Seeing that Jinhua was still pestering her, Du glared at her:
"Alright, who's as shameless as you?"
With that, he put down the clothes in his hand and left the room.
Jin Hua chased after him for a few steps, but dared not press too hard, feeling both uneasy and anxious.
That evening, Du took Ye Daquan to the old couple's room to discuss the matter.
Du originally wanted to name her Ye Caiping, but then she thought that her daughter was her own. If she lived a good life in the future, that would be fine, but if she didn't, she was afraid that she would be implicated by others and make her sister-in-law feel like she was caught in the middle.
So they didn't call out.
Inside the room, Old Man Ye smoked a water pipe: "I've found out everything. You are Jin Hua's parents. You can decide on this marriage yourselves."
Grandma Ye nodded.
Du pushed Ye Daquan: "Say something."
Ye Daquan glared at her: "What nonsense are you talking about? I've never liked that pretty boy from beginning to end. If I don't agree, are you just going to stop her from marrying him?"
Du sneered: "Hmph, do you think I don't know your little scheme? You mean you don't like that Zhou guy, but you don't want to stop him, and if you don't get away with it in the future, it'll all be my fault?"
Ye Daquan: "..."
Du: "Say whether you agree or not."
Ye Daquan said angrily, "I don't agree, but she wants to get married anyway, what can I do?"
Du: "Oh, you should have said that sooner! That's what I was thinking too."
Ye Daquan: "..."
Grandma Ye: "Are you talking about a play here? Can't you be serious for once?"
Du Shi and Ye Daquan: "..."
The four discussed it for a while and finally agreed.
As Ye Daquan said, they didn't like the Zhou family, but they couldn't find anything wrong with them. Jin Hua herself liked them, so there was really no reason for them to object.
Jin Hua had been standing at the door looking around, and when she saw the door open, she hurriedly went back into her room.
But before she could even close the door and bolt it shut, Madam Du pushed it open and entered.
"Mother..." she called out awkwardly.
Du said irritably, "Tomorrow, send a message to Manager Yao saying that we agree and that the Zhou family should come to propose marriage!"
"Really? Thank you, Mother." Jin Hua beamed with joy, finally able to relax after her anxiety.
"But before the engagement, you are not allowed to go to the cloth shop or see him again, otherwise people will think our daughter is worthless and we're just throwing ourselves at him! Alright, get some rest!"
"Um."
After Du left, Jinhua wrote the letter overnight.
The next day, she spent three coins to have a little boy from the village deliver the letter to the cloth shop.
But after the letter was sent, it disappeared without a trace, without any response.
Jin Hua waited for several days, growing increasingly anxious, and kept asking the boy who delivered the letter, "Did you really deliver the letter?"
The boy, annoyed by the questions, said, "If that letter were edible, and you suspected me of stealing it, I wouldn't feel wronged. But it's inedible, so it was delivered. It was personally received by Manager Yao at the Jixiang Cloth Shop in town! Sister Jinhua, is that right?"
Jin Hua chuckled awkwardly: "Yes, that's right."
The boy sighed, "I happen to have some free time now, I'll go to the cloth shop and ask for you, sister."
"Thank you, Genzi." Jinhua took out a few coins.
He didn't take the roots, but turned and ran away.
Before noon, Genzi returned and gave Jinhua a letter written by Manager Yao.
The letter stated that Manager Yao had delivered it to the Zhou family the very day he received it.
As for Zhou Ziyang, he went to the prefectural city to buy goods these past few days. He told Jinhua to wait patiently, after all, even a marriage proposal needs an auspicious date!
Upon seeing the last sentence, Jin Hua felt as if she had been enlightened, and blushed deeply with embarrassment.
How could I have forgotten that I needed to choose an auspicious day!
...
Ye Caiping stood on the edge of the field with her two daughters, lost in thought as she looked at her family's dozens of acres of land.
“Mother, it’s already April. We need to plant rice early,” Ye Jin’er said.
Ye Caiping thought for a moment and said, "Let's plant twenty mu of rice and sixty mu of cassava."
The Ye Jin'er sisters were surprised.
Ye Huan'er said, "Cassava is delicious, but you get tired of it after a few meals. It's also troublesome to prepare. Rice is better."
Although cassava has a high yield and is easy to raise, my family isn't short of money, so we prefer to grow rice, which tastes better.
Ye Caiping said, "I have my own uses."
The two sisters listened and then said no more.
If Mother says it's useful, then it really is very useful.
After returning home, Ye Caiping opened the system.
[Host, you're back! You have three more trading opportunities, with a maximum transaction amount of 50 taels. Do you wish to make a trade?]
Ye Caiping clicked "Yes".
[The host has selected 5000 jin of yellow-fleshed cassava stems and seedlings, at 5 wen per jin, totaling 25 liang. Does the host wish to purchase?]
Ye Caiping chose yes.
Yellow-fleshed cassava is a modern improved variety. It does not require soaking to remove toxins; the skin can be scraped off and it can be cooked and eaten directly without any toxins.
Since she reported the bitter cassava last year, famine problems in many areas have been resolved.
Moreover, cassava has a huge yield, mainly because it is not picky about the land, is easy to grow, and does not require much care once planted.
The government also posted notices encouraging the planting of cassava on barren or wasteland. Villages and towns responded enthusiastically, and under the leadership of their village heads or village chiefs, they began planting cassava.
But the imperial court was too stingy; they only gave her fifty taels.
Thinking about it, Ye Caiping sighed softly.
In the eyes of the officials, she was just a small peasant woman who "accidentally" discovered how to eat cassava. Although her contribution was great, it was downplayed because of her status.
The main problem is that she has no connections in the court!
But little by little, with continued effort, she will eventually become a familiar face to those people.
If she wants her business to last, she has to achieve something.
The yellow-fleshed cassava currently on the market is what she plans to promote.
These sixty acres of cassava are not grown for consumption, but rather to be used as seedlings for future promotion.
Furthermore, with the introduction of yellow-fleshed cassava, people no longer need to grow bitter cassava.
Not only will it save a lot of trouble, but it will also curb the phenomenon of people being poisoned by eating cassava, which is a good thing for the country and the people.
In addition to buying yellow-fleshed cassava stems and seedlings, Ye Caiping also searched for whole mature yellow-fleshed cassava plants, along with the nearly mature cassava root tubers below.
Ye Caiping was quite surprised when she found this thing: "The existence of the system is really amazing. It even sells whole cassava plants."
Ye Caiping bought five trees.
On April 15th, the entire workshop took a break.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Caiping piled the cassava seedlings she bought from the system into an empty warehouse, and then dragged the five whole cassava plants to the small vegetable patch next to the house in a burlap sack.
Old Man Ye was squatting there weeding.
The seedlings planted after the Lunar New Year have grown up, and our family has already started eating them.
"Hey, Caiping, what are you dragging?" Old Man Ye straightened up.
"It's cassava."
Old Man Ye walked over and pulled out a few cassava plants: "Where did these come from? Why did you dig them up whole? There are still cassava roots attached, but they don't look ripe yet."
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