After all, Manbao and Bai Shanbao were young, and Bai Erlang seldom walked so far, so Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang took turns carrying the three of them, and in this way, two of them and three of them, slowly moved back home.
Seeing the smoke from the village from afar, Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang became excited and quickened their pace while carrying Bai Shanbao and Bai Erlang on their backs. Manbao, who had just been put down, also ran forward happily with his short legs.
But they didn't know how excited Qili Village was with their appearance.
The servant of the Bai family, who had been looking for people and watching on the mountain, was the first to discover them. He had good eyesight, and although the five people were still far away, he still saw their young master, so he shouted towards the bottom of the mountain.
Mr. Bai, who was comforting his mother who was crying, suddenly cheered up, left everyone behind and trotted over.
Liu, who was holding on , immediately stood up, held on to a maid's hand and quickly caught up with Master Bai.
So before Zhou Wulang and his companions even reached the village entrance, they saw a group of people running out of the village. Mr. Bai, who was running in the front with disheveled hair, bumped into Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang head-on. He looked at the two children on their backs, and then glanced at Manbao, who was walking between his two brothers on his short legs. He could not vent his anger towards the two teenagers. He glared with red eyes at Bai Erlang, who was so comfortable that he was about to fall asleep.
Zhou Wulang couldn't help but pinch Bai Erlang secretly, and Bai Erlang suddenly woke up and shouted, "It's time for Shanbao to come down!"
As soon as he opened his eyes, he met his father's gaze and was startled. He immediately shirked responsibility, "I didn't mean to lead you the wrong way, Dad. Shanbao and Manbao don't blame me anymore."
Mr. Bai didn't know what he was talking about, but he could tell from his words that his son was the culprit, so he screamed "Ahhh!" and rolled up his sleeves to beat him.
At this time, Mr. Bai's face was so ferocious that Zhou Wulang was so scared that he turned around and ran, of course, carrying Bai Erlang on his back.
Bai Erlang was also frightened. He hugged Zhou Wulang's neck tightly and screamed: "Run, run, my father is catching up..."
Liu rushed over and ignored Mr. Bai's teaching. She first took Bai Shanbao off Zhou Liulang's back, squatted down and asked him, "Where have you been?"
Bai Shanbao was also startled, and subconsciously knew that they seemed to be in trouble, so he told them what they had done today.
In fact, the Bai family was the only one who was anxious and worried in the village. The Zhou family was relatively calm because they didn't think Manbao was missing.
The adults all knew that today was Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang's day with Manbao, because the Bai family had lost two children, and the entire village was helping to find the children. Only then did the Zhou family discover that Manbao and her two brothers were not in the village either.
However, Qian just thought that they had slipped back to the county town again and was not very worried.
She didn't know what kind of business her daughter and two sons were doing, but since they could buy meat for home, it was obvious that they were doing some small business, so she just thought that they were going to the county town to make money again.
Why is the Bai family so anxious?
Because although Bai Erlang would go to the village to play with his friends in the past, he would always go home on time for dinner.
Not to mention Bai Shanbao. Today, Bai Shanbao ran out early in the morning. The servants who usually followed him just went to have breakfast first. When they thought of going to look after the young master, they found that the young master was missing.
When they looked for it, they found that Bai Erlang was also missing.
The Bai family initially thought that there were outsiders in the village and the child was taken away by the beggar.
After asking the villagers and confirming that no strangers had come to the village today, the Bai family suddenly felt worried, fearing that they had fallen into the river or gone into the mountains while playing in the water.
That would be a real disaster.
So, the villagers climbed over the mountains and went down to the river to rescue people. They made a lot of noise for a long time, but they didn't expect that the two children were with the Zhou family.
Bai Erlang was finally caught and beaten by Master Bai, but it was only because he had been chasing for a long time and had vented some of his anger and regained a lot of his rationality, so his attack was very measured, which was seriously inconsistent with the ferociousness he showed.
Then Mr. Bai took all five of them back to the Bai family for questioning.
So the notes made by Manbao and the others were also collected by Mr. Bai.
Mr. Bai carefully looked through the notes and looked at the childish handwriting. After a while, he handed the booklet to Liu.
Liu also looked carefully and asked the three children, "Who thought of these questions?"
Bai Erlang glanced at Bai Shanbao and Manbao.
The two children were also honest and raised their hands together.
Master Bai looked at his son, who was looking very pleased with himself. His hand twitched, but he didn't hit him. He let out a sigh of relief and waved his hand, saying, "Alright, next time you leave the courtyard, you must tell the adults at home. What is a long way out? It means leaving the village gate is a long way out. Do you hear me?"
With so much thunder but little rain, even Zhou Wulang, who was standing aside, couldn't help but secretly despise Master Bai.
After Mr. Bai finished teaching his two children a lesson, he smiled at Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang and said, "The children are ignorant. I'll have to trouble you two to help."
Zhou Wulang immediately bowed his head and said, "Please forgive me, Master Bai. We didn't know that the young master didn't tell his family. They said that it was the homework assigned by the teacher, so we thought they told their family, so..."
Mr. Bai said he understood. After all, the little girl had told her brother at home, but the two boys didn't tell their family.
Mr. Bai expressed his gratitude again and again. After all, it was the other party who carried their two children back home, and even the youngest, Manbao, walked back by himself.
In response to this, Bai Erlang later complained that he was carried on his back twice along the way, while Manbao was carried on his back for most of the time and only walked for a short while.
But it is not certain whether Mr. Bai believes it or not.
Zhou Wulang brought Manbao back to the Zhou family. Qian had already received the news. When she saw her two sons and their little girl sneaking in, she coughed softly at the door.
Zhou Wulang felt a chill down his spine, lowered his head, and obediently took his two younger children to apologize.
Qian was not very angry. After all, unlike the Bai family, Manbao had two brothers. Zhou Wulang was about to get married. In Qian's eyes, he was already a little adult, so this mistake was not a big deal in her eyes.
But she was still strict. She stared at them and asked for a long time before looking at Manbao, "Is this really the homework assigned by Mr. Zhuang?"
Manbao nodded vigorously, "Sir, let us write an article that will be famous all over the world."
Mr. Zhuang: ...I didn’t, I am innocent!
Qian felt that the modifiers and adjectives in what her little girl said should be removed, because the child often did this, so she cut off the middle part. She came to the conclusion that Mr. Zhuang asked Manbao to write an article, and the article was related to military service, so the three children ran to watch people repair the road.
Qian sorted out the order, waved her hand to interrupt her daughter's endless chatter, and asked, "Did you write it this time?"
"It's almost done, it's almost done. We haven't asked all the people yet. One more time will be enough. But mom, can we take the clay pot with us tomorrow?"
Qian asked, "What do you want to bring it with you?"
"Make soup for Third Brother, mother. You don't know how pitiful Third Brother and his family are. The steamed buns they eat are cold, and the water they drink is also cold."