Master Bai held the bowl steady and asked, "Is your wheat seed made of gold?"
Bai Erlang thought about it seriously and then shook his head: "No."
Master Bai really wanted to throw the bowl in his face.
He put down the bowl and chopsticks, rubbed his forehead and said, "Forget it, I won't tell you. After dinner, you go find Shanbao and Manbao, and I'll tell them."
Bai Erlang ate a big mouthful of food unhappy, and clearly said that he would come to talk with his father, and they would go to talk with Grandma Liu, so why should his father want them to talk here
Master Bai glanced at his son, and said seriously: "Erlang, Shanbao and Manbao are your senior brothers and sisters, so don't call them by their names directly, but call them seniors and sisters, do you know?"
Bai Erlang looked at his father tearfully.
Master Bai was a little soft-hearted, and said in a soft tone: "Even if you don't call them brothers and sisters, you can still call them by nicknames. Shanbao is your cousin, and Manbao is younger than you, right?"
"Then I'll call them nicknames!" Bai Erlang made a decisive decision, and then took advantage of the trend to sell their wheat seeds, "Father, you won't lose money if you buy our wheat seeds. We all went to the county grain store to see it today. Well, their wheat seeds are sold at one hundred and forty-four cents a bushel, and their wheat seeds are not comparable to ours."
"How do you know you can't compare?"
"Of course I know it can't compare. We buy the wheat seeds from the grain store, don't we? But the seeds of our small farm are bought from Manbao's family. The highest one per mu is five stones, and the lowest one is five stones." Three and a half stone."
Master Bai's eyes widened, and he couldn't help sitting up straight, "What are you talking about, what is your highest yield per mu?"
The voice was so loud that Bai Erlang almost fell off his chair in fright. The old lady Bai who had been eating quietly couldn't help but glared at him and said, "Speak well, just talk well. Why are you yelling at the child?"
Master Bai was about to speak, when the old lady Bai suddenly said: "Okay, thanks to the fact that you are still scholars, you don't know how to eat or speak, and you are not allowed to talk while eating, so let me eat first."
Master Bai's breath was held in his chest, and he almost suffocated to death.
He watched his silly son hesitate to speak, but under the stare of the old mother, he didn't dare to speak again, he could only lower his head and eat quickly.
Then as soon as the bowls and chopsticks were put away, Bai Erlang didn't care if he was full or not, he just picked it up and went out, "Mother, Erlang is also full, I'll go to the school to test his homework."
The old lady Bai and Mrs. Bai couldn't stop him, they could only watch him take the child away.
With a worried look on Mrs. Bai's face, the old lady Bai said: "Okay, don't worry, it's a good thing to listen to that tone, he won't beat the second child."
Bai Erlang also felt that his father would not beat him up, so he obediently followed him.
Master Bai carried his son to the study room, turned around and told his servants: "Go to the kitchen and ask someone to prepare some more food, um, prepare more snacks, meat, and some sweet soup, and then go and invite Master Tang and Miss Man over here." , just say I have something to talk to them about.”
After everyone had left, Master Bai let his son sit on a chair and asked, "Well, is your wheat really so productive?"
"Of course, we watched Bai Zhuangtou and the three long-term workers weighing together, and we watched the storage," Bai Erlang had already been accounted for by Bai Shanbao and Man Bao before, those messy things I just memorized a few simple numbers, and then I knew a truth, "Father, if you use our wheat seeds, the granary will be overflowing in one year, and the country will be rich in two years."
Master Bai: "...who taught you to say this?"
"No one taught me, I heard it from Man Bao."
When he heard that it was bragging, he was a little worried, "Why didn't you learn it, all you learned?"
"Who says I haven't learned how to be good? I can farm the land, can you? I can read the scale, can you? I can also tie the grain bag with a rope, can you?"
Master Bai: ...
Now is the time for dinner, Man Bao naturally eats dinner at home, but the old Zhou's house is a little later than the Bai's house, so she just picked up the bowls and chopsticks when she sat on the edge of the table, and the door opened was ringing.
The big head ran to open the door.
The servants of the Bai family stood at the door and bowed, smiling to express their interruption, and said: "Master Zhou, my master invited Miss Man over to talk about things."
Old Zhou Tou hesitated and said, "Let's go there after the child has dinner, and then I'll ask her brothers to send her there."
"This..." The servant wondered: "Master Zhou, our master specially prepared meals for the three young masters. Master Tang should have passed by, and we are waiting for Miss Man..."
Old Zhou Tou immediately said: "Okay, you can take her there, she is young, if she is not sensible, you should take care of her."
Then he turned his head and said to Man Bao: "Don't eat it first, I will ask your sister-in-law to keep it for you, you go and see what Master Bai has ordered."
Now the old Zhou's family has divided into two tables for dinner, and Man Bao is the only child on this table. Hearing this, he put down the bowls and chopsticks he had just picked up, turned around and left with the servants.
After the big head closed the door again, the old Zhou head took some of the rice from the full treasure bowl and gave it to his wife, and kept the rest in his own bowl.
Little Qian who was about to put it away: ...
Old Zhou took a look at her, and said, "Can the Bai family still eat less Manbao?"
Mrs. Qian glanced at him, handed Manbao's custard to Zhou Zhoulang, and said, "Take it for the five heads to eat."
Zhou Lang should go down.
The old Zhou's family began to eat.
When we arrived at Bai's house, Bai Shanbao had already arrived, and was sitting at the table in the study eating. When he saw Man Bao, he waved to her.
Bai Erlang wasn't full at all, seeing that the two of them were eating deliciously, he also sat down to eat.
Master Bai happily sat aside and talked to them, "Shanbao, how much wheat have you harvested from the twenty acres?"
"Not much, just eighty-three stones."
Master Bai did some calculations, and his heart trembled slightly, "How did you plant them?"
"That's how it was planted."
After thinking about it, Master Bai felt that this question should not be asked, so he changed the question, "Who taught you how to farm?"
Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang looked at Manbao together.
Man Bao said: "My father!"
She said: "How my family grows, I want to grow Baizhuangtou. If Baizhuangtou still doesn't understand, just ask my father, and my father will tell him."
Master Bai nodded, "That kind..."
"The seeds belong to my family too."
"Where did you buy it?"
"I didn't buy it, I kept it at home," Man Bao said, "Last year, when there was a flood, only my family's wheat was the best, so people in the village exchanged wheat seeds with my family's. My father simply kept all the wheat from my family as seeds." .”
Man Bao knew what he was worried about, and explained carefully: "Later we had a small farm, and we wanted to grow wheat in the small farm, so I told my father to ask Bai Zhuangtou to go to my house to buy wheat seeds."
Anyway, there are not many, there are only about 400 catties of wheat seeds in total, which almost rounds up the rest of the wheat.
Master Bai was very suspicious, how could the old Zhou's wheat seeds be so good