Chapter 157 Chapter 156: So That's It
Several old ladies blushed as they looked at Mr. Zhou's brand new blue khaki clothes and yellow rubber shoes, then looked at their own clothes covered in patches, unable to find a word to refute.
Gone, gone, it turns out that not only the deceased Grandma Zhou doted on her little grandson, but Grandpa Zhou doted on him even more and even forbade others to say anything.
Old Master Zhou looked at the women who had left, snorted coldly, and walked back with his hands behind his back.
Zhou Huaishan chased after them, pushing the chicken bus, "Grandpa, what did you say to them?"
"A few gossipy women are talking about my youngest son. My youngest son's reputation has been ruined by these gossipy women."
"My old man says that these gossipy women are annoying. They don't care about their own family affairs all day long, but just gossip about others to make a living."
"If you want to find a wife, you should be afraid of meeting a woman like this. Once you get married, don't expect a peaceful life."
Zhou Huaian pushed his bicycle to the gate and shouted into the house, "Mom, Chunyan, I'm back."
Zhou's mother came out of the kitchen and saw the bicycle he pushed into the yard. She happily went to greet him, "It's much better than the one Huaixing rides. It doesn't look like the discarded one at all!"
Zhou Huaian looked at the two of them proudly, "I told you it's about 50% to 60% new, you didn't believe me, what can I do!"
"Did you get the money back?" Zhou's mother touched the car happily. Finally, there was something big at home.
"Of course I got it back!" Zhou Huaian looked at his mother with disapproval, "I told you that Dr. Wang's family are all good people, but you didn't believe it. As soon as we arrived at the Wang family's clinic, Dr. Wang took me to the backyard and handed me the money and the bicycle."
Zhou's mother said awkwardly, "Your old man also said that the people in their family are good, but it's me who is short-sighted!"
Zhou Huaian stopped talking after hearing this, "Chunyan hasn't come back yet?"
"No, where are your grandfather and third brother?"
"I'll give you the money in the back!" Zhou Huaian said as he walked towards the room and saw that the door was locked. "Mom, why did you lock the door?"
Zhou's mother quickly took the key and opened the door. "It's different now. You also put money in the room. If a thief comes, it's better to lock the door."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian walked into the house, took off his waist bag and handed it to Zhou's mother, "The money is all in it, you take it and put it away. I'll go up the mountain to pick up Chunyan."
"Yes!" Mother Zhou thought about it and asked again, "Are you satisfied with the vegetable yellows you sent?"
"Satisfied. He said it was cleaner than the ones he bought on the street, and there were fewer yellow leaves." Zhou Huaian changed into his old rubber shoes. "I've made a note of what you want today. Third brother has it in his pocket."
"How much do those vegetables cost per pound? If it's not enough, we have to go to the team to buy more!"
"Eggs are 10 cents each, taro is 6 cents per pound, potatoes are 4 cents, and young pumpkin and lettuce are 3 cents each... You can collect them as you like."
"Yes! Go quickly and come back for dinner." Mother Zhou happily went back to her room with the purse.
"Got it." Zhou Huaian put on a straw hat, opened the back door, and walked towards the mountain.
When we were almost at the top of the mountain, we saw Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang sitting under a chinaberry tree to catch their breath. "What good stuff did you get today?"
Yang Chunyan pointed at the basket and said, "There are two good things in it, a few purple Ganoderma lucidum, morels, and rejuvenation grass..."
"Oh~ Not bad!" Zhou Huaian said as he picked up a Wen Wang flower and a pen, "This ugly red thing is called Huichun Grass."
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Its name is King Wen's Pen. We call it Huichun Grass here."
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "It's so beautiful in red, and you still dislike it."
Zhou Huaian squatted down and picked up the backpack with the sack tied to it. "We're going home. Aren't you hungry yet?"
"I'm not hungry!" Zhang Xiuxiang rushed to carry another backpack, Yang Chunyan carried two baskets, and the three of them walked down the mountain together.
Zhang Xiuxiang: "Youngest brother, when we came back, we met a second-rate guy and had a fight with him."
Zhou Huaian's face suddenly darkened. He stopped and looked at the two men. "Where is he? Which bastard? I can't kill him!"
Zhang Xiuxiang: "It's not far inside the big fig tree. I wonder which one it is?"
"Damn it, I'll go find him right away!" Zhou Huaian said as he put down his backpack, picked up the medicine hoe stuck next to the basket, turned around and ran up the mountain.
"He has already run away, where are you going to find him?" Yang Chunyan grabbed him and said, "We didn't suffer any harm. I kicked him and my second sister-in-law chopped his arm with a hoe."
Zhang Xiuxiang said hurriedly: "That's right, we are already here, but who knows where the person has gone? We two have not suffered any loss, and if you go up the mountain to look for people like this, others will think we have suffered any loss!"
Zhou Huaian said with a dark face: "Even if I didn't suffer any loss, it's impossible for me to just let it go like this, right?"
Yang Chunyan glared at him and said, "I don't know where the person came from. How can you find someone in such a big mountain?"
Zhang Xiuxiang said, "Youngest, it's useless for you to go up the mountain and look for him now. Chunyan kicked him in the lower body, and I hit him with a hoe. Blood gushed out of his arm, and he ran away immediately."
Zhou Huaian scratched his hair in anger and said self-reproachfully, "It's all my fault. It would have been fine if the big figs were delivered in two days, but I had to ask you two women to go to such a far place."
Yang Chunyan patted his shoulder and said, "You didn't expect there would be a second-rate guy. Let's go down the mountain and eat quickly. Yiding is still waiting for us on the mountain!"
"Let's go home first!" Zhou Huaian put on his backpack and walked quickly down the mountain.
Yang Chunyan and the other person quickly followed.
When they got home, Zhou's father and his family had already returned from the earthen kiln, and the family was waiting for them to come back for dinner.
There were a lot of herbs piled on the steps, and it seemed that someone had brought herbs to sell today.
Seeing that the two people's backpacks were full, Li Qiuyue happily came over to help put down the backpacks, "What good things did you find?"
Zhou's mother said, "Eat first. I'm hungry after working all morning."
Li Qiuyue had no choice but to nod, "Okay, okay, let's eat first."
After dinner, Zhang Xiuxiang told everyone about her encounter with the scoundrel, and everyone was scared to death.
Mother Zhou patted her chest, looking terrified, "Luckily, your youngest child always accompanied you when you went into the mountains before!"
The more Zhou Huaijun thought about it, the more scared he became. "Luckily I was brave enough to fight him with a hoe, otherwise I would have suffered a loss."
Father Zhou said, "Next time, Chunyan and the others should not go to the hills far from the village to dig herbs alone. If you want to go, one of you brothers must go with you."
The old man thought about it and said, "There are many girls going up the mountain to look for mushrooms recently. I have to tell Secretary Xu and remind everyone to be on guard."
Father Zhou nodded, "Okay! I'll go find Secretary Xu after dinner."
Yang Chunyan glanced at Zhang Xiuxiang and said, "Old man, can you please ask Secretary Xu by the way, if we want to open up the hill behind the new house for planting, what procedures do we need to go through?"
(End of this chapter)
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