Seeing the expression on the face of her husband, she knew that she might have hurt his feelings which was why she could only brace herself and look at her husbands who were working silently in the kitchen along with her official husband. Two out of three sons were sent to the big stone village to get married and she knew that her husbands were worried but she needed to make them understand their situation lest they all made trouble.

” I know that you all are worried but think of our situation as well, we already have nothing in our hands, we still need to rely on the charity of the elders to help us fix the beam and in the next few months we have to rely on Miss Yu and the others to survive, we have this little grain ourselves, how can we give it out?” Old Madam Hu asked as she looked at her husbands.

” But Miss Yu——” Master Hu spoke up but he was stopped by Old Madam Hu who raised her hand and then stopped her husband from speaking before she sighed and then said in a soft voice, ” Miss Yu is not responsible for just taking care of our family, Ah Guo, please try to understand, I know that this is selfish of us but do you want to watch our daughters die of hunger while trying to save our son? And even if we send out grains to him, do you think that our sons will be the ones who will be able to eat those grains?”

” I am afraid that they will be robbed before they could even take a bite and what more if we go there…. Do you think either of us will be able to come back alive?” Old Madam Hu asked with a shiver and when Master Hu heard his wife’s words, he shivered as well. He was worried about his son but more than that he was worried about his life as well, he did not want to die much less in such an ugly way!

In the end, end the mers of the Hu family gave up their thoughts along with the other mers who were worried about their sons, they knew that they were being cold-hearted by ignoring their sons but …there were so many people in the Big Stone village, so what if they send grains to their sons? They might not help their sons and end up pushing them into the front line of getting attacked, what was more once the big stone village realised that they could get grains from the big river village, they might end up relying on them.

They were not so big-hearted to raise such evil people!

Yu Dong made sure that the mammies and the women whom she selected were paying attention to the situation around the village and was relieved when she heard that the villagers have thought it through and were not going to send any grains to the other village.

This way she was able to focus on the work which was in front of her properly, since she had promised Magistrate Li that she will help her by opening various sources of income then it was high time that she started… in fact, it was about time the villagers also started working hard and uplifted their lives.

While she left the job of extracting oil to Aunt Wang and the other women who have volunteered to work in the oil mill, Yu Dong walked inside after making sure that no one was peeking inside the other room to figure out how the oil was extracted, even though she had signed contracts with the new workers she wanted to be very careful with them.

Only then did she walk inside the kitchen of the old Mu family and started her work of getting the spores from the mushrooms to grow new ones in the mountains?

The big river village was peaceful but there was someone who was not at all peaceful, Mother Shen who was being dragged by her husbands was shouting at the alcohol seller who had refused to sell her any more alcohol,

“Who do you think you are? My daughter-in-law is the owner of the Big River village! Do you know that pub? The one that is open exclusively for the rich and classy mers? That is owned by my daughter-in-law as well! She also extracted oil do you know?! How dare you treat me like this? I can buy your shop like this,” she snapped her fingers as she goaded the seller whose face turned purplish upon seeing how the old woman was scolding her.

” I am really sorry,” Ning Yu bowed in front of the seller who looked like she was going to call for the authorities, a part of him wanted to leave his wife in the hands of this seller but he knew that if his wife was gone then his daughter will only start acting more crazily.

The two sons and daughters of their family will be sold one after another such that there was no one to fight for the property inheritance, even though they had none. Ning Yu knew that his daughter was still dreaming of getting money from Shen Li and could only bow his head in front of the seller if his wife was taken away by the authorities and his daughter did not get money from his son, Shen Li… there was a very big chance that bastard daughter of his will go after her younger siblings.

His wife might be useless but at least she was the biggest protection that the younger ones had at the moment, even if it was shakable!

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