Chapter 135: Sharing the Money (Additional chapter for 25,000 recommended votes)
Zhou Silang quickly came out with an empty basket on his back. He covered his pocket with his hands, his face full of excitement, his eyes sparkling. He ignored Miss Fu Er who was standing opposite his sister, and walked directly to Manbao, grinning, "Manbao, let's go back!"
Miss Fu Er, who still wanted to talk to Manbao: ...
Manbao felt that they had finished talking, so he nodded and waved goodbye to Miss Fu Er.
Miss Fu Er could only say, "If you are on leave, remember to come to the county town to play with me."
Manbao agreed and walked out hand in hand with Zhou Silang.
Zhou Xi took Wu Lang and Liu Lang to wait outside. They could see Man Bao all the time, so they were not too worried. When they saw the two men coming, they bowed to Miss Fu Er inside the door and turned to leave.
After walking a long way, Zhou Silang looked around and saw that no one was around. He took out the copper coins in his pocket, his eyes sparkling. "The kitchen said that our ginger is better than the ones sold outside. Forty coins is not expensive at all. Look, here are three hundred and twenty coins."
Half of it belonged to Zhou Xi. Zhou Silang counted out the money and gave it to her, while Manbao and the others looked at her eagerly.
Zhou Xi looked back in confusion.
Manbao said, "Sister, I helped find all the customers."
Zhou Wulang immediately said, "Sister, I helped when weeding."
Zhou Liulang: "I also helped with the fertilization, and we also helped plant the ginger together."
Zhou Silang, standing by, gave a good demonstration. He counted out forty coins from his own money, gave ten coins to Manbao, ten coins each to Lao Wu and Lao Liu, and the rest to himself. He then put the remaining money in a cloth bag and said, "This is to pay off my debt."
Manbao stared at the ten cents in his hand.
Zhou Silang covered his pocket and said, "Manbao, you can't complain this time. I'm older than Wulang. He has money, so how can I not have any?"
Manbao said righteously: "Fifth brother doesn't know how to gamble."
Zhou Silang: "...I can't do it now either."
Manbao stretched out his hand towards him and said, "Give me the money, I'll hold it for you. Ask me for it when you need it."
Zhou Silang didn't want to give it to me, so Manbao threatened him, "If you don't give it to me, I'll tell my parents that you have money on you!"
Zhou Silang took out the ten cents he had just put into his pocket with a look of grief and indignation, and slapped it on Manbao's small hand. Ten cents was not a small amount of money, and her hand was too small, so one cent popped out.
Manbao picked it up and put all the money in his pocket. Then he patted his hands contentedly and looked at his elder sister.
Zhou Xi: ...
Dividing the money in front of her, are you treating her as if she doesn't exist?
but……
Her brothers and sisters were all looking at her, so Zhou Xi could only take out some money from the newly divided money and share it with them, just like Zhou Silang. She didn't really want to give it to them, "You are all young, what do you need money for?"
She felt that she shouldn't be rich before getting married because that's how she had lived since she was a child.
Zhou Wulang said confidently, "Get a wife!"
Zhou Liulang: "Buy clothes!"
Manbao: "Buy meat!"
Zhou Silang said silently in his heart: I just want to touch it!
Zhou Xi refuted them one by one, "Your parents will pay for your marriage. Liu Lang, didn't you just make a new set of clothes before the New Year? Man Bao, you should be frugal with your money..."
Manbao said, "You can't save money, you spend it. Only money that is in circulation can be called money. When it's not in circulation, it's just a copper coin. Big sister, are you going to give it to me or not?"
"Okay." Zhou Xi didn't understand a word he said. She felt that Manbao was wrong, but she didn't know how to refute him. Sure enough, reading is good and there is no point in arguing.
Zhou Xi sighed and gave ten cents to each of his three younger brothers and sisters.
Manbao also asked her, "Don't tell your parents."
Zhou Xile said, "You're asking for a lot. Isn't that a lie?"
"I didn't ask you to lie, it's just that Mom and Dad won't ask, and you don't have to tell me. How can you be lying if you don't tell me?"
Zhou Xi was speechless.
Looking at her brothers and sisters standing together, she knew they were in the same group and could only nod.
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were delighted. They kept two coins for themselves as pocket money and gave the rest to Manbao to keep. They also reminded him, "Please record it in our account book when you get back."
Manbao patted his chest and said, "No problem."
Zhou Silang looked at the two coins in their hands with envy and said to Manbao, "Manbao, how about you give me two coins too, and I'll save eight coins?"
Manbao thought about it and decided that if he hit the stick, he should give him some candy, so he took out two coins from his pocket and gave them to him, saying, "Fourth brother, you can't gamble."
It's just two cents. Even if he wants to gamble, he has to have someone willing to accompany him. Oh, no, no, no, he doesn't want to gamble at all.
Zhou Silang got the money and felt satisfied. He began to look curiously at the stalls on both sides and said regretfully, "There are so many people today. We should have dug more ginger."
Manbao said, "Why rush? The busy farming season is over now. You and Fifth Brother can carry ginger to sell every day. Let it bury it in the ground for a while. Maybe it will grow longer."
Zhou Silang felt that what Manbao said made sense, so he stopped feeling sad and looked around excitedly.
Because the busy farming season had just passed and it was the time to pay grain taxes, there were a lot of people coming and going in the county town, and there were also grain merchants from other places coming to collect grain, so the county town seemed particularly lively.
Correspondingly, there were a lot of food for sale on the street. Zhou Silang wanted to eat everything he saw, but he had little money and was reluctant to spend it, so he encouraged Manbao, "Little sister, look at that candied haws, don't they look good?"
Manbao swallowed and nodded.
Zhou Silang said, "Buy one."
Zhou Xi was so angry that he slapped his head and said, "As a brother, buy a string for your sister."
Zhou Silang didn't say anything. In the end, Zhou Xi, who was rich and cared about Manbao, bought him a string of candied haws. The candied haws were made of hawthorn, which was extremely sour. Manbao didn't want to eat it after taking a bite.
So the three Zhou Silang brothers got the advantage.
Manbao thought that this thing just looked good and didn't taste good at all.
Keke explained to her, "That's because the hawthorns here are all wild and more acidic. In the future, the hawthorns will be improved and their sweetness will increase. The candied haws made from them will be quite delicious."
He continued, "In addition to hawthorn, candied haws can also be made with other fruits such as apples. I just did some research and found that in history, yam beans were used to make candied haws. It is said to be very delicious."
Manbao's eyes sparkled as he asked, "How delicious is it?"
Koko thought for a moment and picked out an adjective. "It's said to be the best of all the fruit varieties in Tanghulu. But that could be wrong, because yam is no longer available. Humans always like to give it some beautiful imagination."
Having said that, Manbao still drooled and thought that when the yam vines at home had yam beans, she would definitely ask her sister-in-law to make her yam candied haws.
(End of this chapter)
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