The peasant lady of the pastoral space

Chapter 3

Li Xiang'e originally thought that the worst thing was that her spatial abilities were the same as water and wood abilities, and her level had dropped to zero.

Even if the level is zero, at least one square meter of space can be opened!

A lot of things can be placed in a space of 1 square meter, and there is always something to eat among them!
There are also zombie crystal nuclei of various levels piled up like hills in the space, which can improve the recovery ability the fastest!

I can't get it anymore!
Therefore, this fact tells Li Xiang'e that the current situation is not the worst, only worse.

The level of water and wood is too low, it is not very useful for the time being, and the space cannot be opened, which directly leads to no food. The final result is: she, Li Xiang'e, has to continue to be a drag.

Li Xiang'e curled her lips, cheering herself up secretly, she couldn't admit defeat.

She muttered: The food in the space cannot be taken out, so she will go to the mountain to find it by herself.Father Li, Uncle Zhang, Brother Zhang and the others can go hunting in the mountains, so can they themselves; if others can find wild vegetables and wild fruits to fill their stomachs, she can do the same, at least she has survived the end of the world!
Making up her mind, Li Xiang'e picked up the pottery bowl and drank the supernatural water inside.

The premise of wanting to stand up is to have a healthy body, this water has a healing effect, at least it can relieve this thin body to a large extent.

In the evening, Li Xiang'e's family finally had another full meal.

And after dawn, the days of hunger continued.

The next day, before dawn, some of the people who lived not far from the thatched hut had woken up, but they were still sitting blankly, not knowing what to do; , restless, and finally fell asleep in the early morning, and still haven't woken up yet!

Li Xiang'e learned from Li's mother that these people all came here one after another after the drought and the famine.

Originally, everyone heard that Baiyuan County had rich food reserves, so they packed up their belongings and burdens and rushed over, but they were stopped outside the city gate because they couldn't afford the 5 taels of silver per person to enter the city, and couldn't afford a bowl of 2 Wen The water, the hope of life was smashed like this...

There is no other way, some refugees changed their route and turned to other counties to survive;

Some stood at the gate of the city, still hoping that the officials in the city would change their minds and let them in, or hope that those officials and rich people would open a hut to give them porridge and help them;

Some, like Father Li and Uncle Zhang, resolutely decided to bring their families back together and moved all of them to the foot of the mountain 10 miles away in Baiyuan County. They built thatched huts and settled down temporarily. The water in the shallow pool on the mountain can quench your thirst.

Although life is difficult, at least it is not like Lijia Village where there is no grass, no water to drink, no bark to eat, at least, you can still live!

Occasionally, if you encounter valuable prey, you can spend a few or a dozen copper coins and sneak into the county to sell it and exchange it for coarse grains, although this kind of opportunity is rare...

From Li's mother's words, Li Xiang'e heard bitterness and helplessness.

Since the one-year drought, Li's father and his family have been fleeing famine for about half a year.

I don't know how many people died of starvation within a hundred miles around, and their bones were piled up into mountains.

In the past six months, they have seen so many exposed bones on the road they have traveled, which makes people shudder.

In the past six months, they have seen so many exposed bones on the road they have traveled, which makes people shudder.

However, the government has never come up with disaster relief measures. There are only two possibilities.

First, the emperor is a bastard who doesn't care about the life and death of the common people, so that the people are in dire straits.

Second, if the emperor is a wise emperor, then there are corrupt officials below him, who deceive his superiors and his inferiors, and greedy for disaster relief food to enrich himself.

Regarding the actions of those so-called officials in Baiyuan County, Li Xiang'e guessed: at least the second type can't escape.

In short, no matter what, if such a famine spreads to ordinary people like them, they can only wait for death.

In this way, a few more days passed.

These days, Li Xiang'e mainly stayed in the thatched cottage to recuperate, exercise, and cultivate supernatural powers.

After all, the hole card of ability still needs to be firmly grasped.

Because there is no crystal nucleus, Li Xiang'e can only re-cultivate step by step according to the method to increase the level of the ability. At the same time, based on her experience in the last days, she uses up the ability every time, and then concentrates on restoring the ability. .

In this way, while cultivating the ability, while consuming the ability, the ability is finally growing visibly.

Apart from cultivating supernatural powers, Li Xiang'e took the opportunity to help Li's mother from time to time and secretly mixed her own supernatural power water into the drinking water, which could at least prevent the family from getting sick and reduce the possibility of critical illness;

From time to time, I wandered around the neighborhood to stimulate the growth of wild vegetables that had just sprouted, and then took them back and mixed them with the wild vegetables picked by Li's mother, only telling Li's mother that they were lucky to pick them.

Sometimes Li Xiang'e would still walk around to understand the situation, after all, she had not fully accepted the memory of the original owner.

Of the twenty or so families at the foot of the mountain who fled famine, who are familiar and who are not, who are worthy of close friendship, and who need to be kept away, Li Xiang'e has roughly figured it out after these few days.

After all, in this turbulent environment, there are many people with wandering minds. If you accidentally run into someone with a bad mind, it will definitely make things worse!

Recalling that in ancient China, there was a situation of changing children to eat. Li Xiang'e never let her daughter Li Ling'er and younger brother Li Hao leave alone to find wild vegetables to eat.

Harmfulness is not allowed, and defensiveness is necessary!
On this day, the sky was gloomy and hot, as if it was about to rain heavily.

However, Li Xiang'e knew that this rain would not fall.

As a person with water ability, no one has a deeper feeling than her.

In fact, Baiyuan County was also affected by the drought.

Although there are streams and rivers near Baiyuan County, the weather is not beautiful and there is no rain at all, which greatly affects the crop yield in the field.

And those villagers near Baiyuan County have been guarding against people who have fled the famine, fearing that they will steal their own food, livestock and so on.

This fact has always been tacitly understood by everyone.

Mother Li looked at the weather, shook her head, turned and entered the house, and sighed.

"It hasn't rained in a year!"

Li Xiang'e looked at the mountains not far away and made up her mind, so she suggested to Li's mother.

"Mother, let you watch Ling'er and Hao'er at home today, I'll go to the mountain to see if I can find something to eat?"

Mother Li smiled.

"You child, your body is still weak. Why don't you rest for two days before going? I don't worry about you going alone."

"Mom, I've been resting for a few days, and I can't help you with anything. Even Linger and the other two children are inferior, so just let me go! I'm such an adult, nothing will happen to me. , Ah, don't worry!"

Seeing that Mother Li didn't let go, Li Xiang'e directly hugged Mother Li's arm and acted like a baby, fighting for her.

Mother Li looked at her daughter who rarely showed her child's side, smiled dotingly, and had no choice but to agree.

"Okay! You..."

Li Xiang'e finally breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Li's mother agree to come down.

After convincing Li's mother, Li Xiang'e wiped the sweat from her forehead and was about to set off when she was surrounded by Ling'er and Hao'er.

"Mother, Ling'er is going too! Ling'er is going to follow Mother."

"Sister, let Hao'er follow you, Hao'er will protect you!"

Stared at by two pairs of watery and dark eyes, and listening to the soft and coquettish behavior of the two little peas, Li Xiang'e almost surrendered.

Li Xiang'e bent down to hug Li Linger, kissed her on the forehead, touched Li Hao's head under Linger's bright and clear eyes, straightened her expression, then patiently looked at her daughter and younger brother, coaxing .

"You two have to be obedient and know, mother went up to the mountain to have a look, and she will be back soon, she might not be able to find something delicious to come back!"

"Really?"

The two little bean dices spoke in unison.

Li Xiang'e looked serious, she just raised her hand to make an oath, and nodded repeatedly.

"real!"

Probably, maybe, should be.

She has no idea herself.

Ha ha!

Li Ling'er's nimble eyeballs rolled around, and she said in a childish voice.

"Alright then, Ling'er stays at home obediently and waits for mother to come back."

Li Hao nodded in agreement while holding Ling'er, "Sister, go early and come back early."

Walking out of the house, Li Xiang'e rolled her eyes and let out a sigh of relief, suddenly feeling the aftermath of the catastrophe.

It's really not my forte to coax children!
Walking on the mountainside, Li Xiang'e checked carefully, thinking: Everyone has already visited the mountainside, the wild vegetables have been dug up, and there is basically nothing to eat. It's a waste of time on the outside of the mountain, and we still have to continue walking into the mountain.

Another quarter of an hour later, the broken basket in Li Xiang'e's hand was still empty.

It's too bad, I can't go back and spawn a few wild vegetables to deal with it!

How about that!

Li Xiang'e gritted her teeth.

At this time, Li Xiang'e suddenly heard a rustling sound.

Immediately, Li Xiang'e's eyes lit up, and there was movement.

Listening to the movement, I took a closer look, and it turned out to be a thin mountain rabbit!

Although it is thin, it still has meat.

Li Xiang'e squinted her eyes, and immediately geared up, vowing to take down this mountain rabbit.

Seeing that someone was nearby, the mountain rabbit was so startled that it flapped its short legs three or two times and got into the grass, trying to escape.

How could Li Xiang'e let the opportunity slip away, and immediately waved her hand towards the grass where the mountain rabbit had burrowed into, a green light flashed, and the rabbit was immediately tied to its legs by the suddenly elongated weeds, no matter how much it fluttered it was useless.

Taking advantage of your illness to kill you, Li Xiang'e saw that the mountain rabbit was trapped, so she rushed over and slapped the mountain rabbit unconscious.

Immediately, Li Xiang'e tied the mountain rabbit's legs tightly to prevent it from waking up and escaping, then put it in a basket and sprinkled some leaves on it as a cover.

Now she breathed a sigh of relief: finally, she won't return empty-handed.

(End of this chapter)