Xu Cui was humming a little tune and making breakfast in the kitchen when she heard Ruyi's call. She immediately put on a big smile and said, "Hey! Ruyi, get up! I'll make breakfast today. You're not allowed to help. After you've washed up, go sit in the main room!"
Looking at Xu Cui, whose face was rosy and who was full of energy, Ruyi's last bit of worry disappeared. She figured the side effect really was just an extremely foul odor.
"Okay~~ Then I'll be a useless person this morning and wait for Aunt Cui to feed me!"
"Pah! What a useless person! Talking nonsense first thing in the morning! Get out of my way!" As soon as she finished speaking, Xu Cui pushed Ruyi out of the kitchen with a look of disgust.
"Cluck! Cluck! Cluck cluck cluck!" In the corner, two big hens were clucking energetically at Ruyi.
Ruyi's eyes lit up, and she quickly walked to the chicken coop, reached out and touched it. Good heavens, there were two eggs!
"My little darlings~~ You're doing a great job! I'll give you an extra treat later!" After giving the eggs to Xu Cui, Ruyi walked towards the main room.
Upon entering the front yard, I found that Cheng Yan had already gotten up and was practicing boxing. It looked somewhat like the Five Animal Frolics, and the movements were quite interesting, so I couldn't help but become fascinated by it.
A moment later, a delicious aroma wafted from the kitchen. Cheng Yan had just finished his work when he noticed Ruyi's gaze: "Haha, Ruyi's up! I felt refreshed and relaxed this morning, and my back pain has lessened a bit, so I just did a set of boxing on a whim."
"Good morning, Dad." Ruyi asked curiously, "What kind of boxing style is this? It looks fun."
"The Five Animal Frolics, your mother said it was written by a very famous doctor in the past. It imitates the expressions and movements of animals. Speaking of which, I haven't practiced it for more than ten years since I had back pain, and now the movements are quite rusty!"
Cheng Ruyi knew about the Five Animal Frolics, which is very famous even in modern times. Legend has it that it was written by the legendary physician Hua Tuo and is used to improve health by imitating the movements of animals.
I didn't expect to find the Five Animal Frolics here. It's a pity that Ruyi has never learned it, and I don't know if it's the same as the one in her previous life.
After breakfast, Ruyi was forcibly dragged back to her room by Xu Cui to recover from her injuries.
Since she transmigrated here, she hasn't had much time to sort out her thoughts and feelings, so Ruyi sat on the bed and began her favorite activity from her previous life: daydreaming.
The Cheng family's house faces south, so they can feel the warmth of the sun even in winter.
The morning sunlight streamed through the window and fell warmly on the bed. Looking at the antique-style room and hearing the faint laughter of children outside, Ruyi was momentarily unsure whether she was in reality or dreaming…
Actually, if she could, she wouldn't want to time travel, even though she usually loves reading historical romance novels.
Here, she was like a ghost from another world, a rootless duckweed. She felt her soul was out of place and repelled by this world. How she wished it was all just a dream, how she wished she could return to her original world after waking up. She would never work herself to the bone again, she would never neglect her family and friends again, she would never waste her life...
When Ruyi came to her senses, she found herself in tears.
She smiled softly, wiped away her tears. She wasn't usually a sentimental person; it was all because of this wicked time travel!
"Whether it's real or a dream, since I'm already here, I might as well treat it as a holographic projection game. Actually, when I think about it, it's basically a combination of role-playing, simulation management, and farming and raising children. These are all types of games that I usually like to play. Plus, I can experience the life of ancient people. It doesn't seem so bad~" Cheng Ruyi thought optimistically.
The most important thing about this role-playing game is the word "role-playing".
After this period of time, Cheng Ruyi has digested most of the original owner's memories. In addition, through daily chats with her family, she has concluded that the original owner's personality can be summed up in one word: "reckless".
When the original owner was young, he had an overwhelming sense of justice, loved making friends and standing up for the weak. He was outgoing and lively, but impulsive and thoughtless. He would argue every two or three days and fight every ten days or so. Fortunately, the original owner did not know martial arts. His so-called fights were just pulling a few hairs and kicking a few times.
Cheng Ruyi, living in modern times, has the complete opposite personality. She is low-key and cautious, cherishes her life, plans things out, likes to take things step by step and prepare for a rainy day. She will not offend others unless they offend her, and if she encounters a problem that needs to be solved, she will go directly to the police and will never stand up for herself.
Logically speaking, given their vastly different personalities, it would be easy for them to slip up. Fortunately, as the original owner grew older and became a mother, she gradually became more mature.
Moreover, she had already come up with an explanation for this change in personality: after surviving a brush with death, she suddenly realized the preciousness of life and was worried about her family, which was a plausible explanation.
After calming herself down, Ruyi got out of bed, sat at her desk, took out paper and pen, and decided to write down her future plans, since a bad pen is worse than a good memory.
The writing system in this world is somewhat different from that in her previous life. Fortunately, the original owner had her mother teach her from a young age. Although she was a poor student, after so many years, she had at least learned all the characters, even if she didn't write them well. However, this made things much easier for her.
Although the modern Cheng Ruyi has never formally studied calligraphy, she has had the opportunity to come into contact with it a few times in her life. At most, her writing is a bit ugly, but she is not completely at a loss. She is very compatible with the original owner of the body.
First, list your current daily tasks.
The first thing to do is to check in daily through the system, because all the gift packs can only be claimed by checking in consecutively. If you forget to check in one day, all your efforts will be wasted. She is really looking forward to what kind of magical things she can get later.
The second thing is to make good use of the fasting pills. Ruyi has already figured out the reason for the odor, which should be detoxification.
The older you get, the more toxins accumulate in your body, and when they are expelled, they naturally smell worse, like Cheng Yan; the younger you are, the fewer toxins your body has, and naturally, it won't smell as bad, like Yun Le.
Moreover, after the toxins were eliminated, everyone felt noticeably more energetic and refreshed. This suggests that the Bigu Pill is indeed beneficial to the body, as it can both satisfy hunger and detoxify.
You can also add a little bit of the two hens, the vegetables in the backyard field, and the bean sprouts growing in the kitchen. Maybe it will produce unexpected results?
The third thing is to exercise. I only realized this after seeing Cheng Yan practicing his boxing technique. In this chaotic world, having a good physique is so important!
Modern Cheng Ruyi also spent a lot of money on gym memberships. Although she stopped for a while, she still remembered the basic principles of the movements after a year and a half of training, which was more than enough for her daily exercise.
Ruyi plans to persuade the whole family to exercise together. In the morning, they will run a few laps around the front and back yards, then practice basic exercises together, and then practice the Five Animal Frolics. However, little Yunle is still too young, so she can practice radio calisthenics first.
Seeing that these few dozen words had taken up several pages of paper, Ruyi felt it was a huge waste of paper. If she had a computer or a mobile phone, she could have finished it in a few easy steps.
Of course, she didn't take into account factors like miswriting, ink smudging, or writing too large that caused the wasted pages.
Ruyi put the paper she had written on aside, took out a new piece of paper, and then rested her chin on her hand while thinking.
These are the only things she can think of to do every day for now, but there are several things she wants to do after the county is unsealed.
The first thing to do is, of course, stock up on food. At the beginning, food prices may be relatively high, so you can choose to buy in a gradual manner, buying a little every day. You need to stock up on enough food to feed your family for about three to six months to be on the safe side.
Then, if I have money and time, I go to the bookstore and buy some books about the history and geography of the world.
Before her death, the original owner's deceased husband gave all the books related to the imperial examination to his close friend. The original owner assumed that only some primers were left at home, and had no idea that Yunping had left behind storybooks.
While vernacular stories can be a good reference for understanding the world, considering their accuracy, it's more reliable to read geographical records, travelogues, and historical records directly.
Ordinary people can certainly live without knowing these things, but Cheng Ruyi, who grew up with a modern education, would never allow herself to become an illiterate person who knows nothing. She still wants to know some basic common sense, because whether in modern times or ancient times, the fact that knowledge is power has never changed.
At the very least, she wanted to understand why there was constant warfare, the relative strengths of the various countries, her current geographical location, and where she should choose to flee if she were to need to escape famine in the future.
But these books might not necessarily explain it; you might still need to find a restaurant or teahouse and sit there for a few days. That's how it's always written in novels, isn't it?
Of course, the most important thing is to find a way to make money! This is absolutely the top priority after the lockdown is lifted, since the Cheng family is currently dirt poor. Buying food and books is all just empty talk without money!
Therefore, we still need to find a way to increase income, otherwise we don't know when even the simplest toilet renovation plan can be realized.
Is there any way to make money? Ruyi felt a little regretful, realizing that all those ancient romance novels she had read were a waste of time!
She only knew that soap required lard and wood ash, but nothing else; she only knew that glass was made by firing sand, but had no idea how it was fired; she did know about cement, but how could an ordinary woman like herself explain to people why she suddenly knew how to make cement? Did she have the ability to preserve this technology and make money from it?
Before we knew it, the sun had slowly risen to its zenith.
In the small room, a woman dressed as a woman sat at a desk, sometimes laughing foolishly, sometimes sighing, and sometimes grabbing her hair so hard that she almost undid her hair bun.
If anyone saw this scene, they would definitely think that the woman was sick.
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Time passed by unnoticed, and Cheng Ruyi completed every single task she had written down for the day.
The detoxifying effect of the Bigu Pill decreased day by day. After a few days, the smell of the stool was no different from usual. No one suddenly became able to fly, move mountains, or fill seas; they were all just ordinary people.
Although the whole family was puzzled by the matter, they couldn't come to any conclusion after discussing it for a long time, so the matter was left unresolved. After all, there were quite a few strange things happening in this family.
For example, in such cold weather, two hens laid eggs for several days in a row; and in the backyard vegetable garden, several tender new shoots suddenly sprouted in the cold winter.
If they weren't still wearing cotton-padded coats, the Cheng family would have thought it was already spring!
"Strange things really do happen every year, but this year there seem to be more than usual!" Cheng Yan couldn't help but exclaim.
In the Cheng family's backyard, the family members were gathered around a small vegetable patch and two hens, as if they were looking at some rare treasure.
Yunle was at the height of her curiosity, wanting to ask a million questions: "What is this? Is it a wild vegetable? Could it be a flower? I love pretty flowers!"
Yun An crouched down, swatting away Yun Le's hand that was secretly reaching out to touch a few of the new shoots, and replied, "They're still too small, you can't tell yet. Don't keep touching them; you'll see when they grow up."
"But how did it suddenly grow out of nowhere? Who planted it? Could it be a little bird? Mother, Mother, do you know who it was?"
Cheng Ruyi pretended to rub her forehead to avoid Yun Le's bright eyes, but when she turned around, she found that half of her son's small body had crawled into the chicken coop, almost turning it upside down. He was muttering about some secret manual or pills, and the two hens were so scared that they hid in the corner and trembled.
"Oh dear! Yunping, come out quickly, your clothes are all dirty!" Xu Cui rushed over immediately upon seeing this, trying to pull Cheng Yunping out while shouting, "Come out quickly! If you scare the hen, there won't be any eggs to eat tomorrow!"
Upon hearing this, everyone rushed forward to help pull Cheng Yunping out. Just kidding, two eggs a day may not sound like much, but for everyone who can only eat meat every few days, it's definitely a luxury. We can't let it all go to waste like this!
Looking at the unusually "lively" backyard, Ruyi was speechless and choked with sobs.
"Ahem, well, by the way, the bean sprouts I sprouted a few days ago are ready to be harvested today. Weren't you all curious about what they look like? Come on! Let's go to the kitchen and take a look."
After saying that, he ignored everyone's reaction, grabbed Yunping on his left and picked up Yunle with his right hand, and strode into the kitchen.
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