Song Tantian transmigrated to ancient times, becoming a five-and-a-half-year-old little sprout. In a chaotic, famine-stricken world, surrounded by danger, she immediately faced the immense change o...
Sitting there staring at each other was really boring, so Song Tantan took out a medical book for Ye Moxun to read, while she read a novel herself. There was a small table in the middle of the bed with various snacks on it. Both of them wore fingerless gloves, flipped through the book, and then reached out to grab some snacks to put in their mouths.
Song Tantan picked up the small alarm clock next to her and checked the time. "It's already twelve o'clock. Why haven't Auntie and Uncle Zhong come back yet? Those people are moving things way too slowly."
"Never mind, let's not wait any longer, let's eat first." She took out a small table from her spatial storage and placed it on the bed, then set out the food that had been prepared and stored in the supermarket.
"It's piping hot, eat quickly." There are three bowls in total. The largest bowl contains shrimp porridge, and the other two plates contain stir-fried vegetables with sliced meat and poached chicken, respectively.
Back when he lived in the Ye family mansion, Ye Moxun's meals were quite good. However, due to health reasons, his appetite was never very good. But since he met Song Tantan, for some reason, his appetite has improved a lot. Especially when he eats with Song Tantan, he can always eat an extra bowl.
Despite eating a lot, he doesn't seem to gain weight and even looks somewhat malnourished. Fortunately, he is growing taller, otherwise I would really worry that he might become a miniature boy.
Song Tantan was always very serious during meals, eating silently and intently as if she were enjoying some rare delicacy.
Looking at the food on the table, which was indeed delicious, Ye Moxun stopped thinking about anything else and joined in eating with his head down.
After finishing the meal, Song Tantan put the bowls and chopsticks away in her spatial storage, then took out a plate of cherries and two apples. After eating the cherries, each person received an apple.
Ye Moxun felt a bit full and didn't want to eat anymore, but seeing Song Tantan quickly ate half of it, he swallowed and started eating too. However, he ate very politely, chewing slowly bite by bite.
"After you finish eating, hurry up and study the medicinal cuisine. The medicinal cuisine you've been eating these past few days hasn't been very effective. Your complexion isn't rosy, and you haven't gained much weight. You need to improve this." Song Tantan threw the apple core into the trash bag in her space, patted her bulging little belly, and then touched her little face. Her face seemed to have become much rounder.
Ye Moxun had no objection to this. He had researched several medicinal diets before, and he and Song Tantan had been eating them together for the past few days. The taste was quite good, but after a few days, they got a little tired of it and it was time to change the flavor. Regardless of whether it was useful for conditioning the body or not, at least eating well every day would improve his mood.
“If you want to study medicinal diets to treat a weak body, you must be weak, maybe with a weak spleen, weak stomach, weak kidneys or something…” Song Tantan said in a childish voice, touching her chubby double chin.
"You're the one with kidney deficiency. Don't pretend to know what you don't know. I would never harm myself. I will definitely research a diet that is good for your health. But you shouldn't eat with me in the future. You have a good constitution, and eating too much medicinal food may not be a good thing." Ye Moxun was still biting his apple, not really annoyed by Song Tantan's nonsense.
"Oh, then I'll have to work hard again. I could cook for two people at once, but since I can't take medicinal food, I have to cook separately. I'm so tired." Song Tantan felt a bit cheated, like she was serving someone like a maid, without any reward and even having to pay for it herself.
"I'll give you half of my earnings later." Ye Moxun had said this more than three times, but he was still young and trapped in this mountain village, so he had no chance to earn money and could only make empty promises for now.
Then Song Tantan brought out paper and pen, "Let's write an IOU, after all, words are no proof."
Ye Moxun's mouth twitched, somewhat speechless, but he still picked up a pen and paper and began to write an IOU.
"Don't look so upset. Think about how many times I've helped you, how much food I've given you every day. Nobody else can give you these things, only me. I have everything." Song Tantan reasoned with him.
"You've given away a lot of food and clothing to others, so why am I the only one who has to pay you?" He had given her quite a bit of silver and gold before, although it was only a dozen taels in total, it was still two-thirds of his wealth.
"You eat the best food and wear the finest clothes. While others wear padded cotton-padded jackets and eat stale rice, you wear down jackets and eat fresh rice grown in my fields. You also have writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones, and a pile of books that others don't have." You should know that in ancient times, ordinary people couldn't afford to study because writing brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones were very expensive.
"It's not like I can't read without your books. I not only retained all the knowledge from my previous life, but I've also learned a lot about this dynasty. Didn't you ask me to copy the medical books into classical Chinese and then give them to others to learn? I can write classical Chinese, can you?" He does have a temper, though, because she keeps bringing up the score with him.
Song Tantan was speechless. She could read, but she really couldn't write traditional Chinese characters and couldn't understand classical Chinese. In this dynasty, she was practically illiterate.
Scratching her head, she tried to negotiate, saying, "After you translate it, I'll learn how to do it. If you teach me, I'll give you a 30% discount on this IOU?"
"Half price," Ye Moxun bargained.
"50% off it is." She had a very easygoing expression.
After carefully keeping the IOU, Song Tantan realized that it didn't really matter whether there was a discount or not. Ye Moxun had said that he would give her half of his earnings, and the IOU also stated that he would give her half. There was a big loophole in this.
Once Ye Moxun is able to earn money, she needs to keep a close eye on him. Otherwise, if he earns ten taels but tells her he only earned five, she will be at a loss.
Half a month later, the snow had already fallen several feet deep, but it showed no signs of stopping. The entire mountain was covered in white snow, and if it weren't for Song Tantan contributing some cotton quilts, many people might have frozen to death.
Having stayed home for so long, Song Zhuiyan felt like she was rusting. Unlike Song Tantan, who could still enter her spatial dimension and shop in supermarkets, Song Zhuiyan was busy feeding pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, and other animals every day, without having to suffer in the cold with everyone else outside.
As for the pigs raised outside, Song Tantan took a lot of straw from the fields of her old home in the space to line the pigsty, and she also took the pig feed from the space, so she was really busy.
Ye Moxun still came to see her every day. Even the heavy snow couldn't stop his determination to find Song Tantan. Zhong Qingyi was helpless about this and tried to persuade him many times, but he wouldn't listen.
"Tantan, your auntie is getting restless and wants to go out for a walk. Come with me." Song Zhuiyan had an idea that could solve the problem of all the things Tantan had received in the space.
"The snow could bury a person, where can we go in this weather?" Song Tantan expressed her disinterest. It was so cold, it was more comfortable to hide in her space. She had been hiding in her space most of the time lately.
“You previously captured a pack of wolves and a giant python. Now let’s throw these things into traps and let everyone come and collect the prey. This way, not only can we go out and move around, but everyone will also have meat to eat,” Song Zhuiyan said, panting.
Eating wolf meat?
Song Tantan said she didn't want to eat wolf meat, but she could have some python meat. "Okay, but we need to make some preparations."
"I'm going too." Ye Moxun was also itching to go and insisted on going along.
“Go ahead, but make sure you bring Uncle Zhong. If you get buried in the snow, I won’t have time to dig you out.” Song Tantan said, taking out a few pieces of wood to make a skateboard from his spatial storage.
With the skateboard, you won't get stuck in the snow. I just don't know if the trap has collapsed under the weight of the snow. I hope the branches that were placed on top can hold up and won't collapse.