The scorching sun beat down like fire, baking the gray earth, as if a wisp of smoke were rising from it.
Jiang Tangtang stared blankly at the old woman in front of her, whose face was sallow and who was as thin as a withered tree branch, unable to react for a moment.
How did she end up transmigrating into a book?
The old woman, unaware that the person in front of her had been replaced, continued spittle flying as she spoke: "Are you selling or not? If not, I'm leaving! The Fang family's child over there is even older than yours, and they only want half a bag of coarse grain. Your child is so tiny; giving you a bag of flour is already an exorbitant price!"
Jiang Tangtang finally came to her senses, "Not for sale!"
She must be crazy to sell a child! The original owner didn't know, but she did. This old woman Zhao didn't buy the child to send to a wealthy family to work, but to feed her sickly son.
After learning of his child's fate, the male protagonist hated her intensely and ultimately killed her with a sword to avenge his son.
Just thinking about that scene made Jiang Tangtang feel a chill on her neck, and she couldn't help but shiver.
Why is she so unlucky? Other people transmigrate into CEO romance novels or palace intrigue novels, but she's the one who transmigrated into a famine relief novel to suffer, and she's stuck with such a cold and heartless husband.
Is she still alive?
Yes! Just maintain your "drama queen" persona and make the male lead fall in love with you.
A voice suddenly popped into my head.
Jiang Tangtang was dumbfounded again, not understanding what was going on!
"Pah! If you're not going to sell, come find this old woman. You're wasting my time!" Old Zhao turned and left.
The Great Zhou suffered a snow disaster the year before last, floods last year, and a drought this year, yet the imperial court does nothing about it. Several kings are constantly fighting and waging war everywhere.
The countryside was already teeming with starving corpses, and people were resorting to cannibalism. Buying someone would be extremely easy, and she couldn't be bothered to get entangled with Jiang Tangtang.
After Granny Zhao left, Jiang Tangtang finished communicating with the system in her head and figured out the basic situation.
Knowing that her current task is to maintain the persona of a dramatic supporting female character, and eventually make the male lead fall in love with her, thus turning the tables and becoming the female lead.
Otherwise, she would only face death.
Jiang Tangtang considered it for half a minute, but in the end she couldn't bear to die, so she decided to go back and survive to continue the storyline.
She reached out and took the little boy's hand, saying, "Let's go!"
Although Lu Chenyan is only three and a half years old, he already knows things.
He knew that his mother had tricked him into coming to the mountain to pick wild fruit at noon today, but actually planned to sell it to buy food.
He pouted, looked aggrieved, and withdrew his hand, avoiding Jiang Tangtang's hand.
Jiang Tangtang, who had been living off her father's several buildings, suddenly found herself in such a miserable situation. She had no mood to coax the child and immediately withdrew her hand, saying, "If you don't want me to hold your hand, then walk by yourself."
After saying that, she turned around and started searching on the mountain.
The original owner didn't know how long it had been since she had drunk water or eaten anything. Now she felt her stomach was cramping with hunger, and her throat was so dry it felt like it was on fire.
But the mountain was very clean; not only were there no edible wild fruits, but the bark of many trees had been stripped clean.
Jiang Tangtang searched around but found nothing. She asked the system, "[Can you open the system shop? Let me buy some food and drinks first?]"
【This system does not have this function!】A cold voice rang in Jiang Tangtang's mind.
"So what can you do?" Jiang Tangtang was speechless. "You're not completely useless, are you?"
Maintaining your public image and increasing task completion rates will automatically trigger the reward system, with rewards being random.
After the system coldly finished speaking, it remained silent as if it were dead, no matter how much Jiang Tangtang called out to it.
Jiang Tangtang was furious, but she forced herself to endure her hunger and thirst as she walked toward the Lu family's resting place.
As they walked, they continued searching the mountain, hoping to find something to quench their thirst or satisfy their hunger.
Jiang Tangtang naturally found nothing on the mountain, which had been ransacked by disaster victims countless times.
She goes out by car and comes home to lounge around like Ge You, a freeloader who has never experienced hardship. But with a three-year-old child under the scorching sun, no one could bear it.
Jiang Tangtang felt a pang of pity as she watched Lu Chenyan walk slower and slower.
She inexplicably time-traveled, and it wasn't his fault. Why is she angry with a child?
"Do you want me to hold you?" Jiang Tangtang stopped, squatted down to be at eye level with the child, and said, "Think carefully before you answer. You only have one chance. If you refuse again, I won't hold you even if you beg me later!"
Lu Chenyan looked at Jiang Tangtang with his bright black eyes, and finally slowly reached out and hugged Jiang Tangtang's neck.
Jiang Tangtang felt hot tears dripping onto his neck, but he didn't make a sound.
She felt a sudden tightness in her chest.
She must have done something terrible in her past life to become a mother right after transmigrating into this one.
If she were just a bratty kid, that would be one thing, but she can be even more bratty than a bratty kid.
But she's such a sweet and adorable little girl!
This is absolutely deadly!
Jiang Tangtang cursed the heavens as she carried her child to the place where the Lu family was temporarily resting.
As someone who is physically incapable of carrying anything, the outcome of carrying a child on a mountain path is predictable.
When she arrived with the child in her arms, the Lu family had already packed their things and were ready to start afresh.
When she saw that Jiang Tangtang had actually returned with the child, a hint of doubt flashed in Luo Taohua's eyes. Wasn't that idiot planning to sell the child? Why is she back with the child again?
She was displeased and deliberately nitpicked, "Where have you been? Why did it take you so long to come back? The whole family was waiting for you, and you delayed our trip."
Jiang Tangtang glanced at her, then walked directly to the oxcart. Grabbing the ox rope, she snapped the children from both the first and second wives' families off the cart, then sat down with the children in her arms.
"Jiang, what are you doing? Are you crazy?" Luo Taohua was so angry that she looked like an old toad, puffing out her cheeks and shrilly.
"Are you blind?" Jiang Tangtang raised her chin and looked down at her condescendingly, saying, "Of course, we'll take a car!"
“This car is for children, what are you doing riding in it, an adult?” Luo Taohua said, and went to find her mother-in-law, Su, to argue for her. “Mother, you have to do something about her!”
“This car was part of my dowry, so naturally I should ride in it. If you want to ride in it too, you can have your family give you one as part of your dowry!” Jiang Tangtang said to Luo Taohua, but her big eyes were looking at Su Shi with a clear and bright gaze.
If she dares to say a single word in Luo Taohua's defense today, she'll cause a huge uproar!
This car was indeed part of the dowry from the third daughter-in-law's family. There's no reason to keep the daughter-in-law's dowry and prevent the rightful owner from using it.
Su understood this principle, but she felt extremely aggrieved. She turned around and scolded Luo Taohua, "Jiaren and the others are all so old, why are they still taking a car? They've been resting for so long, why don't they hurry up and leave? They look so lazy."
Luo Taohua stared wide-eyed in disbelief, but dared not argue with her mother-in-law. She could only hold her breath and go to greet the children.
Lu's second sister-in-law, Zhou Qiongniang, thought that Luo Taohua's words had upset Jiang Tangtang, which was why she had acted out of character and refused to let their children ride in the oxcart.
She glared at Luo Taohua resentfully, then looked at Jiang Tangtang, wanting to say a few kind words.
Jiang Tangtang turned her head and said to Lu Shiwang, the eldest brother of the Lu family who was driving the carriage, "The carriage should head south."
According to the plot of the book, the reason why the original owner sold the child and ran away with the magistrate's philandering illegitimate son was all because of a riot three days ago.
The Lu family's oxcart attracted attention and was surrounded and robbed by disaster victims. In order to protect his family, the male protagonist Lu Shiyan protected the oxcart and clashed with the disaster victims. In the end, he was seriously injured and separated from his family.
A few days later, the Lu family finally found Lu Shiyan.
However, because the Lu family found him too late, his injuries worsened. In order to treat his illness, the family sold their only cow, but there was still no improvement.
The original owner mistakenly believed that he was going to die, and was also bewitched by others. In addition, he couldn't bear the hardship of fleeing famine, so he ran away with someone.
Now that she has transmigrated, she naturally cannot let the plot continue in the original direction.
We need to find the male lead quickly to avoid the tragedy to come.
"Why are we heading south?" Madam Su jumped up suddenly. "Have you forgotten your man? Have you forgotten that we still need to find him?"
“It’s precisely because we’re looking for my husband that we’re heading south!” Jiang Tangtang felt her throat was parched and on fire, and she was extremely irritable. “Do you know why we’ve been searching for two days and still haven’t found him? It’s because we’re going in the wrong direction.”
Unable to make up her mind, Su went to look at Old Man Lu. Old Man Lu habitually picked up the pipe that was long since empty of tobacco leaves, shook it, and said, "Let's try it, just like Third Brother's wife!"
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