Farmer’s Little Girl

  Chapter 45 Soul Painter

   Liu asked what he learned today.

  Bai Shanbao is very experienced in dealing with grandmothers. He only tells his grandmother what Mr. Zhuang talks to them in class, not to mention that he and Man Bao intend to catch bugs and scare the second cousin.

  Liu’s toes wanted to know that his grandson couldn’t be so honest in the school, not to mention that Mr. Zhuang even raised the county magistrate's responsibility for the first time.

  This is certainly not without reason, but she did not ask too much, but waved to her grandson and told him what the county magistrate is and what the county magistrate is going to do.

  Bai Shanbao listened carefully, and decided to tell Man Bao the next day, hum, he knew more than her.

  Liu's grandson listened carefully, without the previous rebellion, so he could not help being more detailed, and his attitude became more gentle.

  Bai Shanbao asked if he didn’t understand, and even told Man Bao that their county magistrate was a bad person and that he had overcharged the entrance fee.

  The Liu family understood how Mr. Zhuang was showing them again to see the ants, to watch the autumn rain, and to tell stories.

   Liu said: "The county requires money for roads, repairs to dams, and water conservancy projects. If Fu County Order has these uses, there is nothing wrong with increasing the entrance fee."

  Bai Shanbao understands this, and he needs money for everything.

  Niang said that they moved to the mountains because the clan bullied their orphans and widows and wanted to swallow up their family's inheritance.

  Niang said that all those industries are to make money. In the future, he will have to pay for studying and examination, for marrying a wife, and for being an official, and all the money must be left to him.

  It was also from that time that Bai Shanbao knew that money was a very important thing, and people like the patriarch and grandfather would shamelessly grab their money.

  Liu felt that they came to Qili Village this time.

  Although there are more patriarchs, Longzhou has more resources than here, but grandson is always isolated in ethics, and family affairs affect him to some extent.

  Although he is smart, he refuses to attend the class seriously. He is mischievous and fights in school. The most important thing is that the gentleman in the family school is not difficult to treat him fairly.

  For a long time, he was either led by them to become a dude, or he became a cynical layman. Both of these were not what Liu wanted to see.

  She was able to raise her son alone after her young husband lost her husband, and naturally she could raise her grandson again.

  Liu’s eyes were firm, and they were right at this step. The most wonderful thing is that there is such a Mr. Zhuang in this col. Perhaps, this is the fortune of their Bai family.

Liu recruited his daughter-in-law and said, “Although we are close to the old seven’s family, since we have decided to live here for a long time, it’s not always good to borrow from his home. I mean, we will buy a piece of land in the village and build a house. The small house moved there, so that the two families are close, can take care of each other, and have a single family. Isn't it uncomfortable?"

  Zheng has no opinion, she is used to listening to her mother-in-law.

  Bai Shanbao had a lot of ideas. He was playing on the side, and when he heard his grandmother say that, he ran up and said: "I choose the one by the river. Then I will bring the water to my house and dig a big pond. I want to raise a turtle."

"Why are you still thinking about raising a tortoise?" In my hometown before, just to **** a tortoise, the child broke the head of the second uncle's grandson. For this, the mother-in-law has lost a lot of gifts. Until now, Zheng I still feel distressed when I think of it.

  Bai Shanbao insisted, “I will raise a tortoise, and if I grow up, I will give it to my grandmother to stew soup.”

Zheng's expression was quite difficult to say, but Liu knew what his grandson meant, touched his head and smiled: "Well, well, I will dig a pond for you to raise turtles. What else do you want? , Plan well at that time."

  Bai Shanbao thought for a while and said, "I have to think about it."

   "Think about it, tell me when you think about it."

  The matter of buying land and building a house is not easy for Liu to come forward, so he has to discuss it with Master Bai.

  Bai Shanbao didn’t worry about this. After reviewing today’s homework, he began to draw out his imaginary yard.

  It's just that he currently belongs to the soul painter. Apart from himself, I am afraid that no one can understand what he draws.

  But Shanbao didn’t know this, so the next day he happily took his masterpiece to Manbao and told her that this would be his new home.

  Man Bao looked up and down for a long time, clutching his face and asked, "Where is the front?"

Shanbao straightened the painting for it and asked, "Look at it this way, you see, this is my room. I want to make a swing here, so that I can swing when I wake up, and dig a pond here. There is a turtle inside so that I can watch the turtle while swinging, here, this is a turtle."

  Man Bao had never seen a tortoise and asked, "Can the tortoise be eaten?"

  "Yes, the tortoise can live a long, long time. I plan to fatten it up and give it to my grandmother to stew soup, so that my grandmother will live a long life."

  Man Bao’s eyes lit up, "Really?"

  Shanbao nodded, "Of course it is true. They all said when I was in my hometown, the turtle represents longevity!"

   "Then how many do you have, can you sell me one, I also want to raise a tortoise."

  Shanbao asked, "What are you doing with tortoises?"

   "Give it to my mother. My mother is always sick. After she eats the tortoise, she can live a hundred years, so she won't always be sick."

Bai Shanbao thinks a tortoise is very rare, otherwise he wouldn’t grab the one with his cousin, but now he has just made friends with Man Bao and it’s hard to refuse her, so he hesitated and said: "I will let my mother Buy one more. If you can buy it, I will give it to you. If you can't buy it, then wait for my turtle to have a baby, and I will raise its baby for you."

  Man Bao felt wrong, "It takes two turtles to have a baby, one male and one female."

"who said it?"

"Chickens and pigs are like this, and humans are like this." Don't look at Man Bao's young age. In fact, she knows a lot. She enumerates him one by one: "My hens hatch their chicks, and my mother has to check them. Eggs, it is said that only the eggs laid with the rooster can give birth to chicks. In the spring, in order to let their sows give birth to piglets, the nephew Dazhu specially went to the next village to invite pig males to come and marry the sows. Only when you marry a wife can you have a baby."

So, "You have to buy two turtles, one male and one female, so that you can have babies, one in a year, ten in ten years, and then we will eat the two grown-ups, and the others Continue to raise, give birth to babies..." Man Bao counted, he was shocked, "Wow, then we will have a lot of turtles."

  Bai Shanbao felt that what she said made sense, so he decided to go back to the evening to tell her mother.

Seeing that he was willing to listen to her advice, Man Bao became more active, and pointed to his blueprint. "In addition to raising turtles in the pond, you can also grow lotus roots. Do you know lotus roots? There are a lot of lotus roots in the lower reaches of our village on the banks of the river in summer. The flowers that bloom at that time are beautiful, the lotus seeds are delicious, and the lotus roots are also delicious."

  Man Bao became excited, "I'll take you to dig lotus roots. I went to see it last year, and I already know how to dig it."

  Bai Shanbao asked, "Didn’t we say that we are going to catch cabbage worms today?"

  Man Bao said nonchalantly: “We will catch them later, let’s dig lotus roots first, lotus roots are much more beautiful than bugs.”

  Bai Shanbao didn’t really want to catch bugs, so he nodded.

  (End of this chapter)