Chapter 459 461: Capture
"That's right!" Gan Xiuqin looked at him angrily, "What's so good about you being the boss? Good things never happen to you, and you have to suffer when things go wrong."
"Stop nagging me, I'm exhausted after a long day and I have to fetch rocks tomorrow." Boss Bear pulled up the quilt and covered his head in annoyance.
The youngest Xiong helped Xiong Dahai into the room and said, "Old man, go to sleep first. I'll be back soon."
Xiong Dahai sat on the edge of the bed with his head down, and looked up at him after a moment, "It's chilly outside, come back early."
"I got it!" The youngest bear strode out of the yard and stepped on the truffles at the door. He was so angry that he crushed the truffles on the ground into pieces. Only then did he feel better.
He was walking along the edge of the field and suddenly found that he had nowhere to go.
Ever since he was injured while hunting last time, his family had another argument with Li Guanghui's family over the medical expenses, and all the people who used to come and play with him are gone.
Turning my head to look in the direction of Zhou's house, I saw a bonfire burning at the foot of the mountain. Thinking of the villagers who came in groups to sell truffles in the afternoon, my heart felt like it was being scratched by a cat.
Why does that idiot always run into all the good things...
He walked to the brigade's drying dam, lost in thought, and suddenly thought of Ye Laoya. He started walking towards his home, and almost bumped into someone when he reached the corner.
The man craned his neck to take a look. "Youngest Bear?"
"Cai Ermei?" The youngest Xiong looked at the crumpled paper in his hand, which looked like a notice posted on the wall at the corner. "What are you doing?"
Cai Ermei was not embarrassed at all about being caught, "It looks disgusting, tear it off and use it to wipe my butt!"
Ever since Wang Chunhua came back from selling truffles, he kept telling him how magnanimous Zhou Laoya was and how he didn't care about the fact that Zhou Laoya had stolen his business in the past.
He also said that she shouldn't have shown such a bad face to Zhou Laoya in the past, and that it would be a pity for them to have such a bad relationship, and asked him to apologize to him, and said a lot of things.
The youngest Xiong thought about the business he and the youngest Zhou were competing for, "He doesn't buy your truffles either?"
Cai Ermei curled her lips and said, "I'll take it! He wants to please me, but I won't buy his account!" After that, she waved her hand, put her hands behind her back, and left with 2.58 million.
The youngest Xiong watched the dark figure walking farther and farther away, turned his head to see the village store, then looked at the crooked sign of Ye Xiaoshuang's house. Suddenly, he thought of an idea, and immediately became energetic. He turned around and walked back.
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After Zhou Huaian saw Xu Hongbing and the other person off, he closed the gate and went to the corridor with Zhou Yiding to help move bricks and mortar.
Yang Chunyan put the truffles piled on the straw mat into a bamboo basket and brought it to the big wooden basin for Zhang Xiuxiang and the others to wash.
Since running the faucet wasn't enough water for washing last night, Zhao Huifang and her friends brought the big wooden basin from home here today.
Several people divided the work and cooperated. Jiang Yu and Jia Qiuhong scrubbed the first time, Wu Qiufang and another person scrubbed the second time, and Zhao Huifang and Cen Sao scrubbed the last time.
Zhang Xiuxiang and Yang Chunyan are responsible for delivering the goods and sending them to the oven for baking.
Jiang Yu smiled and said, "From now on, we can just take a nap during the day and get up to work in the afternoon."
Yang Chunyan came out of the drying room and said, "If we wash all of them, the drying room won't be able to hold them all. Let's wash the first and second grade ones tonight, and the third and last grade ones will be washed when they arrive tomorrow morning."
Zhao Huifang said, "If we wash those two piles tomorrow, it will take at most two hours to finish."
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at her watch and said, "I'll finish washing at ten o'clock."
At this time, Zhou Huaian brought Xu Erchun in from the dismantled wall, and the two whispered something as they walked.
Yang Chunyan saw him carrying a basket on his back and asked, "Why did Erchun come so late?"
Xu Erchun smiled and said, "There is still some work to do on the construction site. It will be late when we finish it. Fortunately, you are still awake."
"Next time, just tell us and we'll wait for you!" Zhou Huaian pulled a straw mat, "Just lie down here, I'll get the scale."
"That's right!" Xu Erchun put down his backpack. "There are people everywhere in the mountains. I think the truffle forest near our village has been completely searched in a week at most."
Yang Chunyan picked up a truffle that was bigger than a big bun and said, "Your goods today are good. Did you find them in the nearby woods?"
Xu Erchun looked at Jiang Yu and the others on the other side of the water pipe and whispered, "The forest over there in the bamboo forest that I went to took me half a day to walk back and forth. No one has ever been to the forest there, and there are a lot of good stuff there."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan glanced at Zhou Huaian and said, "I know where it is. It's where we found the pheasant eggs while digging for bone and wormwood."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "There are still some herbs that I forgot to dig!"
She also remembered that there were still quite a few Imperata roots there, but she forgot about it when she got busy.
Xu Erchun looked at the two of them with some envy, "I heard that Dakuan also went up the mountain to dig truffles today. Has he been here?"
Zhou Huaian put a first-class one into the bamboo basket, "He didn't come, his old man came to hand it in."
Xu Erchun recalled the time when they were little and they were so close that they looked like they were wearing crotchless pants. "It was better when we were little. It's not fun to play with you when you grow up!"
"People always have to grow up!" Zhou Huaian felt that the present was good. He was with the person he loved and did not have to worry about being scolded by his parents. Although he was exhausted, he was living a fulfilling life.
Yang Chunyan thought of Xu Erchun and Yang Hui, "When are you and my little sister going to get engaged?"
"Order it in the beginning of spring!" Xu Erchun slapped Zhou Huaian proudly, "Boy, wait for me to call you uncle!"
"You are so beautiful!" Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him and turned to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, don't you call by your name in Yangjiapingzi?"
Yang Chunyan felt that this person was sometimes so childish, "Calling her by her name is still like calling her little sister, and the generational relationship cannot be changed."
Xu Erchun was pleased with himself, "That's right, you still want to change your generation!"
Zhou Huaian picked up a rotten truffle and threw it at him, "I don't care. I agreed to speak well of you. Let's just talk about our own affairs."
Zhao Huifang and the others all laughed after hearing this. "The eldest generation is from the youngest branch, so they have to call him the ancestor!"
After seeing Xu Erchun off, the family finished packing and it was already past eleven o'clock, and there were still the largest number of third-class and last-class dishes that had not been washed.
Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun came over carrying vegetables and saw that Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding had already put the dried truffles in the kitchen.
The two looked at the dozen or so large bamboo baskets piled in the kitchen, "Youngest, are all the things collected yesterday here?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "It's all here."
Zhou Huaijun touched the bamboo basket happily, "Hehe! So much! It will be another big sum of money tomorrow."
Zhou Huaishan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Second brother, it's not that there will be money coming in tomorrow, but that there will be money coming in every day from tomorrow onwards!"
Zhou Huairong handed the soaked sack to the two men, "Aren't you tired? I almost fell asleep while standing."
"Tired!" Zhou Huaishan took the sack and covered the vegetables with it. "Youngest, we've put the chickens and ducks in the backyard. Remember to take them away tomorrow morning!"
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian sent the four people out of the yard and went to the backyard to take a look. He untied the dog leash and went to the bathroom. "Yan'er, are you okay?"
"Alright!" Yang Chunyan came out of the bathroom wearing a cotton coat, "Huaian, the door hasn't been installed yet, take Wangcai and tie him up there, so that grandpa won't be restless."
The door had not been completed yet, so Zhou's father and the old man put an old door panel there to block it, to protect against gentlemen but not against villains.
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian went to the doghouse, tied Wangcai's leash, carried the doghouse to the courtyard wall with one hand, and patted its head, "You stay here tonight."
Wangcai glanced at him, then jumped into the doghouse and lay down.
The old man and Zhou's father came out with coal and saw that the two were still there, "You've been tired all day, go to bed early!"
"I'll go right away." Zhou Huaian pointed at Wangcai, "I'll tie the dog there, you guys should go to bed early too."
Father Zhou nodded and said, "I'll stay here for half the night, let your grandfather go to sleep first."
The old man was exhausted after a long day and felt a little tired. He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go to sleep and you can call me."
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The two walked to the main hall, Zhou Huaian held her in his arms, "Little one, have you been good today?"
"Good boy!" Yang Chunyan touched her belly, "Lazy guys are always lazy when they move."
"Like you, you didn't even like to talk before!" Zhou Huaian said as he picked out the key and opened the door, "You go to bed first, I'll settle today's bill."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan entered the room and placed the oil lamp on the cabinet, "You should go to bed early too!"
"I'm quick." Zhou Huaian took out the account book with a smile, looked at it for a while and said, "No wonder I only have less than 500 yuan left after taking out 2,000 yuan. We collected 5,715 kilograms today."
Yang Chunyan took off her cotton coat and lay down on the bed. "I'll be able to make ends meet after selling the goods tomorrow."
"Today, Ding Dingmao and I roughly weighed it, and there are 900 kilograms of dry goods." Zhou Huaian put down the account book, took off his coat, climbed onto the bed and hugged her, "Yan'er, we can make several thousand yuan for one batch of goods. We will make a fortune in the spring of next year.
Then he bent down and kissed her, "Honey, how about I buy you a big gold bracelet at the end of the year?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and rolled her eyes at him, "Have you ever seen anyone selling big gold bracelets in the city?"
Zhou Huaian thought about it and felt that he had never seen it in the city. "Ning'an doesn't have it, but there should be some in the flower market, right? Ask Secretary Xu to issue a certificate by the end of the year, and we can go to the flower market to buy it."
Yang Chunyan thought it would be a good idea to buy some gold. "Then I'll buy a pair of earrings for your mom and my mom, and a ring for grandpa and my old man."
Zhou Huaian happily held her face, kissed her heavily on the lips, and looked at her deeply, "Yan'er, you are the best wife in the world!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and hit him, "If you buy it, you are a good wife. If you don't buy it, you are not the best wife?"
"All of them!" Zhou Huaian threw his clothes aside, hugged her and started to bite her!
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The next morning, Zhou Huaian got up and loaded the things into the tractor. He picked up the crank and looked around the room. He felt that it was a bad idea to keep the tractor at home because every time the tractor made a rumbling sound, it would wake Chunyan up.
Seeing that he was holding the crank without moving, Zhou's father stepped forward and said, "Youngest, I'm a little worried about you and Yiding, with such a large sum of money. Why don't you call your third brother along?"
"Don't be afraid!" Zhou Huaian went over and lifted up the seat cushion of the driving platform, "I put a shotgun here."
Father Zhou was relieved when he saw the gun, "Oh! Then you should be careful."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian started the tractor and drove out to Zhou Yiding's house, calling him to drive towards Ning'an together.
After the tractor drove past the brigade yard for a while, the youngest Xiong followed far behind on his bicycle.
The two arrived at the guesthouse at around seven o'clock. After handing the vegetables to Huang Yongcai, they went to Deshengtang. They ran more than ten times before they carried all the bamboo baskets to the backyard.
Wang Zhen saw more than a dozen bamboo baskets filled to the brim and was impressed by them. "You guys are so hardworking. Did you not sleep at night?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "We hired five aunts from the village to help with the cleaning. Together with more than ten people from my family, we worked until after eleven o'clock every night. At night, my grandfather and the old man took turns guarding the baking room, and they would turn over the truffles in the bamboo baskets every hour or so."
There are few entertainment activities even in the county town these days, let alone in the village. Everyone in the village wakes up and goes to sleep at around eleven o'clock.
"You guys are good at enduring hardships by sleeping late and getting up early." Wang Zhen patted the two of them in admiration and put the scale away. "At this rate, we should be able to deliver another batch tomorrow, right?"
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian and his partner lifted the bamboo basket onto the scale, "We can ship this much tomorrow. I built a baking room in the corridor, so the shipment volume the day after tomorrow will be at least double that of today."
After hearing this, Wang Zhen calculated the time and said, "Then I will wait for you to produce a batch the day after tomorrow and then send it to the provincial capital."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian agreed readily.
Wang Zhen added two weights, "The first basket is 105 jins... The first basket is 216 jins in total."
206 kilograms is more than 2,000 yuan. Zhou Huaian and the other man looked at each other and happily lifted the second grade up to be weighed.
Wang Zhen wrote down in the account book, "3 baskets of second-class goods totaling 291 kilograms, third-class goods 397 kilograms." He took out an abacus and fiddled with it, "First-class goods totaling 2,160 yuan, second-class goods 2,037 yuan, third-class goods 1,985 yuan..."
Zhou Yiding excitedly pulled him and said, "Youngest brother, we sold more than 6,000 again!"
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian was also very happy, "We also have to thank Dr. Xiao Wang for helping us make money."
"Hey~" Wang Zhen laughed, "You can't say that. I said last time that we are mutual. If you are happy, I am happy too."
"Uh-huh!"
The two helped him carry the truffles to the warehouse. Wang Zhen took them to the main room and said, "I thought you would come today, so I prepared the money yesterday afternoon. You can watch on TV. I'll go in and get the money for you."
"Yes, yes."
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding sat down on the sofa respectively. "Dingding Cat, it would be great if we had electricity. Let's go buy a TV and watch some TV."
Zhou Yiding nodded excitedly, "The TV is much more comfortable than a tape recorder."
Wang Zhen came out carrying a sackcloth bag and said, "When you have electricity, I will go to Yangcheng and bring you a color TV."
"Color TV?" Zhou Huaian asked curiously, "Are the patterns shown in it the same as color movies, with various colors?"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "It's not as good as the color movie pictures, and it's much more expensive than a black and white TV. It's only about the size of the one in my house."
"I'll come to you for help when the electricity is turned on."
Wang Zhen counted the money to the two men, "One thousand yuan for each bundle, a total of 6,182 yuan, count it."
Zhou Huaian counted and counted out five hundred yuan, "Take this and change it into change." He took out his waist bag and handed one to Zhou Yiding, "This is for the change I'll give you later."
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "I also use a waist bag like yours to carry money when I go to buy goods. I don't have to worry if I fall asleep on the train."
Zhou Yiding smiled and nodded, "I also thought this waist bag was good when I saw it for the first time. Otherwise, if it was a big bag of money, three hands would be obvious at a glance."
(End of this chapter)
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