Mao Dazhuang's mother, Mrs. Mao, had also come to Mao Dazhuang before to ask for money.
In addition to the portion that Mao Dazhuang promised to support his parents when the family was separated, Mrs. Mao also asked Mao Dazhuang to give more.
But he was sent away by Mao Dazhuang every time, and he didn't have much money.
But this time, Mrs. Mao refused to give up.
She said loudly that Mao Dazhuang's employer would definitely reward Mao Dazhuang and the others with something if he became the county lord. She asked Mao Dazhuang to take out the things.
"Your nephews are all going to go to private schools this year. They need money to study. Your little sister is about to reach the age of marriage and she also needs money. If you don't come up with the money, how will we live?"
This time, Mrs. Mao is here again.
"Mom, I really have no money." Mao Dazhuang was helpless.
Now most of the money in their family is earned by his wife, and it is impossible for him to give away the money earned by his wife.
Mrs. Mao didn't believe it, and Mao Dazhuang refused to give it, so she refused to leave.
He also held Mao Dazhuang and refused to let him go out without giving him money.
Knowing this, Shen Zhiyao called Mao Chunyu over and said a few words to Mao Chunyu.
Afterwards, Mao Chunyu ran out quickly and said confidently that Mrs. Mao had illegally broken into their boss's village. If the boss knew about it, they could send her to the police.
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked like he was going to tell his boss immediately.
Finally, Mrs. Mao was frightened away.
With the matter of Mrs. Mao in mind, Shen Zhiyao thought about it and found someone to build a wall around her village.
When the wall is finished, it will be time to celebrate the New Year.
Shen Yueya came back from the Valley of Divine Doctors, and Shen Baiqiu and the others also took a vacation.
After the Chinese New Year, villagers in Lihua Village who bought piglets first asked someone to castrate their pigs.
The person he hired was the pig butcher who castrated the pigs in Shen Zhiyao's village.
Ever since the reason why Shen Zhiyao was named county lord was announced, the pig butcher knew that his opportunity to make money had come.
Sure enough, those who had piglets at home asked him to castrate the pigs.
Therefore, he also recruited several apprentices to teach this craft.
Now in Tongfang County, almost everyone who raises pigs at home knows him.
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At the end of March, Shen Zhiyao estimated that the potatoes she planted on the mountain were ripe, so she went up the mountain one day when it was empty.
After arriving at a place in the mountains by a familiar route, she called out "Zhizhi" toward a big tree.
After a while, a little monkey scurried down from the tree.
Shen Zhiyao took out a banana and gave it to the little monkey. The little monkey stretched out his paw, peeled the banana neatly and started eating.
"Let's go there." Shen Zhiyao later fed the little monkey several times, and the little monkey was already very familiar with her.
She found that the little monkey was very spiritual. Sometimes she would tell the little monkey what she said, and the little monkey would do it.
This time, she took the little monkey to the field where she planted potatoes.
Nowadays, weeds and potato plants grow together in this land. These potato plants are not lush and look like wild ones at first glance.
Shen Zhiyao pointed to the potato plant and said something to the little monkey.
Two days later.
Shen Zhiyao took Jiang Tao and Zheng Ersao to the mountains to dig some bamboo shoots.
Jiang Tao and Sister-in-law Zheng followed Shen Zhiyao step by step, carrying bamboo baskets and small hoes on their backs.
The three of them arrived at the mountain. After digging bamboo shoots in the mountain for a while, a round lump of soil was suddenly thrown towards them.
Thrown at their feet.
squeak.
The moment the lump of dirt was thrown over, Jiang Tao looked up and saw a little monkey not far away from them, staring at them curiously.
"monkey!"
Snapped!
Just as Jiang Tao finished her exclamation, another lump of earth was thrown at her.
This time, the three of them avoided it neatly and did not get hit by the bumps.
"Still throwing it away! What do you want to do, little monkey?"
Shen Zhiyao pointed at the little monkey at the right time.
The little monkey squeaked and danced a few times on the spot, looking very proud.
"Hey, challenge me. If I don't catch you, I'll remove your hair!"
Shen Zhiyao seemed to be angry at the little monkey and walked towards the little monkey.
The little monkey immediately turned around and ran away.
"girl."
Seeing Shen Zhiyao chasing the little monkey, Jiang Tao and Sister-in-law Zheng quickly followed.
The little monkey was very nimble. They followed it from a distance, but they couldn't catch it for a while.
When the little monkey arrived at a place, they saw the little monkey pulling weeds.
And the weeds brought out the lumps of earth that had been thrown at them before.
Boom, boom.
The little monkey threw the newly pulled out lumps at them one by one.
Seeing that he couldn't hit anything, the little monkey was so angry that he squeaked a few times and disappeared in two or three swishes before Shen Zhiyao and the others caught up.
The little monkey couldn't be found, and Shen Zhiyao and the others gave up.
They stood at the place where the little monkey pulled out the lumps of soil before. Shen Zhiyao picked up a lump of soil and looked at it curiously.
"What is this? Have you seen it?"
Jiang Tao and Sister-in-law Zheng also picked up the lumps, looked at them carefully, and shook their heads: "I've never seen them before."
Shen Zhiyao broke some of the mud off the lumps.
Jiang Tao took a small hoe and dug up the lumps of soil.
"Girl, this thing is a small lump. It looks like a taro. I don't know if it can be eaten."
Before she could say anything, Jiang Tao brought up the topic of eating. Shen Zhiyao was very satisfied and followed Jiang Tao's words:
"Take it back and try it first."
"The monkey I saw just now pulled out these plants. Let's look for these plants and dig out the lumps of soil."
Jiang Tao and Mrs. Zheng nodded and started working neatly.
In the end, each of the three people carried some lumps in their baskets.
Back at Zhuangzi, Shen Zhiyao took some lumps and cooked them.
"Girl, how do you try to see if this thing can be eaten?"
Jiang Tao smelled the cooked earth lumps and felt a special fragrance entering his nose.
Is this thing edible?
"Take it and let the pigs eat it. Let's see how the pig eats it and whether it's poisonous." Shen Zhiyao picked up the plate containing the "soil lumps" and walked directly to the pig pen.
The remaining three of the five pigs raised years ago were all killed during the Chinese New Year.
Now, she has raised a few more piglets on her farm.
After Shen Zhiyao put the "earth lumps" into the pig trough, Jiang Tao and Zheng Ersao went to the pig pen from time to time to take a look.
In the evening, Shen Baiqiu came back from private school. After learning about this, he also went to take a look curiously.
Shen Zhiyao knew the result in her heart, so she fell asleep with peace of mind.
The next day.
"Girl, the pig is still alive."
After Shen Zhiyao got up and washed up, Jiang Tao came to report happily.
"It seems that the lumps are edible. We will cook some and taste them later." Shen Zhiyao walked out of the room.
After a moment, she seemed to have thought of something, and then said: "By the way, this thing has always been called a lump, which is a bit unpleasant."
"I think this thing looks like a big bean, and it's dug out of the soil. Why don't we call it a potato."
