Chapter 463 Chapter 465: Mr. He is here to pick up your sister
The mountain man smiled shyly and turned to look at Qu Qiulin. He translated it and stood up politely, "It's too expensive!"
People in the mountains usually eat potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn flour all year round, and it is difficult to eat white flour like this.
Zhou Huaian smiled and said, "You're welcome. You've come such a long way. Have a bowl of noodles to warm yourself up."
Qu Qiulin translated his words to the other two people, and they expressed their gratitude in stiff Chinese.
Luo Haili brought out all the noodles, and several people started to eat. After a bowl of noodles, they felt warm all over.
With the participation of Zhou Huaian and others, ten baskets of truffles were quickly selected according to grade.
There were 25 kilograms of special-class goods, 352 kilograms of first-class goods, 460 kilograms of second-class goods, 540 kilograms of third-class goods, and 120 kilograms of last-class goods.
Yang Chunyan and her friends put the selected truffles into rattan baskets. "Take the ones with worm holes back with you."
Qu Qiulin hurriedly said, "Don't pretend, please take care of it."
"No trouble!" Zhou Huaian took a basket and poured more than ten kilograms of worm-hole-filled vegetables into it.
Yang Chunyan took out the money and counted it out to them. "Twenty-five kilograms of special grade is two yuan per kilogram, first grade... Are you all clear about this?"
Qu Qiulin looked at her in surprise, "There are special ones?" The person Secretary Xu introduced was indeed good, honest and not cunning!
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan handed him the money with a smile, "1004 yuan in total, count it."
Qu Qiulin took it with some excitement. It was more than a thousand yuan, which was almost as much as their village’s income for half a year.
Now that everyone has money to buy cotton and grain, he also wants to go back and tell the villagers from other brigades about it, asking them to dig and send it to him as well.
When the other four saw the new bundle of unity, they grinned with joy, revealing their yellowed teeth, and chattered something to Qu Qiulin!
He explained it to a few people, and they happily gave Yang Chunyan and the others a thumbs up, saying in stiff Chinese: "Friends!"
"My uncle said you two are friends!"
Zhou Huaian and the others also gave them a thumbs up, "Friends!"
Qu Qiulin also smiled and said, "We will send truffles down the day after tomorrow. We have seven-leaf euphorbia, gastrodia elata, and codonopsis pilosula. Will you take them?"
Zhou Huaian responded readily: "Yes, take some and we will send them to the boss for review before we can set the price."
"Okay! We'll bring it the day after tomorrow!" Qu Qiulin and several uncles put their hands together and said, "Thank you for your help. We're leaving now!"
"Goodbye!" After Zhou Huaian and others saw them off, they turned around and went back to the yard after seeing them walk far away.
Zhou Yiding said happily: "Youngest, this batch of goods they sent is good!"
Zhou Huaian felt that the arrival of Qu Qiulin and his friends was an unexpected surprise. "I said we would go to the mountains after New Year's Day to have a look, but I didn't expect Director Xu to bring such a good seller to us."
Zhou Huaishan said excitedly: "The three of them sent over a thousand kilograms. He also said that he would bring a batch of mules and horses the day after tomorrow. Now it's good. We don't have to worry about the supply."
After delivering a batch of truffles, Zhou Huairong returned to the front yard and said to the others, "Grandpa and the old man are still working in the mountains. Let's help deliver the truffles to the backyard. While there are fewer truffles these two days, we should quickly pull out the weeds in the medicinal field and apply fertilizer."
After these busy days, no one has taken care of the crops in the fields, and the grass in the rapeseed fields, wheat fields and potato fields has grown very tall.
The vegetables in the vegetable garden were almost picked, and most of the vegetables sent to Ning An were bought back by Zhou's mother in the village.
Whenever they have free time, the old man, Zhou's father, Zhou Huairong and others take the children who are at home on winter vacation to tidy up the fields.
After weeding the rapeseed and wheat fields, I went to weed the yam fields behind.
Zhou Huaian and others brought the truffles to the backyard, Zhao Huifang and others washed them, and then Yang Chunyan went to the vegetable garden to pick radishes, vegetable moss and garlic sprouts and came back to make lunch.
Of the twelve chicks given by Mother Yang, there were indeed only four roosters when they grew up, and of the fifteen chicks given by Mother Zhou, there were only five roosters. The flowers, grasses, reeds and ramie in the forest and the insects in the grass became their food when they grew up.
After lunch, the old man and Zhou's father went back to their room to rest.
Zhou Huaian added some coal into the stove. Luo Haili said she would watch over it and let them go and rest.
Yang Chunyan asked him to bring the rattan chair to the yard, and the two of them leaned on the chairs to bask in the sun.
"Yan'er, after seeing the Paris polyphylla and Gastrodia elata sent by Village Chief Qu, how much should we pay per kilogram?"
Yang Chunyan recalled, "I remember the last time I sent Paris polyphylla to Ning'an, the special ones were sold for 50 yuan each, the first-class ones were sold for 10 yuan per catty, and the Radix Codonopsis pilosulae were sold for 1.2 yuan per catty. We have never sold Gastrodia elata. After we get the goods, we will send them to Doctor Xiao Wang for a checkup. We will just make some money for the trip."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "It's not bad to earn some money for running away."
"Yes!" Yang Chunyan narrowed her eyes. "Have you walked around the medicinal fields today? How are the herbs growing?"
"Fortunately, the Viola yedoensis is growing well and can be sold in the spring."
"Don't sell them yet. Wait until you get a batch of seeds." Yang Chunyan thought about it and said to him, "When you go up the mountain later, remember to cut some flowers and grass to feed the pigs."
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian squinted his eyes and slumped in his chair. "Ah! Spring will come when the truffles are sold out. By then, I have to dig gardenias and magnolias, sow medicinal seeds, and transplant herbs. I'll be busy!"
Yang Chunyan turned her head and looked at him, "Are you tired?"
Zhou Huaian nodded honestly, "Tired! Sometimes I don't even want to move!"
Yang Chunyan thought about how he hadn't had a rest since the Dragon Boat Festival. "Don't you want to go to the flower market to buy something? Why don't you call Yiding sometime so you two can go out and have fun for a day?"
Zhou Huaian opened his eyes and looked at her after hearing this, "You're not going?"
Yang Chunyan smiled at him, "What business am I in?"
"Forget it!" Zhou Huaian stroked her head, "What's the fun of two grown men having fun together? When we're done with this, tell Ding Ding Mao to bring his family, Chao Tian Jiao, and we'll go together."
"Why don't you take the fishing net and call Yi Ding to go to the river and catch some fish to eat while you are free now?"
Zhou Huaian slapped his head and said, "As the old saying goes, fish and mutton are fresh, fish and mutton are fresh. How can we eat mutton without fish tomorrow?"
"Go! Bring back two more and send two to Doctor Xiao Wang and Brother Huang tomorrow."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian put on his shoes, "Sister Hai Li is at home, why don't you come with me to the riverside for a walk."
"Someone will deliver truffles soon. If we all leave, it will be just Sister Haili, and she won't be able to handle it all."
"Why don't you go back and lie down for a while, so you don't get uncomfortable curled up in the chair."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan got up and put on her cloth shoes. Zhou Huaian picked up a rattan chair and carried it into the main room. He went to the kitchen to get a bucket, took the fishing net, and rode his bike towards Zhou Yiding's house.
As soon as he arrived at Zhou Yiding's house, he saw Xu Erchun's mother coming over with grass on her back, "Youngest, is Mr. He here to take your sister home?"
Zhou Huaian frowned and looked at her, "No?"
"I saw him carrying a net bag and heading toward your house."
"What is this bastard doing here?" Zhou Huaian turned the car around and drove back.
Over there, He Jianjun had already arrived at the door of Zhou's house. Seeing Zhou's mother hanging diapers in the yard, he hesitated for a moment and shouted, "Mom, are you busy?"
When Zhou's mother looked back and saw him, her face darkened immediately. She asked coldly, "Which one is your mother? What are you doing here?"
"I, I," He Jianjun thought about the fact that the Zhou family hadn't gone to get Zhou Yumei's things yet, and he mustered up his courage again, "I'm here to see Yumei and the child."
Mother Zhou took a few steps forward, pointed at the gate and shouted, "Get lost! My Yumei has nothing to do with you anymore. The child belongs to the Zhou family and has nothing to do with your He family!"
He Jianjun forced a smile, "Mom, Yumei and I have a child and we are still a couple..."
"Get lost!" Zhou's mother said angrily, "Get out of here..."
"Mom, who's here?" Zhou Yumei, wearing a cotton hat, came out of the house holding her child. When she saw He Jianjun, her face suddenly turned cold. "What are you doing here?"
He Jianjun walked towards her and said, "Yumei, my mother asked me to come and pick you up. We have calmed down these days and think what you said makes sense. It's the same if we wait until you recover before having a second child."
After the Zhou family took them away, their lives became difficult, and He's mother asked several matchmakers to introduce him to potential partners.
When people heard that he was getting married for the second time, they knew that his first wife was kicked out of the house right after she gave birth to a daughter, because her family did not allow her to have a second child within one year.
When the family planning cadres in the brigade found out, they also came to their home to warn them.
The scene caused by the Zhou family at the door had caused the He family to have a bad reputation in the town. Even Aihong said that his mother was too much.
The family of three rarely went out except to go to the fields. But the eldest sister came back these two days and said that the Zhou family had started a truffle business, and people from their village went up the mountain to find truffles to sell.
My mother and husband thought it would be better to take Yumei back home and let her talk to Zhou Laoyao about it. They would also collect truffles to sell...
"It's too late!" Zhou's mother stepped forward to stop Zhou Yumei, "A good horse never turns back, go away! My Yumei has nothing to do with your He family."
You came here and didn't even look at the child, and you're talking about having a second child! I raised my daughter to this age, not just for your son!
He Jianjun said patiently, "Mom! Yumei and I have feelings for each other. This is a lifelong relationship between us. Ask her to tell you if she is willing to come back with me."
"Mom, get out of the way!" Zhou Yumei stood in front of Zhou's mother, looked at him and said word by word: "A good horse never turns back. I can't go back with you. After New Year's Day, I will go to the brigade in the town to wait for you and move my and my child's household registration out of the He family."
He Jianjun panicked after hearing this and said quickly: "Yumei! You didn't bring your things back, so you were waiting for me to pick you up. My mother has already regressed, so why don't you just come back with me?"
Zhou's mother didn't expect that she was worried that Zhou Yumei would be sad when seeing those furniture, and thought of taking them back after she was one month old. However, the He family thought that they left the furniture in order to return to the He family in the future.
"Bullshit!" She stepped forward, picked up the basin and threw it at him, splashing the water in the basin on his face. "Get out of my house!"
He Jianjun wiped the water and almost vomited when he saw the diaper on the bamboo pole. "Zhou Yumei, I humbled myself to come to pick you up, but it was you who didn't want to go back. Don't say such cruel things about the He family outside in the future."
(End of this chapter)
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