Chapter 005
As a lesson from the past, wisteria flowers burning in the evening were placed in the house.
After eating porridge made from rice and sweet potatoes, Qingxi lay down on the bedding on the floor like everyone else. He and everyone else were covered with a very thin quilt that did not contain much cotton.
She sighed inwardly and wrote something in her little notebook: I have to earn enough money to buy thick quilts and winter clothes before winter comes.
Since she has decided to stay and live with everyone, she can't let her life get worse and worse. Qingxi turned sideways, closed her eyes, and gritted her teeth. She will just live like this for this year. If there is no stable source of income next year, she will take her family to the town to rent a storefront to run her side business - a restaurant.
I buy some raw materials here. There isn't much else in my gourmet backpack. Most of the low-level ingredients are low-level ones because of the 999 operations of the gourmet system. I add some of them in. The money I earn is more than enough to support a family of six.
Early in the morning, Airi got up and cooked a pot of rice, sweet potato and yam porridge. Unlike Qingxi, who used extravagant rice, she only used a little rice, two wild yams she dug up, and a few sweet potatoes.
Having eaten all the food from the Gourmet World, Qingxi said that it was a bit difficult for her to eat such bland food. However, she finally ate her own breakfast. She didn't ask for the leftovers in the pot. Beimingyu Xingming also said that he would share them with the four of them after he was full.
"Well, teacher, Airi, Aki, Sayo, Shota and I are going to town." After breakfast, Yota carried the wild chestnuts that Kiyoki had stepped on yesterday and went down the mountain to town with Shota.
"If you don't know how to price wild chestnuts, go and see other vegetable vendors. It's not too late to sell them at the price they set." Qingxi watched them leave and did not forget to remind them.
The backpack that Yota and the others carried away was not hers, but one that was originally in the temple, so after the two of them left, Qingxi carried her small backpack and went out as well. Airi, who was left behind, started to clean up the unwashed dishes in the house with Sayaka after she left.
While the only adult in the family is recuperating, these children have a clear division of labor.
This time when Qingxi went into the mountains, she first went to see a patch of wild yam growing there. Later, it was dug up by her gourmet mole crickets, leaving only a deep pit, which she used as a trap to catch wild animals.
When she was about ten meters away from the deep pit, she saw that the layer of leaves she had laid on the top yesterday disappeared, which meant that some prey was attracted by the bait she had laid yesterday and fell into the pit.
That's great.
When she was in the town yesterday, she asked about the current prices. 1 yen is equal to 100 sen, and a staff member's monthly salary is about 3 yen. Eggs are 6.5 sen each, pork is 6.6 sen per pound, and beef is 1.20 yen... It can be said that no matter what is caught in the trap, as long as it is meat, it should be able to sell for a good price.
Qingxi quickened his pace as he calculated the accounts in his mind.
"hiss--"
Standing on the deep pit and looking down, Qingxi couldn't help but gasp.
If she hadn't known that she had only put out a small amount of bait, about 50 grams, last night and no other ingredients to attract animals, she would have really believed that she had done something illegal.
She saw more than a dozen wild animals, large and small, falling into the deep pit. There were small rabbits and pheasants, as well as large wild boars and sika deer. She even saw a black bear in the deep pit, its body looking a bit tragic. Judging from the wounds, it seemed that it had been attacked by a group of wild boars.
Hey! Wait!
Qingxi's azure eyes widened.
How could she possibly see the wounds on the black bear's body? It was obvious that the black bear was crushed by the wild boar above and only its head was exposed.
She blinked, and blinked again, and finally, as if experimenting, her gaze fell into the deep pit again, and then she concentrated on looking inside.
Not surprisingly, she looked through the wild boar's corpse on top and saw the corpses of other wild animals underneath.
...So, Atong didn't take back her Eye of Dialysis?
As the name suggests, the Eye of Dialysis can see the innermost things through layers of barriers. It even has the ability to magnify and shrink a certain tiny creature according to the owner's wishes. In addition, when used to the extreme, it can see things within ten kilometers, and can be used as a danger warning device and telescope.
Again, when she was in the food world and her food cells had not yet been activated, she was brave enough to go to the wild to capture those ingredients with little attack power. She survived entirely by relying on the skills matched with her by the food system.
Originally, she thought that if she chose to go back, the things in her body that the system said were like gourmet cells in the gourmet world, which would be like plug-ins in another world, would fall into dormancy or disappear. However, she did not expect that it would retain the Dialysis Eye for her.
Although her body has shrunk and her physical condition cannot be compared to when she was in the Gourmet World, using the Dialysis Eye will consume a lot of mental energy, and even excessive consumption will cause headaches, mental convulsions, vomiting, etc., but this is really useful.
Her greatest survival skill had returned, and Qingxi was in a good mood. When she felt a slight headache, she quickly gave up using the Eye of Dialysis and instead released the Food Transporting Ants to go down and carry the dead beasts in the deep pit up to her one by one.
Every time a food-carrying ant brought up a food, she would put it into her food backpack.
One of the advantages of a food backpack is that time stands still and ingredients are always kept fresh.
As the beasts at the top were brought out, the ones that were crushed to death and flattened at the bottom of the pit were also brought out. Qingxi looked at the rabbit on the ground with its intestines exposed, and felt pity.
The meat had been crushed into a paste and was no longer edible. There was no choice but to throw them back into the deep pit and bury them.
It took Qingxi some time to manually cover the deep pit with soil. After doing this, she turned around and left.
With just one small attempt, she harvested so much game. She won't dig a hole and bait it again in the short term.
There are many wild fruits in the forest in autumn. In addition to the wild persimmon tree she discovered yesterday, she also found wild kiwi trees and wild orange trees in the forest today. However, she has never found a wild chestnut tree.
But it doesn’t matter. Her harvest today is already very good. People should know how to be content.
After picking and storing the fruits from the wild kiwi and wild orange trees, Qingxi filled about half a basket of chestnuts into the empty backpack, added a few wild yams, and went down the mountain carrying a dead pheasant and a crushed wild rabbit that looked not very good.
At the end of lunch, Qingxi returned to the temple. Yangta and Xiang, who had gone to the town in the morning, were already waiting there.
"Axi, you're back. We sold the chestnuts today and made 68 cents." Xiang was like a child who had found a treasure, bragging about it to Qingxi.
But immediately, he was attracted by the meat in her hands.
The boy, who hadn't eaten meat for half a year, stared at the pheasant and hare in Qingxi's hands and kept swallowing his saliva.
Qingxi cooperatively raised the chicken and rabbit in her hands and said, "We found them in the mountains. They look like they were hit by some large wild animal. This pheasant looks pretty well preserved, Yangtai. You can go to town this afternoon to sell it. As for this slightly rotten wild rabbit, take care of it. We'll eat it tonight."
When they heard that there would be rabbit meat to eat in the evening, the four children's eyes couldn't help but light up green.
Yang Tai nodded and took the pheasant from Qingxi's hand, "Okay, I got it, I will definitely sell it for a good price."
"Oh, right." Yang Tai handed her the 68 coins that he had carefully kept close to his body. "This is the money from selling chestnuts. Ah Xi, please keep it for us."
In just one day, she led everyone to eat rice and make money. To be honest, if it weren't for Qingxi's height, she would have become the leader of these children.
But now she seems to be becoming the leader among the group, so there is no need to worry about her age or height.
Qingxi gave Yangtai a look that said "boy, you are a good person" and took the money without hesitation.
However, she did not put the money away immediately. Instead, she gave each person a copper coin, even Beimingyu Xingming was not left out.
Qingxi: "You guys take that one penny for yourselves. It's your own business whether you save it or spend it on things. The rest of the money should be saved for winter to buy thick quilts and other necessities." After a pause, she added: "If we have enough money by then, I'll buy everyone a new set of clothes."
Perhaps the hope Qingxi promised them was too attractive, and the children were full of motivation.
Lunch was still just a little bit of rice, sweet potato and yam. Seeing others eating with relish, Qingxi felt more and more depressed and wanted to save money to open a restaurant in the town.
I don’t want to eat such bland soup, I don’t want to eat such bland soup, I don’t want to eat such bland soup.
Important things should be said three times!
After lunch, Yangtai and Xiang went to the town with the pheasants on their backs. She stopped them and asked a question that seemed very serious to her, "Yangtai, can Mr. Beimingyu eat meat?"
Yang Tai was stunned for a while before he responded, "The teacher is a monk and doesn't eat meat."
Speaking of this, he also remembered the pot of porridge that Qingxi cooked yesterday. She beat several eggs into it.
The two looked at each other, and then they both read the same meaning in each other's eyes.
Don’t tell the teacher/Mr. Beimingyu about this!
Qingxi: "In that case, it's best for everyone to have separate pots for eating. You guys can sell the chicken and then buy a pot. And if you see any vegetables, buy some as well."
When Yang Tai heard that the money was going to be spent before the pheasants were even sold, he looked a little unhappy and said, "Actually, we can just use one pot."
Qingxi shook his head: "Don't save money on things like this. You still have to spend it where you need it. At worst, I can go dig a few pits and make a few traps in the mountains. I'm sure there will be gains."
"I understand." Yang Tai agreed reluctantly.
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