In the end, Ruyi renamed the two hens, one as "Caiyu" and the other as "Sujin". Cheng Yan and Cheng Yunping also expanded their chicken coop, and the two hens became the talk of the town for a time.
It's unclear who influenced whom, but a few days later, both rabbits brought good news.
After being carefully cared for by the two sisters, both rabbits have gradually gained a lot of weight, especially the white rabbit, which eats a lot. Moreover, the gray rabbit always lets the white rabbit finish its food before eating itself. Therefore, Ruyi guessed that the white rabbit must be pregnant.
The whole family was overjoyed upon hearing the news, and they were already looking forward to eating rabbits in a month.
Especially the Yun'an and Yunle sisters, from then on they wished they could spend every single moment of the day eating and drinking with the rabbit and taking care of him!
"Mommy! Rabbit is going to have babies. It's going to be very hard for her. Can we give Rabbit a name too?" Little Cheng Yunle had long envied his older brother's chickens for having names, and he took this opportunity to ask his mother to give Rabbit a nice name as well.
Cheng Ruyi thought about it. Originally, these rabbits were all for eating, so she hadn't thought about naming them. But you even named ordinary hens, so these rabbits are at least first-level spirit beasts. She felt she should give them some face!
"Yunle is right. Hmm... these two rabbits are really fast, let's call them Chasing the Wind and Chasing the Clouds!"
Ruyi remembered that when the system introduced the Chasing Wind Rabbit, it mentioned a skill similar to being fast. Although these two are not purebred and did not inherit the skill, they must still be faster than ordinary rabbits, right?
"Wow, that's great! You have names now!" After her beloved pets received names, little Cheng Yunle pulled her older sister and happily danced around the rabbit cage.
The Cheng family's animal breeding plan proceeded very smoothly.
Unfortunately, compared to the Cheng family's animal breeding plan, the county's warehouse opening plan was far from successful.
In mid-May, the time for the second opening of the granaries, as promised by the government, arrived. However, the people of Huaishan County waited and waited, but never received any news of the government opening the granaries again.
Every day, the area in front of the county government office was surrounded by people who cried and shouted, becoming more and more agitated each day. Even when the yamen runners came out to drive them away, it was to no avail.
Cheng Ruyi's heart, which had just been at ease, was raised again. This damned magistrate is truly inhuman!
One night, Zhuifeng finally gave birth to eight baby rabbits. It was unclear whether it was due to insufficient spiritual energy or insufficient nutrition from being too thin during pregnancy. Although there were only eight, they all looked quite energetic. Ruyi could only supplement them with some more Nourishing Meridian Elixir Water, hoping that the mother rabbit and the baby rabbits would be healthy.
The two sisters were completely at a loss when faced with the newborn rabbits, and finally asked Xu Cui for help to take care of them before they felt at ease.
The day after the rabbit was born, the county government reopened the granary after much anticipation. However, this time the quantity was even smaller and the price was even higher. It would be more accurate to call it robbery than opening the granary to sell grain.
Even so, many people still tightened their belts and gritted their teeth to buy the maximum amount their families could afford, because given the corrupt nature of this government, who knew if there would be another time the granaries would be opened?
Seeing this, the Cheng family didn't try to keep a low profile. They bought the maximum amount they could, and then came back with the Wei and Zhang families and other neighbors. A dozen adults surrounded the cart they bought on the middle of the alley, escorting it all the way back. On the way back, there were many unfriendly glances, but thankfully no one dared to make a move.
If it were just the Cheng family, you might be robbed of everything by a crowd as soon as you turn a corner.
Instead of feeling relieved after returning home, the group became increasingly worried.
As if to confirm everyone's uneasy premonition, a few days later, in the middle of the night, there was a sudden burst of noise and flames, and the north of the city was on fire!
The news that came after dawn instantly put the entire city in a state of panic. It turned out that a wealthy family in the north of the city had been robbed, and the thugs had also set fire to the house. Almost half of the mansion burned down overnight. If they hadn't spent money to hire government officials to help put out the fire, it might have been burned to ashes.
Ruyi knew this family. They owned several shops in the city, including a grain shop. It was said that they were merchants who came from other places a few years ago and had not been settled in Huaishan County for long. They didn't have any powerful backers, which was probably why they were taken advantage of.
They probably realized that robbing ordinary people was hard work and didn't bring much profit, so it was more worthwhile to rob a wealthy family. Or perhaps they were at their wits' end and decided to go for something big. In any case, this time the criminals moved their target to the wealthy area in the north of the city.
This is good news, at least they are not the main target this time, but it is also bad news, the criminals have started to go crazy, no longer stealing chickens and dogs but directly killing and setting fires.
The wealthy families in the north of the city all had at least a few guards and many servants, yet they were completely powerless to resist.
Judging from the government's attitude, they clearly don't care about anything that doesn't concern them and are completely indifferent to the lives of others.
What if these thugs rob the entire north of the city? Will they then come and rob the south of the city?
Even wealthy families couldn't resist, so how could ordinary people resist?
The enemy hadn't even reached Huaishan County, yet the county town itself had descended into chaos. What was the point of sealing off the city? It was truly ironic!
Cheng Ruyi suddenly thought of a question: if this group of thugs were the same group that stole things from the south of the city last time, would her family be considered to have made enemies with them?
Will those people they sent to the authorities last time come back to retaliate against their family?
Sigh, is God even letting people live a normal life anymore...?
Even though we were all on edge, life had to go on as usual, and May flew by.
"Ding-dong! You have successfully checked in for May and are entitled to a monthly gift pack. Would you like to claim your gift pack?"
After enduring a month without claiming the monthly gift pack, Cheng Ruyi finally made it to the end of the month. Now, the system has become Ruyi's only hope, and she prays every day that this gift pack will be helpful.
Unfortunately, there is no newcomer monthly gift pack reward this month. It seems that this newcomer welfare gift pack will only be issued in the first three months of the first year. With one extra reward missing, Ruyi can only pin all her hopes on this ordinary monthly gift pack.
Whether it was the prayers that worked or the system was truly there to help her through this difficult time, the monthly gift pack was absolutely perfect for this moment.
"【Concealment Array】, a low-grade first-tier array plate (damaged), which uses the surrounding scenery to hide the target and confuse others, thus achieving the effect of concealment. Due to severe damage, it can only be effective against mortals."
Usage: Place the four array flags in the four corners of the target that needs to be concealed, and the central array eye will be activated to take effect.
Note: Once activated, the array plate and array flags cannot be moved; moving them will immediately disable the array.
Range: one to ten zhang.
Duration: Depends on the amount of spiritual energy.
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