Chapter 1889 Difference
Manbao replied without thinking: "I'm not short of money."
Chang Yu glanced at her in disbelief. "You can't even build a good wooden bridge, and you're not short of money?"
Manbao said, "I'm being frugal."
She said seriously, "Diligence and thrift are virtues."
"What virtue?" Bai Erlang and Bai Shan, who were a few steps behind them, ran over from the wooden bridge, carrying baskets. They casually took out a basket and handed it to them. "Why didn't you wait for us a little longer?"
Manbao took it, turned around and said, "I sent someone to call you two quarters of an hour ago. You must have stayed in bed too long."
The group walked up the mountain, with guards and eunuchs leading the way for them, but they were completely unnecessary.
There is only one mountain near Putian Village. Some large firewood comes from this mountain, so people often go up the mountain. There are paths on the mountain that people have walked on, so it is not difficult to walk.
But this was not a difficult journey for Manbao, Baishan, Bai Erlang, and the guards. For Yu Mingda and Changyu, the road was a bit slippery.
There were no paved stones or steps, which was completely different from the Longshouyuan behind the Daming Palace. There were also many wild fruits and flowers on both sides of the road that the two had never seen before.
Manbao picked a cracked wild thorn fruit from a tree and gave it to Mingda, teaching her how to eat it.
Mingda took a light bite, and her eyes immediately became wet. She couldn't help but hiss, swallowed twice, and said with tears in her eyes, "It's so sour."
Manbao couldn't help but burst out laughing and said to her, "There are delicious ones. There are prickly ash on the other side facing the sun. Those are sweet."
"Hey, here they are." Bai Erlang saw a bunch of thorns wrapped around a tree with a few red blisters on them, so he went forward to pick some and opened his palm to Mingda, "Here, eat it."
Mingda looked at the bubble in his palm and it didn't move for a while. She looked at the bubble and then looked at him.
Manbao looked carefully and didn't see any bugs on it, so he said to Mingda, "It's edible."
Chang Yu, who had already walked to the front, heard it and turned back to stand beside Man Bao. He stared at the prickly ash in Bai Er Lang's palm, swallowed his saliva and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Manbao nodded, "Sweet, refreshingly sweet."
Changyu reached out to take it, but Bai Erlang suddenly closed his palm.
Chang Yu looked up at him, and Bai Erlang said, "This is for Princess Mingda."
Chang Yu: "...I can't eat it?"
Bai Erlang took Mingda's hand, poured all the thorn foam into her hand, and said to Changyu, "Then you have to ask Princess Mingda."
Although she asked Mingda for it and Mingda would definitely give it to her, she was still unhappy. She pointed at Bai Erlang and said, "I remember you, little fat boy. I saved you two years ago. You are so ungrateful."
Bai Erlang jumped up and said, "It was Princess Mingda who saved me, right? And when did I become fat? Am I fat now?"
The guards and palace maids all turned around to look.
Bai Shan and Man Bao hurriedly tried to stop the fight, of course they were talking about their own family, "Princess Changyu also saved you, you have to pick some fruit for her later."
Mingda also reacted, picked up a thorn bubble and stuffed it into her mouth, then said: "Sister, why bother him? Didn't Manbao say there are many on the mountain?"
Chang Yu had a lot more to say, but after eating the fruit, she fell silent. She just snorted at Bai Erlang and turned away. However, she quickly turned back and said to Mingda, "It's delicious. You can eat it too."
Everyone reconciled and continued to move forward. When they reached halfway up the mountain, they saw several pear trees. There were not many trees around, so the sunlight shone directly on them, and they could see small pears hidden among the leaves.
Manbao pulled Mingda and Changyu forward and pointed down the mountain, saying, "Look, from here you can see the villages and fields below."
Mingda looked down and saw that it was indeed the case. He then pointed at their farm and said with a smile, "Your location isn't very good. If anyone were to spy on you, they could see the whole thing from here."
Manbao nodded and said, "Fortunately, my family doesn't have any secrets, but my fourth brother discussed with my eldest brother a while ago that they wanted to plant a large sycamore tree there, or build a viewing tower, so that it would be blocked."
Bai Shan explained, "We didn't think too much about it when we chose the place. It was only when Fourth Brother and his friends came up the mountain to look for mushrooms this year that we discovered it."
Bai Erlang asked, "Are you still going to pick pears?"
He said, "If you ask me, don't worry about it. We don't live here often. We live in both courtyards. We usually do everything in the house. What else can we do in the courtyard besides walking through it, planting some flowers and plants, and having some tea and snacks? If anyone wants to see it, let them see it."
Changyu was already standing under the tree. He looked up at the pears on the tree and asked, "Are they delicious?"
He turned around and heard them still discussing the house, so he glanced down and said, "What's so difficult about this? Just make this mountain your own and don't let outsiders go up there, right?"
When these words were spoken, not only Manbao and the other two, but even Mingda was stunned for a moment, "How can the land be circled randomly?"
"Buy it," Chang Yu said, "how much can a barren mountain like this cost? Send someone to the county government office and ask. If you're frugal, I'll pay for it for you."
Manbao said, "Even if this mountain becomes my home, I can't stop people from going up the mountain to chop wood and look for mushrooms and wild vegetables."
Chang Yu asked doubtfully, "Why not? Isn't this your house?"
Manbao said, "My family lives in Qili Village, and there are many mountains there too, but we never forbid people from going up the mountains."
She said, "We have very little land where we live, and a lot of the land is divided up by mountain. They don't even measure the land, they just estimate the land and divide it among the people. If someone gets a mountain and no one else is allowed to go up, then wouldn't there be no way in or out?"
Bai Shan also said, "That's not how people behave. Besides, we're outsiders in Putian Village, so we have to maintain good relationships with everyone. In winter, everyone has to go to the mountains to chop firewood. If we close the mountains, wouldn't that just add to the conflict?"
Manbao nodded repeatedly.
Chang Yu didn't expect her words to lead to so many questions. She couldn't help but pinch her waist and said, "I just want to ask if we are going to pick pears..."
"Pick, pick, pick," Manbao rolled up his sleeves and walked forward, hugging the tree and climbing up...
Changyu was so surprised to see her climb up in a few seconds that his eyes widened. Manbao took a look, picked a pear that looked ripe and threw it to Changyu. Changyu took it, wiped it with a handkerchief and was about to eat it.
The palace maids were horrified and rushed forward to stop him, saying that the pear should be washed.
Manbao picked out several and threw them into the arms of Mingda, Baishan and the others, and asked with a smile: "You can see more clearly from below, which one is bigger?"
My eyesight is better today, I'll update tomorrow.
Good night
(End of this chapter)
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