The little one's purse connects the two worlds, turning a desolate village into a paradise.

Ya Ya nodded vigorously, her little voice clear and crisp: "Yes! Ya Ya remembers, I'll definitely deliver it to Auntie!"

As she spoke, her gaze shifted to the pile of dried cattails at Grandma Liu's feet. Remembering what Grandma Wang had said earlier, she immediately turned her back and rummaged through her small bag to find the remaining pair of reading glasses.

"Grandma, look at this!"

Ya Ya grabbed the reading glasses and handed them to Grandma Liu. "These are really useful. Wearing them will make it easier for you to see clearly."

Grandma Liu took the object. It was wrapped in a layer of transparent soft paper that felt smooth to the touch. Inside were black frames and thin, transparent pieces that looked like glass or crystal. It looked exquisite. She had never seen anything like it in her life.

"What is this?"

"They're reading glasses, Grandma. You'll see when you put them on!"

As she spoke, Ya Ya carefully unpacked the package, stretched out her hand, and gently placed the reading glasses on Grandma Liu's nose.

Grandma Liu subconsciously looked up and gazed ahead. The door frame, which she had been able to see clearly before, was now somewhat blurry and swaying.

"It depends on how close you are." Ya Ya had already learned from her grandfather's experience, so she grabbed a handful of cattails and stuffed them into her mother-in-law's hand.

Grandma Liu looked down and saw that the weaving, which used to be based on experience and skill, was now suddenly clear, startling her.

The fine, soft cattails were so delicate that you could see every single fiber, each one distinct, sharp, and bright.

His eyes instantly returned to their youthful days.

"Oh dear... oh dear!" Grandma Liu raised her hand to adjust her glasses, taking them off and then putting them back on, both curious and excited: "These are wonderful things! They let you see so clearly, so perfectly!"

Thinking that many old ladies in the village were like her, with failing eyesight, struggling to weave baskets and thread needles, Grandma Liu immediately hugged Ya Ya and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Grandma kept these reading glasses. How did our little girl know how to buy them! I'll explain how to use them to everyone later. Whoever does fine work or can't see clearly can come and wear them, we can take turns!"

She stroked the cattail in her hand, her eyes crinkling with laughter. "With this, we can weave several more cattail baskets a day! We can also collect them more carefully over there! Before, in town, one basket could sell for two coins. Once we weave more and the road is open, we can earn a lot more money."

Ya Ya covered her blushing face after being praised by Grandma Liu. Then, when Grandma Liu said that each coin cost two coins, she remembered that there seemed to be more than a dozen copper coins that Grandpa Village Chief had put in her little satchel.

Now, my little handbag is stuffed with all sorts of colored paper money, coins with chrysanthemums on them, and copper coins, all jumbled together.

She simply grabbed her small handbag and dumped all its contents onto the kang (a heated brick bed).

A small pile of red and green paper money, small copper coins, and coins were scattered around.

Grandma Liu knew this was all money from over there, but she couldn't count it. Seeing Ya Ya pour out all the money, she was a little puzzled. "Little girl, what are you doing?"

Ya Ya fiddled with the money, trying to figure out how much of her little stash she had left. She counted for a long time, even using her toes, but still couldn't figure it out. Her little brows furrowed in worry.

"Grandma, Ya Ya wants to count how much money is left."

Upon hearing this, Granny Liu sighed and said, "Oh dear, we've all forgotten about this. We should have helped Ya Ya sort out her money a long time ago."

She didn't recognize the paper money either, but she deftly sorted it into neat piles for Ya Ya according to color and size: a bunch of red ones, a few green ones, and some yellow and light green ones.

"I'll go and call your Grandpa Fang over." After dividing the money, Grandma Liu went out in her cotton shoes.

A short while later, Fang Tiesheng, holding his reading glasses, went into the house with Granny Liu.

Seeing the pile of money on the kang (a heated brick bed), he paused for a moment, then sat down on the edge of the kang and counted the bills one by one, only getting stuck when he got to the coin.

"What is this?"

It was golden and printed with flowers; he recognized the number five.

Gold? It doesn't look like gold either.

"This is five cents, half a dollar," Ya Ya remembered clearly.

"There are still 1,823.5 yuan left. Hiss—" Fang Tiesheng gasped after counting.

There are still so many!

A bag of refined rice weighs 80 jin (40 kg) and costs 1.2 yuan per jin (0.5 kg), which can buy more than 1,000 jin (500 kg) of refined rice!

However, if there is no continuous income, the money will be used up quickly.

We still need to sell wild vegetables, and it would be best to find something else that can be exchanged for money.

He looked up at the sky, which was overcast and had a faint dampness in the air. He guessed it would rain in the next couple of days, and once it rained, the wild vegetables would sprout again, and the mushrooms and bamboo shoots would all emerge.

Wild vegetables are so popular in that area, mushrooms and bamboo shoots should also be able to be sold for money. I'll bring some over and try it out.

Ya Ya was still counting on her fingers, "Eighteen hundred! That's enough to buy some fragrant soap, and I can also buy Grandma Wang reading glasses, and I can buy succulents every day..."

It seems like I can never spend it all.

Ya Ya's eyes crinkled into crescents. "Our Lotus Village is really rich!"

……

"Sister, will that little girl still be selling wild vegetables tomorrow? The ones I bought the day before yesterday were gone as soon as I put them on the table. There were none yesterday, and none today either. Sigh, I regret it so much. I should have bought more."

Cao Xiulian looked at yet another customer who kept asking about wild vegetables, feeling both happy and troubled.

Ever since Ya Ya's huge cart of wild vegetables was sold out the day before yesterday, people have been coming to inquire about them non-stop for the past two days. Yesterday, the eldest sister bought them all. Today, Ya Ya told her to go buy shoes for the villagers, and she didn't bring any wild vegetables with her.

As for tomorrow, she really couldn't say.

"Girl, I really can't say for sure. The wild vegetables that child eats are all freshly picked from the mountain by the villagers, not grown on their own land. How could they have so many every day?"

Cao Xiulian sighed: "I know you all really want to buy, but I heard from the children in Ya Ya's village that most of the people there are old men and women. She's just a little girl running around doing all the work. You can't fertilize on the mountain, and wild things only grow in batches. Last time we picked dozens of kilograms at once, but that was just luck. I really can't guarantee that we'll have enough to sell every day."

Those around him nodded in agreement, knowing that these wild vegetables were truly excellent, clean and tender, far superior to those sold in the market, otherwise they wouldn't fetch such a price.

But the more it's like this, the rarer it becomes.

Someone simply pulled out their phone: "Hey sis, let me add you on WeChat! When that little girl comes to sell wild vegetables again, just let me know. I live right next door."

Some people even added Cao Xiulian on WeChat and transferred money directly: "I'll give you the money first, please reserve two jin for me, any kind of wild vegetables will do, I'm afraid I won't be able to sell them all in time!"

This whole ordeal made Cao Xiulian too afraid to add anyone on WeChat. She even quickly put away the QR code on her stall, saying, "No way! This food depends on fate. If I don't make a reservation, and the person is a complete stranger to me, this won't do!"

He then returned the money.

"I'm letting you know that Ya Ya brought some wild vegetables; nothing else is allowed."

"Okay, give me ten pieces of sugar cake."

"I'll have some too."