Chapter 303 God has eyes
If they didn't know about the bezoar, three hundred yuan would indeed be a good price that they could not even ask for. But now that the Zhou family already knows that there is a treasure in the cow's stomach, they are becoming more and more annoyed with Ma Changgui who is pestering them.
"Cough... cough..." Zhou's father stood up with the help of a wooden stick, bowed to him, and said breathlessly: "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Ma. I don't plan to sell it. Please go back!" After that, he walked towards the main room with the help of a wooden stick.
Zhou's mother stepped forward to support Zhou's father and said politely, "Boss Ma, my son is not doing well. I am upset and I am sorry for neglecting him!"
"Brother Zhou, I'll add another fifty..." Boss Ma shouted unwillingly as he looked at Zhou's father's departing back.
"I said I won't sell it. Is your hearing bad?" Zhou Huaian stood up suddenly, grabbed him and walked out, "Go, go, go!"
"Let me go, I can leave on my own." Ma Changgui angrily pushed Zhou Huaian away, "You took my kindness for granted, don't come to me if you regret it."
I'm looking for you? You're dreaming!
Zhou Huaian waited for him to go out and immediately closed the gate.
Ma Changgui's face flushed as he looked at the closed gate. He was sure that the Zhou family had heard about the bezoar and that was why they refused to sell the cow to him.
In fact, he had only heard from colleagues about the morphological characteristics of cows with bezoar in their stomachs, but he had never seen it with his own eyes, and it was still unclear whether bezoar grew in the stomachs of cows.
He spent 350 yuan to buy a skinny cow, and it was also a diseased cow. If there was no bezoar, he would lose at least 200 yuan on this cow, and he couldn't afford to lose more. Thinking of this, he could only turn around in dismay.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaijun stood behind the door. They saw Ma Changgui leave through the crack in the door, and then they ran back to the yard. They watched Boss Zhou rubbing his hands excitedly, "Brother, sharpen the knife and slaughter the cow!"
Zhou Huairong rolled his eyes at Zhou Huaian and looked at Zhao Huifang, "Huifang, go boil a pot of water." After that, he turned around and went to the kitchen to get a machete and a kitchen knife, and walked towards the whetstone beside the well.
Zhou Huaishan diligently fetched a bucket of water. Boss Zhou picked up the machete and squatted in front of the grindstone, starting to sharpen it quickly.
Zhou's father and mother also came out of the house.
Zhou Huairong sharpened the knife until it was shiny. The brothers dragged the dead cow to the corner under the eaves and said to Yang Chunyan, "Sister-in-law, where should we start cutting?"
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Brother, bezoars are mostly found in the bile of cattle. If there is any, take out the bile and filter out the bile and you will know."
"If there is?" Zhou Huaijun looked up in shock, "Sister-in-law, do you mean that there may not be any?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, looked at him and said, "I can't guarantee it, because I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I just read it in the book."
Zhou Huaijun hesitated and looked at his father. "Old man, if we cut open the cow's stomach and find that there is no bezoar, we will lose a lot. We can lose less if we sell it to the cattle dealer."
Zhou Huaian looked at him anxiously, "Second brother, if there is no bezoar after breaking it, we can only lose more or less. If there is, the money from selling it will be enough for us to build a few brick houses. It's worth a gamble!"
Zhou Huaijun was very conflicted. Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaishan turned to look at Zhou's father, waiting for his instructions.
"You son of a bitch!" Zhou's father glared and slapped Zhou Huaian in the face, "If you dare to gamble outside, I will kill your hand."
Zhou Huaian covered his head and looked back at him aggrievedly, "I didn't gamble, I was just making an analogy."
Zhou's mother was so disappointed with him that she gritted her teeth and pinched him a few times, "You dare to gamble, you deserve to be beaten to death!"
Giving birth to such a prodigal son really makes me angry.
Zhou Huaian was beaten by his parents in front of his wife and sister-in-law, and suddenly he felt like he was adopted.
Yang Chunyan glanced at Zhou Huaian, who looked hopeless, and said to Zhou Huaijun, "Second brother, I think what the youngest said makes sense. If we kill the animal but there is no bezoar, we will lose at most 450 yuan."
"Yes, we may get several 450. Besides, if we call the cattle dealer back now, he will definitely not pay 350 for the cattle again."
Zhou Huaian secretly clenched his fist and said to himself: Long live my wife! I will listen to my wife from now on.
Zhang Xiuxiang glared at Zhou Huaijun. "The cattle dealers have already chased you away. If you go back to call them back, they will definitely lower your price. As a man, you should be more straightforward."
"That's right, second brother, I think it's worth a gamble!" said Li Qiuyue.
Mother Zhou thought about it and agreed, "Old man, since it has come to this, let's take a gamble!"
Zhou Huaian pouted in dissatisfaction. I said I would be beaten...
Father Zhou looked at Yang Chunyan, then turned back to look at his sons and said word by word:
"Go ahead. If there really isn't any, we still have beef bones to make soup."
"Don't panic yet. I'll pour some grass ash on the ground to avoid making it dirty."
After a while, Zhao Huifang and Yang Chunyan ran out carrying two baskets of grass ashes.
Zhou Huaishan took a bamboo basket and spread the grass ash evenly on the ground.
Boss Zhou took a knife and cut the cow's stomach, and blood immediately flowed all over the ground.
Everyone watched Zhou Huairong's actions nervously.
Yang Chunyan went into the house to get a pair of scissors and a small porcelain basin, then carried the large wooden basin to the yard, waiting to receive the beef offal.
Zhou Huairong cut open the cow's stomach neatly. The Zhou brothers stepped forward and pulled out the cow's intestines, stomach, heart and liver and put them into a large wooden basin.
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan anxiously, "Yan'er, come and have a look, where is that thing?"
Everyone looked at Yang Chunyan with hope.
Yang Chunyan nodded, walked to the big wooden basin, squatted down, gently pinched the bloody gallbladder on the beef liver, nodded, and said to Zhou's father: "Old man, go and lock the door."
"We have the goods!" All members of the Zhou family showed surprised smiles.
"It's tied up...!" Zhou Huaijun was so excited that his voice trembled a little.
Yang Chunyan thought for a while, then looked up at Zhou's mother and said, "Mom, go get some cotton and a piece of soft cloth."
"Hey!" Zhou's mother ran back to the house, tore off a piece of soft cotton cloth, and took out the bag of cotton.
She bought these cotton and cloth to make small clothes and hats for her grandson.
Yang Chunyan looked at the cow bile in her hand, held the scissors firmly, and carefully separated the cow bile and bile duct from the liver, put them into a bucket of water and rinsed off the blood stains.
"More water!"
Zhou Huaian immediately brought the water to her, "Here comes the water."
Yang Chunyan pulled out the green cow bile with the bile duct, pinched the bile duct to filter out the bile, rinsed it, and put it into a white porcelain basin.
Natural bezoar is the gallstone of the cow's gallbladder. The one produced in the gallbladder is called "bile yellow" or "egg yolk", the one produced in the bile duct is called "tube yellow", and the one produced in the liver duct is called "liver yellow".
Bezoar: bitter, flat, slightly toxic. It has the effects of clearing the heart and removing phlegm, opening the orifices and cooling the liver, calming the wind and detoxifying.
It is suitable for coma due to fever, phlegm caused by stroke, convulsions due to epilepsy, convulsions due to convulsions in children, sore throat, sore throat due to tooth decay, mouth and tongue ulcers, carbuncles and furuncles.
It is an extremely rare medicinal material.
Everyone stretched their necks and nervously surrounded Yang Chunyan, not daring to even breathe.
I watched her put the porcelain basin on the ground, holding the cow gall in one hand and the scissors in the other, and cut the bile skin into two halves along the single-tube opening.
A dozen small stones, along with the remaining bile in the bile duct, rolled into the white porcelain basin...
Father Zhou excitedly grabbed Mother Zhou and pointed at the golden pebble with a delicate luster: "My dear, this is bezoar."
Mother Zhou's eyes were red, and she clasped her hands together, "Thank God, God has eyes..."
"Okay!" Zhou Huairong and his wife, Zhou Huaijun and his wife happily held hands together.
Li Qiuyue excitedly grabbed Zhou Huaishan, "Third brother, look, there really is..."
"What are you shouting for!" Zhou Huaishan looked at her with eyes full of smiles, "Someone outside heard it."
Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan, "Anything else?"
(End of this chapter)
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