Chapter 191 190: Something Happened
Seeing that he was really angry, Li Qiuyue looked at him helplessly, "Huaishan, I really didn't expect you to be a liar. I thought someone as smart as you wouldn't be fooled.
And there are so many people in the village who went to pay. I really didn't expect that. I was also doing this for our future so that we can live better. I wasn't deliberately singing a different tune."
"Don't think so. Go ask the villagers if there is any family like ours that has money coming in every day. You are just too greedy. If you weren't greedy, you wouldn't have secretly paid money to buy a place!"
Zhou Huaishan looked at her coldly, "You have a bunch of straw in your head. You still think you are so capable and smarter than others. Are you satisfied now? I will let you take over my house. Sooner or later, you will squander it all."
"..." Li Qiuyue stared at him blankly, unable to find words to refute, and just sat there crying.
Zhou Xiaolin came over and snuggled in her arms, then stood on tiptoes and kissed her, "Mommy, be good and don't cry. Xiaolin kisses me, Xiaolin kisses me!"
Li Qiuyue hugged her and cried even harder.
Zhou Xiaolin turned her head and looked at Zhou Huaishan with dissatisfaction, "Old man, you bad guy, I'll beat you up!"
Zhou's mother came out of the kitchen, picked her up, and said to Zhou Huaishan, "Okay, you're sweating all over. Go wash up quickly and go to the earthen kiln to call your husband and others to come back for dinner."
Zhou Huaishan gave Li Qiuyue a cold look and said, "If you continue to be so stubborn, something bad will happen sooner or later." Then he turned and left.
Mother Zhou said angrily, "Qiuyue, I was worried that you were obsessed with money and got cheated by the eldest wife. I repeatedly told you not to believe it, but in the blink of an eye, you spent two hundred yuan to waste it. If it was another family, would you still be able to sit here safely?"
Li Qiuyue regretted it so much that her intestines turned green. "Mom, I regret it too. I will listen to you in the future."
Mother Zhou said angrily: "When I told you not to go, didn't you promise me the same thing? You should change your stubborn and competitive nature. You should learn to be content. If you are not content, no matter how much money you make, it will be meaningless!"
Zhou Xiaolin hugged her neck and said, "Grandma, don't scold me! Grandma, don't scold me!"
"Okay, grandma won't scold you!" Zhou's mother patted her on the back gently.
Li Qiuyue looked at her daughter, thinking that she had not earned back the money and that two hundred yuan was missing, and she was so angry that tears fell again, "Mom, do you think the police can recover the money that the swindlers took from the eldest wife?"
Seeing her tears streaming down her face, Zhou's mother stopped talking to her and said, "Your grandfather said your eldest father went to the town to get information. When your husband comes back, ask him to go to the first room and ask."
He reached out and took a handkerchief from the bamboo pole and handed it to her, "Okay, stop crying. Go to the ditch and help your sister-in-law and the others get the herbs back. Be diligent and you will earn the money back."
"Oh!" Li Qiuyue took the handkerchief and wiped her face, then walked towards the door dejectedly.
Mother Zhou looked at her from behind and sighed, "It's all because you're afraid of being poor!"
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Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian chopped the wild boar's trotters and put them in a stew pot. They then went to squeeze the honey. It was past seven o'clock and the three of them had not returned yet.
Zhou Huaian ran to the door worriedly and looked several times. It was almost nine o'clock before he saw Dahuang limping and Zhou Yiding holding Dahei with an anxious look on his face walking towards him.
Xu Erchun and Zhou Dakuan followed behind listlessly, carrying guns.
Zhou Huaian rushed over to take the dog. Seeing that Dahei was dying, he asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
Zhou Yiding said anxiously: "We encountered a group of wild boars. Dahuang and Dahei were both injured."
"I have some medicine. Go back and ask your sister-in-law to apply it on Dahei and Dahuang." Zhou Huaian looked at Xu Erchun and He Dakuan behind him, "Is he okay?"
He Dakuan shook his head, "I'm fine, Gouzi was injured, Erchun's hand and Yiding's leg were pierced by wild boar tusks."
"Oh oh!" Zhou Huaian carried Dahei into the yard and shouted to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, find the medicine quickly. Yiding and Gouzi are both injured."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan hurried into the house to get out the hemostatic powder and medicine. She saw that one of Dahei's legs was broken, with the bone exposed, and there was a cut on Dahuang's hind leg with the skin turned inside out.
Yang Chunyan first sprinkled hemostatic powder on Dahuang, and then went to check on Dahei, who was dying, and said, "Go find two wooden boards and ropes, I will straighten its bones."
"It's in the woodshed. I'll get it." Zhou Yiding said and went to the woodshed.
After Zhou Huaian washed Xu Erchun's wound with wine, he sprinkled him with hemostatic powder and said, "Don't touch water for the next two days."
"I understand." Xu Erchun nodded continuously.
Zhou Yiding came in with two wooden strips and said, "Sister-in-law, do you think this kind of wood is okay?"
Yang Chunyan took a look at it, and Zhou Huaian took it and handed it to her, "Here, I'll apply hemostatic medicine to Yiding's wound."
Yang Chunyan took it and looked at it. It was a wooden strip left by a carpenter. It was about the same length. She gently touched the big black head and said, "Don't be afraid. I'll straighten your bones!"
Dahei opened his eyes slightly, looked at her, and then lay back down.
Yang Chunyan held the dog's leg, felt for the broken part and connected it, then clamped it with a wooden board and tied it up. The dog didn't even have the strength to bark from beginning to end.
"The dogs have lost too much blood and are too tired. I stewed some pig's feet and will scoop some soup for them."
"Thank you for your help, sister-in-law!" Zhou Yiding looked at the dog with heartache, even his eyes turned red.
"It's okay!" Yang Chunyan got up and walked towards the kitchen.
Xu Erchun looked at the two dogs distressedly, "If it were us, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to make it back."
He Dakuan looked at the wound on the dog's body, then looked at Zhou Yiding who was cleaning the wound, and said guiltily, "Dingding cat, I'm sorry, it's all my fault for being greedy."
Zhou Yiding looked at the seriously injured Dahei and said irritably, "You were too reckless today. There were more than a dozen wild boars. The fact that we didn't die in the mountains today is a blessing from the mountain god."
The two dogs have been raised from puppies to now. In addition to helping him hunt, they are also his companions and very important to him.
If Dahei and Dahuang hadn't held on to the sow today, he would have been in great danger.
He Dakuan was still frightened by the memory of the crazy sow in the mountains, and said carefully: "We didn't expect that sow to be so powerful, and we didn't expect the hunting rifle to be so ineffective!"
Zhou Yiding felt even more uncomfortable after hearing this. "A hunting rifle isn't a panacea. That sow weighs at least 400 pounds. You made its piglets scream. How could it not go crazy?"
He Dakuan felt very regretful after thinking about it. He originally wanted to get two wild boar cubs and sell them for a good price, but he didn't expect that a beast would risk its life to protect its cubs.
Xu Erchun: "After the gunshot, the sow and other wild boars were scared away. We didn't expect it to come back and attack us, and there were also boars following behind."
Zhou Yiding sneered, "Of course the pig mother will protect her cubs." After he finished speaking, he realized that his tone was too harsh, and added, "Think about those dogs in the village. After they give birth, if someone approaches the doghouse, will they attack even if they know the person?"
"I went to Xu's house to see the puppies the other day, and the female dog even bit Aunt Xu." Zhou Huaian looked at Xu Erchun, "Have you forgotten? The old man said the other day that a shotgun is only effective against wild boars weighing 100 to 200 kilograms, but you should never provoke a big pig weighing 300 to 400 kilograms, especially a group of wild boars, or old sows!"
He Dakuan said awkwardly, "I was wrong this time. I wanted to get the piglets."
Zhou Yiding's expression improved after hearing this. "We were really lucky this time and nothing happened. We must learn from this lesson next time. Otherwise, something bad will happen sooner or later!"
He thought he would never hunt with them again.
Xu Erchun nodded repeatedly, "I was so scared that I would never dare to do it again next time."
(End of this chapter)
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