Chapter 283 Walking the Road He Hates
Old Zhou went to check on the wheat in the field and found it wasn't quite yellow yet. After estimating the time, he said, "We can start harvesting in three or four days."
When Zhou Silang heard this, he didn't even bother lying in bed to recuperate. The summer harvest had just begun and he would probably be busy for two months straight.
Although they went to Dali Village to sow discord, the Jia family will not suffer any substantial harm at present.
His injury couldn't have been in vain.
The petty Zhou Silang held his waist and was about to go to Dali Village to join in the fun. Manbao couldn't help but say, "Fourth brother, aren't you afraid of getting beaten if you go again? That's someone else's territory."
Zhou Silang snorted, "Why should I be afraid? Your fourth sister-in-law's house is also there."
"But the Jia family has many brothers, and the fourth sister-in-law only has one brother." Manbao, who had six brothers since childhood and no one dared to bully her, knew the routine here and said, "You were beaten. We are so far away and can't save you."
Zhou Silang began to hesitate.
Manbao chuckled, "Fourth brother, famous people throughout history are always able to bend and stretch. There is also a saying in the book that a gentleman's revenge is never too late even after ten years. Why do you have to rush to take revenge today?"
Zhou Silang's eyes widened in shock. "No way! I have to wait ten years. After ten years, I won't even remember this grudge. How can I take revenge?"
Manbao thought about it and thought that ten years seemed too long. "But you can't just go and ask for a beating. Aren't you asking for a beating?"
"He's just asking for trouble," Fang couldn't help but say, "He's just idle. His parents feel sorry for him and don't ask him to go out to work, but he's been lying in bed for only half a day and he's already complaining about being bored. He was lazy when we were busy before, and now that we're giving him a break, he's trying to stir up trouble again. Isn't this asking for trouble?"
Zhou Silang lay there humming and saying nothing.
It was because he had to lie down at home to rest that he felt his buttocks and back seemed to be getting more and more painful, and he was becoming more and more unable to swallow this anger.
Manbao didn't want his brother to have another conflict with outsiders. It was okay to sow discord, but it would be bad if it led to a fight.
Although she had never seen them fighting with people from other villages, she knew from the fight they had with the three bad guys last time that it should be similar.
Last time, the eldest brother was injured so badly, and the second, third and fourth brothers were also beaten badly, so it’s better not to fight unless necessary.
It is painful, expensive, and wastes work time.
Manbao felt that there could be other gentler ways to take revenge, for example, the more the other party didn't want them to do something, the more they would do it.
Then the question goes back to the beginning: why did they drive Zhou Silang and the others away?
It's because they can make money from the mountains.
Manbao rolled his eyes and said, "Fourth brother, let's go to the mountains to look for wild mushrooms and find all the mushrooms in their mountains."
"It didn't rain yesterday, and it didn't rain today either, so how could there be mushrooms? Even if there were, they wouldn't be tasty."
"Then let's go find Fuling."
Zhou Silang perked up and asked, "Are you sure that Poria cocos grows on pine tree stumps? Lao Wu and I have turned over all the pine tree stumps in the mountains and haven't found a single one."
"uncertain."
Zhou Silang: “…”
"However, most of it grows under the roots of pine trees." Although the entry in the encyclopedia has not yet come out, Manbao has looked through the books in the Bai family's study and asked Mr. Zhuang to confirm that people at that time believed that Poria cocos was the essence of pine trees.
Since it is the essence of pine trees, it means that they picked it under the pine trees, so Manbao decided not to look for it in the pine stumps this time, but to look for it in the pine forest.
But she has Koko to help her.
Keke is very good at scanning plants, especially it has included Poria cocos. The data of Poria cocos is in the data. It can scan within a radius of 100 meters. Ahem, although it is much worse than a radius of 100 miles, it is still better than their eyes, right?
In the woods, they could only see what was in front of them.
Manbao happened to be back from school. She glanced outside and said, "Fourth brother, let's go now and ask sister-in-law to save dinner for us to eat when we come back later."
Zhou Silang had no objection, but, "Have you finished your homework?"
This is a big deal. If his parents knew that he took Manbao out to play without finishing his homework, they would definitely beat him.
Manbao said, "The teacher was very nice today. He didn't assign any written homework, but only asked us to recite."
Manbao said confidently: "You can memorize the lesson when I come back in the evening."
"Mother won't let you read under the oil lamp. It hurts your eyes. And Father is so stingy. He definitely won't be willing to light the oil lamp."
Manbao said, "It doesn't matter. I can recite it already. I just don't know it well enough. I don't need to read the book."
At worst, you can just put the book into Koko and read it inside.
Zhou Silang was convinced.
So he stopped lying there and got up and walked out with Manbao.
Everyone in the family has gone out, some to drain water from the rice fields. After draining all the water from the fields, the rice can be harvested in about twenty days.
Some went to the small bay to serve the vegetables there, while others went to turn the manure pile.
Now their manure pile is ready, and they just have to wait for it to ferment and rot. They have to turn it over after a while to prevent the temperature from being too high.
The younger Zhou Wulang took a group of people to the fields to catch insects for the chickens.
Because of the flood before, there were a lot of insects in the fields. Because there were many chickens at home and enough manpower, Qian simply asked them to collect all the insects they caught.
The chickens were fed everything they could eat. The ones they couldn't eat were boiled in water, then dried and stored. During this period, they were taken out and fed to the chickens along with vegetable leaves.
The effect is pretty good, at least most of the hens maintain the trend of laying one egg a day.
But no matter how many insects there were, with so many chickens, they would be eaten up in about ten days, so the daily insect catching activities resumed at home.
Catching insects in the fields under the sun is not a pleasant experience. At least Zhou Silang didn't want to go. So as soon as his father agreed to let him rest at home, he immediately pretended to be dead. He would rather take the risk of going to the neighboring Dali Village to sow discord than do this light work.
But now he is alive and kicking again.
The brother and sister didn't call anyone else. One of them carried a backpack and the other carried a hoe and walked towards the village entrance.
Manbao took his cloth bag and a bamboo tube of water. Of course, the water was placed in Zhou Silang's backpack.
Zhou Silang placed the hoe on his left shoulder, held Manbao's hand tightly with his right hand, and repeatedly reminded him, "You have to follow me and don't run around, okay? Like last time..."
"You guys lost me last time because you were running around."
"...Okay, but no matter what happens, you are not allowed to run around. If we get separated, you just stay where you are and wait for me. Got it?"
"What if the wolf comes?"
"What the hell is a wolf coming?" Zhou Silang couldn't help but say, "Where are the wolves in the mountains?"
(End of this chapter)
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