The Road to Becoming a Top-Notched Old Lady - Chapter 2
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Chapter 2 Unlocking the System Shop
Liu Yuxian made a gesture at Li Dayou while speaking.
“That’s right, mom, you haven’t fully recovered yet, you need to eat more.” (Li Dayou)
Yu Sheng handed over the soup to the eldest daughter-in-law, but when she saw that the eldest daughter-in-law didn’t take it, she directly passed it to the fifth child.
The fifth child has a good temperament, but because of her family’s situation, her body is much thinner than that of her elder brothers.
When Yu Sheng looked at her, she remembered her little niece’s chubby arms. She let out a sigh, and said in a gentle tone, “Eat.”
After the child carefully took the bowl from her hands, Yu Sheng slowly got up and walked out of the room.
She had already passed her limit and she can no longer stay inside the original owner’s room, which reeks of a rotten atmosphere.
She needs to get outside of the room for a breath of fresh air, and will have to clean up herself properly later.
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She was walking down the road of the countryside and noticed that the grains in the field are all lifeless, even for people who has no knowledge for agriculture could tell that the harvest was not good.
The drought came so abruptly that even the imperial court was helpless.
If this goes on for a long time, the whole family will have to starve to death and the whole village will have to evacuate the land.
The top priority is to get enough food for the family to survive as soon as possible.
‘But, what should I do…’
She squatted down and pulled out pieces of “weeds” at random. She was so lost in her thoughts when suddenly she heard a voice in her mind.
?Greetings host, you are being connected to the system mall…?
?Reporting to the host, the one in front is pure natural money grass, which can be used internally and externally, and has the effect of detoxifying and reducing inflammations.?
The continuous series of voices left Yu Sheng’s mind in a spin. A computer-like interface came into view, with a variety of products inside, like some kind of ancient version of Taobao.
She gathered up a few more “weeds”, and as expected, the voice came to her ears again.
?Reporting to the host, you have harvested a pure natural money plant, please choose whether to store or sell it.?
?Sell?
The “weed” instantly disappeared, and five copper coins suddenly appeared in her hand.
Yu Sheng couldn’t hide the joy on her face after testing it a few times.
It is undeniable that having golden fingers is vital for time travel!
This trading platform is comparable to Taobao. You can purchased products at low prices and sell items at high prices through this system.
Currently, only food items are unlocked.
If she can continue to rely on this system for an indefinite period of time, she can completely ensure the basic diet of the family in these ancient times.
In order to test the authenticity of this system, she bought a qi?ng b?ng1Scallion Bing or Chinese Flat Bread, are a thick savoury bread that’s pan-fried until golden brown and crisp. with the money she just earned.
As soon as the delicious qi?ng b?ng appeared, Yu Sheng didn’t even get to taste it before a group of villagers passed by and saw her, teasing at her from afar.
“Oh, if it isn’t the Li family’s daughter-in-law, how come you are eating here alone? Why didn’t you send it to your mother’s house? Haven’t you learned your lesson?”
Everyone knows that the daughter-in-law of the Li family eagerly rushes to deliver wild vegetables to the Yu family, but the Yu family are not satisfied at all. They will accept the wild vegetables, but they will also forced her to give out a hundred coins.
The original owner doesn’t know how to leave the clutches of her birth family. No matter how much begging she does, if she can’t give money to them, her brother will beat her up in front of the whole village.
In the end, the eldest son came to bring the original owner home.
Their loud conversation attracted more busybodies. Rural people like to join in on the fun, so they all gathered together, adding the fact that the original owner is not a well-liked individual.
Aunt Sun from the neighboring house came out laughing and said: “Right, deliver it to them quickly, if you’re not careful enough, you’ll get beaten up again.”
Everyone laughed upon hearing this.
Yu Sheng wanted to continue purchasing more food, so she had no time to entangle with these ignorant villagers.
She scanned the crowd around her with a cold face and said, “The Yu family are so unkind, so why would I suck up to their stone-cold asses.”
After saying that, she intentionally exposed the horrible wound on her head, sighing softly, and said, “My poor eldest child, the trouble he went through so he can give me this qi?ng b?ng to make me feel better because he saw my injury. How could I hurt my child’s feelings by not accepting and eating it?”
‘Yu Sheng was beaten senselessly?’
The mean daughter-in-law of the Li family, who always tries to seek favor from her natal family, actually knows how to appreciate her children?
Everyone was so baffled by her words that they disregard the fact that the eldest son got rare qi?ng b?ng in this calamity year.
Looking at Yu Sheng’s still pale face, the eldest son doesn’t know what to say, so he decides to leave her be.
After seeing the villagers finally disperse, Yu Sheng quickly finished the qi?ng b?ng she’d been eating, then squatted down to continue harvesting money grass.
‘I don’t know how long the time has passed, the sun is finally setting.’
Dusting the dirt off her hands, Yu Sheng decided to end her harvesting for now and sell the items she had collected to the system.
She went home with her stomach full and fifty copper coinsin her pocket.
Thinking that the children in the family needed to be supplemented with proper nutrition, she exchanged the coins for two catties of eggs, a total of sixteen pieces, and bought five catties of white flour, then saved up the remaining coins.
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As soon as she entered the house, she saw the fifth child still holding the previously used bowl and licking it clean.
‘This is a little sad, this family is really too poor.’
Even the wild vegetable soup that wasn’t palatable can make them cherish it.
“All right, stop.”
She stopped the fifth child from continuing her actions, and held the girl in her arms.
Feeling the light weight of the fifth child in her arms, she said gently: “Tonight we will eat white flour steamed buns and drink egg drop soup.”
The fifth child thought she was going to be beaten for what she did just now, but Yu Sheng simply picked her up.
This was the first time she felt the warmth of her mother.
Before she could recover from the onslaught of warmth, she heard the word “egg”.
Her eyes sparkled with excitement and her smile revealed two cute little rabbit teeth. She was so happy she couldn’t believe it.
She raised her head and met her mother’s eyes. Her fear made her swallow back the things she wanted to say.
Yu Sheng smiled helplessly when the girl lowered her head in fear.
The fear had been accumulated for a long time, it won’t go away easily.
Only by getting along and slowly improving her image in their eyes can they have the opportunity to get closer together.
As for the fourth son, Yu Sheng thought of this troublesome existence.
‘Forget it, let them fill their stomachs first.’
The eldest daughter-in-law suddenly walked in, wearing a square turban, lowered her head, and asked in a whisper, “Mother, second brother and third brother have gone into the mountains. Do you have any orders?”
“Take the white flour and cook a pot of egg drop soup for everyone.”
She couldn’t believe her ears, where did the flour and eggs even come from? Was her mother-in-law beaten out of her brain and is now hallucinating?
As soon as she looked up, she saw two white bags on top of the black table with missing legs, which were particularly noticeable.
‘They are really flour and eggs!’
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