Look, this man is about to use a cheat!
After Lu Chen ate the Great Strength Pill and gained strength, he began to ponder how to resolve his current predicament.
Currently, the Great Zhou he was in had suffered years of drought, with a thousand li of scorched earth, and even grass roots and tree bark were almost gnawed clean.
He pondered how to get some food.
Just then, he suddenly heard a prompt.
“Unknown treasure 42 meters to the northeast!”
Lu Chen was startled.
What he thought of first was not the unknown treasure, but the system's function.
He never expected that this system actually had the ability to find treasure!
It was too heaven-defying!
He estimated that 40 meters to the northeast was behind his neighbor Zhao Tiedan's family's house.
Lu Chen gave Xie Qiao some instructions and then went out.
Upon arriving behind Zhao Tiedan's house, the prompt sounded again.
“Unknown treasure one meter directly ahead!”
Lu Chen saw that one meter ahead was just an ordinary flat ground, no different from the surrounding land.
“It must be buried underground.”
It was still early, so Lu Chen was not in a hurry. After marking the treasure spot, he turned and went home.
It wasn't until dark that Lu Chen, carrying the family's broken hoe, quietly went out.
Arriving at the treasure spot, Lu Chen immediately began to dig.
His family didn't even have a shovel, so he could only use a hoe.
Although digging with a hoe was inconvenient, he had great strength.
In less than two incense sticks' time, he dug out a pottery jar.
Lu Chen picked up the pottery jar, wanting to leave, but suddenly heard a commotion coming from Zhao Tiedan's family's house.
“You damn money-losing wretch, your old mother provided you with food and clothes, and this little slut repays your old mother like this? I’ll let you steal! I’ll beat you to death, you worthless trash…”
Along with the curses, there were also screams.
“Mother, please don’t hit me! I haven’t eaten anything for three days, if I don’t eat, I’ll starve to death…”
“It’s better if you starve to death! You money-losing wretch, why don’t you just die now! I’ll let you steal! I’ll see if you still dare to steal! How dare you steal your old mother’s Steamed bread, this Steamed bread is your brother’s ration, you damn little bitch, how dare you…”
“Mother, stop hitting me, stop hitting me, I won’t dare again, I won’t dare to steal food again…”
“You say you won’t dare, and you won’t dare? You say you won’t steal, and you won’t steal? I might as well beat you to death, you money-losing wretch, and get it over with…”
Lu Chen couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly, picked up the hoe, held the jar, and quietly walked towards his home.
Just as he reached the gate, he almost bumped into someone head-on.
Upon seeing, it was Xie Qiao.
In the moonlight, Xie Qiao saw the pottery jar in Lu Chen's arms and hurriedly asked, “Husband, where did you go? What is that in your arms?”
Lu Chen whispered, “Let’s talk about it when we get back.”
The two returned to the house, and Lu Chen asked, “Why didn’t you stay in the house, what did you go out for?”
Xie Qiao sighed, “Alas, Da Ya is truly too pitiful.”
Presumably, she had just heard the commotion from Zhao Tiedan's family's house and went out.
“In this world, who isn’t pitiful?”
Lu Chen didn’t say it aloud, but thought to himself, “You don’t know, your real husband starved to death this morning!”
The original Lu Chen was the tenth person to starve to death in Lu Family Village this year.
If it weren't for Lu Chen from later generations transmigrating, then the next one to starve to death would have been Xie Qiao.
Despite this, she still had the mind to sympathize with others?
With this effort, she should think about how she herself would survive.
There was no light in the room, so Xie Qiao did not see the expression on Lu Chen's face.
She said, “Husband, no matter what, Da Ya also grew up with you since childhood, don’t you care about her at all? Don’t you feel any sympathy?”
After Xie Qiao came to Lu Chen's family's house, Lu Chen had mentioned Da Ya many times to her.
Whenever Da Ya was beaten and scolded by her father and stepmother, Lu Chen would be filled with righteous indignation, wishing he could take a knife and chop up that pair of dog-like husband and wife.
Although Xie Qiao was not old, she could also tell that Lu Chen definitely had feelings for Da Ya.
If it weren't for her intervening, perhaps it would have been Da Ya who entered this household in the future.
She just didn't understand why Lu Chen was so indifferent when Da Ya was beaten today.
Lu Chen also felt that his change was a bit too great, so he said, “Given our current situation, even if we wanted to help, we couldn’t. Wife, don’t think about these useless things. It’s late, you should go to sleep.”
Xie Qiao was still young, so although they were nominally husband and wife, they had not consummated their marriage.
Xie Qiao had no choice but to return to her own room.
It wasn't until she lay down on the bed that Xie Qiao realized she seemed to have forgotten something just now.
Lu Chen returned to his room, closed the door, and then groped in the dark to open the mud seal on the pottery jar.
He reached in and felt around, and his heart immediately sank by half.
“And they call it an unknown treasure! I thought it was gold and silver jewels, but after all that effort, it’s just half a jar of worthless copper coins!”
With a thought, the pottery jar was placed into the space.
At the same time, he also entered the space.
This afternoon, he had already taken the time to enter the space once.
Because it was daytime, he was afraid of being discovered, so he did not stay in the space for too long, only taking a quick glance before leaving.
At this moment, he finally had time to carefully examine this space.
Lu Chen, who had read countless stories about portable spaces, found that his space was indeed unremarkable.
A few acres of cultivated land, a few fruit trees, and a pool of spatial spring water.
Plus a two-story building covering a considerable area.
This was just the central area of the space.
Looking as far as the eye could see, the space seemed boundless, with plains and mountains, and as far as his eyes could reach, there seemed to be a river.
Since he had plenty of time at night, Lu Chen walked into the two-story building to see what was inside.
Upon entering, there was a large hall.
Inside the hall, there were tables and chairs, and on the walls, there were books and paintings.
The room on the left side of the hall was empty, and in the corner was the pottery jar he had just put in.
The room on the right side of the hall was also empty.
The other rooms on the first floor were all the same.
“These rooms all seem to be warehouses.”
Lu Chen went to the second floor, only to find a bedroom nearly a hundred square meters in size.
The furnishings in the bedroom were antique and elegant, with bright windows and clean tables, making it pleasing to the eye.
On the bed, there were soft and tidy quilts.
The bedroom had an independent bathroom.
There was also a kitchen next to it.
The other rooms on the second floor were also empty.
It seemed that apart from the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen, all the other rooms were storage rooms.
“When I have nothing to do, cooking a meal and sleeping here would be a wonderful thing.”
Thinking about his own home, which was leaky everywhere, with straw on the bed and broken quilts full of large holes, Lu Chen didn't even want to go out.
But he still had to return to reality in the end.
Lu Chen suppressed the urge to sleep in the space and decisively left the space.
As soon as he exited the space, he heard the system prompt.
“Found 3500 copper coins in the space, do you want to exchange them for system currency?”
Lu Chen was slightly startled, then immediately said, “Exchange!”
In reality, these three and a half strings of copper coins couldn't buy much grain.
He knew with his toes that in this famine year, grain prices would definitely be ridiculously high.
However, the arms dealer system sold grain at a fair price.
It was naturally more cost-effective to purchase from the system.
“Successfully exchanged 3500 copper coins! System currency balance is 3500!”
Lu Chen smiled, “That’s fair, not a rip-off.”