Chapter 371 Strange
Qian also heard the child crying, and she took out the money box.
Old Zhou was getting ready for bed when he saw his wife take out the cash box and got a little nervous. "What are you doing?"
Qian pondered, "I'm thinking of asking the third son to buy some pig's feet tomorrow and stew them for his wife to increase her milk production. I heard Manbao mention it last time, and it seems crucian carp can also increase milk production."
Old Zhou immediately said, "Hasn't she been fed eggs at home? Three boiled eggs a day. Whose daughter-in-law can eat so well? She has no milk, so she has no milk. Don't waste your money."
Qian glared at him and said, "You're just stingy. You want your daughter-in-law to be sick, right? Why did I get sick before? It's because you, the Zhou family, were reluctant to give me food. Every time I gave birth, I had to endure it..."
Old Zhou lowered his voice by an octave and whispered, "Didn't we have no money back then?"
"We didn't have money back then, but now we have money, don't we?"
Old Zhou grumbled twice and defended himself, "I'm just worried that you won't treat everyone equally, and the other daughters-in-law will have objections."
"Anyone have any objections?"
Old Zhou coughed lightly and said, "The fourth son's wife is about to give birth. Will she also want to buy it when the time comes?"
"If she doesn't have milk either, then buy some. We can't just let the child cry," Qian said. "Only when a person is well fed can they live a healthy life. This is true for adults, and even more so for children."
The children she gave birth to were able to survive because when they were young, she would never let them go hungry as long as she had a bite to eat.
After hearing this, Old Zhou stopped talking.
Qian took out a string of money from the box and did not scatter it.
Old Zhou felt so distressed when he saw this that he simply lay on the bed and turned his back, refusing to look.
Qian glanced at his back, cursed him inwardly as "old stingy guy", put the money aside and lay down.
The next day, when Manbao got up, washed, and went to Mr. Zhuang's courtyard to write, she saw her mother handing a string of money to Zhou Sanlang, asking him to buy some pork legs to stew.
"You don't need to buy a lot, just a few pieces to stew for your wife, and buy a pound of meat for the family."
Zhou Sanlang agreed.
"Keep the remaining money. Buy your wife some pork legs every day. Let her eat them for a few days and see how they produce milk. If she still doesn't have enough, I'll find someone else."
Zhou Sanlang scratched his head and said, "Mom, I was going to buy some crucian carp. Didn't Manbao say last time that crucian carp can also increase milk production?"
"Then you take turns. If you don't have enough money, tell me."
Zhou Sanlang said innocently, "Mom, we have money too."
Last year, he made a lot of money by selling the ginger from his wasteland. In addition to the 60% that he handed over to the government, he gave some money to the fourth or fifth brother who sold it on his behalf, so there was still a lot left.
It was the first time that Zhou Sanlang made so much money. Of course, the money was all in the hands of his wife, He.
Qian glared at him and said, "Since you have money, why don't you think about buying more food for your wife?"
Zhou Sanlang shrank his neck and said, "I, I thought eating eggs would be enough..."
Qian pinched her waist and was about to scold him, but He quickly explained, "Mom, we didn't know. The main thing is that even if you eat eggs every day, you won't produce milk..."
In fact, the current situation is better than when she gave birth to her fourth child. Although there seems to be a sword of natural disaster hanging over her head, it is now the spring plowing season and she has just given birth. Of course, her family will not give her porridge to eat. They only give her dry rice, noodles, pancakes or steamed buns.
Last year, we raised more chickens at home, so we have quite a few eggs. Especially with the arrival of spring, the hens at home love to lay eggs more.
So there are quite a lot of eggs.
She now eats better than Manbao at every meal. She has four meals a day, and each meal has eggs. In the village, even the daughter-in-law of the village chief probably wouldn't dare to eat like this.
So she secretly had the same idea as Old Zhou. She ate so well and so many eggs but didn't produce milk. She probably didn't have enough milk this time.
It was just last night that Manbao suggested buying a sheep, and the couple discussed it before deciding to look for crucian carp.
However, things like fish may not be sold at the big market, so you may have to look for them in the county town.
In fact, if you don’t have time and there is no guarantee that you can catch crucian carp, it might be faster to go to the river to catch it yourself.
Manbao yawned, floated past them, walked into the kitchen, took out a pancake, and took his own steamed egg before sitting aside. "Sister-in-law, I won't be back for lunch or dinner."
"knew."
Manbao ate in the fields these two days. When the Bai family delivered lunch and dinner to the workers, they would also deliver meals for the three of them.
Xiao Qian looked down at Manbao and found that the always fair and round Manbao had not only become thinner, but also a little darker.
She was a little worried. "Manbao, if you're tired from working in the fields, don't do it. If you really can't, let your fifth brother do it. You can't get sick from working yourself to death."
Mrs. Feng nodded repeatedly, "Once my aunt is sick, it's very difficult to recover."
Qian said, "That was in the past. Manbao is in good health now. She is the reincarnation of a fairy. It was Master Tianzun who didn't think of Manbao before, so she suffered so many disasters."
Xiao Qian nodded with conviction.
Feng hesitated for only a moment, but always felt that something was wrong.
Manbao raised his head and thought about it, but couldn't help asking Keke, "Am I really not the reincarnation of a fairy?"
Koko: “…No.”
Manbao lowered his head and continued eating without saying a word.
Today they are still planting wheat. It is the first time that Bai Shanbao realizes how tiring spring planting is. He sits directly on the ridge and sits in a row with Manbao to watch the hired workers work.
When Bai Erlang finally finished spreading the seeds here, he sat down and stared blankly ahead with the other two. He still didn't understand, "Why should we plant with them? Can't we hire a few more people? At worst, we can wait until the villagers finish planting. We're not in a hurry."
Bai Shanbao wasn't thinking about that. He was curious, "With so few people, why do we need to cultivate so much land?"
Manbao: "To make money."
"But people in the city also have fields, and every family has land. The grain grown from so much land is enough for their own consumption. Who would still want to buy grain?" Mr. Zhuang was recently explaining taxes to them and was talking about Dingtian.
So Bai Shanbao knew that every adult had a piece of land.
Manbao was also puzzled by this. She thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. Anyway, every time I go to the county town, it seems like there are people buying rice and flour in the grain store."
She felt something was wrong and pointed at the people working in the fields and asked, "If everyone has a field, why don't they have one?"
She said, "My father seemed to have said that there are many people who don't have land."
Bai Shanbao pondered, "But they don't seem to be able to afford to buy food. Are we selling all the food we grow to them?"
Manbao: "Well, we pay them to grow crops, and then we sell the harvest to them to make money..."
She also felt that something seemed wrong.
Bai Erlang looked from one to another, his head hanging as he said, "There are so many people without land, and so many rich people also need to buy food. What's so strange about this?"
(End of this chapter)
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