Chapter 71: Buying Potatoes
Today, Qin Wanwan was wearing a little green skirt, like a little elf in the forest.
The skirt was still chosen by Shang Wuyang.
Little Wanwan, at Father Shang’s place, had a different outfit every day, like a collectible doll.
The maid also drew peach blossom petal patterns on her forehead and the corners of her eyes near her temples, making her even more beautiful.
The little lady looked at herself in the bronze mirror, ready for another beautiful day.
“Daddy, Daddy, look, Wanwan looks so good today.”
Shang Wuyang took a look and was very satisfied.
“Go call the painter, have her paint a picture of her as she is now.”
Keke landed on Qin Wanwan’s shoulder and muttered to himself upon hearing this, “Isn’t this equivalent to ancient photography?”
It kind of understood why people from the modern era liked to take pictures of their children and post them on social media to show off. Who wouldn’t want to show off such a cute and beautiful child?
If the beautiful little Qilin cub were in modern times, she would definitely be countless people’s dream child!
Keke said to Shang Wuyang, “Wanwan needs to buy potatoes from outside, take us out for a trip.”
Shang Wuyang also had potatoes on his mind, so he didn’t say anything and took them to ride the elephant carriage.
“Bring an extra elephant carriage, potatoes are heavy and need a carriage to transport them.”
Keke casually pointed in a direction, and the three elephant carriages left Shangyang City like that.
When a group of border guards with dark circles under their eyes came to find Wanwan, they were told that she had already left.
The elephant carriage had been traveling for several hours and had already left the oasis.
After traveling in the desert for a while, they arrived at the Gobi Desert.
Keke said to Shang Wuyang, “Wanwan and I will go buy them, you guys wait here. No one is allowed to come and watch.”
Shang Wuyang raised an eyebrow, “Buy things here?”
Keke and Qin Wanwan’s eyes were quite guilty.
“Don’t worry about how Wanwan buys potatoes, just don’t tell anyone.”
Qin Wanwan wriggled her feet and came to a place with Keke that they couldn’t see.
Qin Wanwan’s previous merit points plus the newly accumulated merit points were about a thousand, but she occasionally bought milk fruit and then bought potatoes.
Her current account balance of merit points was 763.
The price of potatoes was 25 merit points for ten jin.
Rounding down, even if she used 700 merit points to buy them, she could only buy 280 jin of potatoes at most.
“Wanwan, how much are you buying?”
Qin Wanwan was very rich and arrogant, “Daddy likes it, Wanwan will buy it all!”
Keke said, “Save some for yourself. It’s fine to use seven hundred merit points to buy them. And most of your merit points were transferred from General Xie. Back home, try to find a way for your Father Shang to do more good deeds to earn merit points back.”
Qin Wanwan nodded, “I’ll listen to Keke.”
Keke really cherished the cub!
They bought 280 jin of potatoes, which looked like quite a pile.
Then they ran back to call Shang Wuyang.
When Shang Wuyang came over with people, the subordinates who followed were all wide-eyed.
What is this thing, how can this thing exist in this place?
Not all of those who followed knew about potatoes.
Shang Wuyang’s expression didn’t change.
He just patted her head amidst the little girl’s slightly anxious and guilty eyes, and didn’t ask any further questions.
“Move everything into the carriages.”
Since they brought more carriages, one elephant carriage could hold it all.
On the way back, Shang Wuyang asked how to plant potatoes.
He wanted all the potatoes, and as for General Xie, who cared?
Qin Wanwan knew this. She raised her little hand, “Daddy, I know, potatoes sprout, cut into pieces, buried in the soil, need fertilizer and water, and weeding…”
Little Wanwan counted on her fingers, calculating the planting steps for potatoes that automatically appeared in her mind.
“Wow, there’s so much to do!”
“They need to be planted in loose soil to grow big and be delicious.”
“Fertilizer?”
“It’s like feeding the soil delicious food. If the soil is full, the potatoes will be big.”
Qin Wanwan understood it with her own childlike logic.
“What should be used for fertilizing?”
“Poop, ash, fermentation.”
As she said it, her little face wrinkled, “Yuck, it stinks.”
Moreover, she didn’t know what fermentation meant.
Shang Wuyang felt like it smelled bad just listening.
But it’s okay, “You tell me, and I’ll have someone else do it.”
As long as he didn’t have to do it, there was no problem.
Qin Wanwan sat obediently, her small hands resting on her knees.
“We need sheep poop, cow poop, and horse and pig poop, as well as soil and the ash from burning grass and wood. The ash from pasture grass is best, but only Father Shang Xie has that pasture grass now.”
Shang Wuyang asked, “What pasture grass do you mean only General Xie has?”
“The pasture grass that Wanwan planted, little gosling, Father Xie’s big horses and camels really, really love to eat it too.”
“Does Wanwan have seeds for that pasture grass?”
“Yes, but there isn’t enough money.”
Merit points could buy things, and to Qin Wanwan, it was similar to money.
“How much do you need? I’ll give it to you.”
Shang Wuyang declared generously that money was not a problem at all.
“It’s not like that, shallow. Doing good deeds, doing good deeds will give you money.”
Shang Wuyang thoughtfully said, “So, those potatoes were also bought with the ‘money’ from doing good deeds?”
He was very smart and immediately thought of the connection.
Qin Wanwan nodded her little head, “Yes.”
Shang Wuyang pinched her little face, “I understand.”
He didn’t ask further. Wasn’t what was obtained from doing good deeds merit?
So, this little one was not an ordinary person, right?
He just didn’t know why she recognized him and General Xie as her fathers.
They returned to the City Lord’s Mansion of Shangyang City.
The group of border guards was already waiting. As soon as they saw them, they swarmed forward, their eyes filled with expectation.
Shang Wuyang naturally knew what they were expecting.
“Don’t even think about it. I’ve already had someone take the potatoes to the manor. There are only about two hundred jin, not even enough to plant in one of my manors.”
The border guards were immediately enraged, “Then why do you get to have it all? Wanwan is our General’s daughter, our General should have a share!”
The Guard Army also chimed in.
Although Wanwan didn’t seem to have any relationship with them, General Xie was from Tianqi, and those were potatoes with a yield of five thousand jin per mu. It was better to give them to their own people than to outsiders.
The two sides immediately became tense again.
Shang Wuyang sneered, “If you have the ability, have General Xie come and ask for them himself.”
Qin Wanwan looked left and right, “Stop arguing, stop arguing.”
Small as she was, she was stuck in the middle and raised her voice to shout.
“Wanwan, don’t worry about it. This Shang fellow is too much. As expected of a cunning merchant. Even though Wanwan calls you daddy, why can you monopolize all the potatoes!”
This was a matter of the soldiers’ livelihood, and they could not back down on potatoes with a yield of five thousand jin per mu.
The butler said, “Don’t get so excited. We don’t know the specific situation of these potatoes yet. If you take them back, you won’t know how to plant them either. Why not put them on the manor in Shangyang City for experimental planting? When they are successfully planted and have such a high yield, we will definitely reserve a share for your General Xie in the next batch of seeds.”
