After the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law made the red eggs, Zhou's mother gave them to Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang, and asked them to deliver them to relatives and friends in the village, as well as to those who had good relationships with them and neighbors in the village.
Father Zhou and Zhou Huaian were carrying a big rooster, and behind them followed Aunt Zhou San, Datian's wife, who was carrying a full basket of eggs and children's clothes.
She hurried over to greet him, "I was so busy that I lost my mind. If the youngest hadn't told me to send red eggs to announce the good news, I would have forgotten about it!"
Aunt Zhou smiled and said, "The youngest son was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. He told everyone that Chunyan had given birth and that he was an old man now. His son's nickname was Xiaojiu!"
Mother Zhou turned her head and glanced at the smirking Zhou Huaian, "You idiot, you act like a treasure!"
Zhou Huaian scratched his head, "Are you ready? I'll go to my mother-in-law's house and announce the good news!"
"It's ready." Zhou's mother pointed at the bicycle and said, "Take the big rooster with you. Remember to tell your sister when you pass through the town."
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian packed the big rooster and rode away on his bicycle.
Aunt Zhou San smiled and said, "Let's go and see Yue's mother and the child."
Mother Zhou: "Chunyan just fell asleep, I'll bring the child over for you to see!"
Aunt Zhou San: "Let her sleep, we'll go see little Jiu'er from the youngest family!"
When Zhou's mother entered the room and saw Yang Chunyan asleep, she planned to quietly take the child to the main room to show the old man and the others, but she woke up as soon as she reached out her hand.
"I'm sorry to wake you up!" Zhou's mother said softly, "You continue to sleep. I'll bring the child to the living room to see your husband and grandfather!"
"Yeah!" Seeing Zhou's mother leaving with the child, Yang Chunyan fell asleep with peace of mind.
Mother Zhou brought the child to the old man and said, "Grandpa, please look after our little Jiuer. I'm going to go cook some fried eggs with rice!"
According to the local custom, every relative or friend who comes to send a confinement gift must be treated to a bowl of brown sugar rice and fried eggs.
The old man happily reached out to take the child and looked at him lovingly, "Clown baby, eat well, sleep well and grow up quickly!"
Aunt Zhou came forward to take a look and said, "Nowadays, there is no need to worry about having nothing to eat for the mother and baby during confinement. As long as the baby has breast milk, he will grow fast!"
The old man laughed and said, "The chicken and eggs are ready, but I'm worried that I won't be able to eat them!"
Aunt Datian smiled and nodded, "Yes! It's a good time. I wouldn't have dared to think about it last year."
Over there, Zhou Huaian rode his bicycle straight into Zhou Yiding's yard, "Dingding cat, eat the red eggs, I'm an old man now!"
Zhou Yiding ran over from the backyard, "Son or daughter?"
Zhou Huaian looked at him proudly, "Of course he's my son, don't you see who I am?"
Zhou Yiding was happy for him after hearing this and patted his chest, "Not bad, your shooting skills are quite accurate!"
"You should take good care of yourself these days and try to hit the target with your shot!" Zhou Huaian looked like an experienced person and glanced at his hand. "For the sake of your son, be restrained and don't have anything to do with the fifth girl!"
"Go, go, go, go and tell your mother-in-law the good news!" Zhou Yiding gave him a slap and walked towards the main room with a red egg.
"If you don't listen to the advice of the elderly, you will suffer the consequences. Remember what I told you, kid!" Zhou Huaian said with a laugh, then got on his bicycle and left the yard.
After the child was born, he felt that they had gotten rid of the bad things in Chunyan's dreams. The happiness in his heart was indescribable. He felt very happy and thought everything was so beautiful. Even when he met Xiong Lao San on the road, he smiled at him.
When Xiong Laosan saw him smiling brightly at him, he couldn't help but smile at him too. When he came to his senses, he found that he had already pedaled away on his bicycle.
Zhou Huaian arrived outside Zhou Yumei's agency store and saw Luo Haili guarding the store. "Cousin, where is my sister?"
Seeing his silly grin, Luo Haili suddenly had an idea, "Chunyan gave birth?"
"It's born, both mother and child are safe!" Zhou Huaian took out the red egg with a silly smile, "Tell my sister I'm going to my mother-in-law's house to announce the good news."
"Hey!" Luo Haili happily took the red egg, and seeing him pedaling away, she hurriedly said, "Huai'an, be careful on the road!"
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "Got it!"
Luo Haili looked at his back with a smile, turned around and walked towards the store with the red eggs, without seeing Luo Dayou and a woman walking towards her from the street corner.
Luo Dayou saw her turn around and excitedly pulled the woman, "Xiang Hong, did you see it? What that person said is true. That damn girl Hai Li is really in town."
Gong Xianghong nodded grimly, "Let's go, you little bitch, let her pay us back for what we paid to Fang Tuzi!"
It turned out that when Fang Tuzi went to Funiu to see Luo Haili being driven away, he was unwilling to let his money be cheated away by Luo Dayou, so he went back to ask him to return the money.
Gong Xianghong was unwilling to return the money to him and delayed for a while. Seeing that she could not delay any longer, she asked Luo Dayou to go to Funiu to find Luo Haili, but he was driven away by Yang Chunyan and others.
Later, the couple thought of a way. They went to Yan's house to move the household registration of Luo Haili and her mother to their own village, thinking that after the household registration was moved to their own village, they could find someone to get a marriage certificate on behalf of Luo Haili and Fang Tuzi.
Little did they know that the Zhou family had already moved the mother and son's household registration away. When Luo Dayou went to the Yan family to move his household registration, he failed and was instead beaten by Mrs. Yan with a broom, and was asked to return the previous betrothal money.
The Zhou family didn't dare to come, and before they could come up with a solution, Uncle Chen and his wife showed up. The couple blocked the door and cursed for the whole morning. They also told Tuzi Fang that Luo Haili would never marry him, and asked him to give up and not be fooled by them.
After Fang Tuzi found out, he brought people to their door and forced them to return the 300 yuan deposit and even pay 100 yuan in compensation.
A few days ago, the youngest child's in-laws somehow found out about Luo Haili's situation and asked the matchmaker to come to their house to cancel the engagement. They failed to cancel the engagement because they promised to give back the bicycle as a dowry.
The couple wanted to make a fortune with Luo Haili, but failed and instead lost three hundred. They were very angry, but Luo Haili was protected by the Zhou family, and they did not dare to go to Funiu to cause trouble for her.
A few days ago, a woman suddenly came to tell them that Luo Haili had gone to the town with Zhou Yumei to do business. The two of them opened a sales agency store next to the school, and the house was also bought by them together.
The two of them passed by the town today and came to take a look. They didn't expect to see that damn girl in real life. She actually opened such a big shop!
If I get her share, I won't have to worry about having no money in the future.
Luo Haili called out to Zhou Yumei, who was stirring pea jelly in the kitchen, at the back door. When she heard someone talking outside, she turned around and saw Luo Dayou and his wife standing at the door of the shop looking around.
She came forward with a cold face and said unhappily, "What are you doing here?"
Gong Xianghong looked at Luo Haili wearing this year's most fashionable purple and red plaid suit, and the jealousy in her eyes could hardly be hidden. She cursed inwardly: "You jinx! My youngest child doesn't have such nice clothes to wear, why do you have the right to wear such nice clothes!"
Luo Dayou said, "I am your old man, what do you think I am doing here?"
Luo Haili said coldly: "Get out of here, we have severed our relationship long ago!"
"You damned girl, I gave birth to you and raised you, and you dare to break off relations with me!" Luo Dayou stretched out his hand and wanted to hit her, "I will beat you to death, you disobedient and unfilial thing!"
Luo Haili picked up the door bar next to her, pointed at him and shouted angrily: "How dare you! Ever since the day you sold me to the Yan family and let them beat, scold and humiliate me, I have told myself that my biological mother is gone, and my biological husband is gone too! Get out!"
Luo Dayou was stunned for a moment, and rolled up his sleeves to hit her, "It's only natural for me to hit you, if you dare to fight back, you'll have to give me your skin back!"
"When you sold me to the Yan family, I gave my life back to you!" Luo Haili really raised the door bar and hit him, "If you kill me, I'll go and hit the sand pot!"
Luo Dayou saw that the situation was not good and quickly ran across the street, "Someone was beaten to death, my own daughter beat up an old man..."
You little girl, it’s been such a long time since we last met, how come you seem like a different person?
Gong Xianghong wiped away her non-existent tears and grabbed Luo Dayou. Since the hard way didn't work, the couple decided to use the soft way.
"Haili, we raised you up, and we worked hard for you! How could you be so heartless? Now that you've become rich, you don't even want your parents anymore!"
Neighbors and passers-by gathered around.
Mother He shouted with glee, "Look everyone, a bunch of unfaithful women who were kicked out by their husbands' families, who are not even recognized by their parents..."
"Bullshit!" Luo Haili cursed her and pointed at Gong Xianghong, "You are not my mother at all. My real mother is lying in the Luo family cemetery in the back mountain! I haven't had a good day since you married into the Luo family."
"I have to cook, wash clothes and take care of the children in the fields even though I am not even as high as the stove. And yet I am often beaten, not given food, and not allowed to sleep or take naps!"
The onlookers suddenly realized, "It turned out to be the stepmother!"
"It's normal for a stepmother to be like this. I've never seen a stepmother treat her husband well!"
"That's right, it's good to ignore it. At least you won't get beaten!"
After hearing this, Gong Xianghong shouted to the onlookers, "I don't want to be someone's stepmother either. This is my fate and I can't do anything about it! Think about it, everyone. In the past, which family didn't have adults working outside to earn work points, and the older ones stayed at home to take care of the younger ones?"
She pointed at Luo Haili and said, "This girl was angry with me for marrying her old man. When she gave birth to her younger siblings, they took away her food. When I asked her to take care of them, she beat them up and went around saying that I abused her. If I had abused her, how could she have grown up so big and looked so pretty?"
Mother He chimed in, "Sister is right. She didn't have enough to eat or wear warm clothes during those years. If she was really a cruel person, she wouldn't have grown up this big!"
"You are just the same kind of black-hearted old hag as them!" Luo Haili scolded Mrs. He and pointed at Luo Dayou and Gong Xianghong, "Of course you don't want to kill me. If you kill me, how are you going to get the money to build a house for your son and get him a wife?"
"That's right!" Zhou Yumei came out with some jelly and walked up to Grandma He and said, "Of course you think it's normal! Your daughters are your own, but you still sold them. How dare you, a person who is willing to sell even your own daughters, speak here?"
After hearing this, Mrs. He started to curse, "You are such an uneducated slut, you were kicked out by your husband's family..." (End of this chapter)
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