The sweet potatoes that were halved were kept for personal consumption, while those that were too big or too small were kept for sale. The selected sweet potatoes were not to be touched casually.
They've been selling boiled sweet potatoes for almost half a month now, and the money they've earned is enough for them to build two more houses and replace the thatched roof with a dark-colored tile roof.
“Mother, we have enough money to buy tiles, but we don’t have enough mud bricks. Even with the ones we made today, we can only build one and a half rooms.”
Lin Chaodong wasn't without options; he could either repay the debt after another fight, exchange it for grain, or buy it with money.
But after the "dog thing" incident, he no longer had much goodwill towards the villagers.
I heard that Gou Dongxi's mother and brothers wanted to come to their village to settle scores, but the clan head of the Gou family stopped them.
He understood that all of this was because his mother had discovered sweet potatoes, which had saved everyone from hunger. More importantly, his mother was considered a fairly important figure in the eyes of the county magistrate.
The head of the Gou family wasn't doing this out of gratitude for his mother's selfless teaching of sweet potatoes, but rather out of fear that the county magistrate would hold him accountable later.
He kept Gou Dongxi's family in check, hoping to leave a good impression on the county magistrate and secure the position of village head for next year.
"We're all from the same village, how can you expect to never have anything to do with them your whole life?"
Yue Jiuyue didn't try to persuade him; she just asked him directly, and she didn't believe he could guarantee it.
"Well, I'm not going anyway. If anyone's going, I'll send the third and fourth brothers!"
When Lin Chaodong gets angry, nothing can sway him.
"Mother, just let me go."
Lin Chaonan tried to smooth things over.
"Yes, Mother, if my eldest brother doesn't want to go, I'll go with my third brother."
Lin Chaobei, No. 2 Hexi Ni.
"You two, don't interrupt!"
Yue Jiuyue glared at the two peacemakers and continued to ask Lin Chaodong:
“Eldest brother, you are the eldest in our family, the pillar of our family. Think about it, is it appropriate for you to be so willful? Although our family is quite far from other families in the village, we are still villagers of Linjiagou Village, and still members of the Lin family of Linjiagou Village. What, are you planning to be expelled from the Lin family?”
"Mother, I didn't!"
Lin Chaodong quickly explained.
Exterminating the entire clan is a matter of utmost importance; Lin Chaodong cannot bear such a grave charge!
"Since you don't want to be expelled from the clan, then our family will still be the Lin family. During the New Year, you and your brothers will still have to go to the ancestral hall to worship our ancestors and kowtow to them, right?"
Lin Chaodong reluctantly hummed in agreement, his attitude less resistant than before.
"If that's the case, then why don't you want to go this time? What, you'd rather see your ancestors than these living relatives?"
Yue Jiuyue rolled her eyes at Lin Chaodong, and without caring whether he was willing or not, she ordered the other two around, saying:
"You two don't need to worry about him. If he wants to go, let him go; if he doesn't want to, so be it. You two wash your hands and take all the dried chrysanthemums to the clinic in town to sell. While you're at it, go to the blacksmith's shop and see how the furnace is coming along."
"Okay, we'll go right away!"
The two brothers responded in unison, then, without even glancing at Lin Chaodong, happily carried two cloth bags of dried chrysanthemums each towards the town.
Don't blame them for being disloyal. Dealing with people in the village won't hurt the older brother. They're in a hurry to go to town to see what that sweet potato roasting oven their mother mentioned looks like!
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