Master Bai glanced at his silly son and asked, "Erlang, why don't you go?"
Bai Erlang said confidently: "I don't understand the melons they are talking about, so I won't go there. Call me when you want to plant fruit trees."
Master Bai: ...
Mr. Zhuang laughed loudly, and said to Master Bai: "It's not a bad thing for him to be so simple-minded. Master Bai doesn't need to be too harsh."
Master Bai smiled at Mr. Zhuang, and in front of Mr. Zhuang, he temporarily let his son go.
The servants brought up the bowls and chopsticks to add food to the two children. Master Bai first picked up a chopsticks of meat for Man Bao, and then asked Mr. Zhuang, "Sir, do you plan to continue teaching in the school, or come to our house instead?" ?”
After thinking for a while, Mr. Zhuang said, "Let's stay in the school."
If any children come to play here and see them in class, they might want to listen in.
Master Bai said: "I'm afraid that the school is too empty, and the master will catch cold when teaching in it."
Mr. Zhuang smiled indifferently: "The small courtyard I live in is also spacious. When I don't want to teach in the school, I just take them to the small courtyard."
There is still a big difference between three students and thirty students, and it doesn't matter where you teach.
Only then did Master Bai no longer insist.
Mr. Zhuang only drank a glass of wine, left after dinner, and took Man Bao away with him.
After the two masters and apprentices crossed the bridge, they walked slowly along the river bank. Man Bao asked with concern: "Sir, you only have three students, can you still make money?"
Mr. Zhuang asked amusedly, "What if you can't do it?"
"I have money," Man Bao said seriously, "I can pay my husband a lot of Shuxiu."
Hearing the panic in her voice, Mr. Zhuang was moved. He reached out to pat her on the back and comforted her, "Don't worry, sir won't leave."
He said: "You and Shanbao are the two smartest children I have ever seen as a teacher. Even if it is not for money, I will continue to teach here."
Man Bao opened his mouth to speak, but Mr. Zhuang shook his head at her, and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, Mrs. Bai came to see me a few days ago, and she said that she would hire me as Shan Bao's husband, and give me Shu Xiubi every month. The ones who opened the school before were even taller."
Man Bao fell silent.
"So you can rest assured that sir won't be hungry, but," Mr. Zhuang said after a pause, "I'm afraid your sister-in-law can no longer cook in the school."
Man Bao was very happy, "It's okay, my sister-in-law will just find another job."
Mr. Zhuang nodded, "You come to school again in the next year, and ask your family to send your rice noodles to Shanbao's house, and then send 50 Wen a month. Is that okay?"
Man Bao nodded, indicating that there is no problem.
Only then did Mr. Zhuang continue: "Man Bao, I have decided to accept Bai Shan as my disciple. From now on, you will not only be classmates, but brothers and sisters of the same school."
Man Bao's eyes widened, and he shouted, "No way! It's my brother and sister!"
Mr. Zhuang: "..."
Man Bao stood in front of Mr. Zhuang and argued vigorously, "Sir, I was the one who became a teacher first, and I also entered school a day earlier than him, so I am older than him."
Based on Mr. Zhuang's understanding of Bai Shanbao, this may be a bit difficult, because, "He is older than you."
"Doesn't the book say that seniority is based on entry level? How can it be based on age?"
Mr. Zhuang glanced at her and said, "We are studying, not practicing martial arts."
Man Bao shrank his neck and asked in a low voice, "Sir, do you know?"
"The confiscated book is still with Mr., do you think I don't know?"
Man Bao felt guilty for a moment, and then said confidently: "I think the truth is the same, so I am a senior sister."
Mr. Zhuang waved his hand and said, "You can discuss this yourself. The Bai family will choose a good day to be a teacher. Before that, you can discuss it yourself."
Man Bao opened his mouth wide and looked down at his own height. He felt that she had little chance of winning a fight with Bai Shanbao, but it was not very good to find foreign aid for this kind of thing.
Mrs. Liu is also talking to Bai Shanbao about apprenticeship.
"Mr. Zhuang is very talented, and you are always naughty. With so many gentlemen, you can only listen to Mr. Zhuang's lectures. So after discussing with your mother, I decided to hire Mr. Zhuang to teach you at home."
Mrs. Liu said: "However, Mr. Zhuang was invited back by your cousin. Although your eldest brother has gone to study in the government school, Erlang is still there, so Mr. Zhuang is teaching the two of you together."
"What about Man Bao?"
Liu smiled, "She is Mr. Zhuang's disciple, so naturally she is studying with Mr. Zhuang."
Mrs. Liu paused when she said this, and then said: "Mr. Zhuang is not bad at learning, so I mentioned it to him. I want you to worship Mr. as a teacher and confirm the status of master and apprentice. I have asked Mother Liu to ask about the date. When a good day is confirmed, we will come to pay homage to the teacher with the teacher's gift."
Bai Shanbao's eyes lit up, "Mister agreed?"
Liu nodded with a smile.
"Then am I a senior brother?"
It took Liu a while to understand what her grandson meant. She couldn't help but smiled and said, "I don't know about that. Logically speaking, you are a latecomer, so you should be considered a younger brother?"
Bai Shanbao's eyes widened, and he said unhappily: "But I am older, and I am better at reading than her. I should be a senior brother."
Liu said with a smile: "Tomorrow your husband will go back to the county, you can ask him when you see him off."
Mr. Zhuang obviously didn't expect the two children to have such the same focus, so when asked, he was silent for a while before saying: "Man Bao said that she wants to be a senior sister."
Bai Shanbao said solemnly: "But sir, I am older than her, and I am slightly better at reading than her. Logically speaking, I should be a senior brother."
Mr. Zhuang stroked his beard and smiled, "You can go to her to discuss it, if she is willing to give up the position of senior brother to you."
Bai Shanbao found it difficult, but he liked to face difficulties, so at the foot of Zhou Lang's barren mountain, the two children met on a rock.
Now that they met, Bai Shanbao decided to discuss this matter with Man Bao.
Both of them had good reasons, they couldn't convince each other, and their eyes were staring.
Man Bao clenched his fist and asked, "Are you going to fight me?"
Bai Shanbao wanted to, but thinking of her bad habit of biting when she couldn't beat her, he decided to reason first, and then do it if she couldn't.
"If you let me be your brother, I will take care of you in the future."
"You are a junior and you have to listen to me."
Bai Shanbao thought for a while, and said with pain: "If you agree, I will give you my zodiac signs."
Man Bao was moved for a moment, and then refused, "No, it's more important to be a senior sister."
"I can also take you to Yizhou Mansion to play."
"I can go there when our farm earns money the next year."
"Then what if you can't make money?" Bai Shanbao said, "Do you know what natural disasters and man-made disasters are?"
Man Bao: ...