Chapter 472 Chapter 473: Poor Doctor Xiao Wang
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "These pieces are also worth three hundred yuan, and the first order is at most two kilograms!"
Wang Zhen weighed it on the scale and nodded, "It feels good, two pounds and one cent more, so it's two pounds."
Zhou Huaian said proudly: "That's right, the thing I touched the most during this period was the scale bar!"
Wang Zhen smiled and patted him, "Practice well! Try to learn to be as accurate as the pharmacist's hands, and be more accurate than a scale when you grab a handful."
Zhou Huaian looked at his hand and asked, "Have you reached that level?"
"I'm still a little short." Wang Zhen went into the house and took out the money. "Put the money away in the main room. There have been a lot of petty thefts recently."
Zhou Huaian remembered Huang Yongcai saying this last time, and heard him say it again today, "It wasn't this chaotic before. Do you know why?"
Wang Zhen said: "In the past two years, more and more educated youth have returned to their hometowns, but the county has no suitable jobs to arrange for them. A bunch of people are idle at home, eating and drinking but having nothing to do."
"Some young people get together to stir up trouble and fight. Some even gather a group of people to collect protection fees at the vegetable market and on the streets, causing many vendors to be afraid to come."
"Then I have to be careful." Zhou Huaian went into the house and put the money away. "The tractor is parked outside, please keep an eye on it. I'm going to the vegetable market."
"Okay!" Wang Zhen sent him out and closed the gate.
Zhou Huaian went to the department store to buy a scale and sent it back to Deshengtang before going to the vegetable market again.
Before he reached the pork stall, he saw a group of people gathered around Wang Jianjun's stall. He stood on tiptoe to take a look, but couldn't see the situation clearly.
Seeing Wang Jianjun standing next to the stall, looking angry but not saying anything, I walked up to him and asked, "Brother Wang, what happened?"
Wang Jianjun whispered, "Two brothers who came from Bailing Mountain to sell mountain products were stopped by a few hooligans who wanted to collect protection money, and they started fighting after a disagreement. These bastards hang around the vegetable market every day, making our business difficult."
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian thought about talking to Wang Zhen later and delivering the goods earlier next time. "Who won?"
"The guys from Bailing Mountain won. The two brothers are very capable, and the four thugs are no match for them. I told them to win and leave quickly, but they thought I was trying to scare them. Now they are surrounded by a group of thugs and are asking for medical expenses."
Zhou Huaian remembered the severe crackdown in Yang Chunyan's dream, and wished that the police would arrest these hooligans and lock them up right now. "No one reported it to the police?"
"There should be someone coming soon." Wang Jianjun said, "The eel seller you helped me find last time said that you are collecting truffles. How is the business?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "My family doesn't have that kind of money. It was Doctor Wang who took care of us and asked my family to help the big boss in the provincial capital collect the money. We just took some money to get away."
"No wonder!" Wang Jianjun said enviously, "Let me tell you, Doctor Wang's husband is a high-ranking official in the provincial capital. If Doctor Wang hadn't wanted to leave his hometown and go to such a far place, they would have left Ning'an long ago."
Zhou Huaian finally understood, "No wonder I haven't seen anyone from his family for so long."
Wang Jianjun looked gossipy, "Doctor Wang's biological mother passed away a long time ago. I heard that the stepmother in the provincial capital is his biological aunt. Doctor Wang might be afraid that Doctor Wang would be bullied by his stepmother, so he left Doctor Wang at home to take care of him himself!"
Zhou Huaian thought of Luo Haili's stepmother, Xiaoping's stepmother, and suddenly understood why Wang Zhen acted like an old man at such a young age.
"Yes! How many stepmothers are good?"
"Yes! I have never heard of it."
As they were talking, the police station people had arrived. Zhou Huaian had no intention of watching the fun, so he said goodbye and went to the meat stall.
He bought two blocks of lard and the remaining ten pounds of ribs and a few pounds of pork belly. He carried them back to Deshengtang and saw another tractor parked at the door. It was obviously Yang Weiguo's.
He hurried to the backyard, "Brother, little sister, you are here too!"
Yang Weiguo smiled and patted him, "Why are you guys so late today?"
Before Zhou Huaian could answer, Yang Dongmei asked again: "Brother-in-law, why didn't my sister come with you?"
Zhou Huaian: "Huangqinggou sent some truffles this morning. Chunyan is helping at home. I brought some herbs for Doctor Xiao Wang to take a look."
"That's amazing! We even deliver goods to Huangqinggou for you." Yang Dongmei said, "Bring my sister with you when you deliver goods in the future. I will come to the drugstore for internship in a few days."
Zhou Huaian looked at her strangely, "Aren't you going to the hospital for internship?"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, Grandpa has to go to the provincial capital in a few days. He will be away for a month. Xiao Yang is here to help."
"Oh! So that's what's going on!" Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Dongmei, "Doctor Wang's family has the real skills. You have to learn the techniques from Doctor Wang!"
Yang Dongmei glanced at Wang Zhen and nodded, "I know! Remember to bring my sister here the day after tomorrow."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian agreed and said to Wang Zhen, "I plan to deliver the goods every two days in the future. What do you think?"
"Okay!" Wang Zhen nodded readily.
Zhou Huaian helped deliver the truffles to the warehouse and put them away, then came out and talked to Yang Weiguo for a while.
I learned that the amount of goods they received in the past few days has not decreased but has increased, because the villages above Hengshan are delivering goods.
A few days ago, the land behind the house was converted into a baking house.
Yang Weiguo said happily: "I already have a large sum of money at home. I will give it to you the day after tomorrow to keep."
Zhou Huaian hurriedly said: "Don't divide it all, keep some money for backup."
"Yeah!" Yang Weiguo said, patting his shoulder excitedly, "I'm also planning to find a piece of land in the city, and I've asked Wang Zhen to keep an eye out for it."
Zhou Huaian thought that it was useless to save the money he got, "If there is a suitable one, I will buy another one."
Wang Zhen laughed and said, "Brother Zhou, you bought so much land, are you planning to live off the rent in the future?"
After hearing this, Zhou Huaian thought this was a good idea, "It's good to eat the rent, and you can get money just by sitting there!"
"Then I'll have to help you find a bigger piece of land. Then you can build dozens of houses on it and you won't be able to pay the rent."
"Repair dozens of houses. Even if I sell myself, it won't be enough."
They chatted for a while, and since Yang Weiguo and his sister still had to go to the vegetable market, Zhou Huaian started the tractor and left first.
When the tractor drove to the stone bridge, he turned his head and saw Zhou Yiding and Wan Xuejiao fishing by the river. The two also heard the noise from the tractor and walked towards the bottom of the bridge.
He asked in a hoarse voice: "Ding Ding Cat, did you catch any big fish?"
Zhou Yiding nodded and said, "There are a few big ones. We will cook some pickled fish tonight."
"Okay! I'll go back first." Zhou Huaian waved his hand, released the brake and drove towards the other side.
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Yang Chunyan was opening the oven, taking out the dried special truffles and pouring them into the basket, while Zhao Huifang stuffed the baking tray full of truffles into the oven and closed it.
After the oven was built, the drying speed of the first-class goods was much faster. More than 400 kilograms of first-class goods could be dried in one day.
Zhao Huifang picked up a piece and looked at it. "There are so many special products in Huangqinggou. I wonder if the truffles in Baicaopingzi are as good as theirs. How long can they be harvested?"
Yang Chunyan turned around and looked at Li Qiuyue, "Just ask Third Sister-in-law and you'll know."
Li Qiuyue thought for a moment and said, "The total number of households in Baicaoping and Baicaoping may not be much more than that of our brigade, but there are more mountains and forests over there, and the forests where truffles grow are much more than here."
Jiang Yu asked after hearing this: "We also want to go to Baicaopingzi?"
Yang Chunyan said: "Yiding, Huaian, the eldest brother, the second brother, and the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law are all going there. The third sister-in-law and I will stay at home with you."
She suddenly remembered that Huang Yongcai had agreed to deliver the goods half an hour later, as Wang Zhen's goods could not be transported without a tractor.
At this time, the sound of a tractor came from the front yard. Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Sichuan people are stubborn. He came back just as I mentioned the youngest one."
Yang Chunyan wiped her hands and said, "I asked him to buy some lard to make pickled cabbage sauce. I wonder if he bought it?"
"I bought it!" Before he finished speaking, Zhou Huaian came in with a backpack, "Two pieces of lard, some spare ribs and pork belly."
"I'll go see if the pickled cabbage is dry." Yang Chunyan said as she took the basket and walked upstairs. Zhou Huaian put down his backpack and followed her. "Walk slower. Why are you climbing so fast?"
Jiang Yu and the others looked at him and laughed, "Look at the youngest one, how nice he is to Chunyan!"
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "It's always like this. Whenever I get home, the first thing I ask is, 'Where's Chunyan?'"
"Alas!" Li Qiuyue sighed, "We only had this kind of treatment during the first two days of our marriage."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan pinched Zhou Huaian embarrassedly and said, "Look, you've been laughed at by Aunt Jiang and the others!"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian took the basket from her hand with an apologetic smile, "Yan'er, guess who I met at Desheng Hall today?"
Yang Chunyan glanced at him with a smile, "Big Brother, who else?"
Zhou Huaian looked at her proudly, "And my little sister. Doctor Wang has to go to the provincial capital for a month, and my little sister will go to Deshengtang to help the day after tomorrow, and will be there for that month!"
Yang Chunyan said in surprise: "Really? I'll go with you to see it the day after tomorrow."
She thought that Yang Dongmei went back to the town clinic to work after graduation in her previous life, and went to Deshengtang to help in this life. Maybe this was because the two families visited each other more often than in her previous life!
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian helped her walk upstairs, "My brother said... I thought there was no other use for the money, so I asked Doctor Xiao Wang to help me find a suitable piece of land and we can buy another one to build a house and rent it out."
"That's right! Money will depreciate if left alone. It would be best to buy some land and build houses to rent out!"
Zhou Huaian remembered what Wang Jianjun said, and pulled her aside to ask, "I heard from Brother Wang that Doctor Wang's biological mother had passed away a long time ago, and his stepmother is his biological aunt. Is that true?"
"It seems so!" Yang Chunyan turned her head and looked at him, "Why did Wang Jianjun think of telling you this?"
She remembered that in her previous life, Wang Zhen had never been close to his husband and his maternal family, and never mentioned them in front of them. She only knew that after his mother died of illness, his stepmother came in and gave birth to two boys and a girl.
When Wang Zhen was almost 30, Dr. Wang asked a friend to introduce him to a girl, and within half a year they were invited to their wedding.
His old man did come to the wedding, but his stepmother and brother's wife did not come.
Although they had known each other for decades, Wang Zhen would always ask her elder brother to go to Funiu to play when she was bored. He didn't like to talk about family matters, and she didn't like to ask about them. She didn't know the reason.
"Wang Jianjun asked me about collecting truffles, and I said that Doctor Wang's family helped collect them from the provincial capital, and we were just helping to run errands, and that was it." Zhou Huaian sighed, "It turns out that Doctor Wang also has a hard life."
(End of this chapter)
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