Chapter 746 Chapter 762: Shameless
"Bah~" Zhou Huaian turned his head and spat, "Shameless, all you know how to do is scheme against others. You obviously have money but you still ask grandpa to help you borrow money."
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding said angrily, "Then why did you remind him just now? It would be better if he was stared at by three hands!"
"If their money is stolen, the eldest wife will definitely find a way to borrow money from my grandfather, and then we will be the ones who suffer."
"That's true!" Zhou Yiding thought about it and said, "Your father is the same. Zhou Huaixing is so addicted to gambling, but you still dare to buy him a tractor. Aren't you afraid that he will lose the tractor?"
"If they were afraid, they wouldn't have helped Zhou Huaixing sell the quota in the village." Zhou Huaian remembered what the old man said, "Zhou Huaixing's friend drove a tractor to transport goods and made a million yuan in one year. It would be strange if they didn't want to be tempted!"
Zhou Yiding calculated the freight rates in front of him. "To earn a million yuan a year by transporting goods, you have to get up earlier than the chickens and sleep later than the dogs every day, and work non-stop all year round, right?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "I've calculated that as long as the tractor doesn't break down, and I work every day for a year without a break, I can really become a millionaire if I'm lucky. But do you think Zhou Huaixing is possible?"
"Impossible." Zhou Yiding looked at him with a smile, "Unless Zhou Huaixing is like you and turns over a new leaf!"
"Tsk~" Zhou Huaian raised his head proudly, "How many people in the world are as determined as me, as outstanding as me, as loyal, brave, and unparalleled in the world!"
"Ugh..." Zhou Yiding dry-retched, "My ancestor, Banban, almost made me vomit out the leftover rice."
Zhou Huaian laughed, "Hahaha..."
When the two arrived in Ning'an, they first went to the bank to deposit the old man's money, and then went to Deshengtang, where Wang Zhen was seeing a patient.
Seeing the two of them coming, Yang Dongmei smiled, opened the counter door and walked out, "Brother-in-law, Brother Yiding, you are here!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Little sister, are my third brother and the others still in Ning'an?"
Yang Dongmei: "Yes, Third Brother helped the hotel haul coal a few times, and also took a job at a restaurant. He should be back by now, right?"
Zhou Huaian: "When he comes over, ask him to wait for us for a while."
Yang Dongmei: "Well! What are you doing in the city?"
Zhou Huaian! "Ding Ding Mao, go get some medicine for his old man. I'm going to buy a few pairs of yellow rubber shoes and cut a piece of fresh meat to stir-fry with garlic chives and pork shreds."
Zhou Yiding handed her the prescription and said, "Little sister, please help me get a few more patches for my old man to use in the forest farm."
"Okay!" Yang Dongmei went to get the medicine. Zhou Huaian and Wang Zhen nodded to each other, then pushed their bicycles to the vegetable market.
It was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was Chinese New Year, so all the stalls in the vegetable market were closing up. The two men rode their bicycles to the meat stall and saw that several meat stalls had closed up. Several stall owners were sitting in front of the fat butcher's stall and ran away quickly.
"Fat brother, do you still have any meat?"
The fat butcher turned around and saw Zhou Huaian and the others, and nodded happily, "Yes, there is also a piece of pork belly, which is 1.7 yuan per pound for you. It will be perfect for you to stir-fry the meat slices when you take it back."
There are many relatives visiting these days, and most of them come to buy the prime rib with ribs, five-layer pork belly, and lean meat that are so popular that they can’t be sold out even if you swear.
Zhou Huaian walked forward to take a look. It was a piece of buttocks tip, weighing about four or five pounds. The meat in this part was fat and lean, and the meat was tender. It was suitable for stir-frying shredded pork, but it was a little too much.
Turning his head, he saw two large bones and a piece of heart and lungs on the chopping board, so he said, "One dollar and seven cents is fine. Give me the two large bones and the piece of heart and lungs, and I'll take them."
Take the heart and lungs home, wash them, and stew them with radishes along with the bones. It tastes good, but it’s a bit laborious to wash them. If you don’t want to do it, you can cook them and feed them to the dog.
"Oh! We will lose money this way. You know, the price of live pigs has gone up this year. We can't make any money at 1.7 yuan per pound of meat." The fat butcher sighed, "We are all old acquaintances. I'll give you 20 cents per pound for the bones and the heart and lungs for free. Is that ok?"
"Okay, let's weigh it!" Zhou Huaian thought that the price of live pigs had indeed increased this year, and at one yuan and seventy yuan per pound, there was really not much profit to be made.
"Brother Zhou is really generous!" The butcher happily weighed the meat, tied up the two large bones with a hemp rope, and wrapped the heart and lungs in a lotus leaf, then put them in his backpack. "A total of seven dollars and fifty cents."
Zhou Huaian paid the money and hung the backpack on the back seat of the bicycle, "Ding Ding Cat, Da Fang and his father should be here by now, shall we go to the farm machinery station to take a look?"
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Okay, let's go and take a look."
The farm machinery station was under the hotel. The two rode their bikes back to Deshengtang to get the medicine, said goodbye to Yang Dongmei, and rode to the intersection of North Street, where they saw Zhou Huaishan driving a tractor towards them.
When Zhou Huaishan saw the two people, he quickly pulled the tractor over and asked, "Why are you two here?"
"He gets the medicine, and I cut the meat and buy rubber shoes." Zhou Huaian walked up to him and said, "Let's go to the agricultural machinery station. Do you want to go?"
Zhou Huaishan looked at him puzzledly, "What are you going to do at the agricultural machinery station? Are you planning to buy a tractor again?"
"Let's go, you'll know when you go and see." Zhou Huaian asked him to sit behind him. On the way there, he told Zhou Huaishan again what the eldest room had done.
As soon as I entered the gate, I saw Zhou Dachun and Zhou Huaixing lovingly stroking the brand new tractor parked in the yard, while the people from the agricultural machinery station were explaining it to them.
When Zhou Dachun and his father saw the three people coming in, their faces turned black, "Damn Zhou Laoyao, why did you target us?"
Zhou Huaian saw that they were indeed here to buy a tractor, and said sarcastically: "Dad, congratulations! You bought a new tractor. I'll tell grandpa when I get home and make him happy!"
"Bah~" Zhou Huaishan spat, "Shameless, even cheating your own husband."
Zhou Yiding curled his lips and said, "What a piece of shit! He has money but still borrows it from others! Do you think he doesn't have to pay back the money he borrowed?"
"..." Zhou Dachun looked at the three people and was speechless for a long time before he hurriedly took out the receipt, "How did I lie to you? Look, I still owe more than 500 yuan!"
Zhou Huaixing glared at the three men with a dark face, then turned to Zhou Dachun and said, "Old man, ignore them. They didn't lend us any money. What does it have to do with my family buying a tractor?"
Zhou Huaian walked up to him in two or three steps and said coldly: "If you dare to take advantage of me again, I will not be polite to you!"
Zhou Huaixing and his son thought about going to the old man to borrow money, and their faces turned pale. "If you dare, I will sue you!"
"Go ahead, the police are waiting for you!" Zhou Huaian said, and told Zhou Huaishan and the other man to get on their bicycles and leave.
After leaving the agricultural machinery station, the three went to the department store and bought two pairs of yellow rubber shoes for each of the elderly people, and then carried them to the tractor.
Zhou Huaian handed the bicycle to Zhou Huaishan who was standing in the truck bed, "Third brother, do you still want to go to the hotel to pick up Third Sister-in-law?"
Zhou Huaishan took the bicycle and said, "Qiuyue accompanied Qiuxia back to Jianshanzi to pick up her son. They may have reached the middle of the mountain by now."
"Ah~" Zhou Huaian felt a headache when he thought about how Yang Chunyan had fed Xiaolong twice, "She has really changed now! She is willing to abandon her youngest child at home."
Zhou Huaishan smiled and said, "Anyway, it's much better now than before. Before, she felt distressed when she heard Xiaolong cry, and she was afraid of hurting him even when she blew her nose..."
Li Qiuyue was climbing up the mountain with the help of a wooden stick, and her panting sounded like a bellows. "Qiuxia, it's too high here! Why don't you go back and find some connections and move to Baicaoping to settle down?"
After she and Zhou Huaishan arrived in Ning'an, they learned that Li Qiuxia was going back to pick up the eldest brother who stayed at home, so Zhou Huaishan sent them directly to the town. From here, they only needed to walk up the mountain road for most of the day to reach Jianshanzi.
The two of them hurried all the way over the hill and arrived at Jianshanzi Brigade. The five-year-old child was alone at home, and I don’t know how he spent the night.
Li Qiuxia, wearing the rose-red autumn clothes given by Yang Dongmei, looked much younger. She pulled the straps on her shoulders and said, "Sister, I would rather live in Jianshanzi and face Dalinma and her husband than go back to Baicaoping and live next to Li Laoer and his wife."
Li Qiuyue felt that she would do the same if she were in their place, "That's true, it's impossible to live peacefully next to them, those two things are like cowhide glue, once they stick to you, you can't pull them off.
My mother-in-law said that in a situation like my brother-in-law's, you two have to be tougher so that you can stand on your own feet in the future and build your own family business."
"Remember, Third Sister. Dalin was also hurt by them after this incident. We used to do the most housework, and the two kids were the ones who wore the worst clothes in the Gao family.
Li Qiuxia thought about how her two children had never worn a new piece of clothing and sniffed, "After I arrived at his house, whenever his mother was unhappy, she would say that I had no dowry and that it was bought by their family. In the past, I was just a servant girl in their family.
When I gave birth to my second sister, my eldest and second sisters sent me thirty eggs and two packets of brown sugar. She cooked two poached eggs for them and sent them away without even a meal.
After my eldest and second sisters left, I didn't even get to eat a single bite of the eggs and candies they sent me, as they were all sold by her to women in the village who were giving birth.
The most infuriating thing is that the little jacket that the eldest sister made for the second sister with old cloth was given to the daughter of the Gao family. Sometimes I wonder if Gao Dalin was picked up by them, and that’s why they treat him like a human being.”
"You shameless old woman, you even sold the things sent by your daughter-in-law's family for money!" Li Qiuyue was furious after hearing this, "Why don't you go find your eldest and second sisters?"
Li Qiuxia smiled bitterly and said, "My eldest and second sisters have had a hard time too. It's only in recent years that their children have grown up and they have separated from their mother-in-law. Their lives are better now than before. It seems that both families still owe a lot of foreign debts."
"How far are the eldest and second sisters from your home?"
"It takes two hours to walk there. Their place is better, and they have more land. Last year, after the land was distributed to each household, my eldest sister and second sister brought their nephews and nieces to reclaim some wasteland, so the whole family can finally have a full meal."
"What about your family? How many fields do you have?"
"The land was divided among the households. My family has three mu of farmland and five mu of mountain land, all of which are scattered here and there. There is no one or two mu of land like the one on the lawn."
"Damn it! It's all Li Lao Er's fault. If it weren't for him, your life would be better even if you married in Baicaoping than here."
(End of this chapter)
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