Chapter 362 We Must Have Ideals (Part 2)
Manbao stopped eating the steamed bun and stuffed it into Zhou Wulang's mouth, who was squatting on the side watching the fun. Then he twisted a strand of the farmhand's hair with his fingers and asked, "Look, how long has it been since you washed your hair?"
The farmhand thought for a moment and then shook his head, "I don't remember."
It’s been too long, and who would remember such things?
Manbao withdrew his hand, looked at the three of them, shook his head and sighed, "I'm seven years old. If I saw you on the street, I definitely wouldn't want to get close to you. Do you think a seventeen-year-old girl or a twenty-seven-year-old sister would want to get close to you?"
The three hesitated and shook their heads.
"Then how do you get married?"
The three of them were in deep thought.
The farmhand hesitated and said, "Even if we clean up, no one will marry us. We have no land or house."
"That's right, you'll be in trouble if you follow us."
Manbao was angry, "You are so unambitious!"
Bai Erlang and Bai Shanbao had already come over to watch for a while. Upon hearing this, they said, "What are you afraid of? My family has a lot of land and houses. I'll ask my father to give you some later."
The third worker raised his head and looked at Bai Erlang.
Zhou Wulang, who was standing by, almost dropped his steamed bun in shock.
Bai Shanbao rolled his eyes at him and said, "A man with ambition should earn his own fortune and marry a wife. How can he look down on others for his wealth?"
The third farmhand said weakly: "We have no ambition..."
Manbao sighed and said, "We still have to have ideals. Even though you don't have land or houses, as long as you have the ability and ambition, you will always be able to find a wife. But if you don't even have ambition and ability, then you really won't be able to get married."
The third farmhand remained silent, silently chewing on the last steamed bun, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
Manbao stared at them with sharp eyes, "Don't you really want to consider cleaning yourself up and then working hard to find a wife?"
The farmhand said, "Three hundred coins a month. Even if we don't spend a penny, we won't save much in a year."
"I can save three thousand six hundred coins."
The third farmhand opened his mouth in shock, "How can you save so much?"
"How is that possible? Doesn't that mean I spent 3,600 yuan a year?"
Now the three children were confused. "Three hundred coins a month, that's three thousand six hundred coins a year, right? That's easy to calculate."
But the three farmhands, who couldn't even count to a hundred, couldn't figure it out. After listening to Manbao's calculation, they all felt distressed. "We actually spent so much money? Then, how much was that four years?"
"Four years is fourteen thousand four hundred coins."
The farmhand had been here the longest, exactly four years. When he heard what Manbao said, he rolled off the stone with a thud. Then he wiped his tears and cried, "I, I actually earned so much money, I, how come I didn't know, wuwuwu..."
Children: ...
Zhou Wulang quickly finished the steamed bun that Manbao stuffed into his mouth, patted his butt and stood up, sighing, "Fortunately, I learned numerology from Manbao."
Zhou Silang came over at some point and curled his lips when he heard this, saying, "Even if you don't know how to count, you can still save your money. There's no need to spend it all every month."
The second farmhand was furious. "What do you know? We have no land, no mother, and no wife. Shouldn't we eat more when we're hungry from doing heavy work? Shouldn't we pay someone to sew the cloth we were given? And what about shoes and socks? We have to pay for all of these..."
Zhou Silang snorted, "Is laziness enough? Why are you making so many excuses? Is sewing clothes difficult? I can sew them. Is making shoes and socks difficult? I can do that!"
Manbao and Zhou Wulang on the side nodded.
Although Qian was there, she couldn't take care of every child before Zhou Xi returned to her parents' home.
Manbao was taken care of by Xiao Qianshi, but Zhou Silang, Wu Wulang and Zhou Liulang were more miserable. Qianshi would make their clothes, and occasionally when she was seriously ill, she would entrust the clothes to her three daughters-in-law.
But there are always times when you can't take care of it, especially when your clothes are damaged.
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were relatively young in the past few years, so Feng and He didn't mind helping them with mending. But Zhou Silang was a little older, and mainly because Zhou Silang himself was embarrassed to give his damaged clothes to his sisters-in-law for mending.
So he learned to sew without any instruction, even though it was a bit ugly at first.
Later, when Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang's clothes got torn again, they were too lazy to trouble their sisters-in-law to take them to them, so they basically either gave them to Zhou Silang or took up needle and thread to mend them themselves.
The more you mend it, the more it will look like.
Then they darned their own socks and then their own shoes.
Sewing = knowing how to do it!
The Zhou brothers looked at the three farmhands proudly.
The three of them were stunned and looked at the Zhou brothers suspiciously, "Don't you have a mother and a sister-in-law at home? Why would you do such a thing?"
Zhou Wulang looked at the three of them with disdain and said, "You can do your own things by yourself, and of course it's more comfortable to do it by yourself. You've been alone for so long, and you can't even do something as simple as making clothes and shoes?"
The farmhand was lost in thought.
Manbao shook his head and looked at the three of them, "You are too lazy. This won't work."
The second farmhand pondered, "But even if we can save our wages, without a house and land, no one will be willing to marry us, right?"
Zhou Wulang couldn't help but say, "We don't know about this, but if you have no money and are lazy, then no one will want to marry you. I started saving money to marry a wife two years ago, but you guys are already so old and still haven't started saving money to marry a wife."
Zhou Wulang thought for a moment and said, in what he thought was a tactful way, "Anyway, if you were to marry in the next two years, you would definitely not be able to compete with me."
The third farmhand's eyes widened. "Didn't your family pay for your marriage? You're actually asking me to save money on my own?"
The farmhand stopped crying, got up and stared at Zhou Wulang curiously.
Zhou Wulang first glanced at his fourth brother, then he raised his neck proudly and said, "How can it be as comfortable to save money to marry a wife by yourself when the family pays for it?"
This was obviously beyond the common sense of the three workers, and it dealt a serious blow to the ideas they had always believed in.
Do they want to get married?
Of course I do. There is no man in this world who doesn't want to get married.
But ever since their family lost their land and had to work as long-term laborers, they had little hope of getting married.
Who would be a long-term worker?
They are workers who have no land at home, or whose land is too little to support so many people in the family, and have to go out to do farm work for others to make a living.
They were lucky enough to find a good employer who would not delay their wages and they signed a long-term contract.
Some people can only find short-term jobs. After finishing their work in one place, they have to go to another place to look for work.
If you are unlucky and have spent all your money but still haven't found another job, you will end up becoming a beggar and continue looking for one.
In their opinion, the money for marrying a wife should be paid by the parents, right?
But they have all left their hometowns, so why would they still expect their parents to give them money to marry them off?
But now from what Zhou Wulang said, it is normal to save money to marry a wife?
(End of this chapter)
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