Mr. Zhuang's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "That's no problem. Anyway, I teach them like this whether they can be admitted to the entrance wall. But if they are to be ranked in the entrance wall, I have accepted Man Bao as a disciple first, and then
I promised the good treasure first, so Erlang..."
Mr. Bai turned around and shouted to the confused Bai Erlang: "Why are you still standing there? Why don't you call me master, senior brother and senior sister?"
Master Bai heard about it two days ago that Shanbao had a fight with Manbao in order to become his senior brother and lost.
Bai Erlang:......
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao were satisfied, and they both raised their little heads and waited for Bai Erlang to call them.
Bai Erlang looked at the two people who were obviously shorter than him with a confused look on his face, and frowned in grievance, but before he could object, Master Bai had already slapped him on the back of the head.
Under his father's gaze, Bai Erlang reluctantly called Man Bao "senior sister" and Bai Shanbao "senior brother" before looking at Mr. Zhuang with tears in his eyes.
Mr. Zhuang felt that he was really embarrassing the child, so he gently touched his head, led everyone into the main room, and said with a smile: "In that case, let's perform the apprenticeship ceremony together."
Man Bao immediately stood behind Mr. Zhuang alertly and looked at his two junior brothers with pride.
Mrs. Zhuang quickly made tea and served it. Bai Shanbao took one cup first, and then Bai Erlang took the remaining cup.
The two of them knelt down to serve Mr. Zhuang tea and salute.
Mr. Zhuang smiled, took their tea and took a sip. After encouraging them, he gave each of them a set of the Four Treasures of the Study.
Originally, he only prepared one set, but fortunately there were many scholars in their banker, so he was able to find a set temporarily.
Man Bao looked at the two of them happily, feeling quite happy about buying one and getting one free.
Bai Shanbao was also very happy, looking at Bai Erlang with happiness in his eyes.
Bai Erlang looked at Bai Shanbao and then at Manbao, feeling extremely depressed. Sure enough, he still hated Manbao and Bai Shanbao. Why on earth did he come to see the fun today?
Mr. Bai was very happy, and so were Liu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Zhuang Dalang and his wife did not expect that their father's career would progress further after he went to the countryside to teach, so they were very happy.
Originally, Zhuang Dalang was not very happy with Mr. Zhuang going to the countryside to teach. After all, his father was old and too far away. If he got sick, he would not be able to take care of him at all.
But seeing that the Bai family valued his father so much, Zhuang Dalang didn't say anything, but felt relieved in his heart.
With such importance, if you get sick or something happens, the Bai family will probably take care of you.
Zhuang Dalang was very friendly to Bai Shan and Bai Erlang. As for Man Bao standing behind Mr. Zhuang, he just glanced at him.
Although he had never seen Man Bao, he had already heard about it.
His father told him that he had accepted an entry-level disciple, a five-year-old girl.
This is his father's first disciple. To be honest, Zhuang Dalang doesn't quite understand. Even if he wants to accept a disciple, why should he accept a girl?
However, the decision made by their father was obviously not something they could change, mainly because Zhuang Dalang didn't want to interfere too much.
So during this meeting, he just nodded to Man Bao.
But Manbao prepared gifts for them all, including Zhuang Dalang and his wife, and their three children.
Of course, there are also Bai Shanbao.
After recognizing their master, Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang will meet Zhuang Dalang, and then Man Bao.
Man Bao found the gift for Bai Shanbao from Daji's arms early, and stood behind Mr. Zhuang looking at him with bright eyes.
Bai Shanbao stood in front of Manbao, looking at Manbao who was half a head shorter than himself, and reluctantly called out, "Sister."
Man Bao instantly burst into laughter, holding the box hard with one hand, standing on tiptoes to touch Bai Shanbao's head, imitating the way her husband touched her, and said happily: "Junior brother, be good, come here, this is a gift from senior sister to you."
Bai Shanbao tilted his head slightly unhappily, reached out to take the box, and was about to open it.
Manbao held it down and said, "You can't open it now. You have to wait until you get home before you can open it."
Bai Shanbao hugged him and said, "Okay."
Then he took a step forward and stood next to Man Bao, and the two of them looked at Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang stood opposite them, staring at the two of them.
Four against two, Bai Erlang was completely defeated and could only stand in front of Man Bao. After thinking for a while, he called out "senior sister".
Man Bao smiled again and reached out to touch Bai Erlang's head. Then Bai Erlang jumped back and looked at him warily.
Man Bao felt a little regretful and could only say: "Good boy, senior sister didn't know that you were going to become a disciple today, so I didn't prepare a gift for you. I will make up for it when I get back."
Bai Erlang nodded disinterestedly. He felt that he, Bai Shanbao and Manbao had nothing in common. If they gave him pen, ink, paper and inkstone, would he want it or not?
So it doesn't matter to him whether it's a gift or not.
Seeing that he was about to stand beside them, Bai Shanbao stepped forward to block him and said, "You haven't called me yet."
Bai Erlang gritted his teeth at him and reluctantly called out, "Senior brother..."
After calling out, I felt aggrieved, so I turned to Mr. Zhuang and said, "Sir, I am the oldest, I should be the senior brother, right?"
In front of everyone, Mr. Zhuang certainly couldn't let his disciples fight among themselves, and the two most troublesome ones had just been determined, so of course they couldn't be confused any more, so he said: "Let's line up in order of entry."
Bai Erlang stretched out his hand to Bai Shanbao: "Then you also want to give me a gift."
Master Bai couldn't help but stare when he saw him being so rude.
Bai Shanbao didn't mind, and happily agreed, "Okay, I'll give it to you when I get back."
Bai Erlang made a request, "I want your slingshot!"
"No!" Bai Shanbao and Manbao rejected him together.
Bai Shanbao said: "That's mine!"
Man Bao said: "That's what I gave to him!"
Bai Erlang made a request to Man Bao, "Then you have to give me the same slingshot as him."
Before Man Bao could say anything, Mr. Bai couldn't help it anymore, slapped him on the back and said angrily: "Why are you playing with a slingshot? I asked you to come here to become a disciple so that you can study hard, but in the end you just want to play!"
Then he looked at Man Bao and Bai Shan Bao and said, "None of you are allowed to give him anything to play with. Do you understand?"
Bai Shanbao and Manbao nodded together, they didn't want to give it away either.
The food and learning supplies are so good, why should we give them toys?
Bai Erlang was extremely sad and angry, but he did not dare to resist his father.
After the apprenticeship was completed, Daji and others moved in the remaining gifts.
Among them, Manbao's is particularly easy to identify because her things are all packed in bamboo boxes.
Such simple packaging made Zhuang Dalang and his wife look at each other several times, but seeing that Man Bao was just a child, they didn't say anything.
Man Bao's gift is five bamboo boxes, one for each member of the Zhuang family except Mr. Zhuang. The rest are the New Year's gifts prepared by the old Zhou family for Mr. Zhuang, the same as in previous years, bacon, rice noodles and a jar of pickles.
The banker's three children have all gone to school and are not at home.
But Manbao still gave the prepared gift to Zhuang Dalang. She thought that as a senior aunt, since it was the first time to see the junior, how could she not bring a gift?