Old Ding's joy also infected Mo Yan, who invited him to sit down. She smiled and said, "The person who gave me the rice seeds initially only said they were a new variety, which could save quite a few seeds; I didn't expect the yield would be so high! About this matter, I hope Old man Ding won't speak of it, and please also remind those villagers who helped out, lest someone becomes jealous and harms the rice."
It wasn't that she was overly cautious, but in this era, the idea of rice yielding a thousand catties per mu was simply too incredible. If word got out, it would undoubtedly cause a great commotion, and as the owner of the high-yield rice, she would naturally become a target of others' attention.
