There is also spring for passers-by

Feng called out "Wan'er," "After dinner, when you and Erxing and Sanxing go to dig wild vegetables, you are not allowed to go deep into the mountains."

Wen Wan held the bowl. She had come from the apocalypse, and it had been a long time since she had eaten such a natural and fragrant vegetable porridge. She devoured it without hesitation. She was thinking about how to tell Wu Cang and Wen Pan about the immortal's arrival in Linzhou.

If she told Wen Dashan, he would immediately tell Liu and her son.

Even though Liu's mother and son abused him thousands of times, Wen Dashan still treated them as his closest family members.

She thought it would be best to persuade Wu Cang and Wen Pan to go to her uncle's house.

Fengjia Village is six miles away from Wenjia Village, so I just need to find an excuse.

Wu Cang was dark and thin, and didn't say a word the whole time. His facial features were very strong, especially his eyes which were full of determination. He didn't look like Feng at all, but probably looked like his biological father, Wu Liehu.

Although he is only fourteen or fifteen years old, he is a little taller than Wen Dashan.

Wen Pan's facial features were 70% like Feng's, except for his eyes and nose, which were inherited from Wen Dashan. He also had a handsome appearance.

Wen Wan looked at Wen Dashan and Feng Shi. Seeing that their facial features were good, she thought that her own appearance would not be bad either.

After breakfast, the family of five each took their farm tools.

Wen Dashan, carrying a hoe, warned, "Plate, you'll need to clean up the dishes later. Don't let your sister do it, or she'll break the dishes again. These are the only dishes left at home. If you break any more, there won't be any left. We're going to work in the fields. Remember to make lunch at noon."

Wu Cang silently followed his stepfather and mother out of the yard.

Wen Wan took a look and felt it necessary to familiarize herself with the environment.

Wen Pan was two years older than the original owner. He quickly collected the dishes and went to the small kitchen in the east wing.

The three brothers of the Wen family had the east wing, including the three rooms of different sizes including the kitchen, all given to Wen Dashan; the main rooms in the middle belonged to Wen Sanshan; and the three rooms of different sizes in the west wing belonged to Wen Ershan.

After Wen Dashan got married, Wen Dafu decided to divide the family property among his three sons. At that time, Wen Ershan already had three children, and Wen Sanshan had two more children.

Wen Wan stood at the kitchen door, which served as both a kitchen, firewood room, and utility room. Beyond the small door at the back was a thatched shed, which served as a toilet, pigpen, chicken coop, and duck pen. The livestock shed in the main house only housed one pig, which was barely enough to feed the family, and they couldn't afford to raise more.

Outside the courtyard gate, a loud shout came: "Erxing, Sanxing, it's time to dig wild vegetables! Let's go to the east slope of the back mountain today!"

Wen Wan went into the utility room, took out a bamboo basket and a small hoe for digging wild vegetables, and said, "Second brother, Sister Erfen and I are going to dig wild vegetables."

"Don't go deep into the mountains. Be careful of wild animals."

When Wen Wan came out, Er Xing and San Xing had already prepared their tools.

The one who came to call people was Fei'er, the eldest daughter of Aunt Huang next door. Because she was the only daughter in the family, she was named Wen Fei'er by a scholar for twenty cents. The other one was the village chief's little granddaughter Wen Fenfang.

When Wen Wan came out, she saw Wen Fenfang standing under the jujube tree outside the courtyard, tilting her head to look at her. She heard a voice say, "System, do they have spiritual roots?"

Wen Wan was certain the voice wasn't 033's. 033's voice was identical to the female announcer at the security base—sweet, familiar, and reassuring. But this voice was three parts arrogant, two parts hoarse, and seven parts delicate.

"Host, Wen Erxing and Wen Sanxing do not have spiritual roots, but Wen Wan does."

"What spiritual roots are better than mine?"

"Gold and Fire dual spiritual roots."

"Ha, what kind of broken spiritual root is this? Don't you know that fire overcomes gold? It's actually a dual spiritual root of gold and fire. It's not even as good as five spiritual roots or mixed spiritual roots."

"The host has three spiritual roots: earth, metal, and water. The spiritual roots are compatible, not much different from having two spiritual roots."

"When I find the Spirit Root Cleansing Grass and wash away the Earth Spirit Root, I will have the Gold and Water Spirit Roots."

Wen Fenfang called out, "Wen Pan, Sanbao, are you guys still going to the back hills to collect firewood today?"

Hearing someone shouting, both of them left the house.

"Host, these two have no spiritual roots."

The youngest, Abao, came out of the house and called out with a smile, "Sister Fenfang!"

Wen Fenfang responded with a disdainful sound, without even looking at him.

After hearing this, Wen Wan had nothing to understand. She didn't expect that on the first day after she came here, she would meet someone who also had a system, and judging from the other person's appearance, he looked down on the natives here.

Wen Fenfang continued to communicate with the system: "Why should we be on guard against the children of the Wen Dashan family? The younger ones have no spiritual roots, and the older ones have spiritual roots that counteract them."

"There's another Takekura."

"That's not Wen Dashan's son. Feng brought him here from her previous husband's family. It's better not to look at him!"

The system was silent for a moment, "Be careful!"

"In my past life, Wen Dashan and his wife enjoyed immense glory because their children became direct disciples of the immortal sect."

Thanks to the silver and money gifted by the immortal sect, Wen Dashan and his wife built a large house and became wealthy, acquired fertile land, and sent their son to study martial arts and literature. When their descendant successfully achieved elixir formation and returned home to visit his family, news of the incident spread. A prince of the current dynasty happened to be on official business in Linzhou. He met the Wen family and took a liking to their second son, Wen Zheng, and immediately betrothed his most favored daughter to him.

From then on, Wen Zheng's career flourished, he held a high position, became a member of the imperial family, and his eldest daughter married the future crown prince, becoming the unrivaled empress. It was rumored that this empress had given birth to four children, all of whom possessed spiritual roots, so much so that even Wen Dashan's granddaughters and great-granddaughters came to him in droves to propose marriage.

"I want to ask about the situation in Wucang." Wen Fenfang smiled again and again. "Wan'er, did your eldest brother go to work in the fields early this morning?"

Er Xing was quite disdainful. He was just a burden. Grandpa didn't like Wu Cang when he was alive. "He went to work in the fields with his uncle and aunt early in the morning."

His biological father was a hunter. After he was killed by a wild boar, Feng refused to let him hunt under any circumstances, for fear that he would follow in his father's footsteps.

In the hunter village in the mountains, the Wu family still had an eldest uncle and a third uncle, but later Feng remarried with Wu Cang, and the family's houses and small fields were divided among the Wu family's uncles.

Before Feng remarried, the Wu family's uncles pooled together eight taels of silver, claiming it was for Wucang. After Feng married into Wenjia Village, she used the five taels to buy two acres of medium-quality farmland and a patch of mountain land, which she reclaimed as lower-quality farmland. Although Wucang was a burden, he now had two acres of good farmland and six acres of mountain land to his name. Thanks to this, even though the Wen family's eldest wife didn't have much savings, they still managed to get by by paying Liu the annual grain and money.

"Isn't spring planting over? It's late spring now, are you planning to plant yams?"

"I heard from my uncle that half of the six mu of mountain land owned by Brother Wucang is planted with kapok and the other half is planted with yam."

Last year, Wen Dashan's cotton sold for 5,680 wen, and Liu took 5,000 wen as a year's tribute. Thanks to the cotton, the family would have suffered another bout of famine. Two thousand wen of that was a tribute Wen Dashan owed Liu. After Wen Dafu's death, Liu received a sufficient amount of food every year.

When Wen Dafu was alive, he had only asked for 200 jin of grain and 500 coins. As soon as he left, Liu threw a tantrum, crying, and demanding 3 liang of silver and 300 jin of grain a year. They said the second wife would follow the same rule, but she hadn't even asked for a liang of grain, let alone money.

Originally, Wen Dafu and Feng Shi refused, but Wu Cang, who was only ten years old at the time, said, "Father, Mother, give us money and food as step-grandmother wishes!"