Looking at the broken string of copper coins in her hand, Yun Ruoxia was filled with regret and quickly shook her head, "I don't want it anymore. I knew I couldn't do this."
The shopkeeper immediately stood up and said, "No, no, no, young lady, you've only played twice and you've already achieved such a feat. Many people can't learn that. If you play another round, the cotton-padded coat will be yours. Look how cold it is today. Having a cotton-padded coat on would make you much warmer, wouldn't it?"
“I can buy one myself and it will be warm and comfortable.”
Yun Ruoxia's words were correct. In the previous dynasty, cotton was a rare commodity, and its price could reach thousands or even tens of thousands of strings of cash. However, in this dynasty, cotton has been planted on a large scale in the Jiangnan region, and it is no longer a scarce commodity, so its price has naturally decreased.
Yun Ruoxia pulled Yun Ling and Yun Chu away without looking back, her attitude as resolute as if she would have all the coins in her purse emptied if she took even a step too slow.
Yunling shook her head with a smile. If she were to make a move, she could take not only this cotton-padded coat, but even the Guanyin statue in his shop.
Using superpowers to cheat is not a righteous thing. Firstly, the shopkeeper does business on the principle of "willing buyer, willing seller" without any deception or fraud. Secondly, it allows Yun Ruoxia to experience it for herself, which is a good thing.
More importantly, Yunling was reminded of sanitary napkins in the post-apocalyptic world by this cotton-padded coat. Resources were scarce in the post-apocalyptic world, unlike before when sanitary napkins and tampons were disposable.
They use sanitary napkins-shaped cloths when they have their periods, which they also need to wash and dry. It seems more convenient and comfortable than the menstrual belts with ties here.
In this way, she could start this business, selling sanitary napkins. And since the Jiangnan region produces a lot of cotton, she might even think of making disposable sanitary napkins for wealthy families, the more the better.
However, there is a problem. The underwear here is not like the panties in the apocalypse, so she has to make panties first. Wow, if there are panties, how far away is breast protection?
She might as well open a women's boutique shop, specializing in services for women. But to do that, she'd need a group of skillful and discreet embroiderers, which is no easy task...
Yunling felt that this business was promising, and her mind kept wandering to it. She didn't even notice when the donkey cart stopped in front of the Zhang family's house until she got off the cart and bumped into a wall of flesh, which brought her back to her senses.
Pei Lin looked at Yun Ling and clearly noticed that she had grown taller, and her hair had grown out and was tied into two small buns. He was pleased, but when he saw her tanned face, he thought of her sneaking off to Qi Min alone, and a feeling of resentment welled up inside him.
"Why don't you watch where you're going? You bumped into someone and didn't even apologize."
Yunling's gaze fell on him. No wonder she felt this person was a bit strange today; it turned out he was wearing new clothes. So she slowly asked, "Are you human?"
Pei Lin choked on his breath, and as Yun Ling was about to leave, he hooked his index finger around the back of her collar, "You...you went to Qimin?"
"Yes, I went."
"So...you saw the sea?"
"Yes, I saw it."
Pei Lin couldn't hold back anymore. Why was this girl just like that troublesome Lu Yinghuai, answering every question? He had already hinted so obviously, shouldn't she have told him when she went to see the sea, what the sea looked like, and what happy or thrilling things she encountered?
That's it?
Yunling finally realized what was happening. "Wait, how did you know I went to Qimin? Oh, you were asking where I was going. Oh, what's going on?"
"I...I...I...what do you mean, 'I'?" Pei Lin's heart was pounding so hard that he felt it was about to jump out of his chest and be seen by Yun Ling. "What are you doing in Qi Min? You're not going hiking, are you?"
Yunling was stunned, then clapped her hands, "That's right, how could I forget to go mountain climbing? There must be a lot of treasures in those mountains, what a waste!"
Pei Lin was somewhat impressed by Yun Ling's thought process, muttering to himself "silly girl," before quickly steer the conversation back on track, "So what exactly did you go to do?"
Yunling took out a small handful of elephant grass seeds from her pocket. Afraid that the seeds wouldn't adapt, she put them in her pocket and nurtured them with her supernatural abilities.
"Hey, didn't you pride yourself on being knowledgeable and worldly-wise? Do you even recognize this kind of seed?"
Pei Lin took the opportunity to get closer to Yun Ling. When he looked at the seeds in her hand, he also secretly glanced at her face. He couldn't help but smile. He took a seed from her palm, first brought it to his nose to smell it, and then examined it carefully. He had never seen it before and didn't know what it was.
"What is this called?"
"Elephant grass".
"Elephant grass? You want to raise elephants?"
Yunling chuckled. She didn't intend to answer Pei Lin's question; she'd let him figure it out himself. If he really wanted to raise elephants, she guaranteed he'd be the first to experience the power of an elephant's leg.
Pei Lin was a little confused, so he followed Yun Ling step by step, repeating the same question like a dog's tail grass.
Yunling held back her words until they were away from him, then she started babbling on and on into thin air.
The next morning
Yunling and Yun Ruoxia went to Yunxiang Bookstore as agreed with Shopkeeper Chen. Shopkeeper Chen immediately poured them two cups of hot tea and gave them two envelopes as New Year's money.
“Young lady, my father-in-law has agreed. You can pay him the salary as you see fit; he's just looking for fun. However, he has one condition: he must come home to rest every day…”
Yunling immediately replied, "Our village has donkey carts. Uncle Village Chief could arrange for someone to take the old gentleman home every day. I wonder if that would be appropriate?"
"Okay, okay, that's good."
As for salary, Yunling still felt that paying the same amount as the previous schoolteacher would be best, neither too much nor too little.
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Chen didn't say much, but just grinned, and the matter was truly settled.
**
After the days when they couldn't disturb the soil or weed, Yunling and Yunruochun carried hoes up the mountain. Elephant grass required a lot of land to plant, and Yunling planned to plant it on the mountainside. Even if others knew, they wouldn't know what they were going to do with it.
Furthermore, even if someone like the eldest son-in-law resents their comfortable life and cuts down all the grass, the grass can still grow back. As long as the temperature is right, its growth rate is very fast.
Yunling chose a flat spot, and together with Yun Ruochun, they hoeed away the weeds using the snow water, then scattered some dried straw for seedling cultivation on top, and that was it.
Yunling didn't plan to sow the seeds and plant elephant grass directly. Instead, she first fertilized the field, which would save her a lot of trouble in the future.
After the spring arrived, Yunling casually scattered elephant grass seeds on the ground, intending to attract new bees. However, when she returned home to check the beehives, she discovered a big problem.
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