Chapter 347 Good Book
Manbao put the booklet into the bookbox, then carried the bookbox to the courtyard.
Except for the youngest few, everyone else in the Zhou family got up.
Since Qian recovered, she has been getting up very early every day. Now the weather is very cold, the vegetables in the fields are becoming less and less, and tofu is becoming easier to sell.
Zhou Erlang no longer sells vegetables. He only sells the bamboo baskets he weaves every day. He can make a lot of money from the yams and ginger slices he gets from Lao Si and others, but the most popular item is actually tofu.
No matter how much he took to the county town every day, he could sell it all.
According to him, recently, in addition to the residents of the county town who like to buy tofu to take home, even some waiters from restaurants and hotels come to buy it from him, and they buy half a bucket each time.
Therefore, the biggest source of income for the Zhou family now comes from tofu.
Of course, Zhou Silang and his friends' ginger and yams were more valuable, but they were produced in wasteland, and the Qian family did not take all of theirs. They only had to hand them over to the public.
Ever since Old Zhou announced that everything produced at home, as well as all the businesses in which the whole family worked, would be handed over to the public, no one has taken any personal money from the tofu business.
Because the county town needed a lot of supplies, Qian divided her family into two groups, one led by little Qian and the other led by her.
Xiao Qian got up early in the morning and made two plates of tofu with Zhou Dalang, and asked Zhou Erlang to take them to the county town. After breakfast, Xiao Qian rested, while Qian started to make tofu for the second time with Zhou Sanlang, also making two plates. After they were done, Zhou Sanlang delivered them to the county town, just in time for people to come out to buy vegetables in the afternoon.
It is said that now restaurants and hotels also like to buy tofu from them in two groups. The one bought in the morning can be used for lunch, and the one bought in the afternoon can be used for dinner - it is fresher!
Seeing the little girl coming over with a book box on her back, Qian took a spoon into the kitchen, scooped out a bowl of tender tofu pudding from a wooden barrel, sprinkled a handful of sugar on it, and asked Feng to take it together with the steamed eggs to Manbao.
A thin pancake, a bowl of steamed eggs and a bowl of tofu pudding are Manbao’s breakfast.
This is Qian's new breakfast menu after she recovered. The portion is larger and more delicious than before. Manbao's face has been getting rounder recently, and even her height, which has remained relatively unchanged, has grown a little.
Qian made the tofu pudding by accident.
When she and Xiao Qianshi learned how to make tofu, they didn't do it very well the first time. Instead of making tofu, they made tofu pudding that was too tender to be shaped.
It was Koko who called out the name Douhua, but in the eyes of the Zhou family, this name was given by Manbao.
Manbao grabbed a handful of sugar and sprinkled it on them. They tasted it and thought it was pretty good. The key point is that although tofu pudding makes you hungry quickly, it can also fill you up.
It’s just that sugar is too expensive, otherwise we could save a lot of food just by eating tofu pudding.
Beans are not expensive, and one pound of beans can make about four pounds of tofu pudding.
Yes, a pound of beans can make more tofu pudding than tofu, and after some thought, Qian and Little Qian soon made even more delicious tofu pudding.
Now the Zhou family eats a bucket of tofu pudding every day, and everyone gets enough.
After Manbao finished eating, he ran to school. When he reached the intersection, he saw Bai Shanbao coming over with a school box on his back, looking tired.
Manbao stopped and waited for him.
Bai Shanbao also saw her, but he did not speed up. Instead, he continued to walk slowly towards her.
He lazily raised his paw and greeted the other person, then couldn't help but yawn. He complained a little, "Why is it that we have to go to school at this time in the summer and in the winter as well?"
"Because you sleep at 11:00 in the summer and 11:00 in the winter."
Bai Shanbao thought about it and it was true. It was almost the same anyway. But what should he do if he wanted to sleep more in winter?
There are many students who feel sleepy like Bai Shanbao, especially those who are not from Qili Village. They get up earlier than Manbao and his friends, at least fifteen minutes earlier, so that they can get to school in time.
After entering the classroom, light came in from outside. Bai Shanbao yawned again in the morning light, making Manbao feel sleepy.
She thought about the time she fell asleep last night and said with certainty: "You definitely didn't fall asleep at midnight last night."
Tears welled up in Bai Shanbao's eyes. He glanced outside and whispered to Manbao, "I have a really good book. I read it very late last night and fell asleep without realizing it."
Manbao became happy and whispered, "I also have a nice book."
The two of them locked eyes and made an instant decision, "I'll show it to you when I'm done."
Manbao nodded vigorously, "I'll show it to you after I finish reading it."
The two of them laughed slyly as if they had secretly eaten some snacks.
Bai Shanbao took out his textbook, looked around again, then quietly took the book out of the bookcase and read it under his hands.
Manbao also lowered his head to look for his books. He first put the textbook he was going to read on the table, and then took out the printed paper for that subject.
But she was different from Bai Shanbao. She just spread the book on the table and read it openly.
She looked at Bai Shanbao with some confusion, not understanding why he was trying so hard to read.
Manbao turned to the page he had seen last night and continued reading.
Although it is a thesis written by a master of biology, it is very easy to understand and not too profound. After all, it is about primitive agricultural research.
As Manbao read, she thought about how her elder and second brothers made changes here and there, and then cultivated the land, from spring planting to autumn harvest, and how their family had a bumper harvest...
On the other side, Bai Shanbao was immersed in the bloody and thrilling scenes of the martial arts world, his eyes shining and his face flushed...
When Mr. Zhuang walked in with his hands behind his back, he could tell something was wrong with him at a glance, so he walked quietly to his side and looked down at the book he had hidden under his textbook.
Although Manbao was indeed interested in the paper in his hand, he was not so obsessed with it. After all, it was not a storybook, right?
So when the gentleman came over, she looked up once, then continued to look down at her book. Seeing that the gentleman was standing behind Bai Shanbao and not moving away, she looked up once more, then continued to look down at her book...
After watching for a while, seeing that both of them were watching with great interest, Manbao couldn't help it and came over to watch curiously.
Manbao grabbed Bai Shanbao's hand and almost knocked him down. He nervously steadied himself and whispered, "Be careful."
Then he looked around and moved the textbook a little to let Manbao see.
The classmate sitting behind him couldn't help but cough loudly when he saw this.
Bai Shanbao didn't hear, or perhaps didn't take it to heart. He pushed the book a little towards Manbao and asked, "Do you want to read it again, or continue reading with me?"
"How can you read a book from the middle? Of course you read it from the beginning." A voice that was so familiar that it couldn't be more familiar sounded from behind.
Bai Shanbao raised his head stiffly and looked back, only to find that Mr. Zhuang was standing behind him at some point.
(End of this chapter)
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