Chapter 87 A Mistake
Manbao and the other three surrounded Bai Erlang and stared at him.
Bai Erlang finally couldn't hold back under the stares of four pairs of eyes. His face flushed red as he yelled back, "Why are you looking at me? I always took the bus up there before. I've never walked before, so how would I know how to get there?"
Zhou Wulang couldn't help but grit his teeth, thinking that this kid was really wasting time.
But Manbao actually thought what he said made sense, but she was still very angry that he had concealed the truth. "If you had told us earlier, we wouldn't have gone through so much trouble."
"That's right." Bai Shanbao was also very angry and pushed him, "You evil bastard!"
Bai Erlang's face flushed with anger. He reached out and pushed him back, shouting angrily, "You guys have people carrying you, so you're not tired at all. I'm the one who's been walking all the time. I'm so young, and you're bullying me! Humph, I'm not hurting you, I'm hurting myself."
Manbao was stunned and looked at him with sympathy, "How can you be so stupid that you even hurt yourself."
Bai Shanbao: "No wonder your uncle said you were mentally unstable and asked me to take better care of you. It turns out you really are mentally unstable."
Bai Erlang was stunned for a moment, then burst into tears, sat down on the ground and refused to move again.
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang, who were originally angry, felt very sympathetic towards him after seeing this, and felt that Manbao and Young Master Bai had dealt him too much of a blow.
Considering that the other person was younger than their eldest nephew, the two of them coaxed him reluctantly, "Okay, stop crying. Even though you took the wrong way, we didn't say we would beat you. You should find a way to go back."
Bai Erlang sobbed and cried, "I, I can't, I can't walk anymore, I won't go on..."
Zhou Wulang looked around, dragged him to the shade of a tree, and asked everyone to sit down, "Sit down and take a rest, you are really tired."
Bai Erlang gradually stopped crying, rubbed his calf, and said, "I want to go home. I want to take a car."
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang looked at each other, both feeling a little headache, so they persuaded Manbao again, "If you don't know the way, you won't be able to find your third brother today. Let's go home first and come back tomorrow."
Manbao responded with his head hung.
But no one moved for the time being, and everyone planned to sit down and rest for a while.
Manbao and Bai Shanbao, who had been carried on their backs for the second half of the journey, were in particularly good spirits. They could not sit still and began to look around. When they saw a butterfly resting on a wild flower nearby, their eyes lit up and twinkled as they began to tiptoe to catch the butterfly.
Zhou Wulang didn't stop him, since the person was right under his nose.
Manbao tried to pounce but missed. The butterfly flapped its wings and flew to the side. Bai Shanbao, who was ready to pounce, quickly stretched out his hand and grabbed it in an instant.
The two children cheered and started pinching the butterfly's wings to see how beautiful they were.
Manbao was very excited to catch more, so he slowly walked away with Bai Shanbao. As they walked, they saw someone carrying a hoe and walking towards them.
Their eyes lit up, and they ran up to him without any fear. Manbao was the first to call out, "Hello, big brother."
Bai Shanbao was a step behind, "Hello, uncle."
The two people addressed each other in completely different ways, and then without waiting for the person in front of them to speak, the two children glared at each other again.
Manbao said, "You call me old."
Bai Shanbao said, "You are rude. He is obviously your uncle."
The farmer startled the two children who suddenly appeared and said, "Whose children are you and why are you here? Aren't you afraid of being taken away by a wolf?"
When Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang heard the noise, they quickly crawled out from under the shade of the tree and ran over.
Seeing the two young men, the farmer finally breathed a sigh of relief and scolded them, "Why did you bring your younger brothers and sisters here to play? You're not a good person to be here. There are wolves and tigers in this mountain. Be careful not to get taken away by wolves."
Zhou Wulang was also a little scared. He grabbed Manbao by the back of his collar and said, "You're running around again."
Manbao twisted his body and said, "I'm here to ask for directions, brother, do you know how to get to Baimaguan Town?"
"Call me uncle," the farmer said, feeling a bit confused when a child almost his own daughter called him "big brother." He said, "You guys want to go to Baimaquan Town. Turn right when you get there. That's the official road. Go straight ahead. It'll take a little over three quarters of an hour to get there."
Manbao exclaimed, "It turns out we didn't take the wrong road."
She apologized to Bai Jilang, "We wronged you."
Bai Erlang, whose eyes were red from crying, became proud and said, "I told you I didn't admit my mistake. It takes a long time to get from our village to the town by car, and it takes even longer to walk."
Zhou Wulang was very skeptical. Although he had not been to Baimaquan Town very often, he had often heard his brothers mention that it was faster to get from the village to Baimaquan Town than to the county town.
If I hadn't taken the wrong road, how could I not have arrived yet?
So he asked the farmer, "Brother, is this the same road we take to get from Qili Village to Baimaquan Town?"
The farmer was about to leave when he heard this, but stopped and looked at them like they were idiots. "You came from Qili Village, so how did you get here? If you turn right at the first fork in the road, it's the road to Baimaquan Town. If you go this way, you'll end up on the other side of the town, which means you'll have to travel half the distance for nothing."
Everyone turned to look at Bai Jilang again.
Bai Erlang lowered his head and stopped talking.
The farmer guessed that the children didn't know the way and were wandering around making a fuss. He asked with a smile, "Where are you going?"
Manbao immediately told them that they were going to look for his third brother who was serving in the army.
The farmer exclaimed, "Serving in the army? I remember there were some serving soldiers on the official road ahead. They seemed to be from Qili Village and Dali Village."
Everyone's eyes lit up. They didn't expect their luck to be so good. This was a ray of hope.
So the five of them said goodbye to the farmer and ran forward screaming.
Manbao didn't need anyone to carry her. She just ran forward with her own short legs. Not to mention, she was full of energy and ran quite fast. Zhou Wulang almost couldn't catch up with her.
Bai Erlang also became happy and no longer felt tired, and continued running forward.
After running through this section of road, there are farmlands on the right and woods on the left. When you reach the end, you will see a wide dirt road.
Manbao rushed onto the big dirt road, looked left and right, and then ran to the left.
The big brother just said that they are on the official road on the left.
Zhou Wulang chased after her, grabbed her, and carried her on his back. "Be quiet! If you fall, my parents will beat me when I get home."
Zhou Wulang carried Manbao on his back and led everyone along the official road.
There was no one on the official road, let alone any cars, and the road was bumpy, not much better than the small dirt road just now.
After they walked forward for a while, they heard some laughing sounds. They ran forward and saw many people wielding hoes to till the ground on both sides of the official road. All of them were covered in dust and dirt, and they were all wearing similar gray cloth clothes. They looked the same, and at first glance, it was impossible to tell who was who.
But Manbao didn't care. He closed his eyes and shouted, "Third Brother..."
In the crowd, Zhou Sanlang, who was busy shoveling mud, felt that he was hallucinating and seemed to hear Manbao's cry.
(End of this chapter)
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