Courtyard Houses: Starting as a Purchasing Agent

"When I'm gone, could you take my ashes with you to the north? You don't have to go abroad. Just scatter my ashes in the river on the border, okay?"

I want to be closer to them!

He Yuzhu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to agree.

Then Jia Zhangshi spoke up again: "No... Shazhu, you can't agree to that... The crematorium has to be used for that, it'll probably cost over a hundred yuan..."

"Also, why take her ashes so far? Don't you need a train ticket?"

"You still have to work, how can you earn money if you don't work?"

To be honest, He Yuzhu really wanted to grant the old lady's wish.

But since Jia Zhangshi had said so, he backed down.

"Um..." He Yuzhu said, "Grandma... don't worry, after you're gone, I promise to buy you the best coffin... is that alright?"

"Ugh……"

The deaf old woman sighed deeply, her face filled with boundless disappointment.

This won't work, and that won't work either.

What a waste of all the good I've done for you over the years.

"Old lady... Old lady..."

At that moment, Liu Aiguo's voice rang out from outside the door.

Liu Aiguo also rushed over from the factory.

“Patriotism…” The old lady nodded as she looked at Liu Aiguo.

At this moment, she was perfectly lucid.

Liu Aiguo's relationship with the old lady was not close, but it wasn't bad either.

The two had never had any conflicts.

On the contrary, Liu Aiguo usually respected the old lady quite a bit, after all, the house he lived in belonged to her, didn't it? The old lady's family's loyalty and righteousness also earned Liu Aiguo's respect.

However, they were not close friends.

Liu Aiguo would never become a sycophant to the old lady; he is capable of handling everything in the courtyard and has no need to rely on her.

But now that the old lady is about to pass away, the proper demeanor and attitude must be maintained.

"How are you feeling... Shall I take a look at you?"

Liu Aiguo went over and grabbed the old lady's hand, then started feeling her pulse with his fingers.

The old lady was deeply moved.

Unexpectedly, even at this point, when Sha Zhu didn't dare to shake hands with him, Liu Aiguo showed no sign of disdain whatsoever.

Upon feeling the pulse, Liu Aiguo frowned: it really wasn't going to work.

The old lady wasn't sick; she was simply at her wit's end.

To put it bluntly, it's time.

“I just heard you say…you still have unfulfilled wishes…” Liu Aiguo asked the old lady.

The old lady nodded and said, "Yes...sigh...no time!"

As she said this, the old lady shook her head and looked at He Yuzhu with disappointment.

Liu Aiguo smiled and said, "Your health really isn't what it used to be!"

"I know!" the old woman said. "My time is coming, I can feel it, I feel that God is calling me!"

“However!” Liu Aiguo said, “I’ll give you a breath of immortal energy… which will allow you to live a few more days… I’ll take you to see the other side of the border river myself… What do you think?”

The old lady's eyes suddenly lit up!

Does this work too?

buzzing...

Liu Aiguo twitched his fingers slightly, and a warm current flowed from his fingertips, entering the old lady's pulse.

Her life force recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

However, this amount of internal strength alone is not enough.

Liu Aiguo then took out a ginseng from his own system.

Centuries-old ginseng.

"Grandma...please rest for a while. I'll use this century-old ginseng to brew medicine to prolong your life!"

Chapter 153 By the Duck River, Fulfilling a Last Wish

Liu Aiguo was holding a huge ginseng root in his hand!

It's about the size of a fist.

The top of the rhizome was covered with dense scars, one layer on top of another.

Those who know their stuff will recognize that the year a ginseng root is bent can be determined by looking at the root tip.

Every year, ginseng sprouts new shoots from its old roots, and then withers away every autumn.

So year after year, just like the annual rings of a tree, dense layers of annual rings are left on the ginseng.

One reed shoot represents a year.

The ginseng that Liu Aiguo is holding looks to be over a hundred years old.

This stuff is considered priceless on the market, its value beyond monetary measure. The ginseng from the national pharmaceutical factory, aged thirty years, is used to make ginseng pills; each one can prolong life.

Some were even supplied to top leaders, where they could save lives in critical moments.

Or it could be given to someone in a dangerous situation, allowing the leader to live a few more moments so that the final order can be given.

All of these things.

However, none of these ginsengs are as good as the one in Liu Aiguo's hand.

This thing is a rare treasure outside.

But for Liu Aiguo, it meant nothing.

In his system space, there is a mountain forest.

There was a plot of land there that Liu Aiguo had specially sown with ginseng seeds.

One day of this stuff is equivalent to half a year, so a century-old ginseng outside only needs two hundred days to grow in Liu Aiguo's system space.

He has plenty of ginseng that are over a hundred years old, not just any ginseng that's a hundred years old.

It wouldn't matter if I gave the old lady one.

After all, what the old lady's family did was respectable.

However, the birds were all quite unsettled when they saw the ginseng in Liu Aiguo's hand.

"This ginseng is so big?"

"This is the first time I've ever seen ginseng."

"A century-old ginseng!"

"Hiss..."

Everyone else was amazed.

But the old man frowned and said, "Patriotism... that's a very precious thing!"

Yi Zhonghai mentioned it briefly.

But they didn't go into detail.

Madam Jia didn't care. She said directly, "This is such good ginseng. If it were sold to the state-owned pharmaceutical factory, one of these could probably fetch tens of thousands of yuan... What a waste to give it to a damned old woman!"

"Did it extend her life by a few days?"

"That's right!" Qin Huairu chimed in, "It's not worth it...it won't save a life!"

He Yuzhu said, "Yes... Patriotism, instead of giving this to the old lady, you might as well share it with everyone!"

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Madam Jia continued, "Each family can get a few thousand yuan, right... Liu Aiguo, how about this, sell the ginseng and distribute it to us who are still alive? Wouldn't that be better?"

Her words made many people envious.

Each family can get several thousand yuan.

To his surprise, Liu Aiguo smiled coldly and said, "This is my property. I won't give it to you even if I sell it... Can you give it to me now?"

The deaf old lady next to him lowered her head and said nothing.

She just sighed deeply, fully experiencing what it means to be "out of sight, out of mind." I haven't even left yet, and the tea's already gone cold?

It doesn't matter if others fall into disgrace, but it's Sha Zhu...

you……