Transmigration: On the Gossip Front
Chapter 518 - 519 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 36_1

Chapter 518: Chapter 519 Sister Flowers Educated Youth 36_1

Lady Shen Li saw her and waved, then showed the ginseng she had just arranged to Zhang Yamei.

Zheng Yamei took the box, glanced at it, and almost exclaimed in surprise, fortunately knowing there were people outside.

"Mom, these are ginseng roots, somewhat aged ginseng roots." Since her daughter went to the Northeast, she had only seen two or three small ginseng roots.

They were indeed small ginseng roots, probably only two to three years old, and couldn’t compare to the ones received today.

"Yes, Jian She and I were saying..." The old lady repeated what she had just said to Zhang Yamei.

Zhang Yamei nodded incessantly, "Yes, yes." With this item, her own parents and sister could make use of it if something came up.

"Also, there might be a bit too much meat, right?"

"There are a lot of mushrooms."

"And there are pine nuts and such."

"Plus peanut kernels, corn kernels."

"Yes, and there’s rice too." Shen Jianshe initially thought there wouldn’t be any rice this time, but there turned out to be ten kilograms of it.

"This time, we’ll divide the rice with your mom’s side." The old lady had already thought it through, "This rice tastes good when cooked."

"Just in time for the dinner on New Year’s Eve and the first day of the New Year."

"Granny, Dad, Mom, there’s a letter here." Shen Xiaohui, after sorting things out for a while, finally discovered there was a letter inside.

If possible, he really wanted to be the first to read it, but since Granny, Dad, and Mom were all there, the letter was definitely meant for them to read.

Shen Jianshe also wanted to read the letter, but with Lady Shen Li there, it was surely for the old lady to read.

The old lady signaled Shen Jianshe to read the letter out loud, and through it, they learned that the ginseng had cost just under three hundred yuan and was thirty-five to thirty-six years old.

"We’ll take this ginseng," Lady Shen Li thought for a moment, "I plan to mail a little over one thousand yuan to Xiao Jie this time."

Just this batch of ginseng was already costing nearly three hundred yuan, and if they were to buy older ginseng, they couldn’t imagine how much more it would cost.

Shen Jianshe and his wife, of course, had no issues, and neither did Shen Xiaohui.

"But mailing so much money over, could it draw unwanted attention?" Shen Xiaohui remembered the part in the letter where Shen Jie mentioned Shen Yuan coming over to borrow money.

If people knew they were mailing over a thousand yuan, wouldn’t that attract attention?

"Why should we have to mail the money? We can send it along with other items."

"It’s perfect since we’re sending some things over anyway, mailing books to your sister, we could hide it in a book."

"I’ve also made a new cotton-padded jacket for Xiao Jie, knowing how cold the winters are in the Northeast." Zhang Yamei had known before that winters in the Northeast were cold.

She just didn’t expect it to be that cold, and it truly pained her.

She thought it over and felt she should make Xiao Jie a thick cotton-padded jacket to keep her warm when going outside.

"Exactly, let’s also put in a thousand." Shen Jianshe recalled what Shen Jie had mentioned in the letter, "She intends to prepare wolf skin for us."

Shen Jianshe knew that they actually had a wolf skin at home, but the old lady, worried about her granddaughter freezing in the Northeast, had sewn it into a quilt.

He had been considering whether to make a knee pad for the old lady, but before they took action, the child planned to buy wolf skin.

"Alright." Zhang Yamei, of course, had no objections, as both wolf skin and ginseng were useful at her parents’ home.

"We’ll mail the items over tomorrow." Shen Jianshe knew this matter couldn’t be delayed.

"Oh, Mom," Shen Jianshe remembered the matter the section chief brought up today.

"Give them some, just say that Xiao Jie helped bring it over." The old lady glanced at the plentiful meat, deciding giving some away was also fine.

"Right, add some peanuts and some dried vegetables to the order as well," even if the items were sold at a ten-percent discount, there should still be a profit, so why not add a little extra.

Shen Jianshe nodded, indicating that he understood.

Zhang Yamei moved her lips as she stood by, and the old lady noticed, "Do you need some for your colleagues too? If so, same rules apply."

Giving it away for free was out of the question; this was a precedent that couldn’t be set.

"Alright, I know," Zhang Yamei hadn’t considered giving away things to colleagues for free either.

Even if it was for a leader, when it was time to pay, they should pay.

"Shall we deliver everything overnight?" Shen Jianshe and the others quickly sorted out the items, setting aside some for their own use before distributing the rest.

"Let’s go." Zhang Yamei knew these items couldn’t wait, so after a good dinner, they set out to deliver everything that very night.

The couple split up and visited several households; by the time they had finished their deliveries and returned home, it was already past ten o’clock.

Lady Shen Li and Shen Xiaohui had not rested, waiting for their return to ask how it went.

"The dried vegetables and pine nuts I gave... they insisted on paying," Shen Jianshe had genuinely intended to give them as gifts.

To his surprise, they were adamant about paying extra.

Zhang Yamei had encountered the same situation, "They all said the mushrooms, dried vegetables, and pine nuts were so good, they couldn’t accept them for free."

The couple emptied their pockets of money, quickly sorting out the amount they had collected.

"We actually sold over two hundred..." Although they were unsure of the exact prices, Shen Jie had estimated in her letter that the expenses, minus the ginseng, were around three to four hundred yuan.

This meant that the large amount of goods they had kept only cost them a bit over a hundred, not even two hundred yuan.

"Xiao Mei, I suddenly feel that if possible..." Shen Jianshe had thought of something on the way home.

That was, if there were reliable sales channels, the items Shen Jie mailed back could indeed be monetized.

Of course, the feasibility of this plan needed to be discussed with the family and depended on Shen Jie’s situation—whether the supply could keep up.

Zhang Yamei nodded incessantly; she had been thinking along the same lines, "This money could be sent to Xiao Jie."

"If there’s excess money, please help keep it safe, Mother," Zhang Yamei wasn’t unwilling to safeguard it.

But she knew the grandmother might not feel at ease, given her preference for her grandson; not that she wouldn’t favor her own grandson, but she worried they might be biased against their two sons and not treat Xiao Jie well.

The old lady thought for a moment, "Alright then."

"We’ll just set up a savings book for Xiao Jie, and save it for her from now on."

"We can mention it in a letter to her." After all, it was already snowing in the Northeast, making it impossible to go hunting or forage for mushrooms on the mountain; now was the time to have a discussion.

Shen Jianshe hummed in affirmation, "Okay." He looked at the pantry full of food.

He felt so blessed, "I never imagined our pantry could be this full."

Lady Shen Li also hadn’t expected that there would come a day when she could fill the pantry to the brim.

"Right, I need to lock the pantry." The old lady hadn’t cared before, as no one would be so blind as to open the pantry just to look.

Even if someone did look, there wouldn’t be much to see; no one would be envious.

But seeing a full pantry, and with quite a bit of meat inside, it was daunting to think how much envy it might attract.

It didn’t matter if people were envious, what mattered was whether they would act on their envy and report them.

In that era, anything could happen.

Shen Jianshe couldn’t help but nod, "Right, right, we do need to be careful."