Yang Chunyan always remembered the care they showed her in her previous life, and she just laughed it off when Li Qiuyue got upset and said some sour words from time to time.
But during this period of time, she was petty and had red eyes from time to time. She was a little annoyed and ignored her anymore. She planned to ignore her for a while.
Zhou Xiaoru nodded, "My mom asked us to go to grandma's house to play. I'm going to call Xiaowen. Wait for me!"
Yang Chunyan took out a piece of sweet potato cake and gave it to Zhou Xiaolin, "Have you had breakfast? Auntie will give you some cake."
She shook her head and said, "Yes, I ate two of the dumplings my mother cooked. My tummy is full." Zhou Xiaolin said this while raising three fingers.
"Little fool, this is three!" Yang Chunyan smiled and grabbed her little hand, lowering a finger, "This is only two!"
Zhou Xiaolin looked at her hands, "Yeah! Two!"
Zhou Xiaoru and Zhou Xiaowen came out of the big room, followed by Zhou Jiaming and his brother. "Aunt, Dad said Xu Hongbing is fishing by the river, and we want to go too."
"Xu Hongbing caught some fish yesterday afternoon and went to town to sell them this morning." Yang Chunyan said sternly, "You are not allowed to go to the river in such a cold weather. Your father will go to the river to fish on the morning of the 30th. You should get up early and go with him."
"Oh!" Zhou Jiaming responded and pulled Zhou Jialiang back to the house.
Yang Chunyan led a few little girls towards the old house. The two older ones jumped onto the field ridge across the ditch from time to time, picked pea flowers on the edge of the field and tied them to Zhou Xiaolin's little bun.
The little girl touched her little hair proudly and said, "Aunt, Xiaolin is pretty!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and pinched her nose, "Well! Our Xiaolin is the prettiest."
"Hehe!" Zhou Xiaolin pinched the flower and grinned, "Sister, Aunt Yao said I'm the prettiest!"
Zhou Xiaoru said perfunctorily: "Okay, you are the prettiest. You are so conceited even at a young age!"
Ma Chunhua came over with a full basket on her back and stopped beside her. "Where are you going so early in the morning?"
"Let's go to the old house." Yang Chunyan looked at the pig grass in her basket and said, "Sister Ma, have you prepared the New Year's goods?"
Ma Chunhua smiled and said, "It's ready. We have bacon, sausages, and two smoked chickens. Thanks to your family for collecting truffles, we paid off all the debts for repairing the house, and bought five piglets..."
She looked around and lowered her voice as she spoke, "There are still more than 300 yuan left at home!"
Yang Chunyan praised: "Sister Ma, you are so capable."
She thought of what the old man and Zhou's mother said last night, and felt that they were right to worry. Many families in the village couldn't even afford food and clothing. For people like Ma Chunhua, paying off their debts and saving a few hundred yuan would make them happy and satisfied.
If only your family wears those golden jewelry, it will only make people jealous.
Nowadays, you have to be low-key as much as possible. Low-key is the way to go!
"What can you do?" Ma Chunhua scolded, "If your family hadn't found a way, my family would still have a lot of debts to pay off!"
Yang Chunyan: "That depends on your willingness to work hard!"
"That's true." Ma Chunhua said as she stepped forward, "The bitch next door to me is not a good person. Tell Zhou Laoyao to let your third son get along with her."
She thought, I guess that slutty vixen couldn't seduce your youngest son, so she turned to Zhou Laosan.
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan smiled calmly and said, "Third brother often helps my mother-in-law deliver vegetables to the city. He might be helping her carry things."
In his previous life, Zhou Huaishan and Li Qiuyue quarreled for so many years, but nothing like this had ever happened. Although they still quarrel in this life, it is much better than before. This shouldn't happen, right?
Ma Chunhua imitated Li Chuntao and said with a wink, "You don't bring things every other day, and you still look like that!" Then she added, "Don't think I'm talkative! I only say a few words because I think your family is nice."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Thank you, Sister Ma. I will tell the youngest brother."
"Tell your youngest son, I didn't say that to anyone!"
"Thank you, Sister Ma!"
"See you later!" Ma Chunhua happily walked towards her yard carrying a basket on her back.
Yang Chunyan brought a few children to the old house. Luo Qiaoling, who was sitting at the door of the main hall, saw them coming and stood up with a smile, "Aunt!"
"Be good!" Yang Chunyan handed her the sweet potato cake. "There are other things in the basket. Grab them if you want to eat."
"Got it!" Luo Qiaoling took out a bunch of corn seeds strung together with thread and said to Zhou Xiaoru and the others, "Xiaoru, Xiaowen, I strung the corn seeds together. Let's play with them later!"
Zhou Yumei came out of the room holding Zhou Xiaoxi in her arms, "Chunyan is here!"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Where's Mom?"
Zhou Yumei smiled and said, "I went to the vegetable garden behind the house. The rapeseed I planted has all grown moss. She said you like it, so I picked some and sent it to you."
Yang Chunyan put down the basket and looked at the little guy. "Why are you sleeping again? Didn't you wake up this morning?"
Zhou Yumei: "I just fell asleep. I have to wake up for a while every morning these days."
Yang Chunyan: "I'm going to the vegetable garden on the back mountain to see the Chuanxiong I planted. Do you want to go?"
"Go! Let's go for a walk together!" Zhou Yumei held the child, and the two sisters-in-law walked towards the backyard together. "Mom came back from your place last night, she was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling, and she hummed a little tune while washing her feet.
"I've never seen her so happy. She laughed and asked if she had found money. She said she was happier than finding money. Then she showed me the ring you bought for her and her earrings. She also told me that she never dreamed that she would be able to wear gold jewelry in this life!"
She laughed as she spoke, "The old man is funny. Mom said he slept with his gold ring on last night, and took it off this morning, and asked Mom to put it away!"
Yang Chunyan was also very happy after hearing this, "Huai'an originally wanted to go to the flower market to buy it, but he was too busy at home to leave, so he asked Dr. Xiao Wang to help buy it."
Zhou Yumei stopped, stretched out her hand to hold Yang Chunyan, and said gratefully: "Thank you Chunyan!"
"Ah!" Yang Chunyan patted her embarrassedly, "Hurry up and hold the child. Be careful not to hurt the child's waist."
"I noticed it!" Zhou Yumei smiled and walked forward with her. "Last time I talked to Sister Haili about doing business together, she replied to me a few days ago, saying that half was not enough, and she wanted 20% to 80%. In the end, it was my mother who spoke up, and she agreed to 30% to 70%."
"Sister Hai Li is a decent person!" Yang Chunyan thought of Wang Zhen's department store, which was so prosperous because of its abundant supply of goods. "I see that your store is quite spacious after it is renovated."
"I think when the weather gets warmer, I can ask Huai'an to ask Dr. Wang to buy a freezer so that we can make some ice jelly and popsicles and sell them!"
Zhou Yumei looked at her in confusion. "Freezer? It's a cabinet for storing ice cubes, right?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "I know that freezers use electricity. Brother Huang and his restaurant bought one, and they freeze hard-to-find mountain products and wild animals in it. As long as there is electricity, it won't go bad for ten days or half a month."
Zhou Yumei: "Something this useful must be very expensive!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought about the price of the freezer and realized that it was more expensive than buying a piece of land in the county town. "It's only a little expensive! It's more than the price of buying your yard. It's more than a thousand, right?"
You can buy a popsicle for five cents, and a big bowl of brown sugar fermented glutinous rice jelly. It costs more than a thousand yuan. How many jelly and popsicles do you have to sell to make back the profit?
"Too expensive!" Zhou Yumei smiled and shook her head, "Forget it! The aunt next door said that she only made two cents from selling a bowl of ice jelly and a popsicle. It's over a thousand yuan, how long will it take to make back the money!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan did some calculations. One bowl was five cents, ten bowls were fifty cents, and one hundred bowls were five dollars. By analogy, she would have to sell tens of thousands of bowls of ice jelly to make back the money spent on the freezer. It was indeed too expensive for her to spend more than a thousand yuan to buy a freezer.
"Then let's just do what they do and sell them in popsicle boxes."
"That's right!" Zhou Yumei thought about it and advised worriedly, "Chunyan, the youngest one spends money lavishly, you should not let him do whatever he wants, you should talk to him properly. If he doesn't listen, tell mom and the old man and let them deal with him."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan agreed, and then she thought of the time when Zhou's father chased him with his pipe. "If he spends money recklessly, I'll tell the old man and let him run around the yard with his pipe!"
Zhou Yumei also found it funny when she recalled the past. "It was only funny when my grandma was around. My old man would chase the youngest child with a bamboo stick in front and beat him, and my grandma would chase my old man with a carrying pole behind him and beat him..."
"Huaian also said that his grandmother loved him the most since he was a child, and said that he grew so tall because his grandmother stole goat milk from the brigade and brought it home for him to drink."
"Yes! We didn't even have food to eat at that time. The youngest child weighed only 3.7 jin when he was born, like a big rat. My mother had nothing to eat during the confinement period, and there was no milk for him to feed. The family was worried that we couldn't raise him."
Zhou Yumei sighed, "My grandmother got a bamboo tube and secretly brought back goat milk from the brigade to boil for him to drink. He drank it until he was six or seven years old, and slowly his body recovered."
As they were talking, they reached the vegetable field. Zhou's mother came out of the field carrying a vegetable basket. "Why are you two here together?"
Yang Chunyan pointed upwards and said, "I'll go see how those Chuanxiongs are growing."
Mother Zhou put down the basket and said, "I added some fertilizer this morning and it's growing well."
A few people climbed up the ridge and looked over. It was indeed green and lush, and they could cut the stalks and transplant them next year. The rapeseed and wheat in the fields next to it were also growing well.
Mother Zhou looked at the rapeseeds full of flower buds and said happily, "Purchaser Huang said that we should send all the rapeseed oil that we can't finish this year to him."
Yang Chunyan: "Mom, after paying the public grain tax, there won't be much rapeseed left. After harvesting the wheat, we have to plant another season."
Zhou's mother nodded and said, "We had enough for our own consumption last year. The rest from the public grain tax was taken to the oil press to be pressed into oil and sent to Huang first."
"After we harvest those few acres of wheat and potatoes, we'll plant rapeseed. We'll use the oil we squeeze out for ourselves and send the rest to him."
Zhou Yumei smiled and said, "You are doing a good job in business. Someone has already ordered it before you even take it home."
"It was the youngest who found the way." Zhou's mother walked back happily, "After the wheat is harvested and dried, I will send it to Fangtian to grind flour. Only our own wheat flour is delicious." (End of this chapter)
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