The Lucky Farmgirl
Chapter 484 - 473: I Want To Spend Money (Extra updates thanking the book friend "Imperial Guard: Rong Rong" for their reward)

Chapter 484: Chapter 473: I Want To Spend Money (Extra updates thanking the book friend "Imperial Guard: Rong Rong" for their reward)

Old Master Bai didn’t really trouble them, not because he didn’t want to, but because he was playing the long game.

Even if he wanted the children to endure the storm, it had to be done gradually, right?

So as soon as the three children asked, he gave.

Manbao naturally asked on behalf of her own family, and with a generous wave of his hand, Old Master Bai ordered the accountant to hand over the money that was prepared in advance to the servant to deliver.

Old Master Bai said, "Remember to have Zhou Jin sign and stamp."

Manbao was overjoyed to see this and turned around to divide the money with Bai Shanbao and the others.

This time Old Master Bai still settled in silver, but because he was picky about the seeds, there wasn’t as much wheat seed sold this time as the last.

Moreover, the unit price had dropped, and Manbao ended up with only five silver ingots, with the remainder recorded in the public account.

Manbao didn’t mind the weight; she stuffed them into her book chest and then carried it on her back home.

Old Zhou and the others were also counting money. Since they planted more spring wheat, although Old Master Bai had also raised the quality and lowered the price, their income was almost the same as the last time.

In total, they received a bit more than one hundred and eighteen taels.

Seeing Manbao return, Old Zhou called her over with great joy, saying, "Manbao, Old Master Bai has sent over the silver."

"I know, I asked for it," Manbao went straight over with her book chest on her back, placed it down and looked seriously at her father, "Father, am I amazing or what?"

Old Zhou nodded repeatedly, "Amazing, amazing, my daughter is the most amazing."

Those sitting in the courtyard such as Zhou Xi also laughed and followed the old man in praising her.

"Father, our family made a lot of money this year, didn’t we?"

Old Zhou’s eyes crinkled with his smile, "Yes, we made a lot of money."

"I negotiated all the deals."

"Right, right, our Manbao is too impressive."

Manbao’s face broke into a radiant smile as she held her father’s hand, "Then since I’m so impressive and so smart, making big money in business, Father won’t be angry, will he?"

"No, you’ve made big money for the family, how can I be angry?"

"Really?" Manbao said, "You won’t hit me or faint with anger, will you?"

Old Zhou felt something was off and asked, "Manbao, did you hide something big from Father?"

"Father, look!" Manbao quickly opened the book chest and took out the five silver ingots to show him, "Our farm also sold the wheat seeds to Old Master Bai, this is the money I got."

Old Zhou immediately took the money, thrilled, "So it’s this. Well done, Manbao. You scared your father there."

The Zhou siblings all breathed a sigh of relief.

But Manbao said, "We also sold the batch of winter wheat we harvested in April to Old Master Bai as seeds."

Old Zhou’s eyes widened as he remembered, "Right, your farm also planted winter wheat. How could I forget?"

Back then, he had been so dazzled by the one hundred and twenty taels that he completely forgot about it.

Just when he was about to remember, the matter involving Zhou Yin came up, and after being preoccupied with Zhou Yin’s funeral, he completely forgot about it.

Old Zhou immediately asked, "Where’s the money?"

"It’s in my room."

Old Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, "That’s good, that’s good. What would a young girl like you do with so much money? Bring it out and let your father... let your mother keep it for you."

Old Zhou forcefully changed his phrasing and even turned around to give Ms. Qian a pleasing smile.

"Father, I haven’t finished talking yet."

"Okay, okay, okay, you talk, you talk."

"The batch of wheat seed that was exchanged with the village, it was also Bai Shanbao and I who did the exchange, and then we resold it to Old Master Bai." After Manbao finished speaking, she stared at her father’s face to gauge his reaction.

"Good, good, good, our Manbao is impressive... What—" It finally dawned on Old Zhou what she was implying, and he covered his chest, asking, "Wha-wha-what did you just say?"

Manbao fished out a needle from somewhere and eyed her father’s philtrum, "Dad, you better not faint, because if you do, I will have to stick you with this needle."

Old Zhou glanced at the needle in her hand and felt even dizzier.

It seemed that not only Old Zhou was feeling dizzy, everyone in the Zhou Family felt the same.

Ms. Qian was sitting slightly above Old Zhou’s position and couldn’t help but stretch out her foot to gently kick his stool, "Look at you and your tiny courage. Why do you think your daughter didn’t dare to tell you? It’s because she’s afraid of your reaction beforehand and afraid you’ll faint afterward."

Old Zhou finally felt a bit better in his heart, but he was still extremely nervous as he grasped Manbao’s hand, "Manbao, you didn’t lose money, did you? With so much wheat, if one is not careful, I might have to use all of our wealth to cover your losses."

Zhou Erlang couldn’t help but stomp his foot upon hearing this, "Ah Dad, don’t you get it? The price Old Master Bai paid for the wheat seed, how could we lose? Back then it was one hundred and fifty coins for one dou, one hundred and fifty coins per dou!"

Zhou Silang closed his gaping mouth and turned to stare at his son for a good while.

Ms. Fang couldn’t help but pull her son closer, asking, "What are you doing?"

"Just checking, just checking to see if our son looks like Manbao. If he does, I can call him dad in the future, too."

Ms. Fang: ...

Only then did Old Zhou catch on, "So where’s your money?"

That was practically all of the new wheat seed money from the majority of the village’s households...

Old Zhou felt as though he was seeing silver everywhere; he couldn’t count them all.

"Actually, it’s not that much, just forty-nine silver ingots." Manbao saw that her father didn’t look like he was going to faint, so she put away the needle and said joyously, "Dad, wait up, I’ll go get it for you. I told you before, I’ve touched those ingots many times, they’re especially nice to handle."

Old Zhou nodded, and Manbao had Fifth Brother accompany her to get the money.

The forty-nine silver ingots in the system were arranged in a bamboo box. Manbao crawled under her own bed, took them out from the system, and then dragged them out. In Zhou Wulang’s eyes, it looked as though Manbao had hidden the box under the bed.

He picked up the box and walked, "Manbao, will Dad really not faint? Last time, he nearly fainted just from spending three ounces of silver to buy a cow."

"He won’t," Manbao confidently assured, "I specifically waited until Dad had earned a large sum of money twice before telling him. Plus, Mom said that Dad used to count the silver ingots at home quite often. They had seven ingots, and after touching them so many times, he should be used to it."

"But those were five-tael ingots, these are ten-tael ingots."

"Close enough, close enough."

As it turned out, it wasn’t quite ’close enough’ after all.

Zhou Wulang placed the box in front of their father and opened it to show the neatly arranged silver ingots inside.

Old Zhou touched them and looked up at Manbao with a smile, "It really is money..."

Manbao nodded and was about to laugh when Old Zhou’s body went limp and he fell backwards.

Ms. Qian caught him from behind but ended up being dragged down as well, and Zhou Dalang and others immediately rushed to help, while Manbao pulled out the needle and jabbed Old Zhou’s philtrum with it.

Old Zhou’s eyes popped open, and Ms. Qian quickly said, "Dalang, hurry to the big market and get the doctor."

She couldn’t help but tap on Manbao’s head, "Why did you suddenly tell your dad? Weren’t you supposed to keep the money yourself?"

Manbao pouted, "But I wanted to spend money..."

When there’s no need to spend money, she could just stash it in the system and bring it up when something happens.

But now that she wanted to spend money, how could she possibly do so without her father knowing? If she were to suddenly tell him then, he would certainly be more shocked.

Plus, if the money was spent without even staying in his hands, her father would certainly feel worse. Who knows, he might even end up beating her then.