For this reason, Mr. Zhuang even refused the Dragon Boat Festival holiday that Liu had asked for Bai Shanbao in advance.
Years ago, Mrs. Liu planned to take Bai Shanbao to Yizhou for the Dragon Boat Festival, because one of his aunts who married in Yizhou was going to celebrate her birthday.
But Mr. Zhuang refused, refused!
Bai Shanbao was still sad for two days because of this, and what made him even more sad was that his grandmother no longer asked for leave, but decided that she would go to celebrate her birthday alone.
This shows how rare it is for Mr. Zhuang to let go of his vacation at this time.
Seeing the two children rushing in with the small bookcases on their backs, Mr. Zhuang smiled slightly and said, "Tomorrow, just one day."
The two children cheered and were about to run out holding hands. Mr. Zhuang suddenly said: "If you go to find Bai Er, just tell him by the way. If he gets sick again, I will go to his home for class and let him sit on the recliner when the time comes." Go to class."
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao looked at each other, they both raised their necks for joy, but they didn't dare to laugh out loud, so they could only respond with a suppressed smile, and ran away in a hurry.
Bai Erlang was hiding in the house eating melons, which were sent by his uncle's house, and his mother had just brought them to him.
Hearing the sound of footsteps outside, he was so frightened that he immediately stuffed the plate under the quilt, then lay down and pretended to have a headache, hand pain, stomach pain, and all kinds of pain.
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao ran in, saw him screaming like a little old man, and said, "Stop pretending, neither sir nor your father came."
Bai Er ignored them and continued to yell.
Bai Shanbao said slowly: "Sir, you will give us a day off tomorrow and let us go shopping in the county."
There was a pause in Bai Erlang's voice, he opened one eye to look at them, rolled his eyeballs, and got up from the bed after realizing that there were indeed only three of them in the room, and asked: "Really? Sir, let us go buy what?"
"Buying counting chips, sir is going to teach us counting chips."
"Ah?" Bai Erlang wailed and exclaimed, "Isn't that something you have to learn after ten years old? Why do we have to learn it now?"
Bai Shanbao was about to speak, but Man Bao pulled him back, and the words on his lips changed immediately, "Do you want to come into the county with us?"
Man Bao said: "It will take many years to calculate a chip, so it's best to choose by yourself and choose what you like."
Bai Erlang said unrequitedly: "But I don't want to learn arithmetic, I'm still sick."
Bai Shanbao: "Mr. said, if you are still sick, then he will move the classroom to your house and let you lie down and listen to the class."
Man Bao was overjoyed, and asked with a smile, "Tell me, if Mr. comes to this class, will your father come to attend the class too?"
Bai Erlang's tears were really about to come down now, "I knew it, why didn't they go to school? If it's a school kid, why would the master stare at me alone?"
"Obviously he was staring at the three of us." Bai Shanbao said dissatisfied: "Sir, he has been staring at us for even longer, and we didn't pretend to be sick."
"That's because you can answer the questions Mr. asked you, can I?" Bai Er said angrily, "If I could, I wouldn't pretend to be sick."
"Who told you not to study hard, you actually followed others to play in the mud!"
"It's not mud, it's war. I'm still a general," Bai Erlang said unconvinced, "If you didn't want to play Zhuangzi's game of growing grain, wouldn't I have time to play? I don't have time to play, I would use Do you spend time reading and doing homework to play? If I don’t have time to play, will I not be able to write my homework and answer my husband’s homework?”
It was the first time that Man Bao and Bai Shanbao had heard people talk about laziness and playfulness so confidently, and they were stunned for a moment.
Bai Erlang lifted the quilt, took out the fruit plate, and ate it vigorously, saying: "I have to learn to count again, I will never be able to play again."
Man Bao and Bai Shanbao looked disgusted, "Why did you hide the fruit plate inside..."
Bai Erlang looked at the melons in the fruit plate, then at the two friends who were barely friends, and reluctantly pushed forward, "Will you eat?"
The two shook their heads again and again.
Bai Erlang took it back, "Forget it if you don't eat it. These are melons, which are usually only available in June and July. It's because my uncle is so good that I can eat them now."
Man Bao made an agreement with them, "Then we will meet at the entrance of the village tomorrow morning and go to the county together."
Both Bai Erlang and Bai Shanbao said it was okay, Bai Shanbao said: "Take my family's carriage."
Knowing that Man Bao wanted to learn how to count, Old Zhou couldn't help but sit up straight and asked, "After learning how to count, will you be able to be an accountant in the future?"
Qian said: "What nonsense are you talking about? Did you see that the accountant outside is a woman?"
"But Manbao can teach the big ones if he has learned it," said old Zhou Tou: "And who said that the accountant has no girls? I see that in many shops in the city, the proprietresses are in charge of the accounts. From now on, we Manbao will marry in the county Go here, and be the boss's wife, so that I can live up to the skills I have learned so much."
"The master said that our farm still has a lot of things to calculate in the future, so we need to learn to count and calculate by ourselves when we need arithmetic in the future."
The old Zhoutou immediately said to Qian: "Take the money and buy it for my daughter."
Man Baole narrowed his eyes and said, "Father, I have money."
Old Zhou Tou knew that she hadn't made much money since the beginning of spring. According to the children, it seemed that the lady from the former county grandpa's family who used to buy candy with them had left.
So Man Bao should not have much money on him.
Old Zhou Tou smiled and patted her head and said: "You have saved the money. I will go to the county town to buy steamed buns tomorrow. I will give you the money I raised."
Of course, Man Bao would not refuse again, and nodded fiercely.
Old Zhou Tou warned: "You have to study hard, come back and teach your nephews after you have learned it, and then when they grow up, they will work as accountants."
Zhou Zhoulang squeezed in and said, "Man Bao, will the second brother also learn from you?"
Wu Wulang immediately raised his hand, "There's still me, and me."
Man Bao waved his little hand and said happily: "No problem, I will teach you all when the time comes."
Fang glanced at her husband, and couldn't help reaching out to poke him. Zhou Zhoulang moved his son in his arms, avoiding her hand, and whispered: "I don't want to learn, isn't it just to settle accounts? I will, it’s a headache to learn those things.”
"You are so lazy."
"It's not lazy, it's unnecessary."
Bai Erlang was also complaining to his mother in a low voice, wanting to make a final fight not to learn counting, saying: "Mother, I'm not lazy, but I think it's unnecessary, our family has an accounting room, why should I learn counting? "
"Your father can also use calculations. If you don't learn, what if the accountant fools you?"
Bai Erlang said: "The accountant is fooling my father, and my father doesn't know. Could it be that my father is more powerful than the accountant?"
Mrs. Bai: ...