Chapter 103 102: Dare to go up the mountain and break your legs
Zhao Huifang grabbed his ear and said, "You little kid, just hear the adults talking. If you dare to sneak up the mountain, I will break your legs."
Zhou Jiaming curled his lips, "..." They just knew how to scare us. My grandparents always say this to my dad, and his legs are still not broken!
Mother Zhou glanced at the children and said, "Let me tell you, the bamboo shoots are very poisonous. Last year, one of the second team was bitten and died before he could be sent to the town.
We have seen poisonous snakes in the past, but we haven’t seen any since we bought geese to feed them.”
When the children heard this, they immediately became interested. "Grandma, are our geese more poisonous than the bamboo shoots?"
"Haer, geese are not poisonous. They dare to catch snakes and eat them. When they get angry, they are more useful than dogs. When you move into the new house, I will use goose eggs to make a nest of goslings for you to feed!"
Zhou Jiaming looked at his mother with shining eyes, "Grandma, are we really going to build a new house? Can we have a room of our own after the new house is built?"
"Sure!" Zhou's mother looked at him and smiled, "Look, Grandpa Liu is here to help us look after the brick kiln. Once we have enough mud, we can start burning bricks and tiles to build the new house."
"Bricks and tiles?" Zhou Jiaming excitedly pulled Zhou Jialiang, "Grandma, are we going to build a big tile house?"
Li Qiuyue chuckled after hearing this, "Haer, of course the bricks and tiles are used to build a big tile house!"
"Oh yeah~" Zhou Jiaming and the others jumped up happily holding hands, "Tomorrow we won't go to pick mushrooms, we'll go help carry mud and make bricks and tiles."
Zhou Xiaoqian, Zhou Jialiang and others also nodded. They all wanted to have their own room and did not want to share a room with their grandparents, mother and husband.
Mother Zhou smiled and nodded, "Okay, I'll go help your old man and the others carry mud tomorrow!"
Zhao Huifang and the others looked at the happy children and felt a little sad. They thought that the old couple were incompetent and that even the children had to suffer with them.
Zhao Huifang wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, got up and went to the kitchen to clean up.
Li Qiuyue sniffed and carried the sleeping Zhou Xiaolin back to the house.
Yang Chunyan and Zhang Xiuxiang put the dishes and chopsticks into the kitchen. Zhao Huifang looked at her and said, "Chunyan, thank you, sister-in-law. It is because of you that we can build a big tile house."
Zhang Xiuxiang also nodded, "We are blessed in our previous lives. Not only are our parents-in-law nice, but we also get along well with our sisters-in-law."
Yang Chunyan looked at the two of them with a frown, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, we are one family and we should not talk behind each other's backs. I feel embarrassed when I see you talking so much."
She thought that it was the fate she had cultivated in her previous life, that she still came to the Zhou family after her rebirth.
Perhaps God felt that the kind-hearted Zhou family shouldn't suffer so much, so he let her come back.
"Okay, we won't talk about it." Zhao Huifang looked at her with a smile, "You go and rest for a while, Xiuxiang and I will clean it up."
"Yes! I'll go apply medicine to Huai'an."
Yang Chunyan went out and waited for Zhou Huaian to put the bowl out. Then they went back to the house together and untied the gauze on his leg. They saw that the wound had turned a little white, and it seemed that it had begun to heal.
I took a cotton swab dipped in iodine and wiped his wound.
Zhou Huaian looked at the white neck and kissed it, "Yan'er, it's been almost a month..."
"Don't move!" Yang Chunyan looked up at him, "I know, it's not full yet, right?" She wiped the wound thoroughly with a cotton swab, "Okay, you can't stand on your legs for too long, just rest in the room for a while!"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian nodded and reached out to touch her face. "My wife is getting more and more beautiful."
Yang Chunyan pinched him with a red face. Zhou Huaian rubbed his thigh with a grin, "Pinch me again, I will definitely have bruises tomorrow."
Yang Chunyan glared at him, "Zhou Baoqi!"
"You are the treasure!" Zhou Huaian looked at her angrily, "I warn you, if you hold it in, you won't be able to use it even if you want to!"
"It doesn't matter if it's broken!" Yang Chunyan pinched him again, rubbed her face and walked out.
"Hiss~" Zhou Huaian felt pain and kept rubbing his arms, "The little claws are more powerful than eagle claws!" He fell on the bed holding his breath, "You bitch, why are you so crazy!"
Yang Chunyan went out and saw Zhou's father and Liu the potter chatting in the main room, while Zhou's mother was picking up stone ears from a basket.
"Chunyan, these red mushrooms that Huifang said you were going to pick, are they really edible?"
"The book says it's edible, but if you're not sure, take it to see Doctor Wang."
"Okay, are you going to go into the mountains this afternoon?"
"I saw a few golden mushrooms in the woods above the pumpkin patch. I plan to string some red mushrooms together and dry them before going into the mountains to dig them up."
"I know about the golden vine. It can cure rheumatism by soaking it in wine." Mother Zhou put down the mushrooms in her hand, pulled a straw stool and sat next to Yang Chunyan. "Several people brought eels this morning, so I hung the vine in the backyard."
"It's good to dry the backyard, so people don't have to ask questions."
"Your old man asked Xu Shan today and he said that his mountain hound will leave its den in half a month. We will catch one when the full moon comes."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan thought for a moment, "Mom, Huai'an said he wanted to buy Lao Xiazi's sand gun, and I agreed."
"It would be good to have a sand gun, so I can resist wild boars when I encounter them in the mountains."
Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang came out after cleaning up and sat down to help. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law picked out the red mushrooms from the basket, picked off the pine needles and dead leaves stuck on them, and scraped off the mud with bamboo sticks.
"Chunyan, you and Qiuyue go dig the golden vines this afternoon, and Xiuxiang and I will help the old man and his friends carry mud."
"Yes, we will go and dig up the herbs from the mountain tomorrow."
Zhou's father and Liu the potter came out of the main room and shouted, "Boss, come out." They had cleaned up the brick kiln in the morning and cut some bamboo poles and wood to build a shed to store the yellow mud and bricks.
"Hey!" Zhou Huairong and his three brothers walked out of the house and went to the backyard to get their stuff to prepare to go out.
Seeing that there was not much to do at home, Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang also picked up their baskets and left together.
It didn't take long for Yang Chunyan, the mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law to clean up all the red mushrooms and other fungi in the basket.
Zhou's mother went to the backyard and got a handful of thin bamboo strips. The three of them strung the mushrooms together and hung them on a long bamboo pole placed on the horizontal beam of the eaves to dry in the sun.
Li Qiuyue poured the chanterelles out of the basket and said, "These are the only ones left."
Mother Zhou took a look and said, "You go dig the golden vines first. I'll pick out the big ones at home and dry the small ones for eating."
"Aunt, your brother is here." Before Zhou Jiakang finished speaking, he ran in from outside, followed by a young man pushing a bicycle.
"Brother!" Yang Chunyan stood up and looked at the tall young man who came in. The image of the elder brother with gray hair and still straight back emerged in her mind.
The cat didn't know that the sentence was wrong and was blocked, so he had to change it and let it out of the small dark room.
(End of this chapter)
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