The woman's self-reproachful sobs echoed in Tao Ran's head.
She was stunned for two seconds. She was afraid that the original owner of this body had really starved to death. She didn't know how she ended up here.
Tao Ran hesitated, wanting to say something comforting, but didn't know where to begin.
Just as she was hesitating, the little one came to Tao Ran with a bowl of steaming porridge, saying, "The porridge is here, sister, drink it quickly."
The woman stopped crying, forced a smile, and her wrinkles deepened. "Drink this bowl of porridge, and Ran'er will get better." She rubbed Tao Ran's head.
...My stomach was indeed hungry, it was growling, but when I got really hungry, I didn't feel it anymore.
Tao Ran glanced at the little one who was desperately swallowing and whose eyes were glued to the porridge bowl, and at the woman who was looking at her expectantly, and sighed.
It seems this is the family's lifeline; how could she possibly eat it all by herself?
"Mother..." Tao Ran greeted her somewhat awkwardly. She coughed a few times uncomfortably and propped herself up. "I can't finish this by myself. Let's each take a bite of the porridge."
"Silly Ranran..." Upon hearing this, the woman exclaimed again, hugging Taoran and bursting into tears.
Having stayed here for a long time, Tao Ran gradually adapted from his initial discomfort. His body was extremely thin, probably due to long-term malnutrition. It took Tao Ran three or four days before he could barely get up.
This is Qingtian Village. Despite its name, it doesn't have the large tracts of good farmland that its name suggests. The land is all sandy soil, and the harvest is pitifully small no matter what you plant. Not to mention, if there is a natural disaster, you will get nothing at all.
Originally, the family was not in dire straits, but a month ago, the original owner's father, Shen Dazhuang, was helping a wealthy merchant unload goods in the county town when the cart carrying several hundred kilograms overturned and he was crushed. He has no feeling in either of his legs since then and can only be kept alive by medication every day.
After running out of cash, they stopped giving the medication.
Her younger brother is only five years old. Although she is fourteen and can help the family, she had just recovered from a serious illness. It would be good enough if she didn't cause any trouble for the family. Now, she can only rely on her mother, Tao Li, to manage the family's two acres of meager land.
Sigh, Tao Ran carried a small basket on her back and walked into the mountains. Although she was not a picky eater and drank coarse porridge from Kasangzi every day, she still wanted to go into the mountains to find some mountain products to improve her family's diet.
The mountains and forests outside have been trampled flat. In places where villagers frequently come and go, there must be nothing of value left.
Tao Ran squeezed through the low thickets of thorns and headed deeper into the mountains.
The sun was getting stronger, and the power of the late summer heat was not to be underestimated. Tao Ran wiped the dense sweat from her forehead, her whole face was flushed from the sun. She picked a grass leaf the size of a palm fan and wrapped it around her head before continuing to walk in.
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.
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