Starting from a thatched cottage, the farmer embarked on the road to wealth through imperial examina

Ye Xiaozheng and his wife looked at the dishes on the table with shock on their faces, and they both looked at their daughter at the same time.

When they were at the old house, the eldest and second daughters often followed Aunt Chun in helping with kitchen chores. Although they had never seen their daughters cook, they naturally thought the dishes on the table were made by their daughters when they saw them.

Because the daughters-in-law had no talent in cooking, the Ye family had always kept a cook named Aunt Chun, and another maid named Ping'er, who was responsible for serving the old couple.

After Lian married into the Ye family, she usually took care of her husband. Even her daughter learned needlework from the eldest girl.

The old man attached great importance to his two grandsons who were talented in studying, so the two sons were always studying and hardly ever had to do any household chores.

"My brother did it, and Wulang and I helped."

The couple couldn't believe what their daughter said and looked shocked.

"Dad, Mom, it's true. I picked the vegetables, my sister started the fire, and my brother cooked the rice and dishes."

After hearing what their youngest son said, the couple looked at Ye Changyan in disbelief.

"Let's all sit down and eat."

Ye Changyan was relatively calm and asked everyone to start eating.

"This is the vinegar-fried radish, sour and crispy, this is the stir-fried cabbage, fresh and tender, fresh and fragrant, and there is also a white radish soup, which promotes digestion, nourishes yin and moistens the lungs."

As Ye Changyan introduced the dishes, he picked up his bowls and chopsticks. The family then listened and also picked up their bowls and chopsticks, picking up the dishes on the plates. As soon as everyone tasted the food, their eyes lit up.

"good to eat!"

Wu Lang exclaimed in praise and reached out to pick up some food from another plate.

"Really delicious!"

Wu Lang kept praising while chewing the food in his mouth.

"Although it's just radish and vegetables, it's much more delicious than what Aunt Chun makes!"

Erniu also praised repeatedly.

The couple tasted the food in their mouths, fell silent, and looked at their eldest son in disbelief.

Seeing his parents looking at him, Ye Changyan could only say something helplessly.

"Just because I don't do it doesn't mean I can't!"

This simple sentence shocked the whole family and left everyone with endless imagination.

Compared with the various cooking methods, cooking tools and complex seasonings in the previous life, cooking in this world is really too simple. Even for a cook like Aunt Chun who is specially hired by the Ye family, most of the ingredients are just boiled in water and then simply seasoned with some oil and salt.

Ye Changyan was very satisfied that he could bring out the original deliciousness of these primitive and pure vegetables in the yard without the aid of high-tech seasonings from his previous life.

However, given the current situation at home, Ye Changyan still needs to think carefully about how to resolve the situation. After all, he has just come to this world. He wants to take advantage of these days to go out and take a walk and observe carefully. He believes that he should be able to come up with a solution soon.

These days, Ye Changyan goes out early and comes back late every day.

Although he has the memories of his original self, he has been studying for the past ten years. Although he is not a nerd, his life trajectory is still somewhat out of touch with the real society. So Ye Changyan has been observing and understanding carefully these days. This is a completely new world for him.

Ye Changyan walked through the fields and gained a general understanding of the local landform features, climatic conditions and other basic geographical conditions.

Ye Changyan then walked into Qingshan Town and Wanshou County, and gained a general understanding of the current social development stage, economic development level, people's income and price situation.

These days he made a surprising discovery: there was soap in the grocery store. Although salt was a controlled item, it was not expensive. White sugar was also white and delicate, and there was a wide variety of glass products. Ye Changyan even found that cement was used on the official road to the county town and some buildings in the county town.

This made him suspect that there were predecessors who had traveled through time and space to this world before him, which surprised him a little.

What surprised Ye Changyan even more was that he was sure that there was absolutely no Dasheng Dynasty in the history he had learned, but he saw sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and other crops originating from outside the region in this world. Although he was puzzled, he was very happy about the abundance of crops in this world. At least the food was quite abundant.

In the past, I only read in books that others, after traveling through time, made great success by making soap and glass, and discovered sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes. It seems that it is not possible for me to replicate these successful experiences, so I have to think of other ways.

Just then Ye Changyan remembered the smart watch on his wrist. He had been busy moving these two days and had completely forgotten about this matter.

Ye Changyan slid his finger across the screen and found that it said "Please enter password". There was also a password prompt on the side, so Ye Changyan clicked it.

The password prompt on the screen actually asked "Bai Suzhen's cultivation level?"

Ye Changyan somehow entered "1700", and a jaw-dropping thing happened. A sentence "Password verification successful, binding host identity" appeared on the screen. After a few seconds, "Host identity binding successful" appeared on the screen.

At the same time, the screen suddenly popped open, and Ye Changyan saw a piece of paper inside. The paper was originally the size of a fingernail, but after it was taken out, it magically became the size of a book.

Ye Changyan suppressed his surprise and unfolded the paper. He saw that it was covered with densely written words. Ye Changyan read it carefully.

"A letter to the new host..."

It turns out that this smart watch is not simple. In addition to basic functions such as time, weather and disaster warning, there is a compressed space under the screen, and this smart watch is actually a sixth sense enhancer.

The enhancer will increase its intimacy with the host as its favorability towards the host increases. The amount of intimacy determines multiple dimensions such as the enhancer's sensitivity and accuracy, and also affects the use of many basic functions.

Ye Changyan studied it for a while but still couldn't figure out how to increase favorability, and he had no idea about intimacy.

He clicked on the weather icon, which showed that the current weather was cloudy and the temperature was 23 degrees Celsius. Ye Changyan clicked on the weather forecast, but was prompted "The current intimacy is insufficient and this function is not supported yet."

Ye Changyan clicked on the compressed space on the screen again, and the screen prompted again "The current intimacy is insufficient, and this function is not supported yet."

After some research, Ye Changyan discovered that except for time and real-time weather, other functions could not be used due to insufficient intimacy.

It seems that we need to first figure out how to increase favorability, and then study the specific relationship between favorability and intimacy.

When Ye Xiaozheng, the third son of the Ye family, was 19 years old, he married Lian, a farmer's girl from the neighboring county, under the arrangement of his grandfather. Over the years since Lian married into the Ye family, she has been responsible for taking care of the frail and sick Ye Xiaozheng. Although she no longer does farm work, she still knows how to do some of the work.

The whole family now has the ten taels of silver given by the old house, and the bulk of it will have to be used for Ye Xiaozheng's medical expenses. That little bit of silver cannot be relied upon, and the family cannot live off its savings.

Now that the autumn harvest has passed, the five acres of land allocated to the family are now empty.

Lian planned to work in the fields, but although she came from a peasant family, she could only be considered a half-farmer. She knew a little about how to do the work in the fields, but she didn't understand the farming schedule, let alone how to make plans.

That day, Lian brought up this matter after dinner.

Faced with his ignorant siblings, his sickly father, and his mother who seemed to understand but not quite, Ye Changyan provided specific arrangements to the Lian family based on what he had observed and learned over the past few days.

The next day, Lian took her two children and started working in the fields.

Ye Changyan went to the county town and came back near noon. He prepared to cook. Ye Xiaozheng also came out from the east room to help light the fire.

“Dongdongqiang…Dongdelongdongqiang…Dongdongqiang…Dongdelongdongqiang…”

Just as the father and son were preparing to light a fire and cook, they vaguely heard a noisy sound coming from afar, mixed with the sound of gongs and drums.