The boy who brought water to soak Bai Erlang's feet saw his young master running out covered in dust, immediately put down the tub and ran up, "Second young master, second young master, why are you so dirty, didn't you just take a bath?"
Bai Erlang finally found the person, grabbed him and jumped to his feet, "A thief broke into my house, and my things are gone!"
The boy understood as soon as he thought about it, "Is it the box under the bed?"
Bai Erlang stared, "How do you know?"
"It was taken by my wife," said the boy, "Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival, so my wife sent her sisters to clean and sprinkle realgar powder in the room early this morning, and found a box under the bed."
The servant whispered: "Master, your box was not locked, the sisters opened it as soon as they opened it, and then the wife came, and she asked someone to move the box away."
Bai Erlang was stunned, "Mother didn't say anything during the meal just now..."
The boy said uncertainly: "Maybe I forgot?"
Bai Erlang's eyes were red, and he ran to his parents' main room.
The servant couldn't help shouting, "Master, you don't want to soak your feet anymore. The old lady said that Wuyue has a lot of evil spirits, and she has to soak her feet before going to bed..."
Bai Erlang rushed into his parents' room and asked his mother directly, "Mother, where is my money?"
Master Bai, who was soaking his feet, raised his head and asked, "What money?"
Mrs. Bai ignored Master Bai first, but said softly to Bai Erlang: "Erlang, it's not safe to keep so much money with you, mother should keep it for you, and then ask mother if you want to use it later? "
"No, Manbao and the others keep their money by themselves, why can't I keep it by myself?" Bai Erlang was very angry, thinking that his mother had greatly offended him by taking the money with him without his consent, so he He shouted: "It was the same way before. I obviously gave me the New Year's money, but I took it back later!"
Mrs. Bai frowned slightly, and still said softly: "Mother, it's for your own good, you spend too much money..."
Bai Erlang shouted, "That's my money too!"
Master Bai listened to the argument between the mother and the son, his face sank, he wiped his feet and threw the towel into the tub, and said angrily, "Erlang, who taught you to talk to mother like this?"
The mother and son fell silent for a moment.
Master Bai wore wooden clogs, dragged him over, and said, "No matter what you do, you shouldn't talk so loudly with your mother. Didn't Mr. Zhuang and I teach you etiquette?"
If it was in the past, Master Bai would not have said such things, but after seeing Mr. Zhuang teaching children a lot, he also knows that sometimes it is useless to blindly reprimand him.
You still have to reason with your child, even if it doesn’t make sense, or if the child doesn’t listen, you still have to talk.
Master Bai saw that his eyes were red and full of tears, but he calmed down. Then he looked at his wife, frowned and asked, "Come on, what's going on?"
Bai Shanbao, who was separated by a wall, had already fallen asleep in a drowsy state. Suddenly, a loud cry of "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
He sat up in a daze, and then vaguely heard loud cries coming from the next door. Although it was not clear, there was only one person next door who could cry like this.
Bai Shanbao got out of bed immediately, and Daji who lived next door also opened the door and came out.
Bai Shanbao tiptoed to look in the direction of the Bai family, and asked, "Daji, what's wrong with Bai Er?"
Daji pricked up his ears and listened, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, why don't you send someone to ask?"
"Go, go."
Daji immediately went to find someone.
At this time, the sky had already darkened, and everyone in the Bai family was going to sleep. Although it was a landlord's house, they couldn't waste lamp oil, right
But at this moment, the main courtyard lit up lanterns, and several places were lit up. Bai Erlang sat down on the ground, closed his eyes and cried loudly.
Mrs. Bai was very angry, her heart ached and she couldn't beat him, so she could only comfort him, "Okay, okay, mother will give you a piece, okay?"
"I don't want it, I want it all, it's all my money."
Mrs. Bai insisted in a rare way, "What do you do with so much money for a child?"
Bai Erlang was about to roll all over the floor, when he suddenly remembered what Bai Shanbao and Man Bao said, he immediately gave up on his mother, and turned to look at his father, obviously weeping convulsively, but he still grabbed his father's trouser legs intermittently Said: "Father, Shanbao and Manbao's money is all held by myself..."
He sobbed: "In the future, if the farm asks for money, I will also contribute a portion..."
Mrs. Bai immediately said: "You need money to tell mother, and mother will definitely give it to you."
"No, I want to get the money myself," Bai Erlang insisted, "It's uncomfortable to reach out for money, and I don't want to ask my mother for money, and I don't want to ask my father for it!"
Master Bai squinted his eyes and was about to speak when an old woman said outside the door: "Master, madam, the old lady asked what's the matter?"
Master Bai said: "It's okay, Erlang had some troubles, it will be fine in a while, so go back and take care of mother, don't let her old man be surprised."
The old mother took a look into the room and saw that the second young master was intact, but sitting on the ground by herself, probably because of being wronged.
She felt relieved, smiled and agreed, as long as she didn't do anything.
Mrs. Bai hurriedly went to send him off, and mentioned the reason by the way. Knowing that it was about money, the old lady didn't ask any further questions.
Mrs. Bai breathed a sigh of relief, and after returning to the house, Master Bai said to her, "Give Erlang the money, let him take care of his own money."
Mrs. Bai was stunned, and lost her voice: "How can this be done? There is so much money."
Master Bai insisted, "Give it to him, the child is already grown up, and now he manages a farm by himself, what does it look like if he has no money in his hands? Besides, he earned the money himself."
"That's earned from you too," Mrs. Bai insisted, "This kid can't have so much money in his hands."
Master Bai frowned, obviously not very happy, but the matter ended up with Mrs. Bai, and it wasn't Bai Erlang who made the trouble, but Mrs. Bai.
The husband and wife quarreled at that time, and the voices became more and more loud, and finally the old mother came again.
This time, she led the family of three to the old lady's yard.
The old lady's hair was all loose, and she was obviously going to sleep, she simply pulled her hair up at the moment, sat on the couch and asked, "What's going on with your family tonight, each and every one of you won't stop. "
Mrs. Bai wiped her tears aggrievedly and told the story again, begging the old lady to make the decision for her, she cried: "Erlang is my son, can I still harm him? Mother, you don't know that the child made trouble two years ago. He wanted to get the New Year's money by himself, but what happened to him?"
Mrs. Bai said: "So much money, it took less than half a year to spend it all, and it was all distributed to others."
Bai Erlang shouted: "I don't have any, my money is all for shopping."