Chapter 63 Reconciliation
Fifth brother and his friends had not returned from the county town yet, so Manbao put down his book and followed Datou to the fields to find fourth brother.
Manbao was particularly well-behaved today and didn't make any trouble at all. He walked out with the small stones and other things that Zhou Silang had dug out, and followed Datou and the others to pile the things up at the edge of the field.
Zhou Silang felt a little uncomfortable and took the time to ask her, "Why are you so well behaved today?"
Manbao said: "I am very well behaved every day."
In fact, she also had some purpose. She originally wanted to help first and then talk about it. But since the fourth brother mentioned it, Manbao said that she would pull the fourth brother to see the Centella asiatica on the ground.
Yes, this thing is everywhere.
"Fourth brother, do you know what this is?"
Zhou Silang looked at his sister with disdain and said, "Thunder God Root."
"Did you know it was medicine?"
"Oh, so it's medicine. I knew that if you fall and bleed, you can chew it and apply it to stop the bleeding." Zhou Silang pushed the grass on the ground and looked up and asked, "What's next?"
"Then we'll pluck them, dry them, and send them to the pharmacy. Didn't you tell me to think about you? Aren't I thinking about you already?"
Zhou Silang expressed his doubts, "How can a pharmacy accept something that's available everywhere?"
"Bamboo can be found everywhere. Aren't there many people buying the winnowing baskets and bamboo baskets made by my second brother?"
Zhou Silang seemed to be lost in thought. He hadn't made up his mind yet, but the big-headed people gathered around him were already excited. "Auntie, we want to pick some Centella asiatica too. Can you help us take it to the pharmacy?"
"I can't do it, but I can ask Fifth Brother to help you." Manbao had already planned it out. He said, "There's strength in numbers. I'll pull it out too. You should also look for Centella asiatica with large leaves. They're heavier. You might pull a pound out of it."
Even Zhou Silang felt a little excited when he heard this. He looked at the snow grass on the ground with his bright eyes, thinking that this might be the beginning of great wealth and honor!
Manbao broke his dream, "Let's open up the wasteland first, Fourth Brother. We can pull out the weeds when you have a break. It won't be tiring anyway."
The dreamy smile on Zhou Silang's face fell, and he stood up to get the hoe.
But Datou and the others were unwilling to work hard for him for free, so they ran to find Centella asiatica, pulled it up and piled it together, planning to take it back to dry in the sun later.
Zhou Silang felt extremely melancholy as he looked at the land where he was the only one left. He said, how could Manbao not cause him trouble?
When they returned home for dinner, Zhou Erlang returned with Wulang and the others. He excitedly told his family, "I asked the herbalist, and they said they accept Ligustrum lucidum fruit. If it's good quality, it's 60 wen per jin. If it's not good quality, the minimum is 40 wen. But it has to be dried."
Zhou Dalang and the others also became excited. This price sounded more expensive than rice and flour. It was indeed medicine and was valuable.
Qian asked, "Did you ask how to dry this thing?"
"I asked, and the shop owner said that you can fumigate or rinse it with hot water first, then dry it in the sun until it's dry, and then they'll buy it. As for how to fumigate and rinse it with hot water, the shop owner refused to elaborate. He said that their shop works with specialized herbalists, and these are their skills. If he told them everything, they might be dissatisfied."
Qian was lost in thought. She turned to Little Qian and said, "Tomorrow should be a sunny day. You should stay out of the fields and clear the stove. We can try fumigating or scalding the food to see which one looks better."
Xiao Qian agreed.
Qian then said to Zhou Dalang, "If you have nothing to do these two days, go look in the mountains again to see if you can still find some Ligustrum lucidum. Just walk around outside, don't go in too deep."
Zhou Dalang and his friends are no longer children and know the seriousness of the matter. There are many wild beasts, snakes and insects in the mountains, and they don’t have the courage to go in.
Zhou Wulang and his group of younger brothers were also plotting in their room. He told Manbao, "I followed my second brother there. There was a herbalist there. When he saw my second brother taking the Ligustrum lucidum to ask about it, his face looked very unhappy."
He snorted, "This business isn't just theirs. Why can they do it but we can't?"
Zhou Liulang also said, "Exactly. We make flower baskets, and these past few days, some people have copied us and are selling them. However, their flower baskets don't have sugar in them, so their business isn't as good as ours. We keep changing the location, so we can sell out every day."
Zhou Liulang was a little proud, but Zhou Wulang was a little worried. He felt that if things continued like this, the flower basket business would definitely not be able to continue and they would only be able to sell candy.
But the sugar business is their own, and there is no clear way out. If the flower basket business has no business, their family will definitely not allow them to go to the county town again.
Manbao also felt that the flower basket business should no longer be able to continue. According to what Keke said, there are already imitation products in the market, and with oversupply in the future, prices will definitely be lowered, which will not be cost-effective.
Manbao said, "Then we have to prepare another excuse to go to the county town."
Zhou Wulang and others also agreed with this, but this was not something they could think of immediately, so they decided to count the money.
After counting the money, Manbao not only gave Zhou Wulang a bag of candy for the next day, but also gave him a handful of money and asked him to go to the market to buy a chicken.
She said, "Chickens are hard to come by in the village. No one wants to sell them."
Zhou Wulang asked, "Manbao, do you want to eat chicken? A chicken is very expensive."
"It's okay, I have money." Manbao was particularly generous and waved his hand and said, "Buy it back to nourish mother's body."
Zhou Wulang and the others collectively swallowed their saliva and agreed without much hesitation.
He put the money away and encouraged Manbao again, "Manbao, don't you really want to consider selling more candy?"
Manbao shook his head firmly, "No, eating too much candy will damage your teeth."
Moreover, Ligustrum lucidum’s points have not been collected yet. She spends points every day but doesn’t earn any. She doesn’t know when she can save enough points to buy medicine for her mother.
In Manbao's opinion, money is not as important as points, and she has enough money now.
Manbao was very satisfied with her current assets, and she didn't find it difficult to make money. She told her fifth brother that she had found another medicinal herb, saying that even if their flower baskets couldn't be sold, they could still sell the medicinal herbs.
The Zhou family had fish for dinner tonight. Manbao drank a bowl of fish soup and lay down on the bed contentedly. Unable to fall asleep for a while, he went to look through the things that had been entered into the system, looked at their entries, and then went to the mall for a while, paying special attention to his mother's medicine.
Then I fell asleep contentedly and woke up the next day full of energy to go to school.
She had long forgotten the quarrel with Bai Shanbao yesterday.
But Bai Shanbao remembered that he had a miserable night because he did not find the gold in the study and was laughed at by his grandmother.
His mother didn't give him money, and his grandmother said Manbao was right; he didn't find the gold, and his grandmother even laughed at him!
So when Manbao came, he pushed the pastries he had brought from the kitchen early in the morning in front of her and asked her to eat them.
(End of this chapter)
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