Chapter 360 Where is your mother?
As soon as Bai Erlang left, Bai Shanbao said to Manbao, "A pear tree can bear a lot of fruit. You can just plant three. I can use the remaining eleven to plant other fruit trees."
Manbao was asking Keke about the fruit trees that could be planted here. Hearing this, he shook his head and said, "No, it seems that we can also plant jujubes here. I want to plant jujube trees."
The main reason is that red dates are very useful. They appear more than once in medical books. She thinks they are much better than pears and apples.
Bai Shanbao didn't expect Manbao to refuse, and puffed up his cheeks for a moment.
Mr. Bai couldn't find many fruit seedlings. Seeing the three children chattering about wanting to plant this and that, he couldn't help but say, "Alright, alright, you guys have to think about what you can and can't plant here. Don't just plant everything."
Bai Shanbao: "Uncle, what do you think we can grow here?"
Mr. Bai counted on his fingers and said, "Apples, peaches, oranges, and cherries are all good. We also have pears and dates. In addition, we also have loquats and plums. You can choose."
The three children's eyes met, and Manbao said, "A tree can bear many fruits. We can plant all kinds of fruits."
Bai Shanbao counted the species and said, "Eight kinds, so five of each kind should be enough for us to eat."
Mr. Bai: ...So you plant fruit trees not to make money, but to satisfy your own appetite?
After some hesitation, Bai Erlang agreed to the distribution plan. He muttered, "Why didn't you say it earlier? There would have been no need to argue yesterday."
The key point is that they didn’t know yesterday that Mr. Bai could get so many kinds of fruit trees.
The three children looked at Mr. Bai together, their eyes sparkling. "Isn't it possible to buy these fruit trees?"
Mr. Bai faced their doubts with a blank expression, "I'll try my best."
This was certainly not difficult for him, as the quantity was not large, only five fruit trees of one kind.
So Bai Shanbao gave an order and Bai Zhuangtou began to look for a suitable place on the mountain to plant fruit trees.
He didn't know how to plant those fruit trees, but based on his decades of farming experience, he knew to choose a relatively flat place with fertile soil and convenient watering.
So he walked around the mountain and finally chose the northeast side, a large area that transitioned from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside.
The soil there is more fertile.
So the trees there are also very dense.
Taking advantage of the winter, Bai Zhuangtou and his farmhands cut down all the trees in the selected area. After drying them, they could build a chicken coop at the foot of the mountain.
That's right, after a heated debate between Bai Shanbao and Manbao, they finally reached an agreement and decided to raise chickens on the wasteland at the foot of the mountain as planned.
Of course, to prevent the chickens from becoming pheasants, they needed to fence off an area, put up a fence, and build a chicken coop.
In addition, a few thatched huts had to be built for the farmhands to live in, so a lot of trees were needed.
There are only three farmhands in the small farm now, who were taken over by Liu from Mr. Bai. But it is obviously impossible to do so many things relying on only these three farmhands.
So Liu generously took out some money to hire temporary workers.
Manbao, who was close to the water, got the moon first, so she registered with her brothers first.
After selling all the ginger and other products, Zhou Silang and others, who had been resting at home recently, rolled up their sleeves and went to work.
When Old Zhou saw this, he asked Xiao Qian and Feng to go as well, saying, "Don't ask for wages, just consider it as helping your youngest sister."
Of course, Xiao Qian had no objection.
The three children said they wanted to raise chickens, but they themselves had no idea how to do it. The three farmhands clearly didn't know much either. The fence they had put up was sparse, barely enough to keep the larger chickens in. The smaller chickens didn't even have to crawl through, and could probably just walk in and out as if they were strolling around the streets.
Xiao Qian led Feng to re-tie the fence, walked around the cleared wasteland at the foot of the mountain, and pushed the already built chicken coop to a new location...
Bai Zhuangtou looked at him, his face slightly red.
The Bai family hired a lot of workers this time because Manbao and his team decided to clear out the wasteland at the foot of the mountain.
You don't have to worry about the stones, but you have to cut down the trees and weeds.
Then the tree stumps on the northeastern mountainside also need to be dug out, and the grass needs to be cut and hoed. It's a huge project.
There is no labor this year, and everyone has started hibernation early, oh no, it is winter rest, so the young and strong people in the village are idle and have nothing to do.
As soon as the Bai family announced that they wanted to hire temporary workers, the villagers immediately flocked to the scene.
Bai Zhuangtou selected twelve young and strong men, and with the help of Xiao Qian and Feng, the construction of the small village was proceeding at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Even the thatched house that they had originally planned to build was replaced with a yellow mud house after Bai Shanbao and his friends came to see it. It was much more spacious and brighter than the originally planned mud and thatched house.
Manbao looked at the three farmhands curiously. Seeing them squatting on a stone with messy hair, chewing a steamed bun at random, he couldn't help but squat opposite them with his own steamed bun.
The three farmhands and Manbao looked at each other, then silently turned around and faced her with their backs.
Manbao stood up and ran to squat in front of them, continuing to eat buns with them facing each other.
Three farmhands: ...
One of the farmhands, whose face was so dirty that it was hard to see, swallowed the last bit of steamed bun in his hand and asked, "Miss Man, do you have any instructions?"
Manbao shook his head, paused, and then nodded.
She looked at the three farmhands curiously.
The three of them were wearing the blue cloth clothes commonly worn by the servants of the Bai family, but their clothes were dirtier, had several holes in them, and didn't even have any patches.
His hair was messy and his hands and face were dirty.
This was not the first time Manbao had seen these three people, but she had never paid much attention to them before. After all, she had little time and spent most of her time here, talking to Bai Zhuangtou most of the time.
But today was their day off, so she had been here since morning, walking around here. Plus, with so many people here today, the three of them stood out in comparison.
Manbao thought they were too sloppy.
Even her laziest fourth brother was not as dirty as them when he was at his dirtiest.
So after some hesitation, she couldn't help but ask, "Won't your mother beat you?"
If her brothers dared to come home so dirty, her mother would definitely let her father beat them.
The three farmhands were a little upset and asked, "Why did our mother beat us?"
Manbao hesitated for a moment and said, "Because you don't wash your hair?"
The three farmhands took another steamed bun and continued to gnaw on it, saying nonchalantly, "Our mother is far away from us. She's not here, so she can't beat us."
"What about your wives? You look older than my fourth brother."
The three farmhands were even more upset. "Miss Man, if we could marry a wife, would we still be farmhands?"
Manbao was stunned and asked, "You are farmhands, don't you make a lot of money as a worker? You have work to do every day."
Look at her brothers. Every time they finish their housework, they start to stare at the landlord's house. As soon as the landlord is looking for workers, they run over. They can earn at least fifteen cents a day, and they can earn one hundred and fifty cents in ten days.
(End of this chapter)
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