Bai Zhi was happy. Since everyone likes to take care of her, then she will just enjoy this treatment. After all, she was only a little girl.

Perhaps this kind of treatment will not last as she grows older.

The four people, who were working, are all diligent worker. It didn’t take them a long time to bring bags full of potatoes.

Those bags were sewed by Zhao Lan herself. Yesterday, they filled half the size of the bag with potatoes and weigh it at home. Half bag of potatoes weighs 25 pounds, a full bag weighs 50 pounds. Bai Zhi brought 5 bags with her. All 5 bags were filled half the size of the bag with potatoes. So now, she has a total of 125 pounds.

Before leaving, one of the women, who helped reminded Bai Zhi: “Zhi’er, are you not going to put a mark on the ground?”

Bai Zhi was puzzled: “Put a mark? Why do you want me to put a mark?”

The woman explained: “Zhi’er, you are still young, you don’t fully understand things around you, which is understandable. The people in our village seemed to be living a harmonious life on the surface, but everyone also has their own thoughts once put in a dilemma. The wheat in everyone’s fields are still green, your melons matured first. Not all the people in our village will give you a face.”

Bai Zhi understood the woman’s meaning. Speaking of people who don’t know how to give a face to others, the first thing came to her mind was the Bai Family. The Bai Family is notoriously shameless people. She was sure that they will come to her field.

“Alright, I’ll put a mark.” Bai Zhi crouched and picked up some stones to put marks on the ground. As long as someone takes away her potatoes here, the mark she put will be gone.

A group of people returned to Hu Family’s house. Bai Zhi took out 50 copper coins, then gave the two women 25 copper coins and 2 pounds of potatoes each.

The two women were very happy: “Didn’t you say that you will give us 20 copper coins? How come you gave us more?”

Bai Zhi smiled and said: “Today, you worked very hard, so I will give you a reward on your first day at work. Here are some melons too, you take them back and eat them. Remember, eat them as soon as possible. Don’t let them have green sprouts. Melons with greet sprouts are not edible. Never eat them.”

The two women nodded their head: “So originally, people got poisoned because they eat green sprouted melons?”

The other woman also opened her mouth and said: “I see. We also planted melons at home before. Our family has eaten a lot of it, but no one got poisoned. That’s why I didn’t believe the rumors at that time. It turned out to be because of this.”

Bai Zhi replied: “These melons are good, don’t waste them.”

The two women thank Bai Zhi then went back home. When they went back home, they couldn’t help but show off.

How could they not show off? Sometimes, when their husband found a job, they will work hard all day long, but they will only earn a few little money. However, today, they just followed Bai Zhi to dig a few bags of melons, but they earned so much. It was more cost-effective.

This matter quickly spread in the village and reached the Bai Family’s ears. After hearing this, Old Lady Bai became so angry that she almost fell on her chair: “That dead girl, there is a chance for people to earn money, but she didn’t think of her two uncles. Instead, she gave money to those irrelevant people. She’s simply making me mad.”

Mrs. Liu added more oil to the fire, she said: “Not only money, but she also gave them melons. We asked her for some melons before, but not only she refused to give us, we also got humiliated by her.”

 

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