Chapter 329 - 318 Shared Efforts (Additional update for "Thousand words are not as good as one silence")
Old Zhou scanned his gaze between Datou and Second Son authoritatively and said, "Datou, Second Son, you must study well the characters your younger auntie teaches you. When you grow up a little more, I’ll have your father find you apprenticeships with an accountant in the county town. In the future, you both will also become accountants."
Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang almost spat out the rice in their mouths and stared wide-eyed at their father.
Upon meeting their gaze, Old Zhou glared back and said, "What are you looking at? Your sons already recognize so many characters, what’s wrong with being an accountant? Do you really want them to end up like you, toiling in the fields all their lives and working for others when idle?"
Datou stuffed the egg he had snatched into his mouth and mumbled, "Grandpa, I like tilling the land. When it’s my turn to farm, I’ll plant all my fields with ginger. I’ll sell it for a lot of money, then buy lots of meat, and eat to my heart’s content, tossing some with every bite."
Old Zhou was dumbfounded.
Junior Ms. Qian slapped him firmly and scolded, "You haven’t even made it yet and you’re already thinking of wasting, even talking about eating one bite and throwing away the next. Don’t you know wasting food invites lightning from the heavens?"
Datou protested, "I was just saying it offhand; besides, I didn’t come up with that—little auntie did."
Manbao looked up from her bowl and denied bluntly, "I didn’t say that."
"You did say it," Datou insisted with a grievance. "It was you, little auntie, who said that when you make money, you’d buy us meat to eat till we can eat one bite and toss the next."
Manbao spoke earnestly, "That might be you tossing, not me. Even if I didn’t have anything to eat, I would still save it to give to Dad, Mom, and eldest sister-in-law."
Junior Ms. Qian turned to Manbao with a smile, then turned back to glare sternly at Datou.