Old Zhou was silent. He put the pipe on his waist, got up and walked, but he couldn't move after two steps. He thought for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and squatted back beside Man Bao, "Okay, just sell it!" Sell!"
It's a big deal to be a little more diverse next year.
Man Bao became elated, variety is impossible.
Lao Zhoutou's tobacco is usually planted in a small corner of the vegetable garden, and there are not many, only twenty or thirty. It's not that he has never thought about expanding the planting scale.
But once he came, he was picky, and he was reluctant to use the land where the crops were grown to grow this, because the shredded tobacco in the vegetable garden was enough for him to satisfy his greed.
Even in the county town, there are people who smoke, but in fact there are not many people who smoke. The tobacco leaves that Lao Zhou buys out have regular customers.
So he never thought about growing tobacco to make money.
Secondly, Mrs. Qian disliked his tobacco, and he had mentioned it many times to be able to cut such a small piece of land in the vegetable garden for him to grow tobacco.
It is impossible to dream of expanding the scale.
So Man Bao knew that next year, Dad could only grow so much tobacco.
Although this to a certain extent curbs the speed of the old man's private house money, which may cause him to pay back his own money for a long time, but Man Bao is still very happy.
After he agreed, he ran to Manbao's bed to touch it, and took out the five taels of silver that he forgot to put into the system after playing last night and gave it to her father.
Old Zhou Tou was so happy that he narrowed his eyes with a smile, Le Taotao and Man Bao repeatedly assured, "Father will definitely work hard to earn money and pay you back."
Man Bao looked at her father sympathetically, nodded and said: "Father, I will ask my second brother to get your tobacco leaves in a while, remember to collect them and give them to him."
Old Zhou's smile froze, and he asked, "For your second brother?"
"Yes, let the second brother sell it for you."
"No way!" Seeing Man Bao's staring eyes, Old Zhou quickly explained: "Anyway, I'm going to the city, so I might as well sell it myself. I know who the tobacco leaves are usually sold to."
Man Bao thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay."
Old Zhou Tou breathed a sigh of relief, he decided that this half can be slightly discounted.
Mrs. Qian stood in the yard and looked around, frowned and asked little Mrs. Qian, "It's early in the morning, where is your father?"
Xiaoqian was stunned for a moment and said, "I didn't see dad."
"What about Manbao, it's time, should she come over for breakfast and go to school?"
Xiaoqian looked at the rising sun in the sky, and said with a smile: "You must have been tired yesterday, I reckon there is enough time, let her sleep for a while."
Qian thought about it and had no opinion.
As a result, when he looked up, he saw old Zhou leading Man Bao coming from the small courtyard with a smile.
Seeing the two messy tugs on her daughter's head, Qian couldn't help hurting her eyes, "Man Bao, who tied your hair?"
"My father tied it." Man Bao had already looked at it in the water ladle just now, and thought it was not bad, so he ran over bouncingly, shaking his head proudly, and asked, "Mom, is it good?"
What's so good about it? It's nothing to look at from the front, but you can look at the side, and then look at the back...
Qian directly reached out and pulled the child over to comb it again.
Little Qian looked at it and smiled slightly, then turned and went into the kitchen to make breakfast for her.
Then when Man Bao came back from school, she received a bronze mirror as a gift.
The bronze mirror was given to her by Mrs. Xiaoqian. This morning, she specially entrusted Zhou Zhoulang to bring it back from the county town, spending all the private house she had saved.
That's right, Zhou Dalang would save his private money, and Xiao Qian's naturally also had private money.
She propped the bronze mirror on Man Bao's desk, and said, "You don't have a dressing table either, so just put it here, just be careful not to knock it over."
It's not the first time Man Bao has used a bronze mirror, because her mother and sisters-in-law have them, but it's the first time she's seen such a new bronze mirror.
And it's her own.
Man Bao is too novel.
Xiaoqian loosened her hair and taught her how to comb it by herself, "You are already a little girl, you won't shave your hair anymore, and your hair is getting longer, so you have to comb it by yourself. There is a mirror, you It’s nice to look at, so you don’t even know it’s messy combed.”
Xiaoqian taught her how to comb her hair at this age, and it was the simplest. After making sure that she could comb her own hair, she left.
As soon as she left, Erya and Sanya slipped in together. They gathered around the sister-in-law to look at the bronze mirror, and they were shocked.
Seeing their envious eyes, Man Bao asked, "Do you want it too?"
The eldest girl nodded, "But my mother said that we don't study, and we don't need to go outside to meet guests. We can use my mother's temporarily, and buy it for us when we want to talk about kissing."
Erya and Sanya nodded together, apparently their mothers also said the same.
But Man Bao remembered it in his heart.
Dad wants to buy gifts for mother, and sister-in-law also bought gifts for her, so she should also buy gifts for everyone.
Because it feels good to receive a gift.
It's a pity that even if Man Bao has thousands of ideas, it's useless, because Mr. Zhuang doesn't plan to give them a holiday recently.
After experiencing the initial excitement, Mr. Zhuang gave them a class that went through a process of aggravating-re-emphasizing-touching the bottom line-reducing-relieving-re-emphasizing.
Then Mr. Zhuang seems to have found a balance point. Recently, they have learned a lot more knowledge than before in class, but it is not as painful as it was some time ago.
Both Man Bao and Bai Shanbao got used to it very quickly, even Bai Erlang got used to Mr. Zhuang's teaching progress.
Although the daily tasks seem to be lighter than before, Mr. Zhuang still won't give them a holiday.
In his words, after a while, the summer and autumn harvests will come, who knows what will interrupt their classes
So he had to teach a little more while he was free.
Therefore, it is impossible for Man Bao to go to the city to buy gifts, she can only watch her father sneak back to the county town to buy a silver bracelet.
How did she know that her father bought it back
Because old Zhou Tou returned the rest of the money to her, he was very honest, lent her five taels, and then gave her the rest of two hundred and seventy-eight Wen.
Old Zhoutou is not good at arithmetic, but he has already asked Datou to help him calculate in advance, and he knows how much he still owes Manbao, "I sold most of the tobacco leaves for 680 Wen, plus my private house , five taels of silver are left, I will pay you back, then I still owe you... "
"Two two nine hundred and twenty-two texts."
Old Zhou Tou blinked, this is not the same as the big head's calculation, it seems to be a little less.
"Father, we are our own family, you can return my copper coins, I will count you one tael for a penny."
Old Zhou was happy, "Really?"
"Really, can you show me the silver bracelet?"
"That won't work, you can watch it after I give it to your mother," said old Zhou Tou, "Your mother hasn't seen it yet, how can you watch it?"
Man Bao felt a little sorry, she still wanted to refer to it, so it seems that she can only wait for her father to give it to her.
As a result, he waited for seven or eight days, and when Man Bao's eyes were about to pop out, old Zhou Tou finally put the silver bracelet on his old wife's hand on a moonlit night.