Man Bao didn't understand these things, and she was very envious of her fourth brother being able to live outside, so at this time she was squatting in front of Zhou Zhoulang's thatched shed, not very happy to go home.
Zhou Xi and the fourth and third brothers cleaned the grass and turned around to take Man Bao home, but Man Bao ran into the grass shed and squatted on the ground, raised his head and said, "Sister, my fourth brother and I will stay here tonight." OK?"
Zhou Xi: ...
Zhou Zhoulang immediately said: "Okay, you can sleep next to me, just to help me share some mosquitoes."
Zhou Xi stepped forward to drag her home, and said, "Don't talk about staying overnight here, you will cry when it gets dark, there are many mosquitoes outside."
They had already eaten dinner, and they came to weed while the sun was going down, so Zhou Zhoulang didn't have to go home, so he stood at the grass shed and waved to Manbao, "Sister Yao, don't go back, stay here Feed the mosquitoes with the fourth brother."
Man Bao also reached out to Zhou Zhou Lang, trying to break free from Zhou Xi's grasp, "Eldest sister, eldest sister, please let me go, I want to stay here with fourth brother..."
Friday Lang and Saturday Lang laughed happily, and one of them grabbed her arm and carried it home, and said to her while carrying her, "Are you stupid, don't sleep when it gets dark, squat in the yard at home, If you can stand the mosquitoes, you can come and live with fourth brother again."
"You are tender, and mosquitos like you the most. If you stay, fourth brother can wake up laughing at night."
Man Bao finally stopped struggling and asked, "Since there are so many words, why does fourth brother live here?"
"Look at the ginger, no one steals the yam, but our ginger has been dug up several times, so there are at least two or three taels of a big piece. These people's hearts are too dark."
It was the first time Man Bao heard that someone was stealing ginger, and felt that they were a bit stupid, "They just want ginger and our family to buy it, why steal it."
Wu Wulang laughed at her, "Why spend money to buy it when you can steal it?"
Man Bao stared wide-eyed and said, "Isn't it natural to buy things? I've never heard that stealing is also natural."
Now Zhou Wulang choked, but he couldn't explain this kind of thing clearly, so he decided not to talk about it.
But Man Bao was obviously very interested in this topic, so he went to ask Mr. Zhuang specifically.
It happened that Bai Shanbao was there, so Mr. Zhuang asked him, "Why do you think the villagers steal ginger?"
"Because they also want to grow ginger," Bai Shanbao said, "I have never grown ginger before, and I never knew that ginger is so easy to grow. My grandmother told me that the ginger in my garden should not be sold to others. She bought it all. Forty wen per catty."
Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "That's right. In the past, no one in the village grew ginger. Everyone was the same. They had to buy ginger from the grocery store during the holidays. It was no different, but now there are people who grow ginger." , and planted a lot, this is not worrying about scarcity but inequality, think about it, if you are the parents and officials, and you rule the people like this, what should you do?"
Bai Shanbao and Man Bao looked at each other, and said: "Stealing is against the law, it should be punished."
Mr. Zhuang smiled and nodded, encouraging them to continue talking.
The two children let go and chattered. Of course, they are speaking in the current environment. They are all from the village. It is definitely not good to arrest people suddenly, so it is best to do some publicity before arresting, such as Tell everyone that stealing is wrong, not only against morality, but also against the law.
In the end Man Bao said: "Since they also want to grow ginger, let's give them a piece of it, and I can tell them how to grow it. If they steal it like this, if they always water it like Shan Bao, they will die. "
Bai Shanbao turned his head to stare at her, and said: "My ginger is even better than yours now."
Man Bao said: "Because I will help you."
Mr. Zhuang coughed lightly to attract the attention of the two children, and then asked Man Bao, "Will you give things to others in case of unevenness in the future?"
"Of course not," Man Bao said, "If I want to share, I will share, if I don't want to, then I won't."
Mr. Zhuang: ... very childish answer, but he understood it. Mr. Zhuang was relieved, so he just said, his disciple doesn't seem so heartless.
Mr. Zhuang waved his hand and said, "Then you go and try it out, and give ginger to people to see."
He also wanted to see what the two disciples would do.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other, walked out of the husband's yard together, and said to each other: "Jiang is not mature yet."
"Now everyone is going to harvest the beans. We don't have time. Let's wait until the beans are harvested." Man Bao still feels sorry for her own ginger, and she is not happy to give it away for nothing. She just said something quickly in front of her husband, but Going back and forth is not a good boy, I don't know if my husband will forget it after a while.
Bai Shanbao also disliked Man Bao's quick talk, and was the first to declare, "I have sold all my ginger to my grandmother, and there is nothing left to give away."
Man Bao snorted, "You're so stingy."
Bai Shanbao thought about it, and felt that this was not good, so he said: "Have you sold all the ginger in your house, or I will ask my grandmother to buy some with you."
Man Bao asked: "Does your family eat so much?"
Bai Shanbao: "You can eat it. Anyway, my grandmother and the others use ginger to make tea every day. If we can't eat it, we can give it away."
Man Bao thought for a while and said: "If your family needs me, I will sell it. If you don't need it, you don't need to buy it specially. I have already agreed with the shopkeeper Zheng of Jishitang. When winter comes, Jiang can sell it to him when he is old. It can be sold to grocery stores, and it can also be sold in the county. Anyway, ginger can be released, so we will sell it slowly.”
These gingers seem to be a lot, but in fact they are not very much, especially because they can be stored, and at worst, they will be used during the Chinese New Year, when many people will buy them.
Man Bao is not at all anxious about selling. As Keke said, this is a seller's market. When there are more people growing ginger in the future, she may need to consider selling.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that giving ginger seeds to the villagers does more harm than good, but Man Bao thinks this is not the case.
If there are good seeds in the village, they will recommend each other. Some not too expensive seeds will be given to each other. As long as you have extra, you can exchange them for expensive ones. Manbao thinks that their family should not break this balance.
As for why, she couldn't figure it out with her current small head, she simply felt that it couldn't be broken.
Fortunately, it's the busy season of farming, and everyone obviously doesn't have time to pay attention to Zhou's Jiang.
No matter how expensive ginger is, in everyone's eyes, it is just a condiment, which is dispensable, but the crops in the field are not.
That is their yearly livelihood.
The sun has been very good these few days, so that the already yellowed beans matured quickly, so everyone looked at the day and someone started harvesting the beans.
Old Zhou Tou reckoned that it would be sunny these days, so he took the whole family down to the field to collect beans.