Chapter 517: Heredity
Manbao was not afraid of being found, as she had a very good reason, "It was originally a gift for my sister-in-law. Her surname is Qian, so it's called Qianji."
"Your sister-in-law's is your eldest brother's, so there's nothing wrong with calling it a weekly journal."
"Okay, then you can buy a new flag," Manbao said with a particularly generous wave of his hand, "and I'll just write it on it when the time comes."
Old Zhou stared at the four words on the flag and asked, "Can't we take it to the river to wash it?"
Zhou Silang immediately shouted, "Dad, this cloth is hard to wash. I don't know if the words can be washed clean, but the flag might be dyed a different color, which would be ugly."
"How much is a flag?"
"One hundred wen."
"One hundred coins!?" Old Zhou shouted, "You're robbing me! It's just a piece of cloth."
"Dad, what's important is the cloth, not the pattern on it. You don't know that the government has restricted the sale of this cloth to a single grocery store. It's not available anywhere else, so it's incredibly expensive."
Old Zhou looked at the cloth, then at his daughter, couldn't help but snort, and walked away with his hands behind his back.
Manbao asked with a smile, "Dad, are you still going to change?"
"Why change it? I don't want to change it anymore. I have too much money to burn!"
Anyway, the shop is under his daughter's name, so no matter what, it belongs to the Zhou family.
Manbao happily took the finished flag to find her sister-in-law.
Little Qian had just heard everything. Seeing this, she stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead, saying with a smile, "You, you must make your father angry for once."
Manbao stuck out his tongue and saw that she was packing boxes, so he asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
"Pack up. I'll have to live in the county town later. I won't be back for two or three days, so I have to bring some clothes with me."
"Is Big Brother going too?"
Xiao Qian smiled and said, "If the family is not busy with farming, he will definitely go and help."
Xiao Qian whispered, "Your eldest brother and I have discussed this and are planning to make some steamed buns and tofu pudding for breakfast to sell. We need to grind the beans, and Lao Liu and I can't do it alone, so I think your eldest brother should go too and come back during the busy farming season."
Manbao nodded repeatedly, "The tofu pudding is delicious, and the buns made by my sister-in-law are also delicious."
Xiao Qian smiled, reached out and touched her head, saying, "We went to see Master Bai today. From now on, your third sister-in-law will be responsible for preparing the meals in the school. She is a good cook, so don't cause trouble in the school."
Manbao was sad for a moment, but soon became happy again, "At least it's not my second sister-in-law who goes."
Xiao Qian couldn't help but tap her forehead again and whispered, "You naughty girl, be careful that your second sister-in-law hears you and beats you up."
Manbao smiled and didn't take it to heart. As a result, she was retaliated by her second sister-in-law in the evening because she insisted on cooking dinner. So everyone ate the food made by Feng in the evening.
Old Zhou picked up a piece of food with his chopsticks first, and then everyone started to eat.
Manbao looked around and felt that she was quite full at noon, so she signaled to her father, took his bowl and gave him half of it.
Old Zhou never complains about having too much food. As someone who has been hungry, he can eat any meal, no matter how bad it tastes.
However, looking at the dishes made by Feng, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
It was obviously the same oil, salt, pot, vegetables and water, but the dishes cooked by Qian were green and delicious, while hers were withered and yellow. The salt used was almost the same, but the dishes came out very bland and had little flavor.
Alas~~
The Zhou family sighed in their hearts at the same time, but no one said anything. After they had finished all the food they had worked so hard to eat, they put down their bowls and chopsticks, and those who needed to work went back to work, and those who needed to go back to do their homework did their homework.
Feng herself felt that the dishes she cooked were not tasty, but she was not depressed at all. She put down her dishes and went back to the house happily. Today it was Zhou Xi's turn to clean up the dishes.
Zhou Erlang saw that she was happy and couldn't help asking, "What are you happy about?"
"Nothing." Seeing Zhou Erlang carrying a basket of pen holders and about to leave, he asked, "Is it for Manbao and the others?"
"Well, they said the previous one was dirty, so they asked me to make a new one and carve a monkey on it. I don't know how to carve a monkey, so I just made a few random moves with the knife and carved a few flowers on them."
Feng took a look and thought it looked pretty good. "Go and tell Manbao to keep his voice down next time he says something bad about me."
Zhou Erlang perked up and asked, "What bad things did Manbao say about you?"
Feng snorted and said, "She said my cooking is terrible."
Zhou Erlang: "...So you're cooking for yourself tonight?"
Feng snorted again.
Zhou Erlang was stunned. He looked at his wife speechless. After a while, he took the basket and went out.
As soon as he entered the yard, he saw his daughter doing homework with the window open, while his son was talking bad about Bai Erlang to Santou and planning with him how to trick Bai Erlang tomorrow.
Zhou Erlang sighed. It is said that sons look like their mothers and daughters look like their fathers. He didn't quite believe it before, but now he believes it a little.
Zhou Erlang walked up, handed the basket to Ertou, and said, "Ertou, no, Liwei, you distribute these pencil holders to everyone. After you're done, go do your homework. Don't be naughty, okay?"
"I understand, Dad."
Zhou Erlang didn't believe it at all, but he was a little tired today and didn't want to teach him, so he waved goodbye and left.
This year's New Year celebrations in Qili Village were more lively than in previous years, mainly because everyone had selected a lot of good wheat, which was bought by Mr. Bai and County Magistrate Yang at the price of wheat seeds, so everyone made some money.
When I have money, I can't help but buy more delicious food. When I have food, I think about clothes. When I have clothes, I can't help but buy some toys for the children.
So the village was more lively than in previous years, and Old Zhou's family was even more lively.
One reason is that they have a large family, and the other is that the Zhou family just bought a shop. This is the first one in Qili Village except for the Bai family.
Even the village chief's family couldn't buy a shop in the city, so everyone was very excited. Since they had nothing to do during the New Year, they couldn't help but gather at Lao Zhou's house to chat and gossip.
They also looked at the flags written by Manbao and praised him, "Great, great, reading is great."
"The handwriting is really good, just like the flags in the city."
"Can you read?"
“I don’t know it, but I know it’s well written.”
"So it's better to study. Look how smart Manbao is now."
"That's because his parents gave birth to him. Manbao has been smart since he was young."
"That's not necessarily true. She was smart when she was little, but not as smart as she is now. How old is she, yet she's already earned enough to run a shop? I think it's all due to her education. Doesn't the more you study, the smarter you become?"
"No, no, this brain is innate. Even if you don't read, you are dumber than others. Even if you read, you are still dumber than others."
"Come on, look at Uncle Jin's kids, Big Head and Second Head. Weren't they just as docile and silly as the other kids in the village before? But after they started studying, don't they seem smarter than the other kids?"
"How do you know they weren't born smarter than other children? They study, and Manbao also studies, but they haven't surpassed Manbao, have they?"
The other party couldn't even say anything to refute, and because of this issue, the two of them almost got into a fight.
Manbao was afraid that if he went out he would be stopped by them and asked all kinds of greetings, so with the help of Datou and the others, he climbed up the wall with a ladder, jumped out of the wall, and then ran to Bai's house to do his homework with a cloth bag containing books and homework.
Good night, I need to go to bed early tonight and update again tomorrow. I am really tired after going out.
(End of this chapter)
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