Chapter 37: Talking nonsense with open eyes
Along the way, Zhou Huaian was thinking about what questions Yi Ding and the others would ask him, so he thought of a way to deal with them and went to Zhou Yiding's house first.
Seeing that the gate was open and there was no one in the yard, I went straight to his room and saw him wearing flowered trousers, lying on his side on the bed with one leg pressed against the quilt, and sleeping soundly.
Zhou Huaian reached out and patted his butt, "Your baby is still sleeping, I rushed Ning An back."
Zhou Yiding was startled by him, and in a daze he pulled the quilt over his waist.
"Cover up your ass. We've been bathing together naked since we were little. I even know there's a scar on your butt."
Zhou Yiding also came to his senses and looked at him sarcastically, "Hey, it turns out that you are the one who made a fortune! I thought you would not come to see a poor brother like me anymore."
"You're a fool?" Zhou Huaian sneered at him, took out the Chuncheng cigarettes from his pocket and threw them in front of him, "If I really got rich, I would buy Da Chongjiu and Hongtashan cigarettes. I would also smoke Chungeng cigarettes which cost only a few cents a pack?"
Zhou Yiding looked at him suspiciously, "You really didn't find any bezoar? I heard that your family found a piece of bezoar weighing more than a pound, and sold it for tens of thousands."
"Let his big stinking fart go!" Zhou Huaian was so angry that he cursed, "If I find a pound of bezoar, I will be struck by lightning!"
Zhou Yiding looked at his expression, smiled and nodded at him a few times, "I said, if you find such a big bezoar, you should at least take us to eat it."
"That's right, at least I have to take you to Ning'an for dinner."
Zhou Huaian smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to him. He took out a match, struck a match, and lit the cigarette for Zhou Yiding. "I didn't come to see you these two days. I followed Chunyan to the mountains to dig herbs."
Zhou Yiding took a sip and pointed out the window, "I won't believe it even if you kill me. You would go into the mountains to dig herbs in such a bright sun?"
Zhou Huaian took a long puff of cigarette, exhaled, and said helplessly: "I just spent so much money, I have to go!
I was so angry that I became sick. My mother and wife cried when they saw me. I couldn't live without going.
I spent the whole day in the mountains yesterday and was exhausted. Today, I got up before dawn and pushed a chicken cart to Ning'an. The couple worked for two days and made only ten yuan.
Zhou Yiding glanced at him sideways, "Tsk tsk, are you still the Zhou Laoya I know? Did Lu Pan replace your brain?"
"I think you've been poisoned by Liao Zhai!" Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, feeling sorry for his brother for hiding the fact about the bezoar. He looked at him sincerely and said, "Ding Ding Cat, I think digging herbs is much better than working. If you want to go, I'll call you tomorrow?"
"I have to go into the mountains tomorrow to help my old man look after the forest farm. We'll talk about it when I come back."
"My old man took my brother and the others into the mountains to look for wood. If you were in the forest farm, it would be convenient for you to cut trees."
Zhou Yiding patted his chest and said, "Leave it to me. I guarantee that you can get good wood."
"Thank you!" Zhou Huaian said again, "I don't know which bastard stole dozens of bags of corn from my house. Have you heard anything?"
Zhou Yiding shook his head. "I went to fish for eels with Erchun last night. We haven't been out today."
"Let's go ask Erchun."
"Yeah!" Zhou Yiding got out of bed and put on plastic sandals, and the two of them went out together and walked towards Xu Erchun's house.
As soon as I arrived at the door of Xu's house, I saw Xu's mother and two other women sitting there sewing shoe soles.
Before the two of them could speak, Xu's mother looked at them with annoyance and said unhappily, "Why are you looking for Erchun again? He's not here."
The other two women also glared at the two men with disdain, "They are so tall and strong, but they don't do their jobs properly. They just fool around all day."
Mother Xu curled her lips and said, "That's right. It's rare that Erchun hasn't gone out to help at home these few days, and they come to wrap him up again. It's really annoying."
Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding looked at each other, touched their noses awkwardly, turned around and left, planning to look for He Dakuan.
The two had just walked a short distance when Xu Erchun chased after them. "I heard my mother's voice and knew you were here."
Then he laughed and punched Zhou Huaian, "Well, you bastard, you made a fortune but you didn't treat us to a meal."
Seeing this, Xu's mother was so angry that she threw the shoe soles and needles and thread into the sewing basket, picked them up and went into the house.
Zhou Huaian glanced at him and lied with open eyes, "If I really get rich, I will take you to Ning'an for a meal." I'm sorry, brothers, I will treat you a good meal after we divide the family business.
Several people walked and talked.
Xu Erchun looked at him with disdain, "I think you are such a bad boy. When you become rich, I will lose all my teeth."
"Bah! You're such a bad mouth!" Zhou Huaian spat at him, "Hurry up and tell me that there are no taboos."
Xu Erchun is a famous foul-mouthed person. Good things don't work for him, but bad things work for him.
Several of them had played together since they were young. Whenever he said, "Who will fall down and get beaten when he gets home today?", it would always come true.
The most bizarre thing was that one time after the class bell rang, everyone sat in the classroom waiting for a long time, but the teacher didn’t come. He said that the teacher was sick and had returned to the city for treatment.
Not long after, the teacher came and asked them to study on their own, saying that the teacher was sick and had gone back to Ning'an for medical treatment.
From then on, everyone called him Crow's Mouth!
His mother was a little worried, so she took him to see a doctor. The doctor asked him to quickly say a word to resolve any bad thing he said unintentionally.
"Pah~" Xu Erchun also spat quickly, "No taboos, no taboos."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him, "Son of a bitch, you know your bad mouth, be careful with your words next time. If I never get rich when I grow old, it must be because you cursed me behind my back."
"Get away from me." Xu Erchun smiled and gave him a slap. "If you are really that amazing, I would have walked away from Ning'an a long time ago!"
Zhou Yiding laughed, "Walking sideways, you are a sea crab!"
All three of them laughed.
Zhou Huaian looked at Xu Erchun and said, "Enough of the small talk. My corn was stolen. Do you know who did it?"
Xu Erchun thought for a moment, "Last night, Ding Dingmao and I came back from shooting eels, and saw Auntie Ye's Erwa carrying a sack into the yard. It was the middle of the night, do you think he was going to steal your corn?"
Zhou Huaian turned his head to look at the Ye family who lived at the foot of Xujiakan, and recalled the quarrel with Mrs. Ye that day. "It was probably that bastard. I almost had a fight with Mrs. Ye in the rice field that day."
Xu Erchun said, "No wonder. You know Ye Erwa. He looks silly, but he loves to hold grudges and has a strong desire for revenge."
If you say Ye Erwa is stupid, he seems to understand everything. If you say he is smart, he seems a little abnormal.
For example, he loved smoking. No matter who it was, even a three-year-old child, as long as he took out a cigarette and said to him, "Erwa, I'll give you a cigarette, and let me pinch your ears three times."
He agreed immediately.
Then you grab his ears and keep counting 1, 2, 1, 2, 1. As long as you don't say 3, he won't resist even if you pull his ears for a whole day. As soon as he says 3, he will stop pulling your ears immediately.
(End of this chapter)
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