Wang Zhen packed up his things and told the two that the registration for the urban construction project would start tomorrow. He had already made arrangements with his acquaintances there. They would go there tomorrow to pay the money and complete the formalities, and the foundation would be marked in mid-October.
Zhou Huaian and his friend thought that it was only about ten days until mid-October. After Zhou Yiding resigned from his job at the forest farm and came back, it would be just the right time for them to go to Baicaoping to collect the goods.
"Have Brother Zhang and the others returned from the provincial capital?"
"He arrived yesterday!" Wang Zhen thought of Zhang Dajun's condition. "The child's surgery was very successful and he is recovering well."
Zhou Huaian was also happy for them, "That's great, Brother Zhang won't have to worry anymore."
"Well! As long as you do what the doctor says, you will be no different from a normal person in the future." Wang Zhen thought of what his grandfather said when he came back. The doctor there said that if the Zhang family's child had the operation earlier, he would have been no different from a normal child.
It sounds easy, but it is not easy for people in the mountains to collect thousands of dollars for medical expenses and walk such a long way to see a doctor!
Zhou Huaian and his companion came out of Desheng Hall. Thinking about the fact that they had earned several hundred yuan more, they drove the tractor back happily.
"Youngest, Doctor Xiao Wang has already made arrangements with the other side. I won't be here tomorrow. Just bring the money to you."
"If you want to go to the forest farm, you can ask Uncle Daqing to come with me!"
"My husband said that he went to the forest farm to see the director yesterday. Now there is a new policy. Those who don't want to go to work and want to start their own business can apply for unpaid leave at the company."
"Suspended employment with pay? How do I do that?"
"It means I can keep my current position, but there are also regulations. During the period of unpaid leave, I will not be promoted, and I will not enjoy the various allowances, subsidies and labor insurance benefits of my unit. I have to pay my own labor insurance premiums, and I will still receive a pension when I reach retirement age."
"This is a good thing! Of course I have to apply for unpaid leave!"
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding said happily, "I went back and told my husband that I would resign tomorrow. He said he had seen through it a long time ago and went to the forest farm to inquire about the news. The old ones are still the wisest!"
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Your sister-in-law said she would come to my house for dinner tonight, then we can have a good drink!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Yiding nodded with a smile.
When the two men drove the tractor to Funiu, the sun had already set. When they passed Zhou Yiding's house, they saw that the gate was locked.
"Maybe they all went to my house, you can go with them!"
"I can't not go in. I didn't bring my key when I came out."
The tractor rumbled left and right on the dirt road and arrived at the door of the house. I saw the old man holding Xiao Jiuer and talking to Zhou Daqing by the pond.
Zhou Yiding jumped off the tractor and went to talk to him.
Zhou Huaian drove the tractor into the yard. As soon as he parked the tractor, Zhou's mother walked over and asked, "How much did you sell the little wild boar for? How much per pound?"
"Two dollars and fifty cents a pound, a total of a little over six hundred!" Zhou Huaian felt guilty when he thought about wanting to keep all the pigs to eat. He looked at her hand, ready to run away as soon as she reached out to pinch him.
Zhou's mother glanced at him proudly and said, "I'm not wrong, a pig can be sold for dozens of yuan."
Zhou Huaian breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Yiding has already said that he wants to listen to your opinions more, and he also said that you have foresight!"
Zhou's mother glanced at him and said, "I don't have any foresight. I'm just afraid of being poor. I'm worried that you'll get used to spending lavishly and won't be able to save any more money in the future."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "Don't worry, Chunyan is here to check!"
"Chunyan has a good temper and is coaxed around by you every day." Mother Zhou rolled her eyes at him and walked towards the kitchen.
"..." Zhou Huaian shook his head, went to the main room, took out the key and opened the door, and Yang Chunyan also came in.
"Mom said those piglets were sold for over 600 yuan. Is that true?"
"Really? Mom also said..." Zhou Huaian looked at her, "Yan'er, I obviously listen to you in everything, why doesn't anyone believe me? Do I have a bad face? I'm almost wronged to death, please comfort me."
Yang Chunyan chuckled after hearing this and touched his face, "You don't have a bad face, you have a charming pretty face!"
Zhou Huaian grabbed her hand in dissatisfaction after hearing this, "Do you think there is any pretty boy like me, waking up earlier than a chicken and sleeping later than a dog every day?"
Yang Chunyan put her arms around his waist and said, "Okay, okay, it's not a pretty boy, it's Zhou Dashuai!"
"That's more like it!" Zhou Huaian took out the money and handed it to her, "The purple Ganoderma lucidum has been sold... I have already given the money to Yiding, and I will give him the rest after I sell the Hericium erinaceus. Also, I have already made an agreement with Yiding..."
"I feel more at ease if Yiding goes with you. I went to his house this afternoon..."
Yang Chunyan told Zhou Huaian that she and Zhao Huifang cleaned the pig stomachs and intestines, chopped the little wild boar in half, and sent half of it to Zhou Yiding's house.
After seeing it, Wan Xuejiao forced her to take half of it back, saying that there were few people in her family and they would not be able to finish it even if they put it in the cellar, and it would be a pity to let such good food go bad.
She had no choice but to return home with half of the things, and together with Zhao Huifang, she killed the big rooster that Accountant Ye had sent.
The wild boar's stomach was very small and could not hold the rooster weighing seven or eight pounds. Later, I chopped it into four pieces and stuffed it into the stomach. Together with the two hollow pieces of Gastrodia elata and yam, I stewed a pot of Gastrodia elata, pork stomach and chicken.
Zhou Huaian looked at her curiously after hearing this, "Why would Accountant Ye send us a big rooster? Could it be that he wanted to thank me for helping him wake up his youngest son Ye?"
"You are the only one who can do it!" Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach after hearing this, "Can't I come and thank you?"
Zhou Huaian was even more confused after hearing this, "You helped Ye Laoyao find a date?"
"Go to hell!" Yang Chunyan slapped him, "I..."
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian was very proud after hearing this, "My wife is my wife, she's so awesome!"
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "You are thicker-skinned than a city wall, and you put everything on your face."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "We are a couple. What's mine is not yours!"
"..." Yang Chunyan gave him a big eye roll.
Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smile, "Yan'er, today's dishes are so rich, I'll go and invite Secretary Xu and Uncle Datian to have a meal together, what do you think?"
"Okay, go call Accountant Ye. If he can come, then he can come. If he doesn't, forget it."
"Okay, it's almost six o'clock, I'll go call someone."
"Hurry up, if you're any later people will have already started eating. My sister-in-law and I will stir-fry some salt-fried pork and make some cold shredded vegetables." After saying this, Yang Chunyan put the money away and hurried to the wine cellar to get the meat for cooking.
When Zhao Huifang heard that more dishes were needed, she picked up the rice steamer from the pot and shoveled the braised pork intestines under the steamer into three ceramic bowls.
Yang Chunyan cut the cooked and drained small intestines into short sections, scooped some sweet potato flour and bean paste into them, mixed them evenly, added pickled peppers and pickled ginger and stir-fried them.
The braised pork liver is sliced and served cold, some are sprinkled with pepper and salt, and fresh pork liver is stir-fried with black fungus, bamboo shoots and pickled peppers.
Zhao Huifang shredded radish, lettuce and wood ear mushrooms and mixed them together. Yang Chunyan also stir-fried the pork.
On the other side, Zhou Huaian asked Zhou Yiding to go to Zhou Datian and Secretary Xu's homes separately. After calling them, they went to the brigade's drying dam on the way home to call Accountant Ye and walked back together.
When I got home, two round-tables and a low table were already set up in the front yard.
The old man said happily to Secretary Xu and the others, "The youngest and Yiding were lucky enough to have killed a wild boar with piglets. We thought the wild boars would be good for our stomachs, so we kept the offal of the small wild boars weighing 50 to 60 kilograms at home. Please come and have a party."
When Secretary Xu heard that the two had killed seven or eight wild boars and a sow, he couldn't help but praise them: "What luck you two have! You two are the only ones who can get so many wild boars at once."
Zhou Huaian laughed and said, "It was all thanks to the two of us that we couldn't even see a single hair of the pig. This time, it was all thanks to the two dogs of the Ding family who found the wild boar. Otherwise, how could we with two legs catch up with the four-legged one!"
After hearing this, Secretary Xu and his companions recalled the last time when Zhou Huaian's dog gathered all the dogs in the village and almost bit those thieves to death. "Such a good dog should be kept well."
Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law brought the dishes to the table one after another. When the chicken stewed with Gastrodia elata and pork tripe was served, the rich aroma that wafted into the air was already mouth-watering.
Zhou Huaian poured wine for several people. Accountant Ye didn't dare to drink, so he served him boiled water.
After eating it, everyone felt that the offal of the suckling pig was really delicious.
The braised pork intestines are fat but not greasy, the stir-fried small intestines and liver tips are fragrant and tender, and the stir-fried pork and cold-mixed shredded vegetables taste better than those in the restaurants in town.
Yang Chunyan, her sisters-in-law, the mother-in-law, the daughter-in-law and the children were sitting at the same table. Even the children felt that, out of all the pork offal cooked at home, today's dish tasted better than ever before. They had never eaten such delicious pork offal before.
Accountant Ye looked at the happy second branch of the Zhou family and felt a little emotional. He never dreamed that Zhou Dasong's family would be in such a situation today.
He picked up his wine glass and stood up to say to Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan at another table, "I'll offer you a glass of tea instead of wine. This time I had a stroke and fainted. If I hadn't been lucky enough to meet the youngest family who saved me without any grudges, I wouldn't be able to sit here and have dinner with you. I would have been paralyzed in bed a long time ago."
Zhou Huaian and the other man hurriedly said, "Accountant Ye, it's too polite for you to say that. We are all from the same hometown, so it makes no sense for us not to lend a hand when we see this!"
Father Zhou also said, "Yes, Accountant Ye, we were able to raise five children thanks to your support during those years of the collective, Secretary Xu, and Datian. Otherwise, we would not have been able to raise five children."
"It's you two who are hardworking and diligent. It has nothing to do with us!"
"Eat food and drink wine!" The old man scooped a bowl of soup for Accountant Ye, "If you don't drink wine, drink some of this soup. Chunyan stuffed chicken into the stomach of a wild boar and stewed it. She also added two Gastrodia elata. She said that eating this way is good for the stomach and intestines, and it will help you sleep better at night."
Accountant Ye picked up the spoon and took a sip. "Not bad, no wonder it smells so good!"
After dinner, Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law cleaned up the dishes and took them to the kitchen for washing, while the men chatted and boasted in the yard.
Accountant Ye was not feeling well, so he said goodbye and went home. Zhou Yiding's family, Secretary Xu, and Zhou Datian also said goodbye and left together. (End of this chapter)
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