Wang Shiyu didn't think that she had taken advantage of the old man, or the Wang family. If it weren't for her, all the people in the Wang family would have died in the first wave of meteorite showers. She had the right to take the money.
Moreover, the old man felt that it was their luck to be able to buy these exotic foods with silver. They believed that Wang Shiyu was favored by God and could trade with that magical place, and that God could lend them a place to temporarily store some things. They were already very grateful to God, and naturally did not dare to make any other requests.
Sweet potatoes actually existed in this era, but no one took it seriously. They just planted some and fed them to pigs, thinking that they were inedible. Wang Shiyu studied it for a while and found that they might have eaten yam in the past, and eating too much yam could cause mild poisoning. As for sweet potatoes, they naturally did not dare to try them anymore, but instead fed them directly to livestock.
There are no foreign foods such as potatoes and peppers here, not even peanuts, because little Wang Shiyu has no memory of these things in his mind. Instead, after the old man ate the things in his space these days, he asked what these things were, and Wang Shiyu explained them to them bit by bit.
I gradually figured it out. This era seemed to be similar to the Ming Dynasty. There were actually many imported goods, but they had never been taken seriously. People believed that if these things were eaten casually, they might cause poisoning and death.
After all, they had learned from previous experiences. Wang Shiyu didn't care about that. She took out the sweet potatoes she had roasted when she was free and shared them with everyone. The old man ate the sweet potatoes and felt very full.
The old man was delighted. If this thing could be promoted, then they in Dazhou Dynasty would definitely be able to help those who died of starvation survive. Currently, an acre of land only produces 100 to 200 kilograms of grain. The heavy taxes and labor service burdened them, making it difficult for them to eat or wear. If every household could grow more sweet potatoes to save their lives, then basically no one would starve to death anymore.
The old man gnawed the sweet potato slowly, not even leaving the skin behind. Instead, he put it into his mouth, chewed it until it was soft, and swallowed it.
"Xiao Yu, you said this thing is called sweet potato? Is it an imported product, the same root-like thing we used to feed pigs at home? It's so sweet, and after eating one, even my stomach feels half full, and I no longer feel hungry."
Wang Shiyu was also biting a sweet potato and eating it slowly. She couldn't eat too much, as it would cause heartburn.
The old man doesn’t care whether it causes heartburn or not. As long as this thing can fill his stomach, it’s a good thing.
"Yes, Grandpa, I put away all the sweet potatoes that we used to feed the pigs. They are the ones that we kept in the warehouse."
Today's sweet potatoes have not been improved, and the fibers inside can fill your teeth. But the old man thinks it is very good. He can have something to eat, no longer have to flee famine, and can be free from the suffering of displacement. Isn't this a blessing?
"I understand. You keep some. When we get to the south, we'll plant some to see what it's like. If the harvest is good, we'll plant more. After deducting the taxes, there will still be a lot of food left."
The old man has been farming all his life, so naturally he has a deep love for the land. He doesn't care at all about his identity as the prince of a royal palace. Could it be that he has spent half his life in such a leisurely manner that he no longer cares about the glorious and wealthy days in the past?
The palace was really bustling at that time. The second prince and his wife once again knelt in front of the imperial study, asking the emperor to make a decision for him.
"Father, the Crown Prince is tyrannical and cruel. He actually gave me a sterilizing drug, causing all of my concubines and children to lose their fertility."
"How can such a cruel person be the crown prince? How can we hand over this country to him?"
"Father, please make the decision. Depose the Crown Prince, hand over the antidote, and act for me."
The second prince became depressed because he had lost his fertility. The second prince's wife followed him in a daze and knelt in front of the imperial study. She could not believe that she had lost her fertility, and her husband was also infertile like her.
This morning, the imperial physician went to the mansion to check the patient's pulse, but he was silenced. After examining all the women and children in the mansion one by one, he said tremblingly that everyone in the mansion had been drugged, a drug that would harm their offspring, and there was no way to save them now. They could only hope that the person who drugged them had an antidote.
The second prince smashed almost all the porcelain in the mansion. He originally thought that it was the work of the women in the mansion competing for favor, but when he brought the child he had raised outside back home, he found that he had also been poisoned. Then he looked at the prince with suspicion and firmly believed that it was the prince who did it.
The Second Prince's wife, who was originally frightened, was not so frightened now. At this time, she was holding a handkerchief to mourn her dead child. She had no biological children in her life, and could only adopt the descendants of the clan in the future. Who knew if she could raise the child well?
The second prince still hopes that the prince has the antidote, and tries to use the emperor to force the prince to hand over the antidote.
The emperor looked at his second son crying bitterly, and looked at the crown prince with some shock. He knew that the crown prince seemed to have changed a lot since the death of his legitimate children, but he did not expect that he would be so cruel to his own brother.
Then is his father, the emperor, who has done nothing, also on his revenge list?
You have to know that he knew that the Queen had bad intentions, but he still ordered the Crown Princess to hand over the child. As a result, the child died in the imperial garden. He could not shirk responsibility at all.
The Crown Prince looked at the Second Prince with disdain. He was a prince without an heir, who would never have the chance to ascend the throne in his life. He couldn't even reach the corners of the throne. He could only become a marginal figure and be slowly forgotten by history.
This is the punishment that the Second Prince deserves. No matter how many more years the Dazhou Dynasty can continue, he, the Second Prince, will never be remembered in history books. Instead, he will be erased from history books because he has brought shame to the royal family.
"Second brother, you need evidence when you speak. I admit that I've taken a lot of blame for you since you left the palace and established your own residence. Your first job as an adult was to investigate a case in Jiangnan, but you delayed it because of your excessive entertainment. I sent people to investigate the truth urgently and gave you the opportunity. Otherwise, with your indulgence in eating, drinking, whoring, gambling and arrogance, how could you have survived so peacefully until now? Now you actually dare to accuse me. You are really bold. It's also because I have been too tolerant of you brothers."
"Who said that besides?" I don't know that your house is in such a mess and all kinds of monsters and demons are running rampant there. How dare you say that I attacked you?
After the prince finished speaking, he left angrily. The emperor began to doubt the truth of the second prince's words. You know, the prince was kind, which was exactly what the emperor liked. He was suspicious by nature, but the prince was very much like the deceased empress, and his temperament was the same, warm and kind.
The emperor still believed in Empress Yuan's teachings. The prince would not use such a harsh hand on his brothers, so it must be... The second brother did something wrong, and now he wants to put the blame on the prince.
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