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 went 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 on the ground.
Zhou Silang was a little uncomfortable, so he 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's medicine?"
"Hey, it turns out it's medicine. I knew that if you fall and bleed, you can chew it and apply it on the affected area to stop the bleeding." Zhou Silang pushed the grass on the ground, looked up and asked, "Then what?"
"Then we'll pluck them, dry them, and send them to the pharmacy. Didn't you ask me to think about you? Am I not thinking about you now?"
Zhou Silang expressed his doubt, "How can a pharmacy accept something that is available everywhere?"
"Bamboo can be found everywhere. Aren't there many people who buy the winnowing baskets and bamboo baskets made by my second brother?"
Zhou Silang was in deep thought. He hadn't made up his mind yet, but the big-headed people around him were already excited. "Aunt, 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 Brother Wu to help you." Manbao had planned it out long ago, and said, "There is strength in numbers. I'll pull it out too. You can also look for Centella asiatica with big leaves. They are heavier. You might pull out a pound of them."
Lian Zhou Silang felt a little excited when he heard this. He looked at the snow grass on the ground with sharp eyes and thought, this might be the beginning of great wealth and honor!
Manbao broke his beautiful dream, "Let's open up the wasteland first, Fourth Brother. We can weed when you have a rest. 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 not willing to work hard for him for free, so they all ran to look for 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 trouble for him?
When they went home to have dinner, Zhou Erlang also came back with Wulang. He was excitedly telling his family, "I asked the herbalist, and they said they would buy Ligustrum lucidum. 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 first fumigate or rinse with hot water, and then dry it in the sun until it is dry, and then their shop will accept it. As for how to fumigate and rinse with hot water, the shop owner refused to say more. He said that their shop has special herbalists working together, and these are the skills of those herbalists. If he told everything, I'm afraid the herbalists would be dissatisfied."
Qian was thoughtful, then turned to Little Qian and said, "Tomorrow should be a sunny day, so don't go out to the fields. Empty the stove and let's try fumigating or scalding to see which one looks better."
Xiao Qian agreed.
Qian said to Zhou Dalang, "If you have nothing to do in the next two days, go to the mountains and look for it again to see if you can find any Ligustrum lucidum. Just walk around outside, don't go in too deep."
Zhou Dalang and his friends are no longer children and they know the seriousness of the situation. 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 children 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 holding the Ligustrum lucidum and asking about it, his face looked unhappy."
He snorted, "This business is not just theirs. Why can they do it but we can't?"
Zhou Liulang also said, "That's right. Some people have copied us and sold the flower baskets we made these past few days. However, there is no sugar in their flower baskets, so their business is not as good as ours. We keep changing the location, so we can sell out every day."
Zhou Liulang was somewhat proud, but Zhou Wulang was somewhat worried. He felt that if things continued like this, the flower basket business would no longer 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 could no longer be continued. According to what Koko said , there were already imitation products on the market, and with oversupply in the future, prices would definitely be pushed down, which would not be cost-effective.
Manbao said: "Then we have to prepare some other 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 buy a chicken at the market.
She said, "Chickens are hard to buy 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 doesn't matter, 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?"
Man Bao shook his head firmly, "No, eating too much candy will damage your teeth."
Moreover, Nuzhenzi’s points have not been collected yet. She is spending points every day but not earning 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 did not think it was difficult to make money. She told her fifth brother that she had found another herbal medicine, saying that even if they could not sell their flower baskets, they could still sell the herbal medicine.
The Zhou family had fish for dinner today. Manbao drank a bowl of fish soup and lay down on the bed contentedly. Unable to fall asleep for a while, she went to look through the things that had been entered into the system and looked at their entries. Then she went to the mall and took a closer look at her mother's medicine.
Then I fell asleep contentedly, and woke up the next day full of energy and went 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 invited her to eat.