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Chapter 215 The Secret Recipe for Giving a Child

Actually, Zhuzhu doesn't particularly like eating mushroom balls! Rather, whenever she eats mushroom balls, she is reminded of the happy times she had as a little girl.

People often say that childhood is beautiful yet fleeting! It's beautiful because we are carefree during this period.

Every early spring, she, Jianmei, and their sister Yingying would always take a large basket to the fields and hillsides to pick mushrooms whenever they had free time. Speaking of mushrooms, she herself found them quite strange!

Because every year after the start of spring, many mushrooms sprout from the fertile soil. And so, the once quiet fields come alive again!

Sometimes the Spring Equinox arrives before the Lunar New Year, so whenever I return from visiting relatives for the New Year, I always see many people bending over, searching for mushrooms in the fertile fields.

So every time I visit relatives during the Spring Festival, I bring a very large bag from home and put it in my pocket. This is because on my way back from visiting relatives, I pass through a large tobacco field.

Picking mushrooms to give to my brother-in-law! My sister hasn't had any children, and my brother-in-law doesn't have the time. I remember when I was a child, every time I went to the fields to pick mushrooms, the elders would ask me a very awkward question.

Little girl, what are you doing picking so many mushrooms? Is it because your sister and brother-in-law haven't been able to conceive for a long time after they got married?

So you came to the field to pick some shiitake mushrooms to give to your brother-in-law, right? I'll let you in on a little secret! The shiitake mushrooms here really can cure infertility!

Why would you say such a thing to me, old lady? Do you have some kind of magical properties about this mushroom?

Ugh! Do you even know how to talk? I'm already so old! How can I possibly verify that mushrooms can treat infertility?

Besides, back then, I conceived my family's several chubby babies naturally.

"So why are you so convinced, Grandma, that eating shiitake mushrooms will definitely make me pregnant?" Zhuzhu asked her mother-in-law with a smile.

Hey! I feel like you're a little slow on the uptake, little girl?

Think about it! When our hometown was suffering from famine, didn't Guanyin Bodhisattva transform into a maiden and come to our hometown?

Oh! Grandma, do you mean that Guanyin Bodhisattva not only taught the people of Jiangle how to survive this great famine?

And they even sent a batch of chubby, healthy babies to the people of Jianle?

Hmm! You little girl, you finally understand what I meant by that?

Think about it, Guanyin Bodhisattva taught us to eat those mushrooms. So how come they can't cure infertility?

Zhu Zhu could only nod in agreement with what the old woman said, because she knew that infertility was not easy to cure.

If Nan mushrooms could really cure infertility, wouldn't the people of Jiangle be rolling in money?

Because the mushroom plant grows everywhere in early spring.

If mushrooms could really cure infertility, wouldn't people from all over the country come to Jiang Le seeking children?

Grandma Kui, could you tell us how you got pregnant with your little brother?

Didn't you say that when you were making tofu, you saw a chubby little baby fall from the sky and sit on the tofu pudding?

Yes, yes, yes! Didn't you start getting pregnant with your first child after that?

Did you eat any foods that could help you get pregnant at that time?

Zhuzhu was very curious when she heard someone asking Grandma Kui how she got pregnant with her first child.

Zhuzhu had heard people mention the events of that year.

However, she did not believe that Jianlin was a celestial attendant under Guanyin Bodhisattva! Because after she and Jianlin got married, she was unable to conceive for a long period of time.

Moreover, the couple even went to a temple to burn incense and pray in order to have a healthy baby boy.

This is a very strange story! She and Jianlin went to the temple to burn incense and pray for a child, and although she quickly became pregnant, it was a girl.

However, the second sister, who accompanied them to the temple to burn incense and pray, successfully gave birth to a chubby, healthy boy for the Xiao family.

Jianmei used to tease her second sister about this, saying that her second sister had stolen the son that Guanyin Bodhisattva had originally given to me and Jianlin.

Haha! This might be why Jianmei and her second sister always argue, even though the two sisters clearly care about each other.

They both care deeply about each other! But they both love to bring up each other's sore spots.

Especially after the two little girls, Rousa and her second sister's son, had a falling out, the relationship between Jianmei and her second sister's families began to become very delicate.

I remember one year the country started to pay attention to vulnerable groups like people with disabilities! For example, people holding disability certificates of a certain level could be exempted from paying a certain amount of taxes when opening a shop.

Jianmei learned about this from a very good friend, so she started to get a disability certificate for her family members who met the criteria.