The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 348 - 337: Asking the Price

Chapter 348: Chapter 337: Asking the Price

Zhou Hu was proficient in hunting, and although catching birds wasn’t easy nowadays, he could still catch them; it just took a bit more effort.

Initially, he thought that Manbao’s request to catch birds for her, and then have his brother plow the fields as compensation, was just an excuse to help him out. But to his surprise, he saw Manbao hanging around outside her house for several days in a row.

When he asked Zhou Er, it turned out that she was inquiring whether he was free to go out and catch birds.

After giving it some thought, Zhou Hu decided that Manbao was just a child, and children tend to be stubborn with their ideas. Thus, he found some time to set traps in the wild, and early the next morning, he had Zhou Er deliver a string of birds to Manbao.

Some were dead, and some were still alive.

Manbao had just stepped out of her house when she met Zhou Er. She was overjoyed and picked three spirited birds to put into her book box, leaving the rest for Zhou Er to take home to eat.

Zhou Er didn’t refuse and glanced at her book box, asking, "Are you taking them to school?"

"Yes, I’m giving them to my friend."

Zhou Er then understood; it must be the students at the school who wanted to see the birds, which was why Manbao had asked her father to catch them.

This was a trivial matter, and no one paid much attention to it. Even when Zhou Dalang and the others heard about it, they just thanked Zhou Hu and assumed Manbao had given the birds to Bai Erlang.

On her way, Manbao placed the three birds from her book box into the system and then sent one to Doctor D. She also posted a for-sale thread on the forum to fulfill two more orders.

Since the price for Doctor D was $200,000, naturally she couldn’t post a lower price on the forum. So Manbao set the points at 200,000 as well.

After placing the order, Keke could operate on its own. Manbao didn’t pay much attention to it and silenced her device to focus on her studies.

Zhou Hu partnered with the Zhou Family, and both families went to work in the fields together.

Winter wheat was planted in the fields where the soil inherently held more moisture. With little rain during this area’s winter, there was no need to worry about flooding.

After plowing the fields, it was necessary to pull out the rice straw roots and dispose of them, along with any weeds, followed by another round of tilling before finally starting to apply fertilizer and sow the seeds.

Zhou Hu’s two acres seemed too little to worry about for the Zhou Family; with so many people, it was done within an hour.

The Zhou Family was planting twenty acres of winter wheat this year, requiring a whopping four hundred pounds of wheat seed.

Old Zhou hadn’t planted winter wheat in many years and made wishes to the heavens as he sowed, hoping for favorable weather and a good harvest come next spring.

Hopefully, at least the seeds would yield enough to break even.

The wheat seed for both families was quickly sown, faster than most other households in the village.

So Zhou Dalang rolled up his sleeves, ready to take his brothers to work for Old Master Bai. However, Zhou Er intervened, "Big Brother, there are still some green vegetables left in Little Bay I want to sell out, and I also need to continue selling the winnowing baskets I’ve made at home, so you go ahead."

Zhou Dalang looked towards Zhou Sanlang.

Zhou Sanlang grinned and said, "Big Brother, I’d love to come with you, but I can harvest the ginger I planted on the fallow land now, and I need to take it to the county to check out the market."

Zhou Silang immediately said, "For such a small matter, why should Third Brother go? Leave it to me; I’ll take care of selling it all. You just have to pull out the ginger every day; leave the rest to me."

Zhou Wulang also said, "And me, Third Brother. Big Sister also asked us to sell her ginger. We charge very little for our labor."

Zhou Sanlang scratched his head and turned to ask Manbao, "Manbao, what do you think?"

Manbao nodded, "Sure, Third Brother, you can also go to the mountains with Big Brother to pick all those Ligustrum seeds and dry them. I’ve been researching how to plant Ligustrum seeds recently. Once I figure it out, we can try planting them ourselves."

Zhou Sanlang asked, "Where shall we plant them?"

"Anywhere will do; the mountains are full of places."

Zhou Sanlang nodded thoughtfully, "The mountain behind us belongs to Big Brother, and it’s covered with too many miscellaneous trees, making it difficult to clear. But if it’s just digging holes to plant trees, it shouldn’t be hard. Ligustrum is also a tree and naturally grows on mountains. So, we dig the holes, plant them, and pay more attention to fertilization."

Manbao thought Third Brother was right and nodded, "That’s what I was thinking, too."

Of course, how to plant Ligustrum seeds was something she would have to learn more about after getting more familiar with Doctor D before asking for advice.

So in the evening, Manbao found time to chat with Doctor D.

Doctor D had gone missing after receiving the bird she sent last time. Of course, the points were credited to Manbao, and her total had now reached 780,000.

Unfortunately, although her post on the forum had viewers, no one placed an order. The two birds still remained in the system, feasting on the wheat Manbao had stored in space.

As usual, Manbao sent an email to Doctor D, asking about the progress of her research and if there was anything she could help with.

No sooner had she sent the email than the forum dinged with a message. She discovered someone was inquiring about an order.

Manbao hurried to check. It was a message from someone named "Union Research Institute," asking, "Are the birds in the pictures from your world? Are there many of them? Do you have a bird with blue tail feathers?"

Manbao replied, "Are you interested in buying my birds?"

"First tell me the basic situation, and then I can decide whether to buy."

After the incident with Doctor D being banned, Manbao knew that some questions were bad for both her and the other party. So she selectively answered, "There are many Tree Sparrows; you can find their entry in the encyclopedia."

"What about the bird with blue tail feathers? Do you have them there?"

"I’m selling Tree Sparrows."

The other party clearly didn’t expect Manbao to be so persistent and assertive on the topic. After a long silence, they replied, "I’ll take both Tree Sparrows, but I think 400,000 points is too much."

Manbao’s heart thumped, and she held back before asking, "How much do you want to pay?"

"200,000 for both."

"That’s impossible," Manbao thought, as 200,000 wouldn’t even cover her mother’s medicine. Without considering Doctor D at this point, she directly reduced the price, "300,000 for both, take it or leave it."

"Too expensive."

Then the person immediately went offline.

Manbao’s eyes widened in disbelief as she watched. She couldn’t help grumbling to Keke, "How rude of him to leave without saying goodbye."

Keke didn’t respond.

"Besides, 300,000 points is already really low; after buying the medicine for my mother, I’d just have a little left over."

Keke still didn’t respond, letting Manbao talk for a while until she felt better, then said, "Host, it’s time for you to go to sleep."

Manbao listlessly lay down on the bed, and after a moment, she hesitated, "Actually, I could lower the price a bit more."

Although Keke couldn’t understand this psychology, the behavior psychology it had searched indicated that this was the outcome the other person had aimed for.

Compliance wasn’t considered a bad thing by humans, so Keke didn’t stop her.

But Manbao, still a child, was very stubborn. Even though she wanted to lower the price deep down, she found the other person’s lack of politeness annoying, so she wasn’t too keen on completing the transaction. She only told herself quietly: If she encountered buyers who complained about the price again next time, she could lower it slightly, just enough to buy her mother’s medicine.