Chapter 348 - 337: Asking the Price
Zhou Hu was proficient in hunting, and although catching birds wasn’t easy nowadays, he could still catch them; it just took a bit more effort.
Initially, he thought that Manbao’s request to catch birds for her, and then have his brother plow the fields as compensation, was just an excuse to help him out. But to his surprise, he saw Manbao hanging around outside her house for several days in a row.
When he asked Zhou Er, it turned out that she was inquiring whether he was free to go out and catch birds.
After giving it some thought, Zhou Hu decided that Manbao was just a child, and children tend to be stubborn with their ideas. Thus, he found some time to set traps in the wild, and early the next morning, he had Zhou Er deliver a string of birds to Manbao.
Some were dead, and some were still alive.
Manbao had just stepped out of her house when she met Zhou Er. She was overjoyed and picked three spirited birds to put into her book box, leaving the rest for Zhou Er to take home to eat.
Zhou Er didn’t refuse and glanced at her book box, asking, "Are you taking them to school?"
"Yes, I’m giving them to my friend."
Zhou Er then understood; it must be the students at the school who wanted to see the birds, which was why Manbao had asked her father to catch them.
This was a trivial matter, and no one paid much attention to it. Even when Zhou Dalang and the others heard about it, they just thanked Zhou Hu and assumed Manbao had given the birds to Bai Erlang.
On her way, Manbao placed the three birds from her book box into the system and then sent one to Doctor D. She also posted a for-sale thread on the forum to fulfill two more orders.