Sold immediately after wearing it? I took my family and fled the famine.

Just then, Jiang Xing's stomach rumbled; she was hungry.

Jiang Xiaoniu and Zhang Shi obviously heard it too. Xiaoniu reacted quickly and ran into the kitchen. He then came out with a bowl of clear brown rice porridge that reflected your image and a hard, black cornbread.

Jiang Xing calmly accepted it without any disgust or anything. After all, in the apocalypse, she had eaten even more inedible things in order to survive.

She ate the brown rice porridge and cornbread with a blank expression, and only then did her stomach feel better and she felt a little stronger.

A casual glance at Xiao Niu and Zhang Shi's faces revealed that the latter was smiling as she ate, while Xiao Niu was licking his lips with longing in his eyes. It was clear that he really wanted to eat, but he held back and let his sister finish first.

Jiang Xing felt a little embarrassed and looked outside. Jiangjia Village was located in a valley between two mountains, with a continuous forest behind the village.

It was almost autumn by then, and the shallow parts of the mountain had been dug up, leaving no wild vegetables or game. However, no one dared to go into the deep mountains because of the poisonous insects, snakes, and ants, and it was rumored that there were even large insects.

"Grandma," she said, turning around, "I'm going into the mountains first thing tomorrow morning."

Zhang was startled: "Going into the mountains? There are wild animals in those mountains. Your father had his accident in the mountains. You're just a girl..."

"Grandma," Jiang Xing interrupted her, his voice soft and steady.

"Uncle suffered a loss today, so he certainly won't let us off easily. Besides, we don't have a single grain of food left at home. Look at Xiao Niu, he's starving like a little monkey. You're getting old too. If I don't go find some food, we'll all starve to death. We've already borrowed from everyone in the village we can. Every household has a lot of people, so who has any spare grain they can lend us?"

Zhang opened her mouth, but ultimately couldn't say anything.

The calf looked up at its sister, its eyes filled with tears, but it had stopped trembling.

Jiang woke up before dawn.

It wasn't the noise that woke me up; it was the original owner's biological clock that made her get up before dawn every day to go out and work.

She climbed up from the straw mat, groped her way to the stove in the dark, where there was half a bowl of cold water. She picked it up and gulped it down in one go, her stomach clenching from the cold.

The calf was still asleep, curled up like a kitten. Grandma was dozing on the other side of the stove when she heard the noise and opened her eyes.

"Da Ya, it's not dawn yet..."

"Let's get into the mountains as soon as possible, lest the sun get too strong." Jiang Xing took out a rusty wood-chopping knife from under the stove and rubbed it on the whetstone a few times, making a very soft but frequent sound.

Zhang looked at her. The old lady had lived most of her life and still had a good eye for people. This granddaughter was like a different person after waking up yesterday. She wasn't crazy, but she had suddenly become too lucid.

But the old lady said nothing, because she knew that in this family, if her granddaughter didn't wake up, all three of them would die.

Zhang only said one sentence: "Be careful on the road."

Jiang Xing nodded, tucked the machete into his waistband, pushed open the broken wooden door, and walked towards the back mountain.

The mountain behind Jiangjia Village is not high, but the forest is very dense. In the apocalypse, Jiang Xing developed a set of skills for finding food in the ruins. Those skills were just as effective in the mountains and forests: observation, action, and judgment.

She made her way into the deep mountains without lingering at the front. It was clear that no one had ever been to the deep mountains before, so there were basically no paths to follow. Jiang Xing cautiously explored each step.

After passing through the thicket of thorns, she came to a small patch of flat grass. She squatted down to look at the ground. There were fresh rabbit droppings on the soil, dry, indicating that they had been there early this morning. Rabbits don't have a large range of activity, and if the droppings were here, the burrow must be within a radius of fifty paces.

She followed the trail, parted a clump of bushes, and saw a small hole.

There were fresh grass clippings at the entrance of the hole, so she guessed that the rabbit had just gone in not long ago.

Jiang Xing didn't reach in directly. Instead, she broke off a forked branch and inserted it into the side of the hole, gently stirring it.

There was a rustling sound coming from inside, and then a grayish-brown shadow darted out of the cave entrance.

Jiang Xing's hands moved faster than her eyes. The instant the rabbit sprang out of the hole, her right hand precisely grabbed the rabbit by the back of its neck, her thumb and forefinger wedging the sides of its cervical spine, and twisted it.

The movements were swift and clean; the rabbit died almost without any struggle.

She looked down at the rabbit in her hand. The rabbit was quite fat, probably weighing more than two pounds.

She tucked the rabbit into her waistband and continued walking inside.

The deeper you go into the forest, the denser it becomes, and sunlight filters through the gaps in the tree canopy, carpeting the ground with a layer of shattered gold.

Jiang Xing's eyes swept across the ground, then suddenly stopped. A cluster of purple flowers grew in a shady crevice in the rocks.

She squatted down to examine it. Before the apocalypse, she had studied agriculture, and botany was a required course. This was Codonopsis pilosula, wild Codonopsis pilosula, and it looked quite good.

She carefully used a machete to dig away the surrounding soil, uprooted the whole plant, shook off the soil, and put it in her bosom.

I wonder if you can exchange medicinal herbs in the shop, but I don't know how many points you can get for that.

Over the next two hours, Jiang Xing circled the forest three times. Her movements weren't random; she planned her route according to animal watering paths and plant distribution patterns.

Fortunately, her hard work paid off, and she caught two two-pound wild rabbits, a one-and-a-half-pound fat pheasant, three wild ginseng roots, a handful of termite mushrooms, and a bunch of wild vegetables.

She found a flat spot to sit down and mentally called out to the online store.

【Ding】

【检测到可售出物品：野兔x4、野鸡x1、野生党参x4、鸡枞菌x0.5斤、苋菜x2斤】

[System estimate: Large wild rabbit 200 points each, small wild rabbit 150 points each, pheasant 200 points, wild ginseng 150 points each, termite mushroom 15 points, amaranth 10 points per pound]

Are all units sold?

Jiang Xing stared at the number and quickly did the mental calculation. One pound of brown rice costs 20 points, and one thousand points can be exchanged for 50 pounds of brown rice. 50 pounds is enough for the three of them to eat for a month.

However, she did not sell everything, but only some of the items: she sold all four wild ginseng plants, sold two wild rabbits, and planned to take the two remaining rabbits and one pheasant to town to sell for money tomorrow. She ate the smaller one today, and kept the wild mushrooms and wild vegetables for herself.

[Sold complete, 1400 points earned]

Current balance: 1400 points.

She redeemed the brown rice from the newbie gift pack given by the system, spent 1,000 points to buy 50 jin of brown rice, 40 points to buy 2 jin of salt, and then spent 10 points to buy a basket. She put the salt and brown rice in the basket, covered it with some wild grass, and also chopped a bundle of firewood to cover it up.

Otherwise, if others knew that she had come down from the mountain carrying grain, she would have no way to explain it.

When Jiang Xing came down from the mountain, the sun had already climbed to its zenith and was slightly setting in the west. The scorching sunlight shone on her face. Time had passed so quickly since she came to the mountain; a whole morning had already gone by.

With two rabbits in his left hand and a pheasant in his right, five or six pounds of meat wasn't much, but in Jiangjia Village, it was enough to make others envious.

She didn't try to be high-profile; she had to pass under the big locust tree in the village on her way home.

Several women were sitting and sewing shoe soles when they saw Jiang Xing walking over. They stopped their needlework and noticed the prey in Jiang Xing's hand. They whispered among themselves.

"Oh my goodness, is that Jiang Laosan's eldest daughter?"

"Are those rabbits and pheasants she's carrying? Can this little brat even hunt rabbits?"

"It really is! Judging by its appearance, it must have come down from the mountain. That rabbit looks so fat; where did she get that skill?"

Jiang Xing walked past them without stopping, merely nodding slightly as a greeting. She had overheard their conversation, but she offered neither explanation nor boast.

Just as I reached the narrow alley in the middle of the village, I bumped into two people.

Granny Zhao and Aunt Qian were notorious gossips in the village, and also known for their greed. Each of them carried a bamboo basket with a few wild vegetables scattered inside, as if they had just returned from the fields.

Granny Zhao had sharp eyes and spotted the rabbit in Jiang Xing's hand at a glance. Her eyes lit up instantly, like a wild cat that hadn't eaten for three days.

"Oh my, Da Ya! Where did you get this rabbit?"

The two blocked their way. Jiang Xing glanced at her and said, "We'll take a taxi up the mountain."

Granny Zhao put the bamboo basket down on the ground, leaned over, and reached out to touch the rabbit, her eyes practically piercing through it: "You little rascal, you're really something! Come here, let Granny Zhao see if it's fat..."

Jiang Xing's hand darted to the side, and Granny Zhao's hand grasped at empty air.

Granny Zhao was stunned for a moment, her face fell instantly, she was a little embarrassed, but she quickly put on a smile again: "Da Ya, what are you doing? Do you think I would steal your things? You only have three people in your family, you can't eat that many rabbits, can you? There are several mouths to feed in my family, give me one, and I'll give you money."

"How much?" Jiang Xing asked.

Granny Zhao thought for a moment, then her eyes darted around and she held up one finger: "Ten coins."

Jiang Xing chuckled softly.