Chapter 61 I owe you a lot
Zhou's mother came out and scooped some water and sprinkled it in the sack to prevent the lazy cicada from shedding its shell and growing wings. "Boss, I boiled some tendon-stretching grass. Go and soak your feet in it. Go to bed early. We have to go up the mountain early tomorrow morning."
"Yes!" Zhou Huairong and the other two fetched some well water to wash their hands and feet, then went to the kitchen.
At this time, Zhou Huaian also came over with a bundle of bamboo poles. Zhou's father followed him pushing a chicken cart and put it on the steps.
"Youngest, bring the rope and tie the basket tonight. We can set out tomorrow morning after breakfast."
"Oh!" Zhou Huaian piled the bamboo poles together and said to Yang Chunyan, "Go take a shower and go to bed. I'll tie it up with the old man."
"Hmm!" Yang Chunyan scooped half a basin of herbal water for stretching her feet. After soaking her feet in it, she went to get a bucket of hot water and carried it to the pigpen in the backyard.
I closed the door and put my hair on top of my head. After rinsing it, I walked back with the bucket. I went back to the house and cut off my waist-length hair, thinking that I would come back tomorrow and cut it shorter to avoid the trouble of washing my hair.
Zhou's father and Zhou Huaian tied two large rectangular bamboo baskets, about 1.5 or 1.6 meters high, to the chicken bus. One bamboo basket was filled with Magnolia officinalis flower buds and Magnolia officinalis bark, and there were several layers of lycopodii herba on top.
There was another bamboo basket that was already full even before all the water peppers were put in. There was also a pile of mugwort, a pile of chicken shit vine, and a pile of mountain incense. "Youngest, the rest can only be put in the sack."
"Old man, if you can't load the sack, just leave it here and fill it tomorrow morning."
"Then tie the basket first, and then tie the sack on top tomorrow."
After the father and son tied up the bamboo basket, Zhou's father tidied up the yard, checked the front and back yard doors, then went back, closed the door to the main room, and went to sleep.
Zhou Huaian returned to the room with a basin of hot water and saw Yang Chunyan lying down. "Have you soaked your feet? Mom made some Stretching Grass."
Yang Chunyan said in a muffled voice: "It's soaked, you should soak it and go to sleep, I can't even open my eyes."
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian yawned while soaking his feet. He put the foot basin at the wall and climbed onto the bed. He lay down, put his head on the pillow and fell asleep.
Soon after the rooster crowed for the first time, Zhou's mother got up, cooked the meal, prepared some dry food, and walked to the west wing. "Qiuyue, Chunyan, and the youngest one, get up! Get up and eat."
In her daze, Yang Chunyan seemed to hear Zhou's mother calling her to get up, and then she woke up when she heard Li Qiuyue's response from next door. It felt like she had just fallen asleep and had to get up again.
She thought that being young was a good thing. She had slept for more than five hours, but still felt that she had not slept enough.
In my previous life, I would only sleep for two or three hours a night and then lie in bed with my eyes closed waiting for dawn.
Yang Chunyan put on her clothes and gently patted Zhou Huaian who was rolling up his blanket. "Get up, mom has cooked dinner."
"I just fell asleep, you were dreaming!" Zhou Huaian muttered, turned over and fell asleep again.
Yang Chunyan slapped him hard and said, "Can you get up? If not, I will ask my third brother to take us there, and you go up the mountain to cut trees."
"Don't worry about who you call, I just want to take a nap!" Zhou Huaian pulled the quilt over his head.
Yang Chunyan sneered, "Okay, remember what you said. I'll go out and talk to Mom and ask her to wake up Third Brother." After that, she turned around and walked towards the door.
"Get up!" Zhou Huaian lifted the blanket and sat up, looking at her with resentment on his face, "Really, don't you know how much I owed you in my previous life?"
Yang Chunyan looked at him and said, "You owe me a lot, and you even said that if there is a next life, you will definitely compensate me!"
"Oh my god, you said it so realistically that my hair stood on end." Zhou Huaian rubbed his arms, jumped off the bed, put on his clothes, and pushed her out. "Let's go. I won't have to wait for the next life. I will make it up to you in this life."
Yang Chunyan followed him out of the door silently and saw that it was pitch black outside, with only the dim light of an oil lamp coming from the kitchen.
The two of them went to the outhouse in the backyard, washed up, and went to the kitchen.
Li Qiuyue had already started eating. When she saw the two people come in, she puffed her cheeks and nodded.
Mother Zhou pointed to the small square table and said, "The rice is ready, eat quickly."
Yang Chunyan said embarrassedly: "I fell asleep, and when I heard you calling me, I thought I was dreaming!"
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Young people are most likely to fall asleep at this time in the morning. You guys eat while I prepare the corn and eels."
The three of them nodded and had potato rice for breakfast, with more potatoes than rice, sauerkraut and sweet potato noodle soup cooked with lard, and a plate of tiger-skin chili peppers.
Li Qiuyue pointed at the pottery basin and said, "Yan'er, youngest, the pickled cabbage and sweet potato noodle soup is delicious."
"It goes well with rice just by looking at it." Yang Chunyan sat down with a smile and picked up a fried wrinkled tiger-skin chili pepper. The pepper fried in this way is tender and not very spicy.
I dipped it in some soybean oil and took a bite. Sure enough, it was only a little spicy, and the taste was just right.
Zhou Huaian also picked one up and took a bite. He burped from the spiciness and ate a few mouthfuls of rice before stopping. "It's so spicy, goes well with rice!"
Li Qiuyue laughed after hearing this. The three of them ate two large bowls of tiger skin chili peppers and sour and spicy sauerkraut sweet potato vermicelli soup before putting down their chopsticks.
Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, Li Qiuyue cleaned up the pots and pans, while Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian went out to collect the herbs.
A sack was filled with chicken shit vines, a full basket was filled with mountain incense, both weighing about 100 kilograms, a bucket of eels and most of a sack of corn filled another basket, and there was still a lot of mugwort that had not been packed yet.
Yang Chunyan glanced at the bamboo baskets on the chicken bus and thought that they must have at least 400 kilograms in total. "Huaian, don't pack the remaining mugwort. Leave it at home!"
She thinks everything is good these days except that communication and travel are inconvenient. How great it would be if the current environment could be maintained in thirty or forty years!
Zhou Huaian was eager to do so and nodded immediately: "Okay!"
Yang Chunyan looked at the bamboo poles placed horizontally on the eaves and said to Zhou's mother, "Mom, tie the remaining mugwort into small bundles and hang them on the eaves to dry in the shade."
"That's fine!" Mother Zhou looked at the pile and looked at Zhou Huaian worriedly, "Youngest, can you push it away?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Don't worry, it can be pushed!" He had to push it even if he couldn't. The old man's temper was that he would scold people for holding a pipe, so he didn't want to go up the mountain to cut trees.
Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian lifted the sack onto the chicken bus and tied it up. "Try to push it. Can you move it?"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian put the cloth belt on his shoulders, lifted the handle and walked forward. The chicken bus squeaked, "It's okay. When going uphill, you can help me pull it. It shouldn't be a problem!"
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan nodded, "Let's go back to the house to get honey and purple Ganoderma lucidum."
Zhou Huaian whispered, "Yan'er, I forgot to tell you that Grandpa gave me some Poria cocos last night and asked me to sell it for money. I'm afraid there are about twenty kilograms!"
Yang Chunyan understood what he meant. The old man subsidized him privately again. "Sell it and go home to return the money to grandpa!"
"I told him, we have money, we don't want his!"
The two returned to the house, and Yang Chunyan took two pieces of cloth and gave them to Zhou Huaian, "Wrap them around your hands to prevent blisters."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian looked at her deeply and stretched out his hand, "Wrap it for me!"
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan wrapped the cloth belt for him, and the two of them took the straw hats and carried the things into the yard.
Zhou Huaian rushed to tie the purple Ganoderma lucidum and Poria cocos to the chicken bus.
(End of this chapter)
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