Chapter 318 Cognition
Manbao thought about it seriously, looked at her fourth brother, then looked at the half-finished human anatomy notes on the table. After wavering, she finally couldn't resist the temptation, put down her pen, stood up and said, "Okay, let's go take a look."
Manbao glanced at the books on the desk again, feeling a little guilty, so he said, "But you have to come back early. I still have to review and preview my lessons."
Zhou Silang said it was no problem, closed the window for her with a smile, and led her up the mountain.
"I don't think we need to go very far. Although the mountains outside our village are a bit small and there aren't that many pine trees, there are still many. Let's look nearby first. If there are none, we can go somewhere further away."
Zhou Silang said this with some regret, "Speaking of pine trees, there are still the most on the other side of the mountain. What a pity, it is the mountain of the two brothers of the Jia family, alas~~~"
Manbao didn't care. She said, "We've found so much Poria cocos from all the mountains. There shouldn't be much left. Besides, we can't dig it now. We can just wait until winter when fewer people go out and then sneak up."
"That won't work. It's okay to go up there during the autumn harvest. Everyone is busy harvesting rice then, so no one will notice. But in winter, whether we can hide it from the villagers or not is beyond our imagination. The two Jia brothers are charcoal burners, and they basically have to go up the mountain to cut wood all winter. If we go up the mountain, they will definitely find us."
Manbao thought the same and didn't mention going to Zhongshan again.
Perhaps their place is really suitable for the growth of Poria cocos. Manbao cheated again and went up the mountain to look around and found two places of Poria cocos.
Knowing that Manbao was in a hurry, Zhou Silang gave the job of digging Poria cocos to Zhou Wulang and Datou when they found the first place. He led Manbao and the rest of the people to continue looking.
Finally, another one was found five hundred steps away from the first one.
Zhou Silang happily put down his hoe and said generously, "Sixth Brother, take Manbao home to do his homework. Leave this to us."
Manbao: ...
Zhou Liulang: ...
Manbao turned and left, determined to be angry with his brother who would throw things away after using them.
Zhou Liulang followed reluctantly, as he also wanted to dig Poria cocos in the mountains.
Manbao's interest in digging Poria cocos now lies mainly in the money and points, and he is not very interested in playing in the mountains.
So after finding two pieces, she went down the mountain with peace of mind.
As soon as she got home, she went straight to her room to take notes.
Xiao Qian came over and took a look at her, then went back to the kitchen to work with peace of mind.
He's belly was already bulging, and Fang's belly was also taking shape, so they were now sitting on stools and slowly dividing the hemp rope.
Feng and Zhou Xi went to the vegetable garden together to water the vegetables, and at the same time pulled out some old vegetable roots and planted new ones.
The Zhou family's house became quiet for a while. Manbao became more and more engrossed in sitting at the desk. It was not until Daya knocked on the door and came in that she felt a little sore in her neck.
"Aunt, it's time to eat."
Manbao rubbed his little neck, responded, glanced at his notes, nodded with satisfaction, put the pen on the pen holder, stood up and went to the courtyard with Daya.
Because Manbao seldom reads or writes at home, she usually goes to Bai's house to do her homework right after school and doesn't come back until dinner.
After dinner, she usually either went out to play, or squatted in the yard to teach Datou and the others to read, or read a book herself.
But Qian went to see her often in the past two days, and she found that the little girl was always busy writing. Several times she stood at the door to watch her, but she didn't notice.
Only then did Qian realize that her schedule was so tight. She had always thought that she went to the Bai family to play with the young master of the Bai family.
So studying is really hard.
This realization was not only shared by the Qian family, but also by everyone in the Zhou family.
Zhou Silang, in particular, didn't know how to be polite, so he rudely looked through Manbao's notes, but he found that he couldn't understand them.
You know, he has finished reading the "Thousand Character Classic". Well, although he is not as good as Daya and Erya in terms of reading, he is better than his brothers.
The eldest and third brothers only knew the names of all the family members and some of the simplest numbers. They couldn't recognize other words no matter how many times they tried.
So what my youngest sister has learned is so advanced?
Zhou Silang has always been unable to keep secrets, so it took less than half a day for everyone in the Zhou family to realize how difficult what Manbao was learning was.
Even Old Zhou walked over curiously to take a look.
Old Zhou, who only recognized his own name and his wife's name, could not understand the notes written by Manbao, but he would look at the papers she used.
Old Zhou's heart ached at the sight of those thick stacks of paper, so today he couldn't help but ask her, "Manbao, do you have any money on you? Do you want your mother to give you some to buy pens, ink, and paper?"
Manbao sat in his chair, looked at his father curiously, and shook his head: "No need, I bought a lot, more than enough."
The pens, ink and paper that Manbao uses now are all bought from the mall. In the past, she only bought paper. Later, the pen her husband gave her was worn out and the ink was used up. She went to the county town to look for it, but it was a bit expensive, so she searched for it in the mall.
Although it is a small amount and not cheap, it is points after all, which is much better than using copper coins, and the quality is also good, so she always uses the ones in the mall.
Old Zhou nodded when he heard this, glanced at the dishes on the table, picked up an egg with chopsticks and gave it to her. The wrinkles on his face smiled like a chrysanthemum, and he said with satisfaction: "Studying takes a lot of brain power, so eat more eggs."
Manbao nodded, divided the egg into three portions, gave one portion to his father and one portion to his mother, and then started eating.
The family's chickens were well-raised this year. Not only were there more chickens than in previous years, but they also laid more eggs. So Qian was willing to spend money on them. Even if she didn't buy meat, the family would still cook a few eggs every day.
After all, there are two pregnant women at home, right?
But today she specifically asked Xiao Qian to cook two more just to nourish Manbao.
Even though there were many eggs and many people were eating them, Manbao never wanted to monopolize most of them. Besides, she had eggs to eat every morning.
Qian was relieved, but she didn't accept Manbao's kindness. She took the egg back and gave it to her, looking at her with pity and said, "No wonder our Manbao doesn't grow tall even though he eats so much. It turns out it's because he has to learn so many things, which is too demanding on his brain. He can't get enough nutrition."
Old Zhou agreed and said, "Old man, cook an egg for Manbao every day at noon from now on."
Manbao: "...I don't want it! Dad, I don't like eating eggs anymore, and eating too many eggs is not good for you."
"Nonsense! Eggs are such a good thing, how can they be bad?" Old Zhou said arbitrarily. "You don't have to save money. We can still afford to add an egg a day. Studying requires a lot of brainpower, so you need to take good care of it. Who else's child can go to school without as much worry as you do?"
(End of this chapter)
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