"This was all my mom's idea, hehehe!"
Lin Chaodong couldn't help but praise his own mother. After all, his mother now had a name and surname in front of the emperor, unlike those women in other families who still bore men's surnames. As her son, he was proud of her!
Hearing the eldest brother's "hehehe" laughter, Yue Jiuyue felt a chill between her teeth.
Her usually honest and reserved eldest son doesn't seem so honest and reserved anymore.
However, this is also a good thing. Honest people are good, but they also have many disadvantages. They are more likely to be taken advantage of and bullied.
Fortunately, all four brothers have grown up; otherwise, she really wouldn't know how to raise children. It would be a sin to raise them all wrong.
Thank goodness! Thank goodness!
"Madam Lin is clever and intelligent."
Magistrate Tang praised Lin Chaodong, making the three Lin brothers and the clan chief beam with joy, as if Magistrate Tang were praising them.
Well, Yue is the daughter-in-law of the Lin family and the mother of the Lin family's children. As the saying goes, "A woman follows her husband wherever he goes, whether he's a chicken or a dog." So, praising Yue is just praising the Lin family.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the cellar became more relaxed, and the tension that farmers usually feel when meeting officials lessened.
"The sweet potatoes are right here."
Lin Chaodong led his men to the end of the cellar. The caves on both sides contained the sweet potato seeds that had been selected earlier, as well as some larger sweet potatoes, which had to be kept as seeds due to the emperor's decree.
Magistrate Tang and his men walked to the entrance of the cave, bent down and picked up a sweet potato. They then took a few steps toward the cellar entrance, afraid that going any further would freeze the sweet potato. They simply stood there, looking at the sweet potato in their hands in the dim light coming through the cellar entrance.
"This sweet potato shouldn't be spoiled, right?"
Magistrate Tang handed the sweet potato to Village Chief Lin, who was following behind him. Mainly, he really didn't know anything about farming and didn't know what it looked like when things were spoiled. After all, spoiled things wouldn't be brought to him by others, and people like them wouldn't have spoiled things.
"Hmm, it shouldn't be damaged. It looks about the same as when it was first dug out."
Village Chief Lin looked at it several times before confirming it.
Village Chief Lin didn't examine it carefully several times because of poor eyesight. He was also unfamiliar with sweet potatoes, and his judgment was based on summer fruits and winter radishes. Even so, he wasn't entirely sure that what he said was correct.
"It's good that they're not spoiled! I just hope these sweet potatoes can survive the winter safely. Whether our county can plant sweet potatoes next year depends entirely on them! I hope Madam Lin will take good care of them!"
Magistrate Tang breathed a sigh of relief, but the rest of the relief would probably only come next spring.
No, it's too early to breathe a sigh of relief then. Who knows what next year will bring? I can only hope that it will snow a few times this winter. Magistrate Tang knows the saying, "A timely snow promises a good harvest."
Sigh! It's not easy being an ordinary person, and it's not easy being an official who's like a parent to the people either!
As Magistrate Tang looked at the cellar that had been sealed up again, his previously suppressed thoughts began to stir once more.
If those poor families were to live in cellars...
Stop! Stop! I can't think about it anymore!
Although it's quite warm in the cellar, who could sleep soundly inside? Aren't you afraid of falling asleep in the middle of the night and being buried in there?
Anyway, while he was inside, he kept wanting to run out...
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