Doesn't Our Great Xia Kingdom Have Sweet Potatoes?

Zhou Wanwan's words were now like imperial edicts in the village, and they quickly began digging.

Seeing them digging a well, Zhou Wanwan led a group of people into the mountains.

Without experiencing a locust plague firsthand, no one can imagine how terrible its consequences can be.

The mountain became barren, devoid of any vegetation, and filled with the cries of mourners.

Zhou Wanwan closed her eyes and heard wails echoing throughout the forest. "Waaah... My head is gone! Has anyone seen my head?"

"It hurts so much... I'm in so much pain! Help me..."

Zhou Wanwan sighed and said:

"There are also some useful plant roots and stems, so let's take this opportunity to dig them all up."

"It won't be long before many people come to dig these up."

Zhou Wanwan led them to dig up a lot of medicinal herbs: astragalus, angelica, atractylodes macrocephala, rehmannia glutinosa, gastrodia elata, licorice, white peony root, salvia miltiorrhiza...

Zhou Qingyan said, "Luckily, there were many of us here, otherwise we don't know how long we would have been digging!"

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Brother, you take the herbs back first, and we'll dig up as much as we can."

If these medicinal herbs aren't dug up now, they won't survive the drought.

As Zhou Wanwan walked forward, she heard a clump of yams crying out, "These bastards! They've eaten us all up! How are we supposed to survive?"

"Yes, I'm so sleepy! I need to take a nap..."

Zhou Wanwan walked over, her face beaming with joy. It was all yams!

Yams can also be used as food, she said directly, "Dig up all these yams."

The people of Liu Family Village were quite obedient and all started digging for yams.

After digging up six whole sacks, Zhou Qinghe asked, "Wanwan, can we eat this stuff?"

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Yes, we can eat. Let's go down the mountain! There's not much food left in the mountains."

Just as I was about to leave, I heard a yam grower say, "Why are you only digging up our potatoes and not the sweet potatoes next to us? Don't they taste good?"

Zhou Wanwan's eyelids twitched and she asked, "Sweet potato?"

She looked at her third uncle beside her and said, "Third Uncle, have you ever heard of sweet potatoes?"

Uncle Liu looked at Zhou Wanwan and said, "Sweet potato? A rat? I've heard of rats, but I've never heard of sweet potato!"

"Does our Great Xia Kingdom not have sweet potatoes?"

Uncle Liu shook his head and said, "Never heard of sweet potatoes? What's that, some kind of delicious food?"

Zhou Wanwan coughed and said, "Help me dig here and see if we can find any sweet potatoes?"

Uncle Liu San and Uncle Liu Si carefully began to dig, and soon they unearthed more than twenty red creatures.

"This is a sweet potato? We've never seen one before." Uncle Liu shook his head.

The other villagers from Liu Family Village nearby also shook their heads, Zhou Wanwan beamed with joy.

They dug up two sacks of sweet potatoes and carried a large amount of stuff home.

Zhou Wanwan looked at the things in the yard. Locusts hate garlic, onions, chives, mint, mugwort, castor beans, Sichuan pepper trees, and chili peppers the most.

So these plants are everywhere in the yard; Zhou Wanwan deliberately transplanted them.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the plots of land in her yard.

Chaos had broken out outside, especially in Zhou Family Village. Zhou Maolin and his group were shivering from the cold. He went directly to find Old Madam Zhou.

As soon as Old Madam Zhou opened the door, she saw him standing there and said, "Oh dear! Why aren't you wearing any clothes so late at night?"

Zhou Maolin was so angry he was trembling all over:

"Don't I want to wear it? It was that brat Zhou Wanwan who took our clothes."

"And my silver, and the grain from our village, they all ran off with it."

Old Madam Zhou blinked and said, "What did you say? I don't understand. How could a little girl like her do something like this?"

"Really... Mother, I... I'm so cold!" Zhou Fuyu and Zhou Fukang also returned.

Zhou Fuyu said with a mournful face, "She took my silver and jade pendant, what am I going to do now?"

Old Madam Zhou never expected Zhou Wanwan to become so formidable. She frowned and asked, "Didn't you send twenty or thirty people? How many did they have?"

Zhou Maolin sighed and said:

"Actually, we don't know what happened. We just suddenly lost consciousness, and we don't know what exactly happened."

When I woke up, everything was gone, even the oxcart was gone.

Old Madam Zhou shouted loudly:

"Put your clothes on first, then we'll go find them and demand an explanation."

I refuse to believe it. How dare they rob someone in broad daylight!

A large group of over a hundred people from Zhou Family Village stormed into Liu Family Village. Zhou Maolin roared, "Zhou Wanwan, you come out here right now! You jinx, you good-for-nothing! Today I'm going to kill you!"

Liu Sanlang ran all the way up the mountain and said, "Wanwan, stop thinking about your land. The people from Zhou Family Village are all here. What do you think we should do? Why don't you go out and lay low for a while?"

Zhou Wanwan was baffled. "Why would I go out to avoid trouble? Come on, let's go down the mountain and see, that guy's face must be black with anger, right?"

Liu Sanlang nodded and said, "His complexion is indeed very bad; it's red one minute and black the next."

As Zhou Wanwan walked down the mountain, she could still hear the people of Zhou Family Village cursing incessantly.

"That little bastard, believe me or not, I'll beat her to death."

They killed my grandson, now they've taken my cow, and where did the ten taels of silver I had go?

Make her give it back right now, or I'll fight her to the death. She's shameless; she'll steal anything.

Zhou Wanwan walked over, glanced at them indifferently, and said, "What are you guys from Zhou Family Village doing here again? Is this never going to end?"

Zhou Maolin shouted, "You'd better return our things right now, or we'll report you to the authorities!"

Zhou Wanwan chuckled and said:

"You're planning to sue us? Go ahead and do it now! We didn't take anything from you, so sue us if you want!"

Don't try to intimidate us with the government all the time. Even if we go to the authorities, you need evidence, right?

We haven't run into you all today, how could we have taken your things?

Zhou Maolin pointed at her and said, "You're talking nonsense! We all saw you back then, how could you not have noticed us?"

Zhou Wanwan squinted and said:

Who's like you, constantly eyeing other people's things?

What were you doing when you saw us?

You guys aren't planning to rob us, are you? Hahaha...

That's ridiculous. So, it means you tried to rob us, but ended up getting robbed instead, right?

There were only six of us out today. How could six of us possibly defeat you? Even if you went to the authorities, they wouldn't believe you!

Old Madam Zhou squinted and said:

"Zhou Wanwan, you're really something now. Don't get too cocky, or you'll suffer the consequences."

Your whole family deserves to be slaves. Let's go back! It's just a cartload of grain, we don't care."