Chapter 499 500: Human greed
"Okay, I'll go find him when I get back." Uncle Chen took down the bamboo basket and carried out a few urea bags. "These are from several families. They are all third-rate and last-rate goods. They will be gone after we deliver them today."
After selling for a while, they will also classify the goods. If there are too few, they will put them in urea bags and give them to someone to sell and then split the money.
The old man came over with a straw mat and the two of them poured the truffles on it. Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang also came over to help.
The two learned that someone was causing trouble on the top of the mountain, and they both suspected that it was done by Boss Bear's son.
"Chunyan, go to the old house later and tell mom to go to the village and ask if anyone saw the Xiong family's cub go up the mountain yesterday?"
"Sure, I'll go after I weigh my uncle's truffles."
Uncle Chen and the old man sat on bamboo chairs, smoking leaf tobacco and talking about the crops in the fields. His family planted several acres of wheat this year, and it was growing well. After paying the public grain tax next year, there should be some left.
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Over there, Zhou Huaian and his companion had already arrived at the guesthouse. They handed in the food and followed Huang Yongcai to the Douhua Restaurant.
After moving all the vegetables, chickens and ducks in, Zhou Huaian took out the badger meat and said, "Brother Huang, I dug a badger hole in the mountain yesterday and brought you a few pounds."
"This is good, the meat is very tender!" Huang Yongcai happily took it and asked, "Why don't you give me one?"
A big wild hog badger weighs only about 50 to 60 kilograms. I caught three big ones yesterday. I gave one to Zhang Laoer and half of a small one to stew. There are still two and a half left. I ate the small half again last night.
Today we cut about ten kilograms and shared them with Huang Yongcai and Dr. Xiao Wang. Ding Ding Cat and he don’t want to sell the rest and want to keep them for their own consumption.
Zhou Huaian: "I only got two, and gave one away. I'll send it back next time I get one."
"That's right!" Huang Yongcai happily paid him the bill. "The yard you asked me to pay attention to last time has news now. Do you still plan to buy it?"
"Buy! Where is the house?"
"It's in the alley past the North Street Vegetable Market, close to the national highway on the east. The house is a bit old. When I finish my work here, I'll go to Desheng Hall to find you."
"Okay, I'll go first!" Zhou Huaian thought about it and asked again, "When will you come over?"
Huang Yongcai nodded. "If it's fast, it'll be an hour. If it's slow, it'll be an hour and a half."
"Great!" Zhou Huaian started the tractor with the crank, and drove towards Deshengtang with Zhou Yiding.
"Youngest, didn't you ask Dr. Xiao Wang to help you look at the land? Why did you buy the old yard?"
"Chunyan told my second sister-in-law about our purchase of land, and she also wants to buy it!"
"If you buy it for your second sister-in-law, your eldest and third brothers will definitely buy it too once they know about it, especially your third sister-in-law, who loves to compete with you guys the most."
Zhou Huaian thought about Li Qiuyue's situation, "Buy it! It's better to buy them all to save trouble in the future!"
As they were talking, the tractor reached the first intersection. Zhou Yiding suddenly saw an old acquaintance standing at the gate of the supply and marketing cooperative. "Look, youngest brother, that Cai Ermei is there!"
Zhou Huaian looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, he saw Cai Ermei standing there looking around. "You bastard, you're hiding in Ning'an!"
He slowed down as he spoke, "What should we do? Should we catch him?"
At this time, Cai Ermei also saw the two of them. Her face changed and she hurriedly turned around and left.
"He ran away!" Zhou Yiding sat back down. "That bastard, he ran faster than a rabbit when he saw someone he knew. No wonder Wang Chunhua and his family ran twice but didn't even find a single hair of the person."
"She is deliberately hiding from him. Even if the whole family is looking for her in Ning'an, it won't be easy to find her!"
"Bah~" Zhou Yiding spat in the direction where Cai Ermei was walking, "Fuck, you have completely disgraced us men."
Zhou Huaian crossed the intersection and found that there were a lot more people on the street as the New Year approached. It used to take him a few minutes to get there, but this time it took twice as long to reach the alley entrance to Wang Zhen's house.
Zhou Yiding jumped off the tractor and walked to the door of the clinic. He saw Wang Zhen and Yang Dongmei were busy. "Doctor Wang, let's take the things to the backyard first."
Wang Zhen nodded, "Okay! I'll ask Xiaomei to open the gate for you!"
Yang Dongmei handed the medicine to the patient, took the money, walked away quickly, unbolted the door, and quickly returned to the clinic.
After seeing off the two patients, the middle-aged man and woman who looked like cadres, who had been waiting nearby for half a day, sat down opposite Wang Zhen.
The woman said, "Doctor Xiao Wang, I heard that you and Doctor Wang can not only tell the gender of the baby by feeling the pulse, but also tell the gender of the baby by looking at the shape of the belly after pregnancy. For example, a round belly means a girl, and a pointed belly means a boy?"
Wang Zhen frowned, "Director Zhang, my grandfather and I really don't have that much ability. Besides, it's not the Chinese medicine practitioners who judge the gender of the baby based on the shape of the pregnant woman's belly, but the village midwives."
"I heard from them that you can tell!" Director Zhang looked at him with some hopelessness. "You know my younger sister's family. The old lady favors boys over girls. I don't know where she heard this, but she insisted on asking me to come to you. She wants you to check my sister's pulse..."
Wang Zhen glanced at her calmly, then looked at the middle-aged man standing behind her, "Director Zeng, I remember my grandfather told you last time that with your brother-in-law's body, it would be a blessing for God to be able to get pregnant, let alone give birth to a fat son."
Director Zhang's expression suddenly became extremely complicated after hearing this. "Is there really no other way?"
Wang Zhen seemed to have not noticed the indescribable expression on Director Zeng's face. "There's nothing I can do. Go back and tell your sister not to forget what we said at the beginning. As long as you can give birth to the child safely, whether it's a boy or a girl, it's God's blessing, and you'll be satisfied."
"Yes, yes, they are wrong. They are too ungrateful. I will tell them when I get back." Director Zeng pulled Director Zhang and said, "Let's go! Don't waste Doctor Wang's time."
Director Zhang was still a little unwilling, "Doctor Wang, isn't it just taking the pulse and examining the patient? You have helped so much, just give a little more help to comfort the old man!"
Wang Zhen said calmly, "I am a doctor, not a fortune teller. I cannot comfort your old lady."
Director Zhang's face suddenly darkened, "Doctor Xiao Wang, you are too..."
Wang Zhen's face also darkened. "Why, do you still want to force me to help you?"
Upon seeing this, Director Zeng quickly grabbed Director Zhang and apologized to him with a smile, "I'm sorry, her sister keeps pestering her and we can't do anything about it. I'm sorry, I'm sorry!" Then he pinched Director Zhang's arm again and said, "Let's go, someone is here to see a doctor."
Director Zhang stood up and followed him.
The two walked to the department store, and she looked at Director Zeng unhappily, "Why did you pinch me just now?"
"I'm afraid you'll get into trouble!" Director Zeng pulled her and walked across the street. "Do you think this is a town? Are people afraid of you, the director of the Family Planning Office? Even the leaders in the city respect Doctor Wang's family."
He said angrily, "Last time I was able to help your brother-in-law because of my old man's face. Don't you see what disease your brother-in-law has? You should understand clearly that it is impotence!"
Director Zhang's face turned pale and red. "Why are you so loud on the street?"
"Where was I loud? I didn't say anything nonsense!" Director Zeng curled his lips and said, "Doctor Xiao Wang is right. It's already a blessing from God that I can give birth to this baby safely. You are still imagining all sorts of things. You are really ungrateful!"
At Deshengtang, it was the first time that Yang Dongmei saw Wang Zhen confront a patient, "What does Director Zhang do? Does her brother-in-law have the same disease?"
"Her brother-in-law has the same disease as you thought. She is the director of the Family Planning Office in Changpo Town!"
"For someone with that disease to be able to get pregnant is truly a blessing from God." Yang Dongmei closed the door of the counter and walked out. "From her appearance, if her sister is going to have a girl this time, does she want to have a boy?"
"They are a minority, and civil servants can also have a second child! But it's lucky that her sister can give birth to a healthy baby this time. I'm afraid she will give birth to an unhealthy child later."
"Oh! So that's how it is. People are greedy!" Yang Dongmei said as she moved closer and whispered, "You lied. I heard from my old man that Grandpa Wang and you can tell whether a pregnant woman is carrying a boy or a girl just by feeling her pulse."
"Don't tell anyone, we are doctors, not butchers!"
Yang Dongmei shut up, put her index finger in front of her lips, and nodded heavily.
Wang Zhen smiled and closed the drawer. "Just watch while I help Brother Zhou and the others carry the truffles."
"I'll say hello to my brother-in-law." Yang Dongmei followed him outside the clinic and saw Zhou Huaian standing in the truck bed. "Brother-in-law, why isn't my sister here?"
"Come the day after tomorrow. When will you go back for the New Year?"
"Go back on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month!"
Zhou Huaian handed her the basket and said, "The badger meat that Yiding and I hunted is delicious whether it's fried or grilled."
Yang Dongmei took it and said happily, "Thank you, brother-in-law!" She then thanked Zhou Yiding who was walking over, "Thank you, Brother Zhou!"
"No thanks! No thanks!"
Wang Zhen and the other two carried the last few baskets of truffles to the backyard. When they weighed them and went to the main room to settle the bill, Zhou Huaian took out the Coriolus versicolor and handed it to him.
"Doctor Xiao Wang, take a look. Is this quality good?"
Wang Zhen took it and looked at it, "You really found it. The price for this quality is 180 yuan per kilogram.
"Ah!" Zhou Yiding looked at him in surprise, "Doctor Xiao Wang, Brother Zhang said they sold three flowers last time, weighing more than a pound, and they only sold them for fifty yuan?"
Wang Zhen smiled and said, "I didn't see the product and it's not good to evaluate it. The purchase price in the past two years was much lower than it is now. Since last year, the price of mulberry mulberry has been rising. I think it will rise further in the future."
Zhou Huaian: "What they sold last year, even if the quality was a little worse than this, it should have been more than fifty yuan, right?"
He felt that Wang Zhen was right, and planned to collect mulberry fungus from mulberry trees in the spring and store it before selling it when the price went up.
Wang Zhen recalled, "In the first half of last year, the purchase price was around 90 yuan, and in the second half it rose to 120 yuan. At more than 50 yuan per kilogram, it is indeed a bit cheap.
The price of this thing has not been high in the past few years, but since Xiao Ri discovered its value, the price has increased from a few yuan per pound to the current price. "
Zhou Huaian gave Zhou Yiding a nudge and said, "I'm not bragging, am I?"
(End of this chapter)
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