Returning to the mountain village, starting with mushroom picking to get rich

Blue Star, 2016, Dragon Kingdom, Nanzhao Province.

Qingshan Village, Wuyou County, Zixu City.

Yang Lin woke up groggily in his simple self-built house.

Looking at the grayish-white, umbrella-shaped mushroom resembling a termite mushroom growing on the back of my hand, I couldn't help but be quite surprised.

"When did mushrooms start growing on people?"

"And also, didn't I fall into a valley? Where is this place?"

Yang Lin muttered to himself, constantly recalling his past experiences and contemplating his current situation.

……

To be honest, Yang Lin was originally just an ordinary person on Earth.

From 2026, living in Yunnan, China.

There's an old saying circulating about the 21st century: "The 21st century is the century of life."

Later, Yang Lin was admitted to an ordinary second-tier university and majored in biotechnology.

Unfortunately, he was not very talented and did not work hard during his school years, so his academic performance was only so-so.

After graduating from university, Yang Lin failed to get into graduate school and had to enter the workforce.

It was only after leaving school that Yang Lin gradually realized that there were very few jobs available in the biological field.

Even if such a field exists, it only requires a few highly skilled professionals.

I'm just getting started with my master's degree, and I'll barely make it into the doctoral program.

As for an undergraduate student from a second-tier university, they should go somewhere cool and stay there.

In any case, he'll never be able to get into the field of biology.

However, students majoring in biology at second-tier universities are even less competitive when they switch to other industries.

Medicine, animal husbandry, pets, planting...

In various related fields, there are more professional people. Even if a company wants to hire a college graduate, it would not want an unreliable acquaintance like Yang Lin.

After hitting walls everywhere, Yang Lin had no choice but to register a sole proprietorship in Kunming and work as a food delivery driver, delivering food for the platform while also taking civil service exams on the side.

I deliver food during the day and study and do practice problems at night.

The long hours of irregular work and rest, coupled with the high intensity of labor, left Yang Lin extremely exhausted.

One rainy day, Yang Lin was delivering food when he was involved in a car accident. He damaged his electric scooter and lost all his savings in the process.

Without the means to make a living, Yang Lin had no choice but to leave Kunming.

I returned to my rural hometown for a temporary rest and planned to look for mushrooms in the mountains during the rainy season.

I need to scrape together enough money for rent and an electric scooter so I can go back to the provincial capital and try my luck as soon as possible.

While searching for mushrooms, Yang Lin unknowingly wandered deep into the mountains and came to a canyon.

I saw a large group of wild termite mushrooms at the bottom of the valley.

Yang Lin was overjoyed.

It is important to know that termite mushrooms are delicious and cannot be artificially cultivated. Each year during the rainy season, only one or two batches will grow, making them a rare delicacy from the mountains.

Most importantly, termite mushrooms are very popular in Yunnan, command high prices, and have no trouble finding a market.

Fresh mushrooms on the market can generally sell for around 100 yuan per kilogram.

Some high-quality, attractively presented specimens can even fetch a high price of thousands of yuan per kilogram.

If the market is good, or if they are sold to other places, the price will be even higher.

The dense clusters of termite mushrooms in the valley stretch as far as the eye can see; if picked, they would weigh a considerable amount.

For a moment, Yang Lin seemed to see a brand-new electric vehicle beckoning to him.

Filled with excitement, Yang Lin quickened his pace and headed down the valley towards the location of the termite mushrooms.

Perhaps it was because the soil was soft after the heavy rain.

Just as Yang Lin jumped onto the rocky embankment in front of him, the stone under his feet suddenly loosened, causing him to slip and fall, tumbling down with him.

The man and the stone fell into the valley and landed at the bottom.

During the fall, Yang Lin was covered in injuries.

After landing, it crashed headfirst into a rock, fracturing its skull and bleeding profusely, scattering termite mushrooms all over the ground.

Deep in the mountains and forests, rarely visited by humans, one could not get help from heaven or earth.

Feeling extremely thirsty, Yang Lin gradually closed his eyes, lost consciousness, and passed away.

When Yang Lin woke up again, he found himself neither in the hospital nor at home, but in a strange, unfamiliar yet familiar room.

……

"So, I've traveled through time?"

Recalling the terrifying scene of his fall in the valley, Yang Lin touched his head with his hand and gently pressed it, as if still feeling a lingering fear.

He then let out a long sigh.

The good news is that his head doesn't hurt, and there's no sign of injury on his head.

The bad news is that he may never be able to go back.

Having read many novels on Earth, Yang Lin had already guessed his predicament.

He crossed.

They arrived in a world that was not part of Earth at all.

Yang Lin closed his eyes, and a flood of memories he had never experienced came rushing back.

These are the original owner's memories.

It's quite a coincidence.

The development of this world is remarkably similar to that of Earth.

Technology, culture, population, ecology... are all very similar to those on Earth.

The country he is currently in is called the Dragon Kingdom, and the province he is in is called Nanzhao Province.

Even the original owner's name and age were the same as Yang Lin's in his previous life.

They were all handsome young men in their early twenties.

It's as if this person is another version of himself from another world.

The difference is that Yang Lin in this life is much more miserable than he was in his previous life.

When I was two years old, my mother died.

When I was nine years old, my father had an accident at a construction site, and I was left to live with my grandfather.

Before he could finish high school, his grandfather passed away.

Yang Lin, left all alone, dropped out of school and entered society on his own.

With only a junior high school diploma, no family background, no connections, no skills, and no network, he naturally couldn't find a good job.

After enduring many years of hardship, Yang Lin went to Liang Province and worked as a general worker in a factory.

Liang Province is the most economically developed province in China.

In Nam Chao province and neighboring provinces, a large number of families rely on working in Liang province to earn their income.

It was after Liang Sheng entered the factory that Yang Lin met a woman.

A young and beautiful woman.

The woman's name was Liu Yan. She had a willow-leaf figure, pretty features, and was exceptionally beautiful.

Liu Yan's workstation is next to Yang Lin's.

At first, the self-conscious Yang Lin didn't dare to talk to a beautiful woman like Liu Yan.

However, since they were in adjacent workstations and saw each other every day, they gradually got to know each other over time.

After discovering that Liu Yan was also from Nanzhao Province, their relationship progressed rapidly.

They quickly reached the point of discussing marriage.

After leaving the factory, the two returned to Nanzhao Province to arrange their marriage.

The two agreed that Yang Lin would give the Liu family a dowry of 188,000 yuan, and Liu Yan would marry Yang Lin.

After getting married, the two moved to Liang Province together, found a better factory, and settled down to live a simple life.

As a result, Yang Lin sold his house and land and finally managed to raise 188,000 yuan as a bride price, which he then gave to Liu Yan.

Liu Yan, however, met a businessman in the provincial capital, though she didn't know where.

The boss took a liking to Liu Yan's looks and insisted on interfering.

Liu Yan was also fickle and soon regretted her previous engagement with Yang Lin, and brazenly broke off the engagement.

Originally, it was fine to break off the engagement, and although Yang Lin felt aggrieved, he wouldn't have gone so far as to contemplate suicide.

Who knew that, in order to please that boss from the provincial capital, Liu Yan would even give the dowry money given by Yang Lin to the boss for investment.

They refused to return the betrothal gifts no matter what they said.

According to Liu Yan, it wasn't a scam, and it wasn't a refusal to refund.

It's a gradual, planned retreat.

Once the boss has secured the funds, he will return every penny to Yang Lin.

Yang Lin, of course, wouldn't listen to this fallacy. He went to their house to make trouble several times, and Liu Yan and the Liu family's attitude towards him became increasingly worse and more hostile.

When they finally came to demand an explanation, the Liu family, acting like villains, accused Yang Lin first, listing his faults and gathering a group of people to attack him.

Fortunately, Yang Lin had several brothers from the village helping him, which allowed him to escape Liujiazhai.

After returning home, the original owner of Yang Lin realized that he had lost both his money and his family's wealth, and that his ancestral property had been sold off, leaving him about to become homeless.

I couldn't help but feel disheartened and utterly hopeless.

In a state of extreme disappointment and pessimism, I did something foolish.

He cut his wrists at home.

That's how Yang Lin came to be, the one who traveled through time.