Chinese New Year is approaching, and the streets are full of people buying new year goods, or parents bringing their children to join in the fun.
Throughout the year, only during the harvest and Chinese New Year, adults are willing to spend more money to buy things for their children.
Wu Wulang and their candy business are doing very well. Even Zhou Zhoulang didn’t expect the candies they brought to be so popular. They cost a penny a piece. Obviously, many children were reluctant to buy them at first, but now they are queuing up to grab them. .
Zhou Zhoulang couldn't help thinking, and whispered to Wu Wulang: "Old Wu, can we do this business for a long time, why didn't you come to the county before?"
While selling candy to collect money, Wu Wulang said: "Don't think about it, it's just the Chinese New Year. There are not many children on the street who are willing to spend a penny to buy a candy. Usually our candy is sold to the county magistrate's family." Miss and the kid next door to them."
Zhou Zhoulang could only let out a sigh of disappointment, and helped sell the candy, and then got the money back.
Because he also worked hard today, Man Bao divided the money evenly after getting rid of the cost when he went back in the evening. Zhou Lang shared 80 cash, so he was very happy.
Then Man Bao collected his own money, turned around and ran home to tell her mother: "Mom, we made money selling sugar today, and the fourth brother shared 80 Wen."
Qian Shi asked, "Why didn't I see you come to hand over to the public?"
It was only then that Man Bao realized that the complaint had exposed herself, but after thinking about it for a while, she hugged her mother's arm and acted like a baby, and said, "We still need to buy candy, and we don't have much money to pay the public, mother, we sell sugar Don’t hand over the money to the public in the future, okay?”
Mrs. Qian nodded her nose and said: "Do you think anyone doesn't know that you and the fifth brother sell sugar in private to make money? If you don't pay it, don't pay it, but this is the only exception. Let me ask you, your fifth brother and sixth brother Is brother's money with you?"
Man Bao clutched his pocket and said in horror, "Mother, I will not betray my fifth brother and sixth brother."
Qian couldn't hold back for a while, and patted her on the head, "What are you thinking about, is mother like that? I just want to ask, how much money did your fifth and sixth brothers save with you?"
Although Qian Shi didn't see the money on the little girl, but she knew it in her heart, and the child couldn't help spending it if he had money, and it was all for food, so don't worry about it.
But she couldn't guess how many children there were.
But Man Bao turned around and ran away, saying: "I won't tell you, I promised my fifth brother and sixth brother."
Mrs. Qian didn't catch her and let her slip away, well, she didn't need to ask any more, after thinking about it, she called Shiro into the room.
When Zhou Zhoulang came out again, his head was lowered. He glanced around the yard, but he didn't see Man Bao, so he went outside. After walking for a while, he heard voices in the vegetable garden, and followed him.
Seeing Man Bao squatting on the ground and chatting happily with everyone, he stepped forward angrily and shouted, "Man Bao! Did you and mother inform you?"
Man Bao raised his head from the crowd, and when he saw Fourth Brother, he ran up, pulled his sign language and said earnestly, "Fourth Brother, I'm doing this for your own good."
Zhou Zhoulang was half-dead with anger, why he managed to save eighty coins for his own good, okay
"Think about it, tell mother that you have saved money, what good is it for me? Nothing, but let mother know that we made money and didn't hand it over to the public."
Zhou Zhoulang became even more angry, "So you are harming others and not benefiting yourself."
"Who said that I was harming me and benefiting you. You still owe money to your family, but you made money but didn't take the initiative to pay it back. What will your parents, brothers and sisters-in-law think if they find out?" Man Bao said: "Your reputation is not good in the first place, and it will be even worse in the future. I am doing this for your own good."
Man Bao said: "And what's the use of keeping the money? Are you going to gamble with it?"
"I won't bet."
"Since you don't gamble, what are you going to do with the money?" Man Bao asked him, "Are you willing to use the money to buy meat for the family? Are you willing to buy new clothes?"
Zhou Zhoulang: ... not willing!
"Look, I can tell that you don't want to part with it, so don't you have to pay back the money in the end? Since you have to pay back the money, it's better to pay it back sooner than later. Fourth brother, because of you, I'm always scolded by my mother." After a meal, you don’t pay the public when you earn money. You haven’t thanked me yet... "
Zhou Zhoulang actually felt that what Man Bao said was reasonable, but he would not believe her evil, how could she be a person who harmed herself and benefited others
Zhou Zhoulang listened to her with a blank face, and decided not to be as knowledgeable as her, so he broke away from her hand and was about to go back.
But Man Bao grabbed his hand, "Fourth brother, since you are here, let's look at our ginger together. Our ginger has grown so big. After the Chinese New Year, we will be able to grow ginger in the field."
"So soon?" It was about his own wasteland, Zhou Zhou Lang took it seriously, and asked, "Have you asked, when are ginger pieces usually sown?"
Manbao has included a piece of ginger, and the entry of ginger has long been published. The entry says that it can only germinate when the temperature is above 16 degrees Celsius.
Manbao doesn't know what 16 degrees Celsius is, but Keke said it is when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming.
Anyway, she kept the ginger with straw to keep it warm, and now that it was sprouting, she figured she could do the same in the field.
And after the new year, spring will start. She asked her sister-in-law, and she said that the first month is basically busy with planting.
So Manbao has made a plan, "After the 15th day, when the sun comes out, we will take out the ginger and dry it for a few days before planting it in the ground."
The entry on ginger says that it is best to cut ginger into pieces, remove the necrotic part, soak it in water with plant ash, and then dry it for seven or eight days before sowing.
This will prevent the ginger seeds from getting sick.
Man Bao thinks that this planting method is similar to yam.
She also asked Keke, do the lumps that grow under the soil like to be soaked in plant ash water first, and then dried
Keke tested the system himself and found that it is true. Most tuber plants recommend this planting method, but in the future, people will make nutrient solution potions. There is no specific potion here, so they can only make plant ash. Water is better than nothing.
The planting of yams is earlier than ginger, and they have been dried in the sun for a long time, and they were bred in the kitchen before.
There is no way, the breeding of yams takes about 20 days, and these 20 days need a relatively warm environment. Apart from the rooms where they sleep, the kitchen is the warmest.
It is impossible for Manbao to keep yams that are stained with plant ash and have a strange smell in the house, so they put them in the kitchen.
In a corner not far from the stove, they piled up a lot of straw to keep warm.
When the fire is lit in the kitchen, the light of the fire will be reflected on it, which is quite warm, and during the coldest period of time, the family members are used to having a fire in the kitchen, which can also warm them up.
At first, Manbao didn’t know if it would be useful, but these days the weather got warmer and the sun came out every day. Keke reminded her again that it was almost time, so Manbao went to look at the straw and found some yams The tubers have sprouted.