Man Bao was not afraid even if she was found. Her reason was very good, "It was originally given to my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law's surname is Qian, so I called her Qian Ji."
"Your sister-in-law's is your eldest brother's, so there's nothing wrong with calling it Zhou Ji."
"Okay, then you can buy a new flag," Man Bao waved his hand in a very grand manner, "I'll just write it on again when the time comes."
Lao Zhoutou stared at the four words on the flag and asked, "Can't you take it to the river to wash it?"
Zhou Lang immediately shouted: "Dad, this cloth is not easy to wash. I don't know if all the words can be washed out, but the flag may be dyed into other colors. That would not look good."
"How much does a flag cost?"
"One hundred articles."
"One hundred coins!?" Old Zhoutou said loudly: "Why grab the money? It's just a piece of cloth."
"Dad, what matters is the cloth. What matters is the pattern printed on the cloth. Don't you know that the government has restricted the cloth to be bought only in one grocery store, and there is no place to buy it elsewhere, so it is very expensive.
"
Lao Zhou looked at the cloth, then at his daughter, couldn't help but snorted, and left with his hands behind his back.
Man Bao asked with a smile, "Dad, do you still want to change?"
"Exchange it for whatever you want. If you don't exchange it, you'll burn it if you have too much money!"
Anyway, the shop is in his daughter's name, no matter what the record is, it is 90% of the property of their old Zhou family.
Manbao happily took the finished flag to her sister-in-law.
Xiao Qian just listened to the news thoroughly, and when he saw it, he stretched out his finger and tapped her forehead, and said with a smile: "You, you, you must make dad angry for a while."
Man Bao stuck out his tongue and saw her packing the box, so he asked curiously, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?"
"I'll pack it up. I'll have to live in the county town later. I won't be able to come back until every two or three days. I have to bring some changes of clothes."
"Brother, are you going too?"
Xiao Qian smiled and said: "If the family is not busy with farming, of course he will help."
Xiao Qian said in a low voice: "I discussed with your elder brother and planned to make some steamed buns, tofu curds and other things for breakfast. Then we have to grind the beans. Lao Liu and I can't do it alone, so I think your elder brother
Go too and come back when the farming is busy."
Man Bao nodded repeatedly, "The bean curd is delicious, and the buns made by my sister-in-law are also delicious."
Xiao Qian smiled, reached out and touched her head and said: "We went to see Mr. Bai today. From now on, your third sister-in-law will cook the meals in the school. Her cooking skills are not bad. You are in the school.
Don’t stir up trouble.”
Manbao felt sad for a moment, but soon became happy again, "Anyway, it's okay if the second sister-in-law doesn't go."
Xiao Qian couldn't help but nodded her forehead again, and whispered: "Naughty devil, be careful if your second sister-in-law hears this and beats you up."
Man Bao smiled and didn't take it to heart. As a result, she was retaliated by the second sister-in-law in the evening because she insisted on making dinner, so everyone ate the food cooked by Feng in the evening.
Lao Zhou took a piece of food with chopsticks first, and then everyone started to take action.
Manbao looked around and felt that she was quite full from lunch, so she signaled to her father, took his bowl and gave him half of it.
Lao Zhoutou never dislikes having too much food. For those who are hungry, he can eat no matter how terrible the food is.
But looking at the dishes made by Feng, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
It's obviously the same oil and salt, the same pot, the same vegetables and water, but Qian's dishes are green and delicious, while hers are withered yellow. The salt is the same, but they come out very bland.
Not much flavor.
Alas~~
Lao Zhou's family sighed in their hearts at the same time, but they didn't say anything. They all ate all the food they had worked so hard for, so they put down their bowls and chopsticks and went to work when it was time to do their homework, and when they should go back to do their homework.
Ms. Feng herself felt that the food she cooked was not delicious, but she was not depressed at all. She put down the dishes and went back to the house happily. Today it was Zhou Xilai's turn to clean up the dishes.
Seeing that she was happy, Zhou Erlang couldn't help but ask, "Why are you happy?"
"It's nothing." Seeing that Zhou Zuolang was about to go out with a basket of pen holders, he asked, "Is it for Man Bao and the others?"
"Well, they said that the previous one was stained and asked me to make a new one and carve a monkey on it. I don't know how to carve a monkey, so I made a few casual gestures with my knife and carved a few flowers for them.
Go up."
Feng took a look at it and felt that it looked pretty good. "Go and tell Man Bao by the way. If you speak ill of me in the future, please be quieter."
Zhou Erlang perked up and asked, "What bad things did Man Bao say about you?"
Mrs. Feng snorted and said, "She said my cooking was unpalatable."
Zhou Erlang: "...So you're going to cook by yourself tonight?"
Feng snorted again.
Mr. Zhou was stunned and looked at his wife speechless. After a while, he took the basket and went out.
As soon as he entered the small courtyard, he saw his daughter doing her homework with the window open, while his son was talking ill of Bai Erlang to Santou and planning with him how to trick Bai Erlang tomorrow.
Zhou Erlang sighed, saying that a son is like his mother and a daughter is like his father. He didn't believe it before, but now he does believe it a little bit.
Zhou Zuorang stepped forward, handed the basket to Er Tou, and said: "Er Tou, no, Liwei, you share these pen holders with everyone, and then go do your homework after you distribute them. Don't be naughty, you know?"
"I know, Dad."
Zhou Erlang didn't believe it at all, but he was a little tired today and didn't want to teach him anymore, so he waved and left.
This year's New Year celebrations in Qili Village are more lively than in previous years. The main reason is that this year everyone selected a lot of good wheat, which was bought by Mr. Bai and Magistrate Yang at the price of wheat seeds, so everyone made some money.
When you have money, you can't help but buy more delicious food. When you have food, you think about clothes. When you have clothes, you can't help but buy some toys for your children.
Therefore, the village is more lively than in previous years, and Lao Zhou's family is even more lively.
One is because they have a large family, and the other is because the old Zhou family just bought a shop. This is the first shop in Qili Village except the Bai family.
Even the village chief's family couldn't buy a shop in the city, so everyone was very excited. Since they were celebrating the New Year and had nothing to do, they couldn't help but gather at Lao Zhou's house to chat and gossip.
They also looked at the flag written by Man Bao and praised it one after another, "Good, good, reading is good."
"The handwriting is really good, just like those flags in the city."
"Do you know how to read?"
"I don't know it, but I know it's well written."
"So it's better to study. Look how smart Man Bao is now."
"That's because he was born to his parents. Man Bao has been smart since he was a child."
"That's not necessarily true. She was smart when she was a child, but she is not as smart as she is now. She has already earned a shop at such a young age. I think it is because of studying. The more people study, the smarter they can be, right?
"
"No, no, this brain is innate. Even if you don't study, you are stupider than others. If you study, you are still stupider than others."
"Come on, look at Uncle Jin's Big Tou and Er Tou. Weren't they just as honest and silly as the children in the village before? But do you think they are smarter than other children after they study?"
"How do you know they are not born smarter than other children? If they study, then Manbao also studies, don't they also surpass Manbao?"
The other party couldn't say anything to refute, and because of this issue, the two almost started fighting.
Manbao was afraid that they would catch them chatting with each other when he went out, so with the help of Datou and the others, he climbed up the wall on the ladder, jumped from the wall to the outside, and then ran to Bai's house to do some homework with a bag of books and homework on his back.