The villagers told her about the man-eating insects in the deep mountains. Although she had killed countless zombies in the apocalypse, her body was too weak now, and she dared not go any further.
Fortunately, perseverance pays off, and she actually found a treasure.
It's actually a wild persimmon tree!
Tao Ran was overjoyed. She rolled up her sleeves and her petite figure laboriously climbed slowly up the persimmon tree along its veins.
Although these wild persimmons on the tree are not yet covered with frost and are still a bit green, it's not a big deal. If you pick them and cover them with straw, they will turn golden yellow in ten days or half a month. Thinking of the sweet taste of persimmons, Tao Ran quietly swallowed her saliva.
"Host, look at you, so unsophisticated. There are so many rare treasures in that spiritual spring space, and you're just drooling over a persimmon tree?" The system finally couldn't help but speak up, looking at you with a disappointed expression.
Tao Ran was numb. "Do you think it's better to put persimmons or a bag of spirit rice in my basket?"
No matter how good the space or how abundant the supplies, we can't just take them out and show them off right now. What good would they be? As she spoke, she couldn't help but become irritable.
"Tsk tsk tsk, it's not that we're starving yet, but we'll find a way when we are. Keep it up, darling, Little Quan Quan is waiting for your visit in the space~"
The system's cheeky voice echoed in Tao Ran's head. If the system had a physical form, she would definitely tear it to shreds.
In fact, the reason she was able to come to this other world and live in a different way was thanks to this system, even though she had no idea where it came from.
After she woke up that day, she was forced to bind to the farming system. The rules were simple, but it was all about bartering. If she wanted resources from other connected worlds, she had to offer up resources that the connected world was interested in as an exchange.
Although I wouldn't dare exchange for something as flashy as Spirit Rice, there are other things...
Tao Ran stroked his chin and opened the system store interface. The sales section was full of strange things; they were selling all sorts of things.
"An old hen that grew up eating space spirit rice?" Tao Ran read the product description and his eyes lit up. Not bad, not bad. Even if he took it home, he could say that he was lucky and found a pheasant.
Right now, she only has some wild persimmons, and she doesn't know if that's enough to exchange for them.
Tao Ran nervously put the entire basket of wild persimmons into the sales box.
"Beep, mountain goods detected, wild persimmons, quantity 50 jin, can be exchanged for a spirit chicken." The system's mechanical voice sounded, and with a beep, all the wild persimmons in her basket disappeared, replaced by a clucking hen.
She exchanged fifty catties of wild persimmons for a chicken... Sigh, life is tough.
However, as if realizing something, Tao Ran quickly looked around. If she were discovered, she would probably be treated as a monster. Fortunately, there was no one around.
Be careful next time you make a deal.
She carried a hen back home to raise it for eggs. Although she couldn't eat chicken meat for the time being, she could eat eggs.
Unfortunately, the items in the space could only be taken out after being exchanged. Tao Ran wandered around and came to a pile of weeds. Suddenly, the system started to sound, "A pile of 100-year-old healing grass has been detected ahead. Please accept it, host. It can be exchanged for livelihood items."
At the sudden sound, Tao Ran hurriedly looked around, but there was no healing grass. What was that? There was only a pile of weeds in front of him.
"Host, what's in front of you is the healing grass, the kind of grass with veins on its leaves that exudes spiritual energy." Tao Ran stared into thought at the pile of weeds in front of her, but she couldn't see any spiritual energy in the grass, even though it all had veins.
Although he didn't recognize it, Tao Ran still reached out and pulled up the weeds in front of him. Several of the weeds were broken. Suddenly, the system Xiao Quanquan's blood pressure rose. "Host, those are spiritual herbs. Don't damage the roots and stems, or the medicinal effect will be halved."
Tao Ran looked at the weeds in her hand and noticed that they were different. The roots of the healing grass were very long and seemed not to be easily broken. There was a faint spiritual energy at the roots. Without careful observation, it was impossible to recognize.
"I can grow them in the space and sell them later, right?"
Tao Ran was overjoyed. With these herbs, her family would have money to treat their illnesses. Her younger brother and father were still sick, and the family was on the verge of collapse.
The system didn't want to answer her. Apart from being a little silly but incredibly lucky, this host was honest. Otherwise, it wouldn't have chosen her as its host.
Tao Ran picked all the healing herbs and put them in the open space of the space. He put an old hen in his basket and went down the mountain to go home.
As soon as I arrived home, a large group of villagers gathered around, making a ruckus. Several burly men stood inside the thatched hut, seemingly arguing about something.
When Granny Li saw Tao Ran return, she shouted, "Sister Tao'er, you're finally back! You seem to be twelve years old this year, old enough to be a child bride in the Li family. Your father damaged some important goods while moving them last time, and now the Zhang family wants your family to pay two taels of silver in compensation. I've decided to send you to the Li family as a child bride. The Li family will pay the two taels of silver for you and give your family one tael of silver to treat your father's illness."
Tao Ran looked at her mother, who was hunched over and guarding the doorway. Otherwise, they would be charged two taels of silver if they went in. Her eyes narrowed. Putting aside whether her father had damaged the goods, this old woman Li wanted her to be a child bride for the Li family. Wasn't that the same as being a slave?
In the original owner's memories, the Li family had already killed a child bride, and now they were using her as collateral. How shrewd of them!
Tao Li coughed and interjected, "Ran'er, it's not like that. Your mother didn't want to send you away. It's just that they said if I don't send you away, they want the land deed to this thatched hut. It's your father's only property."
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