Manbao held Bai Shanbao's hand and ran all the way towards Zhou Silang's wasteland.
Big Head, and the servant of the Bai family who had appeared behind him at some point, followed behind.
Liu had instructed the servants that if Bai Shanbao wanted to play with the young lady from the Zhou family, there was no need to stop him, but to bring him back at dinner time.
If he messed around with other students, he would be brought back immediately, so the servants just followed him and did not stop him.
Zhou Silang and Ertou Daya were squatting on the ground to rest. They took out a thin sweet potato from somewhere and started chewing it.
Seeing Datou coming with Manbao and a chubby little kid, Zhou Silang reluctantly broke off a few sections of the sweet potato stick in his hand and gave them to them.
Bai Shanbao didn't recognize this thing and didn't know how to eat it.
Manbao had eaten it before. It was one of the few snacks her family would bring back from the fields for her. She taught Bai Shanbao how to eat it and said, "This can be used to make sugar."
Before Bai Shanbao could speak, Zhou Silang expressed his doubt, "I've never heard of sweet potatoes being used to make sugar."
"Yes, it can," Koko had told her, and there was no mistake. She also said, "Wheat can be used to make sugar, so why can't sweet stalks be used to make sugar?"
Most of the sugar they bought from the market was made from wheat, which Koko said was called maltose.
Zhou Silang was blocked and couldn't help asking, "Then tell me, how do we survive?"
How would Manbao know?
So she went to ask Koko.
The system asked: "Host, do you want to search for sugar-making techniques?"
Man Bao responded "yes", and a string of data was generated inside the system, and the voice was somewhat excited, "It will cost 100 points, are you sure you want to search?"
Manbao blinked, "Why do we need points?"
The system's voice lowered a bit, and said , "This is technical knowledge. The sweet sticks that the host has collected currently only have the most basic introduction in this system, and the description of the sugar-making technology is not comprehensive. So if you want to make sugar, in addition to researching it yourself, you can only purchase this technology from the encyclopedia through the system."
Koko paused and said, "After the host searches for this technology, the technical content will be permanently stored in the system and the host can view it at any time."
The subtext is that you don't lose out.
But Manbao is a person who is reluctant to buy an extra bag of candy even if she gets a few points. Would she spend a hundred points to buy a candy-making technique?
So Manbao rejected Keke, and then called up the words included in Tiangan. Everything she included would be studied later by someone, and then made into entries and uploaded to the system, so she could click to check for free.
Sweet potato has been included in the catalog for a long time , but the entry is very short, with only an introduction to its planting history and distribution area, as well as the fact that it can be used to make sugar and wine.
Manbao scratched his head and said to Zhou Silang, "Making sugar should be similar to making soup. Just chop it up and boil it in water. Go ask people how to make sugar from wheat. It may be similar to that."
"That's someone else's craft, how could they tell me?"
Man Bao said as a matter of course: "Then just try them one by one. Sweet poles are free anyway, so try whatever you want."
Such a loud tone directly choked Zhou Silang.
Bai Shanbao seemed to be thinking, "Didn't you say that there is a lot of knowledge in books? Maybe there is a method of making sugar in the book?"
Manbao: "There are no books at home."
"I have some at home," Bai Shanbao said, "I have many, many books at home!"
Manbao's eyes lit up, "Really? Can I see it?"
"Sure. Come home with me after school tomorrow and I'll take you to read." Bai Shanbao said that when they left their hometown, they didn't bring much else with them except several carts of books. His grandmother said that those were the treasures of their family, and whether he could make a name for himself in the future depended on these treasures.
Bai Shanbao actually had a little idea that he didn't tell Manbao. He felt that there were too many books. He was scared whenever he thought about his grandmother asking him to read all these books, so he wanted to give some to Manbao.
If he makes other friends in the future, he can give the book to them as well. By giving away one book, he will have to read one less book. This idea just came to him.
For example, Zhou Silang, he had so many sweet shots just now, but after giving one to each of them, he didn't have much left.
If Mrs. Liu and Mr. Zhuang knew that Bai Shanbao drew inferences from one example to another, they would probably be furious.
But no one knew it at the time. Manbao felt that Bai Shanbao was indeed a good person. He not only played with her, but also was willing to give her books to read. At this time, he even whispered in her ear that he wanted to give her a book.
Manbao was really moved, so when she saw Bai Shanbao looking at the mountain eagerly, she volunteered to take him up the mountain to play.
Since Manbao was going up the mountain, Datou would definitely follow to protect them, so Ertou and Daya couldn't sit still and wanted to follow.
So when Manbao arrived, he took all of Zhou Silang's helpers away.
Zhou Silang was so angry that he shouted, "Are you here to help? Are you here to help?"
However, the group of children who could only see the wild flowers and grass on the mountain could no longer hear him talking, and they chased each other and ran up the mountain crying.
The servant of the Bai family followed silently. He felt that he had to report to the old lady when he returned. It would be better to assign a bigger servant to the young master so that the servant would have the energy to run around with the young master.
This mountain is not big. What is big is the continuous forest behind it. This mountain is mostly covered with low shrubs and weeds, which are usually used for cutting grass. Therefore, there are few wild animals, and adults feel at ease to let them run up this mountain.
It is called a mountain, but in fact it is just a hill.
When they reached the top of the mountain, the children were so tired that they simply sat on the ground. After catching their breath, they stood up and looked down at the mountain. They saw smoke rising from the village not far away. Bai Shanbao couldn't help but screaming "Ahhhh!"
This scared Manbao, who was standing nearby, but because she found his shouting interesting, she also opened her mouth and screamed towards the sky.
Big Head and his men also joined in, and the mountains and fields were filled with their screaming and shouting, and the servants beside them were almost deafened.
Koko in Manbao's mind was watching and became interested. He instructed Manbao, "Put your hands to your mouth and shout. That way the voice will be louder."
Manbao covered his face with his hands and asked in his mind, "Like this?"
"Wrap your mouth..."
Under Keke's instruction, Manbao finally got the gesture right, and then he started shouting again. After he finished shouting, he asked Bai Shanbao beside him, "Do you think mine is louder?"
Bai Shanbao thought she was going to compete with him, so he imitated her and started screaming, then said, "Mine is louder than yours."
The two children started arguing, and the servant, fearing that they would fight again, quickly pointed to a bunch of flowers not far away and said, "Master, do you think those flowers are beautiful?"
Manbao looked over and immediately said, "I know this flower. Can I make a wreath for you? It will look very beautiful when you wear it on your head."
So the two children stopped quarreling, and ran over to pick flowers, then picked some grass, and squatted on the ground to weave wreaths .
Manbao's craftsmanship was a little rusty, but the wreath she made was much more beautiful than Bai Shanbao's, so she gave her wreath to Bai Shanbao and put it on his head.
She also reluctantly accepted the wreath that Bai Shanbao gave her. Although it was too ugly, to save his face, Manbao still insisted on wearing it home .
Bai Shanbao also went back to see her grandmother and mother with a wreath on her head.
When Liu and Zheng saw Bai Shanbao coming back like this after going to school, they were both amused and angry, but they couldn't help feeling relieved to see him so happy with his rosy little face.