The family had just finished their meal when Zhou Yiding, wearing a straw hat, rode his bicycle into the backyard and asked, "You guys just finished eating?"
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "The rain delayed the mushroom harvest."
Zhou Yiding: "My family was drying millet when it rained. Fortunately, we dried the grains on the mat, otherwise they would all get wet."
After hearing this, Zhou Huairong said, "Yiding, the public grain will be paid the day after tomorrow. Is your family's public grain ready?"
Zhou Yiding: "It's dry, but to be on the safe side, we'll let it dry in the sun the day after tomorrow before packing it into sacks."
"It's better to dry it in the sun, so that those people won't find fault with it!" Zhou Huairong paused, "Open the store earlier the day after tomorrow, and I'll take it all over when I go over there."
Zhou Yiding chuckled, "Thank you, brother. That's what I planned."
Zhou Huairong smiled and said, "You're still being polite to me!"
"I'm not polite. I've already told the youngest one that when you guys pay your taxes, please bring them along for me."
"I'm full!" Zhou Huaian wiped his mouth and picked up the straw hat hanging on the bamboo rack. "Let's go first."
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding parked his bicycle, picked up the backpack beside him, and went to the back mountain with him.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding carried their backpacks up the stairs and said, "When we come back in the afternoon, let's go visit my sister."
"I wanted to ask you just now. I saw Cousin Luo come to your house, but why did she leave after a while?"
"I don't know which bastard peed in front of her shop. She has tried several times but has not caught him. My cousin wants to borrow her dog to see if she can catch him."
"Fuck! Do we need to arrest him? It's probably someone named He who did it."
"I also suspect it was that beast. I heard from my cousin that his family has started to tear down the wall and build a house to open a shop."
"Look, it's obvious that they want to ruin Sister Yumei's business, so they just opened it up."
"I thought so too. I should have beaten that bastard half to death last time I went there."
Zhou Yiding pulled him and said, "You are so annoying! He dared to pee at Sister Yumei's door, so we can pee at his door, too!"
"I'll take the dog there tonight and stay there all night until I catch the person who peed on me."
"I'll go with you."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian gritted his teeth and said, "Wait until I catch that bastard and beat the shit out of him."
Zhou Yiding was worried that he might get into trouble when he saw him like that. "Be careful, don't get into trouble. What if this place is as strict as the provincial capital? If you get caught and locked up for a few years, everything will be over."
"What are you afraid of?" Zhou Huaian glanced at him. "I go there every night, and I just catch the one who pees on me, beat him up and run away. Where can he catch me?"
Zhou Yiding looked at him anxiously, "Anyway, I think you'd better be careful now. Think about it, you are not alone now. If you go in, your sister-in-law and Jiu'er are outside. Although they are taken care of by Second Father and Second Mother, it's not as good as you taking care of them by yourself."
Zhou Huaian punched him on the chest, "Thanks, brother! Don't worry, I won't be stupid."
"That's better!" Zhou Yiding put his arm around his neck, "You have to remember, I still rely on you to make money. If you dare to go out and cause trouble, I will beat you to death!"
"Pa!" Zhou Huaian patted him, "Oh my god, how come I have a brother like you?"
"You should be happy to have a brother like me who cares about you all the time!"
"Okay, okay, I'm secretly happy!" Zhou Huaian looked at him with a smile in his eyes, "Do you have anything to do tomorrow?"
"If there is anything wrong, just dry the grain."
"Then you wait for me at home, and we'll go up the mountain to see if there's any honey in the old nests."
"That's fine!" Zhou Yiding paused, "When I leave, do you really want to go into the mountains with me?"
"I was just telling you it's fun! If Jiu'er wasn't too young, your sister-in-law and I would have gone together."
"It's inconvenient to go up the mountain. Xuejiao won't go up this time."
"It's fine to stay down there. We'll help take care of him." Zhou Huaian stood in front of the corn ridge. "Is Uncle Daqing's waist and legs feeling better?"
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Much better. Doctor Wang's medicine is really effective."
At this time, Ma Chunhua came down from the other side with a basket on her back. Seeing the two of them, she approached with a gossipy look on her face, "Youngest, I heard that you saw the eloped Li Chuntao?"
Zhou Huaian said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about? It's pitch black and there's a river in between, how can you see it!"
Ma Chunhua looked at the two of them proudly, "It won't be long before Ye Laoyao catches Li Chuntao, do you believe it?"
Zhou Huaian thought of what she said last time, "Could it be that Sister Ma knows who eloped with her?"
"That slutty vixen is the worst. I won't talk about the others in the village, let's just talk about the guy who eloped with her! It's hard to guard against thieves in your own house. The guy who eloped with her is the cousin of Ye Laoyao's uncle. They hooked up when their family was renovating their house!"
Zhou Huaian and the other man were stunned, "Fuck, there are actually such shameless bastards!"
"What's so strange about this? There are so many shameless people!" Ma Chunhua looked at the two people with surprised faces proudly, "Zhou Laoyao, let me tell you, in fact, the one that slutty fox wants to seduce the most is you!"
Zhou Yiding burst into laughter after hearing this. "Sister Ma, you are more nosy than the gossipers. If there is anything in the village in the future, we will come to you to ask!"
Ma Chunhua smiled and said, "Sister Ma has a lot of information, but she doesn't talk much. She says what she should say, and doesn't say a word that she shouldn't say!"
Zhou Huaian looked angry, "Sister Ma, don't talk nonsense, I am innocent."
"I told you that because I know you wouldn't fall for that kind of woman! Look at the guys in the village who have had an affair with her, and I never even mentioned it." Ma Chunhua winked at him as she spoke, with an expression that said, "You know what I mean."
After seeing this, Zhou Huaian thought of Zhou Huaishan. Could it be that my third brother was also taken by her? No, he said no. She just hugged his waist, and it was Bai Gu Jing who hugged him! She must be talking about the Xiong family's grandson.
Zhou Yiding smiled and said, "Sister Ma, did you tell Ye Laoyao about his cousin eloping with Li Chuntao?"
Ma Chunhua said with a look of disdain: "I saw that he was desperate for a slutty vixen, so I mentioned the matter indirectly to Accountant Ye. I heard that his family went to his uncle's house today to look for him. I don't know whether they found him or not."
Zhou Yiding: "Ye Laoyao is so pitiful. It's troublesome to find him now, and it's troublesome if we can't find him now."
Ma Chunhua sneered, "What's the trouble? Ye Laoyao has a brand new brick house and a three-wheeler and a bell at home. Are you still worried about not being able to find a wife?"
Zhou Huai said happily: "Sister Ma, then you can help him find one and make that White Bone Demon angry to death!"
"Forget it. It's a good thing that idiot is not my son. If he was, I would beat him to death." Ma Chunhua waved her hand and walked away with a look of disgust on her face.
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "The matchmaker is right, he should have paired Cai Ermei and Li Chuntao together in the first place!"
Zhou Yiding nodded repeatedly after hearing this, "That's right, garbage goes well with garbage!"
At this time, Zhou Huairong and his two brothers also came over, "What kind of trash and trash are you two talking about?"
"It's about Cai Ermei and Li Chuntao. I just met Sister Ma, and she said..." After Zhou Huaian finished speaking, he looked at Zhou Huaishan. Seeing that he looked uncomfortable, he decided to interrogate him properly sometime.
"Ye Laoyao is so unlucky to meet such a shameless woman!" After saying this, Zhou Huairong went into the corn field and started to work.
Zhou Huaian and others also followed in.
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When Luo Haili returned to the town, she saw Zhou Yumei busy scooping ice jelly for people. She quickly pushed her bicycle into the yard, washed her hands and went to help.
Zhou Yumei saw her coming and said with a smile, "Did you get caught in the rain?"
"I hid at Xiaoxue's house for a while."
"Have you cracked the corn at home?
"The jelly from my eldest cousin, second cousin and youngest cousin's families have already been broken and are drying. Today we'll start breaking the jelly from the third cousin's family." Luo Haili took the jelly she had scooped and handed it to the customer.
"It will be ready soon." Zhou Yumei quickly put the seasoning in place, brought the cold noodles to the table, and said to the man who was sitting there upright, "Why do you eat this every day? Don't you have a cafeteria in your police station?"
The man smiled. The scar on his left face from the base of his ear to the corner of his eye made him look a little hideous. He quickly stopped smiling and said, "The food in the cafeteria is always the same. Let's come out to change the taste." After saying that, he buried his head in eating.
Zhou Yumei looked at the man who was eating heartily, hesitated for a moment, went to the kitchen next door, opened the rice steamer, picked up a few corn cakes and put them in a bowl, then took it out and placed it in front of him, "Dongming, try the corn cakes I steamed at noon."
"Thank you!" Fang Dongming picked up a corn cake, tore open the corn leaves wrapped around it, and took a big bite. "Delicious!"
Zhou Yumei smiled, and when a customer came to pay, she went over to collect the money.
Luo Haili, who was collecting dishes on the side, turned her head and glanced at Fang Dongming, thinking that ever since he saw Yumei open a shop selling food here, she came here every few days, either to drink ice jelly or eat cold noodles. Ever since he encountered He Jianjun making trouble in the shop, he came here every day.
Luo Haili felt that even a blind person could see his feelings for Yumei, so she wondered what she was thinking.
After Fang Dongming finished his meal, he took out the money for the cold noodles, took the remaining corn cakes in the bowl to the counter, put down the money and said, "I'm leaving now. If you have any problems, come to the joint defense team to find me."
"Thank you!" Zhou Yumei put the money in the drawer, turned around and saw that he had already walked out. She sighed secretly and went to busy herself with greeting the guests.
After seeing off the last two customers, Luo Haili put the dishes in the sink and said, "Yumei, have you had lunch? I ate at Chunyan's."
"I ate two corn cakes, but I'm not hungry." Zhou Yumei opened the drawer. "I made seven or eight yuan from selling things while you were gone."
Luo Haili said happily after hearing this: "So today we have already sold fifteen dollars!"
"Well! After the door is paved with cement, the dirty water poured by those black-hearted people can't seep into the cracks in the stone. After a few rinses, it won't stink at all." Zhou Yumei clipped the ten-yuan bill with a clip and put it in the drawer, then locked the drawer. "Why didn't you bring the dog?"
Luo Haili glanced at the He family across the street and walked to the counter. "The youngest said that if we bring the dog here in broad daylight, those black-hearted people will not come if they know about it. We will send it here after dark and he also said that he will stay here for one night." (End of this chapter)
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