The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 377 - 366: By the way (Additional 2000 monthly ticket updates for June)

Chapter 377: Chapter 366: By the way (Additional 2000 monthly ticket updates for June)

Ms. Liu washed Shanbao’s face clean with water and then used boiling water to soak some salt, which she rubbed on him, especially on the bruised part of his forehead. She rubbed the salt in until he wailed like a banshee.

Ms. Liu rubbed for quite a while before letting him go. Seeing his tear-filled eyes, she asked, "There, is that finished? Will you fight again in the future?"

Bai Shanbao shook his head with tears in his eyes.

"Does Manbao have any injuries?"

Bai Shanbao nodded, "She bit me, otherwise I would have definitely won."

There were a row of bite imprints on Bai Shanbao’s arm, slightly blue, thankfully not broken skin, but it still hurt a lot when pressed.

Ms. Liu frowned and asked, "She bit you to win, so wouldn’t her injuries be worse than yours?"

She looked at Daji.

Daji bowed and said, "Miss Man has two nail marks on her face, the skin is broken, and there’s also a handprint. I don’t know about other injuries on her body."

Ms. Liu gave Bai Shanbao a stern look and asked, "Why were you fighting?"

"I want to be Senior Brother," Bai Shanbao still tried to argue his case, "Grandmother, can you talk to the teacher and let me be Senior Brother, please?"

Ms. Liu had considered many reasons, but she never thought they would fight over this.

She rubbed her forehead and said, "Manbao started studying with the teacher before you, right?"

"We started school at the same time."

"But she took the teacher as her master earlier in the morning, and she also started going to school before you, how can you compare with that?"

"I am older than her!"

Ms. Liu directly asked, "Did this fight settle anything? Who is the elder student now?"

Bai Shanbao hung his head low.

Seeing this, Ms. Liu immediately understood and said, "Look, you already call her Senior Sister; how can you change that halfway?"

Tears started falling drop by drop from Bai Shanbao, and between sobs, he said, "But, but I don’t want to be Junior Brother; I want to be Senior Brother."

Bai Shanbao cried more and more pitifully, his shoulders shaking, his face covered in tears.

Ms. Liu, feeling pity, embraced his shoulders and said, "Child, everything has an order of precedence. Since she started studying with the teacher before you, she is Senior Sister. Isn’t it written like that in those martial arts storybooks you read too?"

Bai Shanbao still felt aggrieved, "But in the storybooks, there are only Senior Brothers and Junior Sisters; there are no Senior Sisters or Junior Brothers."

Ms. Liu thought for a moment and said, "If you don’t want to call Manbao Senior Sister, then just call her Manbao as you usually do."

Bai Shanbao sniffled and complied, "Okay, then."

Ms. Qian was also washing Manbao’s face. By now, the handprints on her face had swollen up, and she could only use salt water to rub them out. Manbao cried loudly as well, and after the cries subsided, she tearfully took off her clothes and entered the wooden tub to bathe.

Seeing the bruises on her waist and back, Ms. Qian couldn’t help asking, "Why did you fight like this, so fiercely?"

Manbao said, "I want to be Senior Sister, but he didn’t agree. We argued and then started fighting."

Ms. Qian asked, "Who started the physical fight?"

"Him! It was definitely him who started it!"

Ms. Qian knew something was off when she heard this, "Really, it was him?"

"Anyway, we were arguing and then just started fighting, I can’t remember. But he was so fierce, he slapped me."

Ms. Qian asked, "Did you bite him?"

Manbao didn’t say a word.

Ms. Qian understood and asked, "So, who won the fight in the end?"

Manbao proudly said, "Of course, it was me. Now I’m Senior Sister, and he is Junior Brother."

Ms. Qian nodded, realizing her daughter hadn’t been disadvantaged, she must have won the fight to be called Senior Sister.

Watching her little girl bathing herself inside the wooden tub, Ms. Qian felt worried. With such a mischievous daughter, how would she ever find a husband for her?

That night, Manbao dreamed she was fighting, and fiercely kicked the covers several times. Feeling cold, she curled up in the bed, seeking warmth, burrowing and burrowing, until she found herself back under the covers.

Bai Shanbao also had a nightmare, dreaming that a monster had bitten his arm. In the middle of the night, he cried out loudly. Upon waking and realizing it was just a dream, he sobbed twice, then resentfully hugged his quilt and fell back asleep.

Mr. Zhuang had already gone home, unaware that his two students had been fighting to become the eldest.

It was not until the Bai Family had chosen an auspicious day to formally pay respect to the teacher.

Manbao went along with Bai Shanbao and had carefully prepared a gift for her newly initiated Junior Brother.

She searched the market for two days before finally finding a notebook that was particularly fitting for their local characteristics, and it was very thick.

She had Second Brother make a large bamboo box and placed the notebook inside, planning to give it to Bai Shanbao after he became a student of the teacher.

As Senior Sister, she couldn’t be too stingy.

Mr. Zhuang’s residence in the county’s west side didn’t have a market area; it was mostly a residential district, so Manbao had not been there before.

Ms. Liu and Ms. Zheng personally brought Shanbao to pay respects as a student, and knowing that Mr. Zhuang’s wife had passed away, they also invited Old Master Bai to accompany them.

Old Master Bai glanced at Bai Shanbao and then at his own disappointing son, deciding to put aside his pride and bring a generous student initiation gift, hoping Mr. Zhuang would also consider accepting his younger son as well.

When Mr. Zhuang was teaching Bai Dalang, Old Master Bai only thought that Mr. Zhuang had good knowledge and a wide network of contacts, and didn’t consider him particularly extraordinary.

But after he had started teaching Bai Shanbao, Old Master Bai realized that Mr. Zhuang could be even more impressive.

Thus, having Erlang apprentice under him could only be beneficial.

So Old Master Bai, with a substantial gift in hand, led Bai Erlang along to the Zhuang residence.

Mr. Zhuang’s house in the county was a large compound, slightly smaller than the Man residence, but to own such a house in the county was quite formidable in itself.

Mr. Zhuang’s son worked as an accountant in a silver shop in the county and, knowing important guests were coming today, had waited at home especially.

When two carriages stopped at the doorstep, Zhuang Dalang was somewhat surprised, clearly not expecting the Bai Family to make such an entrance.

Bai Shanbao and Manbao jumped out of the carriage first, and then turned back to help Ms. Liu and Ms. Zheng get off.

Behind them, Old Master Bai and Bai Erlang also got out of the carriage, both families coming with generous gifts.

The customary offering of cured meat was the most basic, along with rice, flour, cloth, tea, and other items.

Watching the servants carefully carry in the gifts one by one, Zhuang Dalang was taken aback for a good while, and Mrs. Zhuang, who came out upon hearing the commotion, stood there dumbfounded.

Old Master Bai greeted Zhuang Dalang with a smile, while Ms. Liu made small talk with Mrs. Zhuang.

The couple quickly recovered and hastened to welcome everyone into the main hall.

Mr. Zhuang also came out from the main hall, seeing the gifts brought by the Bai Family, he, too, was slightly taken aback, focusing for a moment on what were clearly two sets of gifts before his gaze landed on Bai Erlang.

Old Master Bai continuously bowed to Mr. Zhuang, apologetically saying, "I beg the teacher’s forgiveness for the brashness, as you know, Erlang began his literacy with you. Our elders spoil the children too much, and only you can truly guide him. Originally, all three children were studying with you, Shanbao has already taken you as his teacher, leaving only Erlang by himself..."

Mr. Zhuang couldn’t help but smile, about to respond, when he saw both Manbao and Bai Shanbao turn their heads and glare at Bai Erlang.

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