Chapter 307 The First Transaction

Most of the posts on the interface are for purchases. Manbao’s post is directly for selling, and this is the first one, so people quickly click on it.

Researchers whose research areas were not theirs just glanced at it and left, but there were also quite a few researchers who studied biology or wanted to make a profit from it and asked for the price.

Manbao checked the reward points for Wisteria and Azalea, discussed it with Keke, and replied, "Three hundred points, the same. I'll also give you some soil to dig for your cultivation research."

Three hundred points is not a low number for Manbao, who saved up points one by one. After all, the Encyclopedia was only willing to give her 380 points at the beginning.

But for researchers who have access to the forum, 300 points are not enough for them to have a meal in a high-end restaurant, and even if the channel fee paid to the alliance is included, it is not much.

Therefore, I placed an order without much hesitation if I was interested.

And there were quite a few people placing orders, so Koko quickly remembered them and seven or eight orders appeared in Koko's backend.

Manbao took a look and found that everyone ordered two items, and the minimum order was three. In this way, she earned nearly 20,000 points.

This is much more profitable than she could earn by working hard to find new varieties.

However, the money is temporarily kept in the main system. She can only receive the money after she ships the goods and the other party verifies that they are correct.

Manbao couldn't dig up so many rhododendrons and wisteria by herself, so she decided to ask her nephews and nieces for help.

Datou and his friends have been catching birds recently. Of course, they can't take wheat ears from home, so they go to the fields to pick them up.

They had plenty of time, so they would do chores at home in the morning, picking wheat ears in the morning and catching birds in the afternoon. If they found a lot, they would take some home, and if not much, they would roast them and eat them on the spot.

Although the taste may not be as good as that at home, they just think it is delicious.

There are many children and even young people in the village who do this.

Ever since Manbao and his friends were able to catch birds with nets, more families in the village have been able to catch birds. As long as you are willing to use bait and have patience, you can basically catch one or two.

Therefore, the birds in Qili Village have suffered a lot recently. Manbao noticed that the number of birds flying over the fields at the entrance of the village has decreased a lot.

Therefore, when Datou and his friends wanted to catch birds, they either had to go very far away or they couldn't catch any.

Although the children of the Zhou family are brave, they are strictly controlled by their family and it is impossible for them to run far away. So they can only watch their friends in the village run away. They can only continue to occupy the area not far from the village entrance to set traps to lure birds.

So when the little aunt came up to him, Datou agreed without a second thought. They rarely caught birds anyway, so going up the mountain to help the little aunt dig was a good idea.

Manbao went up the mountain with them.

Rhododendron is a large plant, and it is impossible for Manbao to dig up the whole plant. Fortunately, most vines can be propagated by cuttings, so she just cut the branches directly. In order to ensure the survival rate, she generously put two branches in each part, dug a handful of soil at the roots, wrapped the branches and soil with large leaves, and then pulled a piece of wild grass to tie them up.

Wisteria is even easier. It is easier to survive by cuttings, but the hard branches need to be cut. Manbao is also very generous and will give you two branches in one package, as well as a portion of soil.

Sometimes you still need to look for them, but there are a lot of wisterias on the mountain, and they are still in bloom. While pruning, Manbao simply cut some flowers that are in full bloom and tied them up, planning to give them one for each order.

Because they are cutting branches, these two plants are not difficult to find once you get to the mountain. After all, whether it is wisteria or azalea, they like to grow in patches.

While they were pruning, two more orders came in from the backend. Keke simply suggested that Manbao cut a little more and temporarily store them in the system. Normally, this thing would be fine for three to five days as long as the humidity was maintained.

So a group of children cut about thirty pieces in one go, until they had cut all the good branches of the two patches of wisteria and azalea on the mountain, and then they put the things in their backpacks and carried them back home.

Of course, Datou and Daya carried the backpack, while Manbao, Erya and others followed behind hand in hand.

They asked Manbao curiously, "Auntie, can this thing be sold?"

Manbao nodded affirmatively, "Yes."

Datou said, "The buyer must be a fool. There are many wild flowers on the mountain."

"There aren't any more of them. There aren't any in the mountains near our home, so we have to come here."

By this point, they had already walked halfway to the county town and were absolutely exhausted.

"Those are also wild grasses and flowers," Ertou said, "My father told me that there are many wild flowers like these on the mountains beyond the other mountains. If you like them, my dear, let my father pick them for you when the farming season is over."

"By the time the farming season is over, the flowers will have withered, right?"

"We should dig some up and plant them back home."

Big Head was annoyed that his brothers and sisters always veered off topic, so he walked over to his aunt and continued his question, "Who is so stupid as to buy these things?"

Manbao thought for a moment and said, "Some very powerful people."

Koko said that those who can enter the forum and trade with them are either research institute administrators with a lot of money and power, or scientific researchers who have read a lot of books, are very capable, and can specialize in one or more fields.

So Manbao thinks they are all very powerful people.

Once something comes into their hands, they can figure out its purpose, cultivation method, and even some medicinal value in one or two days at the least, and one or two months at the most.

Koko said that those entries usually only contain less than one thousandth of the information, and the real secrets are kept in the hands of research institutes or researchers, who will use them to make profits and benefit the entire galaxy.

She thinks it is amazing that they were able to research the medicinal value of Poria cocos without knowing anything about it, and they are now also researching how to cultivate Poria cocos.

You know, the Poria cocos that Manbao and Zhou Silang secretly left behind for breeding were either dried up by them or rotted to the point that one would faint just by smelling them.

Alas, so this kind of thing still depends on them.

Datou was confused, "Why would someone so powerful buy wild flowers? There are so many of them on the mountain..."

"That's not how you measure the value of goods," Manbao said. "When it rains, delicious mushrooms grow in the mountains. Everyone knows you can find mushrooms in the mountains, but people in the city still spend thirty or twenty coins to buy them from my second brother. If you were in the village, would you buy them?"

Big Head shook his head and said, "Just go up the mountain and look for it yourself. If you can't find it, just don't eat it."

"Those who can buy mushrooms to eat may not be very talented, but they must be rich. And those who can make money at least show that they are powerful, right?"

Big Head nodded.

"So we don't care who buys wild flowers and weeds from us, nor do we care whether they are smart or stupid, and we don't care what they are going to do with the things. If they want to buy, we sell them."

"How do we calculate the money?" Datou asked, "Auntie, you're going to school now. What if there's another business like this? How about we help you?"

Manbao laughed heartily and said happily, "Okay, I'll give you one candy for each one from now on. You can save the candies and sell them in the county town."

“Why candy and not money?”

"Because I have no money, and they don't give me money."

Points cannot be exchanged for money directly, but they can be exchanged for candy. Of course, giving candy is better.

(End of this chapter)