Chapter 348 Good Friends
Manbao was still confused as she stood in the corner with Bai Shanbao holding the book. She obviously didn't understand why she was punished to stand in class just because she leaned over to take a look at a book that Bai Shanbao thought was very interesting.
Bai Shanbao was a little angry at first, thinking that she had not done the job of keeping in touch with each other as good friends should do, but when he saw her confused look, he felt a little guilty.
It seemed like he was the one who implicated others.
It is not time for class yet and some students have not arrived yet. Those who have arrived have to recite the morning lesson in the classroom first.
Mr. Zhuang just walked around and then left.
Bai Shanbao pretended to study, and when the teacher left, he lowered his voice and asked Manbao, "Why didn't you tell me the teacher was here?"
Manbao had come back to his senses and snorted, "Did you read a bad book like Bai Er? Otherwise, why would the teacher punish you?"
"No, I'm reading books about benevolence and righteousness, not books like Bai Er's."
Manbao was skeptical about this and said, "It's all your fault. You got punished as well."
"You were punished for reading extracurricular books."
"It's not a bad book I read."
Bai Shanbao insisted, "I read good books too. What are you reading first?"
“It’s about how to increase crop yields.”
Bai Shanbao's eyes almost popped out of his head, "Nongshu, you actually think it looks good!"
Of all the books in the study, he disliked agricultural books the most. Sometimes he would even fall asleep while reading them.
Manbao also carefully glanced out the window, and then whispered to Bai Shanbao, "This is a very good agricultural book. It's more detailed and more powerful than any I've read before. Some of the content is not available now."
Bai Shanbao expressed his doubts, "Aren't agricultural books all written based on existing ones? Is there nothing in Qili Village?"
Manbao thought about it and it made sense. The person who wrote this paper was from a very distant future. He did write it based on things that had already existed, but for them now, some things were not yet available.
So Manbao nodded and said affirmatively: "You definitely don't have it at home either."
So what?
Bai Shanbao was not in the mood.
Manbao encouraged him, "I think what's written in the book is very important. Your family has more land, cows, and people. Why don't we take a piece of land and give it a try?"
"My land isn't here, and you have plenty of land too. Why don't you use yours?"
"I'm afraid of failure. If that happens, my family will be left with nothing."
"...My family will also fail." Bai Shanbao was considering whether to break up with her or not.
Manbao said: "But your family won't be left with nothing if they fail."
Bai Shanbao thought for a moment and said, "My land is not here."
Bai Shanbao frowned sadly, and then his eyes couldn't help but glance at someone not far away who was playing with his deskmate behind a book.
Manbao followed his gaze and hesitated slightly, "This isn't good. It's wrong to cheat people."
Bai Shanbao was furious, "So you still want to trick me?"
"But you're my good friend. If I cheat you this time, I can just make it up to you next time. But what if I cheat Bai Er and feel guilty every time I see him in the future?"
Bai Shanbao actually thought what she said made sense, but then he thought it wasn't right, "So your agricultural books are useless?"
"Yes, if it succeeds, we can make a lot of money and grow a lot of food."
"That's great, isn't it? Everything you do has risks. This is his risk, and risks also bring opportunities." Bai Shanbao made a decision immediately, "Let's go find him later."
After school at noon, Bai Shanbao and Manbao went to get their meals and blocked Bai Erlang in the corridor.
Bai Erlang stared at the two of them blankly while holding his bowl. He hesitantly extended his bowl forward and asked, "Do you want some?"
Bai Shanbao looked down on him, "Are we that kind of people? I have something to discuss with you."
The three children took their bowls and sat on the steps, eating and talking in the sun.
Of course, Bai Erlang was sitting between the two of them. He rarely received such treatment. Even though Bai Erlang had always been a big-hearted person, he couldn't help but feel worried at this moment.
Bai Shanbao said: "We want to play a big game with you."
When Bai Erlang heard about playing, he immediately perked up and asked, "What big game?"
Bai Shanbao looked at Manbao.
Manbao took the book out of his arms and stuffed it into Bai Erlang's arms.
Bai Erlang covered the book with one hand, looked around, and then without even glancing at the cover, he stuffed the book into his arms. He chuckled and said, "Is this the miscellaneous book that the master saw this morning? Now, how do you want to play with it?"
Manbao: "...The book that was found was Shanbao's. This is mine. It's a very powerful agricultural book."
Bai Erlang blinked, took out the book from his arms with one hand, opened it and took a look. He looked up at Manbao, flipped through several pages and looked at the middle ones, and then he saw the farm tools printed particularly clearly.
Don’t ask him why he knows this. He grew up in the countryside, so even if he doesn’t know how to use it, he must have seen it, okay?
Bai Erlang closed the book, stuffed it back to Manbao, and snorted, "You don't want me to go farming, do you?"
Bai Shanbao praised him, "You are so smart, you guessed it before we even said it."
Bai Erlang immediately stood up and said, "I don't want to play. If you want to play, you can play by yourselves."
Bai Shanbao advised him, "It's so fun, why not try it? You can learn about farming, earn money for your family, and kill time. How wonderful!"
"Not at all," Bai Erlang roared. "You told me the same thing at the beginning of the spring, asking me to go play with you, but you took me to Zhou Man's house to farm. I'm exhausted, it's not fun at all."
Bai Shanbao said disdainfully, "You were obviously having fun while you were playing, and what do you call farming? You just took a handful of seeds and scattered them, and you didn't even make it ten steps. You're tired because you and Ertou and the others are tired from building a house on the ridge."
Bai Erlang felt a little guilty, but he firmly disagreed with games like farming. "There are so many fun games, why would you want to farm?"
Bai Shanbao thought about it and looked at Manbao past Bai Erlang. "Yeah, why would we be so desperate to farm?"
"Didn't you say that officials need to know about agriculture and sericulture? Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked you to do it. I would have asked my eldest brother to do it directly."
Bai Shanbao: "You just said you were reluctant to leave your family's land, afraid of starving."
"Yes, but you can also give out a few acres of land to try one thing after another," Manbao said. "You said you wanted to learn farming, and your family has land, people, cattle and horses, so I thought of you."
Bai Erlang looked around and asked, "What does this have to do with me?"
Manbao and Bai Shanbao then turned their gazes towards him and said with a smile, "Because you are our good friend."
(End of this chapter)
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