Chapter 2: With the support of the system, Lin Xi is full of confidence
"Don't eat these. I still have some money in my hand. I'll buy you some food." Xiao Yongyan stopped Lin Xi with a distressed look on his face.
Speaking of this, Lin Xi felt strange, "Where did you get this money from?"
Xiao Yongyan was a little embarrassed and said, "I borrowed it from Aunt Wu's family in the village."
Lin Xi was quite surprised. In her memory, this village was quite hostile to exiles and would avoid them when they saw them. It was a bit contradictory that Xiao Yongyan could actually meet someone who was willing to lend him money.
As if he had seen through Lin Xi's confusion, Xiao Yongyan explained, "I promised Aunt Wu that I would return two bushels of grain to her in the fall."
"You've never farmed before, but people believe you?" Lin Xi found it unbelievable.
"Don't worry, my lady. Since I promised to give her food, I will do it no matter what." Xiao Yongyan's eyes flashed with determination, and he quickly added his explanation.
"So what are you going to do?" Lin Xi asked tentatively.
"Open a private school and collect tuition fees." Xiao Yongyan said.
Lin Xi was stunned. It seemed that Xiao Yongyan did not make a promise casually, but had his own plans in mind.
Although he had no talent for farming, he grew up under the careful guidance of the Regent and was well educated. Becoming a teacher was a pragmatic choice for him.
"Don't rush to buy food," Lin Xi planned, "Now the family doesn't even have basic necessities. I'll go find her to buy some."
Xiao Yongyan did not object, and reminded, "Everyone in the village is afraid of the exiles. I just happened to meet him on the path. I'd better wait until dark before going over."
"No, I'll go. You're a grown man, knocking on someone's door in the middle of the night is likely to be misunderstood." Lin Xi said.
Xiao Yongyan didn't say anything more. His wife was right. It was indeed a bit scary for him to come to her house so late at night.
In the middle of the night, someone knocked on the Wu family's back door.
"Who is it?" Aunt Wu woke up from her sleep. Who was knocking on the door so late at night?
"It's me, aunt. My husband came to borrow money from you during the day." Lin Xi said.
Aunt Wu quickly got up and opened the door. Seeing a weak woman outside, she pulled her in and said, "Girl, why are you here in the middle of the night?"
"Aunt, we can't pay back the money for the time being. Can you sell us some pots and pans?" Lin Xi smiled gently and looked at Aunt Wu with expectant eyes.
Aunt Wu hesitated for a moment and said, "There are some leftovers, as long as you don't mind."
Soon, Aunt Wu came over with a basket of things. "Sister, I got you a stone pot, two coarse porcelain bowls and two pairs of chopsticks. You can use them as you like, but you must not tell anyone that I gave them to you."
Aunt Wu lent Xiao Yongyan a total of forty copper coins. Lin Xi grabbed half of it and stuffed it into Aunt Wu's pocket, then turned around and happily returned home with a bunch of things in his arms.
Xiao Yongyan felt very guilty watching Lin Xi busying around, and made up his mind to find a way to make money to improve his family's life.
Early the next morning, Lin Xi found some stones to build a simple stove, put the stone pot on it, and prepared to cook some amaranth that he had picked yesterday.
Looking at the steam coming out of the pot, Lin Xi swallowed his saliva. After so many days, he could finally eat some hot food.
[Host edible plant Amaranthus edulis detected, experience value +1, current total experience value 10 points]
Lin Xi was stunned. This was actually how the experience points of this system were obtained. No wonder it was called the Shennong System.
After eating and drinking, Xiao Yongyan said he would go to the head of the village to discuss opening a school.
Lin Xi stayed at home to rest and just happened to study what other functions this system had.
Just as he was thinking about it, Lin Xi saw a gray button on the system interface with the word "Toolbox" written on it.
[Do you want to spend 1 experience point to open the toolbox function? ]
The house is empty, so of course I have to open it.
[Successfully paid 1 experience point]
【The toolbox function has been enabled. 】
After opening the toolbox page, Lin Xi saw various farm tools such as hatchets, shovels, hoes, water wheels, and stone mills.
Each type of farm tool has different levels. For example, machetes are divided into bronze, silver, gold, and diamond qualities, and their durability varies.
However, Lin Xi now only has 9 experience points, which can only be exchanged for bronze quality farm tools.
Thinking that there was not even a knife for cutting vegetables at home, Lin Xi decided to spend 5 experience points to exchange for a hatchet.
【Name: Hatchet】
[Quality: Bronze Quality]
【Durability: 30 days】
The next second, a brand new hatchet with a sharp edge appeared in Lin Xi's hand, and it looked as if it had just been polished.
According to the system, this hatchet can only be used for 30 days, but that is enough for Lin Xi. When she accumulates more experience points, she can exchange it for higher quality tools.
The water spinach picked yesterday had been eaten. Lin Xi looked toward the lush vegetation on the hill behind and decided to find something to eat there. She found a tattered backpack from the house, put it on her back, and set off.
Not long after she walked out of the house, Lin Xi discovered that everyone would immediately avoid her as soon as they saw her, as if she had some contagious disease.
Since other people don't like her, then forget it. She has the Shennong system in her hands, so why would she be afraid of starving herself?
Lin Xi kept walking forward without looking around, but the voices of people around her still reached her ears.
"Have you heard that the Wu family actually lent money to the exiled man?"
"I heard it, tut tut, she doesn't think that people have the ability to pay back the money."
"Pay back? They'll be lucky if they can survive the fall. An acre of good farmland can produce at most four dan of grain. We can only harvest eleven dan a year. It's strange they can afford it."
Lin Xi had no idea about the grain yield, so he asked the system, "Can an acre of land only produce four stones of grain at most?"
[The average yield per mu in the current area is 3.85 shi, and under ideal conditions it can produce 4 shi of grain]
[However, the system can upgrade the current varieties to increase the yield per mu]
Now Lin Xi felt relieved. With the system in hand, he was still worried about not being able to grow ten stones of grain.
Just watch, she will definitely make everyone's jaw drop.
Lin Xi walked towards the back mountain with a hatchet in hand. Although people around him were talking about it, no one dared to step forward.
Unexpectedly, halfway through the walk, Lin Xi actually met Xiao Yongyan who was coming out of the village head's house.
Seeing the hatchet, Xiao Yongyan frowned and snatched it away. He thought that Lin Xi bought the hatchet from Aunt Wu, so he didn't ask about its origin. He just said, "What if you get hurt?"
Lin Xi explained that he was going to go up the mountain to pick some wild vegetables and fruits, and then cut some bamboo to make a bed.
Xiao Yongyan was a little surprised. "You grew up in the mansion, so how can you recognize wild vegetables in the mountains?"
Lin Xi paused, thinking, oh no, she was too complacent and neglected her own personality. These were things she, a young lady who was brought up in a wealthy family, should not have understood.
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