yang Chunyan scooped some water and sprinkled it on the front and back yards. After cleaning them, she took the money and went to Ma Chunhua's house.
She stood at the gate and knocked on it. "Sister Ma, are you there?"
"I'm here!" Ma Chunhua came out of the kitchen, wiping her hands. "Chunyan! Come in and sit for a while. I'm cooking the paste to prepare the New Year's gifts!"
"No more sitting!" Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "My chickens haven't grown up yet. I want to ask if you have any hens or roosters for sale?"
"There are two with bright red fur. I'll sell you one and keep the other to kill for the New Year." Ma Chunhua waved at her and said, "Come with me. They are all penned in the woods in the backyard!"
Yang Chunyan followed her to the backyard and saw a bamboo fence surrounding the bushes behind the house, with a dozen adult chickens and some half-grown chicks penned inside.
"I was so busy digging truffles before the New Year that I didn't have time to go to town to sell eggs. Thanks to your mother-in-law for coming to collect and sell them."
Ma Chunhua opened the fence door, and the chickens in the pen seemed to know that Ma Chunhua was here to catch them, and they all clucked and hid to the side. "Chunyan, Sister Ma is telling you, you have to eat more to nourish yourself, otherwise the baby will be born skinny and it will be difficult to take care of it in the future."
"Thank you, Sister Ma!" Yang Chunyan thought that most hens that had just started laying eggs were reluctant to sell, so they had to be kept to lay eggs and sell for money. "If there is nothing suitable, a young rooster that just started crowing will do."
"Yes, I'll find you a fatter one." Ma Chunhua reached out and grabbed a yellow hen by the wing. "This one is fat. It starts laying eggs after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Stewing it will definitely be very nutritious."
Yang Chunyan took the hen she handed over, and waited for her to go back and catch a big rooster, and then they left the backyard together.
Ma Chunhua smiled and said, "The price will be the same as what your mother-in-law charges."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Okay! Thank you!"
Ma Chunhua glared at her in reproach, "We're neighbors, yet you're being so polite to me!"
"Okay, you're welcome!"
After Ma Chunhua took out a beam scale to weigh the chickens, Yang Chunyan gave her the money and walked back with a chicken in one hand. When she got home and locked the chickens in the backyard alley, she heard the sound of a tractor coming.
She hurried to the gate and saw Yang Weiguo jumping down from the driver's seat. "Brother, why are you here?"
"I was delivering goods to Ning'an. Wang Zhen said you weren't going today, so I had to come over." Yang Weiguo smiled and took the backpack down from the truck bed. "Mom asked me to bring you some glutinous rice cakes, fermented glutinous rice, and glutinous rice flour."
Yang Chunyan felt that he had lost some weight, but his complexion looked good. She thought it might be because he had been too busy during this period.
"I have both glutinous rice cake and glutinous rice dumpling flour at home, but no fermented glutinous rice. I was thinking of going back to get some on the second day of the Chinese New Year. Hehe! I can eat small glutinous rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice tomorrow morning."
"I know you like it, so I found a big enamel bowl for you." Yang Weiguo followed her into the yard, "Where's Huai'an?"
"I went to the old house to help with the New Year's red decoration." Yang Chunyan turned her head and looked at him, "Have you had breakfast? I'll make you some glutinous rice balls."
Yang Weiguo put down his backpack and said, "No need. I ate rice noodles in Ning'an. I came here mainly to give you the money so that you don't have to stay with me for the New Year."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "We are not in a hurry to use the money, so it's okay to let you go first!"
"It's better to give it to him earlier, so that you don't have to worry about keeping so much money at home!" Yang Weiguo sat down on the sofa in the main room and took off his waist bag. "This time there are 13,600 yuan. You can take it and put it away."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan took the waist bag, opened the door, went into the room, put the money away and came out, "Brother, we will start work on the sixth day of the New Year, how about you?"
Yang Weiguo smiled and said, "We will start work on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year just like you guys." He took a sip of tea and said, "Now the town near our home can hardly receive any goods. We have to rely on the delivery from Pulin Town."
Yang Chunyan: "We are the same now. We rely entirely on Baicaoping, Baicaopao, Bailingshan and Huangqinggou. The maximum daily volume of goods near the village is a few hundred kilograms."
Yang Weiguo: "My mom and dad both said that it's good enough to earn this much."
When he thought about his income from the past two months, he felt that it was really easy to make money if he found the right way. They earned the money that others would take several years or even ten years to earn in just two months.
Yang Chunyan nodded: "We will go back on the second day of the Chinese New Year, and you and your sister-in-law may have left."
"The second day of the Chinese New Year will be over early. You and Huai'an can stay at home for two more days and wait for us to come back."
"We will be back in the afternoon. Doctor Xiao Wang asked Huai'an to go find Dong Mi. He and Yiding have an appointment to go up the mountain on the third day of the new year."
"Then we can only get together after this is over!" Yang Weiguo looked at her, "Does Huai'an still treat you the same as before?"
He has always had a prejudice against Zhou Huaian, thinking that he was not reliable enough, and was worried that he would do something to let his sister down after making money.
Yang Chunyan understood what he meant, "Brother, don't worry, he is still the same. This time he even asked Dr. Wang for help and bought me some gold jewelry and gold rings for my mother and husband!"
Yang Weiguo thought that she was still pregnant and felt that he shouldn't tell her these things, "He had a plan! It's my fault for having a prejudice against Huai'an. I won't do that again in the future."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "It's okay, I know you are doing this for my own good."
Yang Weiguo nodded with satisfaction, stood up and said, "There are still a lot of things to do at home. Tell Huai'an when he comes back. I'm going back first."
Yang Chunyan hurriedly said, "Brother, wait a minute. Huai'an killed a few badgers a few days ago. Take a can of badger oil and a badger meat back."
Yang Weiguo: "Have you forgotten? The old man collected a lot of badger oil two years ago and filled a jar with it!"
It has been decades, and Yang Chunyan has long forgotten it all. "Then take some badger meat and mutton back with you."
"Of course you have to take the delicious food back home!" Yang Weiguo nodded with a smile, "Where is it hanging? I'll get it for you!"
"In the backyard!" Yang Chunyan locked the door and took him to the backyard, looking at him with some pride, "Brother, look at my family's New Year's goods this year. They are almost filling up this room."
"Just like the landlord's house! Last time Huai'an bought the old ham, the old man praised it highly and asked me to buy a few hams as well." Yang Weiguo said, pointing at the old ham.
"After the New Year, ask Brother Huang to bring back a few legs." Yang Chunyan picked up the wooden fork against the wall and poked the badger meat and mutton. She handed the fork to Yang Weiguo and said, "Use this to fork them down."
The brother and sister took the meat down and walked to the front yard, took out the fermented glutinous rice, glutinous rice flour and glutinous rice cake from the basket, and Zhou Huaian came back with the vegetable basket.
He looked at Yang Weiguo in surprise, "Brother, when did you come?"
"It's been a while. I'm ready to go." Yang Weiguo put the badger meat and mutton into his backpack.
Zhou Huaian put down the vegetable basket and said, "It's a holiday, how can we just leave when we come? Have lunch here and then go back." As he said that, he pulled him towards the main room.
Yang Weiguo said hurriedly: "It doesn't matter when you come to eat. There are still a lot of things waiting for me to do at home."
Zhou Huaian didn't believe it, looked at him and asked, "Really?"
Yang Weiguo looked at him with a smile in his eyes, "Really! I'm going to go back and pay the laborer. I can't wait until New Year's Eve to pay him, right? And Wang Zhen said he wants winter honey, I have to go back and find someone, otherwise he will be away visiting relatives during the New Year."
Seeing this, Zhou Huaian had to let go, "How much do you plan to pay per pound?"
Yang Weiguo said with a smile: "You also know that it is not easy to find honey in the mountains. We can collect it at home and earn one yuan per pound, which is enough."
Zhou Huaian felt that they were indeed brother and sister. "Chunyan said the same thing as you did. I asked Huangqinggou and Baicaopao to help me find it."
"Okay!" Yang Weiguo picked up his backpack and said, "I'm leaving first. We'll get together again after this busy period."
"That's great!" Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan escorted him out, helped start the tractor, and then stood aside, "Drive slowly on the road."
Yang Weiguo waved his hand and drove away on the tractor.
Yang Chunyan told Zhou Huaian that he had specially sent the money, "Divide the money in the evening, and hide the remaining money. Deposit it in the bank after the New Year when it reopens."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "With so much money at home, Lai Fu and Wang Cai have to stay at home to guard it. Fortunately, Ding Ding Cat's Da Huang and Da Hei are at the foot of the mountain, so I'll take them up the mountain on the third day of the New Year."
Yang Chunyan looked at the time. It was already ten o'clock. "I'll buy a hen. You kill it and I'll stew it with truffles for you to nourish yourself!"
Give it back to me! I almost had a problem with it for the past six months. If I wasn’t worried about your health, humph! (End of this chapter)
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