Father Zhou picked up the small wine can and poured a small glass for the old man. "It's not that time is fast, it's that life is better now. You don't have to calculate every penny, so you feel that time is fast."
The old man took a sip and said, "That's right. Tomorrow is the twenty-seventh, and it's time to buy New Year's goods. Guilan, go buy some melon seeds, peanuts, candies, and cakes."
Mother Zhou nodded. "Yumei said she would buy these when she gets more goods, so we don't have to go to the market to buy them."
Yang Chunyan looked at Luo Haili and said, "You will start selling New Year's goods tomorrow. When you are done, come back with Sister Yumei to celebrate the New Year."
Zhou Yumei followed her advice and brought back a lot of candies and cakes, preparing to set up a stall outside the shop to sell New Year's goods.
"We won't be back before the New Year." Luo Haili said with a smile, "I have agreed with Yumei that you will leave on the second day of the New Year and we will come back to accompany grandpa, uncle and aunt."
Mother Zhou said with a smile: "The third child and Qiuyuechuer will not leave either. We will have fun at home then!"
Xiao Jiuer swallowed the radish in his mouth, and seeing that his grandmother was busy talking, he stood up and leaned on the table, "Eat, eat!"
"Okay, okay, let's have Jiuer eat!" Zhou's mother quickly turned around and fed him a mouthful. "You little greedy cat, you just like to eat flavorful things."
"Eat, eat!" Xiao Jiuer slapped the sedan chair.
After dinner, Yang Chunyan put the bones into a basin, scooped some rice and poured some soup into it, brought it to the gate of the yard, poured half of it to Lai Fu, then went home and poured the remaining half to Wangcai.
He stroked the dog's fur while it was eating. "Be good and stay at home. We'll come over later."
Wangcai looked up at her and started eating again.
Yang Chunyan just closed the gate and returned to the baking room, where she saw Luo Haili cleaning the stove and Zhou's mother feeding Xiao Jiuer rice porridge.
"Chunyan, Jiuer can be full with milk and rice noodles. I think we can wean him after the New Year is over."
Yang Chunyan thought for a moment and said, "Then I'll cut it off after the first month of the lunar year."
Mother Zhou fed the child a spoonful of rice porridge and asked, "Besides peanuts and melon seeds, do you have anything else you want me to bring back?"
"I don't really want to eat anything!" Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, "Just buy whatever is fresh and bring it back. Oh! Remember to buy couplets."
This year I was so busy that I didn't even have time to go to Ning'an to buy New Year's goods. I promised Mina that I would accompany her to the city to buy fabrics to make clothes, but we were both busy and it ended up happening.
Just after I fed the child, Jiang Yu and her friends came and said as soon as they entered the yard, "Your home is more peaceful and quiet. All the villagers have gone to Fangtian to watch the fun, and you still don't know anything."
The oven is behind the vegetable field, and there is a mulberry forest in front. Unless the loudspeaker is shouting, no sound can be heard in the village.
Zhou's mother looked at her curiously, "What are you looking at?"
"The police have gone to Fangtian, and I heard there are quite a few of them." Jiang Yu said as he glanced at the old man who was walking towards the baking room with a small bamboo rake, and winked at Zhou's mother.
Mother Zhou nodded imperceptibly and walked over with Xiao Jiuer in her arms. "What happened?"
Jiang Yu lowered his voice and said, "The police went to Fangtian Lao Fang's house to arrest gambling. The people in the gambling den were so scared that they fled in all directions, and some ran to the mountains."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan suddenly realized that this was already the case. Those gamblers and petty thieves in the village would be caught 100% if they were reported.
After hearing this, Zhou's mother laughed and said, "Catching gamblers is a good thing, right? No one goes to my house..."
Jiang Yu pulled her and interrupted her, "Why not? When we came here, we saw Li Yinfu crying all the way to Fangtian. I heard that Zhou Huaixing was also playing with money at the old Fang family. I don't know if he ran away."
No one had ever dreamed that the police would come to this mountain to catch gamblers when the New Year was almost approaching, and they caught them right away. It was probably because they were reported by someone.
"Alas!" Zhou's mother sighed, "He is also a loser. His mother has just helped them pay off the money from selling the quota in the past two years, and now he is doing this. I really owe him in my previous life."
Jiang Yu whispered, "Why do you care about him? His mother and husband don't care about him, why do you worry so much?"
Jia Chunhong also said: "That's right, Li Yinfu is not a good person. He came to your house to cause trouble some time ago!"
"What happens to him is none of my business. I'm just worried about my old man." Zhou's mother hurriedly reminded them, "Before the news is confirmed, don't let my old man know that Huai Xing went to gamble. If my old man knows, he will be very angry. What should I do?"
Jiang Yu and the others nodded repeatedly, "Don't worry, we know what's right and wrong, otherwise we wouldn't have called you over to tell us."
"Thanks!" Zhou's mother thought about it and asked again, "How many people in our village go to gamble?"
"I don't know! My youngest sister said that the Fang family's gambling den has been thriving since the truffle market opened." Jiang Yu said with disgust, "Fang Tian has a few short-lived gamblers who gamble at night and sleep during the day, and then go home in the afternoon to rob their wives and children of the money they earn from selling truffles."
Jia Chunhong also said: "Everyone says that since your family started collecting mountain products, every family's life has become better and better, but as long as the man is gambling outside, they still can't even get enough food to eat."
Jiang Yu curled his lips and said, "I think we should also blame their brigade cadres, who just eat food and do nothing. For so many years, they knew that the Fang family was a gambling den but did nothing about it.
If it were like in our village, where we call the police to arrest people who run gambling dens, who would dare to run gambling dens? "
Mother Zhou: "Yes, just like the casino owned by Ye Xiaoshuang was arrested by the police just a few months after it opened. Ye Xiaoshuang was detained for a few days, but when he came back, the casino was disbanded."
"So the culture in our Fu Niu is better than that in Fang Tian." Jiang Yu said, looking at Yang Chunyan with a gossipy look on his face, "Chun Yan, go and find out who has been arrested?"
Jia Chunhong smiled and said, "Chunyan, you ride fast. Go and see it and tell us when you come back!"
"That's right!" Yang Chunyan pushed the bicycle and walked out. When Xiao Jiuer saw her go out, he pouted and was about to cry. Zhou's mother hurriedly picked him up and went to play with Lai Fu.
Yang Chunyan rode her bicycle onto the main road and saw an endless stream of villagers walking out of the village. It seemed that they were all going to Fangtian to watch the excitement. Everyone was talking about the gambling crackdown in Fangtian.
When they arrived outside Zhou Yiding's courtyard wall, Wu Caixiang, who was there to watch the fun, called out to them with a gossipy look on her face, "Chunyan, stop the car. I want to take a ride."
"Auntie, where are you going?" Yang Chunyan put one foot on the ground and turned to look at her.
"I'll go wherever you go!"
Wu Caixiang trotted a few steps, tiptoed and sat on the back seat, and said gloatingly: "Zhou Dachun and Li Yinfu went to the back hill of Fangtian to look for their son. I heard from them that Li Yinfu passed by your old house and cursed your second branch. Did you know that?"
Yang Chunyan was surprised: "We didn't provoke her family, why did she curse us?"
"She said her family has had bad luck for the past two years, and yours has been getting better and better every year. It must be that your family hired a fortune teller to steal her family's good feng shui."
As Wu Caixiang spoke, she thought of the once prosperous Zhou Dachun family and the Xiong family, which are now nothing to behold in the village.
Not to mention Zhou Dachun's family, who originally built their family by selling their daughter. But how come Xiong Dahai's family, which was once prosperous, suddenly went downhill?
When Wu Caixiang thought of this, she suddenly remembered that Yang Chunyan's family seemed to have started to prosper only after they paid compensation for the cow to Xiong Dahai's family. Could it be that the Xiong family took the money for the cow paid by the second house and took away his family's bad luck?
Yang Chunyan said calmly, "How could I not know about this powerful master? I will ask my mother when I get back. If there is such a powerful master, I will ask her to ask him to help grab more good feng shui, and it would be best if Huai'an could get an official position."
"Haha!" Wu Caixiang laughed dryly. "You are such a funny girl! If there really is such a powerful master, we don't have to work. We can find a master to help us find a good feng shui. It's not good to eat while sitting or lying down!"
She has lived for several decades and has never seen any lazy countryman who can live a better and better life!
"I was young and inexperienced, and I thought there really were such great men in the world!"
"I've lived for over fifty years and have never seen him. You're only in your early twenties. How can you see him?"
As they were talking, they reached the stone bridge. Yang Chunyan saw Xu Hongbing and Li Wu approaching, so she stepped on the brake and stopped. "Brother Li, are the police still in Fangtian?"
"Still there!" Xu Hongbing said excitedly, "Chunyan, do you know where the person who broke into the village and stole things some time ago came from?"
Yang Chunyan: "There were quite a few people whose homes were robbed some time ago. Are you talking about the case where Lin Wu was robbed by a thief, or the case where Fang Tian and Guanyin were robbed?"
Xu Hongbing: "It's all the same. They were all done by the same group of people."
Yang Chunyan blurted out, "Could it be that Fang Tian's people did it?"
Wu Caixiang was surprised when she heard this and said, "No way! Even rabbits don't eat grass near their nests. How could they do such a thing when they live in the same brigade and see each other everywhere?"
Xu Hongbing sneered, "It was Lao Fang's gang who did it. The gamblers were so desperate that they were willing to do anything. Not to mention the people from the same village, they even sold their wives and children to gamble!"
Yang Chunyan and Li Wu nodded repeatedly after hearing this. From ancient times to the present, how many people have sold their wives and children after losing money in gambling?
"Oh my god!" Wu Caixiang shouted exaggeratedly, "If you say so, Fangtian has become a den of thieves, right?"
Xu Hongbing: "It's a den of thieves! The police just found several dog skins and two bicycles in Lao Fang's house, not to mention other sundry items.
Also, the bastard who stabbed Lin Wu in the head has been caught by the police, and that bastard's foot is still wrapped in gauze!"
Wu Caixiang clapped her hands and said, "As the old saying goes, it's better to suffer three years of disaster than to have a nest of gamblers. Now it's good. If we catch all these pests, the sky in the three nearby villages will be brighter."
Xu Hongbing praised! "That's right, they eat, drink, gamble, and smoke, and when they don't have enough money, they steal. With this group of people around us, no one can live in peace."
After listening to it, Yang Chunyan felt that the old sayings passed down for thousands of years always summarized the truths so brilliantly. The short sentences were smooth, rhymed and easy to understand.
Wu Caixiang then asked: "Have the people who fled to the mountain been caught? Are Zhou Dachun and his wife still in Fangtian?" (End of this chapter)
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