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The group of people settled down, but Mr. Zhuang was not in a hurry to take them out. Instead, he restrained the three of them in the residence and watched them read while resting.
Daji stayed at home to take care of them, while Zhou Lang went out with some dried ginger and ligustrum. When he came back, he bought a lot of rice, noodles and vegetables.
He used the money everyone gave him.
Zhou Lang was also good at keeping accounts, but his memory was not as good as Man Bao's. So as soon as he returned to his residence, he put down his things and went to Man Bao. After getting a pen with her, he wrote down the accounts and said: "Okay,
It’s too expensive to eat out. I bought all the rice, flour, oil and salt. I also bought the food for today. Let’s go cook.”
Everyone in the study looked up at him.
Zhou Lang met their eyes and directly ignored Mr. Zhuang. He looked at each other and then decisively turned his eyes away and looked at Daji.
The two stared at each other, Daji couldn't hide, so he said: "I can't."
Zhou Lang didn't expect that he not only had to buy rice and vegetables, but also had to cook. His eyes widened, and then he sighed for a while, stood up and said, "Okay, I'll go."
Man Bao was very worried, "Fourth brother, can you do it?"
"At least I did it, have you done it?"
Manbao shook his head, she knew how to light a fire. There were parents, brothers, sisters-in-law, nephews and nieces at home, so where could she be needed?
So she doesn’t even know how to cook rice, but she can make a fire!
So Manbao put down his pen and said: "Fourth brother, let me help you light the fire."
"Okay, go and do your knowledge. Anyway, it's not like my sister-in-law who stirs things up. I can do it alone."
I don’t know why, but when they heard his words, everyone’s hearts were agitated.
Zhou Lang rolled up his sleeves and went to cook. After a while, smoke came out of the kitchen.
Zhou Lang can cook. Well, all the children in Lao Zhou's family can cook, except Man Bao.
Because housework is passed down from elder to younger, the first chore Zhou Lang did was to light the fire. Once he had the fire ready, all the cooking work was his.
When Wu Lang gets older, he will give him this glorious job, and then he will wash the dishes, sweep the yard and feed the chickens...
It wasn't until the brothers had taken turns and Datou and the others were six or seven years old that these tasks were handed over.
As for cooking, he did it occasionally.
This thing, boil water, boil the meat, then pour the vegetables in, add some oil and salt, won't it be done when it's cooked?
My sister-in-law has always done this anyway.
Zhou Lang cooked two dishes, wild vegetable stew and cabbage stew.
He placed two pots of vegetables in the middle of the table, took out the steamed rice, and called to everyone, "Come and have lunch."
Bai Shanbao looked at the two dishes in the middle and couldn't put his finger on them.
Man Bao was not picky about food, so he served everyone rice. He picked up his chopsticks and looked at the husband, waiting for him to start.
Mr. Zhuang picked up a piece of food with chopsticks, and everyone started to eat quietly.
Although Zhou Lang's food is not terrible, it is not really delicious, so everyone is very reserved at noon today.
After finishing the meal, Bai Shanbao suggested, "Let's hire a cook."
Zhou Lang asked: "How much does it cost to hire a cook?"
Everyone looked at Mr. Zhuang together.
Mr. Zhuang said: "I don't know."
Everyone looked at Daji.
Daji thought for a while and said: "Yizhou City here may be a bit more expensive, five hundred yuan of monthly silver should be enough, right?"
Zhou Lang calculated the cost and immediately refused, "That won't work. We hired a cook, and we also buy the rice, flour, oil, salt, etc. It's better to go out to eat."
He clapped his fingers and said: "A dish with sliced meat is only about twelve cents at most. One hundred cents a day is enough. If you hire a cook, you have to provide for her food and drinks."
"Okay, then we will eat out from now on. There are many restaurants nearby. We can just ask people to deliver it to you, or buy it at your door." Mr. Zhuang didn't want to offend his stomach.
Zhou Lang felt quite regretful and asked Man Bao secretly behind his back, "Is the food I cook really not delicious? I think it is quite delicious."
"Everyone feels this way when eating their own food. My second sister-in-law doesn't think the food she cooks is too unpalatable."
Zhou Lang: "...then tell me, is it the food I made that tastes bad, or the second sister-in-law's cooking that tastes bad?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said, "It's almost the same. Second sister-in-law's is a little bit different."
Zhou Lang breathed a sigh of relief, "Then you can still eat it. Really, you guys really have too much money to burn it."
However, five of the six people in the group agreed, so he had no choice but to agree.
After lunch, everyone went back to their respective rooms to rest. Zhoulang followed Manbao to her room.
Including the main room, there are seven rooms in total, and the main room is in the middle. Mr. Zhuang lives in the one facing south, and the one facing north is reserved as a study room. The light there is particularly good, and it is spacious. Mr. Zhuang never lived there.
Four tables were moved into the room so that everyone could study and study together.
As for the remaining four rooms on the east and west sides, the three younger ones each occupied one room, while Zhou Lang and Daji shared a room.
Zhou Lang carried a cloth bag into Man Bao's room, shook it and said happily: "What do you think is in here?"
"Copper coins, I heard the noise," Man Bao reached out to take it, opened the bag, and asked in surprise, "Did you get it by selling medicine?"
"Yes, the ligustrum lucidum and dried ginger I brought out were all sold, but the drug store doesn't like to use silver to settle the bill, so all they gave me were copper coins." Zhou Lang said: "I think that's what we will buy when we go out.
Small things cost more copper coins, so I collected them all."
“Do they charge too much?”
"Ligustrum lucidum is three cents more than what Shopkeeper Zheng gives now, and dried ginger is two cents more." Zhou Lang said: "Don't think that one pound is only two or three cents more. Our family has a lot of these two things, especially last spring.
Another forty privet trees were planted. By next autumn and winter, these trees will also be able to bear ligustrum.
At the beginning of spring this year, they cut more than thirty branches from the Ligustrum lucidum tree and planted them. They estimated that about twenty trees could survive...
Therefore, their Ligustrum lucidum will only grow more and more. A pound here in Yizhou is more than three cents more expensive than in Luojiang County. How much more can a car cost?
Wouldn’t it add up to a lot?
Not to mention the dried ginger, this year they convinced Dad to use two pieces of land on the Xiaoling side to grow ginger.
In fact, the harvest of those two plots of land was limited, and they harvested very little from beans. However, the soil in that plot of land was relatively sandy, so it was perfect for growing ginger.
So there is new ginger there, and the few pieces of ginger land we have at home can be used to grow old ginger. When the time comes, it will be dried and sold to pharmacies, and the price will be higher than Ligustrum lucidum.
Zhou Lang took out all the copper coins in the bag and handed them to Man Bao, saying, "Write down the accounts. You can keep the money. You can settle the accounts with your parents when you get home."
Man Bao accepted the money. Who is the best and safest at hiding money?