Chapter 231 230: You are a blessed person
Zhou Huaian thought of the many pollen combs in the beehive in Huoshaolin, and the large hanging honey he brought this time was just enough. "Okay, I'll go up the mountain to look for pollen when I get back."
"As for the old honey, I heard from my buddies yesterday that they got a few kilograms of big hanging honey, so I hurried back and asked them to keep it and not sell it."
Huang Yongcai said happily after hearing this: "The big honey is of course the most comfortable."
Zhou Huaian was worried that Yang Chunyan had sold the honey, so he said hurriedly, "Then I'll go back first, so they don't have to send the honey to the town to sell it."
Huang Yongcai: "Okay, drive slowly on the road."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian walked a few steps, patted his head and went back, "Brother Huang, how much does the tractor cost?"
Huang Yongcai thought for a moment and said, "I asked the other day, and it would cost about 1,300 or 1,400 yuan, including the plow and harrow. Do you have enough money?"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "It's still a little short. I can borrow from my brother!"
Huang Yongcai patted him on the shoulder and said, "You have many brothers and they are all harmonious. If there is any problem, they should be able to help each other!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded, "My brother and sister-in-law have always been nice to me!"
Huang Yongcai glanced at him and said, "You are a lucky person." He likes people who remember the good things about others.
"Hey! I think so too!"
Zhou Huaian returned to Desheng Hall and saw Yang Chunyan still at the door. He hurried forward and told her about sending honey.
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "Of course, leave the honey at Dr. Wang's house and I'll deliver it to you next time."
After Wang Zhen opened the door and weighed the herbs, they left the honey at his house, went to the vegetable market to buy some meat, pork liver, and half a pig's head, then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy things for her mother's family and rode back on their bikes.
As soon as he arrived at the bridge, Zhou Huaian saw Cai Ermei and Cai Jun and others getting off the tractor. He pretended not to see them and rode his bike forward.
After crossing the bridge and reaching the gentle slope, the two got out of the car. Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan and said, "Yan'er, you can rest assured now, right?"
"He Dakuan abandoned Yi Ding and ran away last time, and this time he abandoned Cai Lin and ran away. We should never associate with such a person again."
"Yiding and I will never go up the mountain with him again. If we meet again, we will just say hello at most."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan felt that his attitude towards handling things was much more mature than before.
As soon as the two of them pushed their bicycles to the gate of the courtyard, Zhou Xiaolin and others came out to greet them, "Dad, Aunt, I want candy!"
Zhou Huaian pinched her nose and said, "Little rascal, why didn't you come to greet me when I went out the back door?"
Zhou Xiaoru: "There's no agency to buy candy from when you go up the mountain!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and rubbed her furry head, "Next time we will come back from the back door."
Zhou Jiakang crawled under the bicycle bar, climbed up and held the handlebars, "Ding, ding!"
"Hehe! We know where you've been!" Several kids' eyes shrank into pea-sized sizes from laughing.
Yang Chunyan took out a handful of candies from her bag and gave three to each of them. "Don't eat them all at once, or your teeth will get damaged."
"Oh oh!" Several people happily ran into the yard with candies in their hands.
The yard was covered with drying mats, covered with rapeseed and herbs.
Zhou Huaian carried Zhou Jiakang down, unloaded the things from the back seat of the car, and pushed the car to a cool place on the steps.
Zhou's mother was already preparing lunch. Seeing the two of them coming back with meat and vegetables, she said, "Chunyan, stay and help me cook. Youngest, hurry to the earthen kiln to help."
"I'm almost dying of thirst. Can you let me drink some water before going to the headquarters?"
Mother Zhou rolled her eyes at him and said, "I didn't stop you from drinking!"
"hey-hey!"
Zhou Huaian went into the house and drank a bowl of boiled water, then put on a straw hat, carried a bamboo basket and walked towards the earthen kiln.
Yang Chunyan gave the pork belly and pork liver to Zhou's mother, "Mom, there is also half a piece of pork head meat. Should we braise it or cook it and serve it cold?"
"It's better to cook it and serve it cold!"
"There are still some hairs that haven't been cleaned up. I'll boil some rosin to glue them together."
Mother Zhou took the pig head and looked at it. "The hair is all in the meat seams. I'll just heat the tongs and sear them."
"Oh! Then I'll go cut the vegetables and you can fry them later!"
Mother Zhou nodded, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started to work separately.
Zhou Huaian had already arrived at his private plot and saw that the intersection was already piled with stones. He walked through the corn field and arrived in front of the earthen kiln. The leveled open space was already piled with blue bricks and tiles.
There was a shed next to the two tall piles of bricks and tiles, with a wooden bed inside. It should be where the old man and Zhou's father stayed when they were on guard at night.
Li Qiuyue was wearing a straw hat and was bending over to pick out the green bricks from her basket and stack them up. There was also a bucket next to her, which was filled with tea.
He said hello to Li Qiuyue, scooped some tea and drank it. Just as he was about to leave, he saw Zhou Huaijun coming over with a load of bricks, "Second brother!"
He put down his bag and looked up at him with a smile, "Youngest, why are you back so early today?"
Looking at his sunburned face and neck covered in sweat, Zhou Huaian nodded, "Well! How many more have you not chosen?"
"The bricks and tiles have all been produced. We will carry the bricks over here and also carry the green bricks over to load into the kiln."
Zhou Huaijun put down his burden, picked up the porcelain jar in the bucket, scooped some tea, drank it down, and wiped it with his wrist horizontally, "Sister-in-law is loading the blanks in the drying shed, Qiuyue is responsible for picking out the bricks, we put down the baskets and carry them and leave."
Zhou Huaian didn't expect them to calculate so tightly. He was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh, then let's go pick up the bricks and tiles."
When they arrived at the place where bricks were drying, they saw rows of bricks covered with straw piled in the shed. Zhao Huifang had already loaded the bricks.
The two villagers who came to help saw Zhou Huaian and said with a smile: "Youngest, you came to help even in such a hot day!"
Zhou Huaian took out a cigarette and handed one to each of them, "Uncle Xu and Uncle Zhao, please help!"
The two took it and said politely, "You're welcome. We're here to earn our wages."
Zhou Huaian smiled politely and walked away carrying his load.
Seeing him carrying a load of bricks and walking briskly, Old Zhao nodded and said, "No wonder many people in the village are saying that Zhou Laoyao has changed. I always say that people who are naughty when they are young usually become capable when they grow up."
Zhou Huaijun smiled and said, "That's right. My youngest child has always been smarter than the rest of us since he was young. Now he's sensible and even more hardworking than the three older ones."
Old Xu picked up a load of bricks and said, "The superiors have said that we have to rely on our own hard work to get rich after the distribution. In the past, when we ate from the same pot, those lazy people who were used to cheating and playing tricks would not even have enough to eat if they didn't change."
Old Zhao laughed and said, "You don't understand this, do you? Some people are very cunning. They act one way when eating from the big pot, and another way when dividing the land among households. If you don't believe me, go and see which family's fields are empty?"
"That's right!" The three of them smiled and picked up the bricks and walked towards the earthen kiln.
Zhou Huaian arrived in front of the earthen kiln and saw the old man busy putting green bricks into his basket. "Grandpa, where do you put the bricks?"
The old man looked up at him and said, "Send it to the kiln."
"Oh!" He entered the earthen kiln and saw Liu the potter and his son loading the kiln.
I saw rows of bricks and tiles already stacked inside the earthen kiln, with fire and flues reserved.
The fire duct and flue duct of the kiln are extremely important. Without the fire duct, the fire cannot burn. If the flue duct is blocked, the circulation of fire in the kiln chamber will also be affected.
(End of this chapter)
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