Man Bao took out the small ledger and read it to them.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang saved the same amount of money. After all, the two of them have been going in and out together, making the same amount of money.
This is not ignorance. After doing the calculation, everyone was shocked. Wu Wulang had saved 3,660 copper coins.
Wu Wulang couldn't help swallowing, covered his excited heart and said, "Then, will I be able to marry a wife if I save for another year?"
Man Bao was so envious, he said: "What kind of wife are you marrying, fifth brother, buy meat to eat."
"Do you think about anything else besides eating? I'm a man, so of course I have to marry a wife."
"But fourth brother hasn't married a wife yet."
"I don't know when the fourth brother will finish repaying the money, so I won't wait for him," Wu Wulang has already planned, "When I have saved enough 5,000 yuan next year, I will ask my mother to marry me. I can get married in another year."
"Who do you want to marry?" Man Bao was curious.
Wu Wulang shook his head and said, "I don't know, I think my mother likes it."
Man Bao: "...you are so keen on marrying a wife, I thought you had someone you liked."
Wu Wulang had his own set of ideas, he said: "The girls in the village are not good-looking, I don't want them, I want to say from the outside, Lao Liu, when I marry a wife, you have to prepare, don't go Take it to heart, let me tell you, only when you marry a daughter-in-law can you grow up and have a secure life."
Wu Wulang said: "Look at Uncle Saturday at the east end of the village. He is bare-boned. Look at his life. If you don't marry a wife, you will become like that in the future."
Liu Liulang opened his mouth wide and trembled, "I don't want it!"
Man Bao asked curiously, "What happened to Uncle Saturday?"
"You're still young, you don't understand," Wu Wulang ignored her, stretched out his hand and said, "Come on, give me six hundred Wen."
While giving him money, Man Bao asked, "Why do you want the money?"
"Then what else can I do? Of course I'm buying fabrics and cotton for myself?" Zhou Wulang said with his fingers broken, "I haven't worn new clothes since I was a child. A new suit, and new trousers, and new shoes!"
Saturday Lang's eyes brightened, and he shouted, "I want it too, I want it too!"
The big heads and big girls are all excited, they also have money, although not much, but they should be able to buy a suit of cloth, right
Except for Man Bao, the rest of the family has not made new clothes for many years. Even Man Bao, most of the clothes he wears are Qian's clothes that have been resized.
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang were even worse, because the two of them were the youngest, and they wore the leftover clothes of their elder brothers. When the first three elder brothers were not very tall, they picked up the fourth brother's clothes to wear, because Zhou Zhoulang still wore clothes. President.
Saturday Lang also took six hundred wen from Man Bao.
Datou and Daya also thought about it, but when they thought about it, they would not be able to go to the county seat tomorrow, so they stepped down on their shoulders and stopped withdrawing copper coins.
Zhou Zhoulang pushed the door in from the outside with a stinky face. Seeing so many people in the room, he frowned and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhou Wulang and Saturday Lang collected their money and said, "Fourth brother, I promised Datou and Daya to buy them some snacks tomorrow. What do you want to eat, brothers please."
Zhou Zhoulang waved his hand and said, "No need, you can save yourself to buy food."
Zhou Zhoulang lay down on the bed, and Man Bao happened to be sitting on the bed, and leaned over to look at his face curiously, "Fourth brother, are you sick? Then go to the mountain to dig soil tomorrow?"
"Go, not only I will go, but Datou and the others will also follow. Didn't you say that the rotten leaves on the mountain and the layer of soil underneath can be used to fertilize the land? Let's dig them all out." Zhou Zhou Lang said a little harshly: "I don't believe it!"
Zhou Zhoulang didn't say any more, but Man Bao and the others were frightened, and they didn't speak for a while. They got together and whispered for a long time, "What's wrong with the fourth brother?"
"It's so strange that I don't want to skip work anymore!"
"Did the parents scold him?" As soon as the words came out, everyone shook their heads again. The fourth brother of their family didn't remember to eat or beat him. , I can't stand it and become lazy and bad again.
Man Bao stomped back to her own room, um, of course, it was also her parents' room, she slipped through the screen, raised her head and asked her parents, "Dad, mother, what's wrong with fourth brother?"
Qian Shi was slightly stunned and said: "It's okay, don't go to the mountain tomorrow, it's cold on the mountain..."
"No, I'm going!"
Qian sighed helplessly, "Forget it, you can go if you want, but you are not allowed to catch a cold. If you are sick, you have to take very bitter medicine."
Man Bao answered.
The next day, he went up the mountain with Zhou Lang, watching his face all the way. Zhou Lang felt that her eyes were strange, so he couldn't help but patted her on the head and asked her to look at the ground, "Is there a tree root under my feet?" See, be careful to stumble and roll down the mountain."
Man Bao silently withdrew his feet.
Of course, this mountain is not the one where Zhou Zhoulang opened up wasteland, but the one next door. The mountain is full of trees, mostly pine trees. The further you go in, the more leaves are accumulated on the ground. The layers have decayed and are somewhat taupe soil.
Koko said the soil was very fertile.
But this layer of soil is very thin.
It was rare for Zhou Zhoulang not to dislike it. Together with his nephews and nieces, he shoveled up this layer of soil and put it into the bamboo basket. After shoveling a large piece of it, he barely filled two bamboo baskets. Then he picked the soil down the mountain and took to his wasteland.
Everyone helped to spread a layer on the ground, and spread it like this, and they also shoveled a lot of newly fallen leaves. Man Bao stepped on them with his little feet, and said to Zhou Zhoulang who looked over: " When they rot, the ground will be fat."
Zhou Zhoulang gave the soil to Datou and the others to scatter, and sat on the ridge to rest by himself, and asked, "Man Bao, there are so many things in the book, have they been written, what should I do if I can't have children?"
Man Bao's eyes widened, "Fourth brother, can't you give birth to a child?"
Zhou Zhoulang said angrily: "I would never have children, children are all born by women, I am a man, a man!"
Man Bao scratched his head, his little head was very clear-headed, "Since a woman can have children by herself, why should she marry? Isn't it said that children can only be born after marriage?"
Zhou Zhoulang choked, and he didn't know what to say. Of course he didn't understand biology, and he didn't even know how children were born, so he stared at his sister, not knowing what to say.
Keke looked at the siblings staring at each other, and couldn't help but talk to Man Bao about sperm, eggs, fertilized eggs and other knowledge.
It knew what happened in the main room last night, so it said to Man Bao: "The inability to have children is not necessarily a woman's problem, it may also be a male problem, such as the man's weak sperm or dead sperm, etc., but I always think that It is women's responsibility not to have children."
Man Bao asked Ke Ke sharply, "Who can't have children?"