Chapter 147 Chapter 146: Going to find Yami
During the rainy season, a lot of bamboo shoots sprouted in the forest. Zhou Huaian didn't spend much effort to dig out a dozen bamboo shoots and put them in the backpack. He lifted the basket and estimated it. When he felt that it was enough, he dug two more and then walked back with the basket on his back.
When I reached the fork in the road on my way home, I heard He Dakuan shouting from behind. I turned around and saw him carrying a bucket, "Did you catch any eels?"
He Dakuan smiled and said, “I have collected 20 to 30 kilograms these days and will send them to your house to sell to you.”
Zhou Huaian took a look at the eels in the bucket and said, "Why sell them to my family? I'll bring Ning An to help you sell them!"
"No, you brothers are in business together, so I can help you out once in a while, but I'm embarrassed to do it for a long time!" He Dakuan looked at him and smiled, "Let me make a deal first, if you want to take it, I'll give it to you, otherwise I'll give you the white horse to sell."
"Okay, okay, send it over and I'll collect it for you right away."
"Why did you dig so many bamboo shoots? They are very chewy when eaten."
"My wife asked me to dig them up and dry them."
He Dakuan winked at him and said, "No wonder Erchun said you're a henpecked man. When you go up the mountain to harvest honey, you need to get some pollen to bring back for your wife. If your wife wants to eat bamboo shoots, go to the bamboo forest and dig them up right away. I'll choose you for next year's advanced candidate."
"Get lost~" Zhou Huaian kicked him and said with a smile, "Erchun said you went on a blind date. Did you find the right person?"
"You big mouth, old crow!" He Dakuan scratched his head a little embarrassedly, "The one I'm looking at is the daughter of my third uncle's eldest brother. She looks pretty and elegant, but her skin is as tanned as a loach!"
Seeing his blushing face, Zhou Huaian squinted at him, "You are so stubborn. I can see that you are clearly in love with her, yet you still say that you dislike her for being dark."
He Dakuan touched his nose and said, "Go to hell! How could that be possible?"
Zhou Huaian came up to him and looked at him, "Look, your ears are already cooked, and you still say no!"
"Get lost~" He Dakuan slapped him away and said, "Cai Ermei said that she met Mr. He who collects cliff honey in the town today, and he said that the price he offered this time is good. We plan to go into the mountains to look for honey, are you interested?"
Zhou Huaian said calmly: "You know, I have broken up with him, no matter how good the price is, it has nothing to do with me."
He Dakuan didn't try to persuade him after hearing this. "I don't think you'll go either. He said he was going to ask me, Erchun, and Dingdingmao to go, but Dingdingmao said he had to guard the mountain and didn't agree."
"There are only three of us, so we are not enough. Cai Ermei plans to go and ask his two uncles this afternoon. If they want to go, we will buy some supplies and go into the mountains."
Zhou Huaian thought of Yang Chunyan's repeated comments that it was unsafe to go into the mountains during the rainy season, and reminded her, "It's the rainy season now, so it's not a good idea to go into the mountains, right?"
He Dakuan nodded, "Yes, Erchun also asked Lao Xiazi, and he also said that it is not suitable to go to the mountains during this period, and it is best for us to wait until the rainy season is over before going.
Erchun and I were both hesitating whether to go. If neither of us went, there were only three people at Cai Ermei's place, so we might have to wait for a while before we could go."
As they were talking, they had already reached the gate of Zhou's courtyard. After entering, Zhou Huaian took out a net bag, weighed the eels, and poured them into the water tank. He counted the money and gave it to him, "Would you like to sit for a while?"
"No!" He Dakuan took the money. "After dinner, let's go to Yiding's house and sit for a while. I heard that he went on a blind date today. I asked him if he liked her, but he didn't say anything!"
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "Let's go over and interrogate him later." He thought of what Zhou Yiding said last night, and suddenly became curious. Could it be that the two of them fell in love with each other?
"Okay! I'll go first and wait for you at Yiding's house later."
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, went to the kitchen to pour a bowl of cold boiled water and drank it, then went to the water tank where the eels were raised and added two scoops of water into it.
At this time, Zhou's mother came in holding Zhou Xiaolin. Seeing him coming back, she said, "I have dug the taro. Xiaoru and Xiaowen are picking taro seeds in the field."
"Take the basket and pick them back. Also pick the two bunches of bananas that are growing well behind the house. When they are ripe, take them to Huang the purchaser and Dr. Wang's home."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian went behind the house carrying a basket and a sickle, found two particularly good bunches of pumpkins, cut them off and placed them on the edge of the field, then climbed up the edge and went to the pumpkin field.
They saw Zhou Xiaoru and the other two standing on tiptoe, pulling the branch of a wild guava tree growing by the edge of the field and picking guava to eat.
Seeing him coming, Zhou Jiakang let go of the branch and said, "Dad, there are a few ripe ones on there, help us pick them!"
"Let me see." Zhou Huaian walked closer and saw that the tree was full of green fruits and small white flowers blooming on the branches.
Zhou Xiaoru pulled a branch and shouted, "Dad, come here. There are some yellow ones on this branch."
Zhou Huaian stepped forward, grabbed the branch, picked up a few yellow-green prickly ash fruits on it, and handed them to a few people.
Zhou Jiakang didn't even wipe it, he took a bite, "Dad, Xu Jiang said his family planted cherry trees and white peaches, why don't we plant any?"
Zhou Xiaowen nodded, "That's right, our family only has two plum trees and millet bananas, while other families have pears, peaches, and cherries."
"Ask your grandmother. Your father can't make the decision!" Zhou Huaian picked up one, rubbed it with his hands, and took a bite. "It's not very ripe yet. Come back to pick it in a few days."
Like bananas, thorny fruits are only delicious when they are fully ripe. After being picked and left for two days, thorny fruits will smell like chicken shit, so people usually eat them the same day they are picked.
After 2000, an alien fruit fly invaded the country. Wild fruits like this one that grow on the edges of fields will have insects growing inside after being bitten by fruit flies. If they are not bagged, not a single fruit can be eaten.
Zhou Jiakang pouted, "It will be eaten by birds in a few days!"
"Greedy!" Zhou Huaian tapped him on the forehead, "Your grandma said you were picking taro seeds, are you done?"
"I haven't finished picking them yet." Zhou Jiakang stuffed the taro fruit in his mouth and jumped off the taro field.
Zhou Huaian went down to the field and pointed at the taro on the ridge, "Where are the taro seeds you picked?"
"Right away, we'll break it right away!" Zhou Jiakang and the other two picked up a nest of taro and started breaking it.
Zhou Xiaoru picked out the small taro seeds that Zhou Jiakang had put in the basket and put them in another basket. "Grandma said to pick out the big taro seeds, wash them and send them to Ning'an, and keep the small ones and the taro mother and son for yourself."
Zhou Jiakang said impatiently: "Won't it be the same if we go back and choose again?"
Zhou Xiaoru: "Grandma said, pick it first, then you don't have to choose later."
Zhou Jiakang frowned: "You women are really annoying!"
Seeing the three child laborers working well, Zhou Huaian sat down on the edge of the field with satisfaction, crossed his legs and ate berries. "Be quick and work hard! Dad has cut some meat today. I'll let your grandma make fried bamboo shoots and meat for you when we get home later."
"Stir-fried bamboo shoots with meat?" Zhou Jiakang touched his butt with a bitter face, "Dad, I don't like it."
Zhou Xiaoru said happily: "Youngest father, every time Second father beat Xiaokang, he would point a bamboo stick at him and say, come here, I will treat you to fried meat with bamboo shoots!"
Zhou Jiakang pouted, "That's right, I hate it the most, I always spank my butt every time I'm spanked!"
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and said, "Who told you to go down to the river to bathe? You deserve to have your butt smashed!"
Zhou Xiaowen added elegantly, "That's right, we didn't dare to go. Xu Jiang's eldest brother was drowned while bathing in the river."
Zhou Xiaoru: "My grandmother said that there are bear wives living in the river and the mountains. If a child goes into the river, the bear wives will drag him away."
When I was a child, after listening to the story of Mrs. Xiong, when it got dark and I thought of the dark bamboo forest not far away, I was so scared that I didn’t dare to go to the toilet alone or sleep alone, for I was always worried that Mrs. Xiong would come and bite my fingers!
(End of this chapter)
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