Li Dachui survived, becoming the luckiest person in the entire evening. This also boosted the morale of Dingshui Village, and those who initially opposed the idea of robbing the grain no longer had such thoughts.
"It's all thanks to the village chief's foresight. If he hadn't brought us here to seize the grain, we would have had to flee the famine!"
"What? It was clearly Lu Yanzheng's family who sent us. She's the sister of a scholar, so it's normal for her to know more than us, isn't it?"
"That's right, Scholar Jiang is the only scholar in all these years in our surrounding villages, and his knowledge far surpasses ours..."
The group searched Qinggang Village while discussing the matter.
Some people changed their opinion of Jiang Qinyu, while others still looked down on her, such as Wang Pozi's husband, Wang Laizi.
"I think you've all forgotten that you're men. You bunch of cowards, being led by the nose by a woman."
His words were overheard by Village Chief Li, who immediately roared, "Wang Laizi, stop spouting nonsense! If it weren't for Lu Yanzheng's family, we'd all be struggling to escape famine right now, and you wouldn't be where you are today!"
In just a short while, the people of Dingshui Village found scattered grains in many houses, ranging from five to ten kilograms, which added up to quite a lot.
Moreover, the grain that had been stolen by bandits was still mostly intact at the kitchen door. With these things, their village could at least last another month or two.
Wang Laizi was so embarrassed that he slunk away to another room.
"Liu Deshui, go with him. I'm worried about him searching the house alone." Village Chief Li made no attempt to hide his distrust of Wang Laizi.
Wang Laizi had a bad reputation in the village and rarely interacted with other people. In his youth, he was known for petty theft, but things only improved after he married Wang Pozi.
Upon hearing this, Liu Deshui immediately replied, "Alright, don't worry, village chief, with me here, he won't dare to do anything reckless!"
The year he was born was also a drought year, so his father named him Deshui (meaning "getting water"). As a result, on the day he was celebrated on his third-day birthday, it really rained heavily. This made Liu Deshui a lucky star in the village when he was a child.
Unfortunately, this drought was too severe, so his name was useless, and his reputation as a lucky star was gone.
Village Chief Li went from house to house arranging things, and soon forgot about Wang Laizi.
Jiang Qinyu was currently sneaking into a place where the map indicated the location of the food storage.
She deliberately left this place untouched, intending to leave it for the villagers, but there were only five or six hundred catties of grain inside, so she needed to put some more in.
Jiang Qinyu took out all the grain she had just found at the stable from the system, and added some odds and ends. When she saw the boxes that she had brought out of the cave piled together, her consciousness froze.
She had been too busy before and hadn't had a chance to check what was in the boxes, so she took this opportunity to take a look.
As she was thinking, the lids of all the boxes were opened, and Jiang Qinyu stood there, stunned, her heart racing.
She brought out a total of eight boxes, three of which contained silver ingots, one contained gold bars, and the other four contained the dagger she had just used to assassinate the One-Eyed King.
Four whole boxes of daggers! Where did the One-Eyed King get all this stuff?
As the box opened, Jiang Qinyu heard the system notification again: [Ding! System upgrade function detected. Do you wish to submit for activation? Important Note: This is the initial version of the system. If you choose no, the system will be unable to upgrade in the future!]
Jiang Qinyu's lips twitched. Wasn't this forcing someone to choose "yes"?
Oh well, it's not like she's never played games before. She'll just consider it a free hidden reward!
Jiang Qinyu mentally selected "yes," and immediately heard the system notification: [Congratulations, host, for activating the system upgrade function! Please work hard to unlock the supermarket area. Once all areas are unlocked, the system will be upgraded to version 1.0!]
Jiang Qinyu: "..." This is ridiculous! She's not even leveling up immediately? She's just wasting her time!
Wait a minute, this damn system only said that she triggered the upgrade system function, but it didn't say what she had to give up!
When Jiang Qinyu regained consciousness and looked at the pile of boxes, she was completely shocked.
The four large chests that were just filled with gold and silver are now completely empty!
What left her speechless was that the gems on the daggers in the other four boxes were also gone!
Jiang Qinyu understood; this was a greedy system!
So much silver! It all disappeared in the blink of an eye. Jiang Qinyu's heart was bleeding.
But regret is useless; the right thing to do is to focus on the task at hand.
After Jiang Qinyu put the grain away, she also placed more than a dozen daggers in plain sight before running out to call for help.
"Uncle Village Chief, there's a cellar in this house, where a lot of grain is stored!"
Hearing her shout, Village Chief Li immediately led his men over and peered inside. "Where is it? Where is it? Who searched this house just now? How come they didn't even find the cellar?"
"It was me and Liu Yazi who searched the place. We can't be this careless, can we?" Meng Tianze arrived with Liu Yazi, his face showing some self-reproach.
Jiang Qinyu said to Meng Tianze, "It's not Uncle Meng's fault. The entrance to this cellar is too well hidden. I found it by accident."
Who would have thought that the cellar entrance wasn't on the ground but on the wall? And behind a straw hat at that. If Jiang Qinyu hadn't had a map to guide her, she wouldn't have been able to find it either.
"Alright, alright, hurry up and bring the things up!" Village Chief Li waved his hand, thinking that as long as the grain was found, this was a minor matter.
Having missed the chance to find grain, Meng Tianze felt he couldn't miss the opportunity to help everyone again, so he immediately rushed in first, shouting, "I'll do it! I'm strong!"
He had only been inside for a short while when he immediately shouted excitedly to the outside, "Village chief, there are several thousand kilograms of grain inside!"
Jiang Qinyu chuckled to herself. Actually, there wasn't that much; it was only a little over two thousand catties. She only kept the neatly packed grain sacks in the cave, and put the rest of the bandits' hoard in this cellar.
Upon hearing that there were several thousand kilograms of grain, everyone gathered around, beaming with joy.
Based on an average of one jin of grain per person per day, their village has less than three hundred people, consuming more than two hundred jin of grain a day. The amount in this cellar is enough to feed the whole village for more than half a month.
If you're careful with your diet, you could easily eat this for a month.
This gives them more time to stay, in case it rains during that time.
Seeing their happiness, Jiang Qinyu walked towards Chen Shi, "Mother, what brings you here?"
Chen, whose smile hadn't faded since they salvaged the grain, immediately waved to her, "Eldest daughter-in-law, we really owe you a lot this time, otherwise we would have all had to flee the famine. Don't worry, I've locked Shufan and Pan'er in your room, using the lock from my and your father's room. The second son and his wife won't dare to cause any trouble."
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