Chapter 14: Money is hotter than treasure
The father and his two sons had never seen so many brand new banknotes before. They looked at the brand new banknotes on the desk excitedly, feeling a little overwhelmed.
Doctor Wang looked at them with a smile, "Please count. Also, with so much cash, do you have anything to hold the money?"
After seeing the actual money, Zhou's father realized that the big bag his wife had sewed for him could not hold so much money.
Zhou Huairong looked at the back of the jacket outside. Zhou Huaian remembered the waist bag Yang Chunyan had sewn last night, and hurried to pull her shoulder bag, "Yan'er, take out the waist bag quickly."
Yang Chunyan nodded and said, "Old man, I have a purse here." Then she took out a waist bag from her shoulder bag, untied the hemp rope, revealing the bag opening.
Doctor Wang looked at Yang Chunyan with a smile: "Not bad, she is a promising candidate."
Yang Chunyan's face turned red. She had seen this on TV in her previous life. When she bought materials for building a house, she tried to sew a bag like this. She put money in it and tied it around her waist. It had never been stolen by a pickpocket.
Father Zhou said happily: "Chunyan is a good child. Thanks to her, otherwise we would not have known that there was such a valuable treasure in the cow's stomach."
"He's a smart kid." Doctor Wang pointed at the pile of money and said, "Old Zhou, you should count them before you pack them up."
Father Zhou waved his hands repeatedly, "No, I trust Dr. Wang."
Yang Chunyan and the excited Zhou Huaian brother stuffed bundles of big unity into the purse, put the change into the bag for Zhou's father, and locked it with a pin.
Father Zhou pressed the banknotes in his pocket with his hand, then thought of what happened in the morning and quickly put his hand down.
Yang Chunyan handed the waist bag full of money to Zhou's father, "Old man, tie it close to your waist and cover it with clothes so that others won't notice it."
Father Zhou looked at the heavy waist bag and felt it was hotter than the treasure. Thinking that he would be on the street outside, he was worried that if he couldn't control himself, he would be discovered by three hands and it would be troublesome.
Thinking of this, he turned his head and looked at Yang Chunyan, "Chunyan, let's just tie you there. You're a woman, and even three hands wouldn't think you have money."
Yang Chunyan hesitated for a moment, nodded, picked up the belt, and tried to find a place to tie it close to her body.
Doctor Wang saw this and pulled open the curtain in front of the bed, "Sister, go in and tie it up."
"Thank you, Dr. Wang." Yang Chunyan walked in, closed the curtain, tied her purse close to her body, took off her white vest and white floral shirt, opened the curtain, and walked out with a calm face.
Zhou Huaian pulled her and stared at her waist. As expected, there was no money bag tied inside. "Good. This way, no one will find out."
Yang Chunyan looked at Doctor Wang and said, "I need to trouble you for one more thing. Please don't tell anyone else that we are here to sell bezoar."
Doctor Wang nodded readily, "Okay, Wang Zhen and I will keep this a secret."
Father Zhou bowed to Dr. Wang gratefully and said, "Thank you, Dr. Wang. We will leave first."
Doctor Wang also bowed and said, "Goodbye."
Several people went out, carrying each other on their backs, and said hello to Wang Zhen. Zhou's father asked Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian to go in front, and he and Zhou Huairong followed them, and they went out of the clinic and returned the same way.
Yang Chunyan walked forward calmly, carrying her bag. When she passed the supply and marketing cooperative, she took out two yuan from her bag and said to Zhou Huaian, "I'm going to buy a few pounds of straw paper."
Seeing that there were quite a few people standing in the supply and marketing cooperative, Zhou Huaian hurriedly took the money from her hand and said, "You guys wait here, I'll go buy it."
Yang Chunyan hurriedly said, "Divide it into two portions, don't mix them together."
"I got it, stop nagging!" Zhou Huaian strode into the supply and marketing cooperative.
Father Zhou took out five dimes and handed it to Zhou Huairong, "Go buy two dimes worth of candy and bring it back for the baby."
Zhou Huairong nodded and followed him to the supply and marketing cooperative. After a while, he came out with Zhou Huaian holding two large bundles of straw paper.
Zhou Huaian took out the rice basket and bamboo tube from the backpack and put the straw paper into the backpack.
The four of them walked out onto the street, and Zhou's father and Zhou Huairong finally breathed a sigh of relief. They both felt that coming to the county town was more tiring than carrying manure at home for a day.
After walking on the asphalt road, the four of them set foot on the country dirt road. They walked out of the county town for more than two hours in one breath, and finally turned around Guanyin Mountain. After crossing the bridge and walking for more than half an hour, they arrived home.
Yang Chunyan felt as if her feet were filled with lead and were so heavy that she could hardly move.
Zhou Huaian was also very tired and felt that he should not join the fun and go to the county town. Apart from eating a bowl of beef noodles, he didn't get anything else.
Father Zhou's tense nerves finally relaxed and he found a big rock to sit down on.
Zhou Huairong took out a bamboo tube from his jacket and handed it to him, "Old man, drink some water."
Father Zhou took the bamboo tube, took a sip of water and finished it. "Okay, we are almost home. Let's rest for a while before we go on."
Zhou Huaian ignored everything and sat down, pounding his legs, "I'm so tired, so tired..."
Yang Chunyan sat on a stone by the roadside and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from her neck and face.
The water in the bamboo tube had long been drunk up, and her mouth was so dry that it was about to smoke. She turned her head and saw that the mulberry trees at the foot of the mountain were full of mulberry bubbles.
I got up, walked to the foot of the mountain, climbed down a branch, picked a handful of black and purple mulberry leaves, put them all in my mouth, and a sweet taste immediately spread on my taste buds.
Zhou Huaian looked at her and swallowed, "Yan'er, give me a few too."
When Zhou's father saw his lazy look, he got angry and picked up a piece of mud and threw it at him, "You are a grown man, why don't you pick it for her and ask her to pick it for you? How can you be so lazy!"
Zhou Huaian wanted to cry but had no tears. He got up, brushed off the dirt on his body, and walked over with his heavy legs.
Yang Chunyan handed him a handful and said, "They are quite sweet. Pick some for the old man and big brother after you eat them."
Zhou Huaian immediately smiled and whispered, "My wife still loves me."
Seeing that his mouth was full of black and red mulberries, Yang Chunyan rolled her eyes at him and told him to climb down the mulberry branch and pick all the mulberries on it. She put them in his hand and said, "Give them to the old man and big brother."
Zhou Huaian held the mulberry bubble and brought it to Zhou's father, "Old man, big brother, you guys eat it."
Zhou's father gave him a look, reached out to take some, and gave the rest to Zhou Huairong. After the father and son ate a handful of mulberry bubbles, they suddenly felt much better.
Zhou Huaian turned back and saw Yang Chunyan putting mulberry foam into the bamboo tube. He looked at her with a smile and said, "Not bad, you are as smart as me!"
After hearing this, Zhou's father and son's mouth twitched a few times, but they endured it and said nothing.
Yang Chunyan picked all that could be picked, gave each person a handful to eat, and continued walking back.
After crossing the bridge, they walked back along the tractor road. The people weeding in the fields greeted them with a smile. Zhou's father nodded politely and walked home with the three of them.
After they left, the villagers who were weeding in the rice fields couldn't help but shake their heads. There were several prodigal sons in the Funius Brigade, and Zhou Huaian was the first one.
They thought Zhou Dasong and his wife had worked hard all their lives and were about to enjoy a good life, but who would have thought that everything would be ruined by this prodigal son.
If they hadn't given birth to this prodigal son, the couple would have lived at least ten more years with the four children above.
Zhou Huaian was extremely excited at the moment. He imagined what his mother would look like when she saw those bundles of big unity, and his heart was filled with joy.
(End of this chapter)
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