Chapter 707 The Third Sister-in-law is here to help
"Let me see!" Li Qiuyue took it and held it up to the light, then looked at Yang Chunyan in surprise, "Yan'er, you are so lucky! You found a dead rabbit in the morning, and duck eggs in the afternoon."
Zhou Huaian said hurriedly: "I picked up two too."
Li Qiuyue glanced at him and said, "The youngest one can also pick up things. The sun really rises from the west!"
Zhang Xiuxiang smiled and said, "The youngest one has really changed his luck!"
"I think so too!" Zhou Huaian recalled that when he went to work in the past, he would either break the shoulder pole or smash the dung bucket. There was also one time when he fell into a ditch with half a basket of sweet potatoes...
I don’t want to think about it anymore. It makes me cry just thinking about it.
The few of them were talking happily here. The woman in the field opposite glanced at Zhou Huaian and said sarcastically: "Zhou Laoyao, if you are lucky, you should come here every day to pull water weeds and pick up a few duck eggs. In less than two years, you will earn back the money you paid to Lao Xiong's family!"
Zhou Huaian would never swallow his anger, and he directly confronted him, "It's none of your business. The compensation is from my family, not from your Ye family."
Aunt Ye stood up and pointed at Zhou Huaian, "I don't want to bother with things you don't understand. No matter how wicked I am, I can't give birth to a prodigal son like you!"
Zhou Huaishan was not happy with this and pointed at her and said, "Who do you think is immoral among the Ye family?"
"You bitch, you deserve a beating." Zhou Huaian jumped up and wanted to go to the field to beat Aunt Ye.
Aunt Ye slapped her thigh and shouted, "Someone come! The scoundrel is going to beat someone up..."
Yang Chunyan and Zhao Huifang hurriedly grabbed him.
"What are you doing with me?" Zhou Huaian pointed at Auntie Ye. "If that old bitch dares to scold my mother, I will tear her mouth off!"
Yang Chunyan looked at him coldly, "Don't you know the situation of her family? Do you want to hurt Aunt Ye and then our family will compensate her, or do you want to piss off my mother and husband to death?"
"What's wrong? You two brothers still want to beat me up?" Aunt Ye slapped her thigh and howled, "Come and see, this is the plague that is getting its comeuppance. It only picks on the honest people, and it deserves to pay the money..."
"Ye family, are you..."
"Get out of here." Li Qiuyue pulled Zhou Huaishan away, with her hands on her hips, "You stinky bitch, you must be a virtuous woman. Go back and take a look at the nest you gave birth to. That's what it means to be wicked and get your retribution..."
Every word Li Qiuyue said hit Aunt Ye in the heart, choking her so much that she couldn't utter a word in response.
Aunt Ye’s husband is her cousin from her uncle’s family. Perhaps because of their close-kin marriage, both of their children have disabilities. The eldest was born with a disability that prevents him from spreading his fingers, and the second child is lame and has intellectual problems.
Nowadays, if a family gave birth to two disabled children in a row, the villagers would think that the family had done too many immoral things and that this was their retribution.
At this time, the villagers in the fields nearby also started to persuade them loudly.
"Forget it, let's stop talking!"
"Yes, we are from the same team. We will see each other sooner or later."
Seeing that Mrs. Ye didn't say anything, Yang Chunyan and others went to the rice fields at the foot of the mountain to continue working.
On the way there, Zhou Huaian made a straw basket out of barnyard grass and handed it to Yang Chunyan, "Yan'er, put the duck eggs in it to prevent them from being crushed."
Yang Chunyan took the straw basket that looked a bit like a net bag, put the duck eggs in the bag into it, and carried it to the rice field near the foot of the mountain.
There was a short mulberry tree on the edge of the field. Yang Chunyan hung the duck eggs on it, rolled up her trousers and went into the field to continue pulling weeds.
Zhao Huifang glanced at Zhou Huaian, who was busy pulling weeds in the field at the east end, and said to Zhang Xiuxiang in front of her in a somewhat strange tone: "The youngest one is not bad today! He hasn't run yet."
Li Qiuyue curled her lips and said, "He just got into big trouble. If he dares to run away, I will beat him to death."
Zhang Xiuxiang glanced at Zhou Huaian and said nothing.
Zhou Huaian was far away and did not hear the discussions of his two sisters-in-law. He followed Yang Chunyan obediently until they had pulled out all the weeds and weeds in the fields. Then he went up the ridge and followed her back.
As soon as I got on the main road, I saw a thin old man with white hair and dark red skin walking in front of me. He was holding a whip in his hand and driving a dozen black goats forward.
"Master~" Zhou Huaian shouted and ran over happily.
The old man turned his head when he heard the shout and saw Zhou Huaian whipping him with his whip, "Swish, son of a bitch, who told you to chase the plague cow of the Xiong family? Is it easy for an old man like you to save some money?"
Zhou Huaian shuddered in pain, holding his shoulder and looking at him, "You were herding sheep in the mountains, how did you know this?"
"Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles. The news that the Zhou family gave birth to a prodigal son must have spread to Ning'an City a long time ago."
Old Master Zhou pointed the tip of his whip at him, looking at him with annoyance, "You stupid fool, you clearly knew that the Xiong family's cow was a diseased cow, but you didn't stay away, and you chased it with a carrying pole. If you don't pay the money, who will? I can smell your stupidity from across the mountain!"
The old man was so angry that he raised his whip and hit him again, "Get away from me, and don't tell others that you are my grandson, Zhou Hongfa. I can't afford to lose face."
Zhou Huaian looked at the old man aggrievedly, and at the villagers who were trying to hold back their laughter as they returned home from work. He did not dare to tell him about the bezoar and ask him to say a few words to defend himself, so he could only follow the old man back in disappointment.
Zhou Huaishan also caught up, "Grandpa, come to my house for dinner tonight. The old man said you like to eat dumplings, so my mother chopped beef and made dumplings."
"The expensive food is hard to digest!" The old man drove the sheep away.
Several people looked at the old man, but they didn't understand whether he was going or not.
He shook his head and walked back.
When I got home and just walked into the yard, I smelled the aroma of beef.
Several children were sitting in a row on straw benches under the eaves of the corridor. One of them was holding a cow's tail bone in his hand and gnawing on it hard.
Zhou Xiaolin saw Li Qiuyue and stumbled towards her, "Mom, eat some meat."
"Good girl!" Li Qiuyue bent down and picked her up, pretending to take a bite, and then kissed her on the face, "Smells good, delicious!"
Zhou Xiaolin put her greasy little hands around her neck and giggled.
Yang Chunyan looked at it enviously, and carried the duck eggs into the kitchen, "Mom, I picked up a few duck eggs from the rice field, you collect them."
Mother Zhou happily took it and said, "Chunyan, you are very lucky today!"
"Not bad!" Yang Chunyan also felt that her luck was better than in her previous life. At least she had never picked up duck eggs while weeding in her previous life.
Mother Zhou put down the duck eggs, held Yang Chunyan's hand, and said emotionally: "Yan'er, if it weren't for you today, your husband would definitely be seriously ill, and who knows what would happen at home!"
Looking at the skinny mother-in-law, Yang Chunyan remembered the old lady who hunched over and brought eggs to her and Zhou Huaian.
She smiled and said, "Mom, you are being polite. I am also a member of the Zhou family!"
Mother Zhou's eyes turned red when she thought of the disappointing Zhou Huaian. "Yan'er, Mom knows Huaian has many problems, but he has a good heart. As long as he changes, your life will be better."
"Mom knows Huai'an is not worthy of you. I promise to discipline him well in the future. If he does anything wrong, Mom will stand by you."
Yang Chunyan thought about how difficult her past life was, and she and Zhou Huaian had supported each other for more than 20 years. This life was much better than her past life, and she said softly, "He is my man, I don't dislike him."
Zhou Huaian was standing at the door of the kitchen when he heard what his mother and wife said. He felt upset and didn't want to chew the beef bones anymore. He went back to the room in his slippers and threw himself on the bed.
(End of this chapter)
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