Chapter 498 Chapter 499: Someone is sabotaging
Zhou Huaian and his friends grilled and ate the marinated badger meat before they started to clean up. "Ding Ding Cat, it's already past one o'clock. Why don't you sleep here for one night and come with me to Ning'an tomorrow?"
There is a room here where he can sleep. Sometimes when it is too late and he doesn’t want to go back, he sleeps here.
"That's good, so I don't have to wake my old man up in the middle of the night!"
Zhou Yiding was feeling hungry and lazy, so he opened his mouth wide and yawned several times in succession, which made Zhou Huaian and the others yawn as well, just like those people in the movies who were addicted to opium.
Zhou Huaijun yawned and looked at Zhou Huairong, "Brother, are you leaving?"
"You all go back to sleep, I'll stay here and wait for the old man to come and replace me." Zhou Huairong said as he walked towards the newly built baking room.
"Then let's go out of the baking room, so that the youngest one doesn't have to go out to close the door." Zhou Huaijun and the other man followed.
"Then let's go to bed first." Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding went back to their rooms after washing up.
As soon as he pushed the door open, Yang Chunyan opened her eyes and looked over, seeing that he had fallen asleep again.
Zhou Huaian set the alarm clock, quickly took off his clothes until he was left with only his cotton-padded sweater and trousers, then lay on his side on the bed, hugged his warm wife, and closed his eyes in contentment.
On a winter night, two people can share a bed and feel very warm and cozy.
The next morning, Yang Chunyan woke up as soon as the alarm rang, "Are you delivering goods to Ning'an?"
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian hugged her sideways, "I'm not awake yet, I don't want to move, I want to sleep in!"
In such a cold weather, you should hold your wife and sleep until the sun shines on your butt before getting up!
Yang Chunyan said softly, "Then you go back to sleep. I'll go tell my third brother and ask him to take it over."
"Forget it!" Zhou Huaian gritted his teeth and sat up, then threw off the quilt and got out of bed. "I found two genuine mulberry yellows yesterday. I have to send them to Doctor Xiao Wang to see if I can sell them for a good price."
Yang Chunyan praised: "You are lucky. You found all the mulberry trees and Coriolus versicolor."
"Hey!" Zhou Huaian said as he put on his pants, "Brother Zhang said that the mulberry flowers they found were inferior to the two I had. Three flowers weighed nearly two kilograms and only sold for fifty yuan!"
"We sold those few kilograms of mixed wood mulberry fungus for more than 200 yuan last time. If they picked genuine mulberry fungus, even if the quality was a little worse, it should be more than 50 yuan per kilogram. They were probably ripped off by drug dealers!"
"You're thinking the same thing as me." Zhou Huaian put on his cotton jacket, "Sleep a little longer, I'll go get the two flowers I picked and show them to you."
Yang Chunyan looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table. "It's half past five. I went to bed at around nine last night. It's time to get up."
Zhou Huaian put on his waist bag and said, "Yan'er, I have an idea recently. There are a lot of herbs in Baicaoping and Baicaoping. I want to go there in the spring to collect herbs and send them to Ning'an to sell."
"You can buy herbs and sell them, but you have to find out the purchase price of each herb from Dr. Wang."
"I'll go to Ning'an and talk to Doctor Xiao Wang and ask for his opinion." Zhou Huaian unlocked the door, went to the main room and took the Coriolus versicolor on the coffee table, and handed it to Yang Chunyan. "Take a look, the one with the gold border."
Yang Chunyan had picked a few flowers in her previous life, but none of them were as good as these two. The best two were only six or seven years old. "These two are of good quality."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian looked at her proudly, "I knew it was a good thing at first glance."
"Yes! When you go, give some badger meat to Doctor Xiao Wang and Brother Huang."
"Okay, I'll go call Ding Ding the cat." Zhou Huaian took two mulberry yellow flowers and went out to open the door of the main room. He saw Zhou Yiding leaning on the bamboo chair on the eaves of the steps.
"Come out!" Zhou Yiding stood up lazily, "Let's go!"
Zhou Huaian handed him the Coriolus versicolor and said, "Wait, I haven't brushed my teeth or washed my face yet!"
"Okay!" Zhou Yiding took it and sat back down. "Take the cotton coat with you later. I'll sleep in it!"
He felt that he had not had a good sleep during this period. Fortunately, the New Year was only a few days away. He would then have a good sleep for two days to make up for the lack of sleep.
"The cotton coat is on the sofa in the main room, take it yourself." Zhou Huaian walked a few steps and pushed it back, "There are two wild hogs left, keep them all for yourself?"
"Two of them only weigh a few dozen pounds. You worked so hard just to eat them. Just keep them for yourself!"
"Great!" Zhou Huaian went to the backyard to wash up.
The old man came over with four eggs, "Youngest, grandpa boiled some eggs for you to eat on the way."
"That's right! Grandpa, give me the badger meat you prepared last night."
"Oh!" The old man took the meat down from the eaves and put it into a bamboo basket lined with vegetable leaves. "Put it here. Drive slowly on the road."
"Got it!"
Zhou Huaian raised his head and spat out the saliva with a few "gulps, gulps", then took the towel from the basin and rubbed it on his face a few times, then picked up the eggs, picked up the vegetable basket, said hello to the old man and left.
Yang Chunyan sent the two men to the gate of the courtyard. Seeing that they had gone to Zhou Huaishan's house, she turned around and went to the vegetable garden to pick a handful of green onions and a handful of cabbage and took them to the backyard to prepare to cook sauerkraut noodles.
Seeing a steel pot on the stove, I walked over and opened the lid. I saw two eggs and a goose egg on the rice steamer, half a pot of sweet potato porridge underneath, and a full pot of pig food cooking in the big iron pot.
After the old man and the old man came to live in her house, she felt a lot more relaxed.
On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, in order to clear the dust and send off the Kitchen God, the two old men went out early to cut bamboo poles and bamboo leaves and brought them back. They also said that although it was a new house that had just been built, they still needed to "clear the dust" to drive away the bad luck. They also took Zhou Huaian to clean the eaves gutters and went to Zhou Huairong's homes several times.
After washing up, Yang Chunyan scooped out a handful of sauerkraut, cut it into shreds, added fermented black beans, red chili peppers, and sesame seeds, mixed them together, and peeled a few potatoes and fried a plate of shredded potato, then prepared to call the two elders to eat.
"The herbs growing in the forest on the hillside have been cut, and two thick shrubs have also been cut down." Father Zhou put down his carrying pole and said, "When we are no longer busy, we will fence off the forest."
I had managed to grow several thick-leaved trees, but two of them were destroyed in a flash. Also, the herbs were less than a foot tall.
Yang Chunyan picked up the clover in the basket and looked at the cut thrush tree. "Have the herbs in the medicinal field been destroyed? What about my brother and his family?"
"It's your house. Some of the incense sticks on the edge of the forest were smashed by someone using bamboo poles. There was also a big hole in the fence. It looked like someone wanted to get in and cause some damage. Maybe someone saw them and scared them away."
"Did you go up the mountain and look at the woods yesterday?"
Father Zhou picked up two bundles of grass and said, "I went up the mountain yesterday morning and everything was fine. But this morning, someone destroyed it. I think it was probably the cubs from Old Xiong's family who did it."
Yang Chunyan thought it was entirely possible. "Wait for Huai'an to come back and ask him in the village!"
"Yes!" Father Zhou spread the grass in the aisle to dry, and then he could feed the pigs after the water dried.
The family bought three more piglets, and the daily food required a lot. Fortunately, the empty mountain land was planted with reeds and flowers, so we could cut a load of grass every day to feed the pigs, and we also saved a lot of dry pig grass.
Yang Chunyan went to the woods outside to call the old man who was grazing chickens. After three generations had eaten, she added some warm water to soak the badger oil and went up the mountain.
She walked along the fence to the edge of the woods. Zhou's father had repaired the damaged fence with wooden sticks. The hole was only big enough for a child as big as Jiaming to fit through.
The tender leaves and branches of the fragrant mountain shrub that had just grown near the fence were all broken, two thick shrubs were cut in half, and the clover and epimedium growing next to the fence were all chopped into pieces with knives.
The good thing is that it was not pulled out by the roots and will grow back after a while.
Yang Chunyan walked down the mountain along the stone path beside the fence wall and looked around the woods beside the vegetable garden. She saw the chickens at home digging for food in the woods. When she turned to the front gate, she saw Uncle Chen coming with a chicken cart.
She greeted him with a smile, "Uncle, have you eaten?"
Uncle Chen said cheerfully, "I wasn't busy going up the mountain these two days, so I came here to eat!"
Yang Chunyan looked into the bamboo basket and saw some urea bags inside. "How much is there this time?"
Uncle Chen shook his head. "Not much. About 100 pounds. It's gone after I came here this time."
"We don't have any left here either. Almost all of what we collected yesterday afternoon were dug up from the forest farm."
"How many more forest farms are there?"
"Not much. Uncle Daqing and his friends came back yesterday and don't plan to go up the mountain anymore."
"It's almost the beginning of spring, let's wait until the little ones have grown up for a while before we go look for them." Uncle Chen paused, "After hearing what you said last time, we don't even need to rake to dig anymore. We can just sew some coarse cloth and wear them to dig them out."
People these days understand the principle of sustainable development and know how to protect the natural resources on which they depend for survival.
Yang Chunyan smiled and nodded, "Yes, the soil where the truffles grow is loose and soft. You can dig them out with a little effort by putting on gloves."
"That's right. If something this valuable becomes extinct, our descendants will poke our backs." Uncle Chen followed her into the yard, pushing a chicken cart, and took out a basket from the bamboo basket. "These are the goose eggs your aunt let you take!"
Yang Chunyan took it and saw the basket full of goose eggs, "Uncle, this is too many."
"What's the big deal? Only a dozen!" Uncle Chen took down the bamboo basket. "I heard that Luo Dayou's grandson went to the Yan family to move Haili's household registration the day before yesterday, but was beaten out by Mrs. Yan."
"What does he want to do?" Yang Chunyan put down the basket and suddenly thought of the bald man. "Last time, a bald man came to my cousin and said that my cousin had told Luo Dayou that as long as she gave him 500 yuan as a gift, she would agree to marry the bald man."
"Baldy, maybe it's the yellow baldy from their team? That bastard is just an old bachelor!" Uncle Chen cursed, "Luo Dayou, that turtle bastard, is clearly trying to sell Hai Li again. I think he went to Yan's house to transfer his household registration for this reason!"
Yang Chunyan thought of the household registration booklet and the brigade's certificate, "Could it be that he wants to move Sister Haili's household registration back to cheat the bald guy out of his money?"
"Yes, luckily I moved my household registration out. When I get back, I'll go to their brigade and find out what's going on!"
"It's better to tell that bald guy about Sister Hai Li's attitude."
(End of this chapter)
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