I Own a Garden with One Hundred Herbs

Chapter 15: Good Job, General Fei Lu

Next, it was time for Bai Caoshi to go shopping.

She bought paper, ink, brush, inkstone, the Theory of the Current Dynasty, and a book called “The Prescription of the Thousand Gold of Flame” in the bookstore. She experienced how expensive popular books are and spent five taels and eighty copper coins.

She bought “Five-Colored Rice” at the rice store. It included rice, millet, purple rice, sorghum rice, quinoa, red beans, green beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, and other grains. It cost three taels and sixty-eight copper coins.

She bought four pieces of cloth from the cloth store. She gave Tianshui Green to Zhe Yu, Begonia Red to her mother, Ink color to Xiaoshu, and Yuexia White to herself. Among them, Zhe Yu’s was tribute brocade, the most expensive. The four pieces cost a total of ten taels.

She replenished some oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, scallions, ginger, garlic, white ginger, and other condiments. There were bath beans for washing hair, a small cloth bag for a woman’s period, an oil-paper umbrella, and so on. After deducting Little Jiang’s fare, she spent all thirty taels.

Fortunately, Zhe Yu bought some meat. Otherwise, it would have been another huge expense.

Touching the pocket that was cleaner than her face, Bai Caoshi secretly made up her mind to work hard to plant herbs and support her family!

When the ox cart arrived home, it was already past seven o’clock.

Madam Bai Li was waiting at the courtyard door. She only relaxed when she saw them.

The wolf cub wagged its tail and turned around at the heels of Bai Caoshi. It was very intimate.

“There was almost a thief at home today. Fortunately, Fu Bao was smart and bit the thief’s leg. The thief ran away in fear,” Madam Bai Li said proudly.

Her hands froze as she unloaded the items. Her mother said it so easily, but Bai Caoshi was still afraid. What if it was a big thief or bandit next time? She placed the clay bowl Zhe Yu won on the mini-games on the ground and patted the wolf cub’s head. “General Fei Lu is mighty. I’ll let you eat meat tonight. I’ll rely on you to guard the house in the future!”

The little wolf cub that had been upgraded from Fu Bao to General Fei Lu was arrogant and took a step forward.

Seeing the interaction between the wolf and Bai Caoshi, Zhe Yu’s gloomy mood from seeing the doctor eased a little.

“It must have cost a lot to buy so many things, right?” Madam Bai Li asked again. Her family did not have much money, so she had to be careful.

“Your daughter and son-in-law are all capable. We can always earn more after spending them!” Little Jiang, who had witnessed a miracle today, said with a smile.

At the mention of this, Bai Xiaoshu became smug. “Mother, you don’t know how good I was today. I fooled…”

Suddenly, he stopped talking. He met his sister’s sharp gaze.

Was that a bluff? That was a skill.

**

After dinner, Bai Caoshi cut two small pieces of pork belly and fed them to the wolf. They were raw.

Instead of feeding directly, she trained the wolf cub to do some maneuvers, rearing his front hooves high enough to reach the heights. When it reached them, she would lift the meat higher.

The wolf pup howled in exasperation.

“General Fei Lu, aren’t soldiers who don’t want to be generals good wolves? Can’t they even take this little setback?”

“Try again, General Fei Lu. You can do it.”

“How can you protect your family from harm without training? You have to protect mother and Young Master, understand?”

Zhe Yu stood silently behind Bai Caoshi. He had seen the hard work of the day, but the woman in front of him seemed to have endless energy and was full of vigor.

The wolf cub finally reached the meat, his tongue lolling long enough to lick Bai Caoshi’s hand. She giggled. “Good for you, General Fei Lu.”

She felt a little awkward when she turned around and saw Zhe Yu.

“When?”

In other words, when was he standing behind her? Zhe Yu snatched another piece of meat from her hand and asked lazily, “Didn’t you say that the task of training Fu Bao belongs to me?”