Chapter 521 Regret (Additional chapter for all the book friends who joined the alliance, such as "Si Qinglanyu")
Manbao said, "Dad, it's because I'm not a child anymore that I want to go out and see the world. I'm grown up now, so don't worry."
She comforted her father, "This time we have the master, Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang, and Daji following us, so nothing will happen on the road."
Old Zhou was worried. "How much will this trip cost? A poor family is rich on the road. I have to bring enough money with me when I go out."
"Don't worry, Dad. I have money."
Seeing that she didn't care about the money, Old Zhou immediately found another excuse, "That won't work either. I don't feel comfortable with you, a young lady, following them around."
Zhou Liulang looked at Manbao eagerly.
Manbao pointed at him and said, "Let Sixth Brother go with me."
"No, I can't delay your sixth brother from getting married."
"Then there's me," Zhou Silang was also eager to try, "Dad, let me go take care of Manbao."
Old Zhou glared at him. It was okay for the sixth brother, as he was young and had an unstable mind. But he was already a father, so why was he still so unstable?
Old Zhou snorted and said unhappily, "If you leave, who will treat your mother and I if we get sick?"
"There's the old doctor," Manbao said, "I went to see the old doctor the day before yesterday, and he's still in good health."
After Lu Zhi came in, Manbao copied two thin medical books from their family, kept one for himself, and sent one and the original back to their family.
When communicating with the old doctor, Manbao generously copied a copy of his existing medical book and gave it to the old doctor.
Anyway, when you spend points to copy the books in the encyclopedia, they will be printed with reference to the layout and text of this world.
It's a pity that her Keke is not a system for collecting books, otherwise she could just let Keke collect the books in this world and then print them out through the system. As long as she has points, she can have as many books as she wants.
Just thinking about it makes me excited.
When the old doctor received the book, he seemed to become five years younger. He was dying, but his appetite suddenly improved. He became more energetic and his hands and feet became nimbler.
So Manbao felt that there was nothing wrong with seeing an old doctor when someone in the family was sick.
Because she may not be as good as the old doctor in treating diseases, although she seems to have read more medical books and seen more diseases in the books.
Old Zhou found many excuses, but when he found out that he couldn't keep his little girl, he began to sigh.
At night, Qian asked him quietly, "Did you promise to let the child go?"
Old Zhou was very sad. "How can I not agree?"
Qian didn't say anything.
Old Zhou sighed and said, "Before, I always thought this child was well-behaved, so I gave in to her in everything. Later, I saw that she was smart, so I gave in to her in all matters big and small at home. Now, she has the final say. If I say I won't let her go, will she listen to me?"
If it were any other child, they probably wouldn't be able to escape from his palm, but Manbao is not only smart, she also has money, a lot of it. So where can she not go?
Thinking of this, Old Zhou immediately asked Qian, "Did Manbao tell you how much money she has?"
"No, what's wrong?"
"Why don't you ask her?" Old Zhou frowned and said, "I've thought about it. This trip will cost two people money. That girl has always been extravagant with her money. She just bought a shop last year. I'm afraid she doesn't have that much money left. So should we give her some money?"
Old Zhou is not good at arithmetic, but Qian is good at it. She doesn't count anything else. Even if she knows how much money Manbao gave to the family this year, she knows how much she earned this year.
If you calculate the more expensive things she bought, such as books, ink, flute and the like, you can know how much money she will have left at the end of the year.
Qian felt that the money she had must be no less than that of the old couple.
But she didn't tell Old Zhou this.
Old Zhou thought for a long time and finally said, "Let the fourth child go with her. The sixth child is too young and I'm afraid he can't handle it away from home. The family affairs cannot be separated from the eldest and second children. The third child is too honest. As for the fifth child, his wife is still pregnant. After thinking about it, the fourth child is the most suitable."
Qian nodded.
Old Zhou decided on the people to go with him, and he closed his eyes with a look of heartache and said, "Take out twenty taels from my own pocket and give it to them so they can spend it frugally. Oh, and you have to remind the fourth brother not to spend all his money when he's away from home. He should also bring some money with him..."
Qian wrote down everything and said with a smile, "Don't worry, the fourth child is not a child anymore, he knows what's going on."
Old Zhou was relieved, and Manbao happily ran to tell Bai Shanbao and the others the good news.
Qian then remembered to ask, "Now that Mr. Zhuang is gone, what will happen to the school?"
"Mr. Bai has hired a teacher to replace him. He said the new teacher is his friend and very knowledgeable. The annual tuition is the same, so we can just let Santou and the others go to school as usual." Manbao also felt a little sorry: "It's a pity that the teacher wants to move all the books in the courtyard. It will be difficult for us to go to the courtyard to study and do homework in the future."
The new teacher's surname was Liu, the same as Mrs. Bai's. He came quite early, on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, after the new year. Mr. Zhuang then took him to familiarize himself with the children in the school. When he was able to take over, he devoted all his attention to teaching Bai Shanbao and the other two.
Especially Bai Shanbao, he has to read so many books and do so many homework every day that it makes him doubt his life.
He clearly thought he had read a lot of books before, but when Mr. Zhuang gave him a list of books, and he found those books from his own study or from the bookstore in the county according to the list, he saw the unfamiliar content in them and realized that there were still so many books he had not read.
Manbao watched with him.
So before the first month of the lunar year was over, Manbao's money was spent like crazy and turned into books that were placed on the bookshelf in the room.
In the past three or four years, Manbao has added a lot of books to her bookshelf. Zhou Erlang also made two four-layer bookshelves for her with bamboo, which can be placed together with the previous ones.
There is no need for the bamboo screen in the room. The bookshelf directly separates the inner room and the outer room.
For Bai Shanbao, studying now is a mixture of happiness and pain, while for Manbao, it is pure happiness, because she does not have to do too much homework after reading, nor does she have to memorize every word for every sentence. She can just write down the main points after reading and forget about it.
Compared with her, and with Bai Erlang next to him who could even slack off in class in the study, Bai Shanbao was simply miserable.
He couldn't help wiping his eyes before going to bed at night. He felt a little regretful. He shouldn't have agreed to let the teacher take the provincial school examination this year. It was clearly said that as long as he could pass it before the fourteenth year, he would be fine. He was only eleven this year, so why was he in such a hurry to take the exam?
good evening
(End of this chapter)
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