My mother said that if she couldn't find anything to eat anymore, she would give her to Yapo.
Gu Zhaohua held the last handful of wild vegetables and said to the whole family: No one should be left behind.
While others were fleeing the famine to grab food, she led others to dig yams, pick wild tea, and pickle pickles.
While others sold their sons and daughters, she led all the women in the village into the mountains and dug a way out of the wasteland.
A jar of pickles, in exchange for the first field.
A basket of wild tea opened the first shop.
A trade route supports an entire village.
It took her ten years to go from using tree bark to satisfy her hunger to becoming extremely wealthy.
Later someone asked her: Where did you get the confidence in the first place?
She smiled: A person who is extremely hungry will dare to break into anything.
And the Lord Jinyiwei who had secretly protected her all the way, when he handed the imperial plaque to her hand, he only said one sentence -
"Gu Zhaohua, it's time to pay back the jar of pickles you owe me."
