You are unlucky and I am tough

Cheng Shuang felt that she was too blindly optimistic, thinking that she could use the cheat code once she reached the mountain. However, she was exhausted from climbing and had some wild vegetables and mushrooms in her backpack, but the system still did not respond. She didn't know whether the system looked down on them or whether there was no function to sell items to the mall at all.

The only gain was that I found there were quite a lot of herbs on this mountain. I thought about picking some herbs and preparing them to sell to pharmacies.

When Cheng Shuang was thinking of finding another way out, Cheng Pan, who was walking in front of her, called her. She quickly put on the basket and chased after him.

"Sister, look, these mulberries are ripe. Let's pick some to take back."

Cheng Shuang looked and saw several mulberry trees in front of her. The trees were full of mulberries, most of which were not fully ripe yet.

"Sister, let's pick them quickly, otherwise there will be too many people and we won't be able to grab them." Cheng Pan was very happy. She put down the basket and started picking.

Cheng Shuang thought there was something delicious, but was a little disappointed after seeing it. These wild mulberries could not be sold, and they did not look very good. When she tasted one, it tasted sour.

But seeing that Cheng Pan had already started picking the fruits and looked so happy, she didn't know what to say and just followed him in picking them.

The two of them had been picking mulberries for less than a quarter of an hour when several teenagers from the same village also arrived. They probably came every few days to see if the mulberries were ripe. When they saw someone picking them, they immediately called over a dozen people and started to swarm over.

Those boys kept pushing them intentionally or unintentionally, and the two sisters were squeezed aside by these half-grown children. In the end, the two of them fell together and weighed only a little over one pound.

Cheng Pan was a little frustrated and said that he should have gone up the mountain earlier. At this time, a leader of the group of children ran over, pointed at Cheng Pan and said, "These mulberries are ours. Who told you to steal them?"

The person who came was Cheng Tieniu, the son of Cheng Jinshan, a hunter in Chengjia Village. Cheng Tieniu was twelve years old this year. He was tall and strong, almost a head taller than Cheng Pan. His arrogant look scared Cheng Pan so much that he shrank his neck.

He stretched out his hand and said, "Give me all the mulberries you picked, or I won't be polite to you."

Cheng Pan had been bullied by Cheng Tieniu before. She didn't dare to resist but squatted on the ground and held the backpack tightly.

Although these mulberries cannot be eaten as meals, they are still edible. They can also be dried and stored, and used to satisfy hunger when there is no food.

Seeing this, Cheng Tieniu went straight over to grab it, but as soon as his hand touched a branch in the backpack, it slapped the back of his hand. He screamed in pain and jumped on the spot, shaking his hand.

Cheng Shuang put the whipping branch on her shoulder and glared at him. "You dare to steal things and bully my sister in front of me? I'm tired of living."

The group of children were all from the same village. They knew what Cheng Shuang was like usually, and that was why Cheng Tieniu dared to come and rob things. Now, seeing Cheng Shuang becoming uncharacteristically fierce and aggressive, they were all frightened and stepped back, looking at her in horror.

"What are you looking at, you little brats?" Cheng Shuang pointed at them with a branch. "If I find out that any of you bullies my family, I'll beat you up."

Cheng Tieniu jumped a few times in pain, and when he saw a red mark on the back of his hand that was swollen, he immediately shouted, "How dare you hit me!"

"What's wrong with hitting you? You even dare to grab things, so why shouldn't I hit you?" Cheng Shuang saw that he was still arrogant and pretended to hit him again.

Cheng Tieniu quickly hid backwards. He just relied on his height to bully children who were thinner than him. When he met a tough guy, he would just give in.

Cheng Shuang pointed at him with a branch. "You are tall and strong, so why do you learn to bully girls? You even think these mulberries are yours. How can you be so arrogant? Is your name written on that tree? If you call it and it responds, it will be yours."

Cheng Tieniu's face flushed with anger. "You...you...you, I'll tell my parents when I get back and make you suffer."

Cheng Shuang twitched his leg again. "Hurry up and call all your family members. It would be best if you could dig your grandparents out of the ground and bring them along. Let's go to the head of the village and ask if the mulberry tree on the mountain is yours."

Cheng Tieniu was so scared that he jumped back, picked up the backpack on the ground and ran away, swearing that he would ask the adults at home to take care of the matter. The other children also followed him one after another.

Seeing that everyone had run away, Cheng Shuang threw away the branch in her hand and patted the dirt off her hands. She turned around and saw Cheng Pan looking at her in surprise with his big eyes.

"Pan'er, what's wrong?"

Cheng Pan swallowed his saliva and said, "Sister, why are you so brave all of a sudden?"

In the past, they were often bullied by children in the village, and her sister would just accept it. She would resist at first, but later, seeing that her elder sister was like this and had no one to support her at home, she gradually chose to endure it silently.

But since the eldest sister woke up yesterday, she has become different. She no longer keeps her head down and dares not look at people. She even had a quarrel with her aunt and took them away. Today, she also beat up Cheng Tieniu who bullied her. When she cursed, she was so eloquent. Is she really the timid eldest sister?

Cheng Shuang reached out and pulled her up, using the words she had prepared long ago, "Didn't I almost drown before? I went to the gates of hell and saw my parents. They were so resentful of us because we had a hard time in the Cheng family that they couldn't reincarnate. So I promised them that I would become strong and take good care of my younger siblings so that my parents could reincarnate soon."

Cheng Pan was stunned after hearing this. After a while, with red eyes, he asked, "Sister, are mom and dad okay? If they can't be reincarnated, will they just be lonely ghosts?"

Cheng Shuang saw that she really believed it and thought that this child was so easy to deceive. She patted her and said, "Don't worry, my parents said that as long as they see that we are living a good life, they will be reborn."

"Yes, it will." Cheng Pan wiped away a tear, "It's getting better now. My brother-in-law is a good man. If we work together, we will definitely get better and better."

When mentioning Wei Qinglang, Cheng Shuang couldn't help but twitch her lips. If it weren't for this damn feudal society and the need to get out of the Cheng family as soon as possible, she would not have found a man to marry.

I don’t know what the future will be like, so forget it. At least my cheap husband is good-looking, so I’ll just take it one step at a time.

The two walked deeper into the mountains for a while and met many villagers picking mushrooms on the way. They couldn't compete with them and couldn't pick many, so they picked some wild hawthorns and raspberries.

Cheng Pan wouldn't let us go any further, saying it would be easy to get lost inside.

As Cheng Shuang walked along, she found that the deeper she went, the more herbs there were. In fact, she wanted to go in and see if there were any precious herbs. However, she heard that it was easy to get lost, so she looked at the bushes in front of her that were taller than the house and hesitated. She thought it would be better to make some preparations another day before going in.

Just as I was about to return the same way, I suddenly heard a noise from the bushes in front of me, and then something jumped out from the bushes.

The two men were startled. Before they could be happy when they saw that it was a pheasant that rushed out, an arrow flew out from the bushes and hit the pheasant. Then a man emerged from the bushes.

Cheng Pan saw the person coming out and called out in surprise, "Brother-in-law."

"Hey, why are you guys here too?"

Wei Qinglang, who had come out, was also startled by the two of them. He quickly put one hand behind his back, and the metal crossbow in his hand disappeared in an instant.

Cheng Pan's attention was focused on the pheasant. He excitedly said, "My elder sister and I went up the mountain to pick mushrooms. Brother-in-law, did you kill this pheasant?"

"Yes."

Wei Qinglang nodded, strode over, picked up the pheasant, pulled out the arrow from its body, then turned and handed it to Cheng Shuang, saying, "Take the pheasant back and stew it first. The villagers have almost picked up all the mushrooms on the mountain by now. Don't bother with it anymore and go back first. I'll go in and see if there's any other prey."

Cheng Shuang came back to her senses from her daze, took the pheasant and asked, "What did you use to kill this pheasant?"

Wei Qinglang looked at her in confusion, shook the broken bow and arrow on his shoulder and said with a smile, "Bow and arrow, what's wrong?"

"Oh, nothing." Cheng Shuang carried the pheasant. "Well, we'll go down the mountain first. Be careful."

After saying that, he pulled Cheng Pan and turned to leave. His steps were steady, but a huge wave was surging in his heart.

Just now she clearly saw Wei Qinglang holding a black object in his hand, which looked like a crossbow that could fire continuously, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye.

She was very familiar with this ability to make an object disappear instantly, because she could do it too, just by putting the object into the storage space.

Could this Wei Qinglang be the same as her, not the original Wei Qinglang?