Chapter 313 Chapter 314: Hidden Worries
Zhou Yumei saw the meat and pig's trotters and said distressedly: "Repairing the house at home costs money everywhere, why buy these?"
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Mom said you were thinner, so she asked us to buy some pig's trotters to nourish you."
"Every time my mom sees me, she says I've lost weight." Zhou Yumei smiled and brought two chairs, "Big brother, youngest, you take a seat!
Zhou Huairong nodded and grabbed a handful of chili peppers to help pick them.
Zhou Huaian looked around and said, "Sister, are you alone at home? Where is your brother-in-law?"
"They all went to hoe the fields. His mother said to sow the wheat on the two mu of land." Zhou Yumei stood up and said, "Brother, youngest, I'll go call Jianjun back. You guys can eat here and then go back."
"Yumei, don't go and shout!" Zhou Huairong hurriedly stopped her, "I'll sit down for a while and leave soon. The villagers who came to pay their taxes are still waiting at the intersection for us to go back together."
Zhou Yumei said reluctantly, "Is that so? I forgot to ask what grade the public grain you paid was rated?"
"First wait! Has your family paid?"
"Yes, we harvested the grain before you did, and we paid the fee a week ago. My family was rated second-class grain, and I heard that after deducting the miscellaneous expenses, there was not a penny left."
"It's good that we didn't have to pay the extra money." Zhou Huairong glanced at Zhou Huaian, stood up and said, "We'll go back now. You can go home early tomorrow."
Zhou Yumei looked at the two of them, her eyes suddenly reddened, "Brother, you guys are like this every time you come, you leave before you even have time to sit down."
Zhou Huaian walked up to her and looked at her worriedly, "Did He Jianjun bully you?"
He had always looked down on the He family. Even though they were the same family, he felt that he was superior just because he lived on the street.
But both my mother and husband said that the poor town in the mountains was better, so the matchmaker said so and after they were satisfied with each other, they married her off.
"No!" Zhou Yumei wiped her eyes with a heartfelt look, "It's just that every time I think about you guys coming here, you either bring sweet potato flour or eggs, and you bring so many things but leave without even a sip of water, I feel a little uncomfortable."
Zhou Huairong smiled and consoled her: "I'm busy renovating my house every day. I'll come stay at your house for a few days when I'm not busy anymore."
Zhou Yumei looked at the two of them in reproach, "You always say this! You will always have other excuses in the future."
She was thinking about the construction of the new house at home. Jianjun had never visited it once, so she asked him to help for a few days this time.
"When the new house is finished, we will have a place to live. Then you can bring Jianjun back home to live with us."
"Well! I will definitely go home and stay for a few more days then."
Zhou Huaian looked at her and was still a little worried. "Sister, if they bully you, come back and tell us. Got it?"
"Don't worry, you are here!"
Zhou Yumei sent the two to the door. Seeing the tractor parked on the side of the road, she happily walked over to take a look and looked at Zhou Huaian with satisfaction, "I didn't expect that the youngest would buy a tractor one day."
Zhou Huaian shrugged. Not only did they not expect it, he himself didn't expect it either.
The auntie who was selling sweet soup on the street looked over and said, "Yumei, is that your brother's tractor?"
Zhou Yumei glanced at her and said proudly, "Yes! My youngest child bought it."
Several vendors started talking among themselves, "Didn't they say her family came from the mountains and was so poor that they couldn't even afford food? I didn't expect Yumei's family to be quite wealthy!"
"I think we should only listen to half of what Zhu Hongxia says. How can a family that can even afford a tractor be bad?"
"That's right. Just now I saw two brothers, one carrying a full basket of sweet potato vermicelli, the other carrying a large piece of meat, and even a fat pig's trotter. You can't buy them all for less than ten yuan. Grandma Yumei is worried that they will come to extort money, so she guards against her like a thief."
Zhou Yumei looked at the brothers worriedly and said, "I'm fine, don't worry."
Zhou Huaian felt a little worried after hearing this, and said with a sullen face: "Sister, you are not sold to the He family. Our family was poor before, but now we have a way to make money, so you should be more confident."
He thought that if he had known this would happen, he would have married into the countryside to avoid being looked down upon by the old hag from the He family.
"I understand." Zhou Yumei whispered, "If they really go too far, I'm not made of clay."
"Just keep it in mind." Zhou Huairong started the tractor with the crank, and the two brothers climbed onto the driver's seat. "We're leaving. We'll be back early the day after tomorrow."
Zhou Yumei nodded heavily and shouted, "Drive slowly!"
Zhou Huairong waved at her. She stood there watching the tractor rumble away before turning around and going home.
When Zhou Huaian and his brother arrived at the town entrance, many villagers were already waiting there. After everyone arrived, they climbed onto the tractor and walked back swayingly.
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Yang Chunyan picked up the ling stalks that had been soaked overnight and filled a basket with them. "Mom, I'm going to the back mountain to plant these chuanxiong in the soybean field."
According to the book, Chuanxiong is a shallow-rooted crop that prefers loose and fertile soil. The few acres of land that had been planted with soybeans were just right.
As for using rapeseed cake and fermented manure as base fertilizer, the rapeseed cake at home had long been fermented and fed to pigs, and there was no shortage of fermented manure at home.
Mother Zhou looked at the basket of chuanxiong and Ling stalks used as seeds and said, "Chunyan, I think planting this is similar to planting sweet potato seedlings. The seeds are also cut off."
"It's the same. When planting, just point the spores upwards and cover them with soil." Yang Chunyan picked up a hoe and a basket and went to the bamboo forest in the backyard to dig a load of mature fertilizer, then carried it up the mountain.
The soybean field had been raked and planted with vegetable seedlings a few days ago, but there was still one acre of land left empty without being planted.
Yang Chunyan walked to the field, put down the basket and the rake, and evenly spread the cooked fertilizer on a small piece of land. She hoeed the land shallowly, turned the fertilizer into the soil, dug furrows and made ridges, placed the buds on the lingzi facing upwards, and covered them with fine soil.
He looked at the sky and worried that it would rain, so he sprinkled some water, then went back and got a bundle of straw and spread a thin layer on top.
The Lingzi has been planted. Whether it can succeed depends on whether the seedlings emerge in half a month.
She went home carrying her bamboo basket, "Mom, look at this sky, it's foggy and the moisture is very heavy. I'm afraid it's going to rain."
Mother Zhou looked at the top of the hill and said, "Yes! Looking at the weather today, I am also very nervous. I am afraid that it will start to rain before the youngest brothers have paid their public grain. That would be troublesome."
"I heard from Huai'an that there are more than a dozen families lined up in front of our house, so it shouldn't be long before it's our turn."
"That's better. It's better if it doesn't rain, otherwise all our work this year will be in vain." Zhou's mother went to the main room and took out a cigarette and handed it to her, "You take the cigarette to the construction site."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan went out with a cigarette and walked towards the construction site.
In the rice fields below the road, green seedlings grew on the rice stubs left after the millet was harvested.
Several little girls were cutting grass in the fields with baskets on their backs, and there was a boy sitting on the back of a cow, letting the cow graze leisurely in the field.
(End of this chapter)
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