Seeing their stunned expressions, Lin Jinyue gave them a harmless smile: "Aunties, do you believe me now?"

The villagers immediately believed it. If he had such ability, how could they go hungry when there was a famine outside?

This place is very remote, surrounded by primeval forests and poisonous insects. Even if there is a famine outside, people wouldn't come here to steal food. They would probably die on the way.

That is why every household had some stored grain.

Lin Jinyue bought some grain from each household. Normally, farmers would not sell grain because they were afraid of not having enough to eat.

However, they had previously misunderstood Lin Jinyue's family, so each family offered them five catties of grain.

Seeing that this group of people were kind-hearted and the price they were selling at was not expensive, compared to the previous rice which cost several taels of silver per catty, their selling of rice for twenty copper coins per catty was truly kind-hearted.

Lin Jinyue wanted to gather information, so she gave each family an extra fifty coins to cultivate good relations.

Unexpectedly, these people were somewhat embarrassed and had already started making arrangements to host a banquet and invite them to a simple meal.

Despite the fact that it was supposed to be a simple meal, Lin Jinyue actually saw them preparing to kill a chicken.

She touched her nose, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

Her father had threatened them with a crossbow earlier, but these simple villagers didn't think that way. Instead, after learning the truth, they sold them grain at a low price, gave them extra money, and even wanted to kill a chicken.

Lin Jinyue felt somewhat uncomfortable around these people.

I feel guilty very easily.

Lin Jinyue stopped them from killing the chicken: "No, no, you mustn't kill the chicken. Food is so precious these days. You keep it for yourselves. We have our own food."

An auntie grinned from ear to ear, gesturing for her husband to kill a goose. She said to Lin Shucheng, "Hey, you've come to buy grain this time and given us so much extra money. It's really solved our immediate problem. I don't even know what to add to my daughter's dowry."