Chapter 249 Chapter 248: Dog bites dog and gets a mouthful of fur
Zhou Yiding raised the cantaloupe in his hand and said, "Of course! I also want to go to my mother-in-law's house early to eat delicious food!"
Zhou Huaian laughed and said, "Lots of poached eggs!"
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and said, "Buying a tractor is also a happy event. On the 15th, I'll buy you two red envelopes to celebrate! I've also got you what you wanted."
Zhou Huaian understood instantly, "Really?"
"Yes! He asked someone from the forest farm to do it."
"Thank you! Thank you!" Zhou Huaian patted him happily, "Hurry up and find a hill to contract, and then we can open it up together and plant fruit trees and herbs."
"My old man told me to take a look first. Go back and put the things away, and then we can go and see which hill is more comfortable."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian waved at him, pushed the bicycle and left with Yang Chunyan.
When they got home, they saw Zhou's mother and a few children collecting herbs in the yard.
When Zhou Jiaming saw the two people coming back, he threw away the herbs in his hand and went to greet them, "Dad, Aunt, you are back!" As he said this, his eyes were already looking at the bamboo basket, and he reached out to pick up one, "Oh~ Oh~ Big watermelon!"
"Wow! Watermelon!" Zhou Xiaoqian and the others gathered around, "Aunt Yao, we want to eat some!"
"Are there still rules?" Zhou's mother glared at a few people, then looked at Zhou Jiaming who was holding a watermelon, "Jiaming, I see you are becoming more and more unruly these days. Didn't you see your father is still pushing a bicycle?"
"Oh!" Zhou Jiaming lowered his head and put the watermelon back into the bamboo basket.
Zhou Huaian patted him and said, "Go help grandma collect the herbs. Dad will cut some watermelon for you."
"Yeah!" Zhou Jiaming took a few kids to get busy.
Yang Chunyan put down her backpack and took out the jars and bags inside. "My mother made fermented bean curd, fermented black beans, pickled cabbage, and my husband made medicinal wine!"
When Zhou's mother saw her taking out so many things, she said embarrassedly, "Your mother is too polite. She only took a little rapeseed oil, but brought back so many things."
"My mother-in-law insisted on giving it to me." Zhou Huaian proudly picked up a pair of shoes. "Look, even in this hot weather, my mother-in-law still made shoes for us!"
Zhou's mother glanced at him and said, "My mother-in-law is so thoughtful!" I have been making shoes for you for decades, and I have never seen you showing off everywhere!
Zhou Huaian touched his nose and said, "I'm going to look for Yiding."
Mother Zhou said hurriedly, "Yiding brought some herbs down. I put them away for you."
"Yes!" Zhou Huaian said and pushed his bicycle away.
Zhou's mother opened the wine jar and took a sniff. "What kind of medicinal wine did my in-laws make?"
"My old man told you to drink a small cup before going to bed so you can sleep better."
"Yes, my in-laws said it's good to drink, so it must be right." Mother Zhou happily picked up the wine jar and walked into the house.
Yang Chunyan took the sauerkraut out of the oilcloth bag and put it in the ceramic bowl, then cleaned the oilcloth bag and hung it up.
The little ones obediently put the herbs in the yard into the baskets, and said, "Grandma, we are done."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "There are cantaloupe, grapes and watermelon. Which one do you want to eat first?"
"Melon!" several kids said in unison.
"Go get the knife, I'll cut it for you!" Yang Chunyan said as she picked up a few cantaloupes from the bamboo basket and placed them on the small square table.
Zhou Jiakang looked at the bamboo basket happily, then at the basket, "Aunt, your mother's house is so cozy, there are so many delicious foods!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and rubbed his head. "My mother's family still has peaches, pears, cherries, and mangoes. They will be ready for consumption in two years."
When Zhou Jiakang and the others heard that there were so many delicious foods, they looked at her with sparkling eyes, "Then when you go home, take us with you, okay?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "I will take whichever of you gets 100 points in the exam with me!"
"It's so hard to get 100 points!" Zhou Jiaming and his friends were all depressed after hearing this. "Let's eat melons first."
Yang Chunyan took a cantaloupe and went to the kitchen. "Mom, when will the eldest sister-in-law and the second sister-in-law come back?"
"They came back before noon." Zhou's mother took the cantaloupe and took a bite, looking at her with a gossipy face, "Yesterday afternoon, Cai Ermei and Ye Xiaoshuang were caught in the woods by Wang Chunhua!"
Yang Chunyan looked at her in surprise, "No way? They just entered the forest the day before yesterday?"
"Nothing was done. They said they caught Cai Ermei stealing money from home and gave it to Ye Xiaoshuang." Zhou's mother paused, "Ye Xiaoshuang denied it. She said Cai Ermei asked her to borrow money to buy herbs. She was worried that Wang Chunhua would misunderstand, so the two of them went to Xiaolinzi.
But Cai Ermei denied it and said that he went to get back the money he had lent to Ye Xiaoshuang, not counting the fifty yuan that Ye Xiaoshuang had taken, as she still owed him one hundred yuan.
The two of them were fighting each other. When Wang Chunhua heard that there was still a hundred yuan left, she of course believed her man. However, Ye Xiaoshuang jumped into the Xinhe River in a fit of rage and was pulled up by Cai Ermei.
Yesterday afternoon, the Ye family and the Huang family went to Cai Ermei's house, saying that he and his wife had forced the widow to death, and the families almost had a fight. Later, it was only when Secretary Xu stepped in that the families were able to calm down.
Yang Chunyan thought of Cai Ermei and Ye Xiaoshuang in her previous life. They were inseparable until Wang Chunhua caught them cheating. In this life, they started fighting early on. She felt that it must be her reincarnation that changed the original trajectory of many things.
Zhou's mother wiped her mouth and continued, "Several families went to the brigade to complain, but Ye Xiaoshuang refused to admit that he had borrowed money. Secretary Xu asked Cai Ermei to produce the IOU that Ye Xiaoshuang had borrowed money from, but he couldn't produce it.
Now it was Ye Xiaoshuang's turn to be unhappy, saying that Cai Ermei and her husband had robbed her of fifty yuan and demanded that they return the money. Wang Chunhua said that she was shameless and seduced her man and cheated her family of money.
The Wang brothers refused to give in, and Secretary Xu got angry, so he told them to report the case and ask the police to investigate! Only then did the Wang family let it go. "
"Did Ye Xiaoshuang take any money from Cai Ermei?"
Mother Zhou curled her lips in disdain. "They have been hooking up for so many years, and Cai Ermei must have spent some money on her. I think that bastard probably saw that Ye Xiaoshuang was getting married, and felt that it was not worth it to help someone else support his wife, so he wanted to get some of the money back."
Yang Chunyan smiled and flattered him, "You are the one who sees things clearly!"
After hearing this, Zhou's mother smiled with some complacency, "It's good that Cai Ermei, that bastard, can't make any money. I don't know what he has to sell the herbs for!"
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Zhou Huaian went to Zhou Yiding's house, and the two of them went to Secretary Xu's house first. Only then did they realize that all the barren mountains near the village had been booked by someone.
Secretary Xu told the two of them a few places to go and asked them to go and have a look, and then come to him to write an application after they had chosen one.
The two men came out of Secretary Xu's house and not long after they walked, they met Cai Ermei who was standing on the side of the road carrying a hoe.
Zhou Yiding glanced at him and asked, "Are you done with work?"
"Yeah!" Cai Ermei forced a smile and nodded, then looked at Zhou Huaian, "Youngest, come to my house and sit down. I want to talk to you."
"I have nothing to say to you!" Zhou Huaian pushed his bicycle and walked away.
Cai Ermei walked forward quickly and grabbed the back seat of the bicycle. "Youngest, listen to me. It was not my idea to collect the eels! Now I am collecting the herbs. It was the people from the big pharmacy and Doctor He who asked me to help collect them."
(End of this chapter)
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