Seeing that everyone's expressions were becoming more and more relaxed, Village Chief Ma pressed on while the iron was hot: "Jiawen is right. If these potatoes are really that amazing, then the profits will be doubled. Just as Lili said, whether our Xinghua Village can become rich depends on this!"
The more everyone thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. Since Lili had been so sincere in letting everyone try it first, they decided to give it a try!
If it succeeds, wouldn't we be rich?
"I trust Lili, Lili, give Auntie some grain seeds too!"
"Lili would never lie to us, Lili is our little lucky star!"
"I want one too! I want one too!"
Lili happily distributed all the grain seeds on the ground, and everyone except Aunt Wang had some.
Aunt Wang asked her, "Lili, is there none left?"
“Grandma Wang, come home with me and get some.” Lili thought, “Grandma Wang, would you like to plant a little more? It’s not a lot, just ten portions of grain seeds. I’ll have to plant the rest myself.” Lili added, “It’s okay if you don’t want to, I’ll just get you one portion.”
Aunt Wang and her daughter-in-law exchanged a glance, then nodded and said, "Of course we'd like to. We've just finished picking a lot of vegetables from our garden, so we have plenty of land to plant more."
Lili smiled and said, "Then Grandma Wang and Auntie will come home with me to get them later."
Lili then shared some additional information with everyone and didn't say anything more.
How many potatoes grow depends on fate.
Whose fate is it? Of course, it's Riri's fate.
Everyone carefully wrote it down and immediately went home to prepare for germination.
Everyone was in high spirits, and Village Chief Ma was also very excited. He glanced at the little dumpling beside him, who was standing with his hands behind his back and looking very composed. He could actually see a sense of strategic planning in a three-year-old child.
Village Chief Ma was secretly pleased and silently added the afternoon's trip to the ancestral graves to his itinerary.
Village Chief Ma had a premonition that perhaps their Xinghua Village could truly embark on that path to prosperity.
The ancestral graves are emitting smoke, and it's not just blue smoke anymore, it's purple smoke!
Today we must take two jugs of wine to chat with our ancestors. It must be their blessing that allowed such a fairy to fall into their Xinghua Village!
Village Chief Ma was grinning from ear to ear when Shen Jialuo abruptly interrupted him, "Uncle Village Chief, what are you laughing at?"
"Oh, it's nothing." Village Chief Ma said seriously, "Lili, if there's nothing else here, I'll be going. I'm going home to plant potatoes."
Village Chief Ma naturally received a share of grain seeds as well; how could he miss such a good opportunity?
Lili said obediently, "Goodbye, Uncle Village Chief. You can come to Lili anytime if you have any questions."
Village Chief Ma was overjoyed. Look at her, what an adorable little fairy!
Lili took Aunt Wang home to get the bag of potatoes she had prepared, and then went with her to the Wang family's house, intending to personally guide her.
Wang Ergou and his father went to help the Shen family build a new house, leaving only Wang Hongfang at home.
Wang Hongfang was overjoyed to see Lili arrive.
"Lili!" Wang Hongfang greeted her.
"Sister Hongfang."
Lili brought her the kaleidoscope they had agreed on last time: "Sister Hongfang, this is the kaleidoscope."
"Wow!"
Wang Hongfang carefully took it, admiring it and examining this novel Persian artifact closely.
"So this is something from Persia? It's just as interesting as my father described!" Wang Hongfang held the kaleidoscope to her eyes. "Ah, it's so beautiful! This is the kind of glass that only nobles can use? Persia is so extravagant, they even use glass to make toys!"
Persia was a major producer of glass, and its applications were countless. The glassmaking technology of the Southern Jin Dynasty was inferior to that of Persia, and most of its glass products were imported from Persia. These imported products were expensive, and ordinary people wouldn't spend that much money to buy them. This is why glass was considered something only the wealthy could afford.
However, due to the severe famine in Xixiang County in recent years, the border town of Mian, which traded with Persia, was naturally greatly affected.
Lili had heard from Boss Shen that this pile of novelties was bought at a low price because Xixiang County was too busy to care about these things, and they didn't have time to deal with them.
Lili suddenly had a bold idea.
"Sister Hongfang, don't you sell this kind of thing around here?"
Wang Hongfang thought for a moment: "You mean this kind of novel Persian gadget? Anyway, we don't have it in our small place. This is the first time I've ever seen one. But, in a more prosperous place like the prefectural city, they should have it, right? And the capital city, the most wealthy and noble people there probably wouldn't care about this kind of thing, would they?"
"ah......"
Lili understood.
"Lili, your aunt has plowed the land. Why don't you come and see if it's suitable?"
Aunt Wang came over, interrupting Lili's thoughts.
Wang Hongfang excitedly showed her the kaleidoscope in her hand, and Aunt Wang patted her head affectionately: "When our family has money, Mom will ask Dad to buy you one. Now your little sister Lili is going to lead us in planting potatoes, and when we harvest them, we can sell them for money!"
The way Aunt Wang said that made it sound like the potatoes had already grown.
Lili felt a little embarrassed by being trusted so much.
"Really? So, Mom, you went to till the land to plant potatoes. Then those potatoes Grandma is holding must be seed potatoes? Lili, thank you!"
Wang Hongfang said happily, but then realized that they didn't have any of these Persian items here at all.
"Mom, we don't have these things here. If we have money, you should buy more clothes. Grandpa and Grandma's clothes have so many patches."
“Our Hongfang is so sensible. It’s okay if we don’t have these things. When we have money, Mom will buy you hair ornaments.”
"Uh-huh!"
Lili chuckled, "Don't worry, Sister Hongfang, our village will definitely have a good life. Hmm... these novelties aren't necessarily a bad thing."
"Um?"
*
More than a month passed quickly, and Boss Shen returned from Beijing.
Old Master Shen entered the house beaming with joy, holding a silver note in his left hand and a letter in his right.
"Father, Mother, your son is back!"
The family came out to greet him, and Liu hurriedly went to heat up his food. The eldest Shen handed the silver notes to the second Shen and said, "Second brother, I have lived up to your expectations. Everything has arrived in the capital intact! I have settled the money for the escort team, and the rest of the money is here."
Shen Lao Er didn't even look at the money, he directly gave the silver notes to Chen Shi, and then hugged Shen Lao Da: "Big brother, you've worked hard!"
"What's so hard about this? It's not hard to make money!" Old Shen grinned, revealing a set of big white teeth. "I was thinking of bringing some snacks from the capital to the kids, but the journey is so long, they'd probably be spoiled by the time they got back."
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