I have a magical tree

Xu Dao looked at the simple and bland food on the table in front of him, feeling a little helpless. There was a plate of green vegetables and three bowls of sorghum rice. The green vegetables were still cooked, with only a little bit of oil on them.

Xu Dao looked at his sister Xu Lu and his mother Liu's yellow face, and felt even more upset, "Ah mother, is there no food at home?"

Liu's face flashed a trace of embarrassment and helplessness. This was a mother who felt guilty for not being able to provide enough living security for her children.

"Dao'er, are you not full?"

Xu Dao shook his head, "If you can eat enough, you will get hungry faster!"

Xu Lu on the side also nodded. The little girl was only five years old. She might not understand other things, but she understood the meaning of the word hungry. Because she had been hungry, she understood the true weight of this word.

"During this period, the outside world was very chaotic, and the price of food rose again. The money at home..." Liu's voice gradually lowered.

Xu Dao was silent after hearing this. He knew that since his father disappeared outside the city, the family had lost its source of income.

Originally, Xu Dao's father, Xu Tianyuan, opened a small clinic at home. With his decent medical skills, he treated the people nearby and made his family live a good life.

It is called a small clinic, but it is actually an exaggeration, because it is just a small personal clinic. Xu Tianyuan supported it by collecting herbs and making medicines. You can imagine how small the scale is.

But all this changed after Xu Tianyuan disappeared.

"I will find a way to get the money. As for father, there is no specific news yet, right? At this time, no news is the best news. Don't worry! Eat first!"

The three of them started to eat. To be honest, the sorghum rice was so coarse that it was hard to swallow. But Xu Dao was actually very satisfied. Before crossing, he was actually very picky about food. He rarely ate animal oil on weekdays, let alone fatty meat. But now he can't get such things.

Only at this time will Xu Dao understand why people are so crazy about fat and oil during famine, because when the human body is extremely hungry and malnourished, the desire for such things is from the heart and instinct.

And as far as Xu Dao knows. Although their family lives in hardship, it is much better than others, at least they can eat enough every meal.

But Xu Dao also understands that just eating enough is far from enough for him now, and he is only thirteen years old. It is the time when a child grows up crazily, and the demand for nutrition is very large, and he gets hungry very quickly.

And now this kind of meal without much oil and water makes this situation worse. But this kind of thing cannot be said, because he knows that his mother has tried her best.

In every meal, he has the most rice, and his mother and sister have much less. After his father disappeared, he Xu Dao is the head of the family and the only pillar. Although this pillar has not grown up yet.

But all resources are given priority to the labor force and men in the family. This is the most basic truth summed up by all people and all families. This is to ensure the continuation and inheritance of the family.

I have to make money, Xu Dao thought to himself. With only outflows and no income, the family's money can't last long, and there is not much food stored in the family. Only half of this year has passed, how should the remaining half of the year pass? Moreover, Xu Dao's family has no land, so he can't rely on farming to be self-sufficient.

Moreover, in this world, even farmers can't support themselves, and the taxes are too heavy. Many people will find that they don't have much food left after paying taxes, and it is very difficult to support a family. If there is another disaster, it may lead to months of famine, and there will be a shortage of food.

This year, Yanghe County suffered a disaster, with severe drought for several months, and no rain fell. Many crops died in the fields. The autumn harvest will definitely be affected, but the government doesn't care so much about collecting taxes. Let alone disaster relief and support, they are already merciful enough not to increase taxes.

And what makes Xu Dao feel the most headache is. This world is not simple, and it is completely different from the world he came from before he traveled through time. There are extraordinary powers here, monks who can fly, collapse mountains and destroy cities, and there are also strange demons who eat people and peel off their hearts. These factors have exacerbated the chaos in the world and greatly weakened the credibility of the government, causing the government's control to decline to an extreme.

At this time, this situation will in turn exacerbate social unrest, and there is a feeling of war at the end of the dynasty. The people are more difficult to survive, displaced, and thieves gather.

It is really difficult to survive in such a world. Even Xu Dao felt unprecedented pressure.

After dinner, Xu Dao and his sister Xu Lu helped their mother clean up the dishes, and then came to their bedroom alone.

The layout of the bedroom is quite simple, with a bed and an extremely crude desk. On the desk, there are several volumes of books, which are all left by his father. After his father disappeared, these things belonged to him.

There are several medical books and a martial arts method called "Health Preservation Exercises".

Xu Tianyuan relied on this health-preserving exercise to practice martial arts and entered the ninth level, and this ninth level of martial arts was the foundation for his real foothold here.

Although it was only the lowest ninth level, it was a completely different world compared to ordinary people. Even those gangsters dared not provoke them easily, and medical skills were just a tool for making a living.

Xu Dao sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes, and then his consciousness came to a dark place.

This is Xu Dao's biggest secret, and he has never revealed it to even the closest people.

Xu Dao looked up and saw a huge black shadow rising into the sky. Indistinctly, he could see a huge fork, stretching between heaven and earth.

This is a huge bronze tree, whose trunk is probably too big for dozens of people to hug. His body looks very small under this bronze tree.

At this time, the base of the originally pitch-black bronze trunk has been dyed into a bright green, which looks very magical.

This bronze tree has existed since he was born, and the fluorescent part is growing every day, but the speed is very slow, especially compared to the huge body of the bronze tree, it seems to be extremely slow.

After careful research, he found that whether it is eating or taking tonics, the speed of fluorescent dyeing can be accelerated, and as the dyeing height increases, a potential change is also changing Xu Dao himself.

His strength is getting stronger and his spirit is getting better. It seems that he has endless strength every day, and after he practiced health-preserving exercises, this benefit is more prominent.