Chapter 165: 165 cherry_1 as big as a plum Chapter 165: 165 cherry_1 as big as a plum This patient actually knows how to do embroidery?

This phoenix looks really beautiful, incredibly complex at first glance.

She can actually embroider a phoenix?

This work clearly requires a lot of painstaking effort, who knows how much.

Truly impressive.

Ji Pianran casually tied up her hair, smiling slightly.

“I learned it when I was a child.”

Ji Pianran’s mother, Wu Shuhui, was a typical well-educated lady, coming from a family with a scholarly background.

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

Posture is not just about facial expressions but more about one’s approach to people and matters.

It’s about the demeanor one carries through life, which can also be understood as a personal creed.

She felt that girls didn’t need to hustle for money.

They just needed to stay in the inner chambers, bask in the warmth of the sunlight when it’s pleasant, casually invite a couple of close girlfriends to have tea, chat, do some needlework, relaxing and comfortable, while nurturing body and soul.

That’s the life a refined girl should have.

Her daughter had to possess enough cultivation and patience; cultivation to make her demeanor more graceful, and patience to be the guiding light in her life.

It would make her more flexible during hard times, and more knowledgeable when to advance or retreat.

It has to be admitted that the upbringing by Ji Pianran’s mother was a very important factor in shaping her character.

And also a crucial reason why her embroidery work was so good.

Ma Xiaolan was utterly astonished. In this day and age, was there actually someone who had the time and energy to dedicate to activities traditionally reserved for genteel ladies?

Did she not go to school when she was younger or did she not need to earn money now that she was grown up?

How did she find the time to learn this art?

Her eyes conveyed admiration.

“I never realized. Nowadays, people who can do this are really rare; you are the first one I know.”

In this era, it’s really not easy for women.

Some were like her, staying at home to care for the children once they were born, while others were out working jobs just like men to make money.

To be like Ji Pianran, leisurely engaging in embroidery, she really hadn’t seen it before.

The two of them chatting away disturbed Aunt Zhang, who was sleeping. She propped her pillow up against the headboard, sat up, and yawned.

“What are you two chatting about?”

As she had just woken up, her speech was somewhat listless.

Ma Xiaolan, pointing to the embroidery in Ji Pianran’s hand, exclaimed, “Auntie, look, the phoenix that Pian Ran embroidered is just too lovely.”

Hearing about embroidery, Aunt Zhang was stunned.

Wasn’t that her favorite thing?

She hurriedly looked over to Ji Pianran’s hands, but due to her old age and poor eyesight, she leaned forward to see better yet still couldn’t see clearly. She got out of bed, walked over to Ji Pianran to take a closer look.

Upon seeing it, her pupils involuntarily shrank.

A short-lived glint appeared in her cloudy eyes.

Incredible, truly incredible; the phoenix looked as if it were real.

She had loved needlework since she was young, but due to her family’s poor situation, she had to go out to work at the age of ten.

Perhaps it’s the inaccessible things one grows fonder of; Aunt Zhang had always envied those who could do embroidery.

Undeniably, she was just too fond of it.

“Not bad, really not bad, all these years and it’s the first time I’ve seen such a beautiful piece of embroidery!”

Having received the endorsement of Ma Xiaolan and Aunt Zhang,

Ji Pianran felt more at ease.

She chuckled, “I just stitched it together without much thought.”

After saying that, she picked up the needle and started embroidering carefully and diligently.

Since everyone liked it, it proved that the embroidery could definitely sell for a good price; once she got the money, she wanted to buy Gu Chentian some decent clothes. If there was a little extra, she would get him a pair of leather shoes.

Now that Gu Chentian was dealing with city folks every day, he definitely needed to dress better.

…

By this time, Gu Chentian had already arrived home.

He had originally planned to go to Aunt Zhang’s house to pick up Sugar and bring her back to play for a while.

But when he got to Aunt Zhang’s house, the little one was already lying on the bed, fast asleep.

Seeing her sleep so soundly, Gu Chentian didn’t have the heart to wake her.

So he simply went back home and checked on the Cordyceps in the front room of the house.

Just one day passed, and the Cordyceps had all started to sprout.

They were a kind of plant rootstock, covered with tiny fuzz, as if they were caked with dirt.

Their length was about one centimeter.

Looking at the fuzzy Cordyceps sprouts covering the ground, Gu Chentian couldn’t help but exclaim.

The system really didn’t deceive me.

Keep in mind, these things normally grow over the span from winter to summer.

It takes three whole seasons to yield Cordyceps once, and yet the seeds provided by the system miraculously spanned three seasons in two days.

What’s more, the survival rate was actually one hundred percent.

This couldn’t help but amaze him.

Incredible, truly incredible.

After expressing his gratitude, Gu Chentian entered the magical space again.

After all, there was work that still needed to be done.

To his astonishment, the two cherry seeds he had discarded had grown into large trees, tall and straight, with lush branches and leaves.

Most importantly, beneath the leaves, there were densely packed fruits.

The cherries, dark red and almost black in color, were actually twice the size of the ones he had originally bought.

They resembled plums, which was truly a delightful sight.

Gu Chentian had come to check on the goji berries, but he was sincerely surprised by the cherries.

He walked over, plucked a cherry from the tree, and popped it into his mouth, carefully savoring the flavor while his eyes surveyed the goji berries.

As expected, the goji berries were nearly piling into a mountain.

It seemed he indeed needed to make another delivery to Boss Zhao.

After finishing the cherry, Gu Chentian spat the pit into his hand and smacked his lips, talking to himself.

“Delicious indeed.”

Tart and sweet, with a refreshing taste and bursting with juice in every bite.

Even after swallowing, a faint fruity fragrance lingered on the lips and teeth.

It was unbelievably tasty.

As usual, he picked up the watering scoop and watered everything in the field with Spirit Spring Water.

When he came to the ginseng, Gu Chentian’s brow twitched and he paused with the scoop in hand.

This thing, although it’s not the best time to sell it, feeding it to Ji Pianran now would definitely be fine.

His wife was ill, and a pot of ginseng chicken soup would be perfect for replenishing her health.

Combined with his own Matsutake Porridge and the Spiritual Spring Water, seven days wouldn’t be necessary.

In just two or three days, her health would surely be completely restored!

With this in mind, he turned his head, his gaze resting on a particularly satisfying ginseng he had spotted while watering.

“This is the one!”

Gu Chentian muttered to himself, then walked over to the selected ginseng.

He squatted down carefully, digging and then pulling, and extracted a whole ginseng from the Spirit Field.

After the better part of a month, this ginseng had grown as thick as an arm, with the two longest roots as thick as a pinky finger, thinning out the further down they went, full of lively, wavy whiskers.

He now understood why they were called “ginseng;” they really did resemble humans!

Just like little wily spirits.