Chapter 1322 Staying Up Late
Although they said they would take care of him, the three of them didn't stay up all night. They just wanted to keep Bai Dalang company. After the needle was removed, Manbao felt Bai Dalang's pulse and confirmed that there was no problem for the time being, and then everyone went to bed.
Mr. Bai sent someone to tell the Zhou family, and the Zhou family knew that Manbao would not be returning home tonight.
Qian frowned, but said nothing.
Seeing that she was tossing and turning and unable to fall asleep, Old Zhou said, "Okay, go to sleep."
Qian said, "You're not worried at all."
"What's there to worry about?" Old Zhou said, "Isn't it at the Bai family's house? It's quite close."
Qian said unhappily, "Your daughter is thirteen, not only three."
Old Zhou said, "What can we do? You don't even know your daughter. If there was any other way, she would definitely go home. I don't know what Young Master Bai's illness is. Why is it so serious?"
Qian also became worried, "Yes, didn't you go to the village entrance to pick someone up yesterday?"
"I didn't notice it either. I came back after picking up Manbao."
Qian thought for a moment and said, "Let's get up early tomorrow and go take a look."
Old Zhou has no objection.
The servants spread a quilt on the wooden couch in Bai Dalang's room, and Bai Erlang and Bai Shan slept there, while Manbao went to sleep in the side room next door.
Manbao calculated the time in her mind and asked Keke to call her in two hours.
Koko agreed.
It is always punctual. Manbao got up after sleeping for two hours, put on his coat and went to see Bai Dalang.
Bai Dalang really felt pain in his stomach. Not long after he woke up, he held his stomach and his face turned pale. Manbao continued to give him acupuncture.
Bai Shan woke up from his sleep, put on his clothes and came over to see, "What's wrong?"
Manbao said: "Change the two herbs. Go and boil them together. Replace the Atractylodes macrocephala with the Rhizoma Anemarrhenae..."
Bai Shan wrote down everything and turned to get the medicine.
Bai Erlang sat on the couch, hugging the quilt and looking at his brother, and asked worriedly: "What can I do?"
"Give him some warm water."
Bai Shan went to the warehouse to get the medicine, showed it to Manbao, and then put it in the medicine pot to boil.
Manbao needed to give him two sets of acupuncture, which would take more than half an hour, so he sat by the brazier and waited.
Bai Shan didn't want to sleep either, so she sat beside him to keep him company.
Bai Erlang took out a plate of steamed buns from somewhere and roasted them on another brazier. The aroma filled the air, and Bai Dalang, who had a poor appetite and had not eaten anything late at night, couldn't help but feel greedy.
But Manbao didn't give him any to eat.
He could only watch the three of them sitting in front of his bed eating, feeling a little uncomfortable. "Can't you just stay away from me?"
Bai Shan said, "It's cold outside."
Bai Erlang said, "Brother, if you want to eat, you have to get better quickly, otherwise you can only eat liquid food."
Bai Dalang: ...
He was in a bad mood, so he picked a fight with Bai Erlang, "What were you arguing about with Chen Bo today?"
Bai Erlang broke off a piece of toasted steamed bun and said, "He wants to open a cloth shop and borrow money from me."
Bai Dalang said, "Since you have promised someone, you must keep your promise. Otherwise, you shouldn't have agreed in the first place."
Bai Erlang pouted in grievance, "How would I know he was unreliable? Last night he just said he wanted to start a business, saying that the cloth shop in Mianzhou City was doing well, so he wanted to do it, but he didn't have enough money, so he asked me to borrow some."
Bai Dalang: "Then borrow it."
"But when we asked today, we found out that he chose a shop and asked for 850 taels of silver, but he only planned to spend 200 taels of silver on the purchase of goods."
Bai Dalang was puzzled, "Then what? How much did he borrow from you?"
"Eight hundred taels!"
Bai Dalang immediately said, "Forget it, if you don't want to lend it to me, then don't lend it to me. But do you have that much money on hand?"
Bai Jilang nodded.
Bai Dalang's eyes widened, "Where did you get so much money?"
Bai Erlang said with some pride: "Of course I earned it. The three of us have a small farm, big brother, you know that."
No, he knew, but that was just a small farm of a hundred acres. Their family had many farms like this one, and even bigger ones, but they weren't as profitable, right?
Bai Dalang looked at them suspiciously, "Is this really the money Zhuangzi earned?"
This surprise made him feel no more pain in his stomach.
The three of them nodded in unison, and Bai Shan explained, "It was actually luck. A few years ago, the new wheat seeds had just been planted, and we sold all our wheat as seeds, so we made a lot of money. But now it's not the same. Except for the particularly good seeds, the rest can only be sold at the price of wheat."
Although Bai Dalang was not in charge of household affairs, he still had some understanding of family affairs. He occasionally heard his father mention that the family had indeed made a lot of money in the past two years because of the new wheat seeds.
It's just not publicized.
Bai Dalang looked at his brother and nodded with satisfaction, "Alright, no wonder you are so generous in the capital."
He thought for a moment and said, "Since you don't want to lend it, then don't lend it. I'll talk to Chen Bo later."
"Don't," Bai Erlang said, "He's already misunderstood Bai Shan and Man Bao. If you bring this up with him again, he'll definitely think I'm going back on my word. It's not that I can't lend him the money. It's just a loan, and even if he loses money later, my uncle will pay it back for me. I don't want to lend him the money because I think he's unreliable and I'll lose money if I lend him the money."
Bai Dalang frowned, "So what you mean is..."
Bai Erlang said, "Since he is determined to do this business, then lend it to him."
Bai Dalang: "...you will lose money."
Bai Erlang said nonchalantly, "Every failure makes you wiser, as the teacher said. After he's made a mistake once, he knows he's wrong. It's also a kind of experience."
Not to mention Bai Dalang, even Bai Shan and Manbao looked at him in surprise, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.
Bai Erlang looked back at them with a puzzled expression and asked, "Why are you looking at me? Did I say something wrong?"
The three of them shook their heads and said in unison, "That's right, I just don't think you would say that."
Bai Erlang snorted and said, "Isn't that how the master treats us? He saw us doing something wrong many times but didn't tell us until we hit our heads."
Manbao sighed and said, "Your family and their family are really rich. They actually took out thousands of taels to give him a taste of his own medicine."
If it were in their house, his legs would have been broken long ago.
She remembered that her fourth brother once lost fifteen taels of silver in a bet and was almost beaten to death by her father.
Bai Erlang said nonchalantly, "This isn't my money. I lent it to him, so I have to pay it back."
As for how to pay him back, I don’t care.
When Bai Dalang heard this, he felt sorry for his uncle.
Thinking of his grandfather not having divided the family property yet, Bai Dalang hesitated and said, "That wouldn't be good. What if my uncle can't come up with the money..."
"Impossible, it's only eight hundred taels, is that a lot?"
Bai Dalang: "My grandfather is still the head of my grandparents' family."
Bai Erlang said confidently, "Then let grandpa pay it back. My cousin is his grandson, so he can't refuse to pay back the money he owes, right?"
Bai Shan said, "You are also his grandson. What if he wants to let you pay it back instead of paying it back for you? How long will it take him to pay you back?"
Shirojiro:......
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