Chapter 414 Chapter 416: Zhou Laoyao, help me
When Zhou Huaishan got to the mountain and saw Li Hongxing's lazy look, he couldn't help but shake his head. The youngest one used to be lazy but he was still efficient when working. Unlike this bastard, it was obvious that he was being lazy on purpose.
"Hongxing, come here. I'll drive the tractor to take you back to get some clothes to change into."
Li Hongxing looked at him excitedly after hearing this, "Can I sit next to you?"
"Sure!" Zhou Huaishan picked up the hoe and machete on the ground, "Hurry up, we have to be back at noon."
Li Hongxing had no doubts and followed him down the mountain.
Li Qiuyue asked him to change into her own clothes, and she sat in the truck bed. The tractor drove out the Fu Niu and headed towards the yellow mud flatland above Hengshan.
The mechanized farming road in Huangnipingzi is built along the mountain and is very narrow, just enough for a tractor to pass through. The Li family lives on the slope at the entrance of the village.
When they reached the bottom of the slope, Zhou Huaishan turned the tractor around and stopped it. "Go down. Miss Si will take you back."
Li Hongxing nodded and walked back with Li Qiuyue. When they arrived at the door of the second room of the Li family, Li Erge and his wife were squatting at the door eating potatoes. When they saw them coming back, they stood up.
"Why are you here?"
Li Hongxing said with a smile: "My dear, my fourth sister sent me back to get some clean clothes."
Mrs. Li Er looked at Li Qiuyue and smiled, "Old Four, your family is so rich, why don't you buy two sets for Erwa?"
Li Qiuyue said angrily: "My family is in a lot of debt, so how can I get the money to buy it for him?"
Seeing this, Li Ersao had no choice but to follow Li Hongxing into the house to pack her clothes.
When Li Qiuyue saw the two men go in, she said to Li Erge, "I have sent Li Erwa back to you. If he chases him to my house again, I will send him to the police station." She said this and turned away.
"Li Qiuyue, you short-lived, money-losing thing--" Second Brother Li threw the potato with force, hitting Li Qiuyue right on the vest.
Li Qiuyue paused for a moment, then walked down the hill quickly without looking back, climbed onto the rumbling tractor and left.
Li Ersao and Li Hongxing chased out, but the tractor had already gone far away. The mother and son pointed at the tractor and started cursing.
"Li Qiuyue, you are such a conscienceless person, you will not die well..."
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The next day, the Zhou family began to transplant rapeseed seedlings. At noon, Yang Chunyan went to drink wine and came back to work in the fields.
Several children also came to help. Zhou Xiaoru and Luo Qiaoling put fertilizer into the pit, Zhou Xiaowen and Zhou Jiakang put rapeseed seedlings into the pit, and some adults pulled out the rapeseed seedlings, while others were responsible for planting.
Luo Haili couldn't squat for a long time, so she helped with cooking and housework in the old house. She transplanted all the rapeseed seedlings in two days.
After finishing the farm work, Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law went to Fangtian again and turned over several hills there. They dug up a total of sixty to seventy kilograms of wild Codonopsis pilosula, about one hundred kilograms of Millettia reticulata, three to four hundred kilograms of Pueraria root, and about one hundred kilograms of yam.
I didn't go into the mountain until I couldn't find anything.
After the dried Codonopsis pilosula seeds were taken out, each family shared some for planting.
Zhou Huairong and his brothers were busy in the medicinal fields when they had nothing to do, pulling out all the weeds in the fields.
Zhou's father and the old man spent every day in the back mountain, clearing weeds from the ten acres of wheat fields.
Zhou's mother raised the hatched geese, ducklings and chickens in the woods behind the house. Luo Haili helped take care of them at home, and the Zhou family members were busy doing their own things.
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Ever since the youngest Xiong and his friends in the village killed a wild boar, more and more people have been going into the mountains to hunt. Villagers carrying their gear looking for prey can be seen everywhere, but no one has been seen bringing down any valuable wild animal.
Pheasants and rabbits were also seen being carried down the mountain. Some people also dug up yams and asked Zhou's mother if she would collect them.
Zhou's mother took him to find Yang Chunyan, and finally accepted him for 1.5 cents per pound, which meant a profit of 7 cents per pound.
When the villagers found out, they all went to the mountains to look for wild yam. They could harvest thirty to forty kilograms every day, which meant they could earn a few dollars a day.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding went down the mountain four days later. They carried dozens of kilograms of wild Codonopsis pilosula, twenty to thirty kilograms of old honey, and some ripe abacus fruits. They went into the city and then went back up the mountain.
This time, Zhou Huaian stayed in the mountains for four or five days before coming down. When he got home, he asked, "Are those hunters in the village still running up the mountain?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Yes! In addition to hunting wild animals, they also dig up Chinese yam, kudzu root, and wild yam to sell to us."
Zhou Yiding: "Did that bastard grandson of Xiong Laoyao get any of the big guys when he went into the old forest that day?"
Yang Chunyan: "The youngest Xiong didn't go into the old forest that day. I heard that he led people to the foot of the old forest, and encountered a beast before he went up the mountain... The team took back his keys, and I haven't heard that he has caught anything in the past few days."
"Also, the other day when the third brother came back from delivering vegetables, he said he saw the youngest bear selling wild boar meat at the market. He heard that it was selling for 80 or 90 cents a pound, and the price was cheap, so many people bought it."
Zhou Yiding asked again: "Sister-in-law, what happened to the youngest bear holding the gun?"
Yang Chunyan: "No news, but I heard that the militia company commander is going to be replaced."
Zhou Yiding gloated, "It's likely that they've already found out, but those people in the village let them off."
Zhou Huaian: "We all live in the same village, and no one wants to offend anyone. Now that the militia company commander is gone, he can't show off anymore!"
Zhou Yiding: "That's right, we just need to live our lives well, respond to the call, and work hard to get rich!"
Zhou Huaian agreed and said, "That makes sense! We had a good harvest this time. We harvested about 17 to 18 kilograms of honey. We also dug up some Chinese yam, Polygonatum sibiricum, Polygonatum odoratum, and a few kilograms of Paris polyphylla."
He said as he took things out, "Dangshen, Huangjing, Chinese Yam and Polygonatum are still on the mountain, and we brought Paris polyphylla and honey down with us."
Yang Chunyan: "The harvest is really good. Some of the seedlings we planted a few days ago have survived."
Zhou Huaian: "When we were digging for Codonopsis pilosula, we saw some newly grown seedlings on the mountain, and we also dug some under the wall of the forest farm."
Yang Chunyan ate an abacus fruit and said, "The ones picked at the forest farm are sweeter than those down the mountain. I'll peel these in the afternoon and spread them on the ground tomorrow."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "There is a lot of white frost on the mountain, and the fruits that have been frosted are especially sweet."
Zhou Yiding took over the conversation, "That's right, wild persimmons taste great, but they're hard to carry!"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "There are also a few wild persimmons over in Fangtian. We will go pick them after the white frost has hit!"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "We will send the Chonglou and honey to Ning An to sell after dinner."
"There's still a piece of wild boar ribs that were pickled that day. I'll go cut some yam and stew it."
Yang Chunyan went to the kitchen to get a piece of pork ribs, put it in the pot and wash it with hot water. Before marinating the ribs, Zhou Huaian had chopped it into short sections of an inch long, so he only needed to cut off the connected meat before putting it in the pot.
Zhou Huaian looked at Zhou Yiding, "How about we go cast a net and come back to eat?"
"That's right!"
Zhou Huaian went to get the fishing net and said hello to Yang Chunyan. The two of them had just arrived at the grove on their bicycles when they saw a man running down the mountain.
When the man saw him, he immediately waved his hand and said, "Zhou Laoyao, help! Quickly drive your tractor over here and take Li Guanghui and Xiong Laoyao to the town to see a doctor."
Zhou Huaian squeezed the brakes and stepped on the ground, "Li Guangming, what happened?"
"He said that something happened to Xiong Laoya and Li Guanghui!" Zhou Yiding said as he jumped off the bicycle.
Li Guangming bent his body and supported his thighs, panting as he looked at him and said, "Li Guanghui and Xiong Laoyao were bullied by wild boars, and their stomachs were pierced."
He was worried that Zhou Huaian, who had a grudge against the Xiong family, would not be willing to help, so he begged, “Please, my Guanghui’s leg has been bleeding.”
The mountain road was difficult to run on, so he almost crawled and rolled all the way down the mountain. On the way, he met a few villagers who were hunting and asked them to pick up Xiong Laoya and his friends. Then he hurried down the mountain to inform Xiong Dahai.
"I'll drive the tractor right now." Zhou Huaian immediately turned the car around and rushed towards Zhou Huaishan's house.
Li Guangming took a few breaths after seeing him leave, and said, "Yiding, please help me call my second dad. I'll go call Uncle Xiong."
"That's great!" Zhou Yiding started running, and Li Guangming also ran towards Xiong Dahai's house.
When he rushed to the Xiong family, he found the gate was closed. He hurried to the foundation of the Xiong family's new house and saw Xiong Dahai and others digging the foundation.
He stood on the slope and yelled at the top of his voice: "Uncle Dahai, your youngest son and Li Guanghui were attacked by wild boars, and their stomachs were pierced open."
"Ah~" When Xiong Dahai heard this, his eyes went dark and he almost fell to the ground. Zhou Sufang shouted, "Youngest!" and then fainted.
"Mom~Mom~" Xiong Laosan hurriedly pinched her philtrum, and Zhou Sufang woke up after a while, "Youngest, my youngest child..."
When Xiong Dahai saw that she woke up, he ran towards the grove as fast as he could with a tense face and without saying a word.
Li Guangming hurriedly said, "Uncle Dahai, don't worry. I found a few villagers on the road and they have already gone to meet us. I also asked Zhou Laoyao to drive a tractor to meet us in the grove."
When the two men arrived at the grove, they saw that Zhou Huaian had already parked the tractor on the side of the road. They hurriedly ran up the mountain panting. When they reached the top of the mountain, they saw that the villagers who had come to pick them up had already carried them down.
An experienced villager said: "The wild boar has cut a hole in the belly of the youngest bear, and a large piece of flesh was bitten off from Li Guanghui's leg. It's still bleeding. Let's go find some hemostatic medicine."
A villager said, "Old Bear, Zhou Laoyao has some hemostatic medicine at home. Go find him and borrow some."
Another person said: "The two families have a feud, will they lend it to me?"
Li Guangming said hurriedly: "Yes, I met Zhou Laoyao and asked him to drive a tractor to take them to the hospital. He is already waiting at the foot of the mountain."
After hearing this, Xiong Dahai immediately turned around and ran down the mountain. When he saw Zhou Huaian, he stepped forward with his hands clasped together and begged, "Zhou Laoyao, please lend me your hemostatic medicine. I beg you."
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and took out a hemostatic drug from his pocket, "I brought it with me."
After hearing this, Xiong Dahai felt relieved, his legs went weak and he almost collapsed to the ground. At this time, Li Guanghui's family, Zhou Sufang, Xiong Lao Da and Xiong Lao San also arrived.
Xiong Laoyao and Li Guanghui were also carried down the mountain. Xiong Dahai looked at Xiong Laoyao with his eyes closed and hurried forward to check his wounds. He saw that his shirt and outer coat were soaked with blood, and there was a two-inch long cut on his stomach that was still bleeding.
He looked at Zhou Huaian with a pale face, "Zhou Laoyao, please."
(End of this chapter)
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