Seeing the children running to the backyard, Zhou's mother turned her head and looked at Zhou Huaian, "Haili told me that the animals in the He family's old nest are plotting bad things again. When you go to pull the grain this afternoon, remember to check on your sister."
Zhou Huaian: "Got it. I'll send her a dog tonight and she'll stay there for one night before coming back."
Mother Zhou nodded with relief. "Hai Li said that the woman next door to the He family, Mrs. Li, said that after the people who had blind dates with He Jianjun knew about your sister and Xiaoxi's experiences, they were afraid that they would end up like your sister. That bastard dated several people but none of them worked out. I think it's probably because Mrs. He saw that Yumei had a house and a shop, and wanted to take advantage of her."
Zhou Huaian said in a deep voice: "No matter what his idea is, if we don't agree, does he dare to use force?"
"Go and have a look, talk to your sister, do it if you can, if you really can't, come back, I'll give the food delivery business to her." Zhou's mother said, then worried that he might have some ideas, "Don't think I'm biased. I'm telling you, after what happened to the He family, I regretted it so much that my intestines turned green. Now I'm happy as long as you're all safe and sound."
Seeing her eyes were red, Zhou Huaian pretended to be disgusted and said, "I wish you could hand over the food delivery business to my sister! I don't have to go to Ning'an in the dark in the cold weather to deliver food on days when I don't deliver medicine."
"You lazy idiot, where would the money come from if you weren't working hard?" Zhou's mother wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, glared at him in reproach, and went to the backyard.
Zhou Huaian followed and walked a few steps towards the backyard. He turned around and saw that the door to the main room was open. He turned around and saw Xiao Jiuer lying on Yang Chunyan's legs. She was changing the child's diaper.
"Woke up by the tractor again?"
"Yeah! He was scared and cried a few times again this time. Remember to wake him up earlier next time."
When Xiao Jiuer heard his voice, she raised her head and looked at him, "Ahhh, ohhh!"
"Little boy, you only know how to say 'yeah, oh, oh' when I call you old man!" Zhou Huaian squatted down, stretched out his left index finger for him to hold, and pinched his little face with his other hand, "You are so old, but you still can't speak clearly."
Yang Chunyan turned her son over, stuffed the diaper into his crotch and held it down with an elastic band. "You're talking as if you could explain it clearly when you were his age!"
Touching the soft diaper, she felt that diapers made of cotton cloth were better. They were breathable for children and much better than the diapers that Xiaoqian and her other children wore.
Zhou Huaian looked at his son who was waving his hands and babbling, "My son, you see my wife is on the same side with you now. She gets upset when the old man says something to you."
"Zhou Baoqi!" Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and handed the child to him. "You hold Jiuer, I'll go cook."
Zhou Huaian took the child and said, "Mom is coming. It's okay for you to rest for a while. Just now at the gate of the courtyard, Mom said... I still regret marrying my sister to the town."
"Our lives are getting better now, but Sister Yumei is raising her child alone. It's inevitable that she feels uneasy."
"My sister said that her life now is more comfortable than before in the He family. I think she is only saying good things. She is worried that those bastards will bully them if they are there."
"Go to the town every now and then. You have to be careful with those people."
"Yes! I'll tell my eldest brother and the others later. From now on, we brothers will take turns going to the town."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan remembered what Luo Haili said, "Huaian, did Sister Yumei have a blind date with a soldier from the Fangtian Brigade before?"
"Yes! That man is called Fang Dongming. He fell in love with my sister and asked someone to propose marriage. I actually think that man is nice, tall and handsome, and looks very righteous. Unfortunately, my mother disliked him because he was her stepfather and his family was even poorer than mine, so she didn't agree."
Zhou Huaian said with some regret, "Later I heard that he encountered bandits while on a mission in the army and got a scar on his face. It looked pretty scary."
"So he's working in town now?"
"Yes! I work in the joint defense team." Zhou Huaian looked at her strangely, "Why do you want to ask this?"
"I heard from Haili that last time someone caused trouble in the shop, a man named Fang Tian came to help drive the man away. I heard that he seemed to have had a blind date with Sister Yumei before."
Zhou Huaian's face darkened after hearing this. "You're right. My brother and I really need to go to the town every now and then to check it out."
"Yes, the two women are not bad looking, so there will always be some shameless people who have bad intentions." Yang Chunyan said as she picked up the diaper on the ground, "You take care of our son for a while, I'll go wash the diapers and hang them up to dry."
"Okay, I'll carry him to lie down for a while, and call me when it's time to eat."
"That's right!"
Zhou Huaian carried the child into the room, put him on the bed, and lay down beside him. He watched his son pull his feet, and then put them in his mouth...
"Is stinky feet so delicious?" Zhou Huaian pulled the foot away from his mouth, took the pepper stick tied to his wrist and put it in his hand, "It's good to eat this, it can also dispel wind."
"Ahhh!" Xiao Jiuer let go of the pepper stick, raised her legs again, and worked hard to grab her toes and stuff them into her mouth.
Zhou Huaian pulled him away again, and after several attempts, he finally succeeded in irritating the child, who burst into tears: The big one bullies the small one, you scabby boy!
"Don't cry!" Zhou Huaian picked him up with a guilty conscience, "I'll take you to the pond to watch the fish."
He carried the child out, and seeing that the sun outside was scorching, he took a straw hat and put it on. The father and child went to the pond, parted the lush ginger and taro on the bank, and sat on the stone steps.
In the morning, the old man cut some ramie leaves and vegetable leaves and threw them into the pond to feed the fish. You could still see fish hiding in the shade under the water plants on the bank of the pond.
These fish were caught from the river and thrown into the water. They have been kept for more than a year and occasionally big fish can be seen floating up.
Zhou Huaian held up Xiao Jiuer and asked him to look at the fish in the pond. "Little one, grow up quickly. When you grow up a little, I will find a bamboo to make you a fishing rod. We can fish here and cook it at home."
"Ea ...
A gust of wind blew, and a few thick clouds floated overhead, blocking the sunlight.
Little Jiuer looked at the water surface wrinkled by the wind curiously, babbling!
Zhou Huaian felt like he was sitting by the pond, watching a group of ants carrying food and climbing up continuously. The wind didn't make him feel cool, but instead he felt stuffy and hot, as if he was in an oven.
He looked up at the sky and saw dark clouds coming towards him...
"Oh no! It's going to rain!" He hurriedly ran back with the child in his arms, "Comrades, it's raining, hurry up and harvest the red mushrooms."
Zhou Huaian yelled and ran towards Zhou Huaishan's house holding his son. They didn't have to worry about Zhou's mother here, and Li Qiuyue was still in confinement over there. The red mushrooms were all money if they got wet!
Those who were working in the backyard and listening to Zhou's mother talking about Zhou Yumei stopped what they were doing, "The youngest said it's going to rain."
Zhou's mother hurriedly said, "The red mushrooms are all drying on the roof. Go back and collect them."
"Oh!" Zhou Huairong and others immediately ran home, and even Zhou Jiaming and others followed quickly.
Yang Chunyan and Zhou's mother went upstairs and used a bamboo rake to rake the red mushrooms on the edge of the roof to the center of the building, and then raindrops as big as beans fell.
Zhou's mother said thankfully, "We can give them to Ning'an to sell after drying them today. If these are damaged by the rain, they will cost at least 200 yuan less." She thought about it and said, "Can they still be sold after being dried in the rain?"
Yang Chunyan covered the red mushrooms with straw mats. "The quality of the mushrooms dried again after being exposed to rain is not as good as those dried once. They are prone to mold when stored!"
After hearing this, Zhou's mother shook her head and said, "Forget it. If people spend so much money on it and it gets moldy after just 21 days, I won't dare buy anything from Boss Zheng anymore."
"Yes, Boss Zheng and his people are all people who sell good things. If you want to cooperate with them for a long time, you must ensure the quality is good, so that you can continue to do business with them for a long time."
Over there, Zhou Huaian ran to the door of Zhou Huaishan's house and met Zhou Xiaolin who came to call for adults, "Dad, it's going to rain soon."
"Go upstairs with dad and look after your brother." Zhou Huaian ran upstairs, took a bamboo basket and put Xiao Jiuer in it to lie down, then picked up a bamboo rake and started raking quickly.
Soon Zhou Huaishan and his daughter also ran up, and the three of them quickly raked all the red mushrooms to a place where the rain could not reach.
Zhou Huaishan stood on the rooftop and looked at the rain and fog in the sky, feeling very lucky, "Fortunately it was done quickly, otherwise these people around would have been in trouble."
Zhou Huaian took the child from Zhou Xiaoru and said, "Luckily I took Jiuer to the pond to watch the fish, otherwise who would have known that it would rain when the sun was shining brightly."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Xiaoru pointed to Fangtian and said, "Old man, look, the sun is still shining over there!"
Zhou Huaian said angrily after seeing this: "Ancestors! Isn't it infuriating? It's really like it's raining on one side and sunny on the other. We just finished collecting it here and it's going to be sunny again soon."
Zhou Huaishan smiled and said, "Sun showers are like this, they come and go quickly. After this rain, there are more mushrooms in our forest."
I saw the clouds in the sky drifting like the wind, and the sun shining on the world like a big furnace.
The ground around the roof has been wet by the rain. Even if the sun comes out, the red mushrooms cannot be spread out to dry in the sun.
The good thing is that the red mushrooms have been dried out after being exposed to the sun for a whole morning. The three of them raked the red mushrooms and spread them out thinly, waiting to collect them in the afternoon.
After drying the mushrooms, everyone returned to Yang Chunyan's home, and the whole family sat together to eat.
Zhou Huairong picked up a corn cake and took two bites. Suddenly, he remembered something. "Youngest, Zhang Laoer asked Doctor Xiao Wang to help him contact someone. They plan to go there on the first day of the eighth lunar month."
Zhou Huaian looked at the perpetual calendar hanging on the pillar and said, "Today is July 27th, there are still four days left. I will tell him when I go to Ning'an tomorrow."
Zhou Huairong nodded, "Okay, I'll give him a letter when you decide."
Yang Chunyan drank a bowl of porridge and saw Xiao Jiuer looking at her with her mouth opening and closing. "Look at mommy eating, do you want to eat too?"
"Everyone is eating with relish, but he has nothing to eat. He must be missing it too!" Zhou Huaian said as he dipped his finger in some rice soup and put it in his mouth. Little Jiuer smacked it a few times and opened his mouth for more.
"Little greedy cat!" Yang Chunyan said to him, "Go and scoop some rice soup for me to feed him."
(End of this chapter)
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