Chapter 714 Chapter 719: The Daring Brat
The children all followed their mother and husband back happily. Zhou Jiaming looked at Zhao Huifang, who was smiling, and asked, "Mom, how much did you earn this year?"
"Why do you care so much about a kid?" Zhao Huifang turned her head and glared at him. "Study hard, you will be taking the junior high school entrance exam next year. If you want to join the army, you can't be uneducated."
"Got it." Zhou Jiaming looked at the smiling old man and winked at Zhou Jialiang. The two brothers slowed down their pace and waited for their parents to come into the house before getting together and saying, "I think we made a lot of money this year. Look at the old man, he's grinning all the time and his mouth never closes."
Zhou Jialiang said happily after hearing this: "While they are in a good mood today, why don't we go after lunch?"
"Great!" Zhou Xiaowen stood behind the two of them without them noticing, "I want to tell mom that you guys should..."
"Little sister, good little sister!" Zhou Jialiang quickly covered her mouth, "Don't tell mom, we will take you with us this afternoon."
Zhou Xiaowen blinked and pulled his hand away, "Brother, what do you want to do?"
Zhou Jiaming whispered, "Let's go catch some fish and grill them by the river, just like Yang Daniu and the others did in Bailing Mountain."
"Okay!" Zhou Xiaowen nodded happily. "Let's call Sister Qian and the others to come along, and catch some sandworms from the river and let Grandma fry them for us to eat."
Zhou Jiaming tapped her forehead lightly with his finger, "Ha'er, when you catch the sandworms, grandma will know that we are going to the river."
Zhou Xiaowen thought about it and said, "Then should we call Sister Qian and the others?"
After hearing this, Zhou Jialiang said, "Brother, call Xiaoqian and the others. If mom and dad find out, it will be better if there are more people."
Zhou Jiaming: "What if Xiaokang, the snitch, goes and informs on me?"
Zhou Xiaowen: "Brother, no, Xiaokang told Sister Qian this morning that he also wanted to cast a net!"
Zhou Jiaming thought that if all his brothers went, they would all be beaten up if they were discovered, "Then you go and tell them that if they tell on me, I won't take them out to play anymore."
"Let's go together." Zhou Xiaowen pulled the two brothers and ran next door.
At Yang Chunyan's house, Zhou Huaian handed her a passbook, "The remaining money in the account is ours. Also, the goods in the warehouse have been counted as money. We don't need to divide the money from the sales in the future. It's all ours."
"Have you reserved the money for the opening of the market on the eighth day of the first lunar month?"
"I left it!" Zhou Huaian said as he handed over another book, "This is the start-up capital for the opening of the market on the eighth day of the first lunar month. There will be less stock after the New Year, so I will reserve 5,000 per share when the market opens this year."
"Okay!" Yang Chunyan took the passbook and went back to the room with him. Zhou Huaian sat down on the chair and said with a smile, "Yan'er, it's better to do something bigger. You can earn more in a year than you can in several years by doing small things."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "I heard from the vendors in Ning'an the other day that starting from the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month, all the goods on their stalls can be sold out by 5 or 6 in the afternoon. A stall full of clothes is sold out in one day and they still have to close the shop early. Just imagine what that means."
She never dreamed that business would be so good in the past two years. She still remembered that in her previous life in 2017 or 2018, she went to the city with Xiaoqian to buy clothes during the Chinese New Year. It was already the 28th or 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and there were not many people in the clothing store.
Xiaoqian also said that she was too old to keep up with the times. Nowadays, everyone buys things on Taobao and Tmall, and they have them delivered to your door. If you try them on and don’t like them, you can just return them.
She felt that she might be too lonely, and always thought that it would be better to go out for a walk during the New Year to make the holiday more festive.
Zhou Huaian stepped forward to help her put the passbook into the mezzanine, "In the past, you needed tickets for everything. People in the city had salaries, but even if they had money, they had nowhere to spend it. Now that everything is in short supply, as long as you have something, you don't have to worry about no one wanting it.
Look at Wang Zhen's electrical appliances, they cost hundreds or even thousands of yuan, and those people are afraid that they will miss out if they go too late, so they rush to buy them! When the electricity is connected, let's buy a color TV and see how it goes."
Yang Chunyan thought that it would be better to buy a piece of land than to spend thousands of yuan on a color TV. "If we want to buy one, we can just buy a black and white TV. It's too much of a loss to buy a color TV now. It's better to buy a piece of land and build a house, which will appreciate in value in the future!"
Zhou Huaian liked what he heard and nodded with a smile, "You are the head of our family, we will do whatever you say!"
"You just know how to drug me!" Yang Chunyan smiled and pushed him, "You go look after your son, I'll help set the table."
"Yes, sir!" Zhou Huaian pushed her out.
Yang Chunyan went out of the house, and Zhao Huifang and her three sisters-in-law also came. The sisters-in-law started to set the table. After the family had eaten, the mother-in-law and the daughters-in-law started to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner.
Zhou Huaian and his brothers put up the couplets and New Year pictures. The two older ones helped kill chickens, fish and ducks, and the two younger ones helped take care of the children.
Zhou Huaian strolled out of the door holding his son. When he reached the grove, he saw Xu Erchun squatting on the side of the road plucking chicken feathers. "Start preparing the New Year's Eve dinner!"
"I'll help kill the chickens!" Xu Erchun wiped his hands on himself and pulled the pompom on Xiao Jiu'er's woolen hat. "Little one, where are you and your father going if you don't prepare the New Year's Eve dinner?"
"Cluck, cluck, cluck!" Xiao Jiuer pointed at the big rooster in the basin and shouted.
"Uncle Erchun, kill Koko to eat during the New Year!" Zhou Huaian was worried that he would be scared, so he patted him on the back and said, "Let's go! We haven't walked around the village properly for two months. Let's go for a walk."
Xu Erchun pointed at the chicken in the basin and shrugged, "I'll find you when I'm done!"
"I'll go to Ding Ding Mao's house first, come back later!" Zhou Huaian had just taken two steps with his son in his arms when Ye Laoyao came out with a small wooden pistol, "Wait a minute, Laoyao."
Zhou Huaian looked at the small pistol tied with a red ribbon in his hand, "Is it for my Jiuer?"
"Yes! I made it." Ye Laoya put the gun in Xiao Jiuer's hand a little embarrassedly, "If you like uncle to make it for you."
Zhou Huaian smiled and rubbed Xiao Jiu'er's head, "Little one, this is a small pistol, thank you, Uncle Little One!"
Little Jiuer held the red ribbon of the small pistol curiously, and his saliva flowed down the small pocket around his chin.
Just after he got the pistol, Ma Chunhua came out and put a handful of candy and peanuts and melon seeds into his bib. She also said to Lin Wu, "Old Lin, look at these people. Zhou Laoyao and Chunyan are good-looking, and their son is as good-looking as a New Year picture doll."
Mrs. Xu said with a smile: "Chunhua, some seeds look like seeds, some winter melons look like buckets, and both mother and husband are good-looking. If you give birth to an ugly baby, it will be troublesome!"
"..." Ma Chunhua rolled her eyes at her and muttered, "You're old, but you can't even speak."
Zhou Huaian smiled and left with the child in his arms. He was too busy this year and had no time to buy firecrackers, so his mother bought some for closing and opening the door. He had to go see if the agency store had any firework sticks, such as Red Earth, and buy some as well.
Along the way, the villagers they met greeted Zhou Huaian enthusiastically. Xiao Jiuer received a lot of melon seeds and candies, filling up several of her small pockets.
When they arrived outside the courtyard wall of Zhou Yiding's house, they smelled the aroma of braised meat. Zhou Huaian walked to the gate with the child in his arms and saw Zhou Yiding sitting on a rattan chair with his legs crossed and his eyes squinting.
Zhou Huaian knocked on the door and said, "Let's go!"
"Here I come!" Zhou Yiding stood up and walked towards him. "Let's go to the sunbathing area and buy some firecrackers?"
"It's just what I thought." Zhou Huaian handed his son to him, "Little thing, you're like a weight. My hands are sore from holding you."
Zhou Yiding held up little Jiuer and said, "Jiuer, your old man dislikes you and won't support you when you grow up."
Zhou Huaian rolled his eyes at him and pinched Xiao Jiuer's cheeks, "Ignore him, he's just a troublemaker."
The two of them were bickering as they walked towards the sun-drying dam. After only a few steps, Xu Hongbing came running over, panting. "Youngest, go and have a look! Someone saw Jiaming and the others casting nets by the river!"
"Fuck~" Zhou Huaian quickly turned around and ran back to Zhou Yiding's house, pushed his bicycle and rode away, "Dingding Cat, help me send my son home, I'm going to the river to take a look."
"That's right!" Zhou Yiding walked back with the child in his arms. Little Jiuer looked at Zhou Huaian who rode away on his bike and burst into tears. "Oh, don't cry! Uncle will take you back to find your mother."
"Youngest, I'm going too." Xu Hongbing ran a few steps, jumped into the back seat of the car and left together.
Zhou Huaian rode his bicycle to the bridgehead and turned around to see a group of children standing by the river. Standing by the river was Zhou Jiaming.
He was so angry that he yelled at the bottom, "Zhou Jiaming, you are so bold! Hurry up and get on the shore."
When Zhou Jiaming heard the shout, he was frightened and slipped. The fishing net in his hand flew out and he fell into the icy river with a plop.
"Brother~" Zhou Jialiang and Zhou Xiaoqian screamed and rushed forward to grab his trouser legs in fear. The two children slipped and almost fell into the river.
"Jia Ming~ Xiao Qian~" Zhou Huaian was so frightened when he saw this that he got off the bridge and walked to the river. He threw his bicycle away and ran towards them.
Seeing this, Xu Hongbing hurriedly followed.
Zhou Xiaowen and the others were so scared that they started crying, "Brother, Sister Qian..."
Several older boys on the riverbank reacted and rushed forward to help pull Zhou Jiaming onto the riverbank.
Fortunately, it was the dry season and the river water was not rushing. When the two arrived, several children had already pulled him up. He sat on a rock with a pale face and spit out water several times.
"You are such a bold brat," Zhou Huaian was shocked and anxious. He picked him up and hit him on the butt a few times, "You are tired of living, you don't want to die!"
I was practicing well, but you scared me and I slipped.
Zhou Jiaming complained in his heart, rubbing his buttocks with a wronged look on his face. Suddenly, he remembered the fishing net and pulled Zhou Huaian with a bitter face, "Dad, the fishing net was washed away by the water."
I used to think it was easy when I saw my dad casting a net, but today, after they worked by the river for a long time, they couldn't even cast the net. Not to mention fish, they didn't even catch a single shrimp.
"Give me back my fishing nets, I'll settle the score with you when I get back!" Zhou Huaian took off his jacket and put it on Zhou Jiaming, then glanced at the children standing by the river, "None of you want to celebrate the New Year! Get out of here!"
The kids turned around and ran towards the river bank without saying a word.
Zhou Huaian walked back with a few children, and Xu Hongbing hurried to pick up the bicycle. As soon as the group arrived at the brigade's dam for drying the sun, Zhou Yiding drove a tractor with Zhou Huairong and his brothers.
(End of this chapter)
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