When the little girl left, she brought out their young ladies. There was more than one young lady, both sisters from the Fu family came over.
Miss Fu Er glanced at Datou and others who were following Man Bao, and her eyes fell on Bai Shanbao, but she didn't look much at her. She was older than them all.
"Man Bao, what are you busy at home?" Miss Fu Er thought Man Bao was very smart. Although she was young, she liked talking to her very much.
She didn't go out, but stood at the door talking to Man Bao outside.
Man Bao told her with his fingers how busy she was during this time.
When Miss Fu heard that Man Bao was studying, she looked at her seriously.
"Then will you come before the Chinese New Year?" Miss Fu Er said: "There will be a lot of guests coming to our house during the Chinese New Year, and many of my friends will come. I was just thinking about buying some candies before the New Year."
"I'm here to buy New Year's goods." Man Bao said, "Why don't you eat before the New Year?"
"For food, please leave us ten bags." She said, "My grandmother and others have gone back to their hometown, and my cousin has also left. We don't have much to eat."
Manbao agreed, but it was not too little, four hundred and fifty coins.
The little girl glanced at Man Bao, counted four and a half strings of money and gave them to her. Man Bao grabbed a handful of candies and gave them to her, and continued chatting with Miss Fu Er, "How does your family celebrate the Chinese New Year?"
The two chatted for a long time, and finally the two ladies got tired of standing, and Man Bao felt that the time was almost up, so he said goodbye and left.
Datou and Daya decided to sell the remaining candies at the market. Daya and Erya had come to the county town frequently to sell flower baskets, so they were quite familiar with the children.
However, some people may not be willing to eat a piece of candy for a penny, but they still have to give it a try.
As for the price reduction, they never thought that because the price was reduced here, wouldn't Miss Fu Er lose money?
The Fu family's business is a fixed and long-term business. Manbao himself knows this, so he asked Datou and the others not to lower the price, and would rather not sell it until next time.
Bai Shanbao was still somewhat interested in doing business. He took a bag of candy and tried it. Then he and Manbao went to the bookstore at almost noon. The two of them walked in and walked around. When they came out, Bai Shanbao bought some.
There are few things, including two books.
Manbao couldn't afford books, so she didn't spend a penny.
As soon as he turned around, he took Bai Shanbao to the cloth store, "I want to buy fabrics and cotton for my mother."
Bai Shanbao touched the purse in his arms and asked, "Should I buy this for my grandmothers too?"
"Are your grandmother and mother in need of clothes?"
"No shortage."
"Then don't buy it. Buy whatever you need. Only then will they be happy."
Bai Shanbao thought about it carefully and said, "My grandmother and the others lack nothing."
"That's great," Man Bao said after a moment of envy: "Then let's buy them whatever they like."
Bai Shanbao said seriously: "They like me."
Man Bao laughed loudly, "Then just give it to your grandmother and mother."
Bai Shanbao felt that this was not good, as it was equivalent to buying nothing.
He followed Manbao around and watched her carefully select the fabric. He said that her mother didn't like the color or that it was too thin, so he asked, "What do you think my grandmother and mother would like?"
"If it were me, I would like to eat!"
The proprietress of the cloth shop who greeted the two of them couldn't help laughing as she listened to the children's childish talk: "If the young master has enough money, he can buy some jewelry for his elders. There is no one like this woman who doesn't like jewelry."
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Man Bao raised his little head and asked, "What is jewelry?"
"Just wear beads, gold hairpins, silver hairpins, etc. on your head."
Man Bao reached out and touched her little head. Her hair was fluffy because her father insisted that hair was maintained by blood and cut her hair every once in a while. He also said that she didn't need to do it before she was seven years old.
Deliberately grow your hair.
But it's winter now, and Man Bao hasn't cut her hair for several months. At this time, her hair has just covered her neck. There are no gold or silver hairpins in the Zhou family, and they only use wooden hairpins to tie their hair, so she doesn't know that there are still hairpins.
Jewelry?
Man Bao compared the size of his mother with the proprietress, quickly cut a piece of cloth, and bought two pounds of cotton. Then he excitedly went to see the jewelry with Bai Shanbao.
Da Ya, who was following behind, put the cloth and cotton in her backpack and followed them to the silver building next door.
But Da Ya and the others took a look at the things inside and didn't dare to go in for a while.
Man Bao didn't notice it at all, and even pulled Da Ya, and everyone went in to look at the jewelry displayed inside.
Manbao was still young and could not understand the beauty of jewelry, so he was as blind as Bai Shanbao. Finally, Daya gave some reference suggestions and Daji also gave some guidance. Bai Shanbao bought one thing for his grandmother and mother and successfully bought it.
All the pocket money I had saved was spent.
He also sighed with Man Bao, "I have saved all this in the past few months, but today I spent it all."
Man Bao comforted him, "It's okay, I've spent all my money, we can just make more."
"But you can sell candy, what can I sell?"
"Then you can grow ginger with me, and also yams," Man Bao put her hopes on these two crops. She also felt that the money coming from selling sugar was too slow, and it was not enough for her to buy meat, so she thought
Keke's suggestion is more reliable, "Your family is so powerful, you can ask them to go out and look for yam seeds. If you can find them, you can plant some in your yard and you will be able to harvest a lot next winter."
Otherwise, you can still grow ginger. I have seeds there and I can give you some."
“Do you want to plant it in my yard too?”
"Yes, there are only three people in your family, and they live in such a big yard. It would be a waste to keep the yard empty. But raising chickens and ducks is too smelly, and I don't like it at all. I'd better plant ginger."
Bai Shanbao thought her suggestion was good and nodded: "Then you have to help me, I don't know how to plant."
Man Bao, who had already planted it once, nodded confidently and said: "No problem, and ginger is quite expensive. The most important thing is that it can be harvested in summer and grows very fast."
The two of them talked about growing ginger for a long time. Finally, while walking, they found that they were a little hungry. Since they were coming to the county town, the Bai family did not prepare anything for Bai Shanbao to eat.
The Zhou family knew that Man Bao had money and didn't want her to eat cold, hard buns in the cold weather, so they didn't prepare anything for her.
In the end, Manbao asked Datou Daya and the others for their opinions and wanted to use the money given to them to buy steamed buns.
Man Bao spent nearly 300 yuan buying fabrics and cotton, and the rest of the money had to be divided equally between the four of them.
Datou and the others reluctantly agreed. We can't let my sister-in-law go hungry, right?
However, in order to prevent his sister-in-law from spending money arbitrarily, Datou still asked Manbao to give them the money on the spot after buying the buns, and then gave it to her for safekeeping.
Da Tou and Da Ya know that although the money is still in their sister-in-law's hands, as long as the money is divided and given to her for safekeeping, in the sister-in-law's heart, it is not her money.
At this moment, Manbao truly didn't have a penny left.