Chapter 480 - 469: Gift
Old Zhou fell silent. He tucked his smoking pipe into his waistband, got up, and took a few steps before he stopped, unable to proceed. After a long moment of thought, he finally gritted his teeth and crouched back down beside Manbao, "Fine, sell it then!"
He might just need to plant a bit more next year.
Manbao was overjoyed, knowing full well that planting more was impossible.
Old Zhou’s tobacco was usually just a small corner of the vegetable garden, not much, just twenty or thirty plants. He had thought about expanding the cultivation, but was too stingy to use the good crop land for tobacco since he was already satisfied with what he grew to curb his cravings.
Even if there were smokers in the town, there weren’t many. The tobacco leaves Old Zhou sold had their regular buyers, and growing more meant he wouldn’t be able to smoke it all or sell it.
Therefore, he never considered growing tobacco to make money.
Secondly, Ms.Qian disdained his tobacco. The fact that he was able to carve out such a small plot in the vegetable garden to grow his tobacco was the result of many repeated requests.
The thought of expanding was nothing but a dream.
So Manbao knew, next year, her father would only be able to grow that much tobacco.
While this somewhat curbed Old Zhou’s pace of building his private savings and might result in a long time before he could repay what he owed her, Manbao was still very happy.
After he agreed, Manbao ran to the bed to feel around for the five taels of silver she had played with and forgotten to collect into the system the previous night, and handed it to her father.