Before the men could react, they were smashed solid, and cries of agony echoed through the rice paddies.

"Ouch, what the hell is this stuff? It's all over my face!"

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey! I still have a mouthful of ash, bitter and astringent, I spit it out!"

"Eating dust is nothing, I even ate a mouthful of stones, it was so bitter..."

The man lagging behind rushed up to Su Hua in a few strides, pointed at her nose, and launched into a tirade of curses, "You little brat, you haven't even grown your hair yet, and you dare to fight with so many of us? You're just too ungrateful..."

However, the man's vicious cursing suddenly stopped halfway through his sentence.

Immediately, it turned into a sharp scream.

"ah!!!!!"

Upon hearing the sound, the men lost all interest in rubbing their eyes or applying lime; their eyes widened in unison.

Then he saw the little girl in front of him grabbing the man's index finger and flipping it over hard.

Its force was so great that it lifted a person into the air and made them somersault.

Immediately, he fell face down.

Smack!

Before the man could even finish cursing, his mouth was already full of mud, and his two legs were strangely stretched into a split.

Those who don't know the situation might think they're doing some kind of improper dance in the rice paddies.

The Su family members watched the man struggling in the field, their eyes filled with coldness.

"Pah! You actually tried to hit my aunt? You deserve to fall flat on your face!"

"They actually dared to touch someone from our Su family! They must have a death wish!"

"Luckily you ducked quickly, otherwise you would have definitely tasted my fist..."

Su Hua clapped her hands, her porcelain-white face beaming with a smile as she leaned closer to the man. "Now, Uncle, do you still think I'm ungrateful?"

The menacing family, coupled with their slightly upturned tone at the end of their sentences, sent a shiver down the man's spine. He shook his head violently, "No, no, no... How could the young lady be so ungrateful... It was me, it was me who was ungrateful, it was me who was ungrateful..."

As he spoke, he used all his strength to try and climb out of the rice paddy.

But his mind was filled with the scene of being thrown to the ground, and his legs felt like they had been injected with medicine. No matter how much he struggled, he could only writhe back and forth in the mud. The man was so scared that tears were about to come out, and he could only ask the men from Wangjia Village next to him for help.

"Quick, Erdan, Gouzi, come and help me! Hurry! Save me... I don't want to die..."

The men heard it, but they all looked at Su Hua without prior arrangement.

This family is no benevolent group, especially this seemingly delicate little girl.

With one throw, he shattered a stone the size of a washbasin into pieces; with another, he dragged a man weighing nearly 200 pounds face-first into the dirt. These are not things a normal person could do. He's clearly some kind of little monster who appeared out of nowhere.

They didn't dare to even think about it; if they accidentally provoked her again, she might just trap them all here!

Seeing that she had achieved her goal, Su Hua stopped making things difficult for them and waved her hand.

"You may leave now, but remember what I said today, and don't let it happen again."

Upon hearing this, the men immediately breathed a sigh of relief, bowed deeply, and said humbly, "Thank you, young lady! Don't worry, we will never dare to come to your Zaozhuang again!"

Having said that, he didn't dare linger any longer. He lifted the man who was doing the splits off the ground, led the old ox, and ran away as fast as he could.

In the blink of an eye, they disappeared at the entrance of Zaozhuang.

In the rice paddies, the Su family looked at the ravaged rice seedlings, their eyes filled with unbearable heartache.

"Brother, all the rice seedlings that could fill our stomachs have been destroyed! These people are so wicked!"

"Food is the most important thing for the people. People say that officials love the people like their own children, but now they can destroy these hundreds of acres of rice seedlings at will. What kind of love is this?"

"This servant follows his master's lead; this Prefect Liu is likely a ruthless man as well..."

"Alright! These words are fine to say in front of your own family, but you are not allowed to say a single word outside, or you will lose more heads than you can count!" Su Bai gritted her teeth and said coldly, "The seedlings have been destroyed. The most important thing now is to salvage the situation as soon as possible. We will go back and start cultivating seedlings. We will spend more time in the fields these next few days. Although it is a bit late, as long as we plant them, we will at least have some harvest."

“Mother is right.” Su Hua nodded in agreement. “However, we won’t grow rice, we’ll grow sweet potatoes.”

Upon hearing this, the Su family members all stood frozen in place.

Su Sanhu subconsciously swallowed, his deep eyes filled with undisguised surprise. "Hua'er, are you sure you want to plant sweet potatoes? You're going to plant all 180 acres of destroyed land with sweet potatoes, and not a single grain of rice?"

The others remained silent, but their eyes conveyed a similar meaning.

Previously, Hua'er dug up a basket of sweet potatoes and sweet potato vines in the valley of Fuhu Mountain. Apart from the sweet potato vines that were planted in the vegetable garden behind the house, the rest were made into steamed sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, and stir-fried sweet potato leaves.

Everything tasted great.

The sweet potatoes planted as cuttings have grown considerably in the past two weeks.

However, sweet potatoes are a crop that has never been planted before, and it is impossible to tell what the yield will be. If we really want to plant them on this 180 acres of land, it seems like we are going all in.

For generations, they have relied on rice paddies for their staple food, supplemented by wheat. Although the rice seedlings in these fields have been destroyed, as long as they are replanted as soon as possible, they will not suffer a complete loss. This is clearly more promising than the uncertain prospects of sweet potatoes.

Su Hua was not surprised by the reactions of the others; people tend to be conservative when faced with things they don't know.

If she hadn't witnessed the high yield of sweet potatoes firsthand, she would have done the same as them now.

She thought for a moment, then smiled and pointed to her head. "If Mother and my brothers are worried about the yield of sweet potatoes, they can rest assured. My master once told me that the yield of sweet potatoes is no less than that of rice and wheat."

Furthermore, I can also concoct potions to promote plant growth, so I certainly won't let this land go to waste.

In fact, she had already started planning to buy land before the Hundred Flowers Banquet, mainly because of sweet potatoes. Under the same conditions, the yield of sweet potatoes is six times that of rice and seven times that of wheat. If sweet potatoes can be popularized, it will not only benefit the Su family's business, but also be a great thing for the country and the people.

However, the Su family is no longer a united front, so she was vague about the sweet potato yield.