"Have you ever seen the books at the bookstore? But Manbao really is impressive. You haven't been to their farm, have you? The other day when I was taking a shortcut back to my parent's house, I passed through that area. Guess what?"
"What?"
"Oh my, the fields were filled with chickens, and there were even geese in the big water channel. So many chickens, there must have been at least a hundred, right? If they all laid eggs, wouldn't that be like finding little gold nuggets?"
"And that's not even counting the chickens. Just think about the grain harvest from this summer and fall, Manbao had a share in that too. And even though the soil in their little manor isn't that fertile, how come the crops they grow are better than ours?"
Everyone became more and more envious as they spoke, and they stopped wondering how Zhou's family could afford to send their children to school. Compared to studying, they found the farm's yield far more attractive.
