Qian looked at the rooster, then at her daughter, then turned to little Qian and said, "Since you've bought it, put it in the chicken coop."
Manbao ran up and said, "Mom, here's something to eat for you."
Qian touched her little head and said with a smile: "There are still fish and meat. You can eat it after you finish eating. Keep it first, raise it with our hens. Maybe it can lay a few more eggs with good quality. Then hatch the eggs and raise more chickens next year."
Raising chickens also consumes a lot of food, and most families cannot afford to raise too many.
There are three families in the village who raise the most chickens. One is the village chief’s family, one is Zhou Hu’s family at the end of the village, and the other is their family.
Raising chickens became easy for their family because they had many children and a lot of labor.
Even if you can't bear to give up the bran, you can still pick fresh wild vegetables and cook them to feed the chickens, as well as various insects, especially cabbage worms.
It was not until the day before yesterday that Manbao found out that their chickens had been eating cabbage worms. Not only cabbage worms, but also many other insects. They eat crops and vegetables, and the family would catch them and bring them home to feed the chickens. It’s just that she had never gone to the fields before, and she also disliked the smelly chicken coop, so she never went near it and didn’t know about it.
Because Koko wanted cabbage worms, Manbao was very excited to go to the field to catch worms. Only then did he realize that his family had always needed worms to feed the chickens.
She didn't even have to do anything. Datou and his friends could find more than a dozen of them just by walking around the field. But they still felt sorry. "There are fewer insects now. There were more in early summer. The fields were full of them. Our chickens loved to lay eggs at that time."
Although Manbao bought the rooster, Qian had no intention of killing it and eating it. Because it was frightened, Qian even specifically asked little Qian to give it a handful of grain so that it could have a good meal and soothe its little heart.
He couldn't help but mutter, "Mom, we really should keep this chicken. It costs fifty-three cents."
Qian half closed her eyes and said nonchalantly, "If you don't stay, do you have the nerve to go back?"
"The Dazhu family and the Sanzhu family are so shameless. Aren't they trying to trick our aunt? I just touched it and the chicken was full. If they take it to the county town, won't it lose a pound or two from starvation? And they have to pay to enter the city, and it takes a day, but they still charge our aunt so much money."
Qian said, "So you should pay attention these two days and raise the chickens well. You can use them to worship your ancestors during the New Year. This will not be a loss."
Little Qian said, "Manbao said he wanted to kill you to replenish your body."
Qian smiled nonchalantly and said, "That child is always thinking and she will forget it in a few days."
The three daughters-in-law then stopped talking.
Old Zhou had a different opinion, "Manbao is very filial, and I don't know why, but she has been eyeing the rooster for a while. I think she will miss this chicken after the meat is finished in a few days."
Qian smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will convince her. Unless she can buy me another chicken, don't even think about killing it."
Old Zhou couldn't help but laugh, "Maybe she will actually buy you another one."
"She left 61 cents last time, and now she's spent 53 cents. How much money does she have left?"
Only then did Old Zhou stop talking.
How much money does Manbao have left?
That was certainly a lot—she thought so.
Moreover, Zhou Wulang and his friends had made some money when they came back from the county town today. The two of them brought all their friends to their room to count the money.
The adults outside could only hear them making loud noises in the house and had no idea what they were doing.
If the children at home have a good relationship, they certainly won't stop them. As long as a group of children don't fight, they generally won't care.
Early this morning, Zhou Wulang and Liulang carried two small bamboo baskets to the county town. Daya went with them to make flower baskets.
The price was the same as before, five cents each. After selling the flower baskets, Zhou Wulang made a special trip to the county government office, found the corner gate of the Fu family, and sold all the remaining candies to Miss Fu Er.
As the county magistrate had indeed increased the entrance fee, Zhou Wulang and his men also unkindly raised the price, charging one penny for a candy.
But the sugar this time is different from the last time, so the price is different, which is understandable.
The total amount of money on both sides is two hundred and twenty coins.
Of course, it was still Manbao who calculated the account, because Zhou Silang still had some problems counting, so it was Zhou Silang who counted the same way as Manbao.
He looked at the pile of copper coins on the bed, feeling extremely excited, and reached out to touch some, but Zhou Wulang slapped his hand, "Fourth Brother, this is not your share."
Zhou Silang felt heartbroken and said, "I helped too. I helped cut bamboo and cut bamboo strips yesterday."
Zhou Wulang felt that what he said seemed to make sense and looked at Manbao.
Manbao then pushed all the money in front of him and said, "You have to pay the tax first."
Paying taxes means giving money to their parents.
Manbao instructed Datou to go back to her room and get the little notebook she made, as well as the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and then record the accounts. "We have to record the accounts, otherwise we won't remember how much money we earned in the future."
This was also what Koko reminded her of, mainly to let her have a general understanding of how she earns and spends money. She originally wanted to record it all in one place, but Koko said there was no such way of recording it, so she had to prepare another small notebook to record her own accounts, but she had not bought paper yet. The papers she had now were given to her by Shanbao, and then she cut them into small pieces and sewed them together with a needle.
Manbao sighed repeatedly and felt that he had to take out some money to give to his fifth brother to buy paper for her.
Manbao was keeping the accounts while calculating his own small accounts, and then he said to Keke very confidently, "This way I can earn another rooster soon."
The system couldn't help but say: "Host, you can actually buy paper in the mall. It's good quality and cheap, much cheaper than buying it in the county town."
Manbao exclaimed, "Does the mall still sell paper?"
System: ...There is nothing in the mall. Other hosts become addicted to shopping after opening the mall, but why does its host not buy anything except candy?
It consumes one point at a time. Although it does not get any commission when the host purchases something, it looks very anxious, okay?
Manbao finally found the correct way to open the mall. After keeping account, calculating the money to be paid to the government, and dividing the money, she put her share into her little pocket, then ran back to her room and began to hide under the quilt to look for things in the mall.
Under the guidance of the system, Manbao finally realized that in addition to being able to scroll down to search for various items in the mall, he could also enter the product he wanted to find at the beginning.
If the product being searched is not available, the mall will make recommendations based on the products it has browsed.
God knows when Manbao opened the mall for the first time, he didn’t understand anything, so he just scrolled down to look for things. He didn’t recognize anything there, and he lost interest after seeing so many of them. Later, he went to check before going to bed every day, and all the updated things were also unfamiliar. That’s why Manbao lost all interest in the mall.
However, these days all she has been looking at is that tube of green medicine, and recently all the recommended medicines are all kinds of medicines, but the prices are too shocking. Although Manbao is always confident, she always feels that it is out of reach every time she sees that string of numbers.