Stay Home Daddy: I Was Reborn After My Daughter Passed Away
Chapter 189 She actually thought of ditching Gu Chen to wander the streets alone!_1

Chapter 189: 189 She actually thought of ditching Gu Chen to wander the streets alone!_1

In the evening, Ji Pianran took out the business card the middle-aged woman who did the embroidery had given her and dialed the number on it.

"Hello," the voice of the middle-aged woman came through the phone.

Ji Pianran clutched the white phone Gu Chen had given her, her tone plain yet tinged with a touch of excitement.

"Hello, we met at the vegetable market last time. The Phoenix Pattern you asked me to embroider is finished."

Upon hearing this, the woman’s tone instantly became excited.

"Ah! It’s you, that’s fantastic. How about we arrange to meet somewhere tomorrow?"

The middle-aged woman truly appreciated Ji Pianran’s craftsmanship, and the nearly a month’s wait had been quite agonizing for her.

Hearing this, Ji Pianran let out a sigh of relief, "Alright then, please tell me an address, and I’ll come over tomorrow."

She had been waiting for this day for a long time.

"Great, great, I’ll send you the address right away. Pedestrian Street number three hundred sixty, we open at eight in the morning. You must, must come over," said the middle-aged woman with eagerness.

Ji Pianran nodded, "Okay."

After hanging up, she yawned and went to bed to sleep.

The next morning, Gu Chen got up and cooked some vegetable porridge and boiled three eggs.

Then he went to the front room. The Cordyceps had matured completely, and he had already agreed with Guang to deliver the goods today. He had to keep his word.

He took a small shovel and carefully dug out each piece of Cordyceps. After dusting off the soil, he packed them with great care in a small cloth bag.

After getting all this done, Gu Chen entered the Spirit Field.

Just a few days had passed, and the cherries were now ripe, turning a darker shade of red, with many already fallen to the ground.

Even from a distance, Gu Chen could smell the sweet aroma coming from the cherries.

He found two nylon bags and used a shovel to fill them with a portion of the cherries. Since he was going to town anyway, he thought he might as well bring the products with him to test the waters and see how well they would sell in the county city.

As he was pondering this, he heard a sound.

"Ding," went the noise.

Then came the system’s special emotionless voice, "Congratulations, host, for acquiring the latest skill, Intermediate Chinese Medicine Practitioner."

Chinese medicine?

Gu Chen was taken aback; he didn’t want to be a doctor!

He just wanted to sell medicine!!!

"Wait, can we negotiate for a moment? Can we switch it up?"

The system was probably encountering a haggling host for the first time and was clearly a beat slower to respond.

"I’m sorry, host, skills cannot be exchanged."

"That won’t do," Gu Chen became anxious, "I’ve bought land, over a hundred acres of it. Frankly, I don’t want to be a doctor; I want seeds."

Selling medicine would definitely bring in more money than practicing Chinese medicine!

Gu Chen was a plain man; he didn’t want to heal the world, just to ensure a good life for his wife and child.

Besides, if he became a doctor, wouldn’t he need to adhere to a schedule, punching in and out of a job? No, he wanted to spend more time with his wife and child.

System: "The seeds will be automatically exchanged and delivered when the time comes."

Gu Chen: "?????"

What’s this all about?

Shocked, he said, "Why didn’t you say so sooner! So the seeds are exchanged, not given to me by you?"

System: "Seeds are exchanged based on the number of times the host has planted and harvested in the Spirit Field. When a certain number of times is reached, seeds will be automatically sent."

What a deal!

Gu Chen suddenly realized!

"What about last time’s Cordyceps seeds then?"

Were those seeds also exchanged by him?

"Yes!" The system was definitive.

Gu Chen glanced at the things in his Spirit Field and suddenly had an idea. Since it was based on planting and harvesting times, wouldn’t it work if he just brought back more things to plant today?

The more you plant, the more seeds you get from the system.

If that were the case, all I’d have to do is plant like crazy to get a lot of seeds from the system, then plant those seeds on the land I’ve rented.

The profits, just thinking about them makes my heart race.

Right, that’s the plan. I’ll start by buying some vegetable seeds today. From now on, I’ll grow my own vegetables at home and won’t need to buy them at the market anymore. That will also be more convenient.

Thinking this, Gu Chen excitedly carried two nylon bags filled with cherries out of the space.

He placed the cherries and the cordyceps in the van.

Then he returned to the kitchen, served the rice, and Ji Pianran, who had been washing and combing Sugar’s hair, finished and came out of the room.

The family of three had breakfast and set off into the city bathed in the morning sun.

The little one loved going out with her dad and mom the most. She sat in the back, holding the doll her dad had bought her a few days ago, and played with it intently.

Gu Chen gripped the steering wheel and glanced at Ji Pianran beside him, his tone gentle.

"By the way, since we’ll be on Pedestrian Street, let’s go buy some clothes. It’s spring now, so we should buy some more for you and Sugar to wear in rotation."

These days, city folks had started wearing windbreakers, clingy and agreeable fabric with excellent drape.

He thought his wife would look especially good in them.

Ji Pianran blinked. She had been planning to sell her embroidery and buy an outfit for Gu Chen with the money, but Gu Chen was thinking of buying clothes for her first.

She smiled, her face full of happiness.

"Once you drop me off, go take care of your things. I’ll take Sugar for a stroll in the streets. When you’re done, you can come and pick us up."

She had previously asked Aunt Li and Aunt Zhang, and everyone said that her Phoenix Pattern embroidery could sell for at least three hundred yuan.

With three hundred yuan, she could buy clothes for Gu Chen.

He goes into town every day and deals with city folks. If he’s not dressed properly, he might be ridiculed.

Ji Pianran didn’t want Gu Chen to be laughed at.

Originally, Gu Chen had planned to sell the embroidery with Ji Pianran and then buy some nice clothes for both of them before he got busy with his own work.

He hadn’t expected Ji Pianran to want to wander around by herself, and he hesitated.

"Can you manage all by yourself?"

Ji Pianran laughed.

"What’s there to manage? After selling the embroidery, I’ll take Sugar to see if there’s anything she likes in the streets. It’s been a long time since I bought anything for Sugar."

She didn’t want Gu Chen to follow her for two reasons: first, she was afraid that if he knew she wanted to buy clothes for him, he might refuse.

Second, she knew Gu Chen was genuinely busy. She had seen it with her own eyes and didn’t want to trouble him.

Gu Chen nodded.

"Alright then, just be careful on your own, and remember to call me if anything comes up."

His wife had made up her mind, and it wouldn’t be right for him to insist on accompanying her. Besides, he really did have things to take care of. It might be best to get busy and then head home together afterward. That wouldn’t be a bad plan either.

The car made its way towards Pedestrian Street.

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The middle-aged woman who bought Ji Pianran’s embroidery was surnamed Lin, named Lin Rong. Her family had a moderately-sized qipao factory and she also owned several shops.

This one on Pedestrian Street was the largest and the most exquisitely decorated.

So she often came here when she had nothing else to do.

Having arranged to meet with Ji Pianran yesterday, she purposely came to the shop early today.

Only now did she park the car and walk towards the shop.

Everyone was just opening up, preparing to do business for the day.

Seeing Lin Rong arrive, they all greeted her warmly, "Yo, Sister Lin, what brings you by today?"

In this small county town, the Lin family’s qipao business was the most famous.

Many who had started their stores at the same time were still cooped up in their tiny ten-square-meter shops, while Lin Rong already owned a factory and several stores, each over a hundred square meters.

Unknowingly, she became a benchmark in the eyes of her fellow clothing business peers.

Seeing her, they would all smile and call out Sister Lin, exchanging pleasantries.