Guan Xin looked at him, "Why, you told me not to have a wife?"

"No, no, no, no," the colleague said, fearing that if he really didn't marry him, would they still be able to walk out of Qili Village alive?

Didn’t you see how many villagers were watching the excitement along the way?

The colleague lowered his voice and said, "Just think that what I just said was just nonsense. Let's leave quickly so as not to miss the right moment."

Zhou Zuorang ran to his relatives and friends who were pretending to be pickers, and took out several small baskets with some candies in them. He handed the baskets to his brothers, and then the five of them distributed them along the road to the villagers and children who were watching the fun.

At this moment, the children went crazy. They sang nursery rhymes and ran after him until they were two miles away. They did not stop until Zhou Erlang and others had finished sharing the wedding candies.

It was a pity that Man Bao could not join in the fun.

Bai Erlang had already run away with Santou, chasing the wedding party for two miles before heading back with a bag full of wedding candies.

Bai Shan did not join in the fun, and went back to her room with Man Bao to sit and talk, "My grandmother knew that I was learning chess, so she had a chess board made for me. It was made of fine catalpa wood, but the chess pieces required me.

I’ll buy it myself, can you help me?”

"Okay." Man Bao thought that Bai Shan would definitely not play chess with Bai Erlang in the future, so it would probably be her and him, so he was naturally willing to contribute.

Just as the eldest sister was sent away, Man Bao felt very sad. The family was busy and there was no one to play with her, so Man Bao followed her to Bai's house.

Bai Shan led her to his yard and said, "The chessboard is still sitting, so I just took a look at it. Let's go choose the stones."

There were two baskets in Bai Shan's yard, and the servants were all busy, pruning flowers and trees, or sorting things.

Bai Shan pushed down a basket, poured out a basket of black stones, and said, "My grandmother went to the county town to buy these in the past two days."

The other basket was filled with gray-white stones. The basket was full, with different shapes and sizes.

Bai Shan pushed it down, poured out the stones inside, and introduced: "We need to select suitable stones to polish and make stones."

Man Bao closed his mouth and asked: "Isn't there anything ready-made for sale in the bookstore?"

"Yes, there are, but the quality is usually not good and they are expensive." He said: "My grandmother said that if you want to learn chess, it is best to raise the chess pieces yourself. Such chess pieces are smooth and the moves are like the rhythm, which is very comfortable."

He regretted: "My father also owned a chess set before. Unfortunately, when the servant went to collect the relics, he lost many things, and the chess board was also missing."

Otherwise, he could just use his father's chess pieces.

Man Bao also felt regretful, looked at the stones scattered on the ground, and sighed: "The amount of work is so huge."

Bai Shan nodded, "Yes, come on, let's pick the chess pieces."

"My grandmother said these stones are the best materials for making chess pieces. Even though they are messy and weird, they are not cheap."

"Then your family still buys so many?"

"No way, this kind of stones are sold in baskets."

Man Bao was very curious, "What would happen if you couldn't pick out a pair of chess pieces from a basket of stones?"

"That only means you are unlucky and can only buy another basket."

Man Bao: ...What should I do if I suddenly feel that selling stones is also a very profitable business?

But she looked at the pebbles in her hand and found that she had never seen such pebbles in the village, no, she had never seen them at all, so she smashed the idea and threw it behind her.

Man Bao looked at the gray and white chess pieces, then at the black chess pieces, and decisively chose to pick the black chess pieces.

To select chess pieces that are round in shape and moderate in size, you need to choose a few more. Later, Liu will ask a craftsman to cut them for them and then simply polish them.

But for more detailed polishing and stone washing, they need to do it themselves.

Because chess pieces cannot be made in a day or two. There are 361 chess pieces in a set. Each piece needs to be carefully polished and washed by craftsmen. How long will it take?

The craftsmen do have time, but Manbao and the others don't.

And the most important thing in learning Go is patience, which is just like practicing calligraphy, or even more patience than practicing calligraphy.

Bai Shan didn't know what other families wanted, but the Bai family had always polished and washed the chess pieces themselves. It was said that the chess pieces and chessboards of his great-grandfather and grandfather were still in the warehouse.

Unfortunately, he couldn't see it and his grandmother wouldn't let him use it, so he could only polish his own chess pieces.

At first, the two of them squatted on the ground and lowered their heads to pick up stones. In the end, they simply sat on the ground, choosing and talking at the same time. It was not boring at all.

Bai Shan touched a very special stone and asked Manbao with a smile: "Do you think this looks like a turtle?"

Man Bao raised his head and glanced, nodded repeatedly and said, "Like, if you raise it a little bit more, it will look like a mouth."

Bai Shan put it aside and said, "Let the craftsmen polish it for us later."

Man Bao came up with an idea, "You can put a pen washer on the desk and put it inside. It will look good."

Bai Shan thinks it makes sense.

When Mrs. Zheng came over with the tray, she saw the two chatting lively. She glanced at the sun that was about to set in the sky, quickly handed the tray to the girl, stepped forward and said, "You guys are just going to sit here picking up pebbles this afternoon?"

Bai Shanbao raised his head and felt his neck was a little sore, "Mom, why are you here?"

"Let's see if you are naughty again. Why are you sitting under the tree picking on such a hot day?" He turned around and scolded the servants, "Master is not here in March, even if you are more and more unruly, you don't know how to pick up the pebbles."

Move it inside the house and pick it up?”

Bai Shan said quickly: "Mom, I won't let you. These stones are dirty. I don't want to move them into the house."

"Then just lay a blanket on the ground. Which is more important, your body or the floor?"

Man Bao said: "Aunt Zheng, we have to pick it up. Anyway, the sun is going down now and it's not hot at all."

Mrs. Zheng knelt down and took a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on her forehead and said, "You said it's not hot yet. There's already sweat on your forehead. It's hard for you to get whiter. What if you get tanned again?"

manage?"

If we want to talk about what Mrs. Zheng is most satisfied with when her son goes to study in Yizhou City, it is that he turned white when he came back from a trip. It should be said that all three children turned white.

When they were in Qili Village, as soon as they got off school, no matter how self-conscious they were, they couldn't help but go out and play every day, go to the fields, and run around in the yard under the bright sun.

So even though they are three levels whiter than the children in the same village, they are still black.

But for three months in Yizhou City, the three of them spent most of their time studying and studying at home, and rarely had time to go out and have fun under the sun. As a result, the three of them turned white.

Especially Man Bao, who has a face that looks like jade. Zheng liked it so much that she couldn't help but pinch it, "This meat is so white and tender. If it gets tanned, Aunt Zheng will be heartbroken."

ah."
Chapter completed!