Chapter 384 I Believe
Zhou Silang was stunned and asked, "Where did you get so many ginger seeds?"
He didn't remember that his family had left so many ginger seeds for her.
"I've already told my sister-in-law that I should give her most of the ginger buried in the vegetable garden, and Shanbao has also buried quite a bit in the flower garden." She also bought some from the mall, but Manbao wouldn't tell her about this. She waved her hand and said, "It's enough for planting anyway."
Zhou Erlang nodded repeatedly after hearing this and said, "As long as you have a plan in mind, that's all that matters."
He felt that even if God was not kind to him this year, if the ginger could be grown, it could be sold for a lot of money. Zhou Erlang knew how valuable ginger was.
Moreover, the harvest of one acre of ginger is not small. Just look at the output of the five or six mu of ginger field owned by the fourth brother last year.
Zhou Hu didn't know how profitable ginger was. Two years ago, his family asked the Zhou family for a few pieces of ginger seeds and took them home to plant. After two years, they had enough for their own consumption.
Especially now that my wife is in poor health, the doctor said I could use more ginger to cook brown sugar, so we don’t have enough ginger at home.
But if you ask Aunt Qian, you can usually take a few dollars home.
Zhou Hu thought about it and decided to plant more ginger in the vegetable garden when he returned, at least to ensure that his family had enough to eat.
Zhou Hu was lost in thought when Zhou Silang jumped up and shouted, "You only planted two acres? How can you sell all that ginger by autumn or winter? Won't the price be exorbitant?"
Manbao said, "Ginger can be used as a medicinal ingredient. The medicine shop has been buying it. I plan to dry it and sell it to the medicine shop."
As Manbao finished speaking, Keke suddenly popped up and said, "Host, dried ginger is made from two-year-old ginger, not one-year-old fresh ginger, so if you want to make it into dried ginger, you have to wait until next autumn."
Manbao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, then turned to Zhou Silang and said, "Fourth Brother, why don't you sell the ginger this autumn? Let me sell it. You can keep your ginger and dig it up next autumn. I just remembered that dried ginger is made from two-year-old ginger."
Zhou Silang opened his mouth wide.
Manbao said, "Actually, the price of dried ginger is also very high."
Zhou Silang said quietly, "Your nephew is about to be born. Are you planning on leaving him without new clothes for the first year?"
Manbao, “…”
Zhou Erlang ignored them. After all, the Zhou family must be the one that grows the most ginger in the county. No matter whether it is his fourth brother, youngest sister or third brother, they are all family members and the money they earn goes into their own pockets.
So he wasn't worried at all.
Zhou Hu didn't quite understand what they were saying, let alone express his opinion.
Zhou Wulang always stood on Manbao's side and whispered to Manbao, "Tell your parents to support you."
Zhou Silang heard this and immediately rolled up his sleeves to beat Zhou Wulang, "I've been so nice to you. Last time I touched the bird eggs, I even gave you two extra. Is this how you treat me?"
Manbao yelled, "Fifth brother, run!"
The two brothers ran away fighting.
Zhou Hu was extremely envious and said to Zhou Erlang, "It's good to have many brothers. Not only can we help each other, but it also makes life more lively."
He is the only one in his family, and when one of them falls ill, there is no one to help.
Zhou Erlang looked up and smiled at him, "You think it's lively now, but you don't know how annoying it is when they make a fuss."
Anyway, what the Zhou family lacks the least is bustle and what they lack the most is quiet.
When they arrived at the county town, Zhou Erlang was too lazy to ask them to follow him, so he waved his hand and told them to go about their own business. He was going to set up a stall to sell things.
But he also warned Manbao, "If the cattle are too expensive, more than four taels, don't buy it."
Zhou Hu also hesitated, "Why don't we go to the cattle market first to see the market conditions? What if the cattle at the county government office are more expensive than those at the cattle market?"
Manbao thought what he said made sense, so he followed him to the bull market.
The cattle market is a short street where larger livestock such as cows, horses, donkeys, mules, and even pigs are sold.
Luojiang County is so small that there aren't many people selling cattle.
They walked from the beginning to the end of the street and saw only three cows. One of them was so old that it was lying on the ground, struggling to eat a handful of tender grass from its owner.
Manbao squatted down to look curiously. The man holding the ox rope only glanced at her clothes and then looked away. He said lightly: "This cow is too old. It is sold to be slaughtered, not used for plowing."
"How old is it?"
The owner sighed and said, "He must be about fifteen years old. When I bought him, the seller said he was six, in the prime of life. He has been in my house for nine years."
Manbao was shocked.
Then standing next to it was a calf. The person holding the rope said that it was two years old and could go out to the fields to do some light work.
The other one was a bull in its prime, about six years old, but the price was high. Zhou Hu asked and it was worth four taels and two hundred coins.
The four of them withdrew from the bull market, and Zhou Hu's confidence was greatly shaken. He whispered, "It's too expensive."
Manbao pulled them towards a pawnshop. When she reached the counter, she stood on tiptoe, only revealing her tiny head. She asked the clerk inside, "How many copper coins can I exchange for one ounce of silver now?"
The clerk glanced at her, then at the three young men behind her, and said with a light cough, "Look at the quality of the silver. If it's good, it can be exchanged for 1,300 coins. If it's not good, it can only be exchanged for about 1,500 coins."
"What about official silver?"
"That's twelve hundred coins."
Manbao nodded to show that he understood, waved goodbye to the clerk, turned around and took them into a jewelry store to ask again. After getting the same answer, he took Zhou Hu to the county government office.
"Let's go check out the cattle at the county government office first. If they're good, we'll buy them on credit."
Of course, the cows in the county government office were not kept in the government office, but in an open straw shed next to the government office. This was originally an open space, but now a straw shed was built for the cows to rest, and it was specially for people who came to buy cows on credit to watch.
There were more than twenty cows standing in the straw hut. Although the place was small, it felt more like a bull market than a cattle market.
Manbao's eyes sparkled. He took out the household registration from his cloth bag and asked Zhou Silang to go and register to go in and look after the cattle. Zhou Silang looked at the household registration in his hand, opened his mouth and asked, "Where are you from?"
Hasn’t Dad always been holding this thing?
"I asked my mother to get it for me!"
"So, mother knows what you are going to do?"
Manbao thought for a moment and said, "I didn't tell my mother, but she told me that we have enough money at home to pay it back."
Zhou Silang was relieved when he heard this, but he still felt a little strange. He looked Manbao up and down and said hesitantly, "Manbao, you are not really the reincarnation of the fairy under the seat of Master Tianzun, are you?"
Ever since his mother recovered from her illness, he always felt that his mother doted on Manbao even more.
Although I loved her before, I would never indulge her like this.
Zhou Wulang, however, had already firmly believed it. Upon hearing this, he glanced at him and said, "Of course it is. Didn't Mother tell me this many times? If Manbao wasn't the reincarnation of a fairy, how could Master Tianzun have cured Mother?"
Zhou Silang thought so too, and looking at his silly fifth brother, he felt very upset. He had only thought of this at this moment. Yes, if Manbao was not the reincarnation of a fairy, how could his mother's illness get better overnight?
Now I am healthier than ordinary people, which is incredible.
There's another chapter at 5 p.m.
(End of this chapter)
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