??66: Chapter 55: Female Ligustrum Lucidum
66: Chapter 55: Female Ligustrum Lucidum
Zhou Liulang followed Fifth Brother’s lead and also entrusted his money to Manbao for safekeeping.
Zhou Silang considered doing the sa, but upon looking at the five coins in his palm, he felt it wasn’t necessary and pocketed the money instead.
Manbao then consoled him, “Silang, once your barren land is able to grow crops, you’ll be fine.
You’ll earn a lot of money after the autumn harvest.”
Zhou Silang, “I appreciate it but my father fard his whole life and I never saw him with a lot of money.
As for that small piece of new land, I’d be happy just to see it yield anything.”
Manbao hadn’t expected Silang to lack confidence, “Silang, the reason Father didn’t have money was because he had a wife and children to care for.
You don’t have either, how could you not make money?”
She said, “If you can’t make money, how are you going to repay your debts?
You owe quite a bit.”
Zhou Silang felt a little disheartened.
Looking at his little sister, he asked, “Can’t you help your brother out?”
Manbao patted her chest and said, “Rest assured Silang, I will definitely help you.”
Datou and the others also enthusiastically added, “Fourth Uncle, we will help you too.”
Zhou Wulang and Zhou Liulang were also very brotherly and, putting their arms around Zhou Silang’s shoulders said, “Silang, we will help you too.
If we return early tomorrow, we’ll go to the fields to help you clear the land.”
Manbao thought it over and felt her life outside of school should be more enriching.
Most importantly, she intended to find more unfamiliar plants for Keke to earn points.
So, she also chid in, “I will go help you tomorrow.”
Zhou Silang: …The help I want isn’t this kind of help.
Still, seeing the sincerity in his siblings and nieces’ and nephews’ eyes, Zhou Silang thought to himself, forget it, even if he got involved, he wouldn’t be able to divide much money anyway.
What was crucial was that Father and Mother would definitely not allow him to tamper with his younger brothers and sister’s business.
Zhou Silang sighed sadly.
Thinking they had agreed, Manbao went to give the recalculated money to her mother, and then handed her own coins to Keke.
She felt she needed a bigger pouch too.
Thinking so, Manbao’s eyes glittered and she entered “money pouch” into the market search, but what ca up was a series of shiny golden circles resembling copper coins.
Surprised, Manbao scratched her head and said, “What I want is a money pouch.”
The system glanced at her and suggested, “You should input ‘handmade fabric bag’ instead.”
Otherwise, even if she typed in ‘bag’, what ca up would still be all sorts of strange things.
Manbao followed Keke’s suggestion and entered the search.
Everything that ca up was exceptionally pretty, dazzling in various colors.
Manbao exclaid in delight, eagerly browsing through them.
She liked this one, she liked that one; the most critical point was these items seed quite large and appeared capable of holding many, many copper coins.
Manbao went to check her points, but her smile froze as she stared in shock, “Why is it so expensive?
It actually costs thirty-eight points, so much more than paper and sugar.”
In Manbao’s view, paper and sugar should have been the more expensive items.
The system explained, “In the future, materials are abundant, so paper and sugar are not precious.
But craftsmanship and labor are expensive, which is why handmade bags are pricey.”
Manbao looked on, reluctant to purchase.
But instead of exiting, she took out a piece of paper and began to draw a bag according to one of the images.
She intended to ask Third Sister-in-law to make it for her.
It was just fabric, and they had so at ho.
Manbao, with her drawing in hand, sought out Third Sister-in-law and described to her in detail what the bag looked like.
Ms.
He automatically disregarded the colorful embroideries Manbao ntioned since she didn’t know how to do them.
However, making the bag as the young miss described was not a problem.
But fabric was a concern.
She took the paper and said, “Miss, let
discuss it with Granny first, I’ll get the money and buy the fabric to make it for you.”
Manbao nodded happily, “You don’t need to go talk; I’ll speak with Mother about it.”
Mainly because she was in a rush and couldn’t wait for Ms.
He to bring it up.
Manbao ran off to find Ms.
Qian to talk about buying fabric.
Ms.
Qian, having watched her daughter running about the entire evening, never settling down, laughed and said, “Alright, I’ll buy it for you, just wait.”
Turning, she called over Five and gave him five coins, instructing, “Tomorrow when you go to the county, drop by the fabric store.
Ask if they have any surplus fabric scraps.
If they do, buy a few pounds to bring back, rember to pick large, brightly colored pieces.”
Indeed, Ms.
Qian did not plan to buy whole cloth for her daughter, as it was too expensive.
She had seen the drawing; to make the pack, it would use up almost as much fabric as making a small jacket for her, which wasn’t worth it.
Therefore, buying fabric scraps was the better choice.
For Zhou Wulang, it was the first ti to receive money directly from his mother, and feeling like a grown-up, he was extrely excited.
He turned around and began to show off to Manbao.
Only then did Manbao realize her mother intended to use leftover scraps to make her bag, and her excitent soared with envy, “If only I could go to the county tomorrow, I could pick the scraps myself.”
For the first ti, Manbao felt that going to school had its downsides.
Zhou Wulang promised her, “Don’t worry, I’ll definitely pick the prettiest floral fabrics for you.”
He then took out two strings of purple fruit from his basket and handed them to Manbao, “Here, what you wanted.”
Upon seeing the purple fruit that Keke called ligustrum berries, Manbao was thrilled, “Thank you, Fifth Brother!”
Zhou Wulang, pleased, said, “If you like them, I’ll pick so more for you tomorrow.
But rember, you can’t eat these.”
Manbao agreed and then turned to hand the berries to Keke.
The system didn’t take them all but left her one string and recorded the other into the system.
Manbao found the fruit visually appealing, and being a fruit lover, she couldn’t help but salivate at the sight of the accumulated purple berries.
The system said, “This is dicine.”
Manbao continued to drool, “Is the dicine tasty?”
The system: “…”
Manbao wiped her mouth, looking longingly at the string of fruit, “If only the dicine my mother takes were like this, she wouldn’t find it so bitter.”
The system inford her, “Your mother’s dicine contains ligustrum berries.”
Manbao’s eyes widened slightly.
After a mont of astonishnt, she sprang out of bed and dashed outside, already resisting the urge to sleep with Old Zhou and Ms.
Qian hearing the commotion from the adjoining room and unable to help saying, “Manbao, you have school tomorrow, settle down.”
Dragging her little shoes, Manbao rushed over and asked, “Mother, where’s your dicine?”
“What’s wrong?”
“I want to see it.”
By that ti, night had fallen, and Manbao insisted on seeing Ms.
Qian’s dicine.
No matter how much her parents tried to persuade her, it was futile.
They realized she was on the verge of throwing a tantrum on the floor if they didn’t comply.
Ms.
Qian, distressed, waved to her husband, signaling him to fetch the packet of dicine for their daughter to see.
Manbao then opened the dicine packet and peered at the contents with widened eyes, completely unable to identify the ligustrum berries within.
Keke reportedly didn’t recognize them either until it had previously scanned Ms.
Qian’s prescription and knew ligustrum berries were listed as an ingredient.
Now that it had cataloged ligustrum berries, using technical analysis, Keke quickly pointed them out to Manbao.
The ligustrum berries on the string were plump and round, a vibrant purple color, but those in the dicine were dried, unrecognizable next to fresh ones.
Had Keke not insisted these were ligustrum berries, Manbao would have never made the connection.
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