Chapter 165: Cherries as Big as Plums

This patient can even embroider?

This phoenix looks beautiful, but it gives the first impression of being extremely complicated.

She can actually embroider a phoenix?

This thing looks like it was created with a lot of hard work. I wonder how much effort it took.

It's really amazing.

Ji Pianran casually pulled her hair back and gave a small smile.

'I learned it when I was a child.'

Ji Pianran's mother, Wu Shuhui, was a typical lady of the upper class and came from a scholarly family.

In her view, the most important thing for a woman is to have a good posture.

Posture is not just about how you smile or frown, but also how you treat people and things.

It is about how you conduct yourself, and can also be understood as a life creed.

She feels that girls don't need to run around for money.

She just needs to stay at home, enjoy the warmth of the sun, and when she has time, invite her best two girlfriends over for tea, chat, do some needlework, relax and unwind, and cultivate her body and mind.

This is the kind of life an exquisite girl should lead.

Her daughter must have enough cultivation and patience. Cultivation makes her posture look even better, while patience will become a guiding light for her in the future.

It will make her more flexible when she suffers hardships and better able to know when to advance and when to retreat.

It has to be admitted that Ji Pianran's mother's upbringing from an early age was a very important factor in shaping her character.

It is also an important reason why she is good at embroidery.

Ma Xiaolan was simply stunned. Nowadays, there are still people who have the time and energy to do these things that only the ancient noble ladies did?

Did she not have to go to school as a child or earn money when she grew up?

How did she have the time to learn this?

Appreciation shone in her eyes.

'I didn't realise it, but these days, there aren't many people who know how to do this. Anyway, you're the first person I know who can do it.'

These days, it's really not easy for women.

Either they stay at home with their children from birth, like her, or they go out and work like men to earn money.

She really hasn't seen anyone who can leisurely do embroidery like Ji Pianran.

The sound of the two of them talking back and forth woke up the old lady, who was sleeping. She sat up, propped her pillow on the bedside table, and yawned.

'What are you two talking about?'

She sounded a bit listless because she had just woken up.

Ma Xiaolan pointed at the embroidery in Ji Pianran's hands and exclaimed, 'Auntie, look, the phoenix that Pianran embroidered is really beautiful, isn't it?'

Hearing embroidery, the old lady was taken aback.

Isn't that her favourite thing?

She hurriedly looked towards Ji Pianran's hands, but unfortunately, she was old and her eyesight was poor. She leaned forward, but still couldn't see clearly, so she got out of bed and walked over to Ji Pianran to take a closer look.

When she looked, her pupils couldn't help but tremble.

A fleeting glimmer appeared in her cloudy eyes.

Amazing, really amazing, this phoenix looks just like the real thing.

She had liked needlework since she was a child, but at that time the family was not well off, and in order to make a living, she had to go out to work when she was ten years old.

Perhaps the more you can't get something, the more you like it. Old Auntie has always envied people who can do embroidery.

There was nothing she could do about it, she really liked it.

'Not bad, really not bad, after so many years, this is the first time I've seen such a good embroidery!'

She received the affirmation of Ma Xiaolan and Old Auntie.

Ji Pianran felt much more at ease.

She smiled and said, 'I just embroidered it blindly.'

Then she picked up the needle and carefully began to embroider it stitch by stitch.

Since everyone likes it, it proves that this embroidery will definitely sell for a lot of money. After she gets the money, she wants to buy Gu Chen a decent dress, and if there is a little more, she will buy her a pair of leather shoes.

Now that Gu Chen deals with city people every day, she must dress nicely.

Gu Chen has already arrived home.

She was going to Aunt Zhang's to pick up her granddaughter, Tang Tang, for a playdate.

Unexpectedly, when she arrived at Aunt Zhang's, the little girl was already fast asleep in her bed.

Seeing her sleeping so soundly, Gu Chen didn't have the heart to wake her.

So she simply went home first and went to the front room to check on the cordyceps sinensis in the field.

It had only been a day, but the cordyceps sinensis had already sprouted.

It was something with fine fluff all over it, like the root of a plant with soil on it.

It was about one centimetre long.

Gu Chen looked at the ground covered in the fluffy tips of the cordyceps and couldn't help but marvel.

The system really doesn't lie to me.

You have to know that this thing grows over a period of time that spans from winter to summer.

It takes three whole seasons for cordyceps to appear once, and the seeds given by the system have actually gone through three seasons in just two days.

And the survival rate was a full 100%.

This made him exclaim in admiration.

Amazing, truly amazing.

After this conversation, Gu Chen went back into the space.

After all, there was still work to be done.

It was only when he entered that he was surprised.

The two cherry seeds he had left behind had grown into a large tree, with a straight and slender trunk and lush branches.

Most importantly, the leaves were full of dense fruit.

The blackish red fruits were twice as big as the ones he had bought.

They looked like plums and were a real delight.

Gu Chen had come to see the wolfberries, but was pleasantly surprised by the cherries.

He walked over, reached up and picked one off the tree, then put it in his mouth and tasted it carefully.

While he was doing that, he scanned the area around the wolfberries with his eyes.

Sure enough, the wolfberries were almost back to the top of the pile.

It seems that I really need to deliver to Boss Zhao again.

After eating the cherries, Gu Chen spat out the pit in his hand, smacked his lips, and muttered to himself.

'It really is delicious.'

Sweet and sour, delicious, refreshing in the mouth, bursting with juice when bitten into.

After eating it, a light fruity fragrance remains between the lips and teeth.

It really is too delicious.

As usual, he took the water scoop and watered everything that grew in the field with the spring water.

When he got to the ginseng, Gu Chen's brow twitched, and then he paused with the water scoop in his hand.

Although it's not the best time to sell this stuff right now, there's no problem giving it to Ji Pianran now.

His daughter-in-law is sick, so it's just the right time to make a pot of ginseng and black chicken soup to help her recover.

Together with his own matsutake mushroom porridge and the spring water, there is simply no need for seven days.

If he doesn't eat for two or three days, there is absolutely no problem with his recovery!

Thinking about this, he turned his head and his gaze stopped on a relatively satisfactory ginseng that he had seen when watering earlier.

'That's it!'

Gu Chen muttered to himself and then walked over to the ginseng.

He crouched down carefully, dug and pulled, and got the whole ginseng out of the spiritual field.

After a little less than half a month, the ginseng had now grown to the thickness of an arm, and the two longest ones at the bottom were the thickness of a pinky. The lower they went, the thinner they got, and the long whiskers were extremely agile.

He now understood why this thing was called ginseng, it really looked like a person!

It was like a little person.