Chapter 295 Chapter 296: I want it too
Zhou Huaian nodded and walked towards the earthen kiln. When he arrived, he saw the old man turning over and drying adobe bricks in the straw shed. He walked up to him with a smile and said, "Grandpa, I have good news for you!"
The old man looked up and glanced at him, "Pick up the money!"
"Picking up money is not good news!" Zhou Huaian stepped forward, "Chunyan had Dr. Wang check her pulse today. I have a son, and you have a great-grandson."
The old man smiled with wrinkles all over his face after hearing this, "Good, good, good! You're going to have a baby too." Then he sighed, "Doctor Wang is amazing, he can tell if it's a boy or a girl right after the pregnancy!"
"No! I just confirmed that I'm pregnant, how can I know if it's a boy or a girl!" Zhou Huaian scratched his head, "I can't say I have a daughter!"
The old man nodded after hearing this, "Yes! If you didn't have a son before, you could just have another one. If that didn't work, you could have more. Now you are not allowed to have a second child. Whether it's a boy or a girl, it's your fate!"
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment after hearing this and said, "That's true!"
The old man wiped his sweat and said, "For thousands of years, people have raised children to provide for their old age, but that requires them to have conscientious children and they must have talent themselves."
"Don't worry, everyone in my family has a conscience."
"I know, but there are also those who have no conscience. Aren't there a few in the village?"
"Yes! My grandma said that one kind of rice feeds a hundred kinds of people." Zhou Huaian supported him, "Let's go back to eat. We sold herbs today, and Chunyan also bought some pig's trotters."
"Go call your old man and tell him that you are going to have a successor."
"Yeah!" The grandfather and grandson walked towards the earthen kiln.
After hearing this, Zhou's father smiled and looked at him and said, "Now you have a child, so you should be more steady in your work and stop being so frivolous every day."
Zhou Huaian was speechless. He looked at his dark and thin face and nodded honestly, "I remember it."
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Zhou's mother came back from a trip, followed by Li Yinfu and Zhou San's aunt and daughter-in-law.
When the few people heard that someone was offering Chunyan fifty cents a pound to help collect red mushrooms, they excitedly followed her to the second room. After seeing the dried red mushrooms in the yard, they asked Yang Chunyan to teach them how to identify them.
"Remember, the front of the cap of the non-toxic red mushroom is dark red..."
After listening for a while, Li Yinfu was still worried about picking up poisonous mushrooms. "Chunyan, I'd better go up the mountain with you to pick them up."
Aunt Zhou San also nodded. "Yes, there is a difference between dried goods and fresh goods. After all, they are imported. I think we should go up the mountain with Chunyan and the others after dinner to see the fresh mushrooms with our own eyes, so as not to bring back poisonous mushrooms."
Mother Zhou said hurriedly, "Chunyan won't be going up the mountain today, so stay at home and help! You can go with Huifang and the others later, these are what they picked up."
"Okay, let's go back and eat first, and I'll call you later."
"Yes, I have already started preparing dinner at home."
Aunt Zhou and others left in a hurry.
When the workers came back from work and heard that they could pick red mushrooms and sell them for money, Zhou Huaigang and his brother, who had originally planned to go back to the coal mine to pick coal, decided not to go anymore and decided to follow them up the mountain to pick mushrooms the next morning.
After dinner, several workers went to take a nap.
Mother Zhou looked at Zhou Jiaming and the others who were fiddling with the radio on the steps and said, "Jiaming, don't go to the construction site this afternoon. Go up the mountain with your mother to pick mushrooms."
Zhou Jiaming looked up at Zhou Jialiang and said, "Grandma, let's go pick some mushrooms. Can you give us some money from the sales?"
Zhou's mother glared at him and said, "What do you do with the money, little kid? We have everything to eat and wear at home. Your father and aunt often give you money to buy ice cream and candy. Go and see which kid eats as well as you do?"
Zhou Jiaming pouted, "We don't want to buy food, we want to buy baby books. Xu Jun has several books, such as Tunnel Warfare and Generals of the Yang Family... He also has beautiful navy uniforms!"
Zhou Xiaoqian went over and pulled her mother, "Grandma, I promise to go up the mountain and pick mushrooms, and you can make me a skirt! My mom won't make one for me!"
"We don't want to bring Xiaolin with us anymore. We also want to pick mushrooms to make skirts." Zhou Xiaowen and Zhou Xiaoru also said.
Zhou Jiaming and the other two also pulled her over after hearing this, "Grandma, we want the navy uniform that Xu Jun wears, with white and blue stripes and blue pants, which looks very spirited."
Zhou Jiakang squeezed over and held her, "Grandma, I want to pick mushrooms too. I also want a navy uniform."
Several children surrounded Zhou's mother and chattered non-stop.
Zhang Xiuxiang came over with the linen cloth and patted Zhou Jiakang after hearing it. "Why do you need to look so good as a boy? You can still wear your clothes this year, so wait until next year to make them!"
Mother Zhou nodded, "Your mother is right, why do you need to wear such beautiful clothes? Just wear whatever you can. Your father used to wear worse clothes than you!"
"Wow..." Zhou Jiakang wiped his tears, "I want a navy uniform. I don't have any nice clothes. They are all worn by my eldest brother and Jialiang."
Zhou Jialiang pouted and pulled at his homespun jacket, "Mine is not what my elder brother wore!"
"Oh~ the little chicks also know how to dress up!" Zhou Huaian came over and stroked Zhou Jiakang with a smile, "Mom, second sister-in-law, just promise them that as long as they go up the mountain to pick mushrooms and sell them, you can make a set for each of them."
The children all looked at the two of them, "Mom and Dad have agreed, so you should agree too!"
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at the patched jackets and vests on the children, feeling a little sad. She said with a fierce face, "Did you hear what your father said? Pick mushrooms carefully and make one for each of you with the money you earn from selling them."
"I heard you. I promise to complete the task." Several children jumped up excitedly, "Long live daddy! Oh oh oh ~ yeah yeah yeah ~"
Zhou Xiaolin didn't know what they were so happy about. Seeing that her brother and sister wanted something, she wanted it too. She pulled his finger and shook it, "Dad, I want one too. I want one too."
"I don't know anything, but you want one too." Zhou Huaian picked her up and pinched her nose. "Okay, our Xiaolin wants one too. Let me make a beautiful floral dress for you."
"Bo~" Zhou Xiaolin happily hugged him and kissed him, her saliva covering his face.
Zhou Huaishan came over and pointed at his cheek, "Yaoyao, give me a kiss!"
Zhou Xiaolin pointed at his beard with disdain, "No, it pricks me!"
Mother Zhou looked at the happy children and could not object any more. She patted him and said, "Just spoil them!"
Zhou Huaian smiled apologetically and said, "It's not too much for a child to ask for a new set of clothes."
He spoke for the children today, mainly because he remembered that he had always picked up clothes from his older brothers to wear since he was a child.
The clothes came from the eldest brother, then the second brother and then the third brother. By the time he wore them, the patches on the clothes were only cleaner and more neatly patched than those worn by beggars in the movies.
Mother Zhou glanced at him and said to the children, "This time your father spoke up for you and grandma agreed to buy it for you. Next time you do this, be good and kneel in the main hall."
“We remember that.”
(End of this chapter)
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