Yu Rujia: "Thank you, Pear Blossom. Yes, the eldest of the children is named Duofu. Duolu and Duoshou are twins, and the one I have here is Duoxi."

She then introduced the two sisters from the Lü family to the children: "This is Sister Camellia, and this is Sister Pear Blossom. Come and greet them."

Duoxi could walk a little, but there wasn't enough time for him to wobble over to collect the grain, so Yu Rujia picked him up and carried him in her arms.

Duofu and Duoshou greeted her politely, "Hello, Sister Camellia, hello, Sister Pear Blossom."

Duolu, being more playful, broke free from his older brother's hand and ran to the two sisters with his chubby face: "Sister Chahua, Sister Lihua, are you going to get your food too? I like to eat meat, can I get some meat?"

Duoxi, the little foodie, followed the crowd closely: "Meat, meat!"

Lü Chahua chuckled and said, "There's meat, but you can only collect it tomorrow. Do you have more fortune or more longevity?"

Doro gestured with his hands: "I am Doro, and I want to eat lots and lots of meat."

Lü Chahua: "Can you carry all these succulents?"

Duolu: "I'm strong, I can lift a lot." To prove his strength, he gave an example: "When I hugged my younger brother, my uncle said I was strong."

While playing at home, he held Duoxi for a few steps before putting her down. The fact that a child not even two years old could hold an eleven-month-old like Duoxi really surprised Gao Shujing, who exclaimed that all that meat he had eaten was worth it.

The fearless Duolu made the two sisters laugh all the way with just a few childish words. He'll definitely be a master at picking up girls in the future, so there's no need to worry about him staying single forever.

When they arrived at the threshing ground, the usually spacious threshing ground was piled high with bags of grain. Some team members lined up, while others stood outside chatting with people they knew.

The children frolicked among the adults, and everyone's face was filled with the joy of a bountiful harvest.

Yu Rujia pushed the children towards Lü Lihua: "Auntie needs to line up here to get food. You play with Sister Lihua and don't run around, okay?"

Duofu, holding Duoxi's hand with one hand and Duolu's hand with the other, who seemed to have ADHD and was twisting and turning, said seriously with a stern little face: "I will hold my younger brothers and follow Sister Lihua, so that they won't run around."

Duolu: "Auntie, I'll be good."

Duoshou held Duolu's other hand: "Auntie, I'm watching over Duolu."

Yu Rujia rubbed the little ones' heads: "If you behave well, Auntie will make you something delicious when we get back."

Duoxi tiptoed and shook her head, trying to get Yu Rujia's attention: "Good girl, eat meat."

Yu Rujia patted his head and said, "As long as you behave, you'll get to eat meat when we get back."

Lü Lihua: "Yu Zhiqing, you go ahead. I'll keep an eye on them."

Yu Rujia: "Thank you, Pear Blossom."

In Y Province, the main grains grown are sweet potatoes and rice. Wheat and sorghum are not grown here. Even corn is only grown by a small number of families as a snack, not a staple food.

Before hybrid rice was introduced, the yield of rice in this area was between 500 and 600 jin per mu, and the yield of sweet potatoes was around 2,000 jin per mu.

The grain exchange was arranged according to the actual harvest each year. In a good year, ten work points could be exchanged for four or five catties of sweet potatoes, and in the best years, it could even reach six or seven catties. In the worst years, it had been as low as one or two catties. (This information was found on Baidu.)

The exchange rate between rice and sweet potatoes is 1 to 3, and the exchange rate between millet and sweet potatoes is 1 to 4.

When exchanging grains, they could choose to exchange for rice or sweet potatoes; the rice had to be milled by themselves from paddy rice. Most families exchanged a small amount of rice for most of the sweet potatoes.

The market is doing well this year; ten work points can be exchanged for 1.5 jin of rice and 4.5 jin of sweet potatoes.

Yu Rujia and Gao Shujing both earned full work points every day. Yu Rujia arrived in July and had nearly two thousand work points; Gao Shujing arrived in early August and had fewer than Yu Rujia.

The two men exchanged their work points for 450 catties of rice, and the rest were exchanged for sweet potatoes, totaling over 1,000 catties of grain.

After others had finished exchanging their grain, Yu Rujia bought another 600 jin of rice. Buying grain from the brigade didn't require coupons, and the price was even lower than outside.

Of course, this kind of low-priced grain cannot be bought casually. Each person has a quota, with the maximum limit being 100 catties of rice per person. Including Gao Shujing, Yu Rujia's family has a total of six people, and she directly bought the maximum limit.

Everyone in the family is a foodie. Except for Duoxi, everyone else in the family consumes rice by the kilogram every day.

If a thousand catties of rice can yield six hundred catties of cooked rice, that's already quite good. That's only enough for his family's food supply for a few months, and it won't last until next autumn's harvest.

Fortunately, she had space, the money the two of them earned, and the support of Xia Taishun and Xia Jingrong, so she didn't go hungry.

Her decision to exchange most of her work points for rice was clearly not appreciated by her teammates.

An older woman advised, "You, educated youth, this isn't how you live. Fine grains may taste good, but with several children to care for, it's unlikely you'll have enough to last until next autumn's harvest. You should exchange them for more sweet potatoes."

Yu Rujia: "Thank you for reminding me, Auntie. But the child's stomach is delicate, so he needs to eat more refined foods."

“Sweet potatoes are soft and powdery when cooked, so they won’t choke the children. Which child in the team didn’t grow up like that? The children you’re raising aren’t your own. Just give them enough to eat. Why make them eat so finely? They’ll eat you out of house and home sooner or later.”

"If you raise children, you have to do your best. I'm capable enough to support them."

Guan Daya cursed, "What ability does she have? She's a vixen who seduces people. She bewitched Gao Zhiqing and even gave her his grain. What good woman is like her, taking other people's things to her own house before even getting married?"

"Those brats claim they're adopted, but I think they're just bastards born from her promiscuity and having affairs with other men. She deliberately seduced Gao Zhiqing to raise them together."

Huang Dazhuang earns ten work points a day and has a skill. Before, for Sun Qingqing's sake, he insisted on moving out of his home, which reduced the family's income. With no one to take over the housework, she hated Sun Qingqing.

She had planned to find Huang Dazhuang a new wife after Sun Qingqing died, so that the new wife could take care of all the housework and keep Huang Dazhuang's work points.

Just when it seemed like Sun Qingqing was about to die, Yu Rujia intervened and saved her, shattering her hopes. As a result, the person she hated most shifted from Sun Qingqing to Yu Rujia.

Sure enough, he'll act crazy whenever he gets the chance.

Yu Rujia was unaware of the reason behind this. She didn't know Guan Daya at all, and she was being lectured for no reason. It would be strange if she could tolerate it.

Yu Rujia: "If this auntie says such things, I'm going to have to go to the police station. It's unreasonable for me to be raised by my child and then be maliciously insulted like this. I just don't know how long you will be sentenced for spreading rumors and causing trouble at will."