"Mother, the magistrate took away two sacks of sweet potatoes, saying he was going to send them to the capital to show the Emperor and let him taste them."
The thought that his own sweet potatoes could be served to the Emperor made Lin Chaodong so excited that he could hardly speak.
Upon hearing this, Yue Jiuyue's first reaction was: This is a great gimmick! Eating the same food as the emperor—if she weren't such a straightforward person, these sweet potatoes could fetch an astronomical price!
Lin Chaodong swallowed hard and continued:
"The magistrate wanted to give me money, but I thought it was for the Emperor, so I didn't accept it."
After he finished speaking, he stared at Yue Jiuyue expectantly, as if waiting for Yue Jiuyue's scolding or praise.
"You did the right thing!"
Sure enough, Lin Chaodong immediately beamed with joy.
"The magistrate came here today to talk about sweet potato seedlings. He plans to ask our family to cultivate more sweet potato seedlings, so that they can be planted throughout the entire prefecture."
Yue Jiuyue: (╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻
She can't even afford to supply sweet potato seedlings for one county, yet she's thinking of planting them throughout the entire province?!
Even if she didn't sell a single sweet potato, she couldn't afford to supply them all!
Unless, like this year, we first cultivate sweet potato seedlings, and then cut off 20 to 30 centimeters of the seedlings to plant directly after they grow into sweet potato vines.
Before Yue Jiuyue could express her opinion, and before Lin Chaodong could finish speaking, a group of uninvited guests arrived at the house.
"Is his little aunt home?"
The original owner's second sister-in-law arrived before she did, but her voice preceded her arrival.
Moreover, not only did the original owner's second sister-in-law come, but also the original owner's three older sisters, one cousin-in-law, and two older cousins.
This is also a group of people with ill intentions.
Out of politeness, Yue Jiuyue went out to greet them and chased Lin Chaodong, Liu Shi, and the others away.
"It's my sisters-in-law and older sisters who have come. Come in and sit down."
Lin Chaodong and Liu Shi walked out of the main room and came face to face with the group of people. The group greeted each of them, and the original owner's second sister looked at Lin Chaonan and Lin Chaobei and said with a smile:
"Hey! Your third and fourth sons have grown into big young men! So, are they engaged yet? If not, we aunts, uncles, and grandmothers will help out and find them capable and good wives!"
Although their family hadn't had any contact with these people for many years, these words still made the Lin brothers, Chaonan and Chaobei, blush.
"Second sister, you should leave the good wife to your eldest son! You don't need to worry about my family's affairs."
Since they were not on good terms, there was no need to be polite in their speech. The reason she sent Lin Chaodong and the others away was because she was afraid that these shameless people would bully the younger generation. They had no sense of shame at all, otherwise they wouldn't have come as a group today.
"Oh dear! What kind of talk is this from my sister-in-law! As her aunt, I'm just concerned about my nephew's important life event, and that's considered meddling?"
Unfortunately, no one agreed with her, since the purpose of their group coming today was not to arrange a marriage for this family's son.
When the original owner's second sister saw that everyone took her words as mere boasting, she curled her lip in disdain and didn't say anything more.
"Hey auntie, come over for the Mid-Autumn Festival. So many years have passed, you don't still remember the old grudges from before, do you?"
As soon as the original owner's sister-in-law arrived in front of Yue Jiuyue, she took Yue Jiuyue's hands and said this sentence with deep emotion.
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