After bullying Dongdong, I made her go back to continue learning to write.

Li Chang'an wrote the numbers one through ten on the ground and asked Dongdong and Su Xiao to write them. He said that whoever wrote the best would be taken to the city to play.

With only a few days left until the next market day, Li Chang'an wanted to go to the city to take a look and learn more about this world.

Today's sign-in reward is 99+ gold ingots.

His sudden wealth made him the richest man in the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, money is only money when it's spent.

So he planned to go to the city to buy some things when he went to the market.

After Youchu finished eating, she took the little girl, who was sleeping soundly after eating and drinking her fill, away, leaving Li Chang'an alone sitting on the wooden stump, basking in the sun and watching the villagers work.

They called it "overseeing the work."

In fact, the villagers don't need his supervision.

Everyone worked incredibly hard. Even the toddlers who had just learned to walk knew to stick their bottoms out and pick up a few twigs to give to Li Chang'an so that his son-in-law could build a new house.

The lure of five kilograms of rice every day drew them over before dawn, where they would squat at the door waiting for him to assign them tasks.

Li Chang'an didn't know how to build a house either, so he asked Xiong Er and then put him in charge of the whole thing.

Professional tasks should be left to professionals.

There weren't many villagers, just over twenty adults and about ten children.

There are no elderly people.

After all, adults are the labor force, and they are better able to survive when fleeing.

Children are the future workforce; after feeding them for a few years, they can start working.

And the elderly...

Li Chang'an didn't continue his research; he didn't want to think about the fate of those elderly people.

Guo Dajiao was very angry. When she was tidying up the ground, she deliberately dug holes here and there in the flat ground.

When she arrived in the morning, the sun had just risen, and Li Chang'an was standing on the hillside admiring the sunrise.

Under the golden sunlight, the tall Li Chang'an stood with the rising sun above his head.

She thought it was a deity descending to earth, so she knelt on the ground and kowtowed for a long time, making a bunch of wishes.

The other villagers laughed at them.

Having lost face, she harbored even greater hatred for Lin Youchu's family, and her mind became somewhat twisted.

"I hope your whole family dies from this fall," she said bitterly.

Her son, Guo Datou, was working nearby when he saw Lin Youchu eating eggs, and his mouth watered.

He said to his mother, "Mom, I want to eat eggs too."

For breakfast, the villagers only had plain porridge, and only Xiong Er and his wife, and a few people from Linjia Village, had eggs.

The other villagers didn't, after all, Li Chang'an knew that if everyone was treated the same, they would just take it for granted.

Only by treating them differently can we better control them.

So her son was really craving eggs and was itching to try them.

"Eat, eat, eat, eat!" Guo Dajiao cursed, her anger finally finding an outlet.

"All you do is eat all day long. I gave birth to you and you're still so useless. You even want to eat eggs. Don't you think your mother looks like an egg?"

"No, Mother, you're ugly, not as pretty as an egg." Guo Datou was just like his father, dull-witted.

Upon hearing this, Guo Dajiao flew into a rage, took off her straw sandals, and began to beat the child.

"You think I'm ugly, you bastard."

The other villagers burst into laughter, each one eager to see the drama unfold, even saying that the beating was too lenient, since Big Head didn't even cry.

Watching this farce unfold, Li Chang'an felt a sudden jolt, sensing that something was amiss.

He stood up and looked around.

Youchu was holding Xiaoya and supervising the two little ones as they wrote.

Third Sister and the people of Linjia Village are starting a fire to cook.

Guo Dajiao was hitting her son, and the woods behind her were swaying in the wind.

The other villagers were watching the spectacle with amusement.

Um.

What's wrong?

Li Chang'an felt increasingly uneasy, as if a piece of his heart was missing, and the sun made him irritable.

No, there's no wind today.

Li Chang'an suddenly looked up and shouted at the villagers who were watching the commotion, "Run!"

"Roar~"

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a two-meter-long tiger with piercing eyes and a white forehead leaped out of the forest.

It roared and pounced on Guo Dajiao.

Guo Dajiao turned her head and looked around. She instantly collapsed to the ground, her mind blank and her body weak.

As the tiger's gaping maw drew ever closer, she could already smell the blood emanating from its mouth. At that moment, only one thought occupied her mind.

It's over, let's cool down.

Bang bang bang bang bang...

A series of thumping sounds came from behind her, like thunder.

She saw streaks of fire striking the tiger, tearing its flesh and blood to shreds.

Turning my head, I saw that the firelight was coming from the hands of the Lin family's son-in-law.

"Hold!"

Li Chang'an was also startled. A tiger the size of a small car suddenly darted out and pounced on the villagers.

In his desperation, he didn't care about anything else.

He took the AK47 out of his backpack, pointed it at the tiger, and pulled the trigger.

The AK produced by the system has no recoil, since it's probably cheating.

It also has unlimited ammo, so there's no need to change magazines.

Moreover, the tiger was too big, and he couldn't guarantee the AK's lethality or his own accuracy.

So he kept pulling the trigger until he heard the system beep, and then he stopped.

"Beep, hidden mission unlocking - first kill."

"Living in chaotic times, one must see bloodshed. It is recommended that the host start hunting to obtain more resources."

"Reward: 99+ Fertility Pills, Special Reward: A Gatling gun that emits blue flames."

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