The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 117 - 106: Can’t Save Money

Chapter 117: Chapter 106: Can’t Save Money

Little Girl went out and actually brought their young ladies out with her, not just one young lady, both sisters from the Fu Family came over.

Second Miss Fu glanced at Datou and others following beside Manbao, her eyes fell on Bai Shanbao, but she didn’t linger, as she was older than all of them.

"Manbao, what have you all been busy with at home?" Second Miss Fu found Manbao very clever. Despite her young age, she really enjoyed talking to her.

She didn’t go out, just stood at the doorway and talked with Manbao outside.

Manbao counted on her fingers to tell her how busy she had been recently.

First Miss Fu, hearing that Manbao had been reading, also looked at her seriously.

"Will you come again before New Year’s?" Second Miss Fu said, "We’re going to have a lot of guests at our house for the New Year, and many of my friends will come. I was just thinking of buying some sweets before the holiday."

"We will come, to buy New Year’s goods," Manbao said. "Won’t you eat before New Year’s then?"

"Of course we’ll eat. So reserve ten packs for us," she said. "My grandmother and the others have all gone back to our hometown, and my cousins have all left, so we won’t eat that much."

Manbao agreed, but that still wasn’t a small amount, four hundred fifty wen indeed.

Little Girl glanced at Manbao, counted out four and a half strings of coins for her, Manbao grabbed a handful of candy to give her, and continued chatting with Second Miss Fu, "How does your family usually celebrate the New Year?"

The two chatted idly for quite a while until both young ladies felt tired from standing, and Manbao, feeling the time was about right, took leave and left.

For the remaining candy, Datou, Daya, and the others decided to take it to the market to sell. Daya and Erya had come to the county town frequently before to sell flower baskets, so they were quite familiar with those children.

However, not everyone might be willing to eat candy that costs one wen each, but they still wanted to give it a try.

As for lowering the price, they had never considered it because if they did, wouldn’t Second Miss Fu have suffered a loss?

The Fu Family’s business was a stable and lasting business, something Manbao knew very well, which is why she insisted Datou and the others must not lower the prices, preferring not to sell them all and keep them for the next time.

Bai Shanbao was still somewhat interested in doing business; he took a bag of candy to experience it and then strolled with Manbao to a bookstore around lunchtime. They loitered in the store for a while, and after coming out, Bai Shanbao bought quite a few things, including two books.

Manbao couldn’t afford books, so she didn’t spend a penny.

Turning around, she took Bai Shanbao to a fabric shop, "I want to buy fabric and cotton for my mother."

Bai Shanbao felt his purse and asked, "Should I also buy this for my grandmother?"

"Do your grandmother and mother lack clothes to wear?"

"No."

"Then don’t buy it. You should buy what they’re missing; that’s how you make them happy."

Bai Shanbao thought carefully and said, "My grandmother and the others lack for nothing."

"That’s great," Manbao exclaimed in envy, before saying, "Then just buy them something they would enjoy."

Bai Shanbao seriously replied, "They enjoy me."

Manbao laughed heartily, "Then you should just give yourself to your grandmother and mother."

Bai Shanbao felt that wouldn’t be right, as it meant he wouldn’t have bought anything at all.

He trailed behind Manbao, watched her carefully choose the fabric, commented that her mother didn’t like this color, her mother didn’t like it too fine, and then asked, "What do you think my grandmother and mother would like?"

"If it were me, I would love something edible!"

The fabric shop owner, overhearing the children’s innocent conversation, couldn’t help but laugh, "If the young master’s money is enough, then you could buy some jewelry for the elders. There’s no woman who doesn’t like jewelry."

Manbao raised her little head and asked, "What’s jewelry?"

"Things like beaded flowers you wear on your head, gold hairpins, silver hair clasps, and the like."

Manbao then reached up to touch her own small head, her hair fluffy because her father insisted hair was nourished by blood and would cut her hair periodically, also saying there was no need to purposely let her hair grow long until she was seven years old.

But now it was winter, and Manbao hadn’t cut her hair for several months; at this time, her hair just covered her neck, the Zhou Family didn’t have gold hairpins or silver clasps, they only used wooden hair clasps to tie their hair, so she didn’t know that there was such a thing as jewelry?

Manbao and the shop owner roughly gestured her mother’s size, cut a piece of fabric quickly, bought two jin of cotton, and then excitedly wanted to go with Bai Shanbao to see jewelry.

Daya, who followed behind, put the fabric and cotton in her basket and followed them to the neighboring jewelry store.

But Daya and the others hesitated at the sight of the items inside, not daring to enter right away.

Unperturbed, Manbao still pulled Daya along, and everyone gathered to look at the jewelry on display.

Manbao was still too young to appreciate the beauty of jewelry, and like Bai Shanbao was at a loss, it was eventually Daya who suggested something, and with a little guidance from Daji, Bai Shanbao bought one item each for his grandmother and mother, successfully spending all his pocket money saved over several months.

He also sighed to Manbao, "That was all the money I’d saved for the past few months, and today I spent it all."

Manbao consoled him, "It’s okay, I’ve spent all my money too. We can just earn it back."

"But you can sell candy; what can I sell?" he asked.

"Then you can plant ginger with me, as well as yams," Manbao placed her hopes on these two crops, feeling that selling candy was too slow to earn money, not enough for her to buy meat, so she thought Keke’s suggestion was more reliable, "Your family is so powerful, you can send them out to look for yam seeds. If you can find them, you can plant a bit in your yard. By next winter, you’ll harvest a lot, or you could also plant ginger. I have seeds, I can give you some."

"I’ll plant in my yard too?"

"Yeah, your family is just three people living in such a big place, such a big yard, it’s a waste to leave it empty. But raising chickens and ducks smells too bad, I don’t like it at all, so let’s plant ginger instead."

Bai Shanbao thought her proposal was good and nodded, "Then you have to help me, I don’t know how to plant."

Already experienced from planting once, Manbao nodded confidently, "No problem. And ginger is quite valuable; most importantly, you can harvest in summer, it grows really fast!"

The two talked at length about planting ginger and, as they walked, realized they were a bit hungry since Bai’s family didn’t prepare any food for Bai Shanbao because he was coming to the county town.

The Zhou Family knew Manbao had money and didn’t want her gnawing on cold hard buns in the cold weather, so they hadn’t prepared food for her either.

In the end, Manbao consulted Datou, Daya, and the others about using their money to buy steamed buns to eat.

Manbao spent nearly three hundred wen on fabric and cotton, the rest was to be shared equally among the four of them, Datou, Daya, Erya, and Keke.

They reluctantly agreed; they couldn’t let the little girl go hungry, could they?

However, to prevent the little girl from spending money recklessly, Datou insisted Manbao divide the money on the spot after buying the buns and then entrusted her with keeping it.

Datou and Daya knew, although the money was still in the little girl’s hands, as long as it was divided and given back to her for safekeeping, in the little girl’s mind, it was no longer her money.

At that moment, Manbao truly had not a penny left.

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