It doesn't matter if your souls are scattered, as long as you die.

Yun Li put the basket into her spatial storage behind the big tree and then sat down to observe the old man.

From what the old woman said, I learned that her family would not be back for several days, so I decided to wait a few days until her family returned to test whether she was a kidnapper.

The old man was having a hard time. For lunch, he ate two bowls of wild vegetable porridge, which was actually just a dozen or so grains of rice in it.

Yun Li searched every corner of her house and found only two handfuls of rice, which Yun Li measured by hand.

There was about a pound of cornmeal and about ten pounds of sweet potatoes.

There was also some sorghum flour.

As for money, there was only 83 cents in total, and not a single ticket.

We're so poor, absolutely so poor.

The next day, Yun Li returned with a tattered bamboo basket, but this time the basket contained a few potatoes.

The old man was surprised and delighted to see her. "What brings you here?"

"I'm returning Grandma's bamboo basket." Yunli took the bamboo basket off her back, reached into it with her little hand, and took out a large potato.

"Grandma, here's a potato for you."

The potatoes here are called "malingshu" (马铃薯), and they are all very small, but the older folks know that they are also called "tudou" (土豆) outside of China.

Upon suddenly seeing such a large potato, I exclaimed in surprise, "This is a potato? How come it's so big? Is it a new variety?"

Yun Li: "...I don't know, I found it."

She originally wanted to say that she got them from her uncle's house in the next village, but then she was afraid that the girl would ask about the potatoes, so she changed her story.

"Where did you find it? Let's take Grandma to see it."

Yun Li: "..."

"...It's gone, that place is gone."

The old man had no doubts whatsoever and sighed, "I wonder which passerby dropped it."

Yunli said she picked it up, and she assumed it was something someone had dropped; she never thought it could be a wild potato.

She didn't realize it was because the potato was completely clean and free of any dirt.

If it was just picked up from the ground, it will definitely have mud on it.

The old woman hugged the potatoes to her chest and asked, "Grandma, can I save these potatoes for seed?"

Yun Li nodded, "Okay!"

Upon hearing this, the old man was overjoyed. He put the potatoes away and ran to the kitchen to cook all the rice into porridge.

After putting the rice in the pot, she looked at the little guy leaning against the door and said with a smile, "You came so early, you must not have had breakfast yet. It will be cooked in a little while."

Yun Li didn't mention that she had already eaten; she would let the old lady eat it herself after it was cooked.

Twenty minutes later, the old man placed a bowl of rice porridge on the table. "Child... by the way, what's your name?"

"Ah Li".

The old man waved to her and wiped the table, "Ali, come and have some porridge."

Yun Li walked up to her, lifted her clothes, and her bulging belly was revealed.

"I ate three eggs and two chive pancakes this morning, and I'm full."

The old man paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "You're young and growing, so you should eat more. Have some of this rice porridge too."

Yun Li shook her head, "Grandma eats!"

The old man tried to persuade her, but Yun Li had already run out.

The old woman shook her head and chuckled. She didn't eat the bowl of porridge; instead, she put it in the cupboard.

After that, she went out with her bamboo basket on her back, and Yunli followed her like a little tail.

I thought she was going to dig for wild vegetables today, but it turned out she was gathering pig feed.

There were many things in the cloud-based space, but there was no pig feed, so the smuggling attempt failed.

The only way to find out where there is plenty of pig feed is to use mental power, and then lead people there.

After that, Yunli would come every day, bringing some common crops with him each time.

The old man and the young man had become very familiar with each other after spending a few days together.

That day, the old man's two sons returned. From the old man, we learned that one of them was forty-two years old and the other was thirty-six years old, and neither of them were married.

Seeing the two men's weathered appearance, Yun Li felt that they were older than they actually were.

Knowing that Yunli had been spending the last few days with her mother, the two were very grateful to her and gave her a handful of White Rabbit milk candies from the things they had brought back.

Yun Li's spiritual power could see that there was only about half a pound of White Rabbit candy in the bundle, and he grabbed at least two ounces.

"I don't want it!" she refused, then opened her small cloth bag to show the two of them.

The two of them spotted the large white rabbit inside and decided not to force it on them.

They brought back these White Rabbit candies not as snacks, but as a nutritional supplement for their elderly mother to soak and eat.

After tidying up, the old woman cooked wild vegetable porridge for her two sons. At the dinner table, the second son slurped down a mouthful of porridge and even took the time to ask Yunli a question.

"Ah Li, I know most of the people in the next village. What's your uncle's name?"

"I don't know," Yun Li replied with a blank face, sitting properly on the small stool.

The old woman and her two sons were taken aback at first, but then they realized that it was normal for her not to know, since many children don't know the names of their elders.

After the meal, the old man's two sons went to the vegetable garden with a hoe, and went into the mountains with a machete.

I just got back and started working right away without a break. I feel so busy.

Yun Li was dumbfounded. She had waited for them to finish their meal, intending to get some information out of them, but they had all left.

After washing the dishes and feeding the pigs with the water from the pot, the elderly man carried a bamboo basket on his back.

"Ah Li, let's go pick bamboo shoots today."

Yun Li shook her head. "Grandma, I'm going back soon. I'll be heading back to the city first thing tomorrow morning."

When the old woman heard that she was leaving, her eyes reddened with sadness, but she still said, "Then when you come to your uncle's house again, remember to come and see Grandma."

"By the way, come around Chinese New Year. Grandma's slaughtering a pig will give you some meat to take back with you."

She paused for a moment, then added in a low voice, "Nobody knows Grandma raises pigs, and she kills them secretly. We can't tell anyone."

Yun Li blinked, surprised that raising and slaughtering pigs had to be done secretly.

"Grandma, I understand. Don't worry, Ali won't tell anyone."

After talking with the old man for a while, Yun Li pretended to leave, but secretly went to the second son's place where he was chopping wood on the mountain.

Because everyone was cutting firewood for cooking, the mountains near the village had no shrubs at all except for some large pine trees; they had all been cut down and used as firewood.

If you want to chop firewood, you either have to go to a more distant mountain or climb a tree to cut the withered branches of a pine tree.

At this moment, the second son was sitting on the tree cutting off a dead branch.

Yun Li stopped not far away. Perhaps because her blue clothes were particularly eye-catching, the second brother in the tree noticed her as soon as she stood still.

"Ah Li, what brings you here?"

"Second Uncle, Ali has something to ask you."

Not knowing his name, Yun Li addressed him by his birth order.

Upon hearing this, the second brother laughed and said, "Then wait for me a moment, I'll come down after I cut this one."

Yun Li replied "Okay," then found a tree stump to sit on, idly picking up pebbles to play with.

It would also occasionally enter the space to collect ripe fruits and vegetables, and collect chicken, duck and goose eggs.

Seeing the goose eggs reminded me of that big white goose that somehow gained sentience.

She turned her back, took out the blood from the goose, and the blood droplets floated in the air for only three seconds before disappearing.

Knowing that it was alright and hadn't been caught and eaten, Yun Li was relieved.