"Yeah!" Luo Haili said, "Yumei asked me not to tell Huai'an because she was worried that he might have a bad temper. If he goes to town and beats up that bastard He Jianjun, it won't be worth it for him to stay in the detention room."
Yang Chunyan was also worried about this, "I'll tell him."
Luo Haili walked up to her and whispered, "The man who helped Yumei chase He Jianjun away was from Fang Tian. He had a scar on his face. I heard he got it when he was in the army. I noticed that he looked at Yumei differently. It seemed like they knew each other before."
"Is the man married?"
Yang Chunyan had only heard Zhou Huaian say that Liu the matchmaker had introduced her to a man who seemed to be from a nearby village. Last time when she brought Yumei back, she also heard them saying that if they had known earlier, they would have married Yumei to someone nearby so that they could take care of her if something happened.
Luo Haili shook her head. "I don't know. If Yumei doesn't tell me, I can't ask!"
Yang Chunyan knew that she was not a talkative person. "Xiaoxi is still young, and Sister Yumei may not have that idea now."
Luo Haili shuddered when she thought of what Aunt Li had said about those women who remarried with their daughters and met the wrong people and scumbags.
"Yumei said she has no such plans now. She also said that we are both raising our daughter. If we really want to find someone, we have to find someone with good character. If we find a beast who is worse than pigs and dogs, it is better for us to raise the child by ourselves."
Yang Chunyan understood what she meant, "There is no shortage of beasts in this world. If you want to find them again, you must keep your eyes open." Just like Luo Dayou sold his own daughter and gave birth to a daughter, Cai Ermei and He Jianjun abandoned their wives and daughters, they were not the worst beasts, there were even worse beasts.
"Life is so hard for us women!" Luo Haili sighed. "In this life, I just want to live a good life with Qiaoling. When I save up some money, I will buy a house in town and help her take care of the children when I get old."
"If you see someone suitable but don't have enough money, I have some here." Yang Chunyan thought of her past life and felt that they were much luckier than she was at that time.
Luo Haili nodded and said gratefully: "Thank you Chunyan, the greatest blessing in my life is to have an aunt who loves me and cousins like you."
Yang Chunyan said with a smile: "Don't say that. You can stand up on your own. If you are a hopeless case, we can't help you even if we want to."
Luo Haili pulled her hand emotionally and said, "Every time I talk to you, my heart feels warm."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Then come to me if you have anything to say in the future."
"Yeah!" Luo Haili said with a smile, "I feel relieved now that I've told you. Yumei is alone in the store, so I'll leave first! I'll go say hello to my aunt when I get over there."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Are you full? You're welcome!"
"You filled the two-bucket bowl so full that I had to force myself to finish it." Luo Haili touched her stomach with a smile, "Maybe it's because there's enough fat in my stomach now, so my appetite isn't as big as before."
Yang Chunyan thought so too, "Okay, then I won't see you off."
"No need to send me off, just go about your business." Luo Haili touched Xiao Jiuer, pushed the bicycle and walked outside.
Yang Chunyan had just finished cutting the pickled peppers, pickled ginger, garlic and onions when a tractor rumbled in and Xiao Jiuer started crying.
She washed her hands quickly, went forward and hugged him, "Don't cry, Grandpa and the others are back, who told you to sleep at this time every day!"
She thought they would be back for a while, so she planned to fry the tripe and then go pick up the baby, but she didn't expect them to be back so early today.
Zhou Huairong jumped off the tractor and asked, "Are you crying again?"
"He sleeps at this time every day. Next time, take him away earlier." Yang Chunyan saw that the number of baskets of mushrooms collected from Baicaoping was almost the same as yesterday. She thought that it might be because the soil was too dry and fewer mushrooms grew.
While untying the rope, Zhou Huairong asked, "I saw Haili coming. Your sister-in-law and the others followed her to Lao San's place. Did something happen to Yumei?"
"Sister Hai Li said..." Yang Chunyan recounted what happened in the town.
Zhou Huairong was so angry that his face turned blue after hearing this, "You bastard, you should have given that bastard He Jianjun a good beating last time."
"Huaian will send Gouzi off tonight." Yang Chunyan said, thinking of paying the public grain tax. "Aunt Datian has sent the public grain tax book over. The public grain tax will be paid the day after tomorrow. You have to go too."
"Okay, I'll deliver the public grain tax as well!" Zhou Huairong untied the rope, and Zhou Huaijun and Zhou Huaishan also came. The three brothers began to unload the red mushrooms.
Yang Chunyan took her son to the front yard to feed him.
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Zhou Huaian pushed the chicken cart to Zhou Huaishan's house. Zhou Xiaolin saw the bamboo basket full of corns and asked, "Dad, are all these from my family?"
"They are all yours." Zhou Huaian poured the corn onto the steps. "Where is your grandma?"
"I'm washing my brother's poop in the backyard!" Zhou Xiaolin picked up a bag of corn and said, "Dad, I want to eat roasted corn."
"These are too old to eat. Dad will find you some tender ones this afternoon." Zhou Huaian pulled the scarf on her little bun and said, "Let's go and eat."
Zhou Xiaolin shook her head. "My grandma gave me a bowl of chicken soup, but I'm full and don't want to eat anymore."
"If you don't want to eat, just stay at home and watch the red mushrooms. Dad is going back to eat!"
"I watched obediently!"
Zhou Huaian was pushing the chicken cart home. Before he even reached the door of his house, he was caught up by Zhou Jiaming and his friends who had come running back. "Dad, I want to push the chicken cart."
"I'll push you!" Zhou Huaian put down the handlebars and glanced at Zhou Xiaoru and the others who were carrying flowered schoolbags. "Is studying fun?"
Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Xiaowen were still half a year away from entering the first grade. Zhao Huifang and Zhang Xiuxiang were worried that they would play by the river at home, so they sent them to school together.
Zhou Xiaoru nodded with sparkling eyes, "It's fun. After class, many people play catch and skip rope together."
"Dad, I won a lot of paper shells!" Zhou Jiakang opened his schoolbag and showed off to him.
Zhou Huaian saw the thick stack of paper shells in his schoolbag and curled his lips and shook his head, "One or two of them are either catching or hitting paper shells. I saved the five yuan bonus at the end of the year again."
Zhou Jiakang's eyes lit up and he grabbed him, "Dad, if I get 100 points on the test, you will also give me five dollars as a reward, right?"
Zhou Huaian pinched his chubby cheeks and said, "As long as you get two hundred points in the exam, I will reward you with five dollars. Keep your word!" Then he looked at Zhou Xiaowen and Zhou Xiaoru, "The same goes for you two."
Zhou Jialiang pulled Zhou Xiaowen and said, "Little sister, study hard. It's very easy to get 100 points in the first grade!" He felt that he had no hope. His little sister was smarter than him and his older brother, and she could get the same rewards as them.
Zhou Xiaowen said softly, "It's very simple. When you and your elder brother were in the first grade, why didn't either of you get 100 points in both the exams?"
Zhou Jiaming: “…” This is too hurtful to your self-esteem. How could you, little sister, stab your brother in the heart?
Zhou Xiaoru also said: "Exactly, why didn't any of you get 100 points?"
Zhou Jia understood when his sister saw her look, "Dad is talking about you guys, don't drag me into this!" Getting a double 100 score is harder than breaking corn, I have long given up on the five dollars.
"Dad, all the marks in my exercise book are 100 points, except for one 99." Zhou Xiaowen said as he took out the exercise book from his schoolbag and handed it to Zhou Huaian.
He flipped open the pages and saw that the pinyin letters were written neatly. He flipped through several pages and all the scores were 100. "Not bad, it depends on you to surpass Sister Xiaoqian. Let's see which final exam can get a five-dollar reward?"
"I can!" Zhou Jiakang looked at him confidently, "Dad, I also have many double 100s, but they are not as good as Xiaowen's."
Zhou Xiaoqian grabbed his ear and said, "How dare you say that? After dinner, erase all the things you wrote and write them again!"
"I will change it, I promise!" Zhou Jiakang tiptoed and responded repeatedly.
Zhou Jiaming patted Zhou Jialiang enviously and said, "Look, Xiaoqian is more useful in talking to Xiaokang than Second Mother and Second Father."
Zhou Jialiang shrank back, "Xiao Qian washes clothes for Xiao Kang, why don't you wash mine?"
Zhou Jiaming: "I'm not a woman, call my little sister to wash it for you."
"So what if he's a man? Old men also have to wash clothes." Zhou Xiaowen looked at him with disdain, "Brother is the laziest now!"
Seeing that the brothers had dragged down the encouraging meeting, Zhou Huaian patted Zhou Jiaming and said, "It's still the same as before. As long as you get 100 points in the final exam, Dad will give you a reward immediately." He then looked at Zhou Xiaoqian and said, "If anyone can pass the exam to study in the county town in the future, Dad will reward him with a bicycle."
Zhou Jiakang and the others who thought they could do it immediately became enthusiastic, "The one with 26 laps?"
Zhou Huaian nodded seriously, "Yes, as long as you pass the exam, Dad will take you to Doctor Wang's shop in the county town to choose."
Zhou Xiaoqian looked at Zhou Huaian, "Dad, the teacher said that with my current grades, I should be able to pass the exam!"
Zhou Huaian stroked her head and said, "Dad believes you can pass the exam. You will have your own bicycle by the end of next year."
He felt that his family could afford to send them to school now, and if he gave them some incentives, if one or two of them showed promise in their studies, he would have someone to talk to in the future.
"Yes! I will work hard!" Zhou Xiaoqian decided to work harder from today and try to get the bicycle.
"Dad, let's work hard too!" Zhou Jiakang and Zhou Xiaoru also wanted to get the reward like Sister Xiaoqian and have their own bicycle.
Zhou Jialiang said enviously: "If we had received the reward earlier, we would have studied hard. You should work harder now and try to get the five-dollar reward first!"
Zhou Jiaming: "That's right, the first volume is all about 1+1=2. When you reach the third or fourth grade, you will know how amazing it is."
Zhou Jiakang: "Brother, how difficult is it? How come Sister Mei Na can get 100 marks in both the fifth grade?"
Zhou Jiaming said angrily: "If you can get 100 points in both exams in fifth grade, I will give you all the New Year's money I saved!"
Zhou Jiakang was depressed. "If my sister can't do it, I definitely can't do it either!"
"Why are you all blocking the door instead of going in to eat?" Zhou's mother patted Zhou Jiaming who was holding the handle of the rickshaw.
Zhou Xiaowen pulled her, "Grandma, my dad said..."
Zhou's mother: "Then you three should get 100 points in the exam and earn the five dollars."
"Well! Let's earn it for him." (End of this chapter)
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