His father slapped him on the back of the head, which made him laugh in anger.
"I'm still waiting for my father to become a landlord!"
You brat, you don't know your place!
The group went up the mountain, and the three Lin brothers followed curiously to see what was going on, while Yue Jiuyue went home by herself.
With her old bones and frail body, she wouldn't want to join in the fun; she didn't want to risk getting her hard-earned, fair and delicate face tanned and chapped.
Even after becoming a grandmother, she's still a grandmother who loves beauty! A beautiful grandmother!
For lunch, Liu made sweet potato leaf porridge.
The sweet potato seeds buried by their wall had sprouted, but they stopped selling them and nobody would buy them anymore. The sweet potato sprouts and even the vines were still tender, so they simply picked them off, washed them, chopped them up, and cooked them into porridge.
"There's nothing fancy to eat at home, so please make do with what you have."
In the courtyard, Lin Chaodong invited the guests to sit down and eat.
"Hey, this food is already very good! You have no idea, sweet potato leaves can sell for almost ten coins a pound in the county town, which is comparable to the price of pork in previous years!"
The leader, Big Wang, sighed, "Years of famine are already difficult enough, and everything is so expensive that people can't afford to live. That's why they have to flee and try to find a way to survive."
If it weren't for the fact that the two brothers had the skill of digging wells, they might have had to flee with the villagers.
"Oh my god! So this meal costs one cent?! My goodness! I can still afford such an expensive meal! I'm really something!"
The fourth brother stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
Their family must eat at least three or four pounds of sweet potato leaves per meal, right? And with the flour or other grains mixed in, their meals cost more than a penny!
Lin Chaodong suddenly didn't know whether to be happy that he could eat food worth one qian of silver every meal, or sad that he could eat food worth one qian of silver every meal but that nothing had changed from before.
"Not only that! Although the wheat harvest was just completed not long ago, the price of wheat has already increased several times over. This whole meal is worth two taels of silver!"
While eating, Erwang couldn't help but chime in with a few words.
Believe it or not, in the past, wild vegetable leaves were something only poor families ate. Even skilled families like theirs, while not eating white flour and pork every day, rarely ate such bitter wild vegetables. I never thought that one day they would find wild vegetables to be a good thing.
"Is there anyone who can afford it?"
Lin Chaodong murmured something.
They didn't sell any of their wheat this year. Many families in the village felt that the price of wheat was quite high this year, so many sold all of it in order to have more money in hand.
He did have the idea at the time, but his mother wouldn't allow it, so he gave up on selling wheat, since his mother had money anyway.
Now he's glad he didn't sell it back then. If he were to sell it now, the price would surely be double what it was half a month ago.
Lin Chaodong was already envisioning the wonderful days of selling wheat at sky-high prices.
"Pshaw! Who could afford that? So, those who couldn't afford it but were afraid of starving to death all went out with their families to find a way to survive!"
Erwang scoffed, but then he remembered how he and his older brother had happily returned home after finishing the project, only to find an empty house with their little niece all alone waiting for them.
Their biological parents and wives had already packed up all their belongings and disappeared.
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