The adults in each family are teaching their children not to talk nonsense outside. Manbao is originally a child of the Zhou family. As for why such rumors arise, of course it is because Goudan’s grandmother and Manbao’s mother are not getting along, so they made up the story
You're just lying to me.
The children all believed it, because adults often said things without evidence. For example, the host's aunt's vegetables were pulled out. She didn't see it, but she would definitely scold the Xi family and assume that the Xi family stole it.
However, the atmosphere in Zhou Dayuan's house was very depressed. The family ate dinner in silence. After eating, Mrs. Zhang shook her face and said to her grandson: "From now on, nothing said in the family is allowed to be spread outside. You know.
No?"
Zhou Dayuan put down the bowl and chopsticks and said with a snap: "Why are you yelling at the child? If you hadn't said something at home, would the child have spread the word?"
Then what I said is also true. When Zhang opened her mouth to speak, Zhou Dayuan stared at her with wide eyes, lowered his voice and said angrily: "If you want to die, don't bring down the whole village."
Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but mutter, "The government doesn't talk about sitting together..."
Zhou Dayuan slapped her across the face. The big donkey stood up in shock and couldn't help but scream,
"father!"
Zhou Dayuan turned back to glare at him and said: "Don't forget who gave us the rations that allowed our family to survive. The elders said that people must not be ungrateful!"
The big donkey lowered his head.
Mrs. Zhang covered her face, feeling ashamed and annoyed, she pushed the table and went back to the house.
Zhou Dayuan also took out his pipe and smoked, feeling equally agitated.
The old Zhou family was also uneasy. Everyone was particularly silent tonight. Only Man Bao knew nothing. She settled the accounts for today as usual, handing over what should be paid to the public and keeping what should be kept by her.
Friday Lang sat cross-legged on the bed and meditated.
Man Bao looked at him for a while, turned around and asked Sixth Brother in a low voice, "What's wrong with Fifth Brother?"
Saturday Lang also sighed and whispered: "When we went to the county town today, there were many people selling flower baskets. The more expensive ones cost three cents each, and the cheaper ones cost two cents. In the end, we lowered the price to three cents before selling them.
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Zhou Zuorang said: "Fifth brother said that we will not sell flower baskets tomorrow, but candies. Da Ya doesn't need to come with us."
Man Bao thought about the chicken he had eaten tonight, swallowed his saliva and said, "No, we have to find a business that cannot be replaced by others, or that cannot be easily replaced by others."
Friday Lang said: "Sell candy!"
Man Bao said: "Our candies are unique on the market, so Man Bao, let's sell more candies."
Manbao disagreed, "I bought the candy from someone else."
Wu Lang thought the same thing. What if they don't sell the candy to them when their business is done in the future and they take over the plate themselves?
It's not as good as selling a hundred pills a day now. Although the business is smaller, it is only one and the flow is steady.
Friday Lang sighed and asked: "Then what do you mean by business?"
Manbao said honestly: "I don't know."
She was very thoughtful, "Anyway, I can earn at least one hundred cents a day. One hundred cents can buy two smaller chickens."
That is, they can not only eat one chicken every day, but also throw one out.
Thinking of this, Manbao became happy again and said: "Fifth brother, since the flower baskets can't be sold, let's go pull out the centella asiatica. Let's save two days of sugar and go to the county town. You guys have to
You've worked hard to learn literacy, but now you can't even recognize as many characters as Da Tou."
Wu Lang felt that it was so difficult to read. He would rather follow his fourth brother to open up wasteland than learn to read.
He himself was unwilling to admit defeat, so he didn't listen to Man Bao and still took the flower basket to the county seat the next day. This time he really couldn't sell it, except for two children who bought it because they liked the candies in the flower basket.
Except for two, he couldn't sell more than twenty other flower baskets.
Seeing that the time was almost up and it would be dark if he didn't go back, Wu Lang simply sold them with candies and sent them out in flower baskets for a penny.
Wu Lang felt that bamboo sticks cost nothing anyway, so if you take business from me, I will take it too.
He directly lowered the price to a penny, and other vendors' flower baskets were immediately unable to be sold.
After Wu Lang finished selling the goods, he patted his butt and left. When he got home, he even boasted about it to Man Bao and the others.
Man Bao shook his little head and said: "Fifth brother, you are hurting others and not benefiting yourself by doing this."
Zhou Lang also said: "You have offended people like this. Next time you go to the county to do business, I'm afraid you will be targeted."
Wu Wulang said: "I'm not afraid. It's obvious that they targeted me first. Humph, they imitated us in selling flower baskets, and they just sold them. The price is the same as mine, or a penny lower than mine. I can accept it."
What's the point of selling it directly for three cents or two cents?"
Zhou Zuorang supported his fifth brother, "Those people are so annoying. They know that we are an old business. Many children recognize us and walk around us to hawk. They follow us wherever we go."
Man Bao also said: "It's too bad!"
Zhou Lang stopped talking now. Their brothers were not fools. Since they have been bullied to this extent, of course they cannot be bullied by others.
But everyone knows that the flower basket business cannot be opened, at least during this period, otherwise Wulang and the others may be beaten up when they go to the county town.
However, Zhou Lang and Man Bao were quite happy and said to each other: "Then stay at home and follow me to open up wasteland."
One said: "It's just in time to pull out the centella asiatica."
Wu Lang and the others sighed for a while and then agreed.
With the addition of Goro and Rokuro, not only has Zhouro's land reclamation speed increased a lot, but there are also more and more centella asiatica at home.
The dried centella asiatica was rolled up into balls and put into the sack. Zhou Lang picked it up and said, "It's so heavy for so much. Can you sell it at a high price?"
Manbao was eating sweets and doing homework. Hearing this, he looked up and asked, "Hey, fifth brother, didn't you go to the drug store and ask about the price?"
Everyone looked at each other and said, "Isn't it because the drug store won't accept it?"
Everyone is worried, isn't it true that all these days have been in vain?
Man Bao said confidently: "No, sir, I have already said that the drug store collects the money, and in the summer they even boil potions for passers-by to drink."
"But it's almost winter now, will the drug store still want it?"
Zhou Dalang, who was passing by, heard this and said, "I'll take a bag to the county town tomorrow to have a look. Don't worry."
Wu Lang immediately perked up and said, "Brother, are you going to the county seat?"
A smile appeared on Zhou Dalang's face and he said: "Yes, all the ligustrum lucidum at home has been exposed. Mom asked me to take it to the drug store to have a look tomorrow. If the drug store is satisfied, we will pick the ones in the forest and dry them.
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Wu Lang immediately said: "Let's go too!"
They had not been to the county town for several days and were planning to find an excuse to go out and sell the candies. Manbao had been talking about eating meat for the past two days.