After the breakfast was ready, a group of children ran out and sat down in their seats.
Zhou Dalang was sitting at the head of the old Zhou, and Xiao Qian's should be sitting opposite him, but because Man Bao was favored, she always occupied the seat of Qian's head.
Xiaoqian carried her sister-in-law to the stool and sat down, then got up to share porridge for everyone.
Zhou Wulang and Saturday Lang glanced at the thin porridge and pouted. They used to have breakfast for breakfast. After all, they had to work during the day and only ate thick porridge at night.
But their parents are above them, and they dare not speak dissatisfaction.
The three elder brothers above all handed the bowl to Xiaoqian with sullen faces, while Zhou Zhoulang wanted to bury his head in his chest.
Little Qian glanced at Fourth Uncle, took his bowl, the spoon still floated up a lot, and then filled him with a bowl of porridge.
If everyone's porridge can still be called porridge, then the things in Zhou Zhoulang's bowl can only be called rice soup.
Zhou Zhoulang almost cried out. He looked up at his sister-in-law, met her cold gaze, and lowered his head, not daring to speak.
Man Bao looked around, thinking that she could still go to school to eat crispy rice at noon, so he poured out half of the porridge in the bowl for his father and mother.
Old Zhou Tou and Mrs. Qian were so touched that they didn't bother to talk about Mrs. Qian, and kept praising Man Bao, "My daughter is still caring and knows how to respect us."
Everyone ate porridge in silence. They also wanted to be filial, but they were afraid of starvation.
Qian Shi put the porridge back again, squinted her eyes with a smile, "It's full of treasures, and mother doesn't have to work, so she's not hungry."
Man Bao protected the bowl and said, "I don't want to eat, my stomach is small and I'm already full."
Seeing that she couldn't resist her, Mrs. Qian gave some porridge to her three sons and told them, "You guys have to go out to work, eat more, if you get hungry on the way, find something to fill up first, and wait until the village chief's money is returned. Now, life at home has slowed down."
The three sons responded.
Old Zhou Tou glanced at his wife and said: "Okay, this is Man Bao's filial piety to you, don't give it all to them."
He said to the second child again: "Tomorrow you go to the market, carry a bag of grain, and return some money. The money from the village head is not in a hurry. After the Chinese New Year, your brothers can always earn a little back, but your mother needs to buy medicine for her medicine." , the family can’t leave nothing at all.”
Tuesday Lang responded in a low voice.
Qian took the opportunity to say: "Take Manbao and the others with you tomorrow, and the second child's family, you also go with them, just watch over the children."
Wu Wulang and Saturday Lang immediately said: "Mother, mother, and us, we will also be optimistic about Man Bao and Datou Daya."
Qian didn't really want the fifth and sixth son to go, so he frowned and said, "How is your fourth brother's wasteland going?"
Zhou Wulang had a bad instinct, but he hated that he was too far away from Man Bao to kick her, so he could only look at her from a distance.
Fortunately, Man Bao had a good understanding with him. He raised his head to look at his elder brother, then at his mother, and finally said: "Mother, let fifth brother and sixth brother go together, otherwise I can't see Datou and them."
The big head immediately raised his head, "Sister-in-law, I'm older than you, so don't look at me."
There was someone who was sitting close, and Wu Wulang kicked his head hard, brat, tell you to tear down the place.
Big Tou let out an "Aww", jumped up and shouted, "Mother, Fifth Uncle kicked me!"
Qian Shi glared at Wu Wulang, patted his silly son, twisted him and said, "Hurry up and eat porridge, you are the only one who talks a lot, didn't you see your sister-in-law didn't talk?"
Big head lowered his head pitifully.
Old Zhou Tou saw everything in his eyes, just finished eating the porridge, put down the bowl and said: "Let them go, they are still children, big heads and big girls are naughty, the second child's family may not be able to see it, let the fifth child The sixth child will follow, just don't lose the child. The fourth child will continue to open up wasteland."
Old Zhou Tou glared at Zhou Zhoulang, who was working hard, and set a deadline, "I'll give you a month, and if you don't get an acre of land, you don't even eat porridge."
Zhou Zhoulang felt very bitter.
However, Man Bao stabbed him in the heart, and sat next to him after the meal and asked, "Fourth brother, do you know why you have fallen to where you are now?"
She asked herself and answered, "It's because you gamble!"
Thursday Lang: ...
Master Man Bao sighed angrily, patted his shoulder with his little hand and said: "All gambling people are bad guys. I know such a simple truth, why don't you know?"
"Man Bao, let's go to school." Xiaoqian put all the vegetables in the basket and wanted to carry Man Bao in the back basket, but Man Bao shook his hand, raised his neck very proudly and said: "Sister-in-law, I have When you grow up, don't recite it anymore."
Xiaoqian couldn't help being happy, "Has our Manbao grown up?"
"Yes, I am six years old."
Zhou Zhoulang, who was very angry at what she said, stretched out his hand and rumpled her short hair, and laughed, "You're still six years old, you're not even five years old, do you know what a first year is?"
Man Bao was so shaken that he couldn't stand still, and he roared, and before she could look up, Zhou Zhou Lang let go and ran away. Man Bao's hair was messed up, and he was so angry that he burst into tears with a "wow".
Xiao Qian was frightened, my sister-in-law seldom cried, and even less so since she was one year old, seeing her cry so hard, Xiao Qian was frightened for a moment before going to hug her.
In the room, Mrs. Qian threw down the sewing basket with a "snap", jumped out of the bed nimbly, and ran out with her shoes half worn, "What's the matter, what's the matter, what's wrong with my baby?"
Man Bao felt aggrieved for a moment, and after crying for the first time, she was almost healed. She had already been wronged unknown, but when she saw Qian, she felt even more aggrieved, crying and threw herself into her mother's bed. In his arms, he complained: "Mother, fourth brother bullied me, look at him messing with my hair."
Immediately, Mrs. Qian straightened her messy hair. She was so angry that she directly ordered: "This brat, I really can't beat him. Don't cook his meal at night, let him starve."
Xiaoqian responded to everything, and immediately responded loudly.
Qian felt sorry for her daughter, wiped away her tears and said: "Okay, let's stop crying, mother will cook eggs for you, okay?"
Little Qian asked, "Why don't you go to school?"
"No, I'll boil eggs for Manbao and cook rice."
Xiaoqian was a little bit pained, but thinking of her sister-in-law being made to cry this time, she should coax her, so she nodded and agreed, but Man Bao didn't want to, she broke away from her mother's embrace and said, "No, I'm going to school. "
Her reasons were also very good, "I'm going to the market tomorrow, and I can't go to school to attend classes. I have to tell Mr. Zhuang."
Xiaoqian said: "Don't worry, sister-in-law, I will tell Mr. Zhuang for you."
"No, I said it myself, and today I have to see if Mr. Zhuang's manuscript is finished, and I have to bring it back when it's finished."
"Then..." Little Qian looked at Qian hesitantly.
Seeing that her daughter was not sad anymore, Mrs. Qian touched her little face and said with a smile, "All right, go if you want."
Man Bao turned around and happily went to school with Xiao Qian.
After the two aunts and sisters-in-law left, Qian stood up from the ground, his face sank, and he said to the two daughter-in-laws and two younger sons who were watching: "Go and bring the fourth child back to me, I really betrayed him, If you have the ability to dominate the world outside, you lose money by gambling, and you have the ability to come back and bully your family."
The four listened to the order, and the whole village went to arrest Zhou Zhoulang.
As soon as Man Bao arrived at the school, he lay on the window and listened to Mr. Zhuang's class. Today they were talking about "The Analects of Confucius". Man Bao had heard a few words before, but she hadn't memorized them systematically. It is a big class, and all the children learn "The Analects of Confucius", so they start from the first class.
Man Bao listened to the whole process, but Mr. Zhuang only taught everyone to recite repeatedly in this class, and did not explain the meaning of the scriptures.
Man Bao didn't even have a book, so she just memorized it in a daze. She has always had a good memory, and she only remembered it after reading it back and forth three or four times, but she didn't know the specific words, let alone the meaning.
I saw that Mr. Zhuang still taught these back and forth.
As usual, Man Bao would continue to memorize it happily, but today she was in a bad mood, affected a little, and couldn't concentrate.
She felt that she had slipped down the window sill and sneaked into Mr. Zhuang's yard after reciting it.
Mr. Zhuang's study room is never closed. I don't know if it's a habit, or it's for the convenience of a child who always sneaks in to clean up for him.
Man Bao walked around the yard and the study, and finally sat on the steps, propped his chin in a daze, and was actually talking to the system.
"Keke, do you think the fourth brother hates me?"
The system said: "Host, no one in this world is always likable, even money is always hated."
"But I'm not money. I'm the fourth brother's younger sister. How can he not like me?"
The system was silent for a while and then said: "In this world, fathers hate their children, mothers hate their children, and it's normal for brothers and sisters to hate each other."
"You nonsense, how can there be parents who don't like their children in this world? Aren't brothers and sisters supposed to love and help each other?"
"That's the host's wishful thinking." The system felt that it might be too lonely, so it said this to the little host, but it felt that this was also laying the foundation for his safety and future development. If his host was too naive, then He will really worry about it in the future.
So after searching in the encyclopedia, he found a book "Ten Evil Fathers in History" and gave it to Man Bao, saying: "Host, this counts as my loan to you. Borrowing books will cost credits. In the future, you Remember to return the points you earned.”
A book suddenly appeared in Man Bao's hand, her eyes sparkled, she had long put aside the harm that her fourth brother had done to her, and asked happily, "Is this for me?"
The system emphasized, "This is lent to the host, and it must be returned after reading it."
Man Bao was very moved, "Keke, you are so kind, this is my first book."
The system emphasized again, "Host, you have to pay it back after reading it, otherwise you will have to deduct a lot of points."
Man Bao was very generous, and waved his small hand, "Come on, it costs a lot of money to buy books."
System: "... host, you have no points."
Man Bao has already lowered his head to flip through the book.
The words in the book were replaced with the words of this era. Man Bao already knew a lot of characters, and it was written in plain Chinese, so she read it with gusto, just like reading a storybook.
In fact, this is also a storybook about the top ten scumbags in history.