Chapter 410 Gossip (July Monthly Ticket 1000 Bonus)
Qian was stunned, and it took her a long time to find her voice. "You, you guys... are too bold. What if Master Bai doesn't buy wheat seeds from you, or doesn't buy so much?"
Manbao said, "Then sell it at the market price of grain."
"Will it be a loss?"
"It will be a bit of a loss, but Shanbao and I have calculated it, and it's affordable," Manbao comforted her, "Mom, don't worry."
Looking at the confident Manbao, Qian's words of dissuasion were blocked in her heart. She reached out and touched her fair and smooth cheek. It seemed that she saw the dark, naughty, yet filial and sensible boy from that year again. He had said the same thing to her back then, saying that he would definitely be able to find food to survive if he went out, and even if he couldn't find it, he could still survive...
Manbao felt that his mother looked a little strange, and couldn't help but reach out and hug her arm, asking, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
Qian came back to her senses and smiled at Manbao, "It's okay, since you have already discussed it, let's do it."
Manbao was overjoyed, "Mom, I knew you would stand by me."
Qian tapped her forehead and said, "You're so clever, but you have to keep this a secret. Don't let your father know, and don't let Master Bai find out either."
"Don't worry, mother. We have already discussed it. Bai Er has moved to Shan Bao's house now."
Qian smiled slightly. Mr. Bai was not a fool. He must have known that they were going to do something behind her back. He probably just wanted to see how the children would play.
However, Qian felt that Mr. Bai would not be able to guess it, because even though she had heard it once, she still found it incredible.
The three children were not only incredibly brave, but also had such great ideas that they could come up with such a solution.
Qian went back to her room, filled with worry. Old Zhou, who had no worries, had already fallen asleep. The next day, he went out to visit relatives under Manbao's earnest instructions.
Manbao carried his own small school box and the abacus he bought to class.
Old Zhou was holding his pipe and strolling along the country road with his hands behind his back. The first place he went to was the home of Zhou Daliang, with whom his family had a good relationship.
Da Liang's father is younger than Lao Zhoutou. He used to follow Lao Zhoutou around. Over the years, the two families have helped each other and their relationship has become closer and closer.
He walked to the wall of Zhou Daliang's house and looked inside. He saw Daliang's father scolding Zhou Daliang, while Zhou Daliang was sitting in the yard with his head down, rubbing wheat.
He pushed the door open, took a look at the wheat drying in the yard, and asked, "Why haven't you finished rubbing the wheat ears yet?"
"Uncle Jin is here, hurry up and sit down, hurry up and sit down." Da Liang's father asked Zhou Daliang to move a chair, and he couldn't help complaining: "You kids, you sleep until noon every day, and you get unhappy when the sun gets a little hot. You always complain that your hands hurt. How can rubbing wheat not prick your hands?"
Zhou Daliang brought out a chair and asked, "Uncle, have you finished rubbing the wheat?"
Old Zhou was filling his pipe with tobacco when he heard this and said, "It's almost done. We just need to dry it for two more days before we can store it in the warehouse."
In the entire Qili Village, the fastest-growing farm is that of Manbao and his friends. Firstly, they hired a lot of people, and secondly, they didn't have much land, only about 20 mu. They could harvest the crops in just three or four days, and even the drying and threshing of the grains were done by hired laborers.
Later, the farmhands only needed to turn it over and dry it in the sun. The sun was good recently, so it was put into storage quickly.
Old Zhou's family is a little slower, but they are also the fastest in the village. While others are still harvesting wheat in the fields, their family has already harvested all the wheat in the fields and transported it back home, and started plowing the fields and planting rice.
By the time they were finally able to plow the fields and plant rice, they had already planted rice seedlings on the twenty-odd acres of wheat fields and threshed all the wheat...
So if you slow down at the beginning, you will only get slower and slower later on.
However, Zhou Daliang and his son firmly believe that the reason why their Zhou family has always been so efficient is because they have such a large family.
Especially when there are many children.
While the adults were bringing the wheat home, the children were drying the wheat ears at home, stepping on them and patting them...
While the men are plowing the fields, the women are rubbing and threshing the wheat grains at home. How can this not be fast?
Dad Daliang sighed again, looking at Zhou Daliang and sighing. Their family was quite small, and their son was lazy.
He used to hang out with Zhou Silang and they were lazy together, but Zhou Silang is a little more diligent now, but his son is still so lazy.
Da Liang's father was worried. He didn't want to see his son, so he adjusted the direction of the stool and turned his back to his son. While rubbing the wheat, he asked, "Uncle Jin, do you want to talk to me about something?"
Old Zhou gave him a look of disdain and instructed, "You can't sit while rubbing wheat. You have to stand. Wrap your head and face with a piece of cloth. If your hands hurt, wrap them too. Then stand and rub vigorously. You can finish rubbing wheat in half a morning. How long will it take you to finish rubbing wheat while sitting like this?"
After that, he said, "It's nothing. Didn't you all get wheat seeds from my family last year? The Bai family thought our wheat seeds were good and wanted to exchange them for ours to make seeds. I wanted to ask if you're willing to do that."
"One pound for one pound?"
"Nonsense, if you don't want to exchange one catty for one catty, you're going to exchange one and a half catties for one catty."
"It's not impossible," Da Liang's father thought for a moment and said, "But their wheat has to be as good as ours. Uncle Jin, your wheat seeds are really good. Not only are the ears long, but the grains are also plump. I estimate that our wheat harvest this year will be at least a few bags more than the year before."
As they were talking, several people from nearby heard the noise and came over to look. Old Zhou saw them and simply waved to them, "Come on, let's talk."
People passing by and several nearby neighbors thought that there was nothing big to do at home except rubbing and drying wheat, so they simply left the housework to their wives and children and walked away with their hands behind their backs.
When Daliang's mother came out of the kitchen, the yard was already full of people. She had no choice but to move stools for them.
Everyone was sitting in the yard, and it was inconvenient to talk with nothing in their hands, so they simply pulled some wheat from Zhou Daliang's house and rubbed it while talking.
"How come Uncle Jin has time to come out and walk around today?"
"He's always free. He has six sons outside, and Aunt Qian and a bunch of daughters-in-law inside. Uncle Jin is enjoying his life now."
"Enjoy yourself?" Old Zhou snorted, "Then marry the wives of my fifth and sixth sons."
"Oh, by the way, Lao Wu should be getting married, right?"
Old Zhou thought about it and felt that the boy was not in a hurry, but just wanted to look around. So he said, "It's okay to talk about marriage. If anyone knows of a family with a beautiful daughter, please tell my husband and I, and then we can let the two children meet each other."
"I think the fifth one will have a great future. He's much better than the fourth one. He works efficiently and is also smart."
Old Zhou nodded in satisfaction, "Yes, I also think that the fifth child is better than the fourth child, so the daughter you are talking about can't be worse than the Fang family's."
(End of this chapter)
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