Chapter 842 Buy a Lot (Happy Birthday to Book Friend "Gail")
Manbao sat with Mrs. Tang for a long time and got a list from her, which was full of powerful or wealthy ladies in Yizhou City who liked peonies.
After leaving the county government office, Manbao hired an ox cart to leave the city.
There was a flower farm outside the city. Manbao stopped a long way from the flower fields and gave the hired driver a dime. He said, "Please go to the village and buy me two pots of peonies. I want red ones, any variety, just nice ones. I'll wait for my brother here, and you can pick me up later."
The driver hesitated, "Why don't you go and see the flowers yourself?"
"No, I'm just buying it for my own taste. It's red, so I don't have any big requirements. I bought two pots, and the remaining money will be considered your errand fee."
When the driver heard this, he immediately took the money and was about to drive away. Manbao said, "You can leave the cart here. My brother needs to load some things in a while."
The driver looked at Manbao suspiciously, and Manbao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't just take your cow and leave. I'm a doctor at Jishitang. If you don't believe me, I can give you a deposit of three taels of silver. How about that?"
The driver hesitated for a moment, then said embarrassedly: "Then young lady, please give me a deposit of three taels of silver. My cow is the one who feeds my family."
Manbao expressed his understanding and took out three taels of silver from his purse and gave it to him.
After seeing him leave, Manbao finally sat on the ox cart, slightly closed his eyes and immersed his consciousness in the system, "Koko, help me contact the flower merchant from last time."
While helping her contact him, Koko asked, "Host, do you want to..."
"I want to buy some more flowers," Manbao said. "I just talked to Madam Tang, and I realized that white peonies are indeed ordinary among peonies. The reason I can afford such a high price for the pot I have, the one in the flower market, is because its color is pure enough."
"Apart from the white peony, the Yaohuang, Weizi, and Erqiao varieties of peonies are the most expensive."
As they were talking, Manbao had already contacted the flower vendor. She asked Keke to answer for her, "Describe Yao Huang, Wei Zi, and Er Qiao to him. I only want one pot of each of these three varieties. I don't care if they're exotic, as long as they're similar in color to ours. I also want twenty pots of pure white peonies, preferably similar to the one taken away from the Yizhou Palace this morning."
Keke made the request to the seller truthfully.
These are not difficult for sellers at all. In the future world, color, size, etc. are not a problem and can be achieved through technological cultivation.
What is more difficult to achieve is stabilizing the plant's genes.
This kind of alien species, which can only be bred through scientific means, can basically only maintain balance for the second generation. By the third generation, it will become genetically unbalanced. 99.99% of flowers with genetic imbalance will be ugly.
The generations of flowers are calculated based on the flowering period. If a pot of flowers blooms twice a year, its genes will collapse in the second year, which is very uncomfortable for people who love to grow flowers.
Therefore, what people in the future will pursue are ancient species with stable genes. They are difficult to cultivate, do not look as good as other species, and their colors are not as bright and colorful as other species, but these are not problems. As long as they can raise a pot of flowers for ten or eight years, and it gets better year by year, that sense of accomplishment will be enough to make them happy for ten or eight years.
Because he had probably guessed Manbao's identity, the seller was very willing to serve Manbao wholeheartedly, thinking that if they became familiar with each other, he would always be able to get more things from Manbao.
Even though he hasn't thought of a way to bypass the Star Network main system and trade with Manbao yet, people will always come up with a way, right?
The most important thing is that he has to entertain this only guest well.
So when Manbao asked him to pack all the flowers in a wooden box, seal it and mail it over, he did so and did not charge Manbao any extra packaging fees.
You know, wooden boxes are not cheap.
After losing money on this deal with Manbao, the seller was finally able to have a personal conversation with Manbao, "Are you planning to grow these flowers yourself, or sell them?"
"Sold it, what's wrong?"
"Nothing, just a reminder that these flowers might become ugly when they bloom next year, so you'd better move them to a different location next year, or someone might come and settle the score."
Manbao: "Okay, I'll take note."
The seller mailed the packed flowers and said to Manbao with a smile as usual, "Next time you want to buy flowers, come to me. My family runs a big farm and we grow all kinds of flowers there."
Manbao also felt that it was not bad to work with him, except for what Koko said, that he was a bit of a liar.
Manbao received two large boxes and a medium box. She looked around and asked Keke, "Is there anyone nearby?"
"There's no one within an 800-meter radius."
Manbao took out the boxes with confidence and stacked them in the car.
When the driver came back with two pots of flowers, he saw that there were three boxes stacked on the ox cart, and Manbao was sitting on the shaft, shaking his legs.
The driver ran over and asked, "What is this?"
"These are the flowers my brother bought. He has other things to do, so he won't be leaving with us. Uncle, please take me and the things back first."
The driver handed the two pots of peonies to Manbao, scratched his head, and asked in confusion, "Since your brother has already gone to buy flowers, why did you ask me to go buy flowers too?"
"I'm giving these two pots of flowers to people, but my brother bought these flowers for people, so they're different."
The driver immediately understood and said with a smile, "Is it because your brother was unwilling to pay for the flowers that you bought them secretly?"
Manbao smiled but didn't answer.
The driver gave the deposit to Manbao and then drove back to the city.
When Manbao returned home, Bai Shan and the others had already returned home from school. He and Bai Erlang learned from Zhou Lijun what had happened in the morning. They were both a little indignant. When they saw Manbao trotting in, they wanted to comfort her.
Manbao's eyes lit up when he saw them, and he waved his hand and said, "It's just right that you're at home, come out and help me move things. Daji, where's my fourth brother? Ask him to come out and help."
Daji called Zhou Silang and went out with everyone to take a look. They saw three boxes on the ox cart. The boxes were not square like the ones here, but long, like coffins, except that the one on the top was shorter.
Zhou Silang was stunned and asked, "Who makes boxes like that?"
The driver coughed lightly and said, "Well, you guys think this box looks weird, too, right?"
In fact, he wanted to say it when he first saw it, but Manbao was a guest, so he couldn't say it, so he held it in all the way.
Zhou Silang, without any regard for Manbao's face, nodded and said, "It's more than just strange, Manbao, who made this box for you?"
I wish my book friend "Gail" will have this day every year, and become more and more beautiful.
(End of this chapter)
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