Chapter 301 Play and Learn

Like most meats, birds can be prepared in many ways: stewed, braised, diced and stir-fried, or roasted.

Koko even searched for more cooking methods for Manbao. Of course, since she was not very good at cooking, she just remembered and told the cook.

However, the Bai family's cook was no Xiao Qianshi. When she heard that Miss Manbao was going to wrap the bird in mud and bury it in the ground to roast it, she smiled and refused. "Miss Man, how can you eat a bird with feathers? I'll braise a few for you and stew a few more. If you want roasted ones, I'll roast two for you, how about that?"

Bai Shanbao counted and felt that it was almost done, so he whispered to Manbao, "My grandmother and mother also want to eat some. We can make some tomorrow when we catch more. But will it taste better if we wrap them in mud and cook them?"

Manbao was also a little hesitant, "It should be delicious."

After all, it was Koko who gave me the cooking method.

The meat of birds is tender, but there is very little of it. Even the legs, which have the most meat, do not have much meat.

But Manbao and Bai Shanbao ate with gusto and were very happy.

They both agreed that they would go catch it again tomorrow.

When Liu rushed over after hearing the news, the two children were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen door, each holding a roasted bird and eating it. The bones beside them showed that they had eaten more than one bird.

Liu took a deep breath and walked forward.

When the two children saw Liu, they were delighted and enthusiastically invited her, "Grandma (Grandma Liu), are you here to eat bird too?"

Liu's eyes fell on the plate beside her.

The cook hurried out of the kitchen and explained with her head down, "The young master asked us to prepare it and send it to the old lady and the mistress together."

Mrs. Liu took a deep breath, forced a smile on her face, and asked the two children, "How many did you eat?"

They both held up three fingers.

Liu smiled and said, "That's enough. Eating too much of anything is not good. Come, pick out two of each and send them to the old lady next door. Say it's a token of filial piety from the young master and Miss Man."

The two children watched reluctantly as the cook picked out the cooked birds from the plate and handed them to the servants nearby to take away.

Liu pointed to the remaining food and said, "Send these to my room and my wife's room. We will eat them later."

There aren't many left, only two of each at most.

The two children watched helplessly as the rest of them also moved away from them.

Liu smiled and patted their heads, saying, "Drink plenty of water after eating. You can go back to the study to study later. Manbao, how about having dinner at my house?"

Manbao remembered the birds at home and shook his head decisively.

Liu didn't force it and left with a smile.

The two children watched her leave, then looked down at the roasted bird in their hands that they had not finished eating, and decisively slowed down their pace.

They planned to eat it for a longer time, as there was only one left.

The cook also looked at them in silence. The old lady had just whispered to her that she didn't need to make snacks for the two children in the afternoon, so as to prevent them from eating too much and getting indigestion.

No matter how slowly you eat, there will always be a moment when you finish eating.

The two children sighed softly, washed their hands and faces together, and then went to the study with their heads down to read.

Manbao reached into his cloth bag and took out a medical book directly from Keke, then studied it diligently and took notes.

This is how she studied medical books. She would first read them by herself to understand them, and then go to the teaching room to attend classes. This way she could understand them faster and more deeply.

Bai Shanbao was already used to it, so he took out his own book and started reading. After a long while, they both sighed. Manbao said, "The meat is tender."

Bai Shanbao: "It tastes delicious."

They both turned their heads to look out the window, wanting to run out and continue catching birds. What should they do?

However, once they lowered their heads and looked at the books in their hands, they still calmed down to read. The teacher said that you can play at any time, but you can't read at any time, so you always have to do things that you choose to do before doing things that you can do at any time.

Manbao was feeling a little irritated, so she didn't take the words in the book to heart. But after reading it over and over again twice, her heart gradually calmed down, and she was able to concentrate on reading.

Her reading efficiency gradually improved, and her page-turning speed gradually increased.

Bai Shanbao found it more difficult to concentrate than her, so he walked back and forth in the study with the book in his arms, and even squatted aside to play. Daji stood by and watched without disturbing him.

But when Bai Shanbao looked up and saw Manbao's serious face, he dropped the toy in his hand and picked up the book on the floor to read again. After doing this twice, he gradually calmed down.

When Bai Erlang rushed into the study with a smell of meat, he saw two people each occupying a corner, reading quietly.

Hearing the sound at the door, they both looked up at him calmly, then curled their lips together and lowered their heads to read again.

The excited Bai Erlang was unhappy and shouted, "Why are you ignoring me?"

Bai Shanbao: "Didn't you see we were reading? Did you come to us to read?"

"What are you reading? I just had some delicious bird food..."

"We know," Manbao said without looking up after turning a page of the book, "We caught them."

Bai Jilang: "...You are lying!"

If they couldn't even catch him, how could these two nerds possibly catch him?

But neither Manbao nor Bai Shanbao had the heart to argue with him. After a few words, they lowered their heads and read seriously. Bai Erlang couldn't figure out what was going on, and the study became quiet for a moment.

Daji, who was sitting in the corner, looked at Bai Erlang with sympathy. If he had come two quarters of an hour earlier, or half an hour later, the scene might have been lively.

He came just when they were immersed in meditation and deep in the books.

Seeing that the two ignored him, Bai Erlang couldn't help but exhale angrily, "You said you caught it, then catch another one and show it to me."

Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I have to go home for dinner soon. After dinner I have homework to do. I don't have time to catch it today. Let's do it tomorrow."

Bai Shanbao also nodded, his schedule was also very full.

But Bai Erlang was idle. He didn't want to do his homework or read. The sun was so strong at noon, so of course he was playing games and sleeping in the house. Now that the sun is not so hot, shouldn't he go out and play?

But he couldn't persuade the two of them, so he walked around the study and found that he still didn't like reading, so he ran out and decided to find his friends to play with.

But before running, he reminded the two of them, "You must ask me to go with you tomorrow, okay?"

The two nodded perfunctorily and continued to read.

After Manbao finished watching one lesson after another, he decided to go to the teaching room in the evening to check all the lessons he had prepared for today.

Bai Shanbao closed his book with satisfaction and decided that after finishing his homework he would practice writing a few characters. He also wanted to be as good as the calligraphy masters written in the book. When he grew up, he would be so good at calligraphy that people would kneel down and beg him to write for him.

(End of this chapter)