Chapter 473 Happy
The villagers of Qili Village were happy, the people of Lao Zhou's family were happy, Manbao was happy, and even County Magistrate Yang in the county government was very happy.
Even Mr. Bai was very happy because he had just talked to the Zhou family and their three children and asked them to select the best batch of the newly dried wheat and sell it to him at the same price of seeds.
However, it was no longer one hundred and fifty coins per dou, but one hundred and thirty-eight coins per dou.
Moreover, this time he put forward very strict requirements for seed screening. The reason why he is so confident is that the price of food has dropped!
The grain prices in Yizhou area are still high, but have also fallen a lot. However, in Luojiang County, the grain prices have dropped a lot and are close to the normal grain prices in previous years.
As a result, the price of grain seeds also fell.
Manbao and his friends were not inflexible. Although the price had dropped a lot, they were still very happy because they could still make much more money than simply selling grain.
The three children and the Zhou family would have been easily satisfied if Bai Erlang had not accidentally found out the price of the grain seeds his father had resold and told his two friends.
While his master was out, Bai Erlang immediately stepped between the two of them and said seriously, "Did you know that I had guests at my house yesterday?"
Manbao and Bai Shanbao were buried in their homework when they found a moment to reply, "I don't know."
The teacher is really getting worse and worse. Why does Bai Er have so little homework, but they have so much?
"It was Uncle Wu!" Bai Erlang revealed the answer directly, saying, "Uncle Wu came to my house to collect grain, and the new wheat seeds my father bought from us were also sold to Uncle Wu. Then I went to eat with him. Guess how much my father sold it to Uncle Wu?"
The two finally looked up, but shook their heads together.
"It's two hundred wen!" Bai Er said angrily. "The previous batch was sold for two hundred wen, and it's still two hundred wen now. But didn't Dad say that the price of grain in the county town has dropped?"
"Yes, they surrendered," Bai Shanbao said, "Bai Zhuangtou went to see it himself."
"Then why didn't the one my father sold to Uncle Wu drop in price?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Isn't this a good thing?"
"But the one we sold to my father was demoted."
Bai Shanbao: "So, did you take note of how your cousin negotiated with Wu Liang?"
Bai Jilang blinked, "...Why should I remember so many words?"
Manbao sighed, "Write this down so we know what to say next time we talk to Uncle Bai."
Bai Shanbao rolled his eyes and whispered, "You'd better make friends with Wu the grain merchant, because by next year, not only our village, but also the people in the village, and even the villages outside, will have a lot of these new wheat seeds. By then, my cousin will definitely try to lower the price."
Bai Erlang fell into deep thought.
Bai Shanbao and Manbao lowered their heads and went back to their homework, saying, "But there's no need to force this kind of thing, because our main priority right now is studying. So we think we should leave all the farmwork to Bai Zhuangtou. If there's business like this again in the future, we can just have him talk to my cousin."
Bai Erlang was stunned. "You, why do you do whatever you want?"
Bai Shanbao: "Manbao also agreed to this. You have it the easiest. You don't study as much as we do, and you have less homework than us. You don't know how hard we work."
Manbao said, "We have followed the manor from winter planting to now. Mr. Bai also knows how to manage the manor. Why should we take care of every single thing?"
If she had that much time, she might as well read more medical books.
"Then you just asked me to go find Uncle Wu."
"Isn't that the idea I gave you while I was waiting?" Manbao said confidently, "Then we realized it would interfere with your studies..."
"It won't interfere with my studies."
"That's because you have too little homework," Bai Shanbao complained. "In the end, didn't Manbao and I still have to help you with these things?"
He stretched his head to show Bai Jilang, "Do you think I'm losing my hair? It's because of my busy schoolwork."
Bai Erlang looked at his black head and said angrily, "Nonsense, your hair hasn't fallen out at all, and it's autumn now, the season is about to change, can I lose my hair too?"
When Mr. Zhuang came back with tea, the three children were already quarreling.
He stood at the door and coughed violently.
The study became quiet in an instant. Bai Erlang returned to his seat at lightning speed, while Bai Shanbao and Manbao lowered their heads and continued to do their homework.
Mr. Zhuang then calmed down and returned to his seat, standing behind them with his hands behind his back to look at the homework.
"Mid-Autumn Festival is coming in two days. I remember you haven't had a holiday in several months?"
The three children looked up at the same time and nodded vigorously!
Mr. Zhuang wanted to laugh when he saw them like this, so he said, "Okay, I'll give you three days off for Mid-Autumn Festival, starting tomorrow. You can come back to class after Mid-Autumn Festival."
Manbao immediately said, "Sir, three days of vacation is not enough. You haven't been home for a long time. You need to rest for a few more days."
Bai Shanbao: "Yes, yes, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone is very tired, so they need to rest for two more days."
Bai Erlang also said: "Sir, you haven't been back for a long time. The brothers will definitely complain, so you should stay for two more days."
Mr. Zhuang hesitated when he heard this, mainly because the three children's eyes were too bright, and he couldn't bear to refuse them when he saw the expectation in their eyes.
"Okay, then we'll have four days off. Seventeen must come back to class."
The three children cheered and said it was okay.
As soon as Mr. Zhuang announced the end of school, the three of them immediately and attentively packed Mr. Zhuang's luggage. Mr. Zhuang was very annoyed and when they had almost finished packing, he sent them away and finished the work himself.
The three of them happily went out with their small bookcases on their backs. As soon as they left the house, Manbao said to Bai Erlang, "Bai Er, let's go find your father and ask him to give us our money."
Bai Erlang nodded vigorously, "I'm going to Yizhou!" So it might cost a lot of money.
Bai Shanbao also said, "I'm going too. Manbao, are you going too?"
Manbao shook his head and said, "I'm not going. I want to go to the county town to buy something."
"What is it? Isn't there anything in Yizhou?"
"Yes, but Yizhou is too far away. I don't want to go there to buy it."
Mr. Bai did not pay the money this time, not because he was short of money, but because he wanted to let his three children experience what it meant to hold back payment for goods.
Sometimes, you can’t get the money back immediately after selling something.
Perhaps to avoid being exposed, or perhaps to get the three children to agree, he didn't even give the money to the Zhou family.
The three children were not too worried, but Old Zhou was very worried. He felt that although Landlord Bai was such a big and rich landlord, he still lacked his money. He had not been able to eat or sleep well these days. Every morning when he woke up, he would look in the direction of the Bai family, as if he was afraid that Mr. Bai had run away overnight.
(End of this chapter)
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