Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "I asked Wang Zhen last time, and he said that for medicinal wines of your age, you can buy some high-quality Ganoderma lucidum to soak in it. Drinking it is good for your health."
"What he said must be right. Please buy me two kilograms of the best Ganoderma lucidum. I will go back with you someday and ask Doctor Wang to make a jar of wine for the second brother."
"I have some at home, just let me know whenever you need them."
"I will go back on the ninth day to kill the New Year pig. Then we will go to Ning'an to ask Doctor Xiao Wang for help."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian nodded with a smile, "Uncle Xu, my family also slaughters pigs on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and so do my brother and Yiding's families. Which family are we going to have the pig slaughtering meal on that day?"
Secretary Xu was also happy, "Everyone kills every day, and only gets together during the Chinese New Year."
At this time, Lao Gou came over and said, "Lao Xu, everything is ready."
"Thank you for your help!" Secretary Xu smiled and distributed cigarettes to the three people. He handed the list to Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, a total of 175 baskets."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian signed the shipment account book, "Uncle Xu, I'll go to Uncle Datian in Tonglin first. It looks like the goods there can't be loaded today."
Secretary Xu pointed at the villagers who were walking towards the yard with baskets on their backs and said, "It looks like we can collect a lot today. Ask Yiding to come earlier tomorrow and make one more trip to bring all the goods back."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian arrived at Zhou Datian's purchasing point and left with only 125 baskets of truffles. Even so, the load weight had exceeded one ton.
It was already five o'clock when he got home. While waiting for the goods to be unloaded, he was busy filling up the oil, and Zhou's mother hurriedly cooked a bowl of noodles for him.
"Go tell the third brother that the five pigs were sold for 1,100 yuan, and I ordered six piglets. The price of piglets has risen to more than two yuan per pound this year."
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered that Secretary Xu bought fake medicine, "Mom, my third sister-in-law and my third brother had a fight, didn't she buy fake medicine too?"
"Where did the fake medicine come from? How did you know?"
"Uncle Xu... Look, even someone as smart as him got fooled. My third sister-in-law is so greedy..."
"Oh my god!" Zhou's mother remembered that Li Qiuyue said last time that the youngest child was capable and could make money whether he was busy or not. "That guy is really unpredictable. You should go and ask carefully. Don't be fooled again."
Seeing that her brows were furrowed so tightly that they could kill a mosquito, Zhou Huaian tried to comfort her, "I'm just guessing, don't worry!"
"If it were your eldest and second sister-in-law, I wouldn't worry at all. Qiuyue is a money-hungry person, and she bought two more plots of land, so you never know!"
Zhou Huaian curled his lips, "In this case, I hope the scammers will cheat more. Only when they feel the pain will they not fall for it."
"That's money!" Zhou's mother said as if she had seen that Li Qiuyue had been cheated.
"Don't worry, Third Brother is here!" Zhou Huaian ate his noodles and pointed at the wine jar on the table. "I asked Wang Zhen to help me make Ganoderma lucidum wine. Remember to put it in the wine cellar and drink it in the evening."
After hearing this, Zhou's mother turned around and saw a very beautiful celadon jar on the eight-immortal table in the main hall. She slapped him anxiously and said, "Oh my goodness! You prodigal son, you are willing to use Lingzhi that costs dozens of yuan per pound to make wine?"
Zhou Huaian rubbed his arm that was hurt by her, and said with a playful smile: "You are so naive, what's the point of a few dozen yuan per pound of Lingzhi! The body is the capital of the revolution. If you keep your body healthy and help us for a few more years, we can earn back any extra money."
"I don't want to bother with you!" Zhou's mother was both happy and distressed. She went into the house and touched the jar on the table. "You prodigal son! Why did you get such a beautiful jar? Wouldn't it be the same if you used a clay jar?"
Zhou Huaian felt sour when he saw her distressed look, "Mom, don't feel bad, the wine was given for Dong Ge, the jar was given by Wang Zhen, and he also made the wine!"
Zhou's mother glared at him and said, "They paid for it with money, too. How dare you take their things for free?"
"Wang Zhen said that the sausages and fried meat you made were delicious. Please make some more and I'll send them to him as a gift in return."
"That's right, that's right!" Zhou's mother sent him out of the courtyard and said, "Go and ask your third brother carefully. Tell him that the first month of the lunar calendar and the last month of the twelfth lunar month should not be taboo. When you live in someone else's house, don't make a lot of noise and make people laugh at you."
"Got it, go back now!" Zhou Huaian climbed up to the cab, "Let Chunyan go to bed early, you see she has dark circles under her eyes."
Mother Zhou nodded and said, "Go ahead. I know what to do."
Zhou Huaian drove the tractor out of the village. Before he reached the fork in the road, it started to drizzle. "Fuck! This weather forecast is not accurate when it should be, and it is deadly accurate when it shouldn't be!"
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Zhou Huaishan was standing at the gate of the yard, looking at the dark road. "It's already eight o'clock, why haven't they arrived yet? If they don't come to pick up the goods tonight, they will have no money tomorrow!"
"It's coming when it's supposed to come. There's no use just waiting for it!" Li Qiuyue said unhappily as she came out of the kitchen.
Zhou Huaishan closed the gate, walked to the steps, pointed at her and said, "Stop being so sarcastic. On the ninth day, I will take the Coriolus fungi you collected back to show to the youngest. If you are cheated, I will settle the score with you."
"It's not like I haven't seen Coriolus versicolor before, how could I have made a mistake!" Li Qiuyue looked at him askance, "Didn't mom say the other day that the youngest brother bought Coriolus versicolor for about 100 yuan per pound, and it would cost more than 100 yuan if he took it to Doctor Wang's house!
I only collected 51 kilograms, and it is high-quality. When I take it to Dr. Wang's house, I can sell it and make back the money I earned from buying the land."
"You won't cry until you see the coffin, and you will forget the pain after the wound has healed. That's what I mean by that." Zhou Huaishan was furious when he thought of the two hundred yuan from the eldest wife's house. "The eldest wife's house still has a quota that has not been redeemed! Why don't you go and redeem it?"
Li Qiuyue's face turned blue with anger after hearing this. "Zhou Huaishan, don't hit people in the face, don't expose their shortcomings when you scold them. It's only two hundred yuan, do you need to bring it up every time you quarrel?"
Zhou Huaishan said sarcastically, "Why can't I mention it? Last time, weren't you the same as now? You thought you were smart and secretly went to the big house to buy a quota, thinking you would make a fortune, but in the end you lost two hundred yuan and didn't even hear the sound of water."
Li Qiuyue pointed at him angrily, "Zhou Huaishan you..."
"Mom~ Old man~" Zhou Xiaoru stood between the two and yelled, "Are you guys annoying? You quarrel every day, even if you are not tired, I am tired of listening to you. When Uncle Yi Ding comes later, I will take Xiaolin back to live with my grandma."
Li Qiuyue looked at Zhou Xiaoru standing between the two of them and was stunned for a moment, then patted her, "You heartless girl, other people's children all speak up for their mothers, but you never help me."
"Why did you hit her?" Zhou Huaishan pulled Zhou Xiaoru over, "You didn't do anything right, why would she help you?"
Li Qiuyue said angrily: "I know, you are all surnamed Zhou, and I am the only outsider!"
"Mom, stop talking!" Zhou Xiaoru turned her head and looked at Zhou Huaishan, "You are wrong too, old man. Look, Dad, Second Dad and Youngest Dad never quarrel with Aunt, Second Aunt and Youngest Aunt, but you guys always quarrel!"
"You're going to teach me a lesson too..." Zhou Huaishan originally thought that the little cotton-padded jacket was on his side, but he didn't expect that the little cotton-padded jacket was a little leaky today.
Zhou Xiaoru said confidently: "The teacher said that if you make a mistake, you must correct it. Only when you recognize your mistakes can you make progress in the future!"
Zhou Huaishan said happily: "Oh~ My Xiaoru really deserves to get a perfect score on the test, she is just better at speaking than an old man!"
"Old man, it's really annoying that you guys quarrel every day!" Zhou Xiaoru said, pulling Zhou Xiaolin and walking towards the house, "Little sister, let's go home to find grandpa and grandma, and let them quarrel here."
Zhou Xiaolin ran over and held her hand, "Sister, I have wanted to go back to see my grandma for a long time. I miss my grandfather, Xiao Jiuer, my father, and my aunt..."
Zhou Huaishan hurriedly followed him in, "Yaoyao, don't be in a hurry! The old man will also go back on the ninth day of the first lunar month. Wait two days and I will take you with me."
"Then you are not allowed to quarrel for the next two days!" Zhou Xiaoru looked at him, "My grandma said that if you quarrel here, I will go back and tell her, and see how she will deal with you!"
"Alas!" Zhou Huaishan sighed, "The old man is exhausted every day, and I don't want to quarrel. It's your mother who is disappointing and bought those things without telling me, so I quarreled with her."
"Oh!" Zhou Xiaolin sat on a small stool, holding her face in her hands, and sighed, "My mother likes money and my brother, not us."
Li Qiuyue, who was standing outside, was stunned when she heard this. Suddenly, she didn't dare to go in and face the father and daughter. She turned around and walked towards the kitchen with Zhou Xiaolong in her arms. She sat in front of the stove, looked at the flames inside, and murmured:
"Who taught her to say these things? Haven't I been good to them? What's wrong with liking money? Why don't you need money to do anything in life? How can you buy land if you don't have money? If you don't have a brother and get bullied after you get married, who will speak up for you?"
"Bang, bang, bang" there was a knock on the door outside, and Zhou Huaian shouted, "Third brother, open the door!"
"I'm coming! I'm coming!" Zhou Huaishan ran out, took out the key, unlocked the door and unbolted it. "Youngest, why are you here?"
Zhou Huaian looked behind him and asked in a low voice: "Where's Third Sister-in-law? Did you fight again?"
Zhou Huaishan nodded. "How did you know? Did Yiding see it?"
"Xiao Ru told him that you guys had a fight." Zhou Huaian looked at him disapprovingly, "If you have anything to say, just talk about it. What if you scare the child like this?"
"I was so angry that I hit her. She put Xiaolong down and started to fight me. She yelled and woke up the child." Zhou Huaishan felt that it was a bit unreasonable. "This little brat, today she said something about us..."
"Look, even the children say you are wrong!" Zhou Huaian frowned and said, "Why? It can't be that you are having an affair with some woman..."
"Bullshit!" Zhou Huaishan hit him. "Am I that kind of person? This is what happened. A few days ago, a woman selling truffles said that her family had picked up..."
Before Zhou Huaishan finished speaking, Li Qiuyue, holding the child, shouted from the steps: "Youngest, you're here just in time. I harvested some Coriolus versicolor. Can you help me take a look?"
Zhou Huaian frowned and looked at the two of them, "Are you collecting Coriolus versicolor?"
Zhou Huaishan nodded, "Yes, she collected Coriolus versicolor without telling me, and that's why we fought!" (End of this chapter)
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