Chapter 202: Hot Weather (Additional update for Yunqi's recommendation votes of 185,000)
Manbao wandered around the village and found that she was not very familiar with the children of the same age in the village. She ran towards them, and they saw her from a distance and ran away.
After walking for a while, Manbao felt bored and ran home to pack up his small bookcase. He said to Qian, "Mom, I'm going to school."
Qian nodded, "Go ahead, go ahead. Are you tired today?"
She took an extra day off because she was worried that her little girl would be too tired after playing too much. If she wanted to go, she would naturally support her.
Manbao shook his head and said, "Not tired at all."
"Then go ahead."
Manbao ran to the school with his small school box on his back and slipped in through the back door. The teacher standing on the podium saw him but pretended not to see anything. However, he was speechless at the little student's attempt to cover up his mistake.
You are sitting in the first row, why do you want to enter through the back door?
As soon as Manbao entered the door and took two steps forward, he realized it, but since he was already in the door, it was impossible to go out.
Her face turned red as she carried her school box on her back and walked past the desks of her classmates.
Everyone looked at her in surprise. Well, this time, it couldn't be said that she had "slipped" in, she had actually barged in with great fanfare.
Hearing the noise coming from behind, Mr. Zhuang, who pretended to have poor eyesight and turned his back to look for a book, turned back helplessly.
The master and the disciple met each other's eyes. Manbao smiled ingratiatingly and waved, "Teacher, I'm back for class."
Mr. Zhuang glanced at the noisy students and nodded seriously, saying, "Go back to your seats and open your books..."
Bai Shanbao winked at Manbao and asked, "Why are you so upset to come to school?"
Manbao gave him a look in response: Because I’m bored.
Bai Shanbao expressed his regret. He wanted to take one more day off to sleep at home, but his grandmother did not allow it.
So he winked and asked Manbao: Are the bride and groom fun?
He still liked the little games they played in the bridal chamber last night.
However, the message conveyed by this look was too complicated, and Manbao did not understand it. Moreover, she saw the teacher glanced at them, so she ignored him, opened the book, and sat upright to listen to the class.
Bai Shanbao felt a little regretful. He had always been active. Once he had a question in his mind, he could not sit still and would move around as if there was a fire under his butt.
This caused Mr. Zhuang to look at him several times. Later, seeing that he really couldn't sit still, he called his name and asked him to stand up and read. He first read the textbook he was going to teach twice, corrected his punctuation, and then asked him about the meaning. After all this, Bai Shanbao's wandering mind finally returned to normal.
It wasn't until the end of get out of class, when Bai Shanbao put away his book, that he remembered the question he wanted to ask earlier, "Is the bride and groom fun?"
"It was fun. Didn't you play with us yesterday?"
"Today, I mean."
Manbao said: "There is no wedding today. Sister Fang is already my fourth sister-in-law."
"Will it be less fun without a wedding?" Bai Shanbao tilted his head. "At least there's one more person in your family. Don't you feel any difference?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I don't feel anything. I don't know if the food cooked by my fourth sister-in-law is delicious. I hope her cooking skills are as good as my eldest sister-in-law's. This way, I can have delicious food for two days."
Bai Shanbao, who only had three people in his family, simply couldn't understand it.
But Fang's arrival had little impact on Manbao and the other children. The Zhou family had too many people, and the children still had to complete their tasks every day and play by themselves in the rest of the time.
The biggest impact was that their fourth uncle, who used to like taking them to climb trees to get bird eggs and go to rivers to fish, suddenly stopped hanging out with them.
If you call him ten times, he will only agree to go up the tree and down the river with them twice.
So it’s quite a pity.
When Fang just came in, Qian didn't assign her any tasks immediately. Instead, she asked her to help Xiao Qianshi and the other three. After watching her for a few days and seeing that she was gradually becoming familiar with the housework, Qian let her join the team. From now on, Xiao Qianshi and the others would have to share less housework and their turns would be longer.
This is the advantage of having a large group of people. Even Xiao Qian is secretly looking forward to the fifth brother getting married. By then, they will probably have to split into two groups to take turns to complete the housework, and then they will have more free time.
As soon as she had some free time, He began to focus on reclaiming the wasteland. She took a group of children to remove the weeds from the ground and added a layer of fertilizer.
Xiao Qian asked them and finally asked Feng to make tofu together.
Of course, the reason why she asked Feng to make tofu together was because Zhou Erlang would pick the tofu and sell it, and the money would be divided equally between the two wives after giving it to the father-in-law.
Because the heavy work of grinding beans and fetching water was done by Zhou Dalang, and when it came to making tofu, Xiao Qian was the main person, with Feng helping her.
There is no way. Although the method is the same, if Feng Shi uses some tofu, the taste will still be slightly different.
It's obviously the same technique, but why is it so strange?
Tofu sold surprisingly well in the county town. Every time Zhou Erlang brought some, it would be sold out, and his bamboo weaving business also improved.
But this situation only lasted until mid-May.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun was shining brightly and it was extremely hot. Manbao's clothes would be half wet when he came back from school every day, which shows how high the temperature was.
There had been high temperatures for ten consecutive days, and Zhou Dalang was worried that the water in the fields would dry up and harm the rice, but Old Zhou was worried about heavy rain.
Some old people in the village gathered together and squinted their eyes every day to look at the clouds and the sun in the sky. Manbao, who had just returned from school, saw this and also learned to look up.
In the end, my eyes were almost dazzled but I couldn't see anything.
She humbly asked her father, "Dad, what are you looking at?"
Old Zhou withdrew his gaze from the sky and said, "Look at the clouds."
Manbao looked up again and said, "The clouds now are not as beautiful as they were before."
Old Zhou's eyebrows were furrowed with worry. He asked the old man next to him, "Look at the sky, it's going to rain heavily."
"I think so, but who knows if it will rain?" He was older than Old Zhou and sat on a rock under a tree. "They said it was going to rain hard four or five days ago, but it's so hot and humid, and it hasn't. It's getting more and more stuffy these past few days. I watched the dark clouds pass by, but a gust of wind blew them away. So we'll have to wait and see."
Old Zhou was a little worried. "Why don't we clean up the ditch over there first?"
"Go talk to the village chief. Who would be willing to carry a hoe and dig ditches in such hot weather?"
Old Zhou has never liked to stand out, so he was silent for a moment after hearing this. But when he lowered his head and met the little girl's bright and curious eyes, he pondered for a moment and decided to go and tell the village chief.
But as the old friend said, the weather is too hot now and the water level in the river is not very high, so the young and strong people in the village are not very willing to clean the ditches.
On a day like this, it’s good enough that they don’t think about taking the water from the ditch to their own fields. But they actually want them to put the water from the fields into the ditch. What are they thinking?
However, the accident came unexpectedly.
(End of this chapter)
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