Chapter 418 420: Accident
As soon as the tractor entered the village, people stopped and asked if Li Guanghui's leg was eaten by a wild boar? Was Xiong Laoyao's intestines taken out by a wild boar? Did the doctor use dog intestines to connect him?
The Zhou Huaian brothers watched them talking with great interest. These gossiping women in the village were really powerful. It had only been a short time and yet they had spread the story like this. They had detailed details and it seemed as if they had seen it with their own eyes. These people were really good at making up stories.
Li Guangming said angrily, "There were so many people watching at noon, and Guanghui's feet were still on his legs! And how could Xiong Laoyao's intestines be pulled out? Not only are they gloating over the misfortune of others, but they are also spreading rumors and cursing them."
Someone watching the fun shouted, "Zhou Laoyao, I heard your hemostatic medicine is pretty good. Where did you buy it? I want to buy some too!"
Zhou Huaian said cheerfully: "I bought it in the county. If anyone wants to buy it, I'll bring it to you. No extra charge!"
The man chuckled and said, "It's better if you don't raise the price. We can't afford 250 yuan a bottle!"
"Stop talking nonsense. If you want to buy it, just give me the money!" Zhou Huaian drove the tractor away with a "thump thump" sound.
Yang Chunyan heard the noise from the tractor and hurried out of the vegetable field. "I've warmed up the food in the pot. You can go back and make it yourself."
Not long after they left, public opinion in the village exploded, with everyone talking about how Zhou Huaian sold a small bottle of hemostatic medicine to the Xiong family for 250 yuan.
It is said that the youngest son of the Zhou family is wild and not as kind as his old man. If Zhou Dasong was there in the morning, the Xiong family would not have to spend that money in vain.
Some people also said that Zhou Laoyao was a vindictive person, so it would be better to avoid offending him in the future.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought this was a good idea. If Zhou Huaian also played the role of a good guy like his father-in-law, he wouldn't even be able to protect the herbs in the back mountain.
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian saw that her hands were covered in mud. "The vegetable seeds have been sown. Do you still need to hoe the ground?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Aunt San brought some lettuce, cauliflower, and lotus seedlings. There is also a small strip of land on the edge of the field for me to plant."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "We won't go to Ning'an this afternoon. We'll go fishing later and sell it when we deliver the vegetables tomorrow morning."
Yang Chunyan: "After I finish planting the seedlings, I will go with you to find some sandworms to fry and eat."
"That's fine!" Zhou Huaian agreed and whispered, "We went to see my sister in town today, and on the way back we ran into that bastard He Jianjun. He and a man called..."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan said, "They were walking in the alley. Even if we noticed something was wrong, they didn't do anything out of the ordinary. You were right not to go to Sister Yumei to tell her about this."
Zhou Huaian said angrily: "If I wasn't afraid that my sister would find out, I would smash his face to pieces!"
Yang Chunyan comforted him, "If he dares to do anything to let Sister Yumei down in the future, you can give him a good beating."
Zhou Huaian looked at her, "Yan'er, I've been thinking today, are the things that happened in your dream our past lives? God saw that we had such a miserable life in our past lives, so he let us start over again and warned you in your dreams."
Yang Chunyan said gently, "Then we should learn from this lesson and live a good life, so that God's grace and warning will not be in vain."
Zhou Huaian nodded heavily, "Yes! Yiding is still waiting, I'm going to eat."
"Go ahead. I'll go plant the vegetables."
"That's great!" Zhou Huaian and his wife had just started eating when Zhou's mother came over with sweet potatoes. "I dug out some sweet potatoes and sent you a basket. Yiding can also pick some back."
"A few are enough for me." Zhou Yiding said with a smile, "Second mother, we dug up some Codonopsis pilosula and brought it back. You can use some to stew the bones."
Mother Zhou smiled and waved her hands, "No need, Chunyan still has some left." She then looked at Zhou Huaian, "Did you really sell the hemostatic medicine to the Xiong family for 250 yuan?"
"This is not fake!" Zhou Huaian took out the money from his pocket, "250, all here!"
Zhou's mother looked at the money on the table for a while and said, "It could be 240 or 260, why only 250? That's so ugly!"
Zhou Huaian was stunned for a moment, "I thought you were going to scold me!"
"Why should I scold you? Your husband was almost forced to death by them. If it weren't for..." Mother Zhou swallowed the words that came back to her lips, paused and said, "You gave the medicine to his family without asking for anything, so I have to scold you!"
Zhou Huaian knew what she hadn't finished saying. If Chunyan hadn't found the bezoar, they would have been just like in Chunyan's dream, making one mistake after another, and in the end their family would have been broken up!
Zhou Yiding thought that Zhou Huaian remembered the incident of driving the cow off the ridge and causing it to fall to death, so he said with a smile, "Second Mother, the youngest one was deliberately trying to disgust the Xiong family and slap them in the face."
"Selling it for 250 doesn't sound good!" Zhou's mother thought about it and asked again: "Did that bastard Xiong Laoyao really have his intestines pulled out by a wild boar?"
Zhou Huaian looked at her with amusement, "You too, you believed what those gossipy women said. It was just a cut less than two inches long, and it's true that a lot of blood flowed."
"It's what he deserves. He's so wicked that he deserves retribution." Zhou's mother curled her lips and said, "I told you so. The people who helped carry the man down the mountain all said that his intestines hadn't come out, but Zhou Huaijin's mother even made it sound very convincing."
Zhou Huaian: "What kind of people are those? You believe them!"
Zhou's mother thought about it and said, "Have you been to town to see your sister? If everything is fine, I'll go and see her the day after tomorrow!"
"She's gone!" Zhou Huaian finished the rice in his bowl in two or three bites, wiped his mouth and said, "My sister is fine, but I have something to tell you."
Seeing his serious expression, Zhou's mother hurriedly pulled a chair and sat down, "What happened?"
Zhou Huaian said: "When Yiding and I went to see my sister, we met... I thought He Jianjun and that woman were no longer related, so I didn't tell you. Now it seems that he is still in contact with that woman!"
Zhou's mother's face became darker and darker. "It's right not to tell your sister. I'll go to the town tomorrow and ask someone where that woman is married. I'll see if He Jianjun and her are hooking up."
"It would be better to ask around!" Zhou Huaian felt that it would be more convenient for his mother to ask about this matter.
"I'll go ask the matchmaker first." Zhou's mother sighed, "I've felt something was wrong since your sister got married. It's no wonder people like to have sons. It's much easier to have a son under my nose."
Zhou Yiding said with a smile: "Second Mother, those sisters-in-law are of good character. If you marry someone like Ye Laoyao's family, you will have a headache!"
"That's true." Zhou's mother stood up and said, "I'll go find Liu the matchmaker."
Zhou Huaian put the dishes and chopsticks back into the pot, and went to the vegetable garden to help Yang Chunyan plant the last few vegetable seedlings. The three of them carried buckets of water and fishing nets and went out.
When Zhou Jiakang saw Zhou Huaian carrying a bucket and a wooden basin, he immediately ran over and saw the fishing nets in the buckets. "Dad, are you guys going fishing? I want to go with you."
"Aunt, we want to go too." Zhou Xiaoru and Zhou Xiaowen also ran over.
Yang Chunyan looked over and asked, "Where's Xiaolin?"
Zhou Xiaoru pointed to the yard and said, "Xiaolin and my mother are sleeping."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "If you go there, you must listen to my instructions and I will take you with me!"
The three children nodded together, "We will be obedient."
Seeing that they were going to take the three little ones with them, Zhou Huaian said to Yang Chunyan, "Why are you taking a few little brats with you?"
Zhou Jiakang went over and pulled him, "Dad, take us with you, we'll be obedient."
Yang Chunyan nodded and said to the kids, "Go back and tell your mother." Even if you don't take the kids with you, the kids will follow secretly, so it is better to take them with you to see it with their own eyes.
"Oh!" Zhou Xiaowen and Zhou Xiaoru ran to their homes respectively, and soon they ran out with their mouths wide open, "Aunt, my mother agreed."
The three children skipped and followed the three people towards the river, chattering and asking questions all the way.
Zhou Jiakang was very proud. Whenever he met kids in the village, he would brag about going to the river to fish, saying that his father caught a lot of fish that day.
The brave child looked at Yang Chunyan and said, "Zhou Jiakang asked your aunt to take us with her."
Zhou Jiakang said smugly, "They are my aunt and father, not yours. Why should I take you there?"
"Stingy guy, we won't play with you anymore."
"If you don't want to play, then don't. I don't want to." Zhou Jiakang jumped and chased after Yang Chunyan and the others.
Zhou Xiaoru took Yang Chunyan's hand and said, "Aunt, what are you doing at the river?"
Yang Chunyan held her warm little hand and said, "Catch the sandworms!"
Zhou Jiakang followed and asked, "Aunt, why are you catching sandworms?"
Yang Chunyan touched his head and said, "Go back and fry them!"
Zhou Jiakang hurriedly said, "I want to eat! Aunt Yao, I can catch them too. I'll help you catch them later."
"Greedy cat!" Yang Chunyan laughed, "You are not allowed to play in the water. If you catch a cold, you will have to take bitter medicine and get an injection."
Zhou Jiakang covered his buttocks and said, "I don't want an injection! An injection hurts."
Zhou Xiaowen gloated, "You deserve it. Who told you to play in the water?"
Zhou Jiakang bared his teeth and claws, "Little mosquito! I'll slap it, I'll slap it, slap it, slap it!"
Zhou Xiaowen hurriedly hid behind Yang Chunyan, "Stinky Xiaokang, you lazy dog..."
"Xiao Wen, let me help you!" Zhou Xiaoru stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Jiakang, and the three children started quarreling.
When the group arrived at the river, the sun hid in the clouds and the river breeze blew in their faces, bringing a biting chill.
As soon as Zhou Jiakang and his two companions arrived at the river, they ran into the dam, moved away the stones and began to look for sandworms.
Zhou Huaian hurriedly said: "Remember, you can only look here, not by the water."
"Got it!" the three kids answered in unison.
Yang Chunyan rubbed the goose bumps on her hands. "I didn't feel that cold when the sun was shining, but when the sky turned cloudy, I felt that winter had really arrived!"
Zhou Yiding said: "When we were at the forest farm, the trees on the mountain were covered with frost in the morning. It was much colder than at the foot of the mountain!"
"That's right. Fortunately, Uncle Daqing's military coat is here, otherwise we would be freezing." Zhou Huaian took the fishing net out of the bucket and looked at the mountains to the east. "It looks like it will rain tonight."
Zhou Yiding took the fishing net and said, "Give me the net, and help my sister-in-law catch the sandworms."
"That's right!" Before Zhou Huaian finished speaking, Zhou Jiakang came running over with a fat sandworm in his hand, "Dad, I caught one."
"I found it too." Zhou Xiaowen and another man also ran over carrying two sandworms.
Yang Chunyan quickly put some sand in a basin and asked the children to put the sandworms in the basin. "Huaian, go and fish. Xiaowen and I will slowly look for them."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian strode towards Zhou Yiding.
Yang Chunyan looked around and saw a pile of river sand next to a stone. The color of the sand was obviously different from the ones next to it. She walked forward and turned it over. She saw two fat dark brown sandworms crawling in the sand.
She pinched the sandworm's back, and it waved the two "big claws" on its head wildly, trying to attack the enemy that disturbed it.
Yang Chunyan thought that sandworms were easier to find in this era. In her previous life, when she came to the river and turned over all the stones, she could only find a dozen small ones at most.
(End of this chapter)
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