Chapter 11 Points Arrived
The eldest and second daughters on the side were watching with great amusement. Feng glared at them and immediately advised Manbao, "Aunt, our baskets are already hard to sell, and if you add flowers and plants to them, they will be even harder to sell. These flowers and plants are everywhere on the mountain. Who among us farmers needs them?"
"But I see they obviously like it very much. Just now when I was about to hand it to them, they took it." Manbao thought they were just stingy and didn't want to spend money.
“Of course we want something that’s given for free, but it’s not worth it if we have to pay for it.”
Manbao thought about it and had his own ideas. "No, if the flowers and plants don't look good, no one will want them even if they are free. So we have to find some generous people. When they see our beautiful flowers and plants, they will definitely buy them."
Feng said, "But the people at the market are stingy."
Manbao slumped his shoulders and said, "Okay, then we won't sell it today. Let's give it away for free. We'll sell it to someone who's not stingy."
Feng was satisfied and let them use the flowers and plants to decorate the baskets they brought.
Daya and Erya immediately came to help.
It’s true that the baskets look much better when arranged like this, and they are particularly eye-catching when lined up in a row, immediately attracting everyone’s attention.
Even those who had enough baskets at home stopped to take a closer look. If someone happened to need a basket at home, they would come up and ask the price directly.
The prices of things at the market have remained the same for years and rarely increase, so their baskets are the same price as others. Zhou Erlang's craftsmanship is also not bad. Customers pick and choose, and when they find one they like, they either pay for it or take it away by barter.
The items that can be exchanged at the market are usually eggs, cloth and food.
However, cloth was very expensive, and they had to pay a certain amount of cloth as tax every year, most of which they exchanged for eggs and grain at home.
Of course, there are also people who use money, but the amount is less.
After one trip, Feng collected a lot of grain and eggs, which she sorted and placed in baskets and backpacks.
Seeing the sun getting higher and higher, Feng looked towards the end of the street worriedly, but her husband and uncle had not returned yet.
Seeing that the children were a little listless, he knew they were hungry, so he took out two breads from his backpack, tore them apart and shared them with them. "Here, eat a little with some water, and you can go home when your uncle and father come back."
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang also took a small half of the pancake from their sister-in-law, nibbled on it, and half-knelt down and sighed, "It must be hard to sell. The autumn harvest has just passed, and everyone has enough food."
"Pooh, pooh, pooh, children's words are innocent. The strong wind will blow them away. My husband and his family will surely be smooth sailing," Feng said. "Fifth Uncle, you must say more auspicious words."
"Isn't it hard to say auspicious words? I make wishes to the God of Wealth in my dreams every day, hoping that our family will become rich and prosperous, but it hasn't come true."
Manbao was very interested and asked the system in his mind, "Koko, is the God of Wealth in the sky? Can you see him?"
System: "...No, and there should be no God of Wealth in this world."
"How could there not be one? We worship him every year, as well as the Kitchen God and the Earth God..."
System: "People in the future are staunch atheists, so they believe there are no gods in the world."
This was completely contrary to the stories Manbao had heard since she was a child. She was stunned for a moment, then quickly figured it out and said excitedly, "It must be because there are no gods in your world, so they all ran to our world."
System: "It's good that you think so."
Manbao asked, "Can a deity be more powerful than you? Can they also make things disappear in a flash, then reappear in a flash, and then fulfill my wishes in a flash?"
"I fulfill the host's wishes only after the host completes the tasks I assign. Therefore, there is no such thing as a gift without work in this world."
Manbao nodded thoughtfully, "You and the gods are the same. I think the gods must think the same way. But the gods can't talk to me, so how can I know what their mission is?"
The system is silent.
Manbao, however, began to think on his own. He soon came up with an idea and shouted in his heart, "I know!"
Then he pulled Zhou Wulang and said, "You can't do that. Making a wish before going to bed at night shows that your heart is not sincere. You have to help the God of Wealth, and then he will fulfill your wish."
Zhou Wulang asked, "What can I do to help him?"
"For example, I clean for him and serve him tea and food," Manbao said logically, "That's what I do to Mr. Zhuang. I clean for him, and he teaches me how to read. I serve him tea and food, and he gives me the paper he has finished writing. You should do the same to the God of Wealth."
Zhou Wulang laughed heartily and asked Manbao, "Where is the God of Wealth?"
The little friends looked up at the blue sky and sighed with regret, "He is in heaven."
Feng listened to their childish chatter with an expressionless face, wholeheartedly sorting out the things she had exchanged for. However, the villagers who were setting up stalls nearby were envious and praised her, "Sister-in-law, your children are really smart."
The children in their family would not think about these things or say these words. Every day, besides playing in the mud, they would think about going up the mountain to find wild fruits to eat.
Feng smiled at them and said, "Children, they are used to it after going out every day. No one knows what is going on in their little heads."
Everyone laughed happily and said, "That's right. We can't understand what our children say before they are three years old."
Feng didn't eat the cake, but left one for Zhou Dalang and Zhou Erlang. Seeing Manbao holding a small piece of cake and chewing it with relish, but unable to finish a piece for a long time, she knew that she was not used to it.
After all, I have never been far away, and I always eat hot food at home.
After thinking about it, Feng asked Zhou Wulang to watch the stall. She took out two eggs and planned to go to the village to find a family to cook the eggs for her sister-in-law to eat.
As soon as Manbao saw her leave, he immediately took out something wrapped in a handkerchief from his arms, actually from Koko.
When he opened the handkerchief, he found candies wrapped in oil paper inside. This time, Ci Pao gave more rewards because in the future, this thing had become extinct. There were records and photos of it in the encyclopedia, but no actual records.
Manbao not only recorded its fruit, but also recorded a seedling, so the Encyclopedia generously gave her fifty points for the first time.
Koko deducted her historical debt, which was actually the points that Koko had previously recorded by using his own savings to exchange for candy to lure her to dig grass. There were a total of eighteen points.
In the end, there were still 32 points left in Manbao, which was the most points Manbao had ever obtained in history. In the past, it took several kinds of flowers and plants to get one point.
It was still Koko and the encyclopedia that fought for it, because the plants she had previously recorded were already recorded in the encyclopedia and would still exist in the future.
That point is an encouragement point.
However, Manbao thought that the word "encouragement" was quite nice, and he was always proud of it. Whenever he got points, he would exchange them for candy, and he never thought about repaying Koko's debt.
This kind of candy for children is the cheapest. One point can be exchanged for a large bag, which contains about a hundred pieces. Koko said that it is weighed by kilogram and the wholesale price is very cheap.
There are various colors.
Manbao particularly liked brightly colored candies at first, but for her safety, Koko bought her candies that were yellowish and reddish, similar in color to the candies we have today.
As for the ones with particularly bright colors, Koko once bought a pack for her and kept it in the system to eat slowly.
She gave away most of the other candies because she was a generous and good child.
Manbao never keeps candy to himself, and he would occasionally put one in the mouths of his brothers and nephews and nieces.
As the ones who have the best relationship with Manbao, Da Ya, Er Ya and San Ya eat the most candy.
In addition, Old Zhou, Qian and several sisters-in-law could always get the sweet soup she made, so she digested the candy very quickly.
As soon as the points arrived last night, she bought a bag of candy, then peeled a lot of candies in the system, and took out the oil paper that her second brother always brought back when he bought her candy from her little treasure chest to wrap it up. Today, she even wrapped it again with her own handkerchief.
Seeing that the second sister-in-law had left, Manbao quietly took out the candies and whispered to his friends, "Shall we sell these candies?"
Zhou Wulang and the others couldn't help but drool when they saw the candies. They asked, "Manbao, I remember that we ate all the candies that my second brother bought when he came to the market last time. Where did you get these?"
Man Baogang associated Koko with the gods, so he was very mysterious and proud when he said, "The gods gave it to me."
None of her friends believed it, because she had clearly said before that it was given by a friend named Koko, and before that, she said it was given by their descendants, and also said it was given by someone called the system.
So no one believed what my sister (sister-in-law) said at all.
Although he didn't believe it, he still asked a routine question, then he started staring at the candy and said, "It might not be easy to sell so many. Should we eat some first?"
"Yeah, it's not easy to sell," Datou also encouraged Manbao, "You should eat a little first, it will be easier to sell if there are less."
Manbao was not stupid. He wrapped up the candy and said, "No, our family is in financial difficulty now. We need to learn to endure hardships. So, we can't have candy for the time being."
Everyone lowered their heads in frustration.
Manbao comforted them, "It will be fine when our family has money. Then I won't sell my candies anymore and will give them all to you. Now I still have to buy medicine for Mom."
Yes, the reason why Manbao was so anxious to sell the candies was to buy medicine for her mother. Yesterday, Qian's medicine ran out, and she gasped for breath for half the night. Manbao slept soundly at first, but then her father got up to pour water and rub her mother's back, and she woke up. Then she slipped into the space to peel off the candy wrappers.
She felt that nothing was more important than buying medicine for her mother.
Everyone was quite filial and agreed immediately after hearing this, and said that they would work hard to sell the candies.
So everyone started to look for suitable buyers, who had to bring children and be dressed nicely.
(End of this chapter)
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