What's more, now we have Ayi to help, and once the antidote is prepared, Ayi will have to return to the county town.
Jing Li was a little undecided for a moment, thinking of going home to discuss with Qin Zhao before making a decision, so he said, "Let's go back first."
Ayi nodded: "Okay."
As the two drove their ox cart out of the market, they suddenly heard a vegetable vendor on the roadside say, "You need more than ten pounds of vegetables every day. Unfortunately, I don't have that many vegetables in my garden anymore, so I have to save them for myself!"
Jing Li hurriedly pulled the reins to stop the ox cart.
The man who was talking to the vegetable vendor was a middle-aged man. His clothes were made of very fine silk. It was obvious that he came from a wealthy family.
Jing Li got off the ox cart and walked over, and quickly recognized the man.
Isn’t this the butler of the Fang family?
The first time Qin Zhao met Butler Fang was when he went to his house to sell black mountain ginseng.
Later, because Qin Zhao saved Fang Tianying, the young master of the Fang family, Fang Yingtian became friends with Qin Zhao, and Jing Li also got to know the Fang family.
The last time Fang Tianying came to Linxi Village to deliver furniture, this housekeeper Fang followed him!
"Butler Fang, do you want to order vegetables?" Jing Li asked.
Butler Fang turned around and recognized him: "You are... you are Mr. Qin's husband?"
"Yes." Jing Li said, "I have extra vegetables at home. How many do you want?"
Before Butler Fang could respond, a nearby vendor selling steamed buns said, "Butler Fang, why not buy from his shop? Their food is delicious. I've never tasted such sweet radishes!"
Jing Li and A Yi are both good-looking. After doing business on this street for several days, many people in the market already know him.
Everyone was talking about recommendations, and Jing Li said, "If you're worried, you can come with us to the village to take a look."
"Mr. Qin is my young master's friend, so why wouldn't I believe him?" Butler Fang smiled kindly and explained, "The farmer who previously supplied my family with vegetables recently returned home to visit his mother, who is seriously ill. That's why I came to the market to look for some."
"I have a large family and need at least 12 to 15 kilograms of vegetables every day. If you are willing to help deliver them to your house, you can pay the market price for them."
Jing Li and A Yi looked at each other and nodded: "Okay."
Butler Fang agreed with Jing Li on the delivery time, preferred types of vegetables, and other details, left ten cents as a deposit, and then said goodbye.
Watching Jing Li put the deposit back into his pocket, Ayi was a little surprised: "We were just worrying about what to do with the remaining vegetables, and this... this is solved? Jing Li, you are so lucky."
"Yes... yes." Jing Li laughed dryly.
Ayi didn't know about the koi's good fortune yet, but this was not the first time Jingli had seen it.
As the days passed, Jing Li gradually understood the significance of this good fortune for himself. It wouldn't make him rich overnight or solve all his problems; it wasn't something that came without effort, nor did it just fall from the sky.
Its existence... is to create opportunities for him.
Just as he wished to cure Qin Zhao's illness, chance led them to the county town, where they met Mr. Xue and Ayi and got the prescription for the antidote.
But in the process, they still put in a lot of effort.
Jing Li didn't think that his good fortune made his efforts meaningless. On the contrary, none of the efforts he made to survive and the unremitting persistence in seizing opportunities were redundant.
The same thing happened today.
If he and Ayi had not worked hard to sell vegetables in the market for so many days, they would not have met the housekeeper Fang, and the matter would not have been resolved so easily.
Jing Li has now completely accepted this gift from God.
He didn't explain to Ayi any more, and said to Ayi, "Can you accompany me to another place?"
After a while, Jing Li and Ayi stopped in front of a bookstore.
Qin Zhao had taken him to a bookstore before, and the clerk there knew Qin Zhao, and naturally knew him as well. However, Jing Li didn't dare let Qin Zhao know what he was going to do today, so he didn't dare go to that bookstore. Instead, he took a detour and went to another, more remote bookstore in the town.