Daily Life in the Countryside After Being Reborn
Chapter 155 - 90: Earning Money While Healing (End of Volume 1)

Chapter 155: Chapter 90: Earning Money While Healing (End of Volume 1)

Everyone was gone, and nearly a hundred fragrant redbud trees were pitifully abandoned on the wasteland, waiting to wither under the sun and the wind.

"Finally, they’re all gone," a figure emerged from the waist-high weeds that had been pushed aside. To avoid being spotted by Qian Yongcai and being recognized as the same eight-year-old girl, she wore the clothes she had brought from Ge Village.

"From what I heard, it seems like Qian Yongcai got what he deserved, hehe, serves him right. But the old man leading them looked quite impressive, although he is only half-competent. You guys are lucky to have met me. I’m going to ’wash away your bad luck’ right now." Xiao Xian chuckled as she pulled out a bottle of orange soda, which she had bought for 50 cents from a nearby store. The golden soda had all gone into her belly, and the bottle was now filled with a red-copper colored liquid, which, needless to say, was the "Universal Healing Medicine" taken from the newly grown copper leaves on the sugar cane.

Using it once required a copper exchange, so Xiao Xian, being cautious, first swapped it for about twenty kilograms of brass. Otherwise, if it got too picky due to acquired tastes, it would be even more difficult to please later on.

Xiao Xian’s movements were nimble; she first dropped a small amount of the solution at the root of the fragrant redbud trees. The moldy parts near the scale veins melted away like snow in fire, and the tree veins returned to their normal yellow color.

The black spots on the leaves faded, and when she increased the dosage of the "copper solution," all the spots disappeared.

After treating a hundred redbud trees, Xiao Xian had a preliminary understanding of the "copper solution’s" effects. Even those saplings deemed by forestry experts beyond saving were now growing about ten centimeters taller in a short period, with more developed vascular systems. The veined patterns on the oval leaves had also become much clearer, looking vibrant with an increased resistance to diseases.

"Done with the treatment, next is to return them to their rightful owner. Everyone depends on the land for a living, it’s just that those developers have made too much unrighteous money. I suppose a little deception on my part isn’t too excessive, right?" Xiao Xian looked around at the various apartments springing up from the ground. On the day Qian Yongcai went to buy trees, he criticized the real estate developers, saying they pushed up housing prices and were the true vampires.

It was unknown whether it was good or bad luck for the developers of Blue Sky Apartment. Bad luck for running into an unscrupulous contractor like Qian Yongcai, but good luck because they had just released a message in the morning at Guiyang’s flower and bird market, seeking to purchase suitable greening trees at high prices. By the afternoon, several vendors from the local market had informed them. One claimed they had just received a batch of top-quality redbud trees, totaling about thirty-some pots. Another said they had carefully cultivated over fifty redbud trees intended for government offices, but seeing the good price offered, they decided to sell them right away.

On the way to the flower and bird market, the forestry expert also bought a top-grade redbud tree from a street vendor pushing a cart. Altogether, the number of trees was exactly ninety-nine, neither more nor less.

"The number is quite auspicious; let’s just forget about the missing one. These are much better than the ones we imported from Spain last time, look at their size and leaves, definitely not so easy to get sick," the developer, a complete layman, affirmed confidently.

"I wonder how the mainland has the conditions to grow such good fragrant redbud trees," the forestry expert mused, stroking his chin in a tone of both admiration and wonder.

"The total is sixty-one thousand. After deducting the thirty-nine hundred given to those three bosses, the total amount for purchasing trees is ninety thousand. Hehe, it’s much more than what Qian Yongcai offered. Does this count as profiting from calamity?" Xiao Xian showed off a few idioms she learned from Zhu Shijun. She had not an ounce of guilt in her heart; for several years to come, the idea that "when it comes to eating, the Emperor is supreme" would dominate her thoughts.

What those cunning developers from Lantian Group did not anticipate was that no sooner had they transported the trees away than a teenage girl received a stack of cash from the hands of three different bosses.

Three completely distinct sellers and the newly refurbished fragrant red-bud, no one would suspect a young girl from Ge Village.

As for the one hundredth and last fragrant red-bud, Xiao Xian kept it as a souvenir, perched atop Little White Jiao’s head, waiting only for her command: "Let’s go home," and with that, a white rainbow as swift as a shooting star sped towards the Southwest Mountain Area.

Guiyang became the first checkpoint on Xiao Xian’s road to ’fortune-making’. Xiao Xian made it home before evening, while Zhu Shijun was still sitting on the train on his way back home, lost in a multitude of thoughts. To avoid Zhuo Feng, the old man had paid extra attention when purchasing his train ticket, staying on high alert at the slightest rustle of wind or movement in the grass, until he boarded the train and sat on the uncomfortably hard seat, which finally allowed his tense nerves to relax slightly.

Was what he was doing right or wrong? On a subconscious level, Zhu Shijun wanted to keep Xiao Xian by his side, always waiting for her to grow up, get married, and have a happy family. But after giving it some deep thought, the old man began to doubt his selfishness. Decades ago, he had forced Xiao Xian’s father to accept a certain way of life, would he make Xiao Xian go down the same path and dictate another lifestyle to her after another decade?

Up at dawn, rest at dusk, did he really expect Xiao Xian to forever have her fingers soiled with mountain soil, living a life like the village women, for her entire life?

Go back, or ask Xiao Xian for her thoughts. But she’s still young, maybe in two more years, when the child is a bit older, then he’ll ask. Let him be selfish for another two years, Zhu Shijun thought as he watched the continuous retreat of fields and the long, winding ridges of the mountains from the train window and closed his eyes.

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