Shen Qiqi's eyebrows curved, and a confident arc appeared at the corner of her mouth. "There's no rush to go back. The most important thing right now is to survive here first, and live beautifully! Besides, my project is about to make a profit!" She deliberately emphasized the word "project", and there was a hint of mystery in her tone.

Xu Jing perked up immediately after hearing this. She stopped complaining, sat up straight, and asked curiously, "What project? You're doing something big without telling me? Tell me, can I get a stake?"

Shen Qiqi couldn't help but smile. She knew that Xu Jing was most sensitive about money.

"Hey, the project I'm talking about is the one we started before we traveled through time. Now's a good time to give it a try and see if we can make a fortune. Then, we can leave whenever we want!"

Xu Jing suddenly understood what was going on, but then frowned again. "That's right. If it weren't for this damned book, we'd both be making a killing right now, and wouldn't have to suffer like this! The most infuriating thing is that we've been transported to this era of food and clothing scarcity. Is the author deliberately torturing us? He made us look so miserable!"

Shen Qiqi couldn't help but roll her eyes. "Alright, alright, stop complaining. Do you still expect the author to change the plot for you? In my opinion, we have to find a way out ourselves. Who knows, maybe it's not that easy to travel through a book. Maybe there are some cheat codes! For example, the kind of space treasures often written about in novels?" As she spoke, her eyes flashed with excitement, as if she saw the dawn of hope.

Upon hearing this, Xu Jing's eyes lit up immediately, and she stopped complaining. Instead, her face was filled with anticipation. "Really? Then let's go find it! Who knows, maybe we can become rich and powerful like the protagonist in the novel, relying on space treasures to reach the pinnacle of life!"

The two of them took action immediately.

"Space, space, where are you?" Shen Qiqi closed her eyes and called out in her mind over and over again, as if calling out to an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time. However, apart from the buzzing echo in her mind, there was no movement.

Xu Jing was not to be outdone. She also closed her eyes and silently chanted in her heart, "May the space treasure appear soon." However, the only response she got was silence.

The two opened their eyes and looked at each other with disappointment on their faces.

"Do I need to recite a spell?" Xu Jing muttered desperately, and began to feel around her body, carefully checking even the corners of her clothes. However, there was nothing there except rough fabric and scattered threads.

Shen Qiqi also imitated her and searched her body, even turning up her hair, but still found nothing.

Disappointment came like a tide, drowning the two of them.

At this moment, outside the house, Old Lady Lu's sharp voice penetrated the earthen wall, filled with harshness and dissatisfaction, "Hey, this cooking oil is free? You daughters-in-law, all you do all day is eat, eat, eat! I'm afraid you're going to go broke from eating yourself into poverty!"

Shen Qiqi and Xu Jing looked at each other, and both saw helplessness in each other's eyes.

This old lady is really haunting!

Just as he was dreaming of a golden finger, reality poured a bucket of cold water on him the next moment.

Outside, Mrs. Lu's scolding continued. A small figure rushed out of the house and retorted in a baby voice, "Grandma, the new aunt's cooking is delicious! It smells better when there's more oil!"

This child is the second son of the Lu family. He is chubby and quite cute.

Shen Qiqi silently gave him a thumbs up in her heart.

However, the child's kind gesture only provoked an even fiercer attack from Old Lady Lu. "What do you know, little bastard? You only know how to eat! Oily food means it's delicious? I think you're just itching for trouble!"

Shen Qiqi and Xu Jing sighed in their hearts, this old lady is really someone who is not easy to mess with.

The two of them tacitly lowered their presence and tried not to make any noise, for fear of getting into trouble.

After scolding her grandson, Old Lady Lu began to arrange work for the daughters-in-law at home. "The eldest daughter-in-law, go feed the pigs! The second daughter-in-law, go wash clothes! The third daughter-in-law..."

At this point, Mrs. Lu paused, her eyes fell on Long Fengjiao who came out of the house, and her tone immediately softened, "Fengjiao, you go and rest. Let them do the rough and tiring work."

Long Fengjiao is the girlfriend of the fifth son of the Lu family. She is an educated youth. She is very pretty and very well-behaved in front of Old Lady Lu.

Shen Qiqi looked at this scene and couldn't help but curl her lips. This old lady really treated people differently!

"Third daughter-in-law, you and Fengjiao go to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables and cook Fengjiao's favorite dinner." Old Mrs. Lu ordered with a smile.

Although Shen Qiqi was dissatisfied in her heart, she could only respond and followed Long Fengjiao out the door.

"Hey..." Xu Jing gently touched Shen Qiqi's arm and said in a low voice: "You said..."

Xu Jing grabbed Shen Qiqi's arm, her tone filled with a hint of reluctance and expectation: "Tell me, do we really have nothing on us? Could it be that this treasure is too advanced and requires some special method to open it?" She fumbled around her body again without giving up, and exaggeratedly turned up the corners of her clothes, wishing she could strip herself naked for a check.

However, nothing was found except rough cloth and a few loose threads.

Looking at her like this, Shen Qiqi sighed helplessly, pointing to the Lu family who were still busy in the yard and said, "Don't look for it anymore. Instead of messing around here, you might as well think about how to survive in this broken place. I remember there seems to be a primary school in this village, and they are short of teachers." Her eyes lit up, as if she saw hope, "How about we go and give it a try?"

Xu Jing's face instantly fell when she heard this, and she shook her head repeatedly like a rattle. "Becoming a teacher? Forget it. I'm afraid of children. They make a lot of noise all day long. Just thinking about it gives me a headache. I don't want to deal with a bunch of little brats every day!"

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