After hearing this, Zhou's mother burst out laughing, "Listen, if you don't pay attention to what you say next time, Xiao Jiuer will learn from you."
Zhou Huaian patted his butt with amusement, "You little rascal, you don't even know your farts stink, and you still want to be beaten, beaten, beaten every day!"
Xiaolin smiled and pulled at his collar, "Dad, Xiaojiu can still say bad, bad."
"Bad, bad, beat, beat..." Xiao Jiuer thought he was praising him and spoke even more fluently.
Zhou Huaian thought about it and handed the child to Zhou's mother, "I'm a little worried, let me go over and take a look."
Zhou's mother was also worried that the old man had not agreed to help borrow money, and that the eldest wife would say something unpleasant to him, so she quickly took Xiao Jiuer and said, "Okay, you can go and take a look."
Zhou Huaian went out to the grove and saw the old man had already arrived at the main room. Zhou Dachun saw him coming and happily greeted him, "Old man, come in and sit down. Have lunch here."
"I'll go fry some eggs. The old man hasn't come to my house for dinner for a long time." Li Yinfu said with a smile on his face.
"No need." The old man glanced at her calmly and said to Zhou Dachun, "I've thought it over. I can't help you borrow money. If you really want to buy it for Huaixing, work hard this year. If it's still not enough by the end of the year, I still have some money here. It should be enough if we gather together."
Zhou Dachun's face suddenly darkened. "Old man, if you wait for a year, you will lose a lot of money. The second brother's family sells vegetables and collects red mushrooms and truffles. They have so many ways..."
"Dachun," Li Yinfu quickly pulled him and smiled at the old man, "Old man, how about this, you see the truffle market will be closed soon, you talk to the youngest brother and ask him to lend the tractor to Huaixing for a few months, and we will return it to him after the red mushrooms are harvested."
The old man frowned and looked at her, "What did you say?"
Li Yinfu smiled and said, "Old man, here's what I think. The truffle market will soon be closed. You can ask the youngest brother to lend the tractor to Huaixing to drive for a few months. He can make some money.
Add in the money we made from digging truffles these past two months, and the money we'll make from selling red mushrooms in a few months, and we'll have enough money to buy a tractor in half a year at most, and you and Lao Er won't have to lend us money."
Huaixing had an old tractor to practice with for a few months. When the agricultural machinery station received the news, Huaixing had become proficient in it and had earned money for a few months. Thinking of this, she admired herself a little and felt that no one was smarter than her.
The old man looked at him and thought she was really bold to borrow. In the village, even borrowing a bicycle required looking at the person, and she even mentioned borrowing a tractor, and it would take several months. It would be better to just let the youngest brother give it to you.
"I am an old man who can't even take care of my sons, let alone my grandsons. If you want to borrow a tractor, go talk to the youngest one."
After he said that, he put his hands behind his back, turned around and walked towards the gate of the courtyard.
"Old man," Li Yinfu shouted as he chased after him, "Those kids from the second house are your grandchildren, and so is Huaixing from my family, and he's the eldest grandson of the first house. You can't just help the youngest and not Huaixing!
It's just a broken tractor. I just borrowed it for a few months, but you didn't help me. Why are you so biased?"
"Pa~" The old man turned around, narrowed his eyes, and slapped Li Yinfu in the face who had caught up with him, pointing at her nose and cursing: "The first wife's house is ruined by unlucky people like you, you don't care about what you should care about, and you don't calculate what you should calculate.
You said you had no money to buy meat and wine, but you asked me to come over for the New Year reunion. Huaixing went to Fangtian to gamble, and lost tens or hundreds of dollars a night. Why don't you care? Why don't you plot against others? All you know is to plot against others with red eyes every day."
Zhou Dachun stepped forward distressedly and grabbed Li Yinfu who was standing there with his hands covering his face, "Old man, I know the eldest wife is poor now, and even you don't look down on her. If you don't want to help us borrow money, forget it.
Huaixing is idle at home with nothing to do, and Yinfu is anxious, so he asked you to help borrow a tractor from the youngest. You feel sorry for the youngest and don't lend it to him. Over the years, you have always favored the second wife, and she is not wrong!"
"Am I partial?" The old man looked at Zhou Dachun disappointedly, "When the family was divided, you took the biggest share, the second and third oldest got the least, the third oldest had fewer children, so his life was a little easier.
The second family has many children and their life is not easy. Your mother and I are biased towards them. The money they get is also earned by us two old people. I have never asked you for help, right?
I feel sorry for the youngest, he deserves my love! He gives me pocket money every month, clothes and shoes all year round, good tobacco leaves all the time, and he helps me with work in the drying room, and he also pays me extra wages.
Seeing that I couldn't sleep well at night and hearing that drinking Ganoderma lucidum wine could help me sleep, he offered me several dozen yuan per pound of Ganoderma lucidum to make wine for me without even blinking an eye.
Your conscience has been eaten by dogs, saying that I am partial to the youngest one, an old man with poor eyesight, clumsy legs and feet, and a lot of diseases. Why am I partial to him?"
Zhou Dachun felt sad when he saw the old man's eyes were red. When he thought about the second son's family now having a tractor and a small four-wheeled vehicle, but he was unwilling to even help borrow some money, he felt that Li Yinfu was right and he was biased.
Li Yinfu had a gloomy face and said nothing. He felt that the old man helped the second wife when he was still able to work, but now that he was old and could no longer work, he was still partial to the second wife. All his illnesses were caused by helping the second wife, so they should be the ones to take care of her.
"Old man~" Zhou Huaixing rushed out of the house angrily, "Why did you say so much to him? We asked him to help borrow some money, but he refused and beat my mom. If the youngest is good, let him go with the youngest. Don't come to us if you have any problems in the future."
Li Yinfu looked at him with satisfaction. His son was the best because he knew how to vent his anger for his mother. Zhou Dachun, that coward, didn't even dare to fart.
"Huai Xing!" Zhou Dachun shouted, "How can you talk like that? You are so old, why are you still so ignorant?" If the old man was mad at someone, the villagers would drown him with their saliva.
"Okay, okay, okay!" The old man was so angry that he was shaking all over. "You disobedient and unfilial thing, Zhou Dachun is not the only son I have..."
"Grandpa, you are right!" Zhou Huaian, who had just arrived, hurried forward to support him. "Even if they don't care, you still have us. Don't be angry. It's not worth it to get angry. Let's go back and eat."
The old man looked at him with relief, "Why are you here?"
Zhou Huaian grinned at him, "Chunyan has prepared dinner and asked you to come back to eat. Mom said she cooked your favorite crispy pork and radish soup."
"Okay, let's go back and eat." The old man grabbed his hand, and the two of them turned around and walked out of the yard.
"Youngest Zhou," Zhou Huaixing shouted at the top of his voice, looking at Zhou Huaian who turned his head to look at him with jealousy and hatred, "I'm going to make it clear to you today. The old man can still work now, so you can take him to your home to take care of him. When he can't work anymore, you are not allowed to send him to the main house."
Zhou Huaian patted the old man, turned around, and grabbed Zhou Huaixing by the collar, "You beast, listen to me, from now on, no matter what happens to grandpa, my second wife will take care of it, and it has nothing to do with you."
After he said that, he pushed Zhou Huaixing to the ground, turned around and went back to help the old man walk away.
Zhou Dachun finally reacted and hurried to the gate of the courtyard, "Old man, Huaixing is still young and naive. Don't take what he says seriously. If outsiders know, they will gossip about him."
Zhou Huaian turned his head and sneered, "His eldest son will be able to get married in a few years! He's still young at 30, is he still breastfeeding?"
Zhou Dachun said angrily: "What did the second elder and his wife teach you? You interrupt when the elders are talking..."
"The second brother and his wife are better at teaching their children than you. It's not your turn to teach my grandson a lesson!" The old man said and pulled Zhou Huaian, "Let's go. Stop talking to this disobedient and unfilial person."
Seeing that the old man didn't give him face, Zhou Dachun didn't dare to chase him anymore. He turned back and walked into the yard angrily, saying to Zhou Huaixing: "You better show off your ability in the future. If you try to play with money again, I'll chop off your hands!"
Zhou Huaixing stepped forward to support him, "Don't worry, old man. As long as you help me buy the tractor, I promise to make good money by hauling goods. In the future, you two will be rich and powerful."
"Remember what you said!" Zhou Dachun glared at him. "We'll go to the agricultural machinery station this afternoon to pay the deposit. When the market opens tomorrow, you can go up the mountain with me to dig truffles peacefully. When the tractor comes back, we'll have almost enough money."
Li Yinfu suddenly remembered something and slapped his thigh, "Hey Dachun, just now your old man said he still has some money, we should let him take it, a hundred or a few dozen will be fine!"
Zhou Dachun thought about it and said, "Yes, the old man just said that the youngest son gave him pocket money, and he also got wages for working in the oven..."
Li Yinfu stamped his feet in anger, "I heard that too. Those villagers working in the second house earn more than two yuan a day. The old man must earn more than a hundred or so, at least five or six hundred yuan."
Zhou Dachun felt so regretful after hearing this that his intestines turned green. "Oh, it's all your fault. You wanted to lend it to him but you had to ask him to help you borrow the tractor. Otherwise, the money the old man gave me would be enough to buy a tractor!"
"What should we do?" Li Yinfu looked at him, and when he thought of the few hundred yuan the old man still had, his heart felt like a cat's claw. "Go and admit your mistake to the old man, and ask him to lend us the money."
"You know the old man's temper. It's no use for me to go. Huaixing has to go." Zhou Dachun said, looking at Zhou Huaixing, "You go and admit your mistake to grandpa, and we'll have enough money to buy a tractor."
"You told Grandpa that there was no money at home and asked him to borrow from the second wife. Now you say that you still need another 500 or 600 yuan. It's strange that he would believe you." Zhou Huaixing sat down on the bamboo chair. "I won't go. If you want to go, go by yourselves."
Zhou Dachun glared, "If you hadn't said those nonsense and pissed off the old man, I would have gone to find him right now..."
"Dachun," Li Yinfu stopped him, "I think we should go and get the tractor first. Wait a month or so, and your old man's anger will have almost subsided. Then we can go and ask him for help."
Zhou Dachun nodded after hearing this, "Okay, wait until he calms down before begging him."
Li Yinfu thought about it and said, "The second wife provides food and clothing for the old man, and also pays him wages. How much do you think they can earn in a year?"
Zhou Huaixing said with a jealous look on his face: "Look at how proud Zhou Laoya is. He earns much more than us anyway."
Li Yinfu looked at him and said earnestly, "Huaixing, Mom is telling you, don't play around with money anymore. When the tractor comes back, you should work hard and you will be better than them sooner or later."
Zhou Dachun hurriedly sounded the alarm for him, "Gambling is a bottomless pit, don't go there again. If you are caught by the police, you will be put in jail."
"Don't worry, I will do my best." Zhou Huaixing thought that after waiting for another three months, his family would have a new tractor, so he agreed to whatever they asked.
For a while, the family was happy and it seemed like good days were just around the corner! (End of this chapter)
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