"Is that so! Oh my! I must be too blind to see! I'll go home and do farming now!" Zhang Cai quickly ran back home to plow the land and sow the seeds.
When Qiao Mei first gave them the seeds, they were all quite skeptical. After all, every inch of land at home was very precious to them. The crops were meant to supplement their families' needs. If the seeds Qiao Mei gave them turned out to be lousy seeds, then they would not have any additional food for the year!
Their families would starve if they just depended on the men's salary! Each of them had at least two children, and some families even had four to five children!
Having girls was not that bad as they did not eat much. A family with many boys had it tough! The boys could finish one big pot of rice in one meal and they might not even be full yet! The only way out was to grow more food at home.
