Zhou Huaian held up the empty wine glass and said, "This is the last glass. You can drink as you like after this one."
I have to look at my mother-in-law every time I drink. This grown man acts like he is still breastfeeding. It hurts my eyes to look at him.
"Okay!" He Jianjun raised his head with a bitter face and drank it.
Zhou's mother gave him a chicken leg and said naggingly, "There's so much work to do at home, they're so happy that you came to help, and today is a holiday, so they want to toast you."
"Your husband and his family spend every day at the construction site, just thinking about finishing the new house as soon as possible. When you and Yumei come home, I can let you stay at home for a while before you leave."
He Jianjun quickly ate a few mouthfuls to fill his stomach, "I will definitely come back to stay for a few days when Yumei is one month old."
Zhou's mother smiled and gave him a few more pieces of duck meat. "Stay a few more days, so you don't have to worry about those gossipy women."
"Brother-in-law, last time I helped someone bring a fat pig to town, I heard from the people at the slaughterhouse that someone in town was having an affair and was caught in the act by the woman's family. The couple was tied up with ropes by the woman's family and taken to the police station and tied up at the gate?"
Zhou Huaian slapped the table without waiting for his answer, "This is well done. Those of us with sisters should do this. Brother-in-law, if it was your sister who was cuckolded, you would do the same, right?"
He Jianjun almost bit his tongue, "..."
Father Zhou glared at Zhou Huaian and said, "Why are you saying this? Your brother-in-law's brother-in-law is not such a person."
Mother Zhou nodded and said, "That's right. No one would do something that would bring shame to their ancestors."
He Jianjun nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, yes, no one would do such a thing."
Seeing that he was sweating, Zhou Huaijun picked up a piece of duck meat and put it in his bowl. "Brother-in-law, don't be polite. Eat the vegetables. Today's braised duck is delicious. The youngest bought it specially because he knew you were coming today."
"Hmm!" He Jianjun chewed the duck meat hard as if he was chewing wax.
On the steps, Yang Chunyan and her sisters-in-law looked at each other and laughed.
As soon as the children put down their chopsticks, they ran to the main hall and pulled Zhou's mother, clamoring to eat the mooncakes that Zhou Huaian bought.
Zhou Jiakang said: "We only ate one that day, and it was gone before we could even taste it. We have to taste it carefully today."
Zhou's mother smiled and said, "Why are you eating mooncakes when you just finished your meal? Let's wait until the moon comes out before eating."
Father Zhou waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter whether you eat it in the morning or in the evening. Just take it out and give it to them!"
"Yes!" Zhou's mother went back to her room and took out the mooncakes Zhou Huaian bought, unpacked them and shared them among the children, "Two for each of you, and you are not allowed to grab others' after you finish eating them."
"Oh oh!" Several people responded in unison.
Zhou Jiakang nibbled the mooncake like a little hamster. "I tasted the melon seeds. They smell so good!"
Zhou Xiaoqian: "I even ate a walnut kernel, a big piece!"
After eating one, Zhou Jialiang licked the crumbs off his fingers and said, "The mooncakes my dad bought are still the best!"
Zhou Jiakang nodded, "Let's go to Great Grandfather's house and see what kind of mooncakes Xiaoli and the others are eating?"
"Let's go and take a look." Several kids took the mooncakes to the backyard and went to see Zhou Xiaoli to see which one tasted better.
Zhao Huifang and the others cleaned up the table. "There are more mushrooms in the mountains after the rain. Let's go to the mountains to have a look."
Yang Chunyan thought of the stinking peonies in the mountains that had not been dug up and planted yet. "It's already the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and it's time to harvest the seeds of the stinking peonies. I'll go with you and collect the seeds and dig up the roots of the stinking peonies at the same time."
"We'll clean up. Go change your clothes and shoes. Just carry a vegetable basket instead of a backpack."
"Yeah!" Yang Chunyan went back to the house and packed up. Seeing Zhou Huaian still drinking and eating, she said hello to Zhou's mother and went up the mountain with Zhao Huifang and others.
Halfway up the mountain, Li Qiuyue pointed to the bushes ahead and said, "Chunyan, were you there that day when you almost beat up that bastard Xiong Laosan as if he were a wild animal?"
"That's right. Huai'an even fired three shots into the sky to drive away the bad luck."
"Tsk tsk!" Zhao Huifang said with a click of the tongue. "In the woods this morning, Zou Cuifen hid as soon as she saw us. She didn't even dare to meet our faces."
"I've already done her a disservice by not telling her about it."
When they were approaching the valley where the stinking peonies grew, Yang Chunyan saw bellflowers blooming everywhere on the slope. "Look how beautiful those bellflowers are."
Zhao Huifang: "Bellflowers like to grow on slopes."
"This is also a herb. When its seeds are ripe, pick them, dig them up and take them back to dry in the sun."
"I still have to come out with you, otherwise we won't know each other."
The scientific name of bellflower is Platycodon grandiflorum. Also known as baggage flower, bell flower, and monk's mane flower, it is a perennial herb.
The Chinese medicine Platycodon grandiflorum is the dried root of the Platycodon grandiflorum plant of the Campanulaceae family. It tastes bitter, pungent, and flat in nature. It has the effects of clearing the lungs, relieving sore throat, removing phlegm, and draining pus.
Platycodon has a very strong ability to adapt to the environment. The whole plant has white latex, and the flowers are purple-blue, emerald blue, pure white, etc. The colors and flower shapes are very beautiful.
Based on the name alone, some people may mistakenly believe that Platycodon grandiflorum is the stem of oranges, but in fact it has nothing to do with oranges.
The few of them continued walking forward, and when they reached the valley, they saw that the oysters had already produced seeds. The blue-black seeds looked like gems in the sun.
Zhang Xiuxiang pointed inside and said, "I remember there were a lot of mushrooms in the forest ahead. How about we go take a look and then come back to dig some?"
Yang Chunyan thought that if the four of them worked together, they could finish digging up all the stinking peonies in half an hour at most, "Okay, let's go in and take a look."
The four sisters-in-law walked inside with their medicine hoes. When they passed the big-fruited fig tree, they saw a lot of wood ears growing on the trunk of a dead tree, and they also found some green fungus.
After the four of them picked them, Li Qiuyue looked around and said, "I remember the last time I came here to pick morels, I saw a few wax gourds nearby. It's just right to pick them and eat them these days."
"Yes, all the melons I saw this morning have been picked, and there are a lot of melon rinds on the ground."
After hearing this, Yang Chunyan sighed and said, "Winter melon is delicious, but it's a pity that it has a cold nature. I can't eat it now."
Zhao Huifang warned: "Don't eat things that you shouldn't eat. Someone in my family ate rabbit meat when she was pregnant, and the baby was born with a three-lobed mouth."
"I understand."
There is a folk saying that pregnant women cannot eat rabbit meat, otherwise the baby will be born with a cleft lip.
Although Yang Chunyan knew that this statement might not be true, people in the countryside were very superstitious about it and strictly prohibited pregnant women in her family from eating rabbit meat.
A few people continued to walk inside and found quite a few big-foot mushrooms, small yellow mushrooms, milk mushrooms, and red mushrooms, but most of them had their umbrellas opened.
Zhao Huifang regretted it so much when she saw it, "There are more mushrooms here. I should have come here to pick them a long time ago."
"It's just as well if you come early tomorrow."
The four of them picked the good ones and put them in the vegetable basket. Yang Chunyan looked around and suddenly saw a few little red hats peeking out from under the dead leaves.
She stepped forward, pushed aside the dead leaves, patted the mushroom cap, pulled it up and grinned at the people behind her, "There are still a few that haven't opened yet." (End of this chapter)
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