Chapter 199 Chapter 198: Ambition
Zhou's mother watched him go out and sighed, "Such an obedient child, but he has a bad fate. His biological mother died and his stepmother is a smiling tiger. Zou Cuifen, that damn woman, has a child of her own, how could she be so evil?"
Zhou Xiaowen looked at her, "Grandma, my elder sister said that my stepmother is very bad!"
Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Xiaoru: "Yes! The stepmother is very bad, just like the mother-in-law of the Xiong family!"
Zhao Huifang came out with a smile, "Didn't you say that I was not good last time and asked your husband to find you a new mother?"
"Mom~" Zhou Xiaowen stepped forward and held her hand, "I don't want a new mom, I want you."
Everybody started laughing.
After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law prepared the meal, they went to the rapeseed fields and earthen kilns to call the workers to come back for dinner. Yang Chunyan also woke Zhou Huaian up.
In the afternoon, Zhou Huaijun did not go to collect the eels. Except for the old man in the earthen kiln, Zhou Huairong and Zhou's father, everyone else took flails, carried sieves and carried baskets to the rapeseed field in the back mountain.
Yang Chunyan looked at the rapeseed on the drying mat. After a morning of exposure to the sun, the rapeseed pods had cracked. Gently tapping the rapeseed stalks, the rapeseed seeds fell to the ground.
Zhou Huaian put down the flail, pulled his straw hat, and looked at the bright sun. "It's so hot, it's drying people up."
Zhou's mother gave him a glare and said, "It's not sunny yet, why don't you harvest the rapeseed?"
Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Huaijun each picked up a flail, "Youngest, do you want to fight with the flail or cut rapeseed?"
Zhou Huaian kept shaking his head, "Forget it, I'm afraid of that thing, I'd better just cut rapeseed."
He could not get the flail to spin, and always knocked the flail off the shaft. For this he was often beaten by the old man.
A flail is a farm implement used to thresh crops after they are harvested.
Country people often use it to beat wheat ears, rapeseed or bean pods. The flail hits the rapeseed, and through vibration, the rapeseed hidden in the seed bed is separated.
The structure of the flail is also very simple, consisting of the flail handle, the flail plate, and the flail shaft.
The flail handle is a long bamboo pole, and the flail board is made of a row of wooden or bamboo strips connected together. The two are then connected with the flail shaft.
When using it, hold the handles tightly with both hands and swing the flail up and down to make the flail plate rotate, slap and hit the crops on the drying yard to thresh them, commonly known as beating the flail.
"Flaming" can be done by one person, two people, or multiple people in a row.
Zhou Huaishan and Zhou Huaijun wielded flails and started fighting from one corner of the drying mat. The two men moved up and down, forward and backward, and hit one flail after another until they reached the other end of the drying mat.
After the two brothers had beaten each other, Zhou's mother picked up a handful of rapeseed stalks, shook them a few times, turned them over to dry in the sun, and waited for the two brothers to come back before beating them again.
In this way, not only can the rapeseed in the rapeseed stalks be cleanly beaten, but it can also prevent unclean rapeseed in the rapeseed pods.
When hitting the flail, hold the handle with both hands, with the right hand in front and the left hand behind, and stand with your legs apart and the right foot in front.
You must hold the flail handle tightly and make the flail shaft rotate rhythmically. Otherwise, not only will it not rotate, but the flail will also be damaged, and you may even get beaten.
Zhou Huaian stood next to Yang Chunyan and placed the cut rapeseed stalks on the rapeseed piles. With a little more force, the rapeseed pods burst open and the rapeseed seeds fell down.
Yang Chunyan glanced at him and said, "Be gentle, don't you see that some of the rapeseed has already dried up?"
"Got it!" Zhou Huaian remembered what Wang Zhen said, and leaned forward and whispered, "Yan'er, I heard from Doctor Wang that if you use anesthetics to knock out the musk deer before taking their scent, you don't have to kill them."
Yang Chunyan recalled the videos of extracting musk from the past. “After using anesthetics, it loses consciousness. After removing the musk, we can release it back into the forest when it wakes up.”
Zhou Huaian looked at her with sparkling eyes, "And we can collect musk once a year. I want to get a few and raise them. If successful, I can raise more than ten and sell musk for more than ten thousand a year.
When we make money in the future, we can hire someone to do the work during the busy farming season so we don’t have to do the hard work ourselves.”
Yang Chunyan put down a handful of rapeseed, turned her head and rolled her eyes at him, whispering, "You haven't even started yet! You're daydreaming again! Be careful or I'll chase you with a carrying pole!"
"I said in the future, didn't I say we should do this right after the separation?" Zhou Huaian said, looking at her with dissatisfaction, and muttered softly, "You don't believe anything I say."
Yang Chunyan said: "It's not that I don't believe you, I just think that you have one idea after another, which gives people the impression that you are not down-to-earth."
Zhou Huaian felt unhappy after hearing this. "I just heard what Doctor Xiao Wang said today. I had this idea in my mind, and now I want to talk to you about it. Besides, musk deer are not so easy to catch. Even if you catch them, whether to keep them alive is still a problem."
Yang Chunyan said patiently: "You are right to have this idea, but you can't be too ambitious! Think about it, we still have more than a hundred acres of wasteland waiting for us to open up!"
"I think the first goal now is to open up the land, buy herb seeds or find seeds to plant. When our herb planting business is on the right track, we will have the opportunity to do breeding."
Zhou Huaian felt a little anxious after hearing this. "I know, I didn't say I wouldn't grow herbs. I asked Dr. Wang, it's not easy to grow precious herbs, it's also very expensive.
But growing common herbs is still profitable. Raising musk deer is just an idea of mine. I think as long as I can keep them alive, it should be very profitable.”
"Huaian!" Yang Chunyan called him and looked at him with a smile, "A person who only thought about hanging out and sleeping is now thinking about how to start a business and make money all day long. It's really embarrassing!"
Zhou Huaian laughed, "And he said that my sister-in-law heard it!"
"Chunyan~" Zhang Xiuxiang called out from the side, winking and saying, "What are you two whispering about? How come you have so much to say?"
Zhao Huifang smiled and said, "Xiuxiang, Chunyan and the youngest have only been married for half a year. Of course, the young couple have endless things to talk about! Unlike us, the old couples have nothing to talk about except business matters!"
Zhang Xiuxiang: "That's right! The words that my second brother and I talk in a month are not as much as what my sisters and I talk in a day!"
Zhou Huaian saw several women gathered together, so he took the sickle and left, "I can't afford to offend them, they are chirping like sparrows in the forest, I'm going to help me turn over the rapeseed stalks!"
"Hurry up and leave. Don't delay us!" Zhao Huifang came over to fill his position. "Qiuyue, what are you doing there alone? Come over here so it's more convenient for us to talk!"
Li Qiuyue glanced at the others and said, "No, sister-in-law, I'm right here!"
Ever since Zhou Huaishan took the money back and managed it himself, she hasn't said a word and just buried her head in her own work every day. She felt that she had been too smart this time and had lost face in front of her sisters-in-law.
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