In my 40s, the trading system took me flying

After hearing the explanation from Li Caogen's family, Old Mrs. Xu also obeyed.

Recently, a group of soldiers came to the town. They are worse than bandits. They rob good things when they see them and kill people if you don't give them.

My uncle's pork stall was smashed and the meat was stolen. Because my uncle was protecting the stall, he was beaten. The situation is very bad now.

Old Mrs. Xu wiped her tears and cursed angrily.

Father Xu took a look at his uncle's health condition and found it was indeed not optimistic.

"Didn't you ask for a doctor?"

Li Caogen choked up and said, "The doctors were all captured by the soldiers. They said their troops were going to fight and needed doctors on standby!"

This is not just standing by, it means not caring about the lives of the people.

Damn soldiers.

Worse than bandits.

"Who's fighting who?"

Xu Laoyao asked curiously, not expecting his uncle's family to give an answer. Li Caogen lowered his voice and said, "They said we were fighting the foreign devils. That's what the soldiers said!"

foreign devil?

Those bastards!

Father Xu's face turned black.

When he was in the provincial capital, he witnessed the brutality of the foreign devils, who did not treat the common people as human beings at all.

"Is there really going to be a war? That's going to be troublesome!"

Xu Laoyao handed some medicine they had brought with them to Li Caogen: "Cousin, this is the herbal powder made by the mountain people themselves. Give some to uncle first. Let's go out and take a look. We also need to buy coarse salt for the people in the village!"

Li Caogen did not refuse. His eyes were red. It turned out that only relatives cared about them.

Old Mrs. Xu told the youngest, "Youngest, buy what you can. War is coming, and prices are bound to go up. No matter how high the price goes, just spend the money. And by the way, find out if those soldiers are going to capture people as laborers!"

Father Xu and the others left my uncle's yard. Old Mrs. Xu helped my uncle change the medicine. I don't know if it was because the medicine was effective, or because my uncle was in a good mood seeing his sister come out of retirement, but he felt much better.

"Is this child a girl?"

My uncle is very clear about the situation of his brother-in-law's family. There has been no girl in the past five generations. If it really is a girl from his brother-in-law's family, it would be a big deal.

"Yes, Xiao Zhu's daughter, our Old Xu finally has a girl!"

Old Mrs. Xu was very happy to share it with her brother.

It is difficult for outsiders to understand why Old Lady Xu is obsessed with girls, but the uncle knows his sister's temperament well after all, and he did not say anything that favors boys over girls. He took out a piece of jade from the cabinet on the head of the kang and handed it to Xu Xiaoya.

"They say it's good for little girls to wear jade. I'm a rough guy and I don't understand. This is something our mother left behind. It's perfect for this child!"

Old Mrs. Xu looked at the jade and thought it was very good, otherwise it would not have been preserved until now.

Jade is worthless in troubled times, but fortunately, Old Mrs. Xu is a connoisseur of jade, so she took it and hung it around Xu Xiaoya's neck.

"Xiao Ya, kowtow to your uncle!"

Xu Xiaoya was put on the kang. She didn't feel embarrassed and just knelt in front of her uncle with her legs softened.

"Thank you!"

These two words were spoken so loudly that my uncle laughed out loud, and the pain in his body seemed to be much better.

Old Lady Xu hurriedly picked up Xu Xiaoya and scolded her with a smile: "The little girl really knows what's good. No one at home has ever teased her so bluntly!"

Xu Xiaoya held the jade pendant and smiled foolishly, not caring at all about being teased by Old Lady Xu. After all, the information given by the system's voice in her mind was too shocking.

This piece of jade is surprisingly special. It can be traded directly with the system in exchange for a piece of space. That is space, a space where time stands still. It is an absolute treasure.

Just think about how much can be done with the existence of space in such a chaotic world, especially in an era with foreigners?

Xu Xiaoya brainstormed, if she could fill a space with explosive packs, how many Japanese soldiers could she fake their deaths?

Just thinking about it makes my heart beat wildly and my adrenaline surge to the point of explosion.

The excitement that the space gave Xu Xiaoya was an outlet for her to vent the discomfort she felt when she was studying the century-long history of humiliation in her previous life.

Even though this era is not in the same timeline as hers, there are still foreigners and so many invaders. Since she has been reincarnated with her memories and has such a treasure, if she doesn't do something, it would be a shame for her eighteen years of hard study.

Her blood was boiling. If she wasn't so young, she would definitely fill a space with explosives to blow up the bunker.

Of course, all of this was just Xu Xiaoya's own fantasy. It would be impossible to realize it in a short period of time. At least she didn't know how to get the explosive pack. After all, there were no weapons among the items traded.

Because Old Mrs. Xu brought a lot of mountain products, my uncle's family did their best to prepare a table full of dishes to entertain them.

But no matter how long they waited, Xu Dazhuo and the others never came back.

"I'll go out and take a look!"

Li Caogen looked at the sky, worried that something might happen to them, so he got up and left worriedly.

Old Mrs. Xu did not stop them. She was also afraid that something might happen to her sons. The world was in chaos now. What would they do if they were caught and forced to serve in the army?

As a result, Li Caogen went out for a long time and it was already dark, but he still hadn't come back.

Now the whole family could no longer sit still. Just at this moment, muffled gunshots were heard in the distance, and the whole family's faces changed.

Even my uncle dragged his seriously ill body to sit up.

It's really chaotic outside.

Li Caogen's wife was so anxious waiting that she didn't care that the food had already gone cold. She had to take the food to the kitchen and wait for him to come back to heat it up.

Hearing the gunshots becoming more and more frequent, Old Mrs. Xu could no longer sit still. She wanted to go out and see her sons, but she was worried about Xu Xiaoya. Just as she was thinking of asking her niece-in-law to help look after Xu Xiaoya, she heard the sound of the courtyard gate opening.

I rushed out and saw my sons running in in a panic.

"Oh, Dazhu, are you hurt?"

Old Mrs. Xu's face was pale. She rushed over to check on her son's body, but she saw Xu Dazhu putting a man on his back on the kang: "Mom, the blood is not mine, it's this big brother's!"

At this time, Old Mrs. Xu saw that Xu Dazhu was carrying someone on his back, and that person was covered in blood.

"What's going on?"

Although he said this, he looked at his youngest son.

Old Mrs. Xu knew very well that her eldest son was not good at speaking and would definitely not be able to explain himself clearly, so it would be better to rely on her younger son who was always more thoughtful.

Xu Laoyao asked his eldest and second brothers to go wash up, while Li Caogen cleaned up the dripping blood outside. Then he lowered his voice and said, "This man saved the lives of the three of us brothers. If he hadn't shot those damn lackeys, the three of us brothers would have died!"

Thinking about what happened at that time, Xu Laoyao was still terrified.

At that time, they went to the largest grocery store in town, intending to buy coarse salt and some fine grains, but they never expected to run into a thief who was trying to steal their things.

The scene was very chaotic. Fortunately, the three brothers always remembered not to get involved and hid in the corner. However, they were still being targeted. After all, the three of them looked like they were wearing tattered clothes, but they had strong muscles, which showed that they had good food.

In addition, since they had things in their backpacks, some people started to take notice of them.

Relying on the weapons in their hands, they wanted Xu Laoyao and the others to hand over all their money. The three brothers were not happy about that, and during the argument, someone fired a gun.

Although the three brothers brought machetes, they were not as destructive as bullets. Moreover, they were outnumbered and weak, and were no match for the foreigners at all. They were about to die, but someone stood up and killed those foreign devils' lackeys.

Unfortunately, that person was also injured.

"Mom, we can't just stand by and watch him die. My eldest brother just carried him and ran away. Fortunately, there was chaos along the way and no one chased us!"

Old Lady Xu didn't panic like the other old ladies. Instead, after hearing the whole story, her face was solemn: "Are you sure you're not being followed?"

Xu Laoyao nodded: "I can still be sure of this matter!"

Old Mrs. Xu glanced at the man lying on the kang, his life or death unknown, and then looked at her uncle.

"Put this man on your back, let's go back tonight!"

It's very chaotic outside now, so we can still go out for the time being. If we wait until things calm down, those lackeys will definitely find a way to search. If they find out that they saved people, they will also kill my uncle's family.

The uncle disagreed, but Old Lady Xu said directly to Li Caogen: "There's nothing left at home anyway, so just pack up and follow us into the mountains!"

Li Caogen didn't dare to agree, he looked at his father.

The uncle looked at the house that had been almost robbed and found that there was indeed nothing valuable. However, the house was worth a fortune and was the one he had spent half his life to build. How could he bear to give it away?

But the occasional gunshots outside reminded him.

"Put the things you can't take away in the cellar, and take away everything you can. We'll go out at midnight!"

They definitely didn't dare to take the risk now, as there were still people outside. But there definitely wouldn't be many people outside in the middle of the night. Plus, they lived on the outskirts of the town, so they didn't have to go through the city gate. Having lived in the town for many years, they still knew some small ways out of the town.

After deciding on the next itinerary, they still had to eat, but it wasn't so leisurely. Everyone was preoccupied with something except Xu Xiaoya, who was playing with the jade pendant in her hand and glancing at the man whose wound had been treated by her father.

He really has the temperament of a lone hero, but she doesn't know if this person is the one she imagined. Whenever Xu Xiaoya thinks about participating in such an exciting period, she feels like she is Soldier Zhang Ga, who can accomplish great deeds at any time.

But at this time she had nothing to trade, so she could only lie on the kang and look at the man.

"Little girl, aren't you afraid?"

When Xu Xiaoya was studying whether the other person was a person with a special identity, the man woke up. He was already awake before he opened his eyes, and he also listened to a lot of the plans of Old Lady Xu and others. If Xu Xiaoya hadn't poked him with her little hands, he really didn't want to open his eyes.

"ah?"

Xu Xiaoya tilted her head and looked at the man. The man's beard was very unique, and it could be seen that he was a gentleman of distinction. However, his face was too pale, probably because he had lost too much blood.

"He's a brave one!"

The man curled his lips and his expression softened a lot.

Xu Xiaoya smiled foolishly but rolled her eyes in her heart.

What kind of reaction did he expect from a one and a half year old baby?

Fortunately, the other party also realized Xu Xiaoya's age. He turned around and saw the squinting eyes of Old Lady Xu sitting next to him, and a complicated emotion emerged.

"Auntie, I'm not a bad person. I'll leave after I rest for a while!"

The man noticed Mrs. Xu's wariness and took the initiative to speak.

From the moment he fired the gun, he never thought about living.

If it implicates other people, it would be a sin.

Old Lady Xu waved her hand: "You can't leave like this. I don't want to ask about your origins. I only know that you saved my three sons. This favor must be repaid!"

The man sat up and took out a photo from his pocket.

"Auntie, I really can't leave with you. I still have things to do. If you really remember my kindness, if you see this mother and child in the photo one day, please help them if you can!"

Xu Xiaoya leaned over to take a look. It was a black and white photo of a mother and son. The woman had a gentle and elegant appearance, and it was obvious that she was a lady from a noble family. As for the child beside the woman, he looked very similar to the man, so they must be father and son.

"These are my wife and children. I'm separated from them and I want to go find them!"

The man struggled to his feet.

Old Mrs. Xu asked her son to support him quickly and told him not to show off.

The man was afraid of getting them into trouble and insisted on leaving.

"Milk, medicine!"

Xu Xiaoya could see that the man didn't want to drag them down, and she estimated that those foreign devils' lackeys would definitely find them.

Since the other party insisted, Xu Xiaoya thought that it was not the time to try to keep him, but to respect him. However, respect did not mean to stand by and watch him die. If she let the man leave directly, he would most likely die on the road.

When Old Mrs. Xu heard her granddaughter's reminder, she remembered the medicine bottle that Xu Xiaoya had given her.

She carefully took out the medicine bottle from her pocket, poured out a pill and handed it to the man.

"Young man, this medicine is a treasure that the mountain people keep secret. If you trust me and take it, I guarantee you'll find your wife and children!"