Chapter 1103 - 353: Cousin, The Child
After the Minor New Year, the festive atmosphere in the village grew thicker as each household began to prepare food for the New Year celebration. The scents of steaming, boiling, frying, and sautéing wafted on the breeze, making mouths water.
However, the heavy snow showed no sign of stopping. In just one night, the snow had reached knee height. Several houses in the village had collapsed. Watching their homes reduced to rubble in an instant, the villagers felt like crying but had no tears to shed. Thankfully, no one was injured.
Most people in the village were kind-hearted. Those who had spare rooms in their houses let the disaster-stricken villagers stay, and those without spare rooms gave away extra cotton-padded clothes and quilts to help keep them warm. With the help of the villagers, no one froze or starved to death.
In addition to worrying that their houses might collapse under the snow and become homeless, another source of anxiety for the villagers was the greenhouses in their fields. Despite people guarding them day and night, constantly heating them, some greenhouses were still crushed by the weight of the snow, and a lot of vegetables were frozen to death overnight, an undoubtedly significant loss.
Mo Yan was also at a loss. She couldn’t risk exposing Space by directly irrigating the vegetables with pure Spirit Spring Water. Doing so, aside from making the vegetables grow wildly overnight, might cause mutations, producing cucumbers bigger than winter melons, which would be far too frightening.
Nevertheless, the snow wasn’t going to stop any time soon, and the firewood stockpiled in the greenhouses simply wouldn’t last long enough. When it ran out, the vegetables would still freeze to death, and they’d fetch an even lower price.
Therefore, when Yang Bao hurried over to Mo Family to seek Mo Yan’s advice on a solution, Mo Yan decisively instructed him to tell the villagers to pick all the edible vegetables that had grown and try to sell them the same day.
Although this would mean earning much less Silver, it was better than the greenhouses collapsing and the vegetables becoming worthless. Furthermore, after selling vegetables for over two months, the villagers involved in the greenhouse planting had earned more than they had saved in ten years, and they already had enough Silver to build new houses next year.