The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 98 Innocent Words

Wang Yongzhu never had much hope to begin with, merely asking out of curiosity. Still, hearing Xiao Tiantian’s response, she couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

However, these days, after being influenced by Old Granny Zhang and due to the constraints of living conditions, Wang Yongzhu, who used to be careless with money and never asked the price when buying things, had now learned to be frugal.

Adopting the principle of asking for the sky and paying on the spot, she blurted out, "So when can the System be opened to learn medical techniques? How many points do I still need? Xiao Tiantian, look, in this vast universe, you found me, which proves we have a fate! With such a grand fate, why be so stingy? Besides, look at me, stuck in such a backwards era with medical studies still so far off in the future, how am I to ensure my own safety?"

"Xiao Tiantian, you say you’re a legitimate system. Well, I’m bound to you, completing tasks and helping you collect data. Roughly speaking, am I not considered your employee? In my time, employees all had social and housing security. Following such an advanced system as you, shouldn’t I at least have some assurance of my life? Is this what a legitimate system does? Who are your superiors? No, that’s not what you call them. Is it Main God or Main Brain? I want to complain! I want to protest!"

The Xiao Tiantian system probably never encountered a host like this, and after a burst of static "caz ~ caz~~",

It stuttered, "Host...our system has...has never encountered such...such a complaint before. The system has already...already appealed to the upper Main Brain on behalf of the host. The Main Brain, after a strict calculation based on the era of the host’s world, has agreed to relax the mission requirements. If the host completes all the initial tasks of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation, the medical assistance function will be unlocked, and the mall will also stock various medicines! Please, host, do your best!"

Wang Yongzhu didn’t expect such a maneuver was possible, indeed, even Xiao Tiantian has someone, err, a system above her!

Still, she managed to gain some benefits; otherwise, without any assurance for her life, living in constant worry was no way to live.

In her heart, she firmly resolved to focus on completing more tasks, not only for herself but also for her family. If her eldest brother could be saved, with enough tasks done and points accumulated, she believed that she could exchange for medicine that could cure him.

Thinking thus, she calculated her points. She already had six surplus points, and as long as she could cultivate the Yellow Pine Mushrooms, she should be able to get at least 10 points. All she needed to do was to strive to complete the task of earning some private money. She figured that once the four basic tasks were completed, unlocking the medical assistance function shouldn’t be a problem.

With this, Wang Yongzhu was even more restless and couldn’t sleep, wishing she could go to the woodshed right then to check on the Yellow Pine Mushrooms pinned with her hopes.

But thinking it over, it was dark and she couldn’t see clearly in the woodshed, so she decided to wait until the next morning.

Finally having something to look forward to, Wang Yongzhu went to sleep contentedly.

In the room of the eldest branch of the family,

Jindou and Jinhu, the two brothers, lay on the kang, exhausted but unable to sleep.

"Eldest brother, do you think father will be alright?" Jinhu asked with great unease.

They had seen enough of what happened to fatherless children in the village.

Although their household had their fourth uncle and grandfather, and the two brothers were old enough to take care of things, they knew that if their father couldn’t be saved, the burden of the eldest family branch would likely fall on them.

Staring at the dark ceiling, Jindou had no confidence but still tried to comfort his brother: "Don’t think too much; father will definitely be fine!"

It was as much to reassure Jinhu as it was to reassure himself.

Jindou, after all, was older and could understand subtle clues better.

Ever since he entered the room and conveyed the message that grandfather had sent him back with, he sensed something was off about their grandmother’s demeanor.

He wasn’t one to be unprepared. Reflecting on it now, the town doctor had said that if their father could survive the night, he would only have a fifty percent chance of living on to the next day.

The medicine that the doctor prescribed contained some ingredients he had never even heard of, including ginseng whiskers, which he had heard about. The sickly mother of the Song Family supposedly needed to take medicine containing ginseng all year round, very expensive indeed.

Otherwise, with Song Chongjin’s hunting skills, providing for his family would have been more than enough, but now they still live in a thatched shed, so poor it clinks, not even able to afford a wife.

Before he left, he saw his grandfather paying for the medicine. One five-tael silver ingot was gone just like that.

What Jindou is most concerned about now is whether, if his father’s injury could be treated, his grandmother would continue to shell out silver.

And this worry, he couldn’t tell anyone, especially not Jinhu. In case he couldn’t hold it in and started making a fuss about it, it would be bad if he offended his grandmother.

In the third room, Jinshao was still young, completely oblivious to what was actually happening.

Jinhua secretly asked Lady Jiang, "Mother, will Uncle die?"

"Tsk tsk tsk! Children say the darndest things, let the wind blow them away! What nonsense are you spouting? If your grandmother hears you, she’ll whip you with a switch!" Lady Jiang, frightened, quickly covered Jinhua’s mouth.

"Mother—"

"You child, how can you say such things carelessly? We don’t know the exact condition of your uncle right now, but he has been taken to the town. Maybe the doctor there could save him! Stop thinking nonsense and go to sleep! Do you hear me?" Lady Jiang rarely took such a forceful stance, pushing Jinhua onto the Kang bed and commanding without room for doubt.

Jinhua didn’t dare say anything more, and Jinpan was even less daring, quietly going to sleep.

Lady Jiang tossed and turned on the Kang bed, unable to sleep. Just how bad was her older brother’s injury? What would become of the Wang Family in the future, and where would she and her three children go...

The Wang Family members hardly had a good night’s sleep, and everyone got up earlier than usual the next morning.

Old Granny Zhang asked Lady Jiang to cook more pancakes to take to the town for the heads of the family who hadn’t come back all night.

Bringing homemade food was cheaper, more economical, and beneficial; otherwise, feeding so many people in town would cost who knows how much.

How could Old Granny Zhang be willing to spend that much?

Wang Yongzhu saw that there were only pancakes and thought that taking care of a sick person was both worrying and exhausting. If the food was poor, they might not hold up.

She suggested to Old Granny Zhang to take out some pickles from the jar, cut a piece of cured meat the size of a finger, fry it, and pack it in a clean little porcelain jar to eat with the pancakes later.

Old Granny Zhang, with Old Wang not at home and the fate of her eldest son unknown, momentarily lost her pillar of strength. Seeing her eldest daughter stand up in a critical moment, when even the head of the family was flustered yesterday, her daughter stepped up and arranged everything perfectly.

In the past, everything depended on the head of the family. Now, with him not at home and seeing her eldest daughter could handle things, she felt less panicked about the current situation. She agreed to everything Wang Yongzhu suggested.

Wang Yongzhu was a bit surprised. In the past, even though Old Granny Zhang would eventually agree to her requests, she’d grumble a bit, and it would still take some effort on her part to coax with flattery and endearment.

Why was she agreeing so readily today?

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