Chapter 135 134: The Great House
The two washed their faces and returned to the kitchen. Mother Zhou took the food out of the pot and placed it on the small dining table in the kitchen. When she saw the two people coming in, she put the chopsticks on the table:
"Today I picked up a dozen chicken mushrooms in the corn field. I cooked a pot of mushroom soup. I kept half of the pig intestines I bought yesterday. Today I cooked potatoes."
"Did you pick it up from the early-ripening corn field over there?" Yang Chunyan picked up the wooden soup spoon and drank two sips of the chicken mushroom soup. She felt that hot soup was more comfortable to drink.
"That's what you picked up last time." Seeing the two wolfing down their food, Zhou's mother felt a little distressed. "You must be starving, right? There's still rice in the rice cooker. Eat more to have more strength!"
"Hmm!" Zhou Huaian swallowed the food in his mouth and suddenly remembered something, "Mom, did Ye Xiaoshuang pay the medical expenses?"
"I gave it to you!" Zhou's mother said angrily, "When I went to the brigade to get the money, I met that bastard Cai Ermei. He gave me a dirty look. I spat at him twice, and he left!"
Yang Chunyan thought of the shredded carrot on Ye Xiaoshuang's face, "You scratched Ye Xiaoshuang's face like that, he must be very angry."
"Bah~" Zhou's mother spat, "You shameless thing deserves to be pissed off! Captain Zhou's family said that since Ye Xiaoshuang opened the agency store, Quan Fu Niu knows that Cai Ermei and Widow Ye are having an affair. Only Wang Chunhua, who knows nothing about it, is still taking care of Widow Ye's business. As the old saying goes, a thousand eyes are used to sift rice from chaff, but the only one at home is kept secret."
Yang Chunyan felt that the old saying really made sense. The last person to know was the one at home. "If you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet. The two of them walked so close, Wang Chunhua would find out sooner or later!"
"Everyone is waiting for Wang Chunhua to find out and watch the show! Tsk tsk, you haven't seen it. Ye Xiaoshuang's agency store is now as busy as market day. I heard that there are two or three tables of people playing for money in the backyard. At the end of the day, they make several yuan in rake.
Several men in the team spent every day at the gambling table and lost all their family money. In order to make up for their losses, they secretly sold the family food, but they lost everything again. The children at home didn’t even have sweet potato and cornmeal to eat. "
Zhou Huaian sneered, "Aren't those gossipy women on the team the ones who love to gossip? Why didn't anyone tell Wang Chunhua?"
Mother Zhou rolled her eyes at him and said, "You idiot, as the old saying goes, it is better to destroy a temple than to break up a marriage. Who would want to interfere in the affairs of another couple?"
As she spoke, she remembered something. "Your old man went to the Xu family to ask about the dog. The Xu family said that mountain dogs recognize their owners, so it's best for the owner to take the dog home. Only then will the dog be close to its owner. When you take the dog home, remember to wrap a red paper with a lucky money of RMB 2 for them!"
When a country family adopts a dog, they usually give a lucky money as a token of appreciation. For a normal local dog, a lucky money of 12 cents is enough. The Xu family raises a purebred mountain dog, so the lucky money is higher.
Zhou Huaian: "Got it!"
Mother Zhou looked at Yang Chunyan again, "Your sister came this afternoon and brought a bundle of sugar cane. I saw that she seemed to be worried. You can go and see her tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "There aren't many items to sell tomorrow, let Huai'an send them to Ning'an and I'll go over to take a look."
Zhou Huaian was stunned after hearing this, "It's not even daybreak yet, you want me to go alone?"
"Tomorrow I'll ask the third child to take you to the asphalt road and come back." Mother Zhou thought about it and reminded, "Remember to save a few hundred kilograms of steel bars for the doors and windows."
"Got it." Zhou Huaian ate two bowls of rice in a row and still didn't feel full. He scooped some more rice into the pottery bowl and mixed it with vegetable soup before putting down the bowl with satisfaction: "Yan'er, I heard from my little sister that Ding Dingmao will be back today and will go to his third sister's house for a blind date tomorrow. I'll go to his house to see if he's back?"
Yang Chunyan, who was cleaning up in front of the stove, turned around and said, "It's so late. Even if you're back, you're probably asleep. Are you going to pick a fight with Cai Ermei?"
"I don't have the time. I want to ask Ding Ding Mao how long he will stay in the mountains. If it takes longer, we can go to the forest he guards to look for herbs. There is a big yard in the forest farm. Even if we go up the mountain and can't get back in time after dark, we will have a place to eat and stay."
Yang Chunyan glanced at him and said, "I remember that forest rangers are all equipped with guns. I think your intention to go to the forest farm to look for herbs is fake. Your real intention is to go hunting in the mountains with Yiding!"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian nodded at her, "Women are always cunning. I was thinking that Ding Dingmao has often covered for Uncle Daqing in the past two years and is quite familiar with the mountains. While the price of Magnolia officinalis is high now, we can go to the mountains to look for Magnolia officinalis trees and get some Magnolia officinalis bark and Magnolia officinalis flowers to sell!"
Yang Chunyan felt that Zhou Yiding was a reliable person and said, "Then go ahead!"
"Then I'm leaving!" Zhou Huaian turned and left the kitchen. He looked around but didn't see Zhou Huaishan. "Third sister-in-law, where is my third brother?"
"Build a shelf in the backyard!" Li Qiuyue said again, "Youngest, I'll give you the money from selling mushrooms and eels."
Except for the first time when Zhou Huaian put in the capital for collecting eels, later the four brothers each put in twenty-five yuan as capital, and after each sale they divided the capital after deducting the profit equally.
After the price of eels dropped, Wang Jianjun only made a profit of ten yuan from the more than 100 kilograms of eels he sold in bulk to the canteen. In addition to the five yuan he earned from selling them to the canteen and the money from the chicken mushrooms and other mushrooms, each family of four got less than ten yuan.
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "Give it to Chunyan later, I'll ask my third brother to go out with me."
Seeing him walking towards the backyard in a hurry, Li Qiuyue said to Zhao Huifang with a smile: "Sister-in-law, do you know why the youngest one is so timid?"
Zhao Huifang laughed: "It turned out to be like this out of nowhere. I don't know why. My mom and dad asked him, but he wouldn't tell me."
Zhang Xiuxiang: "He didn't even mention Chunyan, I think it must be something he is embarrassed to say!"
Zhao Huifang nodded, "I think so too. Don't be fooled by the youngest brother's usual attitude. He is actually very respectable!"
"That's true!" Li Qiuyue said as she suddenly remembered something, "Sister-in-law, did you see Zhou Huaixing and his wife Chen Limei today?"
Zhang Xiuxiang curled her lips, "What's so good about them? I hate them the most. Every time I run into Chen Limei on the road, she pretends not to see me and waits for me to greet her first. As if someone else greets her first, she will be superior or something!"
"They greeted me from afar today and showed me what they were wearing!" Li Qiuyue looked at the two with gossipy eyes, "But Chen Limei's outfit is really nice, just like the ones worn by people in the city, high-heeled leather shoes, Dacron shirt, and police blue pants, so fashionable!"
"And Zhou Huaixing, dressed like the kings of Zhou, Wu and Zheng, with some of his hair smeared with sweet-scented osmanthus oil. Wow, it's so shiny that a fly would break its legs if it landed on it!"
"Really?" Zhao Huifang looked at her in surprise. "If you say so, the eldest wife will probably get rich!"
"He's made a fortune!" Zhou's mother came out of the main room holding a shoe sole. "I heard that he will become an official in Beijing in the future!"
(End of this chapter)
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