"And, ma'am, did you notice? I dug this thing up from the mountain!"
She specifically selected a batch of smaller sweet potatoes from the mall, just in case the villagers had too high expectations. If the sweet potatoes didn't adapt well and ended up being small, wouldn't that just be disappointing?
"Yes, it was dug out of the mountain!"
Wang looked at the thing in her hand, which was bigger than her hand. Oh, it's called a sweet potato, right? It's amazing that it can grow this big on the mountain in this famine year. If it's true that it can be planted in the ground and survive, just like Jiu Yue said, then no one will starve to death in this famine year.
"Oh dear! September, tell me, isn't this a way out left for us by God? It's fortunate that you had the courage to try it, otherwise, we probably wouldn't have discovered this sweet potato, and who knows how many people would have died after this famine!"
Wang sighed with emotion and patted Yue Jiuyue's hand gratefully.
Yue Jiuyue has found a way to survive for everyone in Linjiagou! From now on, no one will have to starve to death just to save food for their children!
“Auntie, I came here to talk to you about this. As for what to do, Uncle and my eldest cousin will have to discuss it. Now that I’ve finished talking, I’ll go back first and see if there’s any other way to make those sweet potatoes sprout more.”
Since Yue Jiuyue said that, Madam Wang naturally wouldn't keep her. She reluctantly saw Yue Jiuyue off, her eyes even more affectionate than when she looked at her own juniors.
Back home, Yue Jiuyue and the others looked at the three big tails that had been following her in and out without wavering. Yue Jiuyue sat on a stool, took on the air of a matriarch, and looked at them one by one with a serious expression until they unconsciously lowered their heads.
"Eldest brother, second brother, and third brother. Mother knows you were tired from watering the fields recently. Our family has eight acres of land, and it was all thanks to you three brothers carrying the water down from the mountain one load at a time. The fact that our whole family can still sit here is all thanks to you three brothers."
Mother knows that you three brothers are filial because you are worried that I might eat something wrong and that if something happens, no one will be there for me, and I might just pass away.
Mother didn't know how to persuade the three of them, but Mother was indeed fine and didn't feel uncomfortable anywhere, which proved that sweet potatoes were indeed edible, right?
It's not that I don't want to go to the clinic, it's that nobody wants to go to the clinic! Even a perfectly healthy person can be diagnosed with several illnesses by the doctor, let alone us country folk who are busy from morning till night, how could we not have some ailments?
We still have a few copper coins left. We originally planned to save them for our second son's wedding. He's twenty now. When our eldest son was twenty, Xiaoman was already one year old. We don't know where our second son is or if he'll be able to come back this year. And with this famine, we decided to save the money for a life-saving event at the last minute.
As for the money for your three brothers to get married, we'll have to wait until this famine is over.
Yue Jiuyue genuinely didn't mean to change the subject; she just ended up talking about it. Besides, the original owner didn't have any money to marry off her second son. It was all her little savings from the past few days. She was just offering it as a friendly donation, and she was afraid that if something really happened, she wouldn't be able to use the money and it would just delay things.
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