Chapter 436 Confidentiality
Bai Erlang was stunned. Since Manbao hadn't mentioned it, he had never thought about this question.
Bai Erlang had a new worry and immediately put aside the depression of not being able to go to Yizhou for fun.
He thought for a long time but couldn't come up with a good solution. He could only ask his two friends worriedly, "What do you think we should do?"
Bai Shanbao said, "You just don't want to give it to me. Do you think your mother will forcefully snatch it from me?"
Anyway, as long as he persists, his mother can't do anything to him.
Seeing Bai Erlang's worried look, Bai Shanbao thought for a moment and said, "Go find your father and ask him to help you."
Manbao also nodded, and then whispered: "You can't go to find your grandmother."
Bai Shanbao nodded in agreement.
"If my mother and grandmother don't agree, my father will definitely not help me." Bai Erlang expressed doubts about the two people's idea.
"You're right to listen to me. If you go to your uncle, you might have a 50% chance of success. But if you go to your great-aunt, that's even less than 10%." Bai Shanbao thought for a moment and added, "If your uncle doesn't agree, just say that Manbao and I have our own money. In the future, we will have to pay for any large sums needed for the farm ourselves."
"Hey, didn't we agree that your family would pay for it?"
Manbao: "You are so stupid. This is just an excuse. Just make sure your father believes it."
Bai Erlang nodded reluctantly, "Well, then I'll go get the servants to help me move the silver back? Otherwise, I'll take half first, and then take the other half after my father agrees."
Bai Erlang looked at Bai Shanbao and said, "Can you help me keep the other half of the money first?"
Bai Shanbao said it was no problem.
Manbao also packed her money back home, but the silver was too heavy, so she only put twenty pieces into the backpack the first time, then carried it on her back and walked home.
The Zhou family was busy with their own things. Manbao was carrying a backpack back home. No one paid attention to him for a while. It was not until Manbao carried another backpack and held another in his hand that Xiao Qianshi asked, "Manbao, what are you doing?"
"I'm going to Shanbao's house to get something."
"You have to come back soon. I've already started cooking," Xiao Qian said with a smile, "Dad had a chicken killed and some meat bought today."
Manbao agreed and ran as soon as he got out of the door.
When she arrived at the Bai family, she returned Bai Shanbao's backpack and used her own to hold the silver ingots. She put twenty in it, looked at the remaining nine, hesitated, and stuffed another one in.
Bai Shanbao asked, "Can you finish reciting it? Can't you make one more trip?"
"My family is going to have dinner."
"Then I'll help you carry it." Bai Shanbao also took his backpack to help, and Manbao gave his backpack to him, "This one is heavier, you carry this one, and I'll carry yours."
Bai Shanbao thought that he was older than her and was a boy, so he did not refuse.
Manbao happily put the remaining eight silver ingots into the backpack. After thinking for a while, he took out five more from him. He felt that this was just the right weight, neither too light nor too heavy, so he put it on his back and looked at him.
When the Zhou family saw the two children carrying baskets to Manbao's room, they couldn't help but wonder, "What are they carrying?"
Datou and Manbao's closest friends immediately went over to see what was happening. Zhou Wulang, who was squatting under the eaves waiting for dinner, also went over when he saw what was happening.
Zhou Liulang had already caught up and was even offering to help Manbao carry the backpack. "What's in that backpack?"
Everyone rushed into Manbao's room while talking. Manbao opened the cloth covering the bamboo basket and said with a "clang clang clang" voice: "Look!"
Zhou Liulang's eyes widened, as did the other two, who couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!" When Zhou Wulang squeezed over to look, they were all stunned and stammered, "Hey, hey, hey, Xiaomei, Manbao, what did you do? How did you get so much money back?"
Manbao was unhappy and said, "I earned all this."
"Huh? How did you earn that?"
In Old Zhou's family, only Qian knew that Manbao, Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang had exchanged wheat with the villagers and resold it to Mr. Bai. Everyone else, including Old Zhou, thought that Manbao was just a link between their family and Mr. Bai, and was selling their own wheat seeds to Mr. Bai at a high price.
Manbao also realized it belatedly and realized that he hadn't told his father about this yet.
Manbao immediately covered up the money and said to his friends with a serious face: "This is our secret, you can't tell the adults!"
Not to mention Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, even the younger ones were worried sick. "Aunt, this is too much money. We need to tell the adults."
"No!" Manbao pulled out his trump card, "Your private money is still in my hands. I never tell your parents when they ask me."
"But……"
Zhou Wulang then asked, "Manbao, how did you make this money? Do your parents know?"
Manbao said guiltily, pointing at his fingers: "Only mother knows, father doesn't know."
Zhou Wulang heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, "Mom really knows?"
Manbao nodded, "Of course!"
Zhou Wulang then remembered how his mother was unwilling to go and exchange the wheat yesterday, and she had even had a fight with his father about it. It seemed that his mother had known about it for a long time.
Zhou Wulang nodded readily, "Okay, we won't tell."
The others were not fools either. They understood what he said as soon as they heard it and covered their mouths and laughed.
Only Erya was worried, "Aunt, is it safe to keep so much money in the house?"
"Do thieves dare to sneak into our house?" Manbao said, "I have six brothers!"
Erya: "...No, Grandpa will go to check Uncle Five and Uncle Six's rooms..."
Zhou Wulang waved his hand and said with great confidence, "Dad won't come to check Xiaomei's room. Have you ever seen the private money we left with her checked?"
That's right. From Zhou Wulang to the four youngest ones who can run and jump, their private money is in Manbao's hands. This is an open secret in the Zhou family, but no one has ever come to check Manbao's room.
Old Zhou would ask Manbao a question from time to time, but he never checked her room.
Erya thought about it and nodded. That’s right. There is a clear division of labor in the family. Her eldest aunt and younger aunt are taken care of by her grandmother, while her father and uncles are taken care of by her grandfather.
For some reason, Erya suddenly felt some sympathy for her father and uncles.
The friends who shared a common secret gathered together to count Manbao's silver ingots. They were very envious and curious about how Manbao made money.
Manbao then said, "We also sold the wheat seeds to Mr. Bai."
Zhou Wulang couldn't help but gasp in amazement. "If wheat seeds are so profitable, can we still sell our spring wheat after we harvest it this season?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Let's see what happens next. If our wheat harvest is good, it should be possible."
Datou then became thoughtful and said, "It turns out what my father said is true. If you farm well, you can really make money."
"Of course I can make money," Zhou Wulang said. "If I couldn't make money, how did your grandparents raise us?"
(End of this chapter)
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