Chapter 1862 Cooperation
Manbao took a closer look and asked, "How are they similar? They are completely different, okay?"
Yin Huo also stared at the wheat field and thought to himself: How is it different? It's obviously the same in every way, okay?
The two of them followed the three of them in a daze as they walked through the entire field, picking three baskets of wild vegetables before stopping.
The Bai family's servants had already spread out mats on the grass. When they came back with the baskets, tea and snacks were placed on the mats. Mr. Zhuang was sitting cross-legged on the mat, enjoying the spring breeze, his eyes slightly narrowed, looking very comfortable.
Hearing the noise, he opened his eyes and looked at them, shook his head slightly, then picked up the teacup and took a sip.
Manbao put the basket on the grass and sat down next to the gentleman. Niu drank a cup of tea before asking, "Sir, aren't you going to play?"
Mr. Zhuang shook his head. He just wanted to go out for an outing. Just stepping on the green grass would be considered an outing. Sitting and enjoying the wind would also be comfortable. There was no need to make himself uncomfortable.
When they saw that the teacher didn't want to play with them, they left by themselves.
Manbao saw a lot of wild flowers at the foot of the mountain, so he went forward, pulled out some thin flowering vines, and then clumsily weaved them together.
This is what she and Lijun learned, but unfortunately she never learned it very well.
Seeing how clumsy she was, Bai Shan simply took the thing and started weaving it for her.
Bai Erlang dug out a nest of ants from the ground. Liu Huan was so scared that he screamed and stepped back repeatedly. Bai Erlang couldn't help laughing.
Yin Huo glanced at the ant, turned his head away with some reluctance, and walked away with his shoulders shaking slightly.
He walked to Bai Shan and Zhou Man, looked at the grass, hesitated for a moment, and then lifted up his robe and sat on the grass like them.
While Bai Shan was weaving a basket, Manbao changed his mind and continued to pull vines. He also pulled a lot of flowers to decorate it for him.
Yin Huo was extremely surprised, "You can also do this?"
Bai Shan pointed at Man Bao and said, "She used to do this when she was little. I learned it after watching her so many times."
Manbao smiled and said, "You obviously learned this with me when you were little."
Bai Shan's weaving was naturally not as beautiful as the ones Zhou Lijun and the others had made. After he took a look at them, he felt a little disgusted, so he handed the flower basket to Manbao.
Manbao placed the vines in his hand between the three of them and said, "Make a few more. We'll go pick flowers later."
Bai Shan said as she was weaving, "They are growing well on the branches, why do you have to pick them?"
Manbao asked, "Haven't you torn off enough flowers and plants since you were little?"
Seeing that they started arguing with just a few words, Yin Huo simply took the flower basket next to Zhou Man and turned away, going to pick flowers for himself.
It was a rare opportunity for the group to go out for an outing. Although the scenery in the palace was not bad, the feeling was completely different.
Here, they can relax and lean on the mats, feeling drowsy in the spring breeze, but in the palace, it is disrespectful to sit on the railing and swing your legs.
Lian Yin Huo was so relaxed that he lay down on the mat and felt drowsy after dinner. Mr. Zhuang simply fell asleep and even snored.
Manbao and Baishan sat on the side of Mr. Zhuang's head, just enough to block the spring sun for him. He also placed a palm-leaf fan on his face and slept very soundly.
Bai Erlang was also not sleeping. He was playing some small games with Liu Huan. The two of them laughed from time to time. The group waited until they woke up and packed up to go home after noon.
After returning home, Qian and others invited Yin Huo and Liu Huan to have dinner before leaving.
It is impossible to eat late, but you can eat something and go back.
Xiao Qian took her two sisters-in-law to pick out the wild vegetables, boiled water to blanch the wild vegetables, then chopped them up and mixed them together. It was done in less than three quarters of an hour.
She also fried some side dishes and served them the warm porridge.
"Wild vegetables are best eaten mixed with white porridge. Try it."
Yin Huo and Liu Huan took a small bite with their chopsticks. Seeing that Bai Shan and the other two had already started eating elegantly and with big mouthfuls, they ate the food on their chopsticks...
It was a little sour, a little sweet, green and crisp, with a crunching sound when taken in. His saliva couldn't help but flow, so Yin Huo lowered his head and drank a mouthful of porridge...
Seeing that the two of them had a great appetite and started to eat with the second and third chopsticks, Xiao Qian couldn't help but smile and said, "I made a lot. Do you two want to take some home later? If your appetite is not good, you can eat it with white porridge."
Yin Huo thought that his grandmother was old and her appetite was not very good, so he nodded, put down his chopsticks and said thank you, "Then I will obey your command. Thank you, Aunt Zhou."
When Liu Huan saw him take it, he also agreed.
Seeing that they liked it, Xiao Qian couldn't help but feel happy. She even picked out some of the best ones and wanted to leave them for the princess and the others.
When Zhou Silang came back that afternoon and heard about it, he said, "These are for the princesses, how can they stay overnight?"
He said to Xiao Qian, "Sister-in-law, please cook the remaining wild vegetables. My brother and I will go out to pick them the next morning. When we get them, you can cook them in 25 minutes. Manbao can take them out with him."
Manbao peeled an orange and ate it. It was stored in the ice cellar by Old Madam Liu last year and was still edible. She said, "There's no need to go to all that trouble. We might not be able to make it in time."
Zhou Silang said, "It's not the first day of the new year, so you don't need to attend the grand court meeting, right?"
Manbao nodded, "But Changyu won't mind."
Zhou Silang said seriously: "The princess won't mind, but we can't neglect her."
Manbao looked at him suspiciously. When did he become so considerate and enthusiastic?
It's not the first day I've known about her relationship with the two princesses. Last time, I found out she brought steamed meat into the palace for the princesses to eat, and told them to eat more. Stop always thinking about making others...
Zhou Silang noticed her strange look, so he moved closer to her and whispered, "I heard from Li Jun that Princess Changyu wants to form a partnership with our family to do business?"
Manbao: "...Fourth brother, what do you want to do with the name of Princess Changyu?"
"I'm not planning anything," Zhou Silang whispered. "I'm about to go to the grasslands. If we have the princess's participation, the journey will be much easier."
"If I use the princess's name, I won't run into the same trouble I did in Liangzhou next time I go to a city or town, right?" Zhou Silang said, "As for me, I don't need her to do anything. I'll give her a share of the stock according to how much she contributes. I'll just use her name. What do you think?"
Manbao frowned and asked, "My reputation is no longer effective? Fourth brother, did you go to buy medicinal herbs? Don't do anything bad."
Although Zhou Man is young and has little experience, her reputation is more useful than Princess Changyu's when it comes to collecting medicinal herbs.
Zhou Silang said, "Nonsense! Am I a bad person? But besides medicinal herbs, I also want to collect some other things when I go to the grassland this time."
"for example?"
"For example, the pearls on the grasslands," Zhou Silang said. "I heard from Ah Liudun that there was a large lake not far from their tribe. There were many clams under the lake, and every year they produced a lot of pearls. Many people went there every year to collect the pearls, but even if ordinary merchants collected the pearls, they couldn't return to the Central Plains. Not to mention the horse thieves along the way, and they also passed through many towns, and most of them were forced to buy their homes in the towns they passed by."
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(End of this chapter)
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