The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 180 - 169 Teaching how to Plant Ginger (with an additional 135,000 recommended votes from Yunqi)

Chapter 180: Chapter 169 Teaching how to Plant Ginger (with an additional 135,000 recommended votes from Yunqi)

Aside from her studies, Manbao was always passionate about things for only a short while, and after some time, she would forget about them, of course, this was also because she was young and had limited memory capacity, so she couldn’t hold onto too many things.

For example, a few days ago a villager greeted her, wanting to exchange some ginger seeds, she agreed, but afterward, she completely forgot about it and carried on with her routine of going to school, coming home, reading, and playing, without remembering the matter at all.

However, Junior Ms. Qian still remembered, and after asking Ms. Qian and Zhou SiLang, she dug up the remaining ginger in the field. After setting aside enough for their family’s seeds for next year, she exchanged the rest with other villagers.

But very few people paid with money; most of them offered chicken eggs, or a bamboo tube of rice.

Junior Ms. Qian wasn’t picky, she simply looked at what people brought and how much of it, and then decided how much ginger to exchange for it.

By the time Manbao finally remembered about this, Junior Ms. Qian had already traded all the ginger. Manbao ran back to her room, looked at the pot full of chicken eggs, called out twice in surprise, and then exclaimed, "Sister-in-law, let’s boil some eggs to eat tonight."

Junior Ms. Qian looked at her mother-in-law.

Ms. Qian smiled and said, "Alright, let’s boil eggs, and make enough so that each person can have two."

"I want poached eggs," Manbao requested, "just add a little ginger, don’t add anything else, and they will be delicious."

Ms. Qian touched her small mouth and said, "Your mouth is the pickiest of all."

Manbao laughed heartily, and after her laughter subsided, she grabbed Junior Ms. Qian’s hand and asked, "Sister-in-law, which families exchanged for ginger? Did you tell them to bury the ginger in sandy soil so it stays fresh for a long time, and also to remember not to water it too much when planting in the spring, but to fertilize it more..."

Junior Ms. Qian felt overwhelmed and said, "They didn’t say whether they are going to eat it or plant it, how could I just give them advice out of the blue?"

"Then tell me who has exchanged for it, and I will go and advise them."

Seeing her eager and ready, Junior Ms. Qian knew that Manbao was bored from staying at home and wanted to go out to play.

So she said, "For our neighbors around here, nearly every household has made an exchange except for Zhou Dayuan’s family. If you want to advise them, you can just follow the road and visit each house one by one."

Manbao got excited, turned around, and called Datou and the others to join her.

Datou wanted to play with his little friends and was busy, so he declined.

Daya recently took a keen interest in sewing and was squatting next to Third Aunt-in-law to learn, not wanting to go either. In the end, Second Son and Erya went along with Sanya and Sanya, even the youngest, Silang, was toddling after them wanting to play.

Thus, Manbao began her visits along the road in front of her house.

In broad daylight, since country folk generally didn’t lock their front doors, Manbao would simply stand at their gateways and ask the people inside, "Auntie, has your family exchanged ginger with us? Are you going to plant it? Do you know how? Let me teach you..."

Or, "Sister-in-law, I heard you exchanged ginger with my sister-in-law. Are you planning to plant it in your vegetable garden? Do you know how? Let me teach you..."

Under the pretext of teaching them how to plant ginger, Manbao walked through the entire village and also acquired quite a few interesting things.

Such as a very beautiful feather and a very pretty stone. Manbao, regardless of whether she received anything or what she received, was always happy.

After receiving something, she would put it in her bag, and when the bag was too full, she would carry it. By the time she completed her round of visits, her arms were filled with all sorts of odds and ends.

Second Son and Erya also had a great time following her, even saying to Manbao, "Little aunt, let’s play like this again next time."

"We need to find a good excuse," Manbao said wistfully, "It would’ve been great if they had asked our family for yam seeds, that way we could have gone around again."

Junior Ms. Qian: ... She really couldn’t understand what was so fun about going from door to door.

The adults might not understand, but the children admired Manbao, and Bai Shanbao was particularly envious. Knowing that Manbao had visited almost every house in the village the day before, he expressed his envy and said, "Next time you go on a visit, remember to call me."

Manbao assured him confidently that it wouldn’t be a problem.

The villagers, following Manbao’s advice, buried the exchanged ginger pieces in sand. Indeed, after several days, when they dug it up, it was still plump and not dried out.

So they confidently buried it in the ground and left it there.

Some exchanged ginger with the Zhou family to eat, as the New Year was approaching, and every now and then, the household would want to have some meat, inevitably needing some ginger to remove the gameyness.

Or they needed ginger to dispel the cold.

The rest was to be planted.

Let’s not talk about the ginger planted by the Zhou family in their fields, just look at the patch they planted in their vegetable garden, which is still growing well even now.

By planting their own ginger, they would no longer need to buy it later on, just dig it up from the vegetable garden when needed, how convenient, and money-saving.

At this time, the villagers had no idea how much money the Zhou family had made from the ginger, as Zhou WuLang and the others always sold things directly walking the streets when they went to the county town, not at a fixed market stall.

So how much money they made was only known to the Zhou family.

And because of their ignorance, the villagers only thought of ginger as another ingredient to be planted in their vegetable gardens, saving them the hassle and money of going out to buy it in the future.

Manbao’s visits to teach everyone how to plant ginger didn’t seem strange to them at all, because the villagers often exchanged such planting experiences.

If I grow better melons than you, you ask me how, and I tell you, so this was nothing out of the ordinary.

The science and technology privacy-conscious Keke, invented by future humans, watched all this without saying anything, letting the host buzz around like a busy little bee here and there, and when tired from playing, she would dutifully return to her room and read, appearing incredibly well-behaved.

It was then that Keke said, "Host, the New Year is approaching, let’s summarize what we’ve achieved over the past year."

As soon as Manbao heard there was something new to do, she immediately dropped her book, sat up straight, her eyes sparkling with excitement, "Yes, yes!"

Keke put the statistical chart in front of her and said, "Host, look, over the past year, you’ve recorded a total of eighteen plants and four animals in the system. Aside from three extinct plant species and seven endangered ones, the rest are common species..."

Manbao exclaimed, "Wow, I am so impressive, to have found so many endangered plant species."

Keke: "... But, the recording activity was mainly concentrated in the first half of the year, in the second half, you only recorded three plants, and all of them common species."

Actually, it didn’t really want to collect them, but at the time Manbao insisted that this flower and that grass were beautiful, and since she had never recorded them before, she insisted on having them recorded.

What could Keke do?

It could only squeeze out some reward points for her.