The first to know the news was Li Family Village, followed by Zhou Family Village. Zhou Laodi went to Zhou Family Village to spread the message, and Xue Mei followed him back, taking the opportunity to bring home the dried bracken and daylilies that her family had sun-dried.
Whatever her mother sun-dried, Xue Mei did the same; the rented house had a large vegetable garden, where they also grew a good amount of spinach and radishes, producing quite a haul of dried vegetables.
Zhulan weighed the harvest for her eldest daughter's household and did the calculations for the silver coins. With the eldest daughter idle at home, she had sun-dried a lot: five jin of wood ear mushrooms and one less jin of lion's mane mushrooms, two jin of dried spinach—which didn't weigh much despite looking plentiful—and two jin of daylilies. There were eight jin of bracken, two jin of dried dandelion, and thirty jin more of dried radishes.
