Origin System, I have a barren mountain

"Quick! Get out of the way! Shadows, lots of shadows are spitting things out!"

A series of wails rang out, and the entire village was gripped by fear.

The Zhang family hadn't had a proper rest all night, and this noise woke them up.

They cautiously opened the door a crack and were immediately met with a scene of utter madness outside—a sight they could never have imagined.

"What's going on?"

Doctor Zhang looked at the scene outside in disbelief and asked his son.

Physician Zhang's son immediately closed the door tightly and then added several large stone blocks to prop it up.

When Cheng Yunmo came out, he saw everyone standing in the courtyard, and their faces were filled with fear.

The old lady came out of the room at this moment, leaning on her cane; she was very thin.

"Lord Cheng, you've arrived."

This was the first time Cheng Yunmo had met the old lady. She should say that when she met the old lady, she also felt a sense of unfamiliarity.

But for some reason, when I saw her, I felt like I had seen her somewhere before.

"It's good that Lord Cheng has brought the jade pendant."

The old lady's gaze fell on the jade pendant hanging around her neck. Suddenly, a faint human figure appeared on the smooth jade pendant, but it was unclear who the figure depicted.

Cheng Yunmo glanced down at the jade pendant, originally intending to return it to the child later, but the old man also mentioned the jade pendant.

"Lord Cheng, you may not know this, but I brought this jade pendant from the palace many years ago. I used to be a lowly palace maid who swept and cleaned in the Empress Dowager's palace. It was thanks to this jade pendant that my Zhang family has survived to this day."

Cheng Yunmo hadn't expected the jade pendant to be so important, and quickly prepared to take it off and return it to the old lady.

“Wait, this jade pendant was meant for Lord Cheng,” said Old Madam Zhang.

Cheng Yunmo could hardly believe it was true. Old Mrs. Zhang was very old; she hadn't even arrived in Xu Kingdom back then.

"This jade pendant once appeared to me in a dream, saying that something unexpected happened in the Xu Kingdom. The Xu Kingdom originally had no Empress Dowager and Emperor Emeritus. The current Empress Dowager and Emperor Emeritus, I don't know what method they used, gave birth to Emperor Liang Yu and secured their positions."

Cheng Yunmo was stunned. Was this something they were just going to bring up to her like that?

"These shadows are actually the shadows of the Emperor, shadows that have been appearing since the day the Empress Dowager gave birth to the Emperor."

Everyone present was shocked upon hearing this.

Physician Zhang had never heard such words from his mother before, and now that he heard them, he found them absurd.

"Mother, could it be that a jade pendant told you all this?"

Looking at her son's incredulous expression, Grandma Zhang shook her head helplessly and said, "What, you don't believe me?"

Cheng Yunmo said helplessly, "Grandma Zhang, things have become like this outside. This shouldn't be the case, especially since the Empress has been found."

“I think this is because the people the Empress brought with her have adapted to a good life. The current situation in Xu Kingdom simply does not allow them to live the good life they used to have in the Empress Dowager’s basement.”

When Grandma Zhang mentioned this matter, her expression became very worried.

The Empress has no one to rely on. Even if the situation improves significantly, it will still end up like this because of the people around her.

Physician Zhang had very mixed feelings. He had thought that Lord Cheng's visit to his village was a coincidence, but he never expected that it all seemed to be preordained.

"The jade pendant says that Lord Cheng was born into hardship and died due to favorable timing, location, and opportunity, which is why you are now so knowledgeable about the world and have the special ability to carry the burden of the desolate mountains."

It was only at this moment that Cheng Yunmo realized that her existence had already attracted the attention of some mysterious and capable individuals, who had even mentioned her existence.

It's also possible that something mysterious helped him, allowing him to live the life he has now.

Mu Yun became the Empress Dowager's most favored subordinate with great pride. Anyone who looked at him would see him as a young man full of energy and spirit.

The Empress Dowager gave him a great deal of authority, including matters such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea.

The ancient people of Xu State had never seen so many wonderful things before.

Mu Yun thought that ancient times were really fun. No one dared to go against the Empress Dowager, and he lived a very happy life in ancient times.

The Empress Dowager looked at the messenger who had returned with the news, a hint of satisfaction flashing in her eyes.

“Very good, then you will supervise him to do so.”

Cheng Yunmo felt that the jade pendant hanging around his neck seemed to be moving in a strange way.

She had just reached out and touched it when she felt a memory emanating from the jade pendant.

It was Mu Yun, the same Mu Yun who had never met before, only twenty years old.

Mu Yun met an old fortune teller who told him to find a man named Cheng Yunmo and try his best to become his wife, which would bring his family a fortune.

Mu Yun, who was only twenty years old, refused without even thinking, but a few days later, he actually met Cheng Yunmo.

From the moment Mu Yun met Cheng Yunmo, he began to make a fortune.

Although it was only a few hundred yuan, Mu Yun had never been so lucky.

Cheng Yunmo came to his senses and suddenly remembered that after he got together with Mu Yun, his family would occasionally receive unexpected wealth.

The Empress Dowager brought Mu Yun out of the past, and the method she used was probably to make Mu Yun's life better and better.

Grandma Zhang seemed to see through the difference in Cheng Yunmo's jade pendant, and seemed to be deliberately speaking casually.

"If anyone had Mu Yun's luck, with someone like the Empress Dowager as their backer, they probably wouldn't want to become like the Zhang family, would they?"

Cheng Yunmo was stunned, but what he noticed was that the Zhang family was different from the others. Those shadows seemed to be unable to see the Zhang family, and were only targeting other people outside.

“I told the villagers not to take the Empress Dowager’s and Empress’s grain, but they didn’t listen to a word. If they had listened, they wouldn’t be in this situation now.”

When some villagers outside noticed that the Zhang family was unharmed, they frantically tried to break in. But the doctor's son shouted, "It's far too late for you to try and hide in my house!"

"Zhang family, how can you just stand by and watch us die? We're all just trying to survive. Do you think you can leave the Zhang family alive just because you're keeping them alive now?"

The people outside were speaking sternly.

"At a time like this, you're still thinking of threatening us. Shouldn't you be trying to save yourselves? Hand over all the grain in your homes and the things you got from the Empress Dowager, leaving nothing behind!"

They were outside the door when they heard the Zhang family say this, and they were completely unwilling.

"Why should we?! What if the shadow disappears and we have nothing to eat?!"

"Are the Zhang family deliberately saying this to take advantage of the chaos and get their own good stuff?"