Zhou Lijun said, "I won't dare to water it anymore. What if it breaks? One hundred gold, one hundred gold, that's one thousand taels of silver."
Zhou Lang turned his head and shouted, "How much?"
"One thousand taels, Fourth Uncle, it's been a while now and you still haven't figured out how much silver is one hundred gold pieces?"
Zhou Lang counted on his fingers but couldn't figure it out, so he looked at Man Bao.
Man Bao nodded, and Zhou Lang clutched his chest and was speechless. This was really too much.
Zhou Lang's eyes almost turned into ingots when he looked at the pot of flowers, "Man Bao, why should we just put such an important flower on the desk like this?"
"This is for viewing, where would you put it if not on the desk?"
Zhou Lang always felt that it was unsafe to put it on the desk like this, and said: "How dangerous is this? Think about it. You are studying here and walking around. What if you accidentally knock over the flowerpot and break it?"
"What if there is a mouse in the house and it knocks it over when it crawls over?" Zhou Lang was so worried, "Even if it doesn't knock it down, what if it bites the orchid?"
Man Bao: "...Fourth brother, it has been in the study for almost a year before this."
"Then I'm impatient too." Zhou Lang said: "This thing is too delicate. It's safest to exchange it for money. Man Bao, please tell Mr. Zhuang and exchange this for money?"
Man Bao thought for a while and said: "Fourth brother, you have to think about it this way. Now this is just a pot of orchid. We will keep it until next year. When it grows better, we can divide it into another pot and keep it for another two years.
Divide out four pots, how much do you think they cost?"
Zhou Lang counted on his fingers, and Zhou Lijun already said: "Four hundred gold."
Zhou Lang covered his chest.
He looked at the pot of orchids in front of him and stood up in a daze, "You have to take good care of it. You have to take good care of it."
When Zhou Lijun saw his fourth uncle walking away in such a daze, he couldn't help but turn around to see his sister-in-law.
Man Bao smiled at her and rolled his eyes.
Zhou Lijun sighed, "I remember that my husband taught us a lesson before and told us a story about how rare things are valuable."
Man Bao said: "Just don't tell Fourth Brother. We only made two hundred taels. When I have time later, I will go to the flower market to select beautiful and rare peonies and orchids to plant."
Zhou Lijun thought for a moment and then said: "Sister-in-law, please teach me how to grow peonies and orchids."
Man Bao nodded, "No problem, just wait while I go to the library to find relevant books for you."
Man Bao preached and asked for help. When Bai Shan came back from school, she even mentioned it to him and said, "You can also help me search and see if there are books on orchids and peonies in the library."
Bai Shan said there was no problem and asked: "Why do you suddenly think of selling flowers?"
Man Bao said: "I need money."
"Would you like to lend you some?" Bai Shan calculated his savings in his mind and said, "Although I don't have much money, it seems to be a little more than yours."
"When I really run out of money, I will borrow it from you. I still have it now, and I just made two hundred taels." She told her about selling orchids to Mrs. Tang.
"But I asked my husband, two hundred taels is the market price. Our orchids are so good that they can be sold for this price outside. No wonder County Magistrate Tang asked me to ask Mrs. Tang for advice when it comes to making money." Man Bao said:
"I really want to learn from Mrs. Tang. I will ask her for advice next time I meet her."
Bai Shandao: "If you ask directly, Mrs. Tang will not be very happy."
Man Bao nodded, "I will be more tactful."
Seeing that they had finished speaking, Bai Erlang said: "Twelve is Qi Jue's birthday. He invited us to go to his home to celebrate his birthday together. Will you go?"
Man Bao said: "Isn't he still young? Why is it his birthday?"
"How do I know?" Bai Erlang said: "Qi Jue said that he has a birthday every year. On that day, he can invite many friends to his house as guests, and the family will also invite musicians to perform for them. You just decide whether to go or not."
Children in Qili Village are not allowed to celebrate their birthdays. If any child of Lao Zhou's family celebrates his birthday, he can eat a bowl of longevity noodles with two eggs on that day, and the birthday will be considered passed.
Even Lao Zhoutou, he didn't even celebrate his birthday, how could the younger generation surpass him?
So not only Bai Shan and Man Bao, but also Bai Erlang were a little worried. They never celebrate birthdays, so naturally they don't give gifts to each other. For a while, they really didn't know what to give.
"We always give gifts to people who come to celebrate their birthdays. What should we give?"
The three of them looked at each other, and finally looked at Mr. Zhuang, their eyes full of desire for knowledge.
Mr. Zhuang thought for a while and then asked: "Is Qi Jue just inviting you kids, or is the Qi family using Qi Jue's birthday to entertain the adults?"
Man Bao and Bai Shan turned to look at Bai Erlang.
Bai Erlang scratched his head and said, "I'll ask him tomorrow."
Mr. Zhuang nodded, stopped what Bai Shan and Man Bao were about to say, and said to Mr. Zhuang, "Ask more carefully."
Bai Erlang nodded.
After a night of silence, Man Bao climbed onto the bed and entered the system to check her points. She had dug a lot of plants that could be included in the mountains before, and Man Bao had saved a copy of them.
She picked up some of the rest and put them in the system, ready to be sold in the system. The others were planted at the foot of the hill behind the house, or dried to make specimens.
The main reason is that she dug up four plants of each kind, and sometimes only one plant, so she could only use it this way.
There are still a lot of points left, but the points for the three entries that came out have all arrived. Manbao stared at the points for a while, feeling happy in his heart, and asked: "Koko, how many points do you need to expand the scope?"
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Keke said: "Not much more, more than two thousand."
Man Bao said: "Can I give you my points?"
Keke: "No, this is against the rules. It is suspected of seducing the host. If found, you will be investigated."
Man Bao: "I volunteered. I spoke for you when you were investigated."
Keke firmly refused. It was in no rush to upgrade. There was a big difference between upgrading one level and upgrading many levels.
It doesn't want to take such a big risk for this.
It's a pity that Man Bao didn't even use the free points.
Man Bao sighed and turned to the classroom for medical class.
Because of Keke's uprightness, Manbao kept an eye on the medicinal materials even more closely.
Early the next morning, I ran to the medicine shop to find shopkeeper Lao Zheng: "Shopkeeper, have you contacted the medicine farmer for me?"
Shopkeeper Lao Zheng looked at her helplessly and said, "You just told me yesterday, why are you so anxious?"
Seeing her anxious look, he said, "Don't worry, I already sent someone to notify the drug farmers yesterday. I'll get a reply in three to five days."
Man Bao stared, "How long does it take three to five days?"
She said anxiously: "Shopkeeper, where are the drug farmers? How about I go find them myself?"
Can shopkeeper Lao Zheng tell her? Of course he can't, so he said: "Don't worry, don't worry, it's far away. Can your husband trust you to go out of the city?"