The most arrogant in history

Ye Kun was holding a bird cage, with a small axe on his waist, and smiled at Jiang Yourong: "I'll go out for a while and find something to eat."

Jiang Yourong stood up and stammered, "It's a time of famine, where can we find food? And Dalang, your body is just fine..."

"It's okay. Just move around and you'll get better soon."

Ye Kun had already walked out the door carrying the birdcage.

This bird cage is a trap designed by Ye Kun. It allows people to enter but not exit, and is intended to be used to catch pheasants and rabbits.

He didn’t know whether the mechanism would work or not, so Ye Kun didn’t say much.

As soon as I left the village, I ran into Yao Heifu, the village ruffian.

Yao Heifu was shirtless and grinned:

"Ye Dalang, your unlucky wife didn't kill you, did she? I heard that on the wedding night, you fainted just after you climbed onto the bride. Did you faint because you couldn't find the way? Do you want me to teach you?"

Yao Heifu's parents are both deceased, and he only has a little sister at home.

He usually does nothing and makes a living by stealing.

In the past, Ye Kun was too honest and was often bullied by Yao Heifu.

"none of your business?"

Ye Kun frowned and quickened his pace.

"Hey, you've become bolder after getting married, and you dare to talk back to me?"

Yao Heifu glared and shook his fist: "If it weren't for the fact that you just had a serious illness and I felt sorry for your blindness, I would have punched you to death!"

Ye Kun pulled out a small axe from his waist and pointed it at Yao Heifu: "Come on, try it."

It was afternoon, and the axe's blade gleamed coldly in the sunlight.

Although it is a carpenter's tool, it can be used to kill people.

Seeing the murderous intent in Ye Kun's eyes and the cold light of the axe, Yao Heifu couldn't help but take a step back, turned around and walked away, cursing: "Little bastard, I won't bother with you today. I will deal with you after you recover from your illness, so that you won't accuse me of bullying you."

Ye Kun snorted and continued walking towards the mountain in front of the village.

On the way into the mountain, a thin sister-in-law came towards us.

It was the widow next door who brought Xi, who was only twenty-one or twenty-two years old this year, and had a sad face.

Dai Xi had a tragic fate. Her husband was an orphan with no relatives to rely on. After one year of marriage, they had no children. Then, they encountered famine and plague, and her husband died.

Unable to go back to her parents' home, Dai Xi lived alone in two thatched houses, and most of the time she filled her stomach with wild vegetables.

Although Dai Xi was considered pretty, no one came to propose to her.

There are frequent wars these days, too many men die, and there is a surplus of women.

A virgin can't even get married, so who would want a widow in her twenties?

Seeing Ye Kun, Dai Xi's eyes lit up and he took the initiative to greet him: "Brother Dalang, are you feeling better?"

Although Ye Kun is two years younger, Dai Xi always calls him Brother Dalang.

"It's getting better now." Ye Kun nodded and smiled: "Take Sister Xi with you, are you going to pick wild vegetables again?"

Dai Xi smiled shyly and handed over the wicker basket: "Yes, I dug some shepherd's purse and kudzu vines today. If you want to eat some, I'll give you some."

"No, sister-in-law, I have food at home..." Ye Kun quickly declined.

"Brother Dalang, you have food, but your wife has nothing. I saw her eating bran..."

Dai Xi hesitated and looked around: "Kudzu is better than bran. It can fill the stomach. Besides, if you eat too much bran, you will get hemorrhoids and you won't be able to relieve yourself. It will kill you."

"Ah, is there any need to eat bran?"

Ye Kun was startled and said with a wry smile: "I know, sister-in-law Dai Xi, wait for me to go home and let Yourong have something good to eat..."

With that, Ye Kun fled the scene.

It's a survival crisis.

This is the biggest problem left by the host, and also the severe test that Ye Kun faced after traveling through time.

We entered the mountains and came to a stream in the valley.

He put the birdcage in place, cut some small wooden stakes to secure it, and then placed a few soybeans in the cage.

They also brought water from a small stream and set up a small puddle next to the bird cage.

Dissolve the coarse salt you brought with water and sprinkle it into the small puddle.

Wild animals, like humans, need salt in their bodies.

So wild goats, regardless of the risk to their lives, lick the salty ores on the cliffs.

Children who have herded cattle and sheep know that when you urinate on the side of the road, the cattle and sheep will lick it because the urine contains trace amounts of salt.

Ye Kun is now unarmed and can only use coarse salt as bait to attract prey.

Wild animals have keen senses, and it won't be long before they are attracted to the salt water in the puddle.

After arranging everything, Ye Kun stayed away from the trap and waited patiently.

It is a summer afternoon and the sun is shining brightly.

Ye Kun waited until dusk before he went to see secretly.

What good luck!

There were no pheasants or rabbits in the birdcage, but there were two fat hedgehogs.

I lifted the birdcage and tried it. Each hedgehog weighed about two kilograms.

It can be exchanged for 20 kilograms of white rice!

Ye Kun was overjoyed and went home with the birdcage.

Starting tomorrow, I won’t have to eat wild vegetable and brown rice porridge anymore.

My wife Jiang Yourong no longer has to eat bran.

When we returned to the village, it was getting dark.

"Mom, Yourong, I'm back."

Ye Kun carried the birdcage and walked quickly into the house.

There was not even an oil lamp at home, and they used pine trees for lighting.

Although it was bright, the smoke from the Pinus tabulaeformis was eye-irritating.

"My son, why did you come back so late?"

The blind old woman groped over and complained, "You are just getting well, why are you running around? Your wife Yourong is just going to look for you."

"Yes, Dalang, where have you been? I was afraid that you might have met a wild beast, so I was just about to go look for you..."

Jiang Yourong also took it. Seeing the bird cage in Ye Kun's hand, she was surprised and delighted: "Da Lang, what's going on with this hedgehog?"

Ye Kun smiled slightly:

"I had nothing to do this afternoon, so I went to catch two hedgehogs. Yourong, you pick up one hedgehog for me to nourish my body. Leave the other one for me to sell in town tomorrow to exchange for some food."

The blind old lady was also surprised: "Hedgehog, what hedgehog?"

"Mom, Dalang caught two fat hedgehogs."

Jiang Yourong smiled widely, took the birdcage and shook it.

The two hedgehogs cooperated very well and squeaked in the cage to prove their identities.

The blind mother also took the bird cage, weighed it in her hands, listened to the hedgehog's cry, and said excitedly: "Da Lang, don't eat the hedgehog. Exchange it for rice tomorrow. With this rice, our family of three will not starve to death."

What kind of family is this? They want to eat hedgehog meat?

I should be thankful if I could have brown rice porridge every day.

Ye Kun nodded: "Okay. After we change the rice tomorrow, we won't have to worry about food. Yourong, look at how much brown rice we have at home, let's make some porridge tonight."

Jiang Yourong didn't dare to move and waited for the old woman's opinion.

Poor people in the countryside don’t eat dinner.

Jiang Yourong had just gotten married and didn’t dare to be the head of the household.

The blind old lady thought for a moment and nodded, "Da Lang is in good health, so he should eat more. Yourong, go make a bowl of porridge. I won't eat."