In my 40s, the trading system took me flying

Under Old Lady Xu's painful gaze, the small yellow croakers disappeared, and in their place were three box guns and a pile of bullets.

This time it was a forced exchange and Xu Xiaoya was not given any choice at all.

Old Mrs. Xu didn't recognize the box gun, but she knew that these things must be treasures.

Compared to Old Lady Xu, Xu Xiaoya was very familiar with the thing in front of her. In her previous life, in some patriotic museums, this box gun was the one that was introduced with emphasis.

Moreover, in some film and television dramas, the protagonists like to equip this kind of box gun.

After all, this thing is easier to carry than a musket or a gun carried on the shoulder.

Xu Xiaoya pointed at the box gun in front of her and swallowed.

"Granny, this thing is more powerful than a musket, and it has even greater lethality!"

Old Mrs. Xu asked Xu Xiaoya to put them all away. She didn't know how to use them, and she didn't dare to use them. If she used them in the mountains, it would easily make a lot of noise. This thing still makes some noise.

Compared to Old Lady Xu's worry and depression, Xu Xiaoya was very excited. Since she was able to force a trade for weapons, did it mean that she could get more in the future?

The genes of being a Dragon in the previous life were activated. Who wouldn't want to kill some Japanese? Xu Xiaoya's blood was boiling, but she soon calmed down.

She is still too young and not even qualified to be a child soldier. If she wants to fight the Japanese in the future, she needs to take it slowly. At least she needs to exercise well. She can't be defeated before killing the Japanese.

Perhaps the result of the treasure hunt made Old Lady Xu feel helpless. She asked Xu Xiaoya if she had any other treasures, but Xu Xiaoya shook her head: "They are all far away!"

That means not yet.

After putting away the pickaxe, Old Mrs. Xu fed Xu Xiaoya some warm water and then carried her back to the stone house. Her eldest cousin and the others had already lit a fire, and the house was much warmer.

Old Mrs. Xu was afraid that they would be hungry, so she took out a few cakes from the bag she was carrying and gave them to her grandchildren.

Touching the warm pancakes, the grandchildren didn't think much about it, just thinking that Grandma Xu had preserved them properly. They ate them happily and no one doubted it.

Because they were just on guard, the children didn't want to stay in the stone house all the time, so Old Lady Xu asked them to collect dry firewood outside, saying that they would take it back.

There were so many dry firewoods at the doorstep, and the eldest cousins couldn't understand it, but they didn't dare to refute it. Xu Xiaoya felt sympathy for the eldest cousins and others. How could they be so easily fooled?

"My dear grandson, can you please see if you can exchange these firewood for something else?"

Old Mrs. Xu made full use of resources. After knowing that Xu Xiaoya could see the value of the things in exchange, she wanted to exchange everything she could see for something she could use.

Xu Xiaoya was also curious, and took the trouble to accompany her grandmother to try them one by one.

There is actually nothing at the foot of the mountain in winter except snow and dry branches. It's almost the New Year, so who would have time to stay here?

But at this moment, someone really appeared in the field of vision. Xu Xiaoya pulled Old Lady Xu's arm and asked her to look over.

There were actually two people appearing on the snow-covered road, but they looked very disheveled, and their movements were clearly uncoordinated.

"Grandma, what happened to them?"

Old Mrs. Xu frowned and looked for a long time before coming to a conclusion: "He must have lost his way!"

Old Mrs. Xu asked her grandchildren to go back to the stone house. She watched the two men staggering towards the stone house, and fell down just as they were about to reach the door of the stone house.

Only then did Old Lady Xu open the door and run out, and saw two people lying on the ground, one with his eyes still open and the other had fainted.

Even those who opened their eyes could not speak, and their lips were frozen purple.

"Drag the person back first!"

The first thing that Old Lady Xu thought of was not to report the news, but to save people.

Xu Xiaoya didn't understand what Old Lady Xu said and didn't ask.

The eldest and second cousins dragged the man into the stone house. Old Mrs. Xu took down the earthenware jar hanging on the fire, used a bamboo tube to collect the hot water inside, added some snow to cool it down, and then converted it into warm water to feed the two people.

Even though he was unconscious, he still knew how to swallow.

Maybe it was the warm water that brought them life, or maybe it was the warmth brought by the fire in the stone house, but after a while, both of them woke up.

Those who had not been unconscious before were finally able to speak.

"Aunt, do you still recognize me?"

Old Lady Xu nodded. "I wasn't sure until you opened your mouth, but now I know. Didn't you go to the city to be an apprentice? Why are you like this?"

It turned out that these two people were not outsiders, but were from Huaishu Village. They were just sent to the city as apprentices when they were very young and could not come back once a year.

The previous conclusion that they were lost no longer made sense. Old Lady Xu asked her eldest grandson to help the man up and move him to the fire to make sure he was warm. Only then did she hear him say, "There's a war!"

Old Mrs. Xu took a breath.

Although she knew that the city was in chaos, she still found it hard to believe when the chaos really started.

"Gousheng, are you sure?"

Gousheng nodded. "Those foreign devils suddenly started fighting. The city police were completely useless. Later, the defense team couldn't defeat them either. The people were terrified and fled. So I brought my brother back!"

Old Mrs. Xu's face tightened.

She knew things were going to get troublesome.

"There were many people fleeing along the way. Those foreign devils killed and robbed people as soon as they entered the city. Many people in the city died. Those soldiers didn't care about the lives of us ordinary people at all!"

Maybe he was recalling something bad, Gousheng was very emotional.

Old Mrs. Xu handed him a pancake and asked him to take it easy.

The city was in chaos, but it hadn't affected them yet. They just didn't know what the foreign devils would do. Would they massacre the city? Or would they just rob and leave?

"Many people were captured to build the bunker. My brother and I were almost captured several times, but luckily we ran away quickly! I heard that those who disobeyed were killed directly!"

Gousheng gnawed on the bread as if he were gnawing on the flesh and blood of a foreigner.

Old Mrs. Xu didn't say anything, just listened, and asked her eldest grandson to go back to the village and ask two adults to carry the two brothers Gousheng back.

Xu Xiaoya lay in Old Lady Xu's arms and asked Gousheng curiously, "Brother Gousheng, do all the foreign devils use muskets?"

Gou Sheng had never seen Xu Xiaoya before, so he naturally didn't know who she was. However, when he saw that it was Old Lady Xu holding the child, he guessed that it was a child of the Xu family, so he didn't get impatient, but nodded.

"They don't just have muskets, they have something much more powerful, gunpowder. Their guns have bayonets, and those bayonets are incredibly powerful. They kill people really fast!"

Maybe he didn't have much knowledge and his description was limited, but Xu Xiaoya understood.

Aren't these just guns with bayonets? Those guns are loaded with bullets. Although the safety bolt is pulled every time they shoot, they are still not comparable to muskets.

All the information told Xu Xiaoya that she was about to face a very dangerous era and a real battle could break out at any time.

She grabbed Old Lady Xu's clothes, not knowing what she was thinking.

Old Mrs. Xu asked a lot about the situation outside. She heard that the price of food had skyrocketed and coarse salt was under control. Ordinary people could not buy coarse salt without a ticket.

This is fundamentally controlling ordinary people.

Without salt, people will have no strength. Without strength, how can ordinary people resist?

Wouldn't that mean we are at the mercy of others?

The appearance of the Gousheng brothers made the people of Huaishu Village realize once again that the situation outside was far more difficult than they had imagined.

Xu Xiaoya thought of the revolutionary army that appeared in her previous life. She wondered if there would be a revolutionary army in this place that was truly awakened for the people, but she hoped there was.

Although she was just a little baby, Xu Xiaoya had to face difficulties and find ways to protect the Xu family and the villagers of Huaishu Village.

During this year of getting along, the people of Huaishu Village were very kind to her. Such good people cannot be killed by foreigners.

But Xu Xiaoya is still too young after all. She has a lot of ideas in her mind, but she doesn’t know how to realize them. She can only refresh the system over and over again, trying to find some good things in it.

Unfortunately, except for the system’s reminder during the last rainstorm and flood disaster, it has been silent since then. It is just a simple trading system, and a fool-proof trading system at that.

After returning to Huaishu Village, Xu Xiaoya was in a depressed mood. No one knew what was wrong with her. Even Xu Xiaoya's favorite egg custard did not make her happy.

The appearance of the two brothers Gousheng and the news they brought back shocked everyone in Huaishu Village. The old village chief was unable to move, so he asked Old Xu to arrange things for everyone while he recuperated.

Old man Xu did not refuse. At this point, it didn't matter who arranged it, as long as he could survive.

While Xu Xiaoya was still racking her brains over how to use the system to create some good things, Huaishu Village had already taken action.

Killing the New Year pig is no longer important. People go down the mountain every day and frequently go out to gather information. Women go to the mountains to dig traps. People in the mountains always have their own ways.

Every day, the news brought back by the villagers from outside the mountain was not good. People were in panic everywhere. It was also heard that bandits took the opportunity to cause trouble. All kinds of news were flying around, and no one knew which one was true.

Xu Xiaoya went from being anxious at first to being calm later. She finally figured it out. It was unlikely that Huaishu Village would be affected for the time being. The situation where the war could reach the deep mountains would only occur in the second half of the war.

That means she can still survive for a few more years.

Although the plot of the book does not describe this period of time, it can be inferred from the heroine's story line that the Xu family encountered trouble after entering the city.

But why go into the city?

Xu Xiaoya couldn't figure it out, there must be a reason.

After all, she was too small and could only do so much, so she focused on competing with the system, trying to trade everything that could be traded. She exchanged a lot of things and successfully discovered that the system had been upgraded again. This time, not only could she hunt for treasures, but she could also post items that needed to be traded and start collecting supplies in a targeted manner.

Before she knew it, it was New Year's Eve, and Xu Xiaoya received a piece of news that was unexpected but reasonable to her.