Chapter 119 Whistleblowing (for book friends Xuehua*
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and the streets are full of people buying new year goods, or parents bringing their children to join in the fun.
At the end of the year, during the harvest and the Chinese New Year, adults are willing to spend more money to buy things for their children.
Zhou Lang's candy business is doing very well. Even Zhou Lang didn't expect that the candies they brought were so popular. They cost only a penny each. At first, many children were reluctant to buy them, but now they lined up to grab them.
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Zhoulang couldn't help but think deeply, and whispered to Wulang: "Lao Wu, can we do this business for a long time? Why didn't you come to the county before?"
While collecting money from selling candies, Wu Lang said: "Don't think about it, it's just the Chinese New Year. Usually there aren't many children on the street who are willing to spend a penny to buy a candy. Usually our candies are sold to the county magistrate's house."
The young lady and the kid next door to them."
Zhou Lang could only sigh in disappointment, help sell the candies and get the money back.
Because he also worked hard today, when he went back in the evening, Manbao divided the money evenly after deducting the cost. Zhoulang received eighty cents, and he was very happy.
Then Manbao put away his money, turned around, ran home and said to her mother: "Mom, we made money selling candy today, and my fourth brother got eighty cents."
Mr. Qian asked: "Why didn't I see you come to pay my official duties?"
Only then did Man Bao realize that complaining had exposed herself, but after thinking about it for a moment, she hugged her mother's arm and acted coquettishly, saying: "We still need to buy candy, and we won't have much money when we pay the father-in-law. Mother, we sell candy."
I won’t pay the money to the public anymore, okay?”
Qian touched her nose and said, "Do you think you and Lao Wu and the others are selling candy to make money in private? If you don't pay, then you can't pay. But this is the only exception. Let me ask you, your fifth brother and sixth brother
Is your brother’s money here?”
Man Bao covered his pocket and said in horror: "Mom, I will not betray the fifth brother and the sixth brother."
Qian couldn't hold it back and slapped her on the head, "What are you thinking about? Is your mother like that? I just want to ask how much money your fifth and sixth brothers have saved with you?"
Although Qian didn't see the money on her little girl's body, she knew something about it, and the child couldn't help but spend it when she had money, and it was all about food, so she didn't have to worry about it.
But she couldn't guess how many old five and six there were.
Man Bao turned around and ran away, saying: "I won't tell you, I promised fifth brother and sixth brother."
Qian didn't catch her and let her escape, so she didn't need to ask. After thinking about it, she called Shiro into the room.
When Zhou Lang came out again, his head was lowered. He glanced around the yard and didn't see Man Bao, so he went out. After walking for a while, he heard a sound in the vegetable garden and followed him there.
Seeing Manbao squatting on the ground and chatting happily with everyone, he stepped forward angrily and shouted, "Manbao! Did you and your mother tell the truth?"
Man Bao raised his head from the crowd, saw Fourth Brother, ran up to him, held his sign and said sincerely: "Fourth Brother, I am doing this for your own good."
Zhou Lang was so angry that he managed to save eighty cents for his own good, okay?
"Think about it, what good does it do me to tell my mother that you have saved money? It's nothing. Instead, I let my mother know that we made money but didn't pay it to the public."
Zhou Lang became even more angry, "So you harm others without benefiting yourself."
"Who said that I was hurting you and benefiting you? You still owe money to your family. As a result, you made money but didn't take the initiative to pay it back. What will your parents, brothers and sisters-in-law think if they find out in the future?" Man Bao said:
"Your reputation is not good to begin with, and it will get even worse in the future. I am doing this for your own good."
Man Bao said: "And what's the use of keeping the money? Are you going to use it for gambling again?"
"I won't bet."
"Since you don't gamble, what do you do with the money?" Man Bao asked him, "Are you willing to use the money to buy meat for your family? Are you willing to buy new clothes?"
Zhou Lang:...I don’t want to give up!
"Look, I can tell at a glance that you are not willing to part with it, so don't you have to pay back the money in the end? Since you have to pay back the money, it is better to pay it back sooner rather than later. Fourth brother, I have been scolded by my mother because of you.
I've had a lot of trouble and didn't even pay the public debt to the public after making money, so you still haven't thanked me..."
Zhou Lang actually felt that what Man Bao said made sense, but he would not believe her evil deeds. How could she be someone who harmed herself and benefited others?
Zhou Lang listened to her expressionlessly and decided not to be familiar with her, so he broke away from her hand and went back.
But Man Bao grabbed his hand and said, "Fourth brother, since you are here, let's take a look at our ginger together. Our ginger has grown so big. After the New Year, ginger can be planted in the ground."
"So soon?" Regarding his own wasteland, Zhou Lang became more serious and asked: "Have you asked, when are ginger cubes usually sown?"
Manbao has included a piece of ginger, and the entry for ginger has been out for a long time. The entry says that it can only germinate when the temperature is above 16 degrees Celsius.
Manbao doesn't understand what 16 degrees Celsius is, but Keke says it's when spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.
Anyway, she used straw to keep the ginger piece warm, and now it has sprouted and grown, and she thinks she can do the same when she gets to that piece of ground.
Moreover, spring started after the Chinese New Year. She asked her sister-in-law, and she said that in the first month of the year, she would basically be busy planting seeds.
So Manbao made a plan, "When the sun comes out after the fifteenth day, we will take out the ginger and dry it for a few days before planting it in the ground."
The entry on ginger says that it is best to cut the ginger into pieces, remove the necrotic part, soak it in water with plant ash, and then dry it in the sun for seven or eight days before sowing.
This can prevent ginger seeds from getting sick.
Man Bao feels that this planting method is similar to that of yam.
She also asked Keke if the lumps growing under the soil like to be soaked in plant ash water first and then dried in the sun?
Keke tested it in the system himself and found that it was indeed the recommended planting method for most tuber plants. However, in the future, people will use nutrient solution potions. There is no specific potion here, so they can only make plant ash.
Water is better than nothing.
Yams were planted earlier than ginger. They were dried long ago and were cultivated in the kitchen.
There is no way, the breeding of yam takes about twenty days, and these twenty days require a relatively warm environment. In addition to the sleeping rooms in the house, the kitchen is the warmest.
It was impossible for Man Bao to keep yams that were stained with plant ash and had a strange smell in the house, so he put them in the kitchen.
In a corner not far from the stove, they piled a lot of straw to keep warm.
When a fire is lit in the kitchen, the firelight will shine on it, which is quite warm. Moreover, during the coldest period of time, family members are used to having a fire in the kitchen, which can also warm them.
At first, Manbao didn't know if it would be useful, but the weather has gotten warmer these days, and the sun comes out every day. Keke reminded her that it was almost time, so Manbao went to open the straw and took a look, and then found some yams.