Chapter 59 Glad
Manbao held Bai Shanbao's hand and ran all the way towards Zhou Silang's wasteland.
Big Head and the Bai family's servant who appeared behind them at some point followed behind.
Liu had instructed the servants that if Bai Shanbao was playing with the young lady from the Zhou family, there was no need to stop him, but to bring him back at dinner time.
If he messed around with other students, he would be brought back immediately, so the servants just followed him and didn't stop him.
Zhou Silang and Ertou Daya were squatting on the ground to rest. They took out a thin sweet potato stalk from somewhere and started chewing on it.
Seeing Datou coming with Manbao and a chubby little kid, Zhou Silang reluctantly broke off a few sections of the sweet potato stalk in his hand and gave them to them.
Bai Shanbao didn't recognize this thing and didn't know how to eat it.
Manbao had eaten it before. It was one of the few snacks her family would bring back from the fields for her. She taught Bai Shanbao how to eat it and said, "This can be used to make sugar."
Before Bai Shanbao could speak, Zhou Silang expressed his doubt, "I've never heard of sweet potato being used to make sugar."
"Yes," Koko had told her, and there was no mistake. He added, "If wheat can be made into sugar, why can't sweet stalks be made into sugar?"
Most of the sugar they bought from the market was made from wheat, which Koko said was called malt sugar.
Zhou Silang was blocked and couldn't help asking: "Then tell me, how do we survive?"
How would Manbao know?
She went to ask Koko.
The system said: "Host, do you want to search for sugar-making techniques?"
Man Bao responded with "Yes," and a string of data was generated within the system. His voice was somewhat excited. "This will cost one hundred points. Host, are you sure you want to search?"
Manbao blinked, "Why do I need points?"
The system's voice lowered a bit, and said, "This is technical knowledge. The sweet sticks that the host has included in this system currently only have the most basic introduction. The description of the sugar-making technology is not comprehensive. Therefore, if you want to make sugar, besides researching it yourself, you can only purchase this technology from the encyclopedia through the system."
Keke paused and said, "After the host searches for this technology, the technical content will be permanently stored in the system and the host can view it at any time."
The subtext is that you won’t lose out.
But Manbao is a person who is reluctant to buy an extra bag of candy even if she gets a few points. Would she spend a hundred points to buy a candy-making technique?
So Manbao rejected Keke, and then called up the words included in Tiangan. Everything she included would be studied later by someone, and then made into entries and uploaded to the system, so she could click to check for free.
Sweet potato has been included in the collection for a long time, but the entries are very short, with only an introduction to its planting history and distribution area, and some introductions to its use in making sugar and wine.
Manbao scratched his head and said to Zhou Silang, "Making sugar should be similar to making soup. Just chop it up and boil it in water. Ask people how they make sugar from wheat. It's probably similar to that."
"That's someone else's craft, why would they tell me?"
Manbao said as a matter of course: "Then just try them one by one. Sweet poles are free anyway, so try whatever you want."
Such a loud tone directly choked Zhou Silang.
Bai Shanbao seemed to be lost in thought. "Didn't the teacher say that books contain a lot of knowledge? Perhaps there's a method for making sugar in them?"
Manbao: "There are no books at home."
"I have books at home," Bai Shanbao said. "I have many, many books at home!"
Manbao's eyes lit up, "Really? Then can I see it?"
"Sure. Come home with me after school tomorrow and I'll take you to read." Bai Shanbao said that when they left their hometown, they didn't bring much else with them except several carts of books. His grandmother said that those were the treasures of their family, and whether he could make a name for himself in the future depended on these treasures.
Bai Shanbao actually had a little idea that he didn't tell Manbao. He felt that there were too many books. He was scared whenever he thought about his grandmother asking him to read all of them, so he wanted to give some to Manbao.
If he makes other friends in the future, he can give the book to them as well. By giving away one book, he will have to read one less book. This idea just came to him.
For example, Zhou Silang, he had so many sweet poles just now, but after giving one to each of them, he didn’t have much left.
If Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang knew that Bai Shanbao was able to draw inferences from one instance to another, they would probably be furious.
But no one knew it at the time. Manbao felt that Bai Shanbao was indeed a good person. He not only played with her, but also was willing to give her books to read. At this time, he even whispered in her ear that he wanted to give her a book.
Manbao was really moved, so when she saw Bai Shanbao looking at the mountain eagerly, she volunteered to take him up the mountain to play.
Since Manbao was going up the mountain, Datou would definitely follow to protect them, so Ertou and Daya couldn't sit still anymore and wanted to follow.
So when Manbao arrived, he took all of Zhou Silang's helpers away.
Zhou Silang was so angry that he shouted, "Are you here to help? Are you here to help?"
However, the group of children who could only see the wild flowers and grass on the mountain could no longer hear him, and they chased each other and ran up the mountain crying.
The servant of the Bai family followed silently. He felt that he had to report to the old lady when he returned. He felt that he should assign a bigger servant to the young master so that he would have the energy to run around with the young master.
This mountain is not big, what is big is the continuous forest behind it. This mountain is mostly covered with low shrubs and weeds, which are usually used for cutting grass, so there are few wild animals, and adults feel at ease to let them run up this mountain.
It is called a mountain, but in fact it is just a hill.
When they reached the top of the mountain, the children were so exhausted that they simply sat down on the ground. After catching their breath, they stood up and looked down at the mountain. They saw wisps of smoke rising from the village not far away. Bai Shanbao couldn't help but screaming "Ahhhh".
This scared Manbao, who was standing beside him, but because she found his shouting interesting, she also opened her mouth and screamed towards the sky.
Datou and his men also joined in, and the mountains and fields were filled with their screams, and the servants beside them were almost deafened.
Koko in Manbao's mind watched and became interested. He instructed Manbao, "Put your hands to your mouth and shout. That way the voice will be louder."
Manbao covered his face with his hands and asked in his mind, "Like this?"
"Wrap your mouth..."
Under Keke's guidance, Manbao finally got the gesture right, and then he started yelling again. After yelling, he asked Bai Shanbao beside him, "Do you think mine is louder?"
Bai Shanbao thought she was trying to compete with him, so he imitated her and started yelling, then said, "Mine is louder than yours."
The two children started arguing, and the servant, fearing they would start fighting again, quickly pointed to a bunch of flowers not far away and said, "Master, do you think those flowers are beautiful?"
Manbao looked over and immediately said, "I recognize this flower. How about I make a wreath for you? It will look really nice on your head."
So the two children stopped quarreling and ran over to pick flowers. After picking flowers and grass, they squatted on the ground and started to weave wreaths.
Manbao's craftsmanship was a little rusty, but the wreath she made was much more beautiful than Bai Shanbao's, so she gave her wreath to Bai Shanbao and put it on his head.
She also reluctantly accepted the wreath Bai Shanbao gave her. Although it was too ugly, Manbao insisted on wearing it home to give him face.
Bai Shanbao also went back to see her grandmother and mother with a garland on her head.
When Liu and Zheng saw Bai Shanbao coming back like this after going to school, they were both amused and angry, but seeing him so happy with his rosy little face, they couldn't help but feel relieved.
(End of this chapter)
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