Yes, since it doesn't cost a lot of money and I can make adobe bricks myself, and I can build a house in no time by doing a little work every day. Now I still live in a leaky place, and it's so cold in winter that I can't fall asleep. The frostbite on my children's hands has not healed completely yet. Separating the family... seems like a good idea.

Niu Xiaoni's words made Niu Laosan once again think about splitting up the family business.

But Niu Xiaoni knew that this was far from enough.

After a few days, it was time to get busy. The rice had been getting thinner and thinner. Before, she could drink a bowl of thick porridge, but now it was just soup and water, with hardly any rice grains to be seen. In order to save food, the old lady took out less and less every day.

They were hungry but had no energy to do farm work. Although the eldest and second uncles went to the fields with them, they always found ways to be lazy. The third uncle worked for a whole morning and did the work of two of them for a whole day.

After drinking porridge with almost no rice for a few days, Niu Laosan had no energy to go to Uncle Niu Dan's house to help.

So he brought up the topic at the dinner table, "Mom, I don't want to go to help out at the Niu Dan family next door. We are already too busy with the farm work at home. We need to plant the seeds quickly in the next few days. If we delay, they will not grow well."

The old lady knew that the food was thinner recently, but how could she let the money fly away? "Go when it's not busy. You can't do heavy work. Do some light work. You can earn two cents a day. You don't have to work hard for them."

The old lady knew her other two sons very well. If she let the third son just earn the two cents and left all the work in the fields to the eldest and second sons, the whole family would probably starve to death this year.

But I can't give up on this job since I finally have it. It would be best to kill two birds with one stone. Anyway, I just need to collect the money.

Ni'er saw everything, and although she felt distressed, she absolutely could not do anything for the sake of her future happiness. It would be best to let her father recognize the old lady's true face as soon as possible. Only when he gave up on the old lady could the family be divided.

Thinking that Niu Li was too hungry to have any strength every day, Ni'er decided to go to the mountain to see if she could find something to eat.

Recently, not only are people suffering from famine, but animals are also facing a shortage of food. After a winter, they have almost consumed all their food. People who go up the mountain often say that they can hear the howling of wolves.

Nier wanted to try her luck. She didn’t die last time, which meant God was still kind to her.

Although the elders didn't let me go out, I could sneak out without being discovered. If I starved to death on the way, my grandmother might be very happy. I just said goodbye to my mother and left.

Before her rebirth, Niu Xiaoni was a good at digging wild vegetables. Every time she went out with her sisters and brothers, she dug the most, and she could always find wild vegetable and mushroom nests.

When I got to the mountain, I walked forward based on my intuition and saw a lot of mushrooms that I had never seen before. I didn’t know if they were edible.

[Ding~ I found a total of 2.3 jin of wild bamboo fungus]

[The system mall is open, do you want to sell it? ]

Ni'er listened to the voice in her head, and a huge screen that only she could see appeared in front of her. The sell button changed color. Ni'er couldn't understand what was written on it, but she just felt curious and clicked it. As a result, the bamboo fungus in front of her disappeared.

[Successfully sold, you received 390 coins, would you like to withdraw it? ]

When Ni'er heard this, she took a long time to react and then jumped up happily.

But he quickly suppressed his emotions, looked around, and saw no one, so he felt relieved, "If I don't take it out, will the money disappear?"

[Will not disappear, the system can always keep it for you for free]

There is such a good thing, it's really pie in the sky.

Ni'er, who has never learned arithmetic, naturally doesn't know how much a pound of bamboo fungus costs, but this question is not very important now. The most important thing now is to make money.

Relying on her talent for digging wild vegetables, Nier found some gray grass, mugwort and dandelion.

He converted all of these into money and watched the amount in the system increase, smiling so much that his eyes narrowed into slits.

But Nier couldn't understand these amounts, so she could only ask, "How much money do I have now?"

[Gray vegetable 1 jin 4 liang, you get 12 coins]

[Three pounds and five ounces of mugwort, you get sixty-three coins]

[Two pounds and one ounce of dandelion, you get 24 coins]

[Adding the 390 wen just now, the total is 489 wen]

Although she didn't know exactly how much money it was, Ni'er knew that it was the most money she had ever seen in her previous life.

This matter must not be known to anyone else, not even my father and mother. As long as my father knows, it is as if my grandmother knows, and I will be forced to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables every day.

If grandma knew, it would be the same as if the whole village knew. Others would be jealous and might even think of her as a monster. Goudan's mother once said that monsters should be burned to death. Thinking of this, Ni'er shuddered all over.

I made up my mind not to tell anyone this secret, I don't want to die again.

I exchanged all my belongings for money, but still couldn't find anything to eat.

But since things can be sold, things should also be bought. In Nier's impression, there would always be peddlers carrying things to sell in the village. Some young girls and wives would buy things with money, and some would sell their embroidered insoles or some handmade small items to the peddlers in exchange for money.

After opening the system interface, Nier looked at the pictures above and carefully selected something that was common and filling, would not be easily discovered when she took it back, and could be eaten directly.

When I saw a bean flour cake, I stretched out my hand but it stopped in mid-air. This was not good. If my grandma accused me of stealing her things, she would hang me up and beat me.

I saw another familiar thing, but I didn’t find it when I went to the mountain today - water chestnut.

If I take some of this back, even if I get caught, grandma won't say anything, and I can give it to my brother, so this is it.

I bought one pound in the mall and spent two hundred and thirty coins.

Nier felt that this thing was very expensive, but there was no other better food, so she gritted her teeth and bought it. She picked wild vegetables for most of the day, but the money she earned was not enough.

No matter what, I’ll go back to find my brother.

When I got home, I saw Niu Li lying on the kang. Kids of his age were running around outside, but Niu Li looked pale and had no energy to play, so he could only lie down.

Her mother was embroidering insoles nearby. Ni'er was struggling over whether to give one to her mother. She was afraid that her mother would see her and leave one for her father, which would ruin her plan. She shouldn't be too soft-hearted.

He woke up Niu Li and said he wanted to take Niu Li out to play.

When they got to a deserted place, Ni'er took out all the water chestnuts, and Niu Li drooled at the sight.

"Promise me one thing first, and I'll give it to you."

Niu Li nodded without thinking.

Ni'er knew that Niu Li would definitely do what he promised to others, so she gave him food with confidence.

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