Chapter 252: 251: You earn your own face
When Zhou Huaian walked out onto the main road, he saw Zhou Yiding walking towards him while eating a steamed bun. "Hurry up, I've been waiting for you all morning."
Zhou Yiding took two quick steps and smiled at him, "You got up, why didn't you come and call me?"
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him and took the half-broken steamed bun he handed over, "White flour buns are still more delicious."
Zhou Yiding glanced at him sideways, "It's not like you can't afford it now!"
"If you make money just to eat, of course you can afford it!" Zhou Huaian sighed, looked at him earnestly and said, "Brother, you have to raise a child and a family in the future, so you have to be thrifty!"
"Yo~ Yo~ Haha..." Zhou Yiding shook twice on purpose, then laughed while holding his stomach, "I have goosebumps all over the floor."
"Ha'er!" Zhou Huaian smiled and stepped forward to clamp his head, "You don't listen to good advice, you will know what will happen when you suffer in the future."
Zhou Yiding shivered and said, "Climb away, I'm going to catch a cold."
The two of them climbed up the mountain from the forest where they caught the lazy cicada, playing and laughing, and saw that there was only a small ravine about one or two meters wide separating the barren mountain from Zhou Huairong's wasteland.
"It is indeed convenient to use water during the rainy season." Zhou Yiding said as he crossed the ditch and saw several large rocks and some low shrubs on the ground.
The two men kicked away the dead leaves and pried a few times with wooden sticks. Zhou Huaian said, "The rocks in the field are similar to those in my home. If you want to grow herbs, the big rocks won't have much of an impact.
My old man said that Captain Zhou's land is over there, and if we take it, everyone will get along well. Why don't you discuss it with Uncle Daqing?"
Zhou Yiding threw away the stick and patted the dirt off his hands. "No need to discuss. I'll make the decision myself. I'll go downstairs and find Secretary Xu."
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "Did you bring cherry wine down the mountain? Bring two whole bottles."
"I'm too lazy to bring it. I'll go to the agency store and buy two bottles and send them over later."
"Then come to my house and call me when you're done. I'll go back and pack my things, and we'll hurry up the mountain in the morning while the sun is still low."
"I understand."
After they agreed, they went down the mountain.
When Zhou Huaian got home, he saw Yang Chunyan drying cowpeas in the yard. "I'll pack up and we'll go up the mountain later."
Mother Zhou led Zhou Xiaolin out of the kitchen and said, "Why are you going up the mountain now? Let's have lunch first."
"It's too hot at noon." Zhou Huaian pushed open the door and walked into the room.
Mother Zhou thought for a moment and said to Yang Chunyan, "I made some dough. Go and fry some pancakes to eat on the way."
"Yes." Yang Chunyan dried the cowpeas in the basket, went to the field to pull out two lettuces and a few green onions, and carried them back to the kitchen.
The clay bowl in the pot contains multi-grain flour, which appears to have been fermented.
Yang Chunyan washed a handful of watercress, cut the green onion into shreds, cut the lettuce into shreds, mixed them well and mixed them together into a cold dish. She fried a dozen pancakes and cut a slit in the pancake with a knife to make it easier to stuff the cold shredded food into it.
Zhou's mother came over with a few cantaloupes and said, "Take these with you on the road."
Yang Chunyan took it and put it in the basket. "I think Jiaming and the others like it. There aren't many left, right?"
"There's no way we can have enough at home. We'll plant some ourselves next year." Zhou's mother said with a smile, "Someone has sent me seeds of Viola yedoensis, Plantain, and Sticky Grass these days, but unfortunately there are too few, only a few ounces in total."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Harvest slowly, there will be more seeds that mature next month."
The three of them set off, carrying baskets and dry food.
The sun shone brightly on the path, and even the weeds on the roadside were wilted.
Zhou Huaian took the straw hat handed to him by Yang Chunyan and put it on, letting her walk to the front. He turned his head and glanced at Zhou Yiding, "After we go up the mountain, will Uncle Daqing still go up the mountain?"
"We have to go. The soonest we can stop working is when the busy farming season comes."
Yang Chunyan noticed that Dahei was running much slower than before. It seemed that his broken hind legs had not fully recovered yet, and he was having trouble running.
After going up the mountain, Zhou Yiding let it run for a while, then picked it up and put it in his backpack.
There was not a breath of wind in the woods, and the cicadas were screaming hysterically, making the heat even more unbearable.
Arriving at the place where they dug Viola yedoensis last time, Yang Chunyan saw that many seeds had matured again. "Huaian, let's dig some Viola yedoensis and take a break before we go."
“Yes!”
Zhou Huaian and the other man put down the backpack. Dahei came out of the basket and lay on the ground with his tongue hanging out.
Zhou Yiding wiped his sweat with a handkerchief and said, "Damn it, it will be time to thresh the grain. I feel so tired just thinking about it!"
Zhou Huaian picked up a cantaloupe, cut it in half and handed it to him, "What are you afraid of? You will take over your old man's job in two years at most. By then, you will have food to eat even if you don't have to farm."
"The land still needs to be cultivated!"
Yang Chunyan picked up a piece of cantaloupe and took a bite. "The cantaloupe has been heated by the sun, so it doesn't taste as good as it did yesterday."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, it tastes better when it is cooled in the well."
After eating the cantaloupe, Yang Chunyan picked up the pancake and said to Zhou Yiding, "There are pancakes and cold dishes in the basket. If you are hungry, just take some and eat them."
"I know!" Zhou Yiding rinsed his hands with the kettle, put some cold shredded vegetables in the pancake, and took a bite. "It tastes pretty good this way."
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "I went to my mother-in-law's house yesterday. Did you eat the food cooked by your wife?"
Zhou Yiding shook his head, revealing an indescribable expression. "I originally thought of going to her house and leaving, but her mother insisted that I stay and eat fried eggs. Oh my god, I didn't expect that a bowl full of eggs would be served on the table.
My head hurts when I see them. I can’t help it. It would be bad if there were any leftovers the first time I came, so I ate all of them. There were twelve in total, and even now my burps still smell like eggs!”
Zhou Huaian and the others looked at him and laughed so hard that they couldn't straighten their backs. "The first time I went to Chunyan's house, I ate eight fermented glutinous rice and eggs and I was so full that I almost died. Twelve, your mother-in-law is still too polite!"
Zhou Yiding nodded continuously, "That's right, she's too polite. I think she did it on purpose. If she does that again next time, I will definitely not eat it."
"Yes, I definitely won't eat it." Zhou Huaian looked at Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, next time I go to your house, remember to tell your mother-in-law that I don't want to eat fermented glutinous rice eggs anymore."
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "My mom also said that you like to eat brown sugar fermented glutinous rice eggs. If you don't like it, why didn't you say so earlier?"
Zhou Huaian made a bitter face, "I'm afraid of being scolded!"
"Hahaha!" Zhou Yiding laughed so hard that he slapped his thigh. "It's not the first time I go to my mother-in-law's house. I think you're worse than me!"
Zhou Huaian: "I'm not the same as you. My brother-in-law used to turn pale as soon as he saw me!"
Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and said, "Who told you that you were so lazy before? My brother and sister-in-law will be very polite to you this time when you go there!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes! No wonder people say that face is earned by oneself!"
"After eating, it's time to work." Yang Chunyan said as she took out a bamboo tube and picked the Viola yedoensis seeds and put them in the tube.
Zhou Huaian dug up the seeds of Viola yedoensis with a hoe, shook off the mud and put it aside. "If you throw it on the ground, it will dry in two hours at most."
Then he looked up at the sky again and said, "What a horrible weather, it's so stuffy, I think it's going to rain heavily again in a few days."
"This year is relatively good. It rains after a few hot days. Last year, the New River was almost dry at this time."
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