Chapter 289 290: It must be ruined
"At lunch on the day of the foundation laying, I heard the old man and the bricklayer say that Secretary Xu would retire next year." Zhou Huaian looked at her and suddenly remembered the dream she had. "Why did you ask this? Could it be that the bastard grandson of Xiong Laoya wants to run for the brigade secretary?"
"Yes! In my dream, they not only went to the election, but also won the election. The brothers boasted about their power in the village for several years."
"It was just a dream after all, don't take it too seriously. I think that even if Secretary Xu retires next year, the Funiu Brigade will still have several team leaders! There's no way that son of a bitch, Xiong Laoya, will be elected as the brigade secretary."
"What if he gets elected? In my dream, our family didn't have any grudges against his family. If he really gets elected as the brigade secretary, it would be easy for him to cause trouble for us."
"That's right!" Zhou Huaian stroked his chin, "We have to ruin his plan. Uncle Datian is a good person. It would be great if he could choose the brigade secretary."
"When will the brigade secretary be re-elected?" Zhou Yiding asked as he came in with a bag of honey.
Zhou Huaian thought for a moment, "They said the election will be held next year. Your sister-in-law heard from the herbal medicine seller that that bastard Xiong Laoya also wants to run for election."
"Youngest, have you forgotten? The youngest of the Xiong brothers is the most sinister!" Zhou Yiding frowned, "If he is elected as the team secretary, not only your family, but everyone in our team will probably be in trouble!"
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan thought to herself, this is really bad luck.
Not only was Xiong Laoyao good at pretending, he was also good at flattering others. Within a few years, he had firmly established himself as the brigade secretary.
Especially that pervert Xiong Laosan, he did a lot of bad things in the village.
If he had not been so audacious as to flirt with Secretary Xu's cousin and been reported to the old secretary, the Xiong family would not have fallen.
"We have to ruin his plan." Zhou Huaian handed him the bowl of rice. "When I get down the mountain, I'll go find Uncle Datian to find out what's going on!"
Zhou Yiding took it and sat down. "I think Uncle Datian is a good person. Let's think of a way to help Uncle Datian get elected as the brigade secretary."
"Yes, I'll go down the mountain and ask around, and then think of a solution."
The three of them sat down and had lunch. Yang Chunyan packed up the herbs they had brought down the mountain, and then went back with Zhou Huaian, Lai Fu and Wangcai.
The two dogs had a great time catching butterflies and picking flowers along the way.
When they reached the middle of the mountain, they found a rock to sit down and take a rest.
Zhou Huaian kept fanning himself with his hat, "The autumn heat is really strong. It's OK if you don't move, but once you move you'll sweat all over."
"It's better when the sun is shining brightly." Yang Chunyan took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat off her neck, "Otherwise the corn cobs will be too watery."
"That's true." Zhou Huaian took a few sips of water and handed the kettle to her. "What do you think that bastard Xiong Laoya will do to make those people in the village choose him?"
Yang Chunyan thought about what she had seen in her previous life, where people gave money to canvass for votes during elections, and felt that this would not happen these days as everyone was poor. However, there was one thing that everyone cared about.
"I think the Xiong family might find those centrists in the village and promise them that when they pay public grain, they will be rated as good, and when they pay three-choice and five-tong, they will be guaranteed to pay less."
"Yes! After the household contract responsibility system was implemented, what everyone was most concerned about was the public grain, levies, and taxes that had to be paid every year." Zhou Huaian looked at her with a smile, "My wife is so smart!"
"Slippery tongue!" Yang Chunyan glared at him in reproach. "Also, I think most of the Zhou family will vote for Uncle Datian. Zhou Sufang's family has many people in the village. If the youngest Xiong promises to help everyone reduce their expenses, maybe many people will vote for him."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "That makes sense. Go back and ask the old man to remind Captain Zhou."
"Well!" Yang Chunyan stood up, "Let's go! My family is busy as hell right now, it's not good for us to hide here."
She had personally experienced how tiring it was to repair a house, and she had lost a lot of weight after the house was completed.
"You're so stupid! It's not like we didn't contribute. The money we gave out wouldn't be enough to spend even if we hired other people to do all the work. Do you think that Big Brother and his men are really so selfless?"
"You're just being stubborn! If you can just watch them suffer, I have no objection!"
"Hehe!" Zhou Huaian leaned forward and kissed her, "Speaking of which, my wife is still the best. I must serve you well tonight!"
Yang Chunyan's face instantly turned red and she kicked him, "Shut up~"
"Okay, I'll shut up, let's go!" Zhou Huaian kicked the dog lightly with a playful smile, "Hurry up and go, why are you looking at me like an idiot?"
It was already past three o'clock when they got home.
Zhou Xiaoqian was the only one at home with her children. When they saw the two of them coming back, they surrounded them happily and said, "Dad, Aunt, you're back!"
"Wow~" Zhou Jiakang shouted in surprise, "Sister, look, the dog has grown so big."
"Woof woof!" Lai Fu and Wangcai looked at the few people and wagged their tails happily.
Zhou Xiaowen bravely stepped forward and touched the dog. Lai Fu rubbed her palm with his head. The little girl smiled so hard that her eyes became as big as peas. "Look, Sister Qian, it still remembers me."
Zhou Xiaoqian also went up to touch it, "My mother-in-law said that Gouzi has a very good memory and can remember it for a long time."
The kids surrounded the dog and it couldn't move.
Yang Chunyan and the other person went to the front yard and saw that it was full of herbs drying in the sun. There were also several winnowing baskets on the long wooden benches, and there were herbal seeds drying in them.
The two men put down their backpacks, took out the golden thread vines first, spread them out to dry, and put away the collected Ganoderma lucidum.
This time the harvest was good. I found more than one jin of golden thread lotus, more than ten jin of Paris polyphylla, forty to fifty jin of Polygonatum sibiricum, twenty to thirty jin of Polygonatum odoratum, and more than two jin of Ganoderma lucidum...
The two men took all these valuable items down the mountain, and left the asparagus and other herbs on the mountain.
After everything was cleaned up, the kids ran back from the backyard.
Zhou Xiaoqian handed a bunch of yellow horn orchids to Yang Chunyan, "Aunt, we got a lot of ice jelly seeds. Can you make ice jelly for us someday?"
"It smells so good!" Yang Chunyan smiled and pulled her braids. "Just be good, Auntie will make it for you when she's free."
Zhou Xiaowen said softly, "We were very good. We picked the herbs on the drying mat and the herbs on the shelf at the back, cleaned them and put them in the sun."
"You are so good! Auntie will make it for you when she has time." Yang Chunyan paused, "Where's your grandma?"
"The kiln was being loaded in the afternoon. My grandma took Jiaming and Jialiang to the kiln to help. Third grandma's family also went to help." Zhou Xiaoqian said.
Yang Chunyan thought that since they were busy during the kiln firing period, they would definitely not be as busy as after the construction of the house started.
In the past, when repairing a thatched house, almost all of the dozen people in the family, young and old, would help out and they would be so busy that they would never have to rest.
Even Zhou Huaizhong's brother would come to help whenever he had time after carrying coal.
(End of this chapter)
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