Hearing this voice, Lin Qixia's hand trembled with fear.
"Could it be... a ghost?" she asked in a trembling voice.
She realized that it was getting quite dark, and she was all alone. Apart from the chirping of insects and birds, there was no other sound.
A cold wind blew by, creating a gloomy and eerily silent atmosphere.
After looking around, Lin Qixia became even more frightened. She gripped the hoe tightly, mustered her courage, and walked towards the direction from which the sound came.
After rounding a thicket, I saw the source of the eerie sound—a man lying on the ground, covered in wounds.
Lin Qixia breathed a sigh of relief: "It's actually a person, nothing else."
She frowned and squatted down next to the man, observing him for a long time.
This was a boy of about fourteen or fifteen years old, not much older than the original owner of this body, and quite handsome. Even with the scars on his face, it was clear that he originally had a beautiful and refined appearance.
The boy also had many wounds, large and small, on his body, looking very miserable. He probably exhausted his remaining strength by shouting just now and had already fainted.
The injury is so severe, there's probably no hope for him.
[Host, what are your thoughts?]
At that moment, the system's voice rang in her mind.
"What do you think?" Lin Qixia replied, "I think the jade pendant he's wearing is quite nice."
system:【……】
"I'm serious, can you check how much this jade pendant is worth?" Lin Qixia said, taking the jade pendant off the half-dead boy's body.
The system crashed for a few seconds, then replied: "The jade pendant itself isn't valuable; its owner is."
Lin Qixia: "?! Are you kidding me?"
Don't think she's unaware of this tactic; picking up a strange man will only bring her more trouble.
She's not that stupid; she won't fall for it!
"If you don't want the jade pendant, then forget it. I think that piece of agarwood is enough," Lin Qixia said, turning around and leaving.
However, the moment she lifted her foot to leave, the man at her feet grabbed her skirt.
Lin Qixia frowned and turned her head, just as the boy looked up at her, and their eyes met.
Those dark, obsidian-like eyes stared at her intently and deeply: "I can... help you."
"Help me with what?" Lin Qixia raised an eyebrow in confusion.
The boy glanced at the hoe in her hand, then his eyes turned to the tree she had chopped down in the distance.
At this rate, she won't be able to cut through the trees even by nightfall, and it will be even harder to get down the mountain after dark.
Lin Qixia scoffed at this: "Help me cut down trees? You?"
This seemingly fragile young man is quite the braggart.
"Help me... to get there," the boy said.
Seeing this, Lin Qixia agreed and helped him up, walking towards the sandalwood tree.
He struggled to raise his hand and place it on the tree trunk.
Then he slumped his shoulders and suddenly exerted force with his arm.
Snap! Boom—
With a single, muffled thud, the tree fell.
The boy was instantly exhausted and leaned entirely on Lin Qixia.
Ouch!
Lin Qixia staggered for a moment before realizing that the boy was actually quite heavy.
Just as she was struggling to decide what to do with this person, the boy raised his head with difficulty and slowly leaned close to her ear.
The other person's warm breath tickled her ear, and at the same time, a husky yet clear voice whispered in her ear: "I helped you, now... help me..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Qixia felt a weight on her shoulders.
The boy rested his head on her shoulder without any hesitation.
Lin Qixia: "..."
She's good at moral blackmail!
"Hey!" Lin Qixia shook the other person, but the boy did not respond. Only then did Lin Qixia realize that he had fainted again.
"Well, I do owe you something anyway, so I'll just help you out while I'm at it."
As she spoke, Lin Qixia simply placed the boy beside the fallen sandalwood tree, touched his face and found that his skin was burning hot, probably because his wound was infected and he had a fever.
She took out the anti-inflammatory medicine she had left over from the system storage space and fed it to him along with water.
After feeding him, I placed the meat bun that I had previously saved for my little niece next to him.
"After selling the agarwood with the system, I'll buy something else for my little niece," Lin Qixia muttered, then turned to trade the agarwood.
[One piece of agarwood, worth 500 gold coins, transaction successful!]
[Balance: 527 Gold Coins!]
Lin Qixia looked at the numbers on her account balance and smiled.
She's rich! She's rich! She'll have new clothes without patches, all kinds of delicious chicken, duck, fish, meat, rice, flour, oil, and grains!
"Goodbye forever, boy, I'm going home!" she said to the boy, then got up and walked down the mountain.
As for the boy, I already helped him by giving him such precious modern medicine and leaving him food.
On her way back, Lin Qixia kept thinking about how to spend and allocate the little money she had earned!
Without realizing it, the speed had increased significantly.
However, by the time we reached the foot of the mountain, it was already dark.
"Damn it! You little bitch, you finally came out! I've been waiting all day, so it wasn't a disappointment..."
Suddenly a group of people jumped out of the ditch beside the road and blocked the entrance to Xiahe Village.
Lin Qixia stopped in her tracks and looked at Zhao Shao, who looked somewhat familiar: "Hey, it's only been a short time, why are you so sluggish?"
At least last time they dared to come at her alone, but this time they brought so many people to deal with her, and they all brought long swords and other weapons. Lin Qixia looked at the burly men around Zhao Shao and sneered.
"What did you say?" Zhao Shao didn't understand Lin Qixia's words, but she was still angry.
He quickly came to his senses and grinned maliciously at Lin Qixia: "Hehehe, I was careless last time and got hurt by you. This time, I'm all prepared to ambush you, you little bitch. You should be scared now, right?"
As he spoke, Zhao Shao waved his hand, and the men he brought surrounded Lin Qixia.
"Afraid?" Lin Qixia scoffed. "I'd be more afraid of dogs than you!"
"You...are you afraid of dogs but not me?" Zhao Shao was confused by her words.
It wasn't until his henchman next to him reminded him, "Boss, she said you're worse than a dog!"
"You!" Zhao Shao finally realized what was happening and angrily pointed at Lin Qixia.
Lin Qixia raised an eyebrow: "What?"
As she spoke, she took a step forward.
Zhao Shao instinctively stepped back, clearly still intimidated by her earlier beating. He then waved to the burly men beside him, "Get her! Teach this ungrateful little bitch a lesson!"
"Hehe...Come on!"
Those people agreed and began to plot against Lin Qixia.
Seeing this, Lin Qixia took out her small hoe from her basket and pointed it at them: "A bunch of trash! Don't think I'm afraid of you!"
She gripped the hoe tightly, feeling a little apprehensive, after all, she was all alone.
But Lin Qixia had lived in the modern world for so many years, what kind of desperate situation hadn't she encountered? She was determined to fight these people to the death!
At that moment, a system voice sounded in her mind: [This function can increase the host's strength tenfold. Purchase?]
"How much?" Lin Qixia asked.
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