971: Chapter 950: Preparation (Extra chapter for book friend “Hua” as a reward) 971: Chapter 950: Preparation (Extra chapter for book friend “Hua” as a reward) Manbao was not very adept at counting days; she spent a long ti trying to calculate with her fingers and still couldn’t figure it out, so she ran back to the study to consult books, and after recalculating, she finally settled on a day, “The twenty-first is a great day.”
Bai Shan expressed his approval, “Just in ti for a day off.”
Manbao nodded, and there were also four days to prepare, which was enough.
Manbao told Zhou Wulang about this date.
Then Zhou Wulang began to lead everyone in making preparations; Mr.
Zhuang wrote a sign for them, which Zhou Wulang took to have carved.
On the day the sign was carved, Manbao specially asked Mr.
Zhuang for half a day off to take a look at the shop and helped Zhou Wulang and the rest move their belongings over.
There were two rooms in the back courtyard of the shop that could accommodate people, and they were quite spacious; nevertheless, Zhou Wulang and the others decided to live in the shop, which would make managing the business more convenient.
Manbao walked around the courtyard and in the back kitchen saw two iron pots, one of which was clearly new.
Zhou Wulang said, “The only good thing about the capital city is that iron pots are a bit cheaper than where we co from.”
Manbao laughed heartily upon hearing this, “In the big city, things precious to us beco cheaper.”
Scarce goods are indeed prized.
Manbao felt this most deeply, like the florist in the comrcial town who, because they didn’t have daffodils there, beca overjoyed when she simply let Keke take a photo for him, and he promptly offered her quite a few types of flowers she had never even heard of.
However, it was also because she had never heard of them, confirming that such flowers seed not to exist in her world, that she chose not to accept them.
Manbao still felt a bit of regret.
But she did kind of understand the seller’s feelings, so after getting Keke’s and Doctor D’s consent, she told them about Doctor D’s research institute.
This ti Manbao listed a daffodil on the forum, and Doctor D bought it right away.
Her research had made so progress, although more studies had not yet co out.
She already knew how to divide the plant; even though she bought only one with just one bulb, she could cut it into eight parts and ensure their survival rate.
So far, the genetic stability was not bad.
Ever since the last ti Keke got involved with the future world and lost contact, Manbao learned on her own what could be said and what could not be asked within the system.
She also learned how to extract the information she wanted.
Whether it was Keke, the researchers she encountered on the forum, or sellers in the comrcial town, Manbao realized that what they cared about the most with animals and plants was their genes, particularly the stability of those genes.
She felt this was important to them, very important to Keke’s world.
Based on her experience, usually if sothing is lacking, it becos expensive and very important.
Obviously, the genes in the future world are very unstable, so they need to find plants and animals with stable genes.
And there are many different things within this category.
Manbao had also listed chrysanthemums before, Keke said, after scanning, no other chrysanthemums of the sa variety had been collected, so she got quite a few points.
She thought their world didn’t have chrysanthemums, but now it seed that they did, or at least sothing that looked like one, just that the genes changed, resulting in a variant of chrysanthemums.
Manbao felt that world was amazing; they seed to have so much, yet it was as if they owned none of it.
So people delivered the things they had purchased, and it wasn’t until Zhou Wulang directed them to put everything in place that he turned around to see Manbao daydreaming and said, “If you’re bored, you can go ho first, or go out and play.
Don’t just hang around here.”
Manbao snapped out of it, rolled up her sleeves, and said, “Fifth Brother, let help you.”
“Don’t bother; your hands are far too precious, being ant for needlework.
You can’t be moving heavy objects; what if you get hurt?” Zhou Wulang said while he was tidying things up, “Today, Lichong went to the post station to retrieve a letter from Dad.
The letter said that we’ve harvested all the wheat at ho and this year’s yield was very good.
Fourth Brother just by selling wheat to County Magistrate Tang and villages in Yizhou has made quite a bit of money.
It also says that Old Madam Liu is coming to the capital and asks whether to bring so money with her.”
Manbao stretched out her hand, “Where’s the letter?”
Zhou Wulang slapped her hand away, “It’s at ho.
Who carries letters around with them?
I’ll get it for you when we go back.”
Manbao then retracted her hand.
She thought for a mont and said, “I have to give Fourth Brother a heads-up; we can’t do the wheat business in Yizhou anymore.
Last year, County Magistrate Tang released a lot of wheat, and there will definitely be many with good yields this year, that’s why our wheat seeds have a good reputation.”
“People haven’t realized this yet, but once they do, surely many will start selling their wheat seeds.
Next year, it definitely won’t make money.
We can still sell our own, and if we can’t sell the seeds, we can sell the grain, but if we buy from others, we’ll lose.”
Zhou Wulang nodded his head repeatedly, “I was thinking the sa thing, unless Fourth Brother plans to cart the wheat seeds elsewhere to sell.”
“Nothing doing in Mianzhou or Yizhou, and in Longzhou neither; Bai Shan’s family has almost cornered the market there,” Manbao ntally crossed off a large area, then said, “Unless we go farther away, we could try Jingzhou.
Any further than that, we are talking about places like Luozhou and Zhengzhou.”
Zhou Wulang didn’t recognize any of the places and asked directly, “Where is that?”
Manbao said solemnly, “It’s very far from us.”
“Then forget it, just to sell a few carts of wheat seeds, think of how much it will cost on the road, and it’s dangerous too.”
Manbao nodded, “Better to stick with farming.
Once I find so grape seeds, we’ll go ho to plant grapes, then make wine.”
These past few days, Zhou Wulang hadn’t stopped hearing Manbao talk about making wine.
At first, he was full of confidence and very happy and even went to ask Mr.
Zhuang for advice.
But after asking, his enthusiasm was doused.
He felt Manbao was being too unreliable, so he said, “Forget about it; we haven’t even seen a shadow of those grape seeds, planting dicinal herbs would be better.
This year, Big Brother improved Second Brother’s mountainside, planting lots of Ligustrum.”
Manbao felt a bit disappointed, “Ligustrum is fine too.
I’ve asked Shopkeeper Zheng; not many people plant Ligustrum, most are wild and picked, and the yield is very unstable, there’s a shortage every year.
If our family plants more, if Yizhou can’t handle it, we can cart it to the capital to sell.”
Zhou Wulang also nodded, “Right, dicinal herbs are always in demand, just like food.
What else do you think our family could plant besides Ligustrum?”
“Jujubes,” Manbao said without hesitation, “They’re delicious fresh and dried.”
At the pharmacy, Shopkeeper Zheng loved giving her jujubes to snack on.
Zhou Wulang stood up to leave.
Manbao called from behind, waving her hand, “Fifth Brother, think about it, your mountain and Sixth Brother’s are still vacant.”
Zhou Wulang ran off.
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