Yang Chunyan and a few others went back to pick up Aunt Li and took them to Deshengtang.
After examining Aunt Li, Dr. Wang asked Li Wu to take her to the hospital across the street to have her eyes checked before getting medicine.
After examining Yang Chunyan's pulse, Doctor Wang said the child was fine and asked her to be careful not to catch a cold.
Zhou Huaian asked Yang Chunyan to get cough medicine for the old man. He sent the truffles to the backyard. "I sorted them into large, medium and small sizes according to your request. There are still a few extra large ones that haven't been dried yet. I'll send them to you next time."
Wang Zhen checked the truffles in the three baskets and said, "Yes, I was worried that the weather would be bad and the truffles would get moldy if they were not dried. It turns out that you have already made preparations."
Zhou Huaian said proudly: "We never thought we would get these. Chunyan said she would need them when she collects red mushrooms in the future, so she hired someone to build a room with the bricks and tiles she made at home."
"It is true that those who do not think about the future will have immediate worries!" Wang Zhen put the basket away and said to him, "When you go back and have time, go find the mulberry silkworm cocoons I sent you last time. The more the better!"
"Okay! We'll go find it when we get back." Zhou Huaian thought about it and asked again, "Doctor Xiao Wang, how likely do you think it is that they will place an order after seeing the goods?"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "I think there shouldn't be any problem, because they called to urge us to send the samples."
"That's good. My brother and his friends are worried about the outcome. They're afraid that no one will want the dug ones and their efforts would be in vain."
"Don't worry, foreigners like this stuff very much, and just like our abalone and sea cucumber, it's eaten by rich people."
"Tsk tsk!" Zhou Huaian shook his head, "Their preferences are really strange!"
"People think we like to eat stinky things like stinky tofu and pig intestines, which are weird!"
"That's true!" Zhou Huaian went back to the clinic with him. Doctor Wang told them to go back and pick some loquat leaves, add some rock sugar and boil them in water to drink.
The two waited in the clinic for a while, and Li Wu helped Aunt Li out of the hospital and told them that it was indeed cataracts, but they would have to wait until next month to have the surgery.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan and the other person were also happy for them. They said goodbye to the Wang family's grandparents and went to buy a faucet, then went to the vegetable market to buy pig intestines, cut some meat and went back.
Before the tractor reached Guanyin Mountain, we saw a lot of people gathered at the foot of the mountain and a military green jeep parked on the side of the road. It turned out that the police brought Xiong Laoer and Fang Tuzi to identify the scene of the crime.
Zhou Huaian said to Yang Chunyan: "Let's go to the front and wait, otherwise we won't miss the car when it comes."
"Yeah! It saves me from having to go over there and get asked all sorts of questions!"
At the bend of Guanyin Mountain, Xiong Laoer was no longer as rude as before and was led by the police towards the car.
He Hongxiu looked at him with red eyes. Damn it, he lied to me that he was going to make money, but it turned out that he was doing this kind of sneaky thing again. Shouldn't he be sentenced to ten or eight years for stealing a tractor? How can I live like this in the future...
Xiong Dahai looked pale as he watched Xiong Laoer being taken into the police car. How could he be so bold? He even dared to steal a tractor.
I heard the villagers whispering, "Shame on our ancestors! A robbery prisoner has appeared in Funiu Village!"
"That's right. They robbed people from the same village. How could they do that?"
"Who should I blame? It's his family who are too protective of their child. It's obviously their own child who is wrong, but they still protect him and argue for three points even when it's unreasonable!"
“…”
Xiong Dahai wished he could faint and die so that he wouldn't have to hear any of this gossip.
Zhou Sufang chased after him, crying, "Comrade, you are wrong. My second son would never do such a thing..."
The young police officer frowned and looked at her. "Auntie, your son was caught at the scene by the victim. He and his accomplices also admitted to planning to rob the tractor."
The perpetrators of the Construction Brigade robbery case have not been caught yet. The higher-ups said they will deal severely if caught. These two had the audacity to commit the crime in defiance of the law. I wonder if they are too ignorant or too brave?
"The second son is timid, he must be scared and talking nonsense." Zhou Sufang pulled him, "You don't know, my family and the Zhou family have a grudge, they wish something bad would happen to my family, it must be that bastard Zhou Laoyao who framed my second son..."
"Old comrade, we are investigating a case, please stop being unreasonable!" The young man was getting impatient as she was holding him back and he couldn't get into the car. He pushed her hand away, got into the car and closed the door.
Zhou Sufang watched the car drive away, turned around and grabbed He Hongxiu, "You spendthrift woman who can't even control your man, why don't you just die? Give me back my second son..."
"Old hag, if you hadn't protected the second son at all costs, would he have done such a thing?" He Hongxiu showed no sign of weakness. She pushed her to the ground and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started to wrestle.
Xiong Dahai looked at the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law fighting each other and wanted to die. "Stop, stop! Everyone, help pull them apart..."
On the other side, the jeep quickly reached the mechanized farming road. When Xiong Laoer looked up and saw Zhou Huaian on the tractor, he clenched his handcuffed hands.
Zhou Huaian didn't care at all. He picked up the crank, started the tractor and drove forward.
When they reached the bend, Zhou Sufang and her husband had been pulled away. Seeing Zhou Huaian driving the tractor over, they stopped in front and shouted:
"Zhou Laoyao, please be kind and let my second son go. Go tell the police and I promise that my second son will never do such a thing again..."
He Hongxiu also came to plead, "Please, Zhou Laoyao, we are all from the same village, please let my second son go..."
Zhou Huaian looked at the villagers who were watching, "Look everyone, Xiong Lao Er is trying to rob me with such a thick stick, who won't let go?"
Li Wu couldn't sit still any longer. "Didn't you see that Xiong Laoer and Fang Tuzi blocked a big log on the road? If Zhou Laoyao hadn't been alert and didn't get off the tractor to move the log, he would be the one lying here today."
He Hongxiu screamed, "Then why didn't you inform us when you caught him? You knew we should hand him over to the police..."
"Bah~" Zhou Huaian sneered, "Why should I call you? You are the ones who are the first to complain."
Yang Chunyan laughed angrily, "You are shameless and you want us to go to your house to inform you of highway robbery? It's my Huai'an who is lucky today. If we are unlucky and get beaten a few times, who can we go to for justice?
The tractor of the family whose house was robbed in the construction brigade has not been recovered yet. Not only did the man’s tractor get robbed, but he is still lying in bed unable to move.”
The villagers who were watching the scene started to discuss, "That's right, the guy from the construction team had his head smashed, and he almost died. He's still lying in bed!"
"How brave does one have to be to rob a tractor? If this kind of person is not sent to the police station and left in the village, who knows what he will do next time?"
"Maybe he's already been doing sneaky things for a long time, otherwise how could he be so bold?"
"That's right. Living in the same brigade, you'll see each other everywhere. It's inevitable that there will be quarrels and fights. This is the first time I've heard of someone colluding with people from other villages to rob their own village."
Xiong Dahai listened to the villagers' discussions, without even looking at Zhou Sufang, he turned around and walked back tremblingly.
Seeing that Zhou Huaian and the others were unwilling to help put in a good word, Zhou Sufang cursed with the most vicious words, "You rotten-hearted bastard, you have harmed my second son, and your whole family will not have a good death..."
Yang Chunyan stepped forward and pointed to the sky and said, "When people do things, God is watching. Karma is reincarnation. If you don't believe it, look up and see that God will not let anyone off the hook."
An old man agreed, "The youngest family is right. God is watching what you do. There will be retribution!"
Some people in the Fangtian Brigade couldn't stand it anymore. "That's right. One of your family members did something like this, and you still have the nerve to scold the victim. You don't know how shameless you are!"
Yang Chunyan didn't even bother to look at the sullen Zhou Sufang, and asked Zhou Huaian to drive the tractor straight past.
Li Wu looked at the two of them, "Zhou Laoyao, the Xiong family is so shameless!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and remembered the last time he caught Xiong Laosan and Zou Cuifen in the back mountain. "There are so many people who think they are human just because they are wearing a skin. Look carefully and you won't suffer any loss!"
After hearing this, Li Wu felt that there was something else behind his words, but he couldn't figure out what the hidden meaning was.
When they got home, the old man and Zhou's father were waiting for him at his house. They were relieved to see the two men return unharmed.
The old man said to his brothers, "From now on, when you go out on a tractor early in the morning, you must go out in pairs."
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian supported him and walked into the house, "Let's go see the truffles we dug!"
The old man looked disgusted and said, "Don't watch it. I was hurt during the famine. I want to vomit when I see it!"
"Yes, in those years, we dug up everything that could be imported from the mountains to fill our stomachs."
Zhou Huairong and his two brothers have already built the pool and set up the shed in the afternoon. It will be much more convenient when the hired plumber comes and installs it.
On that day, the news of Xiong Laoer blocking the road and stealing the tractor spread in Funiu Village, and villagers came to Zhou Huaian's house from time to time to inquire about the news.
Then word spread in the village that all the things that had been stolen in the village were done by Xiong Lao Er and Xiong Lao San, and Xu Hongbing was taking the blame for them.
The reputation of Xiong Dahai's family in the village fell to the bottom. Whenever they went out, people pointed fingers at them, and the family didn't even dare to leave the house.
The youngest Xiong hated the Zhou family even more, and swore that after the New Year he would go out and do something successful to come back and avenge his humiliation!
In the Zhou family, while everyone was anxiously waiting for news about Wang Zhen, they continued to do what they had to do.
Yang Chunyan took Zhao Huifang and others into the mulberry forest to look for mulberry silkie cocoons, while Zhou Huaian and others continued to go into the mountains to dig truffles.
The waiting time passed extremely slowly, and ten days seemed to be longer than a month.
Yang Chunyan took them to the mulberry forest to look for mulberry silkie cocoons for several days, but they did not find any mulberry fungus. They did sell the mulberry silkie cocoons they found for about ten yuan, but the truffles at home were piled up into a mountain.
Seeing that there was still no news after nearly half a month, Zhou Huairong and his friends wanted to give up and not go into the mountains to dig.
Even Zhou Huaian was getting a little impatient waiting, "Yan'er, there are already so many mushrooms piled up at home. I want to stop and go into the mountains with my brother to chop some green wood."
Yang Chunyan knew that they were getting impatient waiting, "We still need a lot of firewood. I think we should go to the coal mine and buy a few truckloads of coal. This way you don't have to get up at night to add more firewood!"
"Don't worry. Think about it. The truffles have to be sent to the provincial capital to be shown to the buyers. If foreigners really want them, who knows how many hands they will have to go through. It won't be as fast as you think!"
"That's true!" Zhou Huaian calmed down after hearing this. "Okay, I'll call Ding Ding Mao to go to the small coal mine to buy coal, and ask big brother and the others to go up the mountain to chop some firewood for preparation."
"Well! Go put on your snow cap to save yourself a headache later!"
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian turned around and went into the house to get his hat. (End of this chapter)
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