She doesn't need to buy many; she just wants to make a few more telescopes.

The main problem was that one telescope wasn't enough. Liu Dazhuang could have grabbed a nearby tree branch, but because he was protecting the telescope, he fell straight down and was seriously injured.

With the help of a system for testing, the raw materials for glass are not hard to find.

Lin Shucheng also happened to have some other things to buy, such as wooden buckets and iron barbecue grills, and he also wanted to see if he could buy some pork and mutton.

Well, their daughter's birthday is coming up soon. Although they have a blacksmith here, this thing is stored in their spatial dimension. They have someone make it, but they don't take it out to use. Wouldn't that arouse suspicion?

Lin Shucheng then prepared to go to town to buy one.

Lin Jinyue still needs to find out more about the situation.

However, things are chaotic right now, so let's rest for a couple of days before going.

Everyone had been busy all day and went to bed early in the evening.

Everyone was so exhausted they felt like their bones were about to fall apart.

Lin Jinyue was also tired, but she glanced at the system panel today and realized she was just a little bit more experience away from leveling up.

That evening, after closing all the doors and windows, Lin Jinyue asked her parents, "We're about to upgrade, do you want to come to the farm?"

Jiang Yun: "Yes, I definitely have to come. It's been a long time since I've been there."

Lin Xueqing followed them in.

Lin Jinyue saw that everyone was tired, but she was fine. Usually, she was the most idle. After transmigrating, her body age became younger, and her parents and brother really treated her like a child, not letting her do any housework.

Lin Jinyue took a small hoe and went to cultivate a small vegetable garden. This time, she didn't plant vegetables, but some Chinese medicinal herb seeds.

Lin Jinyue was still a little worried. This item wasn't bought from the system store, nor was it obtained through the system. She didn't know if it would even be useful.

The next moment, the system's mechanical voice rang in her mind:

[System: Congratulations, host, on leveling up to level four and unlocking one acre of land.]

[System: Congratulations, host, for unlocking new items in the system shop: edamame, grapes, soap, calligraphy brush, ink, and new seasonings.]

[System: Congratulations, host! The time your family members can stay in the system space has increased from 2.5 hours to 4 hours, and the maximum number of family members has increased from 4 to 10. Please keep up the good work and unlock more new features.]

Lin Jinyue was surprised by how helpful the system was, with so many rewards.

The system's voice sounded again the next moment:

[System: Upgrading will become increasingly difficult, but the rewards will also increase.]

Lin Jinyue glanced at the system panel.

Farm Level: 4 (10/)

Wealth: 6 taels and 230 copper coins

Farm unlocked area: 3 mu

Farm buildings: Chicken coop *2, stable *2, rabbit hutch *2, warehouse *1 (small), cabin *1

There were a bunch of farm animals and farm supplies behind them, but Lin Jinyue only glanced at them and didn't look at them again.

With an extra acre of land, Lin Jinyue felt she could plant more medicinal herbs.

Planting a vegetable seed increases experience by 1-5 points. Just now, planting a medicinal herb, Codonopsis pilosula, increased experience by 15 points.

Lin Jinyue began to diligently plant medicinal herbs, planting everything that could be grown.

After the upgrade, Lin Shucheng and the others were also able to access the system store.

Lin Jinyue stared at the silhouette of the locked product for a long time, and couldn't help but ask, "Dad, Mom, do you think this locked one looks like a potato?"

Lin Shucheng and Jiang Yun immediately dropped what they were doing and rushed over to see.

The items in the system store that are not yet unlocked can only be seen as silhouettes, oval-shaped pieces, and to be honest, they do look a bit like them.

However, Jiang Yun couldn't help but complain: "Yueyue, are you sure you didn't see it wrong? This soap was also oval-shaped before it was unlocked, but you still insisted that it was a potato."

Lin Jinyue stared at the oval silhouette and said with certainty, "I'm sure it's a potato, Mom. Look at the bumpy edges, it's definitely a potato."

Lin Jinyue was still muttering to herself, "Potatoes are great! Potato stew with chicken, roasted potato slices, potato stew with pork... And potatoes aren't picky about where they're grown, they grow fast and have high yields. With potatoes like these, why worry about famine in the future?"

Jiang Yun and Lin Shucheng felt that their daughter had gone mad, seeing everything as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

Lin Jinyue was a little excited. She decided to continue farming and leveling up quickly so she could unlock potatoes sooner.

Her parents weren't idle either; they went together to help plant medicinal herbs.

In the past two days, Lin Shucheng and Lin Xueqing have been shoving small animals into the farm whenever they catch them—rabbits, squirrels, sparrows, and birds whose names they don't know.

The farm is therefore more vibrant.

Looking at the birds flying by in the sky from time to time, Lin Jinyue finally understood why she had felt something was strange before; it turned out that the birds were missing.

Lin Jinyue is quite obsessed with potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn.

These past few days I've found that after upgrading my farm to level 4, I'm having some trouble getting it to level 5, since level 5 is really difficult and requires 100,000 experience points.

Lin Jinyue then asked the system.

The system states that what they grow outside the farm also counts as experience, only less than what they grow on the farm. Furthermore, rare crops may not survive outside the farm; only those that survive count as experience.

In Lin Jinyue's eyes, none of these things mattered. They could just buy a large plot of land and it wouldn't matter if their experience points increased less, since they could cultivate a lot of land.

Just buying land requires money.

These things can't be rushed; we need to stabilize things first before figuring out how to make money and buy land.

Lin Jinyue wished she could fly to Lingnan. She especially missed the airplanes and high-speed trains of her previous life—they were so fast!

*

Two days later, seeing that the village was back on track, Lin Jinyue prepared to go to the city early in the morning to buy some things.

Lin Shucheng led a horse over, lifted Lin Jinyue onto it, and led the horse down the mountain.

The county town was quite a distance from the mountain village, and since they didn't have a map, they could only rely on their sense of direction to get there.

The father and daughter walked along the narrow path, occasionally using binoculars to check if there were any villages nearby and what the situation was like in the city. Lin Shucheng needed to go down the mountain to find out more information first, as they didn't have a travel permit and couldn't enter the city rashly.

The two had only been walking for half an hour when they heard an anxious voice.

"Grandpa, just bear with it a little longer. I'll carry you up the mountain. There's a campfire up there, and there will definitely be people there. Just hang in there a little longer."

Then came an old voice: "No, don't go. It's deep in the mountains and forests; there might be bandits there."

Lin Jinyue listened carefully to the voice and wondered why it sounded like a northern accent.

It's not surprising, though. She could see the current situation and was leading the villagers to Lingnan, so naturally others could see it too.

Then the girl said, "Grandpa, let's go to town, hang in there a little longer, and then we'll find a doctor..."

Then, the girl's sobbing voice could be heard: "Grandpa, wake up, wake up..."

Lin Jinyue knew that they were probably a grandfather and grandson who were also fleeing for their lives, so she didn't want to meddle and cause trouble for herself.