Manbao replied without thinking: "I'm not short of money."
Chang Yu glanced at her with disbelief, "You can't even build a good wooden bridge, so you're not short of money?"
Man Bao said: "I am frugal."
She said seriously: "Diligence and frugality are virtues."
"What virtue?" Bai Erlang and Bai Shan, who were a few steps behind them with baskets, ran over the wooden bridge and casually took out one of the baskets in their hands and gave it to them, "Why didn't you wait for us longer?"
Man Bao took it, turned around and said, "I sent someone to call you two quarters of an hour ago. You must be lying in bed."
The group of people walked up the mountain. There were guards and chamberlains in front of them to clear the way for them, but they were of no use.
There is only this mountain near Pucun, and some large firewood comes from this mountain, so people often come up the mountain, and there are people walking on the mountain, so it is not difficult to walk.
But this path is not difficult for Manbao Baishan, Bai Erlang, and the guards. For Yu Mingda and Chang Yu, the road is a bit slippery.
The unpaved stones and steps were completely different from Longshouyuan behind the Daming Palace. There were also many wild fruits and wild flowers on both sides of the road that they had never seen before.
Manbao picked a split wild thorn fruit from a tree and gave it to Mingda and taught her how to eat it.
Mingda took a small bite, and her eyes immediately became wet. She couldn't help but hiss, swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, and said with tears in her eyes: "It's so sour."
Man Bao couldn't help laughing and said to her: "There are delicious ones. There are thorns on the other side facing the sun. That one is sweet."
"Hey, there's one right here." Bai Erlang saw a bunch of thorns wrapped under a tree, with a few red thorns dotted on it, so he stepped forward and picked it off, then opened his palm to Mingda, "Nuo
,For you to eat."
Mingda looked at the thorns in his palm without moving for a while. She looked at the thorns and then looked at him.
Man Bao looked at it carefully and saw no insects on it, so he said to Ming Da: "It's edible."
Chang Yu, who had already walked ahead, heard this, turned around and walked back, and stood beside Man Bao. He stared at the thorns in Bai Erlang's palm, swallowed and asked, "Does it taste good?"
Man Bao nodded, "Sweet, sweet and refreshing."
Chang Yu stretched out his hand to take it, but Bai Erlang closed his palm.
Chang Yu raised his head to look at him, and Bai Erlang said: "This is for Princess Mingda."
Changyu: "...I can't eat it?"
Bai Erlang took Mingda's hand, poured all the thorn bubbles into her hand, and said to Chang Yu: "Then you have to ask Princess Mingda for it."
Although she asked Mingda for it, Mingda would definitely give it to her, but she was still unhappy. She pointed at Bai Erlang and said, "I remember you little fat man. I saved you two years ago. You are ungrateful."
Bai Erlang jumped to his feet and said: "The one who saved me was Princess Mingda, right? And when did I become fat? Am I fat now?"
The guards and palace people all turned around to look.
Bai Shan and Man Bao quickly started a fight, of course talking about their own family, "Princess Changyu also saved you, you have to pick some fruits for her later."
Mingda also reacted and directly picked up a thorn bubble and stuffed it into her mouth, and then said: "Sister, why do you need to embarrass him? Didn't Man Bao say there are many on the mountain?"
Changyu originally had a lot to say, but after eating the fruit, she stopped talking. She just snorted at Bai Erlang and turned away. However, she quickly turned back to Mingda and said: "It's delicious, you
Eat too."
Everyone got back together and continued to move forward. Halfway up the mountain, they saw a few pear trees. There were no trees around them, so the sunlight shone directly on them, and they could see the small pears hidden among the leaves.
Manbao pulled Mingda and Changyu forward, pointed at the foot of the mountain and said, "Look, you can see the villages and fields at the foot of the mountain from here."
Mingda raised his eyes and looked down, and found that it was indeed the case. Then he pointed at their village and said with a smile: "The location of your house is not well chosen. If anyone peeps, they can see the whole picture from here."
Man Bao nodded and said: "Fortunately, my family has no secrets, but my fourth brother and my eldest brother discussed it before and wanted to plant a big sycamore tree there or build a viewing tower so that it can be blocked.
.”
Bai Shan explained: "We didn't think so much when we chose the place. It was only this year that Fourth Brother and others discovered it when they went up the mountain to look for mushrooms."
Bai Erlang said: "Are you still picking pears?"
He said: "If you ask me, don't worry about it. We don't live here often. We live in the two courtyards here. We usually do everything in the house. In the courtyard, except for walking and planting.
What else can we do besides eating some flowers and plants and having some refreshments? If anyone wants to see it, let them see it."
Chang Yu was already standing under the tree, looking up at the pears on the tree and asking, "Are they delicious?"
He turned around and heard that they were still discussing the house, so he glanced down, and then said: "What's so difficult about this? Why don't you just encircle this mountain as your own and not allow outsiders to go up the mountain?"
When he said this, not to mention the three Man Bao, even Ming Da was startled, "How can the earth be circled randomly?"
"Buy it," Chang Yu said, "How much does such a barren mountain cost? Send someone to the county government to ask. If you are still frugal, I will pay for it on your behalf."
Man Bao said: "Even if this mountain becomes my home, I can't stop people from going up the mountain to chop wood and find mushrooms and wild vegetables."
Chang Yu asked doubtfully: "Why not? Doesn't this belong to your family?"
Man Bao said: "My family also has many mountains in Qili Village, but I never said no one is allowed to go up the mountains."
She said: "We have little land there, and many of the land is divided into mountains. Each mountain is divided without measuring it. People are divided based on a rough estimate. If someone's mountain is divided, others are not allowed to go up the mountain. Wouldn't that be wrong?
There’s no way in or out?”
Bai Shan also said: "There are no people like this. What's more, we are outsiders here in Pucun. We have to have good relations with others. When winter comes, everyone has to cut firewood in the mountains. If we close the mountains, wouldn't it be wrong?"
Are you adding to the conflict in vain?"
Man Bao nodded repeatedly.
Chang Yu didn't expect that she could elicit so many words in one sentence, so he couldn't help pinching his waist and said: "I just want to ask if we can still pick pears..."
"Pick, pick, pick," Man Bao rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, hugged the tree and climbed up...
Changyu saw her climb up in a few seconds, and his eyes widened in shock. Manbao looked at it, picked a pear that seemed to be ripe, picked it and threw it towards Changyu, who caught it.
, wipe it with a handkerchief and eat it.
The people in the palace were shocked and rushed forward to stop him, saying that the pear should be washed.
Man Bao picked several and threw them into the arms of Ming Da, Bai Shan and others, and asked with a smile: "You can see it more clearly below, which one is bigger?"