Not long after Yang Chunyan and the other person left, Wang Zhen went to the backyard and said, "Brother Zhou, I'm sorry, I really can't leave on the day you move."
Zhou Huaian said with a smile: "It's okay, you are more important."
Wang Zhen smiled and shook his head, "It's a bit tiring to take care of both ends."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "If you think about getting closer to your goal, you won't feel tired anymore."
"That's true." Wang Zhen smiled and looked at the herbs in the bamboo basket. "Mulberry silkworm cocoons are 9 cents a pound, yam is not so expensive at 2.2 cents a pound, and hemp is not expensive, only 6 cents."
"I dug up some yam yesterday when I went up the mountain to look for wild beehives." Zhou Huaian opened the lid of the wooden barrel. "What do you think of this little bit of old honey?"
Wang Zhen dipped a little and tasted it, rubbing his fingers back and forth a few times, "Not bad, a rare good honey, better than the ones you sent last time."
He paused, "No wonder the Compendium of Materia Medica says that bees collect non-toxic flowers and brew them with urine to make honey, which is the so-called magical effect of rottenness. It has five functions as a medicine: clearing away heat, tonifying the middle, detoxifying, moistening dryness, and relieving pain."
Zhou Huaian was also happy to hear this and said: "I have been looking for wild honey for several years, and this is the first time I have seen such good honey."
Wang Zhen smiled and nodded, "Those two barrels too?"
Zhou Huaian opened the lid, "These two buckets are similar to the previous ones, but with more."
Wang Zhen nodded repeatedly after reading it. "Yes, the wild honey you sent is also very popular in the provincial capital. Last time, Boss He even called to ask if you had sent any honey!"
Zhou Huaian was very proud after hearing this, "As long as the boss is satisfied."
"Let's keep the old price for these two barrels." Wang Zhen thought for a moment, "I'll buy that barrel at 10 yuan per pound."
Zhou Huaian was also satisfied with the price and nodded readily, "Okay, your word counts."
Wang Zhen went in and got the jar. After weighing, he found 2.3 jins at 10 yuan per catty, 22.6 jins at 6.8 yuan per catty, 48.4 jins of yam, 52 catties of hemp, 8 liang of mulberry silkworm cocoons, and 1.2 jin of purple ganoderma lucidum, selling for a total of 241 yuan.
Zhou Huaian calculated that, including the money from selling pheasants and rabbits, he and Zhou Yiding each earned more than 100 yuan.
After Wang Zhen paid him the bill, he said, "Last time you mentioned the house, I asked around, yards are hard to find, but land might be easier to find."
Zhou Huaian: "We bought the land and built it ourselves?"
"Yes!" Wang Zhen said, "I think the land is better. If we build it ourselves, it will be almost the same as buying a yard. If you are interested, I will ask around and find a good location."
Zhou Huaian nodded happily, "Thank you so much for troubling you."
Wang Zhen smiled and waved his hand, "No trouble! To be honest, I have this plan too. If we can find a bigger piece of land, we may even be neighbors!"
Zhou Huaian grinned, "Of course it would be best if I could be your neighbor."
Wang Zhen patted him on the shoulder and said, "I just like Brother Zhou's straightforwardness."
Zhou Huaian scratched his head embarrassedly, "Hehe!"
He packed up his things and walked out of the backyard. He walked to the entrance of the Chinese Medicine Hospital and waited for a while before he saw Yang Chunyan and Luo Haili coming out. "How is it? Is the condition serious?"
Yang Chunyan shook her head. "It's nothing serious. The doctor said my cousin is still young and she will be fine after taking some medicine."
Luo Haili also looked much more relaxed. After the doctor's examination, he said that she only had a mild prolapse. She should avoid doing heavy physical work in the future, and also squat and sit less to avoid increasing abdominal pressure.
Also, eat less spicy food to keep your bowels and bladder open, do rehabilitation training as taught by the doctor, and use Western medicine to reduce inflammation and Chinese medicine to replenish qi and blood, and there should be no problem in recovery.
The three of them went to Doctor Wang to get some Chinese medicine, and then went to the vegetable market to buy some bones, intestines, and meat.
Seeing that the pig's lard was very thick, Yang Chunyan thought that there was not much lard at home, so she bought two more sheets of lard. The three of them then went to buy a fishing net before going to the street corner and driving the tractor home.
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Zhou Yiding slept until dawn, and thinking of the trap he had set last night, he hurriedly rode his bicycle to the ditch. When he arrived at the place where he had set the trap, he searched for a long time but couldn't even find it.
"Fuck! Not only did he steal the fish, he even stole my trap!"
He rode his bike back angrily, turned at the brigade courtyard and went to Zhou Daqing's house, asking them to help cut bamboo to make a fence.
Maybe it was because we were enemies that we met on a narrow road. When I rode to the brigade’s drying dam, I saw Xu Hongbing walking towards me with his hands clasped.
Zhou Yiding slowed down his speed and rode up to him, glancing at him, "Wow! You're quite free!"
"So it's Yiding!" Xu Hongbing smiled at him ingratiatingly, pointing at the bicycle that was blocking his way, "I haven't offended you in any way, what are you doing?"
Zhou Yiding looked at him and thought that he was not the one who stole the trap. He waved at him, asked him to come over, took out a cigarette and handed it to him, "I want to ask you something!"
Seeing the big Chongjiu he gave him, Xu Hongbing quickly took the cigarette and put it between his ears, smiling apologetically and holding out his hand, "Give me another one!"
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and shook the cigarette in his hand. "The trap that Laoyao and I set up was stolen. As long as you find the person who stole the trap, this pack of Da Chongjiu will be yours."
"If anyone dares to steal our traps, I will take responsibility for him. I will catch him in two days." Xu Hongbing said, patting his chest.
Zhou Yiding nodded, "Okay, then you can come to me to get the big Chongjiu."
"Okay!" Xu Hongbing agreed and looked at him with a bashful face, "Yiding, I heard that you also grow herbs with Zhou Laoyao?"
Zhou Yiding stopped his bike and looked at him coldly, "What's the matter? Are you interested in our herbal medicine?"
"How dare I? That's not what I meant!" Xu Hongbing waved his hands. "My family also has a few acres of mountain land. I, I also picked some herb seeds. I want to ask you, can the herbs I grow really be sold?"
Zhou Yiding looked at him in surprise and said, "The youngest family is harvesting. As long as you can grow it, they will take it no matter how much. The prerequisite is that you grow it yourself."
Xu Hongbing nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, I definitely planted it myself." He glanced at Zhou Yiding and said, "To be honest, many of the things in the brigade were not stolen by me before, but every time something was lost, everyone said it was me."
Zhou Yiding never dreamed that he would actually say these things to him. "With what you did, it's impossible not to suspect others! You stole the corn from the youngest's house, didn't you? I didn't wrongly accuse you, did I?"
Xu Hongbing said embarrassedly: "It was indeed me that time. I was in a hurry and thought that the tender corns would be easy to sell... God knows, I was caught by the brothers the first time I stole."
Zhou Yiding kicked him and said, "The youngest family just compensated the Xiong family for their cattle, and you, a bastard, went to steal their corn. You deserve to be beaten to death if you are caught."
Xu Hongbing rubbed his stomach and said with a bitter face, "I didn't want to steal either. My son had a fever and we had no money at home. No one in the village trusted my family and we couldn't borrow a penny. I went there because I had no other choice!"
Zhou Yiding saw his pitiful appearance and said, "Then do something that people will believe in! Look at the youngest brother, everyone in the village gives him a thumbs up when they talk about him now."
"How can I compare with you brothers?" Xu Hongbing said, nodding at him, "I'll go find out about the trap for you, wait for my good news!"
Zhou Yiding waved his hand, rode a few steps on his bike, looked back at Xu Hongbing who was running away, and shook his head.
Strange thing! A village recognized habitual thief actually told him that many things were not stolen by him, so who stole them? (End of this chapter)
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