Mr. Zhuang even refused the Dragon Boat Festival leave that Liu had asked for in advance for Bai Shanbao.
Years ago, Mrs. Liu had planned to take Bai Shanbao to Yizhou during the Dragon Boat Festival because an aunt of his who married in Yizhou was celebrating her birthday.
But Mr. Zhuang refused, refused!
Bai Shanbao was still sad about this for two days, and what made him even more sad was that his grandmother no longer asked for leave, but decided to celebrate her birthday alone.
This shows how rare it is for Mr. Zhuang to take a vacation at this time.
Seeing the two children rushing in again carrying small book boxes, Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly and said, "Just tomorrow, just one day."
The two children cheered and were about to run out hand in hand. Mr. Zhuang suddenly said: "If you go to see Bai Er, just tell him by the way. If he continues to be sick, I will go to his home to take classes and let him sit on the recliner.
Take a class."
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other, and both raised their necks in joy, but they did not dare to laugh out loud, so they could only hold back their laughter and ran away.
Bai Erlang was hiding in the house eating a melon, which was a gift from his uncle's house and his mother had just brought it to him.
Hearing the footsteps outside, he was so frightened that he immediately stuffed the plate under the quilt, then lay down and pretended to have a headache, hand pain, stomach pain, and all kinds of pain.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao ran in and saw him moaning like a little old man, so they said, "Stop pretending, neither sir nor your father are here."
Bai Er ignored them and continued to scream.
Bai Shanbao said slowly: "Sir, he said he would give us a day off tomorrow and let us go shopping in the county town."
Bai Erlang's voice paused. He opened one eye to look at them. He rolled his eyes and found that there were indeed only three of them in the room. Then he got up from the bed and asked, "Really? Sir, let us go."
What to buy?”
"Buying fortune telling, sir, he wants to teach us fortune telling."
"Ah?" Bai Erlang wailed and shouted, "Don't you have to learn it after you are ten years old? Why do we have to learn it now?"
Just as Bai Shanbao was about to speak, Manbao pulled him, and his words immediately changed, "Do you want to come to the county town with us?"
Man Bao said: "A calculation will take several years, so it's best to choose by yourself and choose what you like."
Bai Erlang said helplessly: "But I don't want to learn to calculate, I'm still sick."
Bai Shanbao: "The teacher said that if you are still sick, he will move the class to your home and let you lie down and listen to the class."
Man Bao was so happy that he asked with a smile, "Tell me, if my husband comes here to attend class, will your father also come to attend the class?"
Bai Erlang's tears were really coming down now, "I knew why they didn't go to school? If they were school children, why would my husband stare at me alone?"
"He was obviously staring at the three of us." Bai Shanbao said dissatisfied: "Sir, he stared at us for a longer time. We didn't even pretend to be sick."
"That's because you can answer the questions Mr. asked you. Can I?" Bai Er said angrily, "If I could, I wouldn't pretend to be sick."
"Who told you not to study seriously? You actually followed others to play in the mud!"
"It's not playing with mud, it's playing fighting. I'm still a general," Bai Erlang said unconvinced: "If you didn't want to play Zhuangzi's game of growing food, wouldn't I have time to play? I don't have time to play, I will use
Do you want to play during the time when you are studying and doing homework? If I don’t use this time to play, will I not be able to write my homework or answer my husband’s homework?”
This was the first time for Man Bao and Bai Shanbao to hear someone talk about laziness and playfulness so confidently, and they were both shocked for a moment.
Bai Erlang opened the quilt, took out the fruit plate, and ate it hard while saying: "I have to learn to count chips again. I can never play again."
Man Bao and Bai Shan Bao looked disgusted, "Why did you hide the fruit plate inside..."
Bai Erlang looked at the melon in the fruit plate, then at the two friends who were barely friends, and reluctantly pushed forward, "Would you please eat?"
The two of them shook their heads.
Bai Erlang took it back and said, "Forget it if you don't want to eat it. This is a melon. It's usually only available in June or July. I can eat it now because my uncle is so good."
Manbao made an agreement with them, "Then we will meet at the entrance of the village early tomorrow morning and go to the county seat together."
Both Bai Erlang and Bai Shanbao said there was no problem. Bai Shanbao said, "Take my carriage."
Knowing that Man Bao wanted to learn arithmetic, Lao Zhoutou couldn't help but sit up straight and asked: "After learning arithmetic, will you be able to work as an accountant in the future?"
Qian said: "What are you talking about? Have you seen any of the accountants outside who are women?"
"But if Manbao learns, he can teach Datou and the others," Old Zhoutou said: "And who said the accountants don't have women? I see that in many shops in the city, the proprietresses are the ones who make the final decisions and settle the accounts. From now on, we, Manbao, will marry into the county seat.
Go there and become the boss's wife, so that you can live up to the skills you have learned so much."
"The husband said that our farm will have to do a lot of calculations in the future, so he wants us to learn arithmetic and do the calculations ourselves when we need to do arithmetic in the future."
Lao Zhoutou immediately said to Qian: "Take the money and give it to your daughter to buy a fortune."
Man Bao narrowed his eyes with joy and said, "Dad, I have money."
Old Zhoutou knew that she had not made much money since the beginning of spring. From what the children said, it seemed that the girl from the former county magistrate's family who often bought candies with them had left.
So Manbao probably doesn't have much money on him.
Lao Zhoutou smiled and touched her head and said: "Save your money. I will go to the county town to buy steamed buns to eat tomorrow. Dad will pay you for the calculated money."
Of course Man Bao would not refuse anymore and nodded sternly.
Old Zhoutou warned: "You have to study hard. Once you have learned it, come back and teach your nephews. When they grow up, they can work as accountants."
Zhou Zhoulang squeezed in and said, "Man Bao, second brother, can you also learn from you?"
Wu Lang immediately raised his hand, "There's me, there's me."
Man Bao waved his little hand and said happily: "No problem, I will teach you all when the time comes."
Mrs. Fang glanced at her husband and couldn't help but stretched out her hand to poke him. Zhou Lang moved his son in his arms, avoided her hand, and whispered: "I don't want to learn, isn't it just to settle accounts? I myself
You will, but it’s a headache to learn those things.”
"You are so lazy."
"It's not laziness, it's unnecessary."
Bai Erlang also complained to his mother in a low voice, trying to make a final effort not to learn to do calculations, and said: "Mom, I'm not lazy, but I think it's unnecessary. Our family has a counting house, why should I learn to do calculations?
"
"Your father also knows how to use calculations, but if you don't learn how to do it, what if the accountant deceives you?"
Bai Erlang said: "The accountant just lied to my father, and my father didn't know. Could it be that my father could be better than the accountant in settling accounts?"