Ancient natural disasters: The whole family traveled through time and was almost wiped out

Chapter 55

"Wow! Self-heating rice! YYDS! It's better than any other fast food! There's nothing wrong with it except that it tastes bad! Why is it so expensive? Eh? Don't you have compressed biscuits?"

Compressed biscuits are the real life-extending artifact. Eat a small piece and you’ll be full for the whole day - except that they taste less good, there’s nothing wrong with that.

Jiang Xiubai began to search with great excitement.

【Compressed biscuits——3 pieces/200 grams】

"It's so expensive! But it can save lives at critical moments! Buy it!" Jiang Xiubai hesitated for a while between self-heating rice and compressed biscuits, and finally placed an order for the compressed biscuits and bought six pieces.

But Jiang Xiubai found out after he made the purchase that the compressed biscuits were not participating in the buy-one-get-one-free promotion, but the self-heating rice was!

I suddenly felt like I had lost a city.

But his assets are only [2.4] left.

"What can you buy with two cents? ... 15 cents for 20 jin of rice, which is equivalent to 0.75 per jin. It is enough to buy three jin of rice, which is enough for one person to eat for two or three days? - Why? System! Come out! Explain, 15 cents can buy 20 jin of rice, why does it cost two cents to buy one jin?!" Jiang Xiubai was furious.

[Host, please understand the difference between group buying and retail. ]

The system is exhausted and can't continue. Its host must be a fool.

[The mall reserves the right of final interpretation, and the host does not need to worry about the price. ]

Just pay how much you're owed!

What are you talking about?

Can you get a price reduction if you yell a few times?

Jiang Xiubai: "......"

Apart from paying the money honestly, he really had no other choice. After all, there was no customer service to bargain with, right?

If you don’t have money to buy it, why not just take a look?

Jiang Xiubai clicked on the fresh fruit and vegetable category.

[Eggs - 19 coins/30 eggs]

[Fat meat - 1 cent per pound]

[Pork belly——5 wen/jin]

【Lean meat——9 wen/jin】

[Pork ribs - 8 cents per pound]

[Beef - 120 wen/jin]

[Sea bass - 2 wen/jin]

[Sweet potato - 2 wen/3 jin]

【Garlic——5 wen/2 jin】

[Chinese cabbage - 1 cent per pound]

【…】

Jiang Xiubai browsed through all nine categories and found that prices were high and low. As for what standards the prices were based on, Jiang Xiubai didn't know and he didn't dwell on it. He only knew that by using this space, he could make a fortune as a middleman in ancient times.

As far as he knew, eggs in this era cost one cent each, fat meat cost 15 cents per pound, and pork belly cost 18 cents per pound, but lean meat was cheaper, 11 cents per pound, and the most important thing was salt.

[Salt - 2 wen/jin]

Two cents!

One pound!

You should know that ordinary official salt is the kind of yellowish and slightly bitter salt block with impurities!

It costs 120 wen per pound!

Like the iodized refined salt we eat today, there was no technology in ancient times to purify it, but salt with fewer impurities and a whiter color could be called refined salt, and it was priced at a sky-high 500 wen per pound!

"I'm rich!" Jiang Xiubai laughed loudly towards the sky.

Let me ask you, who in this world can live without salt?

Jiang Xiubai felt like he was really about to become famous!

God is indeed fair. The way for harvesters to make money is blocked, but salt roads can be opened!

The richest man in the ancient country, here I come!

"Hey hey hey-"

"Hahaha--"

"Hee hee hee--"

The system quietly watched the host go crazy, and finally killed him with a hammer -

[Selling private salt is a serious crime in the host's dynasty. 】

[In eleven days, we will enter natural disaster mode. ]

[According to the big data calculation of this system, the host's chance of getting rich before the world is stable is 0%! ]

Jiang Xiubai: dead.

Cerebral infarction.

He had a hidden flaw: he was easily carried away by success and easily forgot about the impending natural disaster!

Jiang Xiubai burst into tears with a "wow".

Why is it so difficult?

Why let him travel through time to a dynasty prone to natural disasters?

"Why are you crying in the middle of the night?"

Jiang Xiubai was howling loudly when Liu knocked on the door.

She had been listening to the rustling noises for the entire night. The unfortunate child, Xiaobai, was laughing and crying at the same time...

Creepy...

What normal child would laugh and cry in the middle of the night?

Standing outside the door, the howling sound came through the door in the darkness, which was even more creepy. For some reason, Liu wanted to go back to the house.

The home where I had lived for nearly twenty years suddenly felt strange.

Jiang Xiubai stopped howling and suddenly felt even more sad - why didn't his parents come through this time? Jiang Xiaomi must be living a freer life than him!

Hum!

Although he was sad, he still quickly got up and went to open the door. Halfway through, he hurried back to hide the toilet paper and toilet paper roll. He opened the door only after he was sure that Liu Shi would not find them unless she searched the house. "Mom? What happened again?"

"Mom is going to ask you what's wrong? Why are you crying in the middle of the night? Is the girl you like engaged?"

Otherwise, Liu really couldn't think of what Jiang Xiubai had to be sad about. His family was simple, he had good food and drink, he had a comfortable purse, and he had no pressure to study. Why was he sad? So sad that he laughed and cried in the middle of the night?

But when Liu looked into her son's eyes, she found that his eyes were not red at all, and wondered - was he crying? Or did she hear it wrong?

"What girl?" Jiang Xiubai didn't react immediately, but it didn't matter: "Mom! What's wrong with you?"

"Mom is fine, I was just worried about you! What's wrong with you? Crying and laughing at the same time? Tell me what happened, ah!" Liu looked at her son's face worriedly. Although it was still the same face, she felt that he was a little different in the past few days.

Especially the way he looked tonight, could it be that he encountered something bad outside?

Are you afraid to tell your family because they will worry?

No, no, when did her son become so considerate?

"What can happen to me? I'm reading a book! The protagonist in the book is so miserable, he has no parents and no money!"

Liu: "...Read less storybooks at night!"

"Yeah!" Jiang Xiubai was very well behaved, but why did Liu Shi not believe it?

After looking at Jiang Xiubai several times, she groped her way back to the house along the wall.

Jiang Xiubai went back to the house and closed the door. He discovered a serious problem: "System, is there no storage space in the mall? It would be difficult to explain if the things I bought were discovered!" They were all modern packaging.

[Yes, host. You can add items to your shopping cart when browsing the mall, but they will be shipped once purchased and cannot be stored in the mall.]

"How can this be! Aren't you harming me?" Jiang Xiubai was dumbfounded.

I don’t buy much now, so it’s easy to hide. But if I buy a lot in the future, where will I hide it?

Buy it now? It's not impossible, but it doesn't feel safe!

"Is there no other way? Does the mall sell that kind of space artifact?" Jiang Xiubai asked sincerely with his hands in his pockets.

system:【……】

The host's joke almost made it laugh, really.

Oh, you traveled to the ancient times, not to the world of immortals. The mall would not sell the space artifact to you even if it has it.

But he exchanged his epoch-making harvester for another one...

The system was silent for a moment, then said:

[The host can store items in my system space. ]

"Your system space?"

[The mall and my system are independent of each other, but because of the host, we have temporarily established cooperation. This system can operate the mall during its service. This system has its own system space, and the host can store the purchased goods in this system. ]

Jiang Xiubai: "...If I don't ask you, will you not tell me?"

【…】

"You are really like a piece of toothpaste, you have to squeeze it bit by bit, cooperate, my friend, win-win, brother, you are still hiding things from your own people, what great things can you accomplish!"

【Just ask if you want to save it or not? 】

[Save!] Jiang Xiubai said without any hesitation.

[OK, host, your items have been stored in this system space. Do you want to automatically store your items in this system space every time a transaction is successful? ]

"Yes!" Jiang Xiubai went to the place where he hid the things and saw that the toilet paper, toilet paper roll and six compressed biscuits were all gone. Instead, there was an icon called "Space" on the screen in front of him. He clicked it and saw that the disappeared things were all in it.

That's it!

He also has space!

I have to share this good news with Jiang Xiaomi tomorrow. With this space, as long as they stock up more supplies, they will be able to overcome the natural disaster and live a better life.

[Okay.] The system said: [There is one more thing I want to tell the host. For every transaction made by the host in the mall, the system must pay a commission of 3% of the total amount of each transaction. If the commission is less than one point, it will be counted as one point. The host has completed three transactions in total, and the total commission is 2.4 points. Now the host's [0.6] points will be deducted. In other words, the host now owes the system points. New points will be used to offset the arrears first.]

Jiang Xiubai's points changed from [2.4] to [-0.6].

It’s really interesting, the points become negative!!!

But what can Jiang Xiubai do?

He has no idea what to do!

Who made him not the one making the rules?

"Since you are different from the trading mall, please introduce yourself." Jiang Xiubai asked solemnly.

What can I do if I don’t ask? If I don’t ask, it won’t tell me!

This dog's system seems to have a trigger switch. If you don't ask, just pretend you don't know. Figure it out on your own!

[This system is a biological collection system. As long as it is alive, this system can collect everything. However, the host will only be rewarded with points if he collects creatures that have not been included in this system. ]

"It means I have one more way to make money?" Jiang Xiubai was not particularly surprised by this function of the system, but it was better to have it than not.

system:【……】

Hearing the tone, I felt offended.

What do you mean by looking down on this system?

Forget it! I won't bother with this idiot who only buys toilet paper.

The next day.

Before daybreak, Jiang Xiubai was woken up by Jiang Yida. He didn't stay in bed and jumped up to get dressed, which surprised Jiang Yida. You know, his son had a lot of problems besides being good at studying, one of which was that he had difficulty getting out of bed. He would never get up unless he was called several times.

The sun rises from the west today?

Oh my, it’s not even dawn yet, how can there be a sun?