Chapter 361
Si Nian looked over in surprise, "Zhou Yueshen?"
The Second Child also called out happily, "Dad!"
Yaoyao: "Dada!"
Zhou Zedong: "Dad."
Zhou Yueshen got out of the car, his gaze sweeping over Si Nian and the three children.
Seeing that they were fine, his nerves, which had been tense the whole way, finally relaxed.
After finishing his work at the factory, the first thing he did was rush home.
But it was already past working hours, and the house was completely empty.
Worried that something had happened, Zhou Yueshen took a trip to the school.
He learned from people at the school that Si Nian had taken a child to the hospital, saying the child had fainted.
Thinking something had happened to his three children, he hurried over to the hospital.
He didn't expect to run into her and the three children right here.
"How is it, is everything okay? I just went to your school and heard that Little Dong or Little Han fainted?" He frowned at the three rosy-cheeked children, who didn't look at all like they had just fainted.
Hearing this, Si Nian burst into laughter. "Of course not. It wasn't Little Dong or Little Han, it was the neighbor's kid. I just happened to run into them and brought them to the hospital, but everything is fine now."
Zhou Zehan walked over, struggling to tilt his head up to look at Zhou Yueshen. "Yeah, Dad, I wouldn't faint. I'm very strong. Mom said strong kids don't faint."
Zhou Yueshen looked down gently, bent over, and picked up his son, bouncing him a little. Indeed, the eight-year-old little guy already had quite a bit of weight to him.
He had been raised into a chubby little piglet by Si Nian.
"It's good that everyone is fine."
Zhou Yueshen looked at Si Nian. "Get in the car, I'll take you all home."
Si Nian agreed and got into the car holding her daughter.
Little Dong followed closely behind. The Second Child quickly slid down from his dad and tried to squeeze in to sit with Si Nian.
Zhou Yueshen grabbed him by the back collar and pulled him out.
"Don't crowd your mom. Sit in the front."
With that, he opened the car door, stuffed him inside, and pulled the seatbelt over to buckle him in.
The Second Child turned his head and saw his older brother smiling at him.
He instantly became unhappy, pouting and looking complainingly at Zhou Yueshen, who was getting into the car next to him. "Dad, why did you come back?"
As Zhou Yueshen pulled his own seatbelt and buckled it, he tilted his head to look at him and asked in a low voice, "What? You don't want Dad to come back?"
The Second Child hurriedly shook his head. "No, I was just thinking that if you weren't going to come back for a long time, we would take a long, long train with Mom to go see you."
He thought that since Zhou Yueshen hadn't been home for a long time, he must have gone on a far journey.
Gone to a very, very faraway place.
Zhou Yueshen let out a low chuckle, his chest vibrating slightly.
His voice was deep. "That's very thoughtful of you."
The Second Child hummed, "Of course, because Mom says I'm a good child with love and loyalty."
Zhou Yueshen turned his head and glanced at Si Nian.
Si Nian had an expression that said she had a headache.
The corners of his lips curled up, and he started the car.
The car soon stopped at their front door.
The Second Child ran out of the car like a little cannonball.
Zhou Zedong followed right behind him.
Zhou Yueshen parked the car and walked inside.
The family sat on the sofa. Si Nian poured Zhou Yueshen a cup of tea, walked over to sit beside him, and then asked, "How are things at the factory?"
Zhou Yueshen nodded slightly.
"It's over now. The higher-ups are conducting massive inspections, and more than a dozen breeding farms have been shut down. Thanks to your visit that day, otherwise my farm probably wouldn't have survived either."
Si Nian was surprised. "The higher-ups investigated?"
Zhou Yueshen glanced at his son and daughter, who were fighting over the remote control, and withdrew his gaze.
"Yes, right early in the morning on the second day after you left, the investigators came over."
They had narrowly escaped a disaster with this matter. Even though Zhou Yueshen had connections, if he had been labeled a malicious merchant, he would have faced a lot of trouble.
Fortunately, they found out in time that day and disposed of all those things.
The inspection also found no problems.
Because of this, everyone was praising Si Nian as a lucky star.
Someone who brought him good fortune.
Zhou Yueshen felt the same way.
After Si Nian came to his side, it seemed like all troublesome matters were easily resolved.
Si Nian was shocked.
Was it really such a coincidence?
Someone just happened to want to sabotage Zhou Yueshen's farm, and the very next day someone went to investigate. It was really hard not to suspect something fishy was going on.
If she hadn't gone over that day, and Zhou Yueshen hadn't left the farm, perhaps they truly wouldn't have discovered the plot.
But the opponent was quite capable too. How did they know that Zhou Yueshen and his team were currently doing closed-off feeding and not going out?
Just to prevent the meat from spoiling, Zhou Yueshen always slaughtered and processed everything in the morning and immediately sent it away.
They didn't deliver goods during the hot noon hours.
The opponent clearly knew about Zhou Yueshen's situation to come up with such an underhanded tactic.
This way, Zhou Yueshen and the others wouldn't notice any problems at all.
When the investigators went over the next day and found a pile of dead pigs there, even if the pigs inside the farm were fine, the blame would definitely fall on Zhou Yueshen's head.
"Then since they investigated so many places, why is there still tainted meat flowing out? Many families thought it was fine, but after eating it, their kids were sent to the hospital."
Zhou Yueshen said, "These symptoms aren't just happening here, which is why the higher-ups are taking it so seriously and cracking down on malicious manufacturers. But there are always people looking to make a quick buck, so they transfer this meat at low prices to those greedy for a bargain."
Si Nian took a sip of tea and sighed.
Zhou Yueshen glanced at her.
"It will pass soon, don't worry."
Zhou Yueshen wasn't lying to her. The swine fever incident came quickly and left just as quickly.
After hearing that meat which had passed professional inspections was fine and safe to eat, everyone went back to line up at the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy meat.
After all, professionally inspected meat gave them peace of mind.
It was just that the daily supply was limited, so people had to rush for it.
Si Nian had originally been worried whether this would affect Zhou Yueshen's business.
After all, the incident of malicious merchants selling diseased pork had made the public vigilant. They preferred to pay a bit more at the cooperative rather than buy from private street vendors.
But soon, she realized her worries were for nothing.
The account bills Zhou Yueshen brought over actually contained cooperation orders from several supply and marketing cooperatives in the city.
In other words, the pork sold by these cooperatives was all supplied by Zhou Yueshen's factory.
She truly had worried for nothing. This man's ability to build a business and eventually make a fortune wasn't based entirely on luck.
While she herself didn't care much, the people in the tube-shaped apartment building started acting smug.
Hearing that everyone was now only eating pork that had been tested safe, within just a few days, a whole bunch of breeding farms went bankrupt, and their bosses fled.
Everyone assumed that the Zhou family definitely wouldn't be able to stay in business either.
Ever since the Zhou family moved here, they ate well and drank well every day, having meat at every meal. Even what their dog ate was better than what the neighbors had.
Now that they were finally about to go bankrupt, everyone was overjoyed.
Last time they even mocked them at the hospital, and now they were finally getting their comeuppance, right?
When the kids in the apartment building heard that the Second Child's family would no longer be able to afford meat, they were so happy they spun around in circles.
"The Zhou family is bankrupt, the oldest is crying, the second has to farm, the third picks up trash, and Jiang Jiu still gets bullied~"
A group of kids, emboldened by their numbers, deliberately surrounded the Second Child and Jiang Jiu on their way home, singing and dancing around them.
"You're talking nonsense, my family isn't bankrupt!"
The Second Child wanted nothing more than to step forward and beat them up, but the group of kids ran away as soon as they finished singing.
For a moment, he didn't know who to chase after.