Chapter 564: We also have guns
Ten days passed in a flash, and every household in the village was busy preparing the rice fields, sowing seeds and raising rice seedlings. The Zhou family had a large family and a tractor, so they prepared the rice fields in one day.
Zhou Huaian, Xu Hongbing and Xu Erchun went to Guanyin Brigade again to help Zhao Meina and her brother level the rice field. Mrs. Su was also tasked with teaching her how to soak and sow seeds.
The next day, Zhou Huaian and his brother picked up wood ash and soaked grain seeds and went to the rice field. Father Zhou poured the grain seeds into a scoop, and Zhou Huairong and Zhou Huaijun carried it into the rice field and evenly scattered it on the divided fields.
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Huaishan were spreading another layer of grass ash in the back. He looked at the full rapeseed buds on the rapeseed stalks in the field next to him and said, "Oh my! In half a month, we will have to harvest the rapeseed and wheat. Just thinking about it gives me a headache!"
Zhou Huaishan glanced at him and said, "Why don't you want to eat wheat flour made from your own wheat in half a month?"
"I bought a taste." Zhou Huaian glanced at Zhou's father in front of him and whispered, "Third brother, how about we hire someone to harvest the wheat and rapeseed?"
Zhou Huaishan rolled his eyes at him and said, "You cunning monkey, why don't you tell this old man yourself?"
Zhou Huaian shrugged, "I'm lazy for one thing, and also during the busy farming season, Chunyan and my sister-in-law all went out to work, only my third sister-in-law didn't come..."
Zhou Huaishan understood what he meant after hearing this. "I understand. I'll tell the old man when I get back."
Zhou's mother moved to his house after Yang Chunyan was one month old, helping him take care of the child and do housework. Zhou's father also ate at his house with his wife. Zhou Jiaming said that his grandmother was like a screw, nailed wherever needed.
After the father and his sons sowed the seeds, Zhou's father looked at the water in the rice field before packing up his belongings and going back.
When they got to the main road, they met a villager who came to hire a tractor to help plow the fields. Zhou Huaian thought that he had to go to Baicaoping tomorrow, so he didn't agree.
When he got home carrying the basket, the old man was sitting at the door of the main room watching over little Jiuer who was lying in the rocking chair. Yang Chunyan was cooking in the kitchen. Seeing that he was covered in mud, she asked him to bring hot water to take a bath.
Yang Chunyan untied the rice steamer, sliced the melted meat inside, and fried a plate of wild ginger. Seeing that the bathroom door was open, she fished out the potato shreds soaking in the soup bowl, and fried a portion of green pepper and potato shreds and brought them to the table. There was one meat and one vegetable, as well as a pile of red oil pickles and a pot of boiled radish, which was just enough for three people.
She walked to the stove door and said, "Grandpa, it's time to eat."
"Okay, let me push the cradle over here." The old man turned off the radio and pushed the cradle to the kitchen door.
Zhou Huaian came out wiping his hair, "Yan'er, those Magnolia officinalis flowers in the mountains will bloom next month, right?"
"We won't have much time to pick flowers until next month, but we can go these few days to harvest Magnolia officinalis bark." Yang Chunyan thought about how several families went together last year, and it would be bad to leave them out this year. "Wait until you come back from Baicaoping, and call big brother and the others to go with us."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "There are also Magnolia officinalis trees in Baicaoping and Baicaoping. I will also ask Wang Zhen what the purchase price is this year?"
Yang Chunyan thought about the quality of the Magnolia officinalis bark in the back mountain and the forest farm, and it was extremely rare to go there in the future. "Huaian, if the price is not good this year, we will stockpile the Magnolia officinalis bark and sell it when the price goes up. What do you think?"
"Sure! Last time, Wang Zhen told me that if I received good quality Coriolus versicolor, I could keep it and sell it when the price went up. Unfortunately, I haven't received any yet."
"Good things are hard to come by, if you take your time you will eventually come across them. Also, the mountain where we went to Fangtian to collect Ganoderma last year rained a few days ago, so I want to ask my eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law to go and take a look tomorrow."
Zhou Huaian frowned, "What will happen to Xiao Jiuer if you go there?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Have you forgotten that there is milk powder at home? Jiuer is hungry, just let mom mix it for him to drink."
She had a stomach upset a couple of days ago and gave Xiao Jiuer two meals of milk powder. The little guy is easy to take care of and he drinks whatever she gives him!
The old man said, "No need to call your mom, I fed him last time, I know how to do it!"
Zhou Huaian had no choice but to nod, "Okay! I'll pick you up when I get back."
Yang Chunyan: "Maybe there's nothing and they came back early!"
"This is your first time going up the mountain, you have to make a good start!" Zhou Huaian finished the rice in the bowl and went to the door to see his son.
He pinched Xiao Jiu'er's nose and said, "Little one, wake up and speak a few words to your old man in baby talk!"
Xiao Jiuer opened her eyes and looked at him, then pursed her little mouth and cried loudly.
"Pa~" The old man slapped him, "He was sleeping soundly, why did you pinch his nose?"
"Ouch!" Zhou Huaian rubbed his shoulders and said with a wry smile, "I didn't use much force, I just pinched it gently, the little thing was very clever, it cried on purpose to complain."
"I'm too lazy to talk to you!" The old man picked up Xiao Jiuer, "Tell your husband, we just don't know how to talk, it's not like we don't know anything!"
"Oh, oh!" Little Jiuer looked at the old ancestor, pursed her lips into a circle, and spoke in baby language.
The old man looked at Zhou Huaian proudly, "Look, how smart our little Jiuer is!"
Zhou Huaian was also very proud, "Exactly, why don't you check who gave birth to this child? Chunyan and I are both smart, how can he not be smart!"
"It's all your credit!" The old man rolled his eyes at him, "I have to go out tomorrow, so go feed the pigs, clean up, and go to bed early."
"Uh-huh!"
Yang Chunyan had already cleaned up the dishes and poured the manure into the pig feed and mixed it with the hot food. The six pigs were growing bigger day by day and their appetites were getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately, there was a lot of pig grass grown at home, otherwise the bran would not be enough for them to eat.
After a while, Zhou Huaishan came to tell him that his father agreed to hire a few people to help harvest rapeseed and wheat this year, and had already gone to find a few families whose rapeseed and wheat matured later than theirs.
Zhou Huaian felt a lot more relaxed after hearing this. He happily cleaned the pigsty, gave dog food to the dogs, drove them out for a run, and then closed the backyard door.
When I think of today, I feel a little excited. I have been looking for things to do every day during this period of time. I am tired like a dog. I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. I don’t know if I have hurt myself after holding it in for so long?
Thinking about how I tend to lose my temper when I get excited, I want to hit myself twice.
Yang Chunyan came out of the shower and saw him walking around outside, mumbling something. "He's acting crazy all day long!"
Zhou Huaian looked at her who had just taken a shower and whose face was as tender as tofu. He couldn't help but roll his Adam's apple, "Wife, tonight... Hehe!"
"I don't want to bother with you! Why don't you go and hold Xiao Jiuer? Let grandpa take a rest!" Yang Chunyan glared at him, turned around and took the washed clothes to hang upstairs.
After she hung up the clothes, she ran some hot water to the room, washed the child's butt, changed his diaper, fed him and coaxed him to sleep.
Zhou Huaian brought the cradle into the room and approached the mother and child, "My son, please sleep in the cradle for a while!"
While talking about his son, his eyes were fixed on Yang Chunyan's chest. She pinched the soft flesh on his waist and twisted it to eight degrees, "You are so dishonest! You think about indecent things all day long..."
"It hurts! You're still holding your son! Shush, be quiet, or you'll wake your son up again..."
"Get lost! You are becoming more and more shameless!" Yang Chunyan saw the child's pouting mouth and reached out to pat his back to comfort him, "Be good, little Jiuer, we will ignore you, an old man. Eat well, sleep well, and grow tall!"
Seeing that the mother and daughter ignored him, Zhou Huaian had no choice but to take a book and read it against the head of the bed. He stared at the words on the book, but could not read any of them.
Yang Chunyan waited for Xiao Jiuer to fall asleep, put him down and prepared to sleep. Before she closed her eyes, she was hugged by Zhou Huaian, and her hot breath hit her. He pressed her on her and held her for a hot kiss, and his hands didn't stop...
Yang Chunyan twisted him and pushed him away, "Don't move your hands..."
"Hiss~ I didn't move..."
"Good for you, competing with your son..." The rest of the words were blocked.
The next day, just after dawn, Zhou Huaian got out of bed refreshed and said, "Yan'er, why don't you take a day off and wait for me to come back tomorrow to look for Ganoderma lucidum in Fangtian?"
"Don't worry about me, just be careful on your way."
"Don't worry, I've got Lao Xu and Li Wu with me, and I'm carrying a gun!"
"Well!" Yang Chunyan thought about it and got up. "I'll cook you a bowl of noodles and a few eggs. I'll also cut you two pieces of bacon from the cupboard so you can take them with you on your way."
"No need!" Zhou Huaian pressed her shoulders and covered her with the quilt again. "Grandpa may have cooked the eggs. I'll cook a bowl of noodles and leave."
Yang Chunyan lay back down feeling relieved, and watched him go out and close the door.
Zhou Huaian, carrying eggs and a few pieces of lean bacon, drove a tractor to pick up Li Wu and Xu Hongbing at the drying dam, and the three of them drove towards Baicaoping.
The tractor drove out of the asphalt road and onto the mountain road to Baicaoping. After driving for more than half an hour, we came to a gentle slope and saw a pine tree as thick as a bowl on the side of the road. It was cut down by someone and pushed down to lie across the middle of the road.
Zhou Huaian's mind flashed back to the time when Xiong Lao Er robbed people on the road. He stepped on the brakes and the tractor stopped. "Fuck! He always uses this trick. Could it be that the same master taught him all of them?"
Li Wu also thought of it after seeing it, and turned his head to look at him, "Youngest, it's the same as the last time Xiong Laoer and the others!"
Xu Hongbing in the back truck also stood up and said, "Youngest brother, there was no thunder or rain last night, how could the tree fall down? I think something is wrong!"
"That's right! Someone is targeting us!" Zhou Huaian looked at the woods on the right and signaled Li Wu to take out the rifle, shotgun and wooden stick from under the seat.
He handed the shotgun to Xu Hongbing who was standing in the truck bed, "Shoot at the legs!"
"Understood!" Xu Hongbing held his gun and stared at the woods.
Zhou Huaian and Li Wu, who was holding a wooden stick, sat in the driving seat, quietly waiting for the robbers to appear.
The man with a pointed face turned his head and looked at his four accomplices, "Oh no, they have guns!"
"We have guns too!" said the round-faced man, looking at the gun beside him.
(End of this chapter)
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