Martial Arts: Start by Obtaining the Wild World

Chapter 2 0002 Stone Ring, Family Situation

Looking at the bloody stone ring, Cheng Zongyang frowned.

"What's going on? Snakes don't seem to have the habit of swallowing rocks, and they're still this big."

Looking at the stone ring, it is not rough at all, but rather quite exquisite. It does not look like it was carved by human hands, but rather like it was carved by a machine in the previous life, and there are ancient carvings all over it.

He is a time traveler. The original owner fell into the water and died at the age of six. He took over the body of the original owner and has been in this world for nine years.

After understanding the overall situation of this country and the world, he never thought of using the knowledge and ideas from his previous life to change anything, let alone making a lot of money.

When a person has no strength, no reason, and no big background, and wants to change his own difficult-to-change class and challenge the rules of the people in power in this world from an ordinary, uneducated farmer, he is really seeking death.

Not to mention, he was originally a social animal. Although he had watched many videos of the Transmigrator Alliance on a certain audio platform and read many novels, how could he really know so much if he really operated it himself? Even if he did, he had to wait until he had the ability to do it.

So, in the past nine years, he has been just changing himself, making himself stronger, and ensuring the integrity of this family.

It is good enough to make your family live well within your means.

In fact, the development of this family was indeed in his plan.

At least, the people's livelihood was difficult due to the drought in the past two years, with no harvest, one meal and one meal hungry, and even digging weeds and peeling tree bark did not happen in this family.

He could even ensure that there was rice and noodles at home, and occasionally meat and soup.

Of course, they have to stay at home and eat. They should be low-key and hide their shortcomings. The two children should stay at home if possible.

During famine years, there were countless cases of children being stolen in exchange for food.

Pulling his mind back to his senses, Cheng Zongyang looked at the stone ring in his hand, seemed to have thought of something, washed the stone ring in the water, and put it in his arms.

"Big pot, what is that?" The little girl tilted her head curiously and asked puzzledly: "Is it edible?"

Cheng Zongyang was speechless and said, "No. You are such a greedy girl, it's not like you don't have anything to eat."

"Hmph, Big Pot, you're the one who said that. Eat your fill and grow tall." The little girl was unhappy. She pouted and turned her head away without looking at her brother.

Cheng Zongyang was touched by the girl and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll give you some candy tonight."

"Really?" The little girl turned back immediately, eyes full of surprise.

"Has Big Brother ever lied to you?" Cheng Zongyang asked back without stopping the work in his hands.

"Hehe, a big pot is the best!" The little girl smiled.

“I want one too…!” The second brother’s voice also came from the kitchen.

Cheng Zongyang was very upset: "You have very long ears."

"hey-hey…"

Soon, Cheng Zongyang dealt with the pheasant and the skinny and oily rat snake in his hands.

The former is steamed and eaten with soy sauce later. The latter is stewed in soup.

Oil is hard to come by these days, and if you want to make something delicious you have to waste oil.

There is not much oil and water in the mountain products.

After two years of drought, the family’s savings were running low, so he had to save.

Besides, his mother would never agree to spend so much oil to fry snake meat.

If you want to absorb the fat in meat well, soup is one of the best ways. In the past life, many people with high blood lipids drank soup, which was one of the reasons. Most of these people were from the south.

As night fell, oil lamps were lit in the main room.

"It's late today, let's eat." Cheng Zhou also reminded at the right time.

After a while, in the main room, the family of five, who had all washed their hands, sat at the dining table.

There was a rich variety of food on the table.

A plate of steaming pheasant meat.

A plate of snake meat that was scooped out and eaten alone with soy sauce. A bowl of snake soup that was scooped out and still had a little bit of oil floating on it.

A plate of slightly yellowed green vegetables.

Finally, there was a large bowl of rice mixed with sorghum rice and old rice.

Cheng Zhou, who felt bad about preparing so much food tonight, began to serve the food to her family, using a method that involved more labor and fewer children.

Although she felt distressed, her eldest son often ate like this, so there was no point in saying anything, so she stopped talking.

As Cheng Guanghai started to eat, the others also started to eat.

Cheng Zongyang put two cut chicken legs in the bowls of his second brother and the little girl.

From the moment the two little guys sat on the chairs, their eyes were almost glued to the two chicken legs.

Although there is not much pheasant meat, it is at least delicious.

"Just spoil them. They have nothing to do every day, so why do they eat so much?" Mother Cheng rolled her eyes at her eldest son.

Cheng Zongyang smiled, without stopping, and took some wings with meaty parts for his father and mother, saying:

"They are at the stage of growing up, so there is no need to feel bad about it. There is meat in the mountains, and we can go back into the mountains to hunt more after we have eaten them."

Cheng Guanghai shook his head:
"What's the situation now? Even if you have archery skills that are almost perfect, what's the use if you don't have prey?

It is very difficult to buy food in the county today, and the price has also increased. A pound of old rice costs fifty cents! White rice is even more expensive!

But you can’t buy it like this!
So, I can only borrow 30 kilograms of old rice and 50 kilograms of sorghum flour from your second uncle's family and see if I can pay it back next month. Your second uncle's family is not easy either.

Also, your second uncle also said that there is a meat shortage in the county now, which means that there are fewer and fewer things in the mountains.

Now, even wheat bran is being bought by people. This time, when I went to Li Dashan in the county with him, I bought 50 kilograms of wheat bran... Alas! "

Cheng Zongyang was silent for a while before he said, "So, I plan to go into the inner mountain to take a look tomorrow."

As soon as these words came out, Cheng Guanghai frowned, and Cheng's mother suddenly looked at her son, put down her chopsticks and said quickly:

"No, no. The inner mountain is too dangerous. Even for a warrior to go in, it would be very dangerous.

I heard from the village chief's daughter-in-law that there was a ninth-rank warrior constable in the county who went into the inner mountains to hunt down a fugitive, but he never came back. You can't go in!"

Cheng Guanghai remained silent.

Cheng Zongyang said slowly:

"Mom, I don't know how long this drought will last. The fields have no harvest, and almost everything in the mountains has been hunted away. I'm afraid some have fled into the inner mountains.

There are too many monks and too little porridge, something must change.

You are the one keeping the money. You know we don't have much money anymore, so we need it mainly for emergencies. Also, in seven days it will be the middle of the year.

Tax silver in the middle of the year, tax grain at the end of the year. But at the beginning of the year we finally used ten taels of silver to offset one military service quota, and this year this is another one and a half taels of silver expenditure. This year's harvest is not much, so there should not be much savings, right?"

Hearing this, Cheng Zhou was silent for a while, then nodded and said:
"Except for what you said, my savings have basically been used to buy food, leaving me with two taels, three qian of silver and eighteen wen."

Cheng Zongyang continued:

"Mother, today Dad borrowed a lot of grain from my second uncle's family. Even though they are my own family, I still have to pay them back. How much will be left of these two taels of silver?

Dad just said that the county is also beginning to be short of food and meat. If we kill a big one, we can sell it for a better price. As long as we have money, we can buy more food. As long as we have food, we don’t have to worry about going hungry. ”

"Father, please say something!"

Seeing that she couldn't persuade her eldest son, who had been independent-minded since childhood, Cheng Zhou looked at her husband and pushed him.

Cheng Guanghai suddenly said:

"Yang'er is right. There will always be a time when all the money is gone. He has to pay back his second uncle's money next month. But if you want to go into the mountains, I will go too. This way I can take care of him."

Now, Cheng Zhou became even more worried.

Why are they still together?
(End of this chapter)