Chapter 69: Selling Reed Leaves

Zhou Wanwan thought about it, people are under the low eaves, they still have to bow their heads, she can't cause trouble for the three brothers and sisters because of her whimsical will. However, let her bow her head, and others don't want to stop. Didn't Mrs. Zhou want it? Then she won't let her get it, and she has nothing to say. Moreover, Zhou Wanwan also wanted to use these things to muddy the water of the Zhou family even more and make them messy, so that she and her brothers could stop living. Her stuff wasn't wasted.

Here Zhou Wanwan is pondering his thoughts, and over there Zhou Chen has already begun to deal with the inquiries of everyone in the Zhou family.

“…… We just met on the road, and after a few words, we don't know why he sent these things. ”

“…… Who knows why he only gave it to Nannan, and he didn't even talk to him. ”

"Auntie, if Shen Guodong sent these things because his uncle was the accountant of the brigade, why didn't he name them and give them to you?"

……

Zhou Wanwan listened to a few words, although everyone in the Zhou family didn't mention the matter of dividing things, their eyes were all staring, and it was impossible for their brothers and sisters to take things away in this situation today. Mrs. Zhou had already begun to glare at Zhou Chunliang, and motioned for him to snatch the schoolbag and hand it over to her for safekeeping.

If it is handed over to Mrs. Zhou for safekeeping, then the whereabouts of these things will no longer be up to their brothers and sisters, and Zhou Wanwan feels that Zhou Hongxiang and Zhou Hongying must not be cheap this time, and they can't get used to their stinky problems.

Zhou Wanwan said a few words in Zhou Yang's ear, Zhou Yang frowned and shook his head, Zhou Wanwan pulled Zhou Chen again, the brothers and sisters studied it in a whisper, and finally Zhou Yang frowned and nodded reluctantly.

Everyone in the Zhou family stared at them intently, and Mrs. Zhou, Zhou Hongying, and Wang Fengying had begun to sit still, looking eager to try and ready to shoot at any time.

The three brothers and sisters discussed, and Zhou Chen announced their decision: "Shen Guodong said, these things are only for Nannan, and no one else can touch them, but we are a family, although we used to watch when others ate good things, but we can't do such a thing." He said. Zhou Chen's eyes swept over Li Guizhi and Wang Fengying, Li Guizhi hugged Zhou Lan and lowered her head, Wang Fengying stared at the satchel in Zhou Wanwan's arms like no one else, as if she had never stolen candy for Zhou Ling before.

"We talked it over. Let's divide these things now, but I have to say that in front, our family divided the things today, that is, our Zhou family owes Shen Guodong a favor, and in the future, we will have to pay it back with our whole family. If you don't agree to return this favor. Don't take anything today. Zhou Chen paused, swept around the Zhou family, and asked, "Is there anyone who disagrees?" ”

Everyone in the Zhou family was silent, and Wang Fengying shouted with a smile: "Sanle, Sile, what do you two children know, what kind of family is Chief Shen's family, can you still care about this thing?" What kind of people are unkind, people don't need us to pay it back! Let's divide the things! ”

"Auntie, then do you not agree with our family to return this favor?" Zhou Chen asked.

"What's the favor, we have a lot of dirt left in the poor land of Gada, what do you want to pay back? People don't expect us to return any favors. "Wang Fengying's chaos has come up. The head twisted his mouth and pouted, "What do you know about children's homes?" ”

"Auntie, no matter how young I am, I know that I can't open my hands and take other people's things for nothing, so I can't ask for food? If you don't agree to return this favor, don't ask for this thing today, just so that others can share more. Zhou Chen said unhurriedly, and in a few words, Wang Fengying was put on the opposite side of the Zhou family.

"Who said I don't want it!" Wang Fengying's eyes lit up when she heard the others, and she immediately became anxious, "Everyone has it, why don't we have it." ”

"Everyone agreed to repay the favor together in the future. Does the aunt agree? Zhou Chen asked

"Agreed! Why don't you agree! Wang Fengying hurriedly said. The future is a matter for the future, so let's get the stuff in our hands for now.

"Everyone's agreed?" Zhou Chen asked everyone in the Zhou family again.

Seeing that everyone in the Zhou family nodded, he opened his satchel and began to divide things.

Cut two apples into eight pieces, starting with Zhou Yang. The seven younger children of the Zhou family were all given a piece, and the remaining piece was given to the pregnant woman Shen Yufen. The sugar was also shared among the seven children, two pieces each, and the remaining one was also given to Shen Yufen. Everyone else has no opinion, only Zhou Jun and Zhou Hongying are very unhappy.

Zhou Jun didn't get anything at all, and was just about to speak. was pushed back by Zhou Chen, "Erle, you are sixteen years old this year, and you still want to grab something to eat with a two-year-old child?" ”

"Then why do you two have it?" Zhou Jun was in a hurry.

"We're younger than you." Zhou Chen didn't say anything to him, it was originally for his sister, if he could see this clearly, he wouldn't have come to fight, and he would simply mix with Zhou Jun.

Zhou Jun was so angry that he inhaled hard, sucked the rhubarb snot in his mouth and swallowed it, but he couldn't say a word.

Of course, Zhou Hongying is not happy, when has she shared things equally with the children in the family, and she eats all good things. But today, she really didn't dare to fight, with the names of Chief Shen and the county armed forces minister, she didn't even dare to say that Mrs. Zhou wanted to fight for Zhou Hongxiang, let alone what she said. So Zhou Hongying could only bite the apple viciously, and sulked at Zhou Xia and Zhou Ling, who also ate apples like her.

The remaining half bag of milk powder was divided into three parts by Zhou Chen, one for Zhou Lan, one for Zhou Wanwan, and the remaining one for the unborn child in Shen Yufen's belly.

Many people in the Zhou family are dissatisfied with this division, but they can't find a reason to oppose it. On this night, the Zhou family was immersed in a turbulent tranquility.

Back in the West House, the three Zhou Yang brothers and sisters quickly packed up and went to bed, Zhou Yang and Zhou Chen were unusually silent, and they all left their share of things to Zhou Wanwan and didn't move at all.

Zhou Wanwan knew that the two brothers felt guilty that they were not able to keep food for their sister, and in this case, she could not convince the two brothers to eat these things, so she didn't say anything. She has written down Shen Guodong's favor, and she will definitely double it in the future. She also felt the love and guilt of her brothers, she would cherish it more, and she would work harder, they would grow up and become strong soon, and this kind of domination would soon come to an end......

In a blink of an eye, it is June 5th, the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, and tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival. Mrs. Zhou prepared something to bring to Zhou Hongxiang tomorrow in the afternoon.

The team organized a few members who are really clever to work and go to the county tomorrow to sell the reed leaves of the dumplings and the calamus grass used for the Dragon Boat Festival, and how much can be exchanged for some cash back, and Zhou Yang was fortunate to be selected among them. Mrs. Zhou asked him to bring some things to Zhou Hongxiang by the way, without considering how hard it was for Zhou Yang to carry fifty or sixty catties of reeds on his back for sixty miles.

First, there is a bundle of cabbage, shallots, spinach, and wild vegetables. Then there is a small winter melon, a little early beans, ten large potatoes, and a small packet of milk powder and a few pieces of white rabbit toffee.

The vegetables in the Zhou family's vegetable garden grow very well. It is also much earlier than other people's houses, so the leafy vegetables and shallots can be eaten a long time ago, as for the winter melon and early beans, the Zhou family has never eaten a meal, and the winter melon has not yet grown. The early beans are only a few and a half years old, and they haven't eaten it yet. But Mrs. Zhou still took it off for the sake of her daughter.

As for the potatoes, of course, they were taken out of the space by Zhou Wanwan, there were only green leaves and a little bit of grain on the Zhou family's dinner table, and the two brothers did not have enough starch intake and did not feel full, Zhou Wanwan felt sorry for them, so she asked Mrs. Zhou to find some potatoes. The quantity is not much, and you can eat the wheat if you save it. Mrs. Zhou sent it today, and the family will be hungry for two more days.

As for the milk powder and the White Rabbit toffee, the milk powder was snatched from Zhou Lan's mouth by Mrs. Zhou, and the toffee was shared by Shen Yufen, Zhou Xia and Zhou Lan.

Zhou Wanwan didn't know how Mrs. Zhou got these things, and she didn't care, this result had long been expected by her. There are good things at home, and Mrs. Zhou will never pull down Zhou Hongxiang's family. So she divided everything, instead of letting Mrs. Zhou stare at the three of their brothers and sisters, it was better to let her ask for others, which diverted Mrs. Zhou's attention. It also deepened the dissatisfaction of others with Mrs. Zhou.

At eleven o'clock in the evening on the fourth day of the fifth month, Zhou Yang got up and set off. He had to carry fifty or sixty catties of reed leaves and more than ten catties of greens for Zhou Hongxiang to walk for six hours, and walk to the morning market in the county seat before five o'clock in the morning. The reed leaves are a pound and a quarter to a dime, and he can sell it for three or five yuan this time.

At this time, individuals are not allowed to come out and sell things. But if it is in the name of the production team, it is still possible. If the workers' inspection team comes to investigate, without the certificate issued by the production team and the brigade, they may be taken away by people and things, and if the circumstances are serious, they will be criticized and paraded in the streets.

So even if he sells things on behalf of the collective, the old captain still has to pick a clever and down-to-earth member, otherwise he won't be able to understand what he says. If you get caught again, you'll be in trouble.

Zhou Wanwan gave Zhou Yang energy supplements, filled a full pot of spiritual spring water, and told him that he could only drink it by himself and no one was allowed to give it, so he reluctantly sent him away.

The next day is the Dragon Boat Festival, but the production team can't take a minute off. When grabbing the farm, it is to grab grain with God, and if you are a little late, you will have to race against time, so everyone goes to work as usual.

The Zhou family's food is still mushy, because there are less than a dozen large potatoes, and today's mushy is even thinner.

Zhou Hongying refused to go to school after eating, until the adults had gone to work and left, and Mrs. Zhou pulled out a cooked potato for her from the stove pit, and she was satisfied to gnaw and leave.

Zhou Wanwan walked to the courtyard of Zhou's house, and looked at the greenery, but there was nothing to eat. In addition to leafy vegetables, the other vegetables in the garden have not grown, and the green seedlings in the field are growing vigorously, but they cannot add to the stomach, and potatoes and sweet potatoes will take more than a month to eat. But the grain pockets of every family are almost empty, and the peasants can now only rely on a pile of vegetables every day to maintain a state of starvation, looking forward to dividing the wheat and their eyes are bleeding.

Zhou Yang ate four grilled fish before leaving in the middle of the night last night, which Zhou Chen prepared for him in advance, otherwise he could only go out on an empty stomach. No one in the Zhou family would care that he walked one hundred and twenty miles back and forth on an empty stomach, and he had to carry such heavy things.

Zhou Wanwan knew that Zhou Yang would definitely not be able to eat anything all day, and they would not spend any of the money from selling reed leaves in the team, and they should not expect to have meals to be entertained when they went to Zhou Hongxiang's house to deliver things.

Zhou Wanwan walked around the garden in front of and behind Zhou's house, and finally got into the small space between the two firewood stacks on the edge of Zhou's back garden.

Zhou Yang came home at five o'clock in the afternoon, tired and bright, but his eyes were bright. After explaining to Mrs. Zhou, the brother and sister returned to the West House, and Zhou Yang took out an aluminum spoon from his pocket and gave it to Zhou Wanwan like a treasure.

When he left, Zhou Chen put two yuan in his pocket and asked him to buy something to eat, and then see what fresh things were available in the county for his sister to buy. Zhou Yang himself was not willing to spend a penny, and walked to several stores before he found this kind of spoon-like aluminum spoon, their brother was going to buy a small spoon with a long handle for his sister, although he didn't buy it this time, but it was also good to be able to buy this.

"I'll use this to eat in the future! Eat more and grow up faster! Zhou Yang smiled and coaxed his sister, the Zhou family eats all mush, and her sister needs a spoon too much.

Then Zhou Yang took out a bunch of fruit candy, which was more than a catty, and Zhou Wanwan suspected that he used the two yuan given by his second brother to buy these two things. Zhou Yang peeled off the candy paper and stuffed one into his sister's mouth, and quickly hid the rest.

Zhou Wanwan's eyes were sour and unbearable, she knew that her stupid big brother was tired and hungry all day, and she must not have been willing to eat a piece of candy, so she brought it back to her......

Zhou Yang simply freshened up, and was dragged by Zhou Wanwan to the firewood stack in the back garden.

Zhou Wanwan asked Zhou Yang to wait outside, and he got into the small gap between the two firewood stacks. Zhou Yang was so frightened that he hurried to grab his sister, what if there was a mouse or something like that biting her inside! It's a pity that his hand slapped slowly, and Zhou Wanwan had slipped in like a little loach.

Zhou Wanwan didn't let her eldest brother worry for long, and the kung fu came out in the blink of an eye, holding two bird eggs in her little hands, putting them in Zhou Yang's hands, and said, "Also." And he went in again.

Zhou Wanwan walked back and forth several times, took out more than a dozen egg-sized eggs and three large melons, and smiled innocently at her eldest brother with a mouthful of small white teeth.

Zhou Yang was stunned as he held these things. Zhou Wanwan could only remind him: "Hide quickly!" ”

Zhou Yangcai hurriedly took off his coat in a panic and wrapped up his things.

Zhou Wanwan took the lead in exploring the way in front, Zhou Yang walked behind with his things, and the brother and sister safely brought the things into the West House. Zhou Wanwan explained the origin of these things to her eldest brother in a childish manner: "When I went in, I saw a nest of eggs, and several melon seedlings, and many melons, these are the largest. ”

That gap is very small, Zhou Wanwan can barely get in, and others can't get in, so as long as she says it reasonably, no one can verify it. Besides, in order to be realistic, Zhou Wanwan really planted a few melon seedlings there, and also planted two cucumbers, watermelons and tomatoes. (To be continued.) )