"For seed saving, you need to choose medium to small sweet potatoes, those without any broken skin or scars. The ones that are too big are prone to rotting, and the ones that are too small won't sprout."
Yue Jiuyue picked out a few sweet potatoes to keep for seed and showed them to Lin Chaodong and the others. This task was no longer her responsibility.
She needs to hurry up and tend to the sweet potato vines, lest they wilt if left too long. Next year, just relying on sweet potatoes to cultivate sweet potato seedlings, how many sweet potatoes will we need!
"This leaf needs to be cut off, leaving a stem about one finger's width. Cut a section with two nodes, then brush it with wood ash, and then bury it layer by layer with sand."
After teaching Lin Chaodong and his two brothers how to select sweet potato seeds, Yue Jiuyue then taught Liu how to manage the sweet potato vines. As for the villagers, she didn't care what they did.
If they want to know how to save sweet potato vines for next year's seedlings, why don't they come and ask them themselves? Do they expect Yue Jiuyue, whom they criticize, to come and beg them for advice? How can they be so shameless!
This is the unique advantage of Yue Jiuyue's family being far away from the village. Otherwise, those gossipy women would talk badly about Yue Jiuyue's family while asking her to teach them how to manage sweet potato vines, or even climb over the wall to steal their knowledge. Although Yue Jiuyue didn't care, she would still feel disgusted.
"Mom, shall we cook these sweet potatoes first?"
Lin Chaodong, carrying a basket of sweet potatoes in both hands, asked Yue Jiuyue.
"Um."
Yue Jiuyue responded.
Perhaps turning her grief into heartache, Yue Jiuyue felt that since earlier, the three brothers seemed to be paying extra attention to her, asking her about everything and trying to get her to talk to them, as if they were afraid that she would be unable to get out of the fact that "her husband was killed by his own brother-in-law".
If it were the original owner of this body, this fact might have devastated her.
But she wasn't the original owner of this body. She was ultimately just an observer. Although she brought the truth about the original owner's husband's death to light and brought the person who harmed him to justice, she could never truly understand the emotions that belonged to the original owner.
The thoughtfulness shown to her by the original owner's three sons was something that made her feel gratified for the original owner, even though the original owner could no longer appreciate it.
Although the original owner was kicked out by her husband's family and unintentionally became a "brother-supporting demon," her three sons did not grow up to be bad, cynical, or full of malice towards the world, which was already quite good.
"Mom, the sweet potatoes are washed, I'm going to start cooking them."
Lin Chaodong came in from outside carrying a basket dripping with water, then busied himself carrying firewood and adding water to the pot. Liu, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but step forward, squatting in front of the stove, and while starting the fire, she said:
"I'll cook it. You hurry up and pick out the sweet potatoes, we need to go to town to sell them later!"
Lin Chaodong glanced at Yue Jiuyue and then went back to continue picking sweet potatoes.
"Mom, what does this sweet potato look like to you?"
Little Man answered quickly:
"Like a sweet potato."
Everyone chuckled, then burst into laughter.
After that laugh, the gloomy atmosphere that had been hanging over the house for the past few days suddenly vanished, and the family returned to their former state, even becoming closer than before.
"Little Man is right! It really does look like a sweet potato!"
Having gained Yue Jiuyue's approval, Xiaoman smiled and snuggled up to Yue Jiuyue, like a well-behaved little kitten, so cute that it melted everyone's heart.
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