Man Bao replied without thinking, "I'm not short of money."
Changyu glanced at her in disbelief, "I can't even build a good wooden bridge, so it's not short of money?"
Man Bao said: "I am thrifty."
She said seriously, "Diligence and thrift are virtues."
"What virtue?" Bai Erlang and Bai Shan, who were a few steps behind them with their baskets, ran over from the wooden bridge, and took out one of the baskets in their hands to give them, "Why don't you wait for us?"
Man Bao took it, turned around and said, "Someone called you two quarters of an hour earlier, you must be lying in bed."
A group of people walked up the mountain. There were guards and servants in front of them to clear the way for them, but they didn't need it at all.
There is only this mountain near Pu Village. Some large firewood comes from this mountain, so people often come up the mountain, and there are people walking out of the mountain, so it is not difficult to walk.
But this is not difficult for Manbao Baishan, Bai Erlang, and the guards. For Yu Mingda and Changyu, the road is a bit slippery.
The unpaved stones and steps are completely different from the Longshouyuan behind the Daming Palace. There are also many wild fruits and flowers on the roads on both sides that the two of them have never seen before.
Man Bao picked a split wild bramble fruit from a tree and gave it to Ming Da, and taught her how to eat it.
Mingda took a bite, her eyes were wet immediately, she couldn't help but hissed, swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, and said with tears in her eyes, "It's so sour."
Man Bao couldn't help laughing, and said to her: "There are delicious ones, and there are prickly bubbles on the other side facing the sun, which are sweet."
"Hey, there are here." Bai Erlang saw a clump of thorns wrapped around a tree with a few red thorn bubbles on it, so he stepped forward to pick it off, and stretched out his palm to Mingda, "No ,For you to eat."
Mingda looked at the thorn in his palm without moving for a moment, she looked at the thorn, and then looked at him.
Man Bao looked carefully, but he didn't see any bugs on it, so he said to Ming Da: "You can eat it."
Chang Yu, who had already walked to the front, heard it, turned around and walked back, and stood beside Man Bao, staring at the thorn in Bai Erlang's palm, swallowed and asked, "Is it delicious?"
Man Bao nodded, "Sweet, sweet and sweet."
Chang Yu stretched out his hand to take it, but Bai Erlang closed his hand all at once.
Changyu looked up at him, Bai Erlang said: "This is for Princess Mingda."
Changyu: "... I can't eat it?"
Bai Erlang took Mingda's hand, poured all the prickly bubbles into her hand, and said to Changyu: "Then you have to ask Princess Mingda."
Although she asked Mingda for it, Mingda would definitely give it to her, but she was not happy, pointing to Bai Erlang and said: "I remember you little fat man, I saved you two years ago, you are ungrateful."
Bai Erlang jumped up and said, "The one who saved me was Princess Mingda, right? And when did I become fat? Am I fat now?"
The guards and palace people all turned their heads to look at it.
Bai Shan and Man Bao hurriedly fought, of course they were talking about their own family members, "Princess Changyu also saved you, you have to pick some fruits for her later."
Mingda also came to his senses, directly picked up a prickly bubble and stuffed it into her mouth, and then said: "Sister, why bother him, didn't Man Bao say that there are many on the mountain?"
Changyu originally had a lot to say, but after eating the fruit, she stopped talking and just snorted at Bai Erlang and turned her head away, but she turned around quickly and said to Mingda: "It's delicious, you Eat too."
Everyone got back together and continued to move forward. When they reached the halfway up the mountain, they saw a few pear trees. There were no trees around them, so the sunlight shone directly on them, and they could see the small pear trees hidden among the leaves.
Man Bao pulled Ming Da and Chang Yu forward, pointed down the mountain and said, "Look, you can see the villages and fields below the mountain from here."
Mingda looked down and found that it was indeed the case, then pointed to Zhuangzi of their family and said with a smile: "The location of your house is not well chosen. If someone is spying, you can see the whole picture from here."
Man Bao nodded and said: "Fortunately, my family has no secrets, but my fourth brother discussed with my eldest brother before, and they want to plant a big sycamore tree there, or build a viewing tower, so that they can block the danger." .”
Bai Shan explained: "We didn't think so much when we chose the place. It was only when the fourth brother went up the mountain to look for mushrooms that we discovered it this year."
Bai Erlang said: "Are you still picking pears?"
He said: "If you want me to say, don't worry about it. We don't live here often. We live in the two yards here. We do everything in the house on weekdays. Except for walking and planting Some flowers and plants, what else can you do besides having some tea? If anyone wants to see it, let them see it.”
Changyu was already standing under the tree, looked up at the pears on the tree and asked, "Is it delicious?"
He turned his head and heard that they were still discussing about the house, so he glanced down and said, "What's the problem? You can make this mountain your own and don't allow outsiders to go up the mountain?"
At this point, not to mention the three Man Baos, even Ming Da was stunned, "How can the land be messed up?"
"Buy it," Chang Yu said, "How much can such a barren mountain cost? You send someone to the county government to ask, if you are still frugal, I will pay the money for you."
Man Bao said: "Even if this mountain becomes my home, I can't stop people from going up the mountain to chop firewood and find mushrooms and wild vegetables."
Changyu asked suspiciously, "Why not? Isn't this your house?"
Man Bao said: "My family also has many mountains in Qili Village, but I never said that people are not allowed to go up the mountains."
She said: "We have a small amount of land there, and many of the land is divided into mountains. One by one, there is no quantity. After a rough estimate, people will be divided. If someone's mountain is divided, others will not be allowed to go up the mountain. Isn't that right?" There's no way in or out?"
Bai Shan also said: "There is no such thing as a person. Besides, we are outsiders here in Pu Village. We have to establish a good relationship with people. When winter comes, everyone has to cut firewood in this mountain. If we seal the mountain, wouldn't it be better?" Adding contradictions for nothing?"
Man Bao nodded repeatedly.
Changyu didn't expect that she could elicit so many words in one sentence, so she couldn't help pinching her waist and said, "I just want to ask if we still want to pick pears..."
"Pick, pick, pick," Man Bao rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, hugging the tree and climbing up...
Changyu saw her climb up in two or three steps, his eyes widened in shock, Man Bao looked at it, picked a pear that should have been ripe and threw it at Changyu, Changyu took it , Wipe it with a handkerchief and eat it.
The palace people were shocked and rushed forward to stop it, saying that the pear should be washed.
Man Bao picked several of them and threw them into Mingda and Bai Shan's arms, and asked with a smile, "You can see better from below, which one is bigger?"