After traveling through time, I led the whole village to become rich!

In the village, Zhang family.

Wang found some clothes that Zhang Dahua couldn't wear, altered and patched them up, and planned to give them to Daya, Erya, and Sanya.

The three maids' clothes were all patched, and they didn't even have any spare clothes. Wang felt a little sad.

"Oh, Sister Wang is busy?" Zhao Heigou's mother, Liu, poked her head in.

Wang raised her eyelids and took a look. "What's the matter?"

Mrs. Liu walked over to Mrs. Wang, pulled a chair, and sat down. "Sister Wang, why is your Hu Lan back? She has a wound on her head. Was she beaten and kicked out by her husband?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk..." Mrs. Liu shook her head, tsk-tsk-tsk a few times, and then said, "Your Hu Lan is so... she hasn't come back to see you in years. Now that she's been beaten by a man, she knows to go back to her parents' home?"

"If you ask me, you shouldn't have let her in. Who doesn't need food these days? And she has the nerve to come back with three mouths to feed."

Wang put down the work in her hands and looked up at Liu. "What does my Hu Lan's return have to do with you? Did my Hu Lan eat your rice? You are meddling in other people's business."

"You..." Liu was furious. "How could you be like this? I'm doing this for your family's own good. Your old Zhang is lame, and from now on your family will rely on Da Jun alone to support them. And you're planning to let Da Jun support Hu Lan's family of four?"

"Get out of here..." Wang pointed at the door and cursed, "Why would you interfere in my family's affairs? Do you have such good intentions?

If you have nothing to do, go dig wild vegetables in the fields. Your daughter-in-law is so sick, and you still drag yourself out to dig wild vegetables. How can you eat them if you do nothing?"

"Isn't it her duty to do so? I am the elder, she should respect me."

Wang didn't want to talk to Liu anymore, so she just picked up a broom and chased her away, "Go away, don't come to my house anymore..."

Wang swept the floor with a broom, and dust flew all over Liu's face.

Liu cursed, "You're just like a dog biting Lu Dongbin, you don't know how a good person would behave... I wonder how your family will live in the future."

"Even if my family starves to death, they won't go to your house to beg for food... Go away..."

……

When the sun was about to set, Zhang Hulan and the others also went down the mountain.

We dug up half a basket of Polygonum multiflorum, about thirty or forty pounds, and also dug up more than ten pounds of Pueraria root.

At the foot of the mountain, Li and her friends also had a good harvest.

We harvested the most sea sand, filling up a whole basket.

There weren't many plantains and selfheal, but I did pick up quite a few cicada shells, though they weren't very substantial.

Back home, Zhang Hulan fetched a winnowing basket and spread out the sea sand in it to dry. The plantain and selfheal also needed to be dried before they could be sold.

Wang saw that Zhang Hulan and the others had dug up quite a lot of things, so she asked, "Ni'er, how much can these things be sold for?"

Zhang Hulan didn’t know the price of the medicinal herbs here, but she thought it shouldn’t be too little.

"Mom, I don't know the exact price, but it should be a few hundred coins, right?"

"How many hundreds of coins can it sell for?" Wang and Li's eyes lit up. "You can earn a few hundred coins in half a day. Can you earn that much?"

"I can't say for sure. I'll find out tomorrow when I ask the owner of the pharmacy."

Zhang Hulan took out the kudzu root and said, "Mom, wash this and cook it tonight."

Wang asked, "What is this?"

"This is Pueraria root. It can be used as medicine or cooked and eaten."

Wang said, "Since it's medicine, keep it and sell it for money."

"Mom, my elder brother Xiaojun is very tired from climbing the mountain. How can he not eat enough? My elder sister-in-law is pregnant and she has to eat for two people. Only when everyone has a full stomach can we have the strength to earn more money."

After hearing what Zhang Hulan said, Wang Shi stopped talking. It was true. A full stomach gave you the strength to work.

For dinner, some people still had half a bowl of wild vegetable rice porridge, but each person also had an extra piece of kudzu root.

Zhang Hujun took a bite, his eyes shining, "This is delicious!"

Daya and the others also took a bite and found it a little sweet and delicious.

Li asked, "Big sister, are there many of these things on the mountain?"

Zhang Hulan smiled. She knew what Li meant, "Sister-in-law, there are a lot of these things on the mountain. Some places are covered with them. Let's dig some more and store them.

I don't plan to sell this stuff, I'll save it for food. I don't know what will happen next. If it doesn't rain today, I probably won't be able to buy food even if I have money.

Old Man Zhang said, "Daniel is right. We need to store more food. We don't know when the heavens will be merciful and send rain. If it doesn't rain for another month, there will definitely be no harvest of millet this year."

Old Man Zhang sighed heavily, "Alas... I wonder how many people will starve to death this winter and next year..."

Zhang Hujun said: "Luckily, my eldest sister is back, otherwise our family wouldn't be able to hold on for much longer!"

Wang and Li both looked at Zhang Hulan; they felt the same way. Zhang Hulan had only been home for two days, and the family seemed to have changed a lot.

Dad agreed to see a doctor to treat his leg, the family had a few more taels of silver, and now they found something to eat. They all felt that Zhang Hulan brought good fortune back home.

Everyone's stomachs are much fuller tonight than usual.

Sanya touched her belly and squinted her eyes and said, "Mom, I feel so full!"

Zhang Hulan patted Sanya's head and said, "Mother will try her best to make sure you have enough to eat every meal from now on."

San Ya said, "It's good to have a full meal once in a while. Don't be too tired, mother!"

Zhang Hulan was heartbroken. Look at how sensible this girl is...

After dinner, Daya rushed to wash the dishes again, but this time Zhang Dahua got there first, "Okay, I'll do it. You guys go play for a while."

Wang took out the clothes she had altered that afternoon and said to Li and Zhang Dahua, "Dajun's wife, Dahua, I altered the clothes that Dahua can't wear. Daya and the other two don't even have a change of clothes."

Li said quickly, "Mother, my elder sister doesn't have any change of clothes either. I'll go get some for her."

Wang had originally taken her own clothes to give to Zhang Hulan, but when she heard her daughter-in-law suggested taking hers, Wang didn't stop her. She was happy that her daughter and daughter-in-law had a good relationship!

After dinner, Zhang Hujun went to the headman's house to borrow an ox cart, and when he came back he drove the ox cart back. They would leave early the next day so as not to wake up the headman's house early in the morning.

……

The next morning, Zhang Hujun removed the door panel, lifted Old Man Zhang onto the panel, and then lifted him and the door panel together onto the ox cart. They rushed to the county town before dawn.

Zhang Hulan, Zhang Hujun and Wang accompanied them, while Li and the children stayed at home.

Zhang Hulan told Li, "Sister-in-law, don't go out this morning. Wait for my brother and I to come back before we go up the mountain together."

Li nodded, "Okay, I won't go out."

Zhang Hulan brought the Polygonum multiflorum she dug up yesterday afternoon and the cicada shells she picked up to see the price first.

When they arrived at the county town, Zhang Hulan and Zhang Hujun carried Old Man Zhang into the clinic.

"Shopkeeper, has Doctor Yang arrived? I brought my father with me."

The shopkeeper said, "Here he is. He's in the inner room. Just go in."

After carrying Old Man Zhang into the clinic, Doctor Yang asked Zhang Hulan and the others to put him directly on the ground.

Doctor Yang asked Old Man Zhang, "Where did you fall?"

Now that they were here, Old Man Zhang was very cooperative. He pointed to a spot on his thigh and said, "Right here."

"Take off your pants."

When he heard that he had to take off his pants, Old Man Zhang felt a little uncomfortable.

Wang said, "Dajun, please help the doctor."

Then Wang pulled Zhang Hulan out of the clinic.