Chapter 253 Talk
When Wei Zhi and the guard walked to the window, they saw two children standing in front of the teacher with their heads lowered, listening to the teacher's instructions. They couldn't help but stop.
Mr. Zhuang scolded them and said, "Okay, go eat. After eating, review your lessons. After digesting the food, take a nap."
The two children nodded in agreement and then sat back in their seats to eat.
Mr. Zhuang’s meals are all prepared separately and are similar to theirs, except that the rice and dishes are served separately.
Mr. Zhuang also sat back in his seat, and when he looked up, he saw two people standing outside the window. He was slightly startled and quickly stood up to greet them.
Wei Zhi smiled slightly and also walked to the door and bowed, "I am Wei Zhi from Julu. I hope you will forgive me for my sudden visit."
At this time, Wei Zhi was also dressed as a scholar, so Mr. Zhuang naturally welcomed him and smiled as he ushered him in. "My room is humble and modest, I hope Mr. Wei doesn't mind."
He asked Wei Zhi to sit down, looked at Man Bao and Shan Bao, and said, "Go to the kitchen and get another set of bowls and chopsticks."
Bai Shanbao had already recognized Wei Zhi. He pulled Manbao up and ran to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks after bowing.
Xiao Qian never left any food. If there was any leftover, she would either share it with the students who were hungry, or use the leftovers to make a pot of very thin porridge so that the children could drink some soup in the afternoon.
After all, it is a hot summer now, and children will be thirsty after waking up from a nap and attending a class.
She only knew how to eat rice crusts, and therefore, not only the Bai family, but also the parents of other students were very satisfied with her. Naturally, there was no extra rice in the pot at this time.
But when she heard that Mr. Zhuang had a guest, Mrs. Qian thought for a moment and sent the two children back, saying, "I'll make two more vegetables and bake some pancakes and send them over to you later. You can go back and eat first."
There were no extra vegetables in the kitchen, so she had to go back to the vegetable garden to pick some. Xiao Qian first let the noodles wake up, then wiped her hands and went to pick the vegetables.
She has always been quick and organized.
While washing and cooking the vegetables here, they started making pancakes over there. By the time the pancakes were baked, the vegetables were also cooked.
Although I didn’t put my heart into making a dish, it tasted good.
Only then did Xiao Qian send the cakes and dishes to Mr. Zhuang and his friends.
Manbao and his friends were squatting in the yard, eating and boiling water.
Xiao Qian glanced at them, sent the cakes and food in, and quickly came out. She walked to the two children and asked, "What are you doing?"
Manbao had already scraped the last bit of rice from the bottom of the bowl. After confirming that there was not a single grain left in the bowl, he raised his little face and said, "Boil water and make tea."
Bai Shanbao ate relatively slowly, but faster than at home. He nodded when he heard this, but he couldn't speak because he had food in his mouth.
Xiao Qian took a look at the fire and asked, "Do you want me to help you?"
Manbao shook his head, "No, we can do it, sister-in-law, you should go back and rest."
Wei Zhi had sharp ears and heard it. He couldn't help but turn his head to look outside and asked, "Is the cook Miss Zhou's sister-in-law?"
Mr. Zhuang nodded and looked at Wei Zhi in confusion, "What?"
Wei Zhi smiled and shook his head, "Nothing, I'm just a little curious. Why would Mr. Zhuang want to accept a female disciple?"
Mr. Zhuang said, "I accept disciples regardless of gender. I accept disciples based on fate."
Wei Zhi nodded, "But I think this young lady must have some outstanding qualities, right? Yesterday at Brother Bai's house, I often heard people praising her intelligence."
Mr. Zhuang smiled and said, "This child is very smart, filial and considerate."
So my little disciple is not only talented, but also has good character.
Manbao and the others prepared tea, poured it, and served it. Even the guard sitting behind Wei Zhi had a bowl.
The guard held the hot tea, but he didn't want to drink it. On such a hot day, he preferred to drink water, especially cooled boiled water.
But Manbao didn't have the ability to read minds, so he didn't know what he was thinking. He believed that everyone who came to his house was a guest, so he forced a bowl of tea into his mouth.
Bai Shanbao served tea to Mr. Zhuang and Wei Zhi, and then the two children returned to their seats and sat down, each holding a bamboo tube filled with boiled water and drinking it with relish.
The study was this small, and the four people's seats were right opposite each other, so Wei Zhi could talk to them just by turning his head.
He didn't hesitate to ask for the two children to come over, glanced at the bamboo tubes in their hands, and asked with a smile, "Why don't you have some tea?"
The tea doesn’t taste good…
Of course, Manbao and Bai Shanbao couldn't say that, so they said, "We are children and can't drink tea."
"Hey, why can't the child drink tea?"
Manbao said, "Because we are still young, we won't be able to sleep at night after drinking tea, and we still need to take a nap later."
It's not like they haven't drunk it before, of course, they drank it secretly, but the tea was not tasty at all, and they always didn't want to sleep at night after drinking it.
They don't like drinking even more.
Tea can be refreshing, Wei Zhi certainly knew this, but when he saw the two children's faces wrinkled and miserable, he knew they had drunk it. He couldn't help laughing and asked, "So what do you like to drink?"
Bai Shanbao said, "I like to drink sour plum soup."
Manbao: "Me too."
Wei Zhi asked the two children to sit down and started talking to them. Mr. Zhuang sipped his tea leisurely and did not stop him.
From drinking to eating, and then from eating to planting.
Manbao started learning to work in the fields in the second half of last year. Of course, she couldn't do much farm work, she just handed over some things or threw some things.
For example, when planting vegetables, Xiao Qian liked to bring Manbao and a few other short guys along, and then let them put one seedling in each pit, while they would be responsible for planting at the back.
But Manbao has a strong learning ability. Although she has never planted crops by herself, she knows how her sisters-in-law plant them. In addition, Datou and Daya are not young anymore, so when the family is planting things, they will recite some precautions. In fact, they are teaching them so that they can understand these planting techniques when they grow up.
She didn't know whether Datou and Daya had learned it, but Manbao had remembered it. Although she only remembered many things but didn't learn them, she could still recite them to Wei Zhi.
The same is true for Bai Shanbao. Since he started planting ginger, he has become very interested in growing some crops. In addition to communicating with Manbao, he also communicates with the gardener at home.
He thinks yam is delicious and is planning to ask Manbao for some seeds next year, and then plant some in the backyard near the wall so that the vines can climb directly onto the wall without setting up a rack.
So the two children started talking to Wei Zhi about farming in a serious manner, and they even talked about the current situation of crops in the village after the disaster.
After all, when County Magistrate Fu came, the two of them accompanied him the whole time, and even listened to the village chief and the elders in the village complaining about their poverty to County Magistrate Fu all the way.
Bai Shanbao is fine, but Manbao has often heard his father and brothers talk about things in the fields at home. If you want to know what the Zhou family talks about most, it is the work in the fields.
(End of this chapter)
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