Mr. Zhuang discovered that Manbao had been working very hard recently, as if she had eaten a big chicken drumstick. She was reading hard every day. Accordingly, she asked a lot of questions.
It's not that Man Bao didn't work hard in the past, but she was still a child after all. Although she listened carefully in class, she would still run out to play after class. If he hadn't started a small stove for her and Bai Shanbao at noon every day, I'm afraid she wouldn't have done much.
Read extracurricular books.
But recently, even if he asked her to open the stove without calling him by name, she would follow behind him.
Even Bai Shanbao worked hard. In his words, he would never let Manbao surpass him.
Manbao became even more excited when she heard what Bai Shanbao said. Yes, how could she forget that she wanted to defeat this person who dared to be as smart as her?
Keke said that reading can make people wise, and intelligence can not only increase with age, but also increase with reading.
Waiting to grow up is too slow, and Bai Shanbao is older than her. When she grows up, he will always be older than her, but if she reads more books than him and knows more than him, then she
Aren't you smarter than him?
Huh, Koko clearly said that she is the smartest person within a hundred miles, why should she not be the same when he comes?
Manbao is full of fighting spirit.
Seeing the two children chasing each other, Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard happily.
However, the classmates who studied together did not feel very good. They were really very different. At first, the old students in the class were able to overwhelm the two based on their age and school age, but they soon found that they had been overtaken.
But children around ten years old are very imaginative, so just rush if you can. Anyway, they are not studying for examiners. When they reach fourteen, they will go out to find a job. Then they will not follow these two little brats.
played.
Other students can think like this, but Bai Erlang can't.
Since the two of them started working together, he has been living in dire straits. Although his father used to be strict with him, he also doted on him. Now he doesn't like him no matter what. Even his grandmother and mother can't help but look at him sometimes.
Sighing at him.
Bai Erlang was almost going crazy. He had several fights with Bai Shanbao and Man Bao in the school. Of course he had the upper hand at the beginning. Although they were one against two, his age suppressed them.
But when they fought again for the second time, they were tied. Although he also suffered a lot, he persisted and it was a tie.
By the third time, he couldn't beat them. Even so, he still happily picked fights with them, because besides hitting the opponent physically, he had no other place to hit them.
As Mr. Zhuang looked at it, he always felt that this disciple was a bit stupid, but for the sake of his improvement compared with before, he decided to turn a blind eye and pretend that he didn't know. Anyway, both parties were not very disadvantaged, right?
Because Bai Erlang threw bugs at them today, Manbao asked Bai Shanbao to go to Bai Erlang's house to do homework together.
Bai Erlang seemed to know this. He ran out of the classroom immediately after school, ran home first, and said to the concierge: "Close the door, Bai Shan and Zhou Man are not allowed in!"
The concierge said: "Second Young Master, the eldest young master has gone home. The master and the eldest young master are in the main room."
Bai Erlang's eyes lit up, and he rushed to the main room with the book box on his back, "My eldest brother is back, no more outsiders are allowed in, you know?"
The concierge narrowed his eyes with joy, "Don't worry, Second Young Master, I am happy today and I will definitely not hit you."
Bai Erlang ran away long ago and disappeared.
Man Bao and the others ran over with small book boxes on their backs. When the concierge saw them, the smile on his face became even brighter. He bent down slightly to talk to them, "Master Shan, Miss Zhou, our eldest master is here today."
I'm back. I'm afraid the second young master won't have time to do his homework for the time being."
Man Bao felt a little regretful.
Bai Shanbao was also very sorry, but you can't force others to do their homework, right?
So he turned around and invited Man Bao, "Would you like to come to my house to write?"
Man Bao shook his head, "He won't write. I'll write after dinner. I want to see my ginger and yam first."
Bai Shanbao's eyes lit up, "I'll go with you to see whether my ginger grows better or yours."
"OK."
Bai Shanbao first took the book box home to the concierge, and then returned to Zhou's house with Man Bao.
It is early autumn now, and the ginger has grown very tall. The one planted by Manbao in the vegetable garden is growing best. Originally, she only planted a dozen pieces, but now it has grown into a big piece because she put enough fertilizer.
, they have many derivatives.
But Bai Shanbao insisted, "Yours is not as good as mine, and mine is longer than yours."
"Mine is thicker than yours." Man Bao said, "My ginger pieces must also grow longer than yours."
Bai Shanbao, "When I divide them, they can fill a flower bed, and then there will be more than yours."
Manbao took him to the field to see her whole field of ginger, and proudly said, "That's not as much as mine."
Bai Shanbao: "..." He felt that he lacked a piece of land.
Manbao and his family's land is at the foot of the mountain. Most of the land nearby is unclaimed wasteland. A little further away are fields. At this time, melons and beans are planted in the fields, and rice is planted in the fields. The leaves of the beans have turned yellow.
, it was almost ready to harvest, and farmers were coming to see their crops. When they saw Manbao and the others standing by the field, someone smiled and asked, "Manbao, I'm here to see your field again. How is the ginger growing?"
Man Bao was proud, "Okay, when my ginger is harvested, brother will come to my house to buy some."
Some people laughed, "It's not the New Year or the festival, why would you buy this thing? There's no meat to stew it with."
Now everyone in the village knows that the Zhou family planted ginger on the wasteland. At first, everyone took it as a joke, but now looking at the green ginger strips growing in the ground, no one dares to laugh anymore.
They actually grew this thing.
They themselves know how expensive ginger is, because every household will go to the grocery store to buy some to take home during the New Year and festivals, or stew meat, or cook it into ginger soup. Some people who are more particular will even make it into tea.
There is such a large area of ginger, no, two large areas. Next to it, Zhou Xi has more than two acres planted with ginger.
But some people are worried about the Zhou family, "Can you sell so much ginger?"
Man Bao was particularly thoughtful, "If you can't sell it, just keep planting it. When you plant it in winter, it will be old ginger. You can also dig it up and dry it, and then sell it in spring and summer. Then it will be dried ginger, which is more expensive."
Yes, it seems that no matter how you say it, the harvest will be guaranteed regardless of drought or flood.
Many people looked at these two ginger fields with envy. Some people went to talk to Lao Zhoutou and wanted to get some seeds from him for planting. Lao Zhoutou laughed and said: "This is the children's business. I
But I can't be their master. The fourth child has gambling debts. He planted this to pay off the gambling debts. He is a treasure. Usually I want to cut off a piece and bring it back to fry, but he won't do it."
This is unwillingness.
Some people couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable, so twice in a row Zhou Lang saw several pieces of ginger secretly dug up in the field. He was so angry that he simply asked his three brothers to build a straw shed for him beside the field.
, he would curl up in bed after dinner every day and come here to keep watch.
Some villagers who wanted to touch two pieces of ginger in the dark said:...