Chapter 220 219: Revenge for You
When the old man and his friends came back, Zhou Jiakang and his friends surrounded their mother and old man, "Dad caught two puppies and we want to raise a dog too."
"Raise a bullshit!" Zhou Huaijun rubbed Zhou Jiakang, "Give your food to the dog, and I'll go get you a dog."
Zhou Xiaoru glanced at Li Qiuyue, then took Zhou Huaishan's hand and shook it back and forth, "Old man, old man, I want it too..."
Zhou Huaishan picked her up and said, "When we move to the new house, I will go to Grandpa Xu's house and catch one for you."
Zhou Xiaoru looked at Zhou Jiakang proudly, "We will go catch the dog when we move to the new house!"
"I want one too!" Zhou Jiakang hugged Zhou Huaijun's legs and refused to leave, looking up at him, "Xiao Ru has it too, I want one too, I want one!"
Zhang Xiuxiang glared at him and said, "Get up right now. Who did you learn to beg for things like this?"
"Oh!" Zhou Jiakang stood up quickly.
Zhou Jialiang didn't dare to say anything, and poked Zhou Xiaowen, "Little Mosquito, go talk to the old man."
Zhou Xiaowen stood aside and said in a delicate voice, "I won't say anything. I'm just going to my father's house to see the dog."
Yang Chunyan came out with a pottery basin, "It's time to eat. There's tofu pudding and delicious pork intestines with tofu pudding!"
"It's time to eat something delicious!" Several children swarmed to their own small dining table, pulled up straw stools and sat around the table.
The family sat around two tables. Zhou Huairong took the wine jug and poured wine for the old man and Zhou's father. He then looked at Zhou Huaian and the others, "Would you like some too?"
The old man smiled and said, "Everyone, drink some!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Okay, let's have a drink too!"
"Would the women's army like to have a drink too?" Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou's mother and Yang Chunyan.
Yang Chunyan shook her head, and Zhou's mother also shook her head, "No, drink yours."
Everyone enjoyed the fresh and tender tofu pudding and the spicy and fragrant tofu pudding and pork intestines.
The old man smiled and said, "The best dish to eat with rice is tofu pudding."
Zhou's mother smiled and nodded, "When the weather gets cold, grind the beans and make tofu."
Zhao Huifang: "We make some stinky tofu. We didn't make enough last year, so it was all eaten in the spring."
"Okay." Zhou's mother agreed readily.
Everyone was sweating while eating. After the meal, Zhou Huaian asked Yang Chunyan to find an earthen bowl with a few holes on the rim, scooped some leftover rice from the bottom of the steamer, and poured some rice soup for the two dogs.
Several children gathered around, and the two dogs, although not afraid or picky about food, came forward to scramble for the food.
Yang Chunyan found black spots on the dog's tongue and touched the dog. "Huaian, why are their tongues different from other dogs'?"
Zhou Huaian squatted down and touched Wangcai, "Uncle Xu said that dogs with spots on their tongues are beggars. He said that the more spots a dog has on its tongue, the more vicious the dog is.
If you go back and see, you will see that Dahei has more spots on his tongue than Dahuang. Our Wangcai has more spots than Laifu, and Laifu is not bad either.”
He then whispered, "I asked the Xu family to keep these two dogs for me. They cost me five dollars and twenty cents!"
Yang Chunyan gave him a sharp look and said, "You took 2.4 yuan from me this afternoon, and now you're asking for 5.2 yuan. Are you hiding some private money?"
Zhou Huaian smiled awkwardly, "How dare I? I'm afraid you'll feel bad, right?" After thinking about it, he reminded her again, "I'm not hiding it from you. I'm just worried that if I find out, I'll curse you. Don't let me know that I spent five dollars and twenty."
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Got it!"
"Wait a minute, I'll get some straw to make a kennel for them and put them in front of our door to sleep."
"Put them at the door? They just left the bitch, won't they keep barking in the middle of the night?"
"They should cry during the first two nights, but they will be fine after two days." Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "If they cry at night, I will bring them in and let them sleep at the door of the house."
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "I'm going to the backyard to collect herbs."
"Go to bed early tonight!" Zhou Huaian said and quietly squeezed her hand.
Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach and walked away.
Zhou Huaian turned his head and saw the old man sitting at the door of the main room wrapping tobacco leaves. He pulled a straw stool and sat next to him, then picked up the tobacco leaves and helped wrap them.
"Grandpa, are we almost done with the tobacco?"
"Your third brother bought two bundles today." The old man looked at the dog and said, "If you want the dog to go up the mountain to help with hunting, you have to train the dog, otherwise it will get scared when it sees wild animals."
"I will send them to Yiding when I come back tomorrow. Let Dahei and Dahuang take care of them for half a year. We will bring them down the mountain when we move to the new house."
"Yeah! It would be nice to have a dog to help look after the house after we move over."
Zhou Huaian put the wrapped leaf tobacco into his pipe and looked at him. "How is Huaixing?"
"Alas!" The old man sighed, "Your eldest father came during lunch and said that the police station had released them. The couple would not come back. They said they went to another place with a relative to help with the kiln."
Zhou Huaian looked at him in surprise, "Why? Didn't you get the money back?"
The old man shook his head and nodded again, "We recovered some of it. He wasn't the only one who was fooled. Each town returned some of it, and most of it hasn't been returned. There are people making trouble at your grandfather's house every day these days."
"They had no choice but to sell some food, catch chickens and ducks and sell them to repay the money owed to several families in the village. As for the rest, they agreed to pay back the money slowly after the fat pigs are sold at the end of the year."
Zhou Huaian advised: "It shouldn't be a problem if your relatives are with you. It would be good for them to go out and earn some money and come back."
He recalled the time when Zhou Dachun came to ask about Niu Huang and the old man asked his father to borrow money. He felt that if he had agreed to lend it to his family at that time, he would have suffered less loss.
The old man nodded, "Yes! It's good to go out and hone your skills, so that you won't be spoiled by your aunt at home. Spoiling a child is like killing him, and your aunt is really not as good as your mother in this respect."
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian felt that this was the most true statement. "It is said that the emperor loves his eldest son, and the people love their youngest son. My mother and I treat me... Alas!"
The old man patted him on the back and said, "How dare you say that? Your old man asked Secretary Xu to find you a job cutting grass for pigs, but you went up the mountain to dig out bird nests and burn them to eat. You almost set the forest on fire.
During the busy farming season, even women are faster than you in harvesting grain in the fields. If you were as hardworking as your elder brother, would your mother and father beat you? "
Zhou Huaian helped him light a cigarette with a playful smile, "Sir, let's not look at the old almanac! I'm going to make a nest for the dog!"
The old man looked at him and laughed, "You bastard, if I say something bad about you, you'll run away faster than a dog with its tail between its legs!"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian smiled innocently at him, put the wrapped leaf tobacco into the pipe, went to find a bamboo basket with a few broken bamboo strips at the bottom, spread some straw inside, and carried it over to the door.
Seeing Zhou Xiaojiaming and the others still guarding the dog, one of them stepped forward and patted him, "Go, go, go, wash up and go to sleep."
Zhou Jiakang held him back, "Let's watch for a while!"
"Look! Look!" Zhou Huaian said, looking at Zhou Jiaming, "Young man, is it more fun to move bricks or study?"
Zhou Jiaming turned back embarrassedly, "Dad, I heard from Grandpa Liu that you can join the army after graduating from junior high school. I plan to join the army after I pass the junior high school entrance examination, and then come back to snatch the militia company commander of the old demon Xiong and avenge you."
Zhou Huaian was amused and touched, and rubbed his head, "Okay, I'll wait for you to snatch the position of militia company commander from Xiong Laoya."
(End of this chapter)
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