Chapter 437: You have a different purpose
Zhou Wulang led the children outside and asked Manbao to hide the silver in the house by himself. Bai Shanbao was puzzled. "The room is so small, where can you hide so much money? Just put it in the box."
"No," Zhou Wulang said seriously, "If I don't hide this much money properly, how can I sleep at night? There are twenty-nine of them."
More than they already have at home.
Bai Shanbao wanted to tell them that there were not twenty-nine, but forty-nine. Manbao had already carried back a basket before, but he did not see the twenty silver ingots in her room just now. Thinking that she was going to hide this from her father, he did not say anything more.
Where can I hide to sleep?
Of course it was hidden in Koko's place.
Manbao took out all the silver ingots and stuffed them into the system at once, letting them accompany the previous twenty pieces.
Then he dragged the two empty backpacks out, returned one to Bai Shanbao, and placed the other in the yard.
Zhou Wulang was just about to ask her if she was hiding, when Si Tou, who had been waiting in the kitchen and refused to move, rushed into the yard like a chicken being chased. Seeing them, he shouted, "It's time to eat, it's time to eat, go eat quickly."
After shouting, she turned around and ran to the courtyard. From a distance, she saw San Ya standing guard at the kitchen door with a pout on her face. Second aunt was asking her to eat slowly.
The four heads rushed forward with a roar, and he knew that whoever went to call people for dinner would be unlucky. The four heads rushed to the kitchen door, raised their little heads and looked eagerly at the eldest aunt, the second aunt and her mother in the kitchen.
He reached out and patted him on the back, saying, "Hurry up and move the stools. Don't always think about getting food from the kitchen. Look, your brothers and sisters haven't come yet."
Si Tou sighed and turned to leave.
San Ya followed behind him, finished the meat in her mouth, and helped him move things.
The tempting aroma of meat wafted through Old Zhou's house, and Bai Shanbao couldn't help but take a deep breath. Manbao warmly invited him to stay for dinner, "But my sister-in-law made this herself. It's delicious."
Bai Shanbao was indeed moved, "But I haven't told my mother yet."
"Let Daji go back and talk to him. He also needs to go back for dinner."
Bai Shanbao thought what she said made sense, so he ran out and asked Daji to go back and inform his mother that he would not be coming home for dinner.
Daji glanced at the children running around in the yard, and felt that it would be safe to let the young master stay here, so he bowed and retreated.
But he did not listen to Bai Shanbao and not come again. Instead, after notifying Zheng, he came to Lao Zhou's house again. He originally planned to wait outside the door, but the four dogs who were chasing out the chickens that ran into the yard saw him standing outside.
So the Zhou family found out.
Old Zhou immediately went to get them to come in. "Now that you're here, why don't you come in? Come on, come sit down and eat with us. Manbao, quickly serve Young Master Bai some food."
Xiao Qian cooked a lot of dishes. Although most of them were vegetarian, and even some of them used the same vegetables, the styles of the dishes were different.
Bai Shanbao ate with gusto and felt that her cooking was no worse than that of the cook at home.
Manbao was eating while thinking that when she bought an iron pot, her sister-in-law would be able to cook more dishes.
Bai Shanbao and Daji both enjoyed their meal very much. Old Zhoutou was also very happy with his meal. In the middle of the meal, he picked up two chicken legs for his daughter and asked her to give one to Bai Shanbao.
Manbao was very generous and gave him some.
She felt that her father was being particularly generous today.
It wasn't until after dinner that Old Zhou revealed the reason for his generosity. He smiled and asked Bai Shanbao, "Young Master, I heard from Manbao that your family still has a lot of wheat left from the wheat they exchanged for?"
"Not much, just nine bags."
"Oh, it's already a lot," said Old Zhou. "How can a family like yours ever eat it all? I heard you have a lot of land, and the summer grain harvest is about to come in. You have to sell this wheat, otherwise it will become stale grain."
Old Zhou was just about to ask Bai Shanbao if he could tell Mr. Bai to sell them a few bags of wheat when the time comes.
He didn't want his daughter to ask Mr. Bai for help. After all, this was a big deal and it would be bad to put it on his daughter. Besides, they had just made a lot of money from Mr. Bai and it was a bit embarrassing to buy wheat from him at a low price.
After all, Mr. Bai had exchanged one pound and two ounces of wheat seeds with the villagers, but his family didn't exchange them, but instead exchanged them for a lot of money.
I don’t know why, even though Manbao kept saying the price was not expensive, he still felt very guilty.
Qian glanced at him. Others didn't know, but she knew that the wheat did not belong to Mr. Bai, but to the three children.
Sure enough, as soon as Old Zhoutou finished speaking, Bai Shanbao said, "I sold all the wheat to Manbao."
At this point, he turned around and asked Manbao, "How many bags do you want to buy? Or you can buy a little less, and I'll sell the rest to the old man."
Old Zhou’s family: …
"Ah?" Manbao looked at her father, then at Bai Shanbao, and said doubtfully, "My father and I are from the same family."
"Oh," Old Zhou slapped his thigh and laughed cheerfully, "So Manbao mentioned it to you. Forget it, forget it. Just pretend I didn't mention it. By the way, young master, did you tell me the price for Manbao?"
"Yes," Bai Shanbao immediately perked up, glanced at Manbao and said, "We've agreed on thirty coins per dou."
In fact, before the grain arrived, the two men agreed on thirty-five cents per dou.
Manbao had thought of it a long time ago. His family had sold all the wheat as wheat seeds, and what was left at home must be the old rice and the ground flour, which was not enough to eat for a few days.
If she couldn't buy grain, her father would definitely add a lot of wheat bran into it, he definitely would!
So she had already agreed with Bai Shanbao on the price of thirty-five cents per dou.
At least it’s five cents cheaper than the grain store, right?
As a result, none of them expected that the price of grain would drop so suddenly. Mr. Bai told them last night that the price of wheat collected by grain merchants in various towns and villages in Luojiang County is 28 wen per dou.
Although the price of wheat at the grain shop has not dropped, Mr. Bai estimates that it will not be much of a problem in a few days.
So Manbao went to Bai Shanbao and asked for a price reduction. The two villains had a small quarrel about this, but thinking of the powerful enemy at hand, both of them took a step back.
Manbao did not ask Bai Shanbao to pay her the price of the grain purchased from the countryside, and Bai Shanbao no longer insisted on making the five cents from her.
Give it to her directly at cost.
It was precisely because of the "intense discussion" on this topic last night that both children seemed particularly friendly today.
But in order to avoid showing off his hard work to the blind man, Bai Shanbao added an explanation, "When we brought it from Longzhou, it was 30 wen per dou, so I'm giving you the cost price."
(End of this chapter)
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