Man Bao's eyes were shining, he clutched the two privet seeds he found and did not speak.
Lao Zhoutou and Qian Shi sat by the bed and saw the light in the daughter's eyes by the firelight, which was as bright as the morning star in the sky. The couple were in a trance, silent and did not speak.
Man Bao raised his head happily, and stretched out his small hands to show Lao Zhou and Qian Shi, "Father, Mother, what do you think this is?"
Qian returned to her senses slightly, and asked with a smile, "What is it?"
"It's privet fruit. Brother Wu picked two bunches for me today. It turned out that they looked like this when they were dried, and they could be used to treat my mother's illness."
Qian patted Man Bao's head with a smile, looked at her kneeling on the ground, and told her excitedly that they could buy less medicine in the future.
Qian listened with a smile, but didn't tell her that the medicines were taken one by one, not the same.
Man Bao said: "Let the eldest brother and the third brother pick up all the privet seeds and dry them for mother to eat."
Qian Shi nodded with a smile, "Okay, mother will let your elder brother go tomorrow."
Man Bao was so excited that he didn't want to sleep by himself immediately, so he put down the privet in his palm, climbed onto his parents' bed, rolled directly to the innermost side and lay still on his stomach.
Then I looked at my parents with flickering eyes.
Old Zhou couldn't help but patted her fat butt, "Aren't you ashamed to sleep with your parents at this age?"
"Don't be ashamed, don't be ashamed, all three are sleeping with elder brother and sister-in-law."
"It's not long since Santou talked. He's still young, so of course he wants to sleep with his parents." In Lao Zhoutou's heart, although the third grandson was the same age as his daughter, and even two months older, in fact, the daughter It was much bigger in his mind.
There is no way, the children in the countryside are all late maturers and can work, but they are late to understand.
The children in their family are considered sensible early, and that is because they can keep up with food and drink. Some people, because of lack of food and clothing, look like they are four or five years old at the age of seven or eight, and they can't speak fluently.
But no matter how early it is, it is not as early as Manbao.
At least the whole village, even the eldest son of the white landlord's family, can walk unsteadily within nine months, and can call him father and mother within ten months.
Because of this, they all felt that Man Bao of their family was the smartest child in the whole village, even the whole township.
It was also because she was smart, sensible and early, so she was separated early to sleep in a small bed by herself.
No way, she would complain to Qian when she was more than one year old, saying that her father snored so loudly that she couldn't sleep at night.
God knows that she fell asleep like a dead pig when her head was tilted on one side, and even thunder could not wake her up.
When she was two years old, she hated it even more, and complained to her mother that her father didn't wash his feet, and his feet were smelly.
So Lao Zhou gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and took his sons up the mountain to cut down a tree, paid someone to make a small bed for her, and asked his second son to weave a bamboo wall to separate the room , Such dislike stopped.
Since then, Man Bao has rarely slept with his parents. But it is a good thing for children to be close to themselves. After all, Lao Zhou didn't drive his daughter out of bed, but just got out of bed and carried her little quilt to her.
Man Bao hugged his little quilt and rolled on the bed, talking to his mother about interesting things in school.
Qian Shi listened quietly, and asked her a few words from time to time to guide her to speak more.
So, Qian knew that Manbao knew a lot of characters now. Mr. Zhuang not only taught them how to read and write, but also called arithmetic. Her best friend now is the little boy named Shanbao from the Bai family.
Speaking of Bai Shanbao, Man Bao talked a lot. He talked about his being bullied by Bai Erlang, and then took advantage of the situation to talk about his family's plan to build a house.
Man Bao also said to Lao Zhou, "Father, I have made an agreement with Shan Bao. When the time comes, I will let the eldest brother and the others help, call more people, and they can build their house in three to five days. Then you won't be bullied by Bai Er."
Old Zhou's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked: "Did the young master say when his family will build a house?"
Man Bao yawned a little and said, "Come on, come on, we'll build it when the place is confirmed."
Old Zhou was silent and did not speak, Man Bao urged him in a low voice, "Father, did you agree?"
Old Zhou Tou said: "I agree, you should go to bed quickly, you have to go to school tomorrow."
Man Bao's breathing gradually became longer. Seeing that she fell asleep after such a sentence, Lao Zhou couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, "This child is like her father, falling asleep as soon as she closes her eyes."
Qian gave him a warning look.
Old Zhou Tou hurriedly skipped this topic and said: "At first I wanted to tell Dazhu to take Dalang Saburo out to do coolies. Since the Bai family wants to build a house, there is no need to run out. Stay home."
Mrs. Qian nodded slightly, "The building of a big family is different from ours. There will be no shortage of stones and wood, and everything must be done manually. The work can last until after winter."
The family needs money, although Landlord Bai's family needs short-term work to prepare the land, after all, after the autumn harvest, work is limited, Zhou Dalang and Zhou Zhoulang have nothing to do in the past two days.
Originally, Qian wanted his two sons to pack their luggage and go to the county to do coolies. Even if they couldn't make money, it would be good to have enough food for themselves. At any rate, the family can save a little food.
It is a happy event for the Bai family to build a house.
Early the next morning, when Man Bao was washing his face with his eyes closed, Qian called his three sons in and said, "Go with Lao Wu and ask Lao Wu Zhi to show you what privet fruit is, and the familiar Pick all the fruits you have harvested."
Man Bao, who was washing his face at the side, became refreshed in an instant, and ran back to his little bed eagerly, pretending to fetch the string of privet seeds from the bottom of the bed, but actually from Ke Ke, and gave it to the elder brother, "That's it, elder brother, you guys If you see rare plants in the mountains, such as those that don’t exist near us, flowers, plants, and fruits are also fine, pick them all and give them to me.”
Zhou Dalang and his brothers all knew that Man Bao liked to pull flowers and plants since she was a child. In the past, she used to go to the vegetable garden at home to scold those young vegetable seedlings. Everything she saw had to be pulled out.
He glanced at his mother, agreed, took the privet and went out.
Only then did Qian tell Man Bao, "Hurry up and have breakfast, you'll be late for school soon."
Man Bao responded and ran to the main room, but instead of going to the kitchen to eat, he slipped into Zhou Zhoulang's room first.
The four, five, six and three brothers lived together. Zhou Zhoulang was about to go out with a hoe on his shoulders, and Zhou Wulang was also ready, so Man Bao muttered to him, "Fifth Brother, be careful on the road, if you still see Pick all the privet seeds, it's mother's medicine."
Wu Wulang didn't understand why he slept for a while, and the fruit became his mother's medicine, but he nodded in response and asked, "Man Bao, can you tell your friend to give us more next time?" Sugar, one hundred is a bit too little."
He said: "I'm going to ask Second Miss Fu to introduce some more customers to us. I think selling candy is more profitable than selling flower baskets. Don't you buy ten candies for a penny?"
Man Baoke was reluctant to spend such points, and she still had to save them to buy medicine for her mother, so she refused: "A hundred pills a day is a lot, won't you sell a little less to Miss Fu? She is alone, eating Too much sugar can cause tooth decay, this time you go to the county, if she still wants to buy it, you tell her that people with tooth decay are very ugly."
Wu Wulang: ... Saying such things to a girl, does he not want to work anymore, or does he not want to do business with the Fu family anymore