Chapter 386: Reward Given to the Wrong Person (6)_1
"What’s the use of gold now? Although we can fill our bellies and stay warm, when comparing ourselves to the Qian family, we still lack money! How can we compete with them if we don’t have money?" Pei Qian glared.
"I don’t like gold either! I wish it was something else! Something we can pass down through generations as a family heirloom! Then we could preserve it for posterity!" Pei Yuan longed. That would be an honor!
"We still want the heirloom, but it would be best to have the gold too!" Pei Qian was rather greedy, wanting all the nice things for themselves!
"Enough! Stop dreaming! Let’s just accept whatever comes our way!" Pei Qin stood up.
The others saw she remained the same, yet they noticed how much she cared. They had almost given away sweet potato seedlings to the villagers for free, turning their own sweet potatoes into stubs. She had taught them over and over how to plant and when to overturn the seedlings, reminded them when it was time to harvest, and explained how to eat the sweet potatoes and make sweet potato flour. For the past two years, the eldest sister had poured a lot of effort into growing sweet potatoes.
Mo Heng approached with a table comparing simplified and traditional characters, seeking advice.
After examining it, Pei Qin found it clearer than she remembered, "I don’t know about the rest, you’ll have to create them yourself!" She wasn’t a liberal arts student, and usually typed on a computer, so remembering so many characters was already quite an achievement for her. She could write a whole book of chemical formulas if needed, but alas, that was of no use here!
Mo Heng silently guessed her origins and suddenly asked, "When will the reward for the sweet potatoes come?"