184 Transporting Flowers Into Town
Little Ah Yu was dumbfounded. “Big Brother Ah You, what are you talking about?”
Meatball floated despondently in the spatial pocket, repeatedly muttering ‘it’s finished’ to itself.
This time, there was really nothing it could do. More and more people had discovered Ah Yu’s secret.
Meatball had not taken this problem seriously in the past, but now that it reviewed it, it felt that Ah Yu had exposed her secret to too many people.
The human heart was the most unpredictable thing. Not to mention the fact that the Wang Family was not her biological family. Sometimes, even flesh and blood might turn against each other for benefits.
Meatball had been observing these people in Nanhe Town recently, so it naturally grasped some gossip.
In the past few months, it had slowly observed human life and truly understood why humans had seven emotions and six desires.
Human thoughts were very complicated. A good person could do bad things, and a bad person could do good things.
It was actually very biased to judge if this person would hurt Ah Yu based simply on the favorability level.
The data could not explain everything.
[Looks like we can only wait for the mall to open. We can exchange for some potions to erase their memories.]
Only when fewer and fewer people knew about this would Ah Yu live an increasingly safe life.
Especially now that Ah Yu was so young and did not have any sense of safety at all. If she met a slightly smarter person, she would be exposed.
To a child who did not have the ability to protect herself, it was not a good thing to be discovered by others.
Meatball had already decided that when the mall opened, it would definitely make those who knew about her secret lose their memories.
With this thought in mind, as long as they could hold on for a few more months and complete the elementary mission, there was no need to be afraid of these things.
Since Qin Huai had already discovered Ah Yu’s secret, he roughly knew that she should have something in her hand that could mutate these plants. Moreover, she even had a way to hide these plants.
This was because Qin Huai often saw Ah Yu, but he had never seen the Wang Family plant these flowers.
Moreover, in order to protect the Wang Family, Qin Huai had specially sent a few people to protect them from afar.
At the same time, Qin Huai roughly knew what was going on with Old man Wang’s family.
Ah Yu naturally did not have the ability to hide things from everyone. This meant that there was a strange space which only Ah Yu could access.
At the thought of this, Qin Huai’s eyes darkened.
“Ah Yu, I also want to plant flowers in my courtyard. Where did you find the flowers?”
Little Ah Yu thought of her mother’s words and said firmly, “We’re going back to the village to plant seedlings in a few days. Mother said that we’ll transport the flowers over at that time.”
Just this sentence exposed Liu Shi as well.
Qin Huai understood that Liu Shi also knew about this secret.
Their idea was to use this loophole to make the people in town think that they had bought the flowers in the village, and the people in the village think that they had bought the flowers in town.
However, if they encountered someone who wanted to investigate, this method might not be enough to cover her.
“Ah Yu, let me know when your family goes to transport the flowers,” Qin Huai said to Little Ah Yu.
Little Ah Yu was extremely happy. “Alright, alright. I’ll save all the beautiful flowers for Big Brother Ah You!”
Actually, she had already thought about plucking some for the teacher when the flowers arrived.
Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, it was time for them to return to the village to plant seedlings.
All the schools and private schools were given five days off so that the children with fields at home could go back and help.
The Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop was originally going to close for a few days, but Cai Niu said, “I don’t have any fields at home, so there’s no need to go back. I’ll look after the shop for a few days first. Selling less is better than closing the shop.”
“How can we let you do that? Everyone is on vacation, so you should rest too.” Wang Chuanfu really felt embarrassed. Cai Niu usually had to wake up early to open the shop and worked long and hard hours. He only had a day off every 10 days. Even if he did not have to do anything in the afternoon, Cai Niu would still find something to do.
Cai Niu waved his hand. “What’s there to be embarrassed about? I don’t have anything to do anyway. It just so happens that I can help.”
Cai Niu was deemed a loner anyway. He was 27 years old this year and had yet to marry. When he goes back to the village, he would even be criticized by those people.
He might as well stay here. At least everyone would praise his buns for being delicious.
“I can use this time to study the meat dumplings and mini steamed buns. The meat dumplings have been selling the best recently.”
The Wang Family Steamed Bun Shop was the first to make mini steamed buns and dumplings. Everyone found it novel. Now, they mostly sold small buns and made less of the big ones.
The other two shops also began to imitate their buns. In order not to be surpassed by them, Cai Niu had also been studying new tastes and techniques recently.
He also planned to make a kind of little bun that could contain broth. This required a lot of technical difficulty and had high requirements for the taste.
If the research was successful, Cai Niu would not find the other shops threatening at all.
After all, there were too many people in this world who could make steamed buns. Every family could more or less make their own steamed buns. If he did not improve their buns, what if the Wang Family was unwilling to continue hiring him in the future?
Seeing how persistent he was, Wang Chuanfu could only agree. However, the salary for the past few days was increased a little.
“It’s supposed to be a holiday. If you want to work, we’ll pay you double the salary. This money is a token of our appreciation. Don’t refuse.”
Cai Niu looked moved. “Alright, alright.”
He made up his mind to study the buns well.
The Wang Family had learned their lesson and became smarter. Out of their 20 mu of land, more than ten mu were used as paddy fields. They planted the seedlings themselves.
As for the rest of the land, if they rented it out, they would only need to take a look and did not have to care much. If it was their own land, they had to spend a little money to ask someone to help farm it.
According to Old man Wang’s current family background, it was fine to hire people to farm all the land, but Old man Wang did not agree. He felt that his descendants could not forget their roots. They had to do everything themselves to know how precious food was.
Even Little Ah Yu ran to the field to help.
Of course, the current Wang Family could be considered the richest family in Hu Family Village.
They bought three water buffaloes for the village and went to the blacksmith to order four plows. They even bought two donkey carts.
They were all left for the villagers to use as they pleased as long as they cherished them.
Everyone in the village praised the Wang Family for being kind and though they became rich, they did not forget the villagers.
While everyone was busy farming, Liu Shi discussed with Old man Wang how to transport the flowers onto the donkey cart without anyone knowing.
Later on, they finally chose a busy day for everyone and drove a donkey cart out.
They had naturally brought Little Ah Yu along.
The donkey cart headed towards town. It was originally planned to ask Little Ah Yu to take out the flowers on the way.
Suddenly, they saw two carriages standing by the mountain path. The carriages were filled with all kinds of wildflowers that did not look local.
Seeing their donkey cart approaching, a burly man parked beside the flower cart said in a thick foreign accent, “Old man, want to buy some flowers? Why don’t you buy some to make your grandkids happy?”
“I came all the way here. The flowers are good. Look, they won’t wither for many days!”
Old man Wang’s eyes lit up.