Traveling through life as a widow: six sons to support her in her old age

Lan Qiyan went to the big field first, "Mom, I'm here."

Old Lady Yu said cheerfully, "Yanyan, run slower, don't fall."

Everyone: Shouldn't you be concerned? This heavyweight thing can create a hole.

"Yuqi, Yulin, Yuxiu, your mother is here."

Yu Xiu shouted, "Mom, hurry up and see how big our sweet potatoes are."

Lan Qiyan jumped over there, and if you didn't know what was happening you would have thought a mountain had moved over there.

After all, she had seen many kinds of sweet potatoes, such as purple sweet potatoes, honey sweet potatoes, and the choking chestnut sweet potatoes. Although they were small in size, the big ones were too big for one person to finish.

But when she ran to the children, she found that this was the sweet potato she knew.

It was not even as thick as her thumb. The land was barren and the people had to work hard all year round. Two-thirds of the harvest had to be paid as taxes. It was difficult.

As long as her compost is useful, she plans to promote it so that fertile land can feed more people.

She was just a commoner and could not change the course of history.

I am not a good person, but I still have compassion.

But for now, let’s solve the problem of food and clothing first. After all, it was she who stole the feces yesterday.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? You keep looking at a sweet potato. Is there something wrong?"

"Xiu, are these sweet potatoes enough for me to eat for a day?"

Yu Xiu twitched his lips, "Mom, if you eat sparingly, you should be able to eat one more day."

"Alas, the land is barren." Lan Qiyan sighed.

Then he took a sweet potato vine and swung it a few times, "Hurry up and put the sweet potatoes in the basket. I will take them home.

Then we plowed the soil, added some manure, and planted the radishes and cabbages I bought from town.

Our food supply for the winter depends on them, so don't be lazy."

As soon as she finished speaking, Lan Qiyan turned her head and saw that she seemed to be the only one who was idle.

"Work, work. I can't just sit there idle." Lan Qiyan looked up again. Some were cutting the seedlings, some were digging sweet potatoes, and some were harvesting sweet potatoes.

It seemed like she didn't do anything. She looked around and saw that the sweet potatoes still had a lot of green leaves.

This will become a delicacy in later generations. You can go back and mix the dough and steam a few pots of steamed buns.

The neighbors were shocked to see her behavior. It seemed that her life was really hard. She even ate the leaves of sweet potatoes.

"Zi'an's." A soft voice sounded behind her.

Lan Qiyan turned around and saw a kind old lady looking at her with a smile.

"Hello, ma'am."

"Haha, kid, you look like your mother."

Lan Qiyan: Auntie, can we talk about business?

"Thank you for your compliment, Auntie. Please forgive me. I just got married not long ago and have been busy feeding my children. I haven't had time to get to know the people in our village."

The old woman laughed and patted Lan Qiyan's strong back with one hand, "I'm your grandmother's neighbor. I've been staying at my daughter's house in town for a month.

This Li Wenjing didn't even tell me and secretly married you."

Lan Qiyan: Auntie, please talk about business. I want to go home and make some sweet potato leaf steamed buns.

"Pan Huahua, give me your hand. My Yanyan is so weak. What if you break it?"

Everyone: 140 pounds? So frail?

Old Lady Pan curled her lips and said, "Li Wenjing, you actually took advantage of me not being at home to marry Yanyan.

Didn't you say that you wanted to tell my eldest grandson? You've made Yanyan suffer."

Old Lady Yu snorted, "Hua, I speak very directly, but don't you know what kind of person your eldest daughter-in-law is? If Yanyan marries her, she will die or lose a layer of skin.

How lucky I am! I don’t have a lazy husband and an unreasonable mother-in-law.

The six young boys who are now here will all be filial to Yanyan when they grow up and get married."

From the conversation between the two, Lan Qiyan learned that Pan Huahua and Li Wenjing were both best friends of the original owner's grandmother.

Since the original owner's grandmother had only one child, she put all her energy into this daughter.

Since the girl died of illness, the old couple also passed away one after another, and all the property was sold by the original owner's father.

Then Pan Huahua and Li Wenjing accidentally learned about the original owner's situation and wanted to help.

Originally, Li Wenjing wanted the original owner to marry Pan Huahua’s eldest grandson, but he considered that Pan Huahua’s daughter-in-law was difficult to get along with.

That woman is mean and petty, and that son is a good-for-nothing.

A student had been taking the exam for five or six years, and he was almost ready for it, but still hadn't passed.

So while Pan Huahua was taking care of her daughter during the confinement period, Li Wenjing took the initiative.

Lan Qiyan sighed. The conditions were not good anywhere. The only advantage of marrying into the Yu family was that there were no men and she didn't have to cater to the reality of husband and wife.

She shook her head. What was she thinking about? As the saying goes, when you are well fed and warm, you will think about sex. She hasn't even achieved food and clothing yet.

When she has money in the future, she will definitely keep two male lovers and hug them left and right.

By the way, let’s raise two children for my mother-in-law as well.

Hehe, it’s beautiful just thinking about it.

Pan Huahua shook her head and said, "Wen Jing, look, is there something wrong with this child?"

Old Lady Yu gave her a slap and said, "Shut up, it's all her stepmother's fault. What a good child, she ran to the mountains in the middle of the night to find medicine for me out of hunger.

If it weren’t for Yanyan, I would have died in bed in this life.”

"Alright, alright, stop crying. Here are fifty cents. Use them first. Don't let the children eat sweet potato leaves. It's so ugly."

Old Lady Yu pushed the money back and said, "You can eat sweet potato leaves. Mix them with flour, sprinkle some salt on them, make them into a hollow shape, and steam them for a quarter of an hour. They are delicious."

"Really?"

"Yanyan invented it. How can I fool you? You just try it." Then he turned around and told everyone to try it.

Anyway, she has told everyone according to Yanyan's intention. It is up to them whether they believe it or not.

You can save a lot of rice while there are still leaves.

The two pushed and shoved for a while, and Old Lady Yu did not take Pan Huahua's money.

At this time, Lan Qiyan had already picked half a basket of sweet potato leaves and was walking back.

Standing at the edge of the field, she looked around and saw that others had at least four or five acres of land, and they had reserved one and a half acres for growing sweet potatoes.

Their two acres were all sweet potatoes, so it took them a day to finish what others could do in half a day.

"Mom, we'll have steamed bread for lunch. You take Yuqi home to cook, and I'll stay and work."

"Thank you for your hard work, Yanyan."

Lan Qiyan waved his hand, and Old Lady Yu took Yu Qi away, taking with her the sweet potato leaves he had picked.

At noon, a few families did not have enough food, so they cooked according to what Grandma Yu said. It turned out to be really delicious.

Word spread quickly, and all of Lan Qiyan's sweet potato vines were sold out.

She looked at the empty land with a look of disbelief, wondering how someone could have robbed it.

"Mom, sometimes good intentions can lead to bad results, but it doesn't matter, my second brother does this all the time." Yulin said beside her.

Lan Qiyan asked faintly, "Are you trying to comfort me?"

"Yes, mother."

"But I can see a hint of gloating in his misfortune."

"You're blind."

Lan Qiyan slapped... but missed. She pouted and thought she should not be a pushover next time.

Isn't this a typical case of the apprentices starving their master to death? They even took away her leaves.