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Old Granny Wang, barely sixty, had grey hair, a slightly dark face, and prominent red veins on her cheeks. Yet her eyes sparkled brilliantly, filled with the luster of splitting a melon.
"You say, they had no family wealth, and they were so poor, by all accounts the marriage shouldn't have happened."
"But Zheng Granary, silly as he was, borrowed a sheng of rice and, seeing so many people, poured it all into the pot—"
So in the end, they intervened, and only half a sheng was used, but it was still enough to be astonishing.
After all, food was so precious, and it wasn't even the busy farming season yet (when marrying off wasn't a priority). It was but a few of them, so why did they need so much grain for one meal?!