Chapter 1983: Joking
Yin Huo had dinner at Zhou's house before going home. Liu Huan, who had agreed to come over for dinner, was nowhere to be seen. No one took it to heart. The next day, Liu Huan appeared at the door of Zhou's house with a depressed look on his face.
He followed Yin Huo into the house, muttering non-stop, "If I didn't come, you wouldn't send anyone to look for me. I was hoping you would send someone to look for me so I could find an excuse to go out."
Bai Shan and the other two were checking the accounts of the small farm in Qili Village and the farm in Putian Village. Without even looking up, they asked, "You were fine when you left the palace. Why didn't your family let you go out?"
"My grandfather said that an angel came to your house to announce his decree, and he's busy right now, so he doesn't want me to cause any trouble." Liu Huan said this and approached Bai Erlang curiously, "So, you really are going to be a prince consort?"
Bai Erlang nodded slightly reservedly, but his face was filled with uncontrollable joy, "Yes."
Liu Huan didn't understand what was so gratifying about this. Seeing him so happy, he said, "When Wei Yu was chosen as the imperial consort, you and I sympathized with him. Why are you so happy that you're going to be the imperial consort?"
Bai Erlang asked, "How can it be the same?"
Liu Huan: "Why is it different?"
"How can they be the same? All the princesses are different." Bai Erlang said, "Princess Mingda is well-educated, intelligent and quick-witted."
Liu Huan let out a long "Oh" and whispered, "So you're saying Princess Changyu is unruly, headstrong, and clumsy?"
Manbao and Baishan on the side: ...
The two of them coughed lightly, raised their heads and looked at the two of them warningly. Manbao even said, "Princess Changyu and Princess Mingda are both my friends."
Liu Huan immediately stopped arguing with people.
Yin Huo, who was standing by, smiled, put down the book in his hand and asked, "Is there anything I can help with?"
Bai Shan handed him an account book without hesitation and said, "Help me calculate the balance."
Yin Huo saw the inscription on it, "On the fifth day of the third month, thirty-eight chicken eggs and twelve duck eggs were collected... What is this?"
"We have some of the produce from our farm in Qili Village," Bai Shan said. "Let's check the accounts and see if they are correct. Finally, we'll check the money. By the way, we have a lot of eggs, and we usually sell them for two cents for three eggs."
Liu Huan, who was doing nothing, was surprised and asked, "Eggs are so cheap?"
Manbao glanced at him and asked, "How expensive do you think it is?"
Bai Shanze said, "It's not cheap. Can you calculate how many eggs a family needs for a meal?"
Manbao said, "If it were my family, it would be too much. Even if each person had one egg, it would still take more than 20 eggs, not to mention that each person would definitely eat more than one at a time."
Yin Huo calculated for them, while Bai Shan looked at the account book in his hand in silence for a while before saying to Man Bao, "I think the summer harvest in Putian Village is pretty good this year. We don't have to worry too much about the seeds, but we still need to add some farm tools. Do you want to add more or not?"
What he meant was, aren't you going to resign?
Do we still need to manage it with care?
Manbao hesitated for a moment and then nodded, "Add more, just a little bit."
She sighed and said, "It's just a matter of doing what you do." After all, she hadn't even started the process of resigning yet, and she couldn't let her own reasons affect the lives of hundreds of families in Putian Village.
Bai Shan finished recording and nodded, saying, "The autumn harvest is about to begin. Once it's over, we can count the harvest for this year."
By then it will be clear whether it is a loss or a profit.
Bai Erlang, who was standing by, also calculated his expenses. After recording everything in his account book, he put down his pen and said, "I'm so tired. It's not easy to earn such a small amount of money."
Manbao said, "Just shut up. We're just settling accounts. We haven't asked you to go to the fields to plant crops yet."
Bai Shanze turned around and asked Manbao, "How is the rice in the experimental field?"
If it is effective, maybe they can get back their investment faster.
Manbao: "...I was just about to tell you. My eldest brother said that the grains were growing well in the front, but for some reason they started to become uneven. Some ears of grain are quite long, while others are branched. And now that we're almost ready for harvest, some of the husks are still empty."
Bai Shan: "Is the grouting not done properly?"
Manbao nodded. "Anyway, there are a lot of problems. My eldest brother also said that the rice in the experimental field is more attractive to insects. There are crops next to it, but the insects prefer to eat the rice in that field. My eldest brother is worried about that experimental field as much as the entire farm."
Although the situation of the experimental field was not optimistic, Manbao still instructed Zhou Dalang to take good care of it. She would select seeds to continue planting and also give a copy to Dr. D so that she would have a reference target for the experiment.
At the same time, Dr. D will also give her a new experimental seed.
Manbao kept this in mind. After Bai Shan and the others had settled the accounts, she put it away after confirming that there was no problem.
Liu Huan was incredulous. "You're still managing the Zhuangzi's accounts? Can you handle it?"
He said, "Shouldn't this kind of thing be under your control?"
Manbao said: "My second niece is not at home, so I am in charge of it myself. It's just a check. My nephews have done the accounting and other things."
She paused here and asked Liu Huan, "Your family's accounts are all handed directly to the steward without being checked?"
Liu Huan thought about it and fell silent. Seeing that the four of them were very calm, he couldn't help but turn his head again, "No, Bai Er, you just got engaged yesterday, are you so calm today?"
Bai Erlang raised his head and asked, "What else? I want to be excited, but they won't go out with me. How can I be excited on my own?"
Liu Huan rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll accompany you!"
Bai Erlang looked at the bright sun outside and said, "Forget it, it looks so hot. Let's stay home. There's still a lot of臊子 (臊子) that Mrs. Zhou made yesterday. We can continue to eat臊子面."
Manbao said, "It's the hottest days of summer, so don't go out unless necessary."
So the four of them really didn't go out. Liu Huan had no choice but to stay in Zhou's house and spend the whole day with them.
When he left in the evening, he was still a little surprised. Just wasted the whole day like this? But after getting on the carriage, he thought carefully. Although he didn't do much today and didn't go out for fun, he still had a good time. Most importantly, he relaxed.
He lifted the curtain and saw Yin Huo getting on the carriage and about to leave. He immediately leaned over the window and spoke to him, "Shall we go to the palace together tomorrow?"
Yin Huo refused. Now every time he entered the palace, he had to be taken by his father through the back door. Otherwise, it would be too rushed to walk from the palace gate to Chongwenguan in the morning. He had to walk very fast, and his body couldn't bear it.
Liu Huan watched his carriage go away with great anxiety, then he quickly asked the driver to catch up, and the two of them left one after the other.
Liu Huan was not the only one who wanted to take the opportunity to tease Bai Erlang. The next day when they entered the palace, they met many people at the palace gate. Everyone jokingly called Bai Erlang "Prince Consort".
Bai Erlang felt a little embarrassed and annoyed when being called, his face flushed red, and he didn't know whether to answer or not.
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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