"That's right! If you eat poisonous herbs and die, you'll lose everything else too!"
The villagers all chimed in with well-intentioned words, but Aunt Wu burst into tears.
"I don't want to eat poisonous plants either! But my family is really out of food. If I don't save some, the three of us will starve to death soon!"
Wu's two grandsons were also silently shedding tears.
The crowd fell silent, for they knew that what Aunt Wu said was true; it might not be long before her entire family starved to death.
If it doesn't rain for a day, the price of grain will rise day by day. Farmers like them who have no money can only wait for the autumn harvest to exchange for more grain.
And because there has been no rain, the rice ears in the paddy fields are all shriveled, and there may be no autumn harvest this year.
At that time, not only will Wu's family starve to death, but many people in the village will also starve to death. Of course, Wu's family will definitely be the first to starve to death, and it is hard to say whether they can survive until the autumn harvest.
Seeing everyone's low spirits, Chief Wang clapped his hands and said, "Alright, no matter what happens in the future, you must not eat these poisonous herbs. Everyone must remember that!"
To deepen everyone's understanding of the poisonous plant, Chief Wang specially had the remaining leaves of the poisonous plant from Aunt Wu's house passed around among the villagers.
The villagers were already familiar with what the poisonous plant looked like, so they weren't interested in looking at it any longer. Before long, the poisonous plant was passed to Wan Shu.
Wan Shu's eyes lit up as she looked at the poisonous herb in her hand.
This isn't a poisonous weed at all; it's clearly potato leaves!
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