happy fisherman

Chapter 24 The Two Nerds

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These two men are full of bookishness, and they are scholars at first glance.

As soon as he left the pawnshop, one of the tall men said, "Brother Li, what are you pawning this time?"

"It's just a box. There's nothing left to pawn in my house." The short man sighed helplessly, and then asked, "Brother Wang, what are you pawning this time?"

"A piece of ancestral jade pendant."

"Do you also take things from your ancestors?" The short man's eyes widened.

"It's just a thing outside of me." The tall man said disapprovingly: "I have studied hard for dozens of years, so that one day I can win high school in one fell swoop and shine on the lintel. would be happy for me."

"Hehe, Brother Wang's words are very reasonable, so I wish Brother Wang a carp jumping over the dragon's gate next spring, and glory to the ancestors!" The tall man's smug look immediately gave the short man a lot of confidence.

"Haha, I also wish brother Li a high school in one fell swoop next year."

After speaking, the two walked away hand in hand.

After listening to the conversation between the two, Bo Beibei couldn't help sighing: It seems that there are two nerds who don't care about the imperial examination!

Suddenly, Bo Beibei's eyes flashed, and suddenly thought of something...

"Beibei, Mancang, go home." Bai Manchuan came out of the bank just in time with a cloth bag.

These [-] copper plates are full of half a small cloth bag, which is heavy.

"Brother, where can we rent an ox cart?"

"It's just two streets behind."

There is a large open space behind the market, and there are more than a dozen bullock carts parked in the open space, all of which are waiting for customers.

Seeing that there were seven or eight old vegetable farmers selling vegetables by the side of the clearing, Bai Beibei said to Bai Manchuan, "Brother, let's go back and buy some more vegetables."

Bai Manchuan paused, and then said: "Let's ask how much it is first?"

Several people came to one of the vegetable growers and saw that there were cabbages and cucumbers in his vegetable basket. They asked, one cabbage cost one penny, and two cucumbers cost one penny.

Before Bai Beibei could speak, Bai Manchuan asked for cucumbers for three Wen.

Bo Beibei knew that his brother wanted to save money, so he didn't say much.

After they bought cucumbers, they heard someone calling them, and they saw that it was the driver who went to the beach to sell firewood in the morning.

"Brother, you are here too, so let's go back in your car." Bai Manchuan walked forward with a smile.

"Okay, we're old acquaintances, so I'll charge you ten cents for the car." The driver smiled and said, he had charged two cents less, but the half bucket of fish in the morning had already taken advantage of others, so he Consciously less car money.

"Okay, thank you, brother." Bai Manchuan smiled and put the two barrels on the car.

Because they were acquaintances, Bai Manchuan chatted with the coachman all the way, feeling that the time passed very quickly, and it was almost dark when he returned home.

As soon as he got home, Bai Manchuan left 10 eggs and two cucumbers for the family, and asked Bai Beibei to send the remaining eggs and cucumbers to Dabai and Erbo's house.

Seeing that her son bought so much food, Mrs. Feng went into the kitchen to cook.

During dinner, Bo Beibei found that he had bought one less thing, which was an oil lamp.

"Mom, how did you boil this big bone soup? Why is it so thick?" Bai Beibei took a sip from the bowl, it was so delicious!

But there seems to be nothing else except salt.

"Crack an egg into the bone soup, and the soup will become white and thick." Feng is still very confident in his cooking skills.

"So there are some tricks." Bai Beibei memorized them carefully.

Early the next morning, Bai Manchuan went out with the money, and paid off all the debts he knew, and he also paid off the debts that his uncle and uncle helped to borrow.

Residents by the sea are far away from each other, and it was almost noon after Bai Manchuan paid back the money. He touched the hairpin in his arms, smiled unconsciously, and went to Yuzhu's house.

Yuzhu was mending the net on the beach, Bai Manchuan ran over, stood still behind Yuzhu, and did not speak for a long time.

Yuzhu stood in front of the fishing net with a bamboo shuttle in her hand, she was so engrossed in her thoughts that she didn't even notice that there was someone behind her.

Bai Manchuan looked at Yuzhu's back, his heart was pounding, and he shouted after a long while, "Yuzhu!"

Bai Yuzhu turned her head suddenly, and was stunned when she saw the person coming.

Seeing the tears on Bai Yuzhu's face, Bai Manchuan's heart tightened, and his face froze with a smile.

"Yuzhu, what's wrong with you?" Bai Manchuan took a step forward eagerly, subconsciously reaching out to wipe her tears.

Bai Yuzhu turned around in a hurry, wiped her face with her sleeve indiscriminately, and said evasively: "It's okay, the sand is blinding my eyes."

"Liar!" Bai Manchuan walked around in front of her, and said with a sullen face, "Yuzhu, tell me, who bullied you?"

"They said it's all right!" Bai Yuzhu called out impatiently: "I'm busy, you can go."

Bai Manchuan couldn't believe it, did he hear wrongly, Yuzhu drove him away?

"Let you go, didn't you hear me?" Bai Yuzhu yelled at Bai Manchuan again.

"Yuzhu, are you blaming me for going out to sea without telling you?" Bai Manchuan felt that the possibility was very high: "Yuzhu, I know I was wrong, I promise, I will never do this again in the future."

Said Bai Manchuan took Bai Yuzhu's hand, put the hairpin on her hand, and said with a light smile, "Yuzhu, this is for you."

Bai Yuzhu looked at the hairpin with a complicated expression, and suddenly, she threw the hairpin at the foot of Baiman's boat, and shouted hysterically: "Whoever wants your things, don't come to me again!"

After finishing speaking, he turned and ran towards the house.

Bai Manchuan didn't know why, so he stared blankly at Bai Yuzhu running into the house.

How could this be?
Why didn't Yuzhu let him come to her?
Did he leave without saying goodbye this time and don't make her angry?

Bai Manchuan didn't know how he got home, and he didn't even hear Mancang calling him for lunch.

Bo Beibei set the table and chopsticks, seeing him staring at the wooden hairpin in his hand, and thinking about Bai Yuzhu's reaction the evening before yesterday, her heart skipped a beat. Could something be wrong?

"Brother, have you gone to see sister Yuzhu?" Bai Beibei asked tentatively.

Bai Manchuan nodded sadly.

"Brother, what did sister Yuzhu say?"

"She told me not to look for her again." Bai Manchuan's voice was hoarse.

They grew up together, Yuzhu has always treated him very well, Yuzhu would help him when he was bullied when he was young, at that time he secretly swore that when he grows up, he must be replaced by him to guard her and protect her.

But how could it be like this now...

"Brother, let's have dinner first. After dinner, I'll go find Sister Yuzhu." Bai Beibei couldn't believe that Bai Yuzhu was so cruel, something must have happened.

When she was doing handicrafts in the morning, she felt strange. Yuzhu knew why she was doing handicrafts and didn't come to help.

"Man Chuan, Yu Zhu is a good girl, did you do something to offend her?" Feng asked, frowning.

(End of this chapter)