Chapter 691 Chapter 696: Scared of being poor
Yang Chunyan found it somewhat amusing to see him wandering around outside like a headless fly, and was also happy for Wan Xuejiao. Suddenly, a loud baby cry was heard from the delivery room.
"It's born, it's born!" Zhou Yiding jumped up and down with joy. "It's crying so loudly, it must be a son!"
"Yes, it should be a son!" Yang Chunyan thought of her previous life, when her family indeed only had one son.
At this time, Wan's mother opened the door of the delivery room a crack with a smile on her face and said to him happily: "Yiding, Xuejiao gave birth to a son."
Zhou Yiding was so happy after hearing this that he didn't know what to do. "Mom, thank you for your hard work. I have a son now! How is Xuejiao?"
"Xuejiao is fine. The doctor is cleaning up her and the baby."
Seeing that he was so happy that he didn't know what to do, and still remembered to ask Xuejiao how she was, Wan's mother felt very relieved and thought that she and the old man were right and that their daughter would be blessed in the future.
Children and grandchildren have their own blessings, so forget about other things! As long as he treats his daughter well, that's enough.
After a while, the delivery room was cleaned up and Wan's mother came out happily holding the baby. Doctor Ma told Zhou Yiding that if there was nothing wrong after one night of observation, he could be discharged from the hospital and go home.
Yang Chunyan looked at the baby in the cradle and said to her, "I'll go to Sister Yumei's house and cook something for Xuejiao."
"No, there's a small stove behind the hospital. You can cook for 20 cents." Wan's mother handed the child to her with a smile, "Help me hold the child, I'll do it."
Yang Chunyan took the baby and saw Zhou Yiding happily thanking Dr. Ma. She happily wrapped Wan Xuejiao in her cotton coat and carried her out of the delivery room.
"Sister-in-law, my kid weighs seven pounds and two ounces, two ounces heavier than Xiao Jiuer!"
"It's better if the child is older, so he can be easier to take care of in the future!"
Yang Chunyan took the child to the ward and settled the exhausted Wan Xuejiao down. Then Wan's mother and Aunt Chen came with fried eggs.
Zhou Yiding happily gave the red envelope to Aunt Chen again, and said to Wan Xuejiao, "After you eat, take a good rest. I'll come back after I send my sister-in-law and Aunt Chen home."
"Yes!" Wan Xuejiao nodded happily, "I'm sorry to bother my sister-in-law and Aunt Chen today."
"You're still being polite to me!" Yang Chunyan said with a smile, "You should take a good rest. We will visit you again when you come home tomorrow."
A quarter after ten, the tractor stopped outside Yang Chunyan's courtyard wall. Zhou Huaian walked over with a smile, "You're back, son or daughter?"
Zhou Yiding looked very proud, "Of course it's my son!"
Zhou Huaian was also happy for him, "Great, now all of us brothers have sons!"
Zhou Yiding smiled so much that his mouth stretched to his ears, and he pulled him towards the unloading tractor. "Xuejiao will be discharged from the hospital tomorrow. I will drive Xu Laosan's tractor over there, and you drive the four-wheel drive to Baicaoping tomorrow morning. And..."
Yang Chunyan looked at the two people arm in arm, smiled and shook her head, then went into the house to see her son.
The little guy would cling to her every night before going to bed. He would not cry as long as she could see him, but if she couldn't see him, he would cry and look for him everywhere.
Zhou's mother, who was folding clothes in the main room, said as soon as she saw her, "You're back! Jiuer looked for me for a long time but couldn't find me. She cried for a while before she fell asleep."
"I'll go see him!" Yang Chunyan went into the room, looked at her son who was sleeping on the small bed with a rosy face, kissed him, and then went out to tell Wan Xuejiao that she had given birth to a son.
"That's all right!" Zhou's mother smiled and started making arrangements. "I've already prepared the rice for the baby, and the little clothes are also ready. Catch two hens tomorrow. We don't have enough eggs at home. I'll go ask Jiang Chunhong and the others. If they have some, we won't have to buy them elsewhere."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan went in and looked at her son, whose face was rosy from sleeping. "Shall we send the postpartum gifts to my sister-in-law and her family?"
"Whenever they come back, I'll help them send them off." Mother Zhou said, "I'm so busy now, I wonder when the Yiding family will hold the three-day banquet?"
"We are busy here, and Xuejiao's family is not doing well in farming right now! We have to see when they choose to come for the wedding banquet, right?"
"That's true." Zhou's mother happily went to the oven to find Jia Chunhong and the others to ask about eggs.
Yang Chunyan felt sticky and uncomfortable all over, so she went to the kitchen to pour the hot water from the steel pot into a bucket and carried it to the bathroom.
The stove in the backyard hasn't been burning since yesterday. It's troublesome to go there to get hot water, so I just lit the coal stove.
After she washed up and changed into a dry cotton sweater, she came out with the bucket and saw Zhou Huaian leaning against the door. She glared at him and said, "What are you doing standing here? You scared me."
"I'm very tired, lean back and feel more comfortable!" Zhou Huaian looked at her lazily.
"You only sleep five or six hours a day. How can you not be tired?" Yang Chunyan raised the candle, looked at his tired and dark eyes, and said distressedly, "Making money is important, and health is also important. Go to bed early tonight."
"My wife still loves me!" Zhou Huaian put his arm around her shoulders and walked towards the front yard. "Did Li Yinfu come to cause trouble today?"
Yang Chunyan nodded, "It's just... I don't know why he went crazy again. This kind of relative is worse than an outsider."
"He's jealous of us!" Zhou Huaian said unhappily, "If it weren't for grandpa's sake, I wouldn't even want his things even if they were given to me."
"The construction team's purchasing point has already started receiving the goods. They probably won't deliver the goods to sell in the future."
"It's best if you don't come." Zhou Huaian locked the back door of the kitchen. "Yiding just said that Xiaoru told him that the third brother and the third sister-in-law had a quarrel and they even fought last night. He didn't want to ask the third brother, so he asked me to go to Sancha Road to transport goods tomorrow and ask what happened by the way."
"They usually quarrel over money, but business is so good this year, this shouldn't happen!"
Zhou Huaian thought about Li Qiuyue's personality, "Could it be that she was deceived by some get-rich-quick scam again?"
Yang Chunyan felt that Li Qiuyue was not a fool, but thinking of the various tricks used by the liar, "You might as well go and take a look."
Zhou Huaian went into the house and curled up in a rattan chair. "Really? They let a lazy second-rate guy like me worry about all this for them."
Yang Chunyan smiled and glanced at him, "You are now famous in the village, the prodigal son who has returned to his roots, not that second-rate lazy guy!"
"You really learned bad things from me, and you even tease your man." Zhou Huaian smiled and nodded at her a few times, then handed her the list of goods, "Have you prepared the postpartum gift for the Yiding family?"
"It's ready!" Yang Chunyan took out a longevity lock from the drawer. "I prepared this for him. I also bought some fine cotton cloth and weighed a few pounds of wool."
"That's great!" Zhou Huaian took off his jacket and sweater, put on a cotton sweater and carried Xiao Jiuer to the bed. The child lay down beside him, touched the pillow and fell asleep. After a while, he started snoring.
Yang Chunyan turned her head to look at him, thinking that he didn't snore normally, and only snored when he was very tired. It seemed that he was really tired during this period.
He couldn't help but sigh and sat there for a while before he took out the account book and started to record the accounts. Several purchasing points brought back more than 30,000 kilograms of truffles in total, plus what was collected today, the total was more than 42,000 kilograms.
There are more than 600 kilograms of special grade goods. Although the purchase price of special grade goods is higher, the loss is the least. Four kilograms of wet goods can produce more than one kilogram of dry goods.
The first-class products weigh over 7,000 jin, and 4 jin of wet goods can produce 1 jin. The second-class products require over 4 jin, and the third-class products require at least 5 jin. The purchase price of the last-class products is cheap, but the loss is also high, and 6 jin of wet goods are required to produce 1 jin of dry goods...
Yang Chunyan put the account book away and went out to see Wangcai lying outside the main room. She looked at the west wing and saw that the light in Luo Haili's room was still on, so she walked over.
"Cousin, has mom come over to sleep?"
Luo Haili opened the door and said, "Aunt said she would stay there for a while, let uncle and grandfather have a nap, and then she would come back to sleep. She also locked the gate outside."
"Oh! Then go to bed early!"
"Well! You should go to bed early too!"
After Yang Chunyan returned to her room and fell asleep, she felt that the alarm clock rang not long after she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes, she saw that Zhou Huaian had already gotten up to turn off the alarm clock.
"You're up!"
Zhou Huaian turned his head and whispered, "Don't get up. Stay with your son and sleep for a while. I'll help you fill the basket."
Yang Chunyan looked at her son, got out of bed and gave him the clothes he needed to change. "Mom was watching over there last night. I don't know if she came back."
"Uncle Dashu rested last night. Mom was worried that the old man and grandpa were tired, so she let them go to bed."
"Next year, we will do the same as when we harvested red mushrooms. We will find someone to take over the harvest, so that the three old men won't be so exhausted."
"I thought about that, too. Last night I told them that we wouldn't do it this way next year. Grandpa said this kind of work was not as tiring as the big production in the past. I was scolded by them, saying that I was showing off after earning a few bucks."
Zhou Huaian said helplessly, and then added: "Look at their posture, they wish they could do this every day!"
"Alas!" Yang Chunyan sighed after hearing this, "They are just afraid of being poor!"
"Of course not! Except for better food and clothing, nothing else has changed. I save up any money I have. I feel bad if I spend a penny more." Zhou Huaian stuffed his purse under his sweater. "Go to sleep quickly. I'm leaving first."
"Be careful on the road." Yang Chunyan blew out the candle and went to bed.
Zhou Huaian closed the door and opened the door to the main room. A chill hit him in the face. Wangcai heard the noise and stood up and followed him to the gate of the courtyard. When he saw him go out, he lay down at the door again.
He went out and saw that the four-wheeled truck bed was already half full of goods. He shook his head and said, "I don't know what time did these old guys get up?"
"What are you doing shaking your head here?" the old man asked, carrying a basket of truffles.
Zhou Huaian took the bamboo basket and said, "I say, now that our family has made some money, you old people are still tired of following us. Why do we make money? I don't understand."
The old man looked at his grandson walking into the truck bed and said, "Youngest, grandpa can still work. Just treat your aunt's words as bullshit."
The elderly feel that they are not useless as long as they can still work and help their children and grandchildren. Now they have no worries about food and clothing, and they have no place to spend the money in their pockets. What is there to be dissatisfied with in such a good life?
"I don't care what she says! I just really think you guys are too tired during this period." Zhou Huaian put down the bamboo basket and got off the tractor.
(End of this chapter)
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