Chapter 462 Chapter 464: Even a tiger won’t eat its own cubs
Yang Chunyan looked at the two of them and shook her head, then took the bacon out of the basket and hung it in front of the stove.
At this time, someone outside called out, "Zhou Laoyao, is anyone there?"
"Woof woof woof..." The dog also started barking wildly.
"Here you are!" Yang Chunyan walked out of the kitchen and saw a man in his forties wearing an old blue cloth jacket standing at the gate with a basket on his back. "Who are you?"
The man looked at her with a big smile on his face, "You are from the youngest's family, right? I am the youngest's uncle, Luo Dayou!"
It turned out to be this heartless and ungrateful bastard!
Yang Chunyan's face suddenly darkened. "So you are Sister Haili's husband. What are you doing here?"
"That's right!" Luo Dayou saw that her face was not right, and hurriedly smiled and said, "Haili, that damn girl is not sensible at all. I am sorry to have caused you trouble! I heard that your family is collecting truffles, so I brought some to hand over as well."
Yang Chunyan said coldly: "I won't accept your goods!"
"Chunyan, who's here?" Before she finished speaking, Luo Haili came out from the kitchen. When she saw Luo Dayou, her face darkened. "Chunyan, ignore him."
As soon as she saw him, she thought of her childhood. Every time she was beaten, she thought it was because she was naughty and made him and her stepmother angry. If she was more obedient in the future, the old man would treat her as well as he treated his younger brother.
But in the end, they sold me to Yan Yongxin...
Luo Dayou laughed and said, "Look, this damn girl has no manners at all. Now that the old man is here, give him back what he has!"
I came to Zhou's house because I heard that her aunt's family was collecting truffles. I didn't expect that this girl had become a different person in the past few months.
The old bachelor in the village asked about this dead girl last time. If he had known, he would have kept her at home.
Luo Haili's temper has become much tougher in the past few months. After hearing what he said, she sneered, "I don't have an old man after my mother passed away. I don't recognize you. Don't try to be a relative here."
Luo Dayou didn't expect that she would dare to talk back, and he pointed at her in anger, "No matter what, I am still your old man. If you dare to be unfilial to me, I will go to the commune to sue you for disobedience."
Luo Haili was so angry that her face turned red after hearing this. "You said it yourself at my uncle's house that day that you severed the father-daughter relationship with me. From now on, my life and death have nothing to do with you."
"From then on, I told myself that when my mother died, my husband also died. Go away, this is my cousin's house, and we have nothing to do with you anymore."
Yang Chunyan patted her on the shoulder and said, "Cousin, let's not get angry! It's not worth it to get angry with such a person and end up hurting yourself."
Luo Dayou was annoyed after hearing this, "Hey~ How can you talk like that? What kind of person am I?"
"This is my home, she can say whatever she wants." Zhou Huaian walked up to him angrily, "Get lost! If you dare to come to my home again, I will let the dog bite you!"
Luo Dayou pointed at Zhou's nose and said, "You uneducated thing, I am your uncle..."
"A bastard like you is worthy of being my uncle, f**k you!" Zhou Huaian cursed, "Get out! If you don't, don't blame me for being rude!"
Zhou Yiding also stood beside him, "Youngest brother, is this old bastard the one who sold his own daughter to the Yan family?"
Zhou Huaian squinted at Luo Dayou, whose face was red with anger, and said, "That's right! It's that old bastard!"
Luo Dayou pointed at him and said, "You uneducated beast, call your old man over here..."
Zhou Huaian grabbed him and said, "Old beast..."
"Stop it, youngest brother!" The old man stepped forward and pulled him away, looking at Luo Dayou, "My family has long severed ties with you, so don't come to our house again."
Luo Dayou pointed at Luo Haili and said, "I can go, but she has to go back with me."
Zhou Huaian stroked his chin and looked at him, "This old guy must be up to something! I remember when Sister Hai Li just left the Yan family, this old bastard went to my uncle's house and said that she brought shame to the Luo family and insisted on breaking off relations with her. Now he's forcing her to go back. Could it be that he wants to call her back and sell her again?"
Luo Dayou pointed at him fiercely after he exposed the conspiracy, "What nonsense are you talking about!"
"Tsk, tsk, tsk!" Zhou Yiding pointed at him. "Youngest brother, look at him like those villains in the movies who were about to do something bad and got exposed?"
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yes, that's what it looks like!"
Luo Haili saw that his face looked like a dyeing factory, and her heart, which had already been cold, suddenly became colder. "If you dare to come to my house again, I will go to the commune and sue you for selling me. Then, where will your two precious sons find wives?"
Luo Dayou lowered his eyes and looked at her. If looks could kill, she would have been riddled with holes long ago.
The old man looked at him with disdain, "Go back! Don't come again. As the old saying goes, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. You've already harmed Haili once, and you're still thinking of doing something worse than a beast? Aren't you afraid that Haili's mother will come to your bedside in the middle of the night to look for you?"
Luo Dayou squatted down, picked up the basket on his back and walked to the grove, then he remembered that he came here to sell truffles. Now he failed to sell the truffles and was ridiculed by the Zhou family.
You silly girl, don’t think that I can’t do anything to you just because you have the Zhou family’s support. Just wait for me!
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After driving Luo Dayou away, Zhou Huaian and Zhou Yiding went up the mountain to look after the medicinal fields.
Yang Chunyan took Luo Haili to the kitchen to hang bacon. "This bacon is smoked from wild boars that Huai'an hunted in the mountains in autumn. Let's cook a piece to try at noon."
"What's the good stuff?" Zhang Xiuxiang walked in. "I heard that the youngest one had a fight with a guy?"
Luo Haili said embarrassedly: "It's my old man!"
"Oh oh!" Zhang Xiuxiang awkwardly changed the subject, "Where did the bacon come from? It looks like it has been smoked for quite some time. It's shiny black oil and has a strong smoky aroma."
"After autumn..." Yang Chunyan left a piece behind, "Let this big piece soak for a while. I'll go pick a few radishes and some cabbage sprouts and come back to start cooking."
Luo Haili picked up the bacon and said, "I'll take it over to soak it."
"Great!" Yang Chunyan wiped her hands, picked up the basket, and walked towards the vegetable field with Zhang Xiuxiang.
As soon as they arrived at the door, they saw three mountain people leading five tall and strong mules and horses. The young mountain people said to the two of them in a somewhat stiff Chinese: "Are you the Zhou family who collect pig mushrooms?"
Yang Chunyan glanced at the filled rattan baskets on both sides of the pack frame and said, "Yes! Are you carrying truffles?"
The young mountaineer said, "Yes, I carried the truffles!"
Yang Chunyan pointed to the woods on the other side of the vegetable field and said, "You can unload the baskets here and tie the mules and horses over there in the woods!"
"Yes, yes!"
The three men unloaded the wicker baskets swiftly. One of them led the mule and horse towards the woods, and the other four carried the wicker baskets into the yard.
Yang Chunyan and her sister-in-law found that the truffles they sent were all first-class, second-class, third-class, and there were also many special-class goods, but very few last-class goods.
If the truffles in the mountains were not of high quality, then someone had pointed them out.
Zhang Xiuxiang asked: "Where did you come from?"
The young mountaineer pointed to the southeast and said, "We came from Huangqinggou."
Zhang Xiuxiang looked at them in surprise, "I heard that it's very far from here. You started walking before dawn, right?"
Huangqinggou is located on an old high mountain past the forest farm. Even if you walk fast, it will take seven or eight hours to reach Funiu even if you go down the mountain empty-handed.
The young mountaineer smiled shyly and said, "We set out at the first crow of the rooster. It snowed on the mountain last night, so we couldn't walk fast with the animals."
After he said that, he went to the door to pick up the remaining rattan basket.
"It will take a while to pick all ten baskets of truffles. Second sister-in-law, go and call Huai'an, Yiding and the eldest sister-in-law to come back and help pick together."
"That's great!" Zhang Xiuxiang walked away quickly.
Yang Chunyan went to the backyard and said, "Cousin, cut some meat and fry it. Cook three bowls of noodles and serve them in bowls."
"Okay!"
When Yang Chunyan returned to the front yard, the villagers had already carried all the rattan baskets into the yard. "Please sit down. I'll pour you some hot water."
"Thank you!" The young mountain man said to the other two in his local dialect, and the three of them sat down around the tree stump.
Yang Chunyan poured hot tea for them and asked, "How did you know that we were collecting truffles?"
The young mountain dweller said, "I am the head of our village. I went to the town for a meeting a few days ago. Director Xu told me about it. He also told us the location of your home."
"No wonder!" Yang Chunyan asked again, "What's your last name?"
"My surname is Qu, Qu Qiulin." He pointed at the other people and said, "They are my uncles. We are all from the same family."
"Chunyan!" Zhang Xiuxiang came in with Zhao Huifang. "Big brother and the others are also in the herb field in the back mountain. I asked Qiuyue to go and call them."
"Okay, let's get started!" Yang Chunyan pulled over a straw stool, and the three of them lifted a basket of truffles and poured it on the straw mat. The basket weighed at least 150 kilograms, so they sat down and started picking.
Zhao Huifang picked up a piece and weighed it for a few times. "Look at this piece, it's almost as big as the one Huai An dug out last time."
Now that they have ovens, they can bake truffles quickly by adjusting the time. The larger the truffles, the less waste there is, and the more money they make after shipping.
Zhang Xiuxiang picked up a slightly smaller piece and said happily, "Their truffles are really good, but I wonder if there are enough of them?"
After hearing this, Qu Qiulin said, "More! Let's find the way first. We'll go back this afternoon and bring a team of horses to deliver it to you the day after tomorrow."
"Okay, don't bring down truffles with too many worm holes like this one." Yang Chunyan said, and then reminded, "Remember to backfill the soil pit after digging the truffles."
Qu Qiulin nodded and said, "Director Xu also told me about this. This time, I also found that there were two pine trees of the same species that were not far apart, but truffles grew under one tree, but not a single truffle was found under the other tree."
Yang Chunyan thought that their place had been developed into a rural tourist destination in the future, "You should have a lot of medicinal herbs there, right?"
"The herbs we know include Millettia reticulata, Seven-leafed Aconite, Gastrodia elata, Codonopsis pilosula, Fritillaria thunbergii, Ganoderma lucidum... We have them all." Qu Qiulin paused, "If you want, we can send them to you and sell them."
"Sure! Don't worry, we will never cheat you of your things or refuse to pay you."
"Director Xu said that you are a kind family, and we believe him."
As they were talking, Zhou Huaian and a few others came down the mountain. He took out a cigarette and gave one to each of them. After a few pleasantries, Luo Haili came out with the noodles.
"Chunyan, where should I put the noodles?"
Yang Chunyan pointed at the tree stump and said, "Put it on the tea table for Village Chief Qu and the others."
"I'll do it!" Zhou Huaian took a bowl and placed it in front of the older mountain dweller, "Brother, please!"
(End of this chapter)
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