Chapter 544 Chapter 545: Sending Three Dynasties
Zhou Huaian went to the backyard, but didn't see Zhou's mother. He only saw that the door of the bathroom was still closed. He stepped forward and patted her a few times, "Yan'er, are you okay?"
"It's okay!" Yang Chunyan unlocked the door, adjusted her hat, and glared at him in reproach, "Lazy guy, you just put the diaper in the basin and ran away."
Zhou Huaian smiled awkwardly, "I have rinsed all the dirt off it, and I plan to soak it for a while, and then wash it when I get it back from my third brother."
Yang Chunyan: "I know you don't like washing clothes, but now is different from before. Mom has to work in the fields and help take care of me during my confinement. If you help wash diapers and clothes, she will feel more relaxed."
"Got it! I'll definitely wash the ones I changed tonight tomorrow morning!"
"Remember to scald it with boiling water after washing it, and send it upstairs to dry in the sun."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian helped her back to the front yard, took the child from the old man's arms, and they went back to the house together.
After she lay down on the bed, she said, "Yan'er, when I went to the old house today, I saw the youngest bear coming from the Tiankan Road, and then... do you think they will team up to steal our red mushroom business?"
Yang Chunyan thought about the temperament of the people in the eldest house and said, "What you are worried about is very likely. I just don't know if they have found a buyer?"
Zhou Huaian suddenly remembered the time he met Cai Ermei and a man in a white coat in the county town. "I remember when Cai Ermei was collecting herbs, she cooperated with the big pharmacy in the county town. Do you think it's possible that Xiong Laoya could find them as well?"
"Huaian!" Yang Chunyan looked at him and said softly, "You have to understand this. Only the government can monopolize an industry. No individual business can monopolize an industry and do exclusive business.
There is nothing we can do about the emergence of competitors. The good thing is that we have already taken the lead. From now on, we just need to do our own thing and ensure quality as before, so that the business can last long."
"I know that Dr. Wang's department store was originally the only one in the county, and several stores have opened in the past two months." Zhou Huaian said in a deep voice, "Zhou Huaixing and Xiong Laoya are not good people. We can only wait and see them fight each other."
"People can't kill people, but God can't kill people. The two families teamed up to plot against us, but they didn't expect you to suspect them after just one look. This proves that God is not on their side."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian felt relieved after telling her, "Tomorrow morning, my mom and I will go to Xinhe to buy vegetables. After the three-day banquet, I will go up the mountain with Yiding to collect the beehives on the mountain to prevent them from being taken away by others."
"Okay! Didn't you say you wanted to bring back two boxes of wild bees to raise?"
"Last time, Ding Dingmao and I placed two beehives next to a nest of wild bees. This time, we're going to take a look and take down the beehives." Zhou Huaian pulled the quilt a little, "You go to sleep first. I'm going to talk to Grandpa for a while and smoke a couple of cigarettes."
"Smoke less!" Yang Chunyan warned, and then said, "Before the Spring Festival, we said we would buy a few cows to raise in the spring. Now that Xiao Jiuer is here, we are even busier. Tell Grandpa not to buy any for the time being, so that he won't worry about it."
Zhou Huaian thought about it and it made sense. There were already a lot of things to do at home. If he bought a few more cows, it would not be worthwhile to tire out his grandfather. "It's okay if we don't buy any. We have six pigs at home, and the manure we have is enough."
Yang Chunyan thought of something else as she spoke, "We need to plow the rice fields. After the Sanchao wine party is held tomorrow, go help Mina plow the fields first."
Zhao Meina and her brother both went to school this year. The school teacher gave them the idea of subcontracting some of their family's land.
Mina thought that if she leased out the land, she could make some popsicles during the summer vacation and sell them in the village.
Who would have thought that after the news leaked out, some people did ask about it. Maybe after they calculated it, they felt that after paying the public grain tax and the agricultural tax levy, there would not be much grain left, and in the end no family was willing to take over.
"Okay! I'll remember it." Zhou Huaian got up and left.
Yang Chunyan looked at the child, moved him closer to herself, and lay down on her side to sleep.
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Early the next morning, Zhou Huaian rode his bicycle with his mother to Xinhe Town to buy wine and food.
When I got home, I saw Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang already in the backyard, helping the chef who was in charge of banquets to kill chickens and fish, and prepare a banquet to entertain the in-laws and relatives who had sent wine for the third day.
Duck stew, cold chicken, braised pork, sweet and salty pork in a tall steamer, and fragrant bowls...
Zhou Huaian asked Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Xiaoru who were playing outside to help look after the Yang family who were delivering the Sanchao wine, and to report to him as soon as they arrived so that they could go out to greet them.
Before ten o'clock, Yang Weiguo drove a tractor, carrying Yang's father, Yang's mother, his wife, children, relatives, and Yang Xiaoxue and her husband who they had picked up in Fangtian, to Fu Niu to send Yang Chunyan off for the third day.
The tractor was loaded with millet, pig's trotters, roosters, eggs, fermented glutinous rice, and rice, and a handful of green onions were placed on top of the children's things.
The words "Fu", "Lu", "Shou" and "Xi" were written on big red paper and covered on a round-mouthed bamboo basket filled with eggs and rice.
The sedan chair for the child, the cradle, and the basket contained everything that Xiao Jiuer needed from head to toe, such as a sash, a quilted cape, a swaddle, small shoes, etc.
Zhou Jiakang, who was playing outside, saw the tractor coming into the village, and hurried to the gate and shouted inside: "Dad, old man, Yang Jiagong and others are here!"
Zhou Huaian came out and asked, "Where are we?"
Zhou Jiakang turned his head and looked, "We have passed the brigade's drying dam!"
Zhou Huaian: "Watch out, call me when you get to the grove!"
"Oh!" Zhou Jiakang turned around and went to play with his friends, and from time to time he looked at where the tractor was going.
Zhou Huaian prepared the firecrackers, went into the house and said to Yang Chunyan: "Yan'er, big brother and the others will be here soon."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan stood up and put on her woolen hat. "Pour some hot water. I'll wipe the baby's face."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian fetched some hot water, and the two of them washed the baby's face. They laughed when they saw him pouting and searching around.
At this moment, Zhou Jiakang shouted again, "Dad, hurry up, the tractor has reached the grove and will soon be at my dad's house..."
"Here it comes!" Zhou Huaian hurriedly took a pack of cigarettes and put it in his pocket, ran to the main room, picked up the firecrackers, ran to the gate of the yard, and saw that the tractor had arrived at Zhou Huairong's house.
Zhou Jiakang and others also came over to help, spreading out the firecrackers that were rolled into pancakes.
The tractor stopped at Zhou Huairong's house amid the sound of firecrackers. Yang Weiguo and the relatives who came to send off Sanchao lifted the bamboo baskets and wicker baskets from the tractor, carried them on a shoulder pole, and walked towards this side.
Fang Zhiqiang congratulated him, "Youngest, congratulations, congratulations!"
"Thank you! Thank you!"
Zhou Huaian stood at the gate of the courtyard, greeting everyone with a smile on his face, "Mom, old man, big brother, little sister... come in and sit down!"
After everyone exchanged pleasantries happily, the three brothers Zhou Huairong and the brother Zhou Huaigang came forward, took over the burdens from Yang Weiguo and others' shoulders, carried them into the main hall, put them in order and registered them one by one.
Zhou Yiding and the others who were helping to entertain the guests warmly invited the Yang family to sit down, then turned to the kitchen and shouted, "Pour the tea!"
"Coming!" Zhou Yumei responded loudly, and came out with Luo Haili, carrying a bottle of thermos water, and served hot tea to the guests.
Mother Yang, Sister-in-law Yang, and Yang Dongmei picked up their cups, took a sip, and walked towards Yang Chunyan's room impatiently.
Yang Chunyan leaned against the quilt, holding Xiao Jiuer and looking at them with a smile, "Mom, you're here!"
Mother Yang nodded happily, "I'm here! I've kept you busy! I'll go see the doctor, he said today is a good day, otherwise we'll have to wait for several days." Then she asked, "Does the baby have milk? Are you feeling unwell?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "It's enough! I'm not feeling unwell anywhere. I felt tired yesterday, but I feel much more relaxed today."
Sister Yang smiled and said, "Mom is so anxious that she can't wait to come with her brother-in-law to see you that day!"
Yang Chunyan looked at them with a smile, "It's okay, don't worry, I have my sister-in-law and mother-in-law to help me, there's no need to worry at all."
Mother Yang nodded with satisfaction, took the little grandson and held him in her arms, unwilling to let go, "Don't worry! I know your mother-in-law is a virtuous woman, and she also took good care of your three sisters-in-law during their confinement!"
Yang Chunyan felt that what she said was very right. Zhou's mother was really attentive to her and the children. She slept in the main room near the kitchen at night and would come to check if she heard any noise.
As she spoke, she took out a small hat from the cloth bag she was carrying, which had the words "Fu", "Lu", "Shou" and "Xi" embroidered around it with red silk thread and put it on Xiaojiuer's head.
He kept chanting, "May our ancestors bless our little Jiuer to live a hundred years and be rich and prosperous."
After Yang's mother put the hat on the baby, she took out a longevity lock and said, "I asked the old silversmith in town to make it for us. It will protect our little Jiuer from harm."
Mrs. Yang, Yang Dongmei, Yang Xiaoxue, and Yang Hui also presented small sweaters and small shoes that they had knitted for the baby.
Yang Dongmei took out another small red silk bag and said, "Sister, this is what Wang Zhen and Grandpa Wang gave to Xiao Jiuer. The milk powder, malted milk, and a bottle of ointment in the basket outside are what Grandpa Wang prepared for you. They didn't have time to come, so let me congratulate you and your brother-in-law on their behalf!"
"Thank you!" Yang Chunyan gratefully took it and put it aside, "Thank you for the money they spent."
After everyone sat in the room for a while, they started shouting outside that the meal was about to begin.
Zhou's mother walked in with a smile, and Yang's mother stepped forward and held her hand, "Mother-in-law, thank you for your hard work."
"It's not bitter at all. I feel happy when I see Xiao Jiu'er." Zhou's mother said cheerfully, "Let's go out for the feast first. Chunyan will have chicken soup later."
"Okay, let's go together." The two mothers-in-law went out happily and sat down in the yard.
Zhou Sanba, Zhou Datian, Secretary Xu and some people who came to bring postpartum gifts also arrived. Zhou's father welcomed them and sat at another table.
The food and wine had been served, with a plate of red eggs in the middle, and everyone began to eat happily.
The "Three-Day Ceremony" is a joyous occasion. Guests eat the red eggs and bring the joy home.
(End of this chapter)
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