Chapter 25: Repeat Customers
A carriage stopped near them, the curtains were drawn aside, and a little girl lay there looking at them for a while. Soon a servant came over and asked, "How much is this flower basket?"
Manbao tilted his head back and said, "Five cents each, and there's candy inside."
This one wasn't expensive. The servant didn't bargain. He just pointed to a purple flower basket in the back and said, "I want that one."
Manbao was very attentive and handed the flower basket to her. After taking the money, he waved his paw at her and said, "Come again next time."
The servant thought the child was very cute, and the serious expression on his face relaxed a little. He carried the flower basket to meet her little master.
The little girl picked up the flower basket and looked at it. She thought it was very beautiful and was happy for a while. Then she saw something inside. She took it out and looked at it. The servant said, "Miss, the child said it was candy, but we'd better not eat anything outside..."
Before she could finish her words, the little girl had already peeled off the oil paper and put it directly into her mouth.
As soon as the candy entered her mouth, she slightly widened her eyes. This candy was sweet, sweeter than honey, but...
The little girl tasted it and found that it didn’t have the mellow fragrance of honey, but it was also delicious.
The little girl held it in her mouth, lowered her head to look in the flower basket, and asked, "Why is there no candy?"
The servant laughed and said, "The child said there was only one flower in the basket."
The little girl rolled her eyes and said, "This flower basket is very beautiful. Buy one for each of your brothers and sisters. Go buy all the remaining flower baskets from her house."
The servant was stunned and said, "Even if we want to send them off, we don't need so much, right?"
"Of course we can use them. We still have cousins and brothers to send to mother. I'm afraid it's not enough. Go buy some."
After thinking about it, she was worried that the servant was not doing his job well, so she asked the driver to turn around and go back.
Liu Lang had already arrived with a backpack on his back , his face covered in sweat from running so fast.
He squeezed in among the children and put down the backpack. "I told my second brother that our flower baskets were sold, but he didn't believe it."
Wu Lang whispered, "I still can't believe it. More than half of them have been sold."
You have to know that they brought a total of fifty-one bamboo baskets. They kept a record of each one they sold. Twenty-seven have been sold so far, and there are twenty-four left. Do you think you are surprised or shocked?
Anyway, Goro was extremely surprised.
Liu Lang glanced at the onlookers and asked in a low voice: "Do you think it can still be sold?"
The children nowadays were squatting aside watching Daya and Erya making flower baskets, and no one bought any.
Wu Lang thought for a while and said, "Don't worry. If no one buys it here, we can go to another place later. There are so many children in the county, someone will definitely buy it."
Manbao was even more confident than him and said seriously, "There will definitely be people who will buy it."
Wulang and Liulang helped Daya and Erya to sort out the flowers and plants. After seeing so many of them, they probably knew how many flowers and plants were needed to make a flower basket, so Daya and Erya could work faster.
Manbao had already made friends with the children who were watching. They chattered and made friends. Manbao also wanted to ask them if there were any rare flowers nearby. She wanted to pick some for Keke. "We have a lot of beautiful flowers on the mountain. Do you have any here?"
One child said, "We can't go out, or we'll be caught by bad guys, so we don't know."
There were also people who had been to the mountain, but he didn't remember whether there were flowers or not, but he remembered that there were fruits.
Fruits! Manbao likes to eat fruits, so he quickly asked, "Is it delicious?"
"It's delicious and sweet. My dad picked it for me."
Manbao: "I want to eat it too. Tell me what it looks like and I'll go find it next time."
"What you can't find, only my father can find."
Manbao was unhappy , "I'm also very capable. If your father can find it, I can definitely do it too."
"You're too short. That's definitely not possible."
"Then I still have my eldest brother, second brother, third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother and sixth brother. They are taller and they will help me find it."
The children were all stunned and couldn't help asking, "You have so many brothers?"
Manbao said proudly: "Of course, I also have three nephews and three nieces."
Everyone looked at Manbao, who was obviously younger than them, and felt a little envious. She already had nephews and nieces, while they were just other people's nephews and nieces.
As the wind was blowing, the carriage came back and Manbao recognized it at the first sight. The reason why she remembered it so clearly was that as soon as the carriage appeared, Koko asked her to collect the horse, because horses would also be extinct species in the future, and their level was quite high, so the points for the bounty were particularly high.
However, when Manbao was a child and went to pick vegetables from the neighbor's house, his mother taught him that he could only take things that were his or had no owner, and he could not take other people's things unless the other party gave them to him or her voluntarily.
This horse obviously belonged to someone else, and she couldn't steal it, so Manbao could only let Koko take a photo and promised that if she had money in the future, she would buy Koko one for her collection.
Koko, of course Koko had no choice but to agree.
Manbao felt that this day would not be too long because she thought it was easy to make money. Manbao patted the copper coins in her pocket, full of confidence.
Seeing the servant who bought the flower basket with her coming towards her, Manbao raised her round face and asked, "Sister, do you want to buy another flower basket?"
The servant's children were older than Manbao, and she didn't feel neglected when she called her sister. Instead, she was very happy, so she smiled and said, "Yes, our young lady said that we want all the remaining flower baskets. How many do you have left?"
Manbao was stunned, looked back at their flower baskets, and asked in confusion: "Why did your lady buy so many? I want to sell them to more people?"
The servant frowned and said, "Anyway, I won't give you less money. Can you see how many are left?"
Liu Lang thought Man Bao didn't know, so he whispered in her ear, "There are still twenty-four."
Manbao was very persistent, "It's a waste if you don't buy things. Can you use so many flower baskets?"
The servant took a rare serious look at Manbao, smiled, and said, "There are many people in our family. Not to mention there are only 24, we can still use them even if there are twice as many."
Manbao was happy then and asked her to look at the flower baskets they were making. "There are still twelve baskets that haven't been wrapped yet. You have to wait a while. Don't worry, it will be done soon."
When Daya and Erya heard that the flower baskets were sold out, they became excited and worked even harder to make the remaining bamboo baskets.
Manbao stood and talked to the servants, "What color and style of flower basket do you think is more beautiful?"
Koko said that if they did some research in advance, they could make more of these flower baskets next time.
The servant had to wait for a while before he could get the flower basket. Seeing that Manbao was acting like an adult, he started talking to her, "Our young lady thinks the purple flowers are beautiful, but I think the red ones are prettier. Did you make this flower basket yourself?"
"My father and my second brother made the basket, and we tied the flowers on it." Manbao said proudly, "They are all flowers from the mountain, so beautiful."
