During my escape from famine, I survived by eavesdropping on the whispers of food.

"You little slut, how dare you?!" Old Mrs. Qin immediately objected. If the family were to separate, where would she find a daughter-in-law as obedient as Zhou Shi to serve her? She had gotten used to a comfortable life and was feeling very uncomfortable these past two days when Zhou Shi ignored her.

"Even if I die here today, you can forget about splitting the family business!"

Seeing Old Lady Qin speak so fiercely, Qin Shuangshuang smiled and looked at her leisurely, saying, "Fine, if you have the guts, then die here. That shows you have backbone. I just happened to want to drink human blood and eat human flesh, so I'll start by having a taste of your flesh and blood."

“Look at all these people behind you, they have no food or soup because they listened to you. If you give yourself up so that everyone can have a good meal, that would be a good deed.”

"You're talking nonsense!" Seeing the menacing looks from the crowd behind her, Old Madam Qin immediately changed her tune and backed down. "It's just a division of the family. Let's see how you live without the Qin family. Bah!"

After venting her anger, Qin Shuangshuang felt refreshed and exhausted from a day of fussing. She casually found a straw mat to put under herself and hugged Qin Hao's thin body as she fell asleep.

She didn't go to sleep immediately. Instead, she used this time to re-enter the space with her consciousness. She had only glanced at it during the day, and she figured that this cheat system shouldn't be as simple as it seemed.

The mushrooms that were brought in during the day were all round and brightly colored, and just looking at them made one's mouth water, and the air was filled with a fresh fragrance.

Strangely, once inside, I couldn't hear the thoughts of the food anymore.

Looking at the wild mushrooms, she suddenly had an urge to eat them raw, and thinking so, she did just that.

The meat was firm and plump, with a sweet and fragrant taste, better than any mushrooms I've ever eaten before. I could even taste the juice that was slightly seeping out, and I didn't have any fantasies in my mind.

Qin Shuangshuang hesitated for a moment. In order to verify her guess, she temporarily withdrew her consciousness, took a strychnine plant from her hand and put it into her space. Then her consciousness entered again.

She looked at the herb in front of her, and almost instantly, its branches and leaves unfolded, the leaves were bright in color, and the green branches seemed to be inviting her to taste it.

She hesitated for a moment, then stuffed the strychnine seeds into her mouth as if facing certain death.

Just as Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs in ancient times, Qin Shuangshuang now tests poisons on herself.

The pain she had imagined did not come. Instead, the strychnine seeds, besides their bitterness, had a slightly sweet aftertaste, and she was immediately overjoyed, muttering to herself.

"It seems this space has the function of purifying toxins. It seems I need to find some seeds outside to plant. I wonder if the growth rate and efficiency will change."

Considering that the strychnine had changed at a visible speed as soon as it was brought in, Qin Shuangshuang felt that her guess was definitely correct.

Exhausted, Qin Shuangshuang drifted off to sleep as soon as her consciousness withdrew from the spatial dimension.

But this sleep was extremely restless; I kept feeling noisy noises coming from inside, and my head felt like it was going to explode.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Zhou Shi and Qin Hao blocking him as if they were stopping someone.

“Madam Zhou, please wake your daughter up. Let’s talk this over. She’s so capable, she must know where the antidote is.”

"She was fine when she cooked it yesterday, so why did we get poisoned when we cooked it ourselves? If you don't give us an explanation, we're not done with you!"

Zhou's eyes were slightly red, and she was very anxious in the face of the questioning of the group. She was used to being bossed around by Old Madam Qin and was not good at arguing with people, but she still faced it bravely for Qin Shuangshuang.

"Why are you causing trouble for my Shuangshuang because you got sick from your own diet? Don't you have any sense of reason?"

"Furthermore, everyone was watching when you were cooking yesterday. What business is it of my family if you eat poisonous mushrooms without properly cleaning the ingredients?"

"Come on," Old Madam Qin said, forgetting all her past mistakes. She was happier than anyone else to see Zhou's family in trouble, and she held a grudge against Qin Shuangshuang, constantly chiming in to support her.

"Who knows what that little hussy secretly put in there yesterday without being caught, deliberately framing someone so they got poisoned, are you happy now?"

"If you ask me, that wretched woman and her daughter definitely have the antidote, but they just won't give it to you. Why don't you just search them?"

Old Mrs. Qin's eyes gleamed with malice, like a hungry wolf hunting in the night, ready to pounce and sever the arteries of Zhou Shi and Qin Shuangshuang at any moment.

"Who dares?!"

Qin Shuangshuang slowly got up, her eyes still heavy with sleep, her voice a little hoarse from just waking up, but that didn't diminish her imposing presence.

Grandma Qin was startled, but considering how many people were on her side, she didn't believe Qin Shuangshuang could handle it.

She already understood the situation, and in response to the family's accusations, she said, "If Boletus lucidum is not cooked thoroughly, it will cause hallucinations and foaming at the mouth. If you had asked me beforehand, I would have told you everything I knew."

She didn't want to get involved, but as a successor to socialism, she couldn't bear to watch several living people die in front of her.

"So, it was your own recklessness that led to the poisoning."

"I do know where the antidote is, and I can help you find it, but we can't let this slander against my family go unpunished."

"What do you want?" The man knew he was in the wrong, and the situation was urgent. He was willing to do anything to save his family.

"Those who just slandered and insulted us, how about slapping yourselves ten times?"

Old Mrs. Qin and Old Mr. Qin immediately objected, knowing that this was aimed at them. However, the middle-aged man looked at the two of them, gritted his teeth, and agreed.

"What a joke, what antidote could you possibly have?" Old Mrs. Qin was flustered, but she still couldn't help but deny Qin Shuangshuang's claims.

"You're not afraid to make the bet, are you?"

"What do I have to be afraid of?" Old Mrs. Qin had looked down on Qin Shuangshuang since she was a child, and she took the bait directly when she was provoked.

Zhou was busy preparing food and insisted that Qin Hao follow along to protect Qin Shuangshuang, so she had no choice but to let her go.

There's a saying that there's always an antidote within a hundred paces, and there's some truth to that.

Qin Shuangshuang then led him to the place where they had picked mushrooms the day before, and sure enough, they found a few wrinkled herbs nearby that could help detoxify.

Just as he was about to go back, he heard Qin Hao calling him.

"Sister, sister, come here quickly."

Qin Shuangshuang followed the sound and found Qin Hao squatting beside a masked man, poking him with a twig every now and then. "Sister, this person is breathing, he's still alive."

Seeing this, Qin Shuangshuang checked the man's pulse and concluded that he had fainted from hunger because he hadn't eaten for too long.

She had a lot of mess to deal with at home and didn't want to get involved, but she stopped in her tracks after seeing the man's undergarment that he inadvertently revealed.

They stepped forward, pulled off his clothes, and removed his mask, revealing an extremely ordinary face that showed no trace of nobility.

"Sis, why are you tearing off someone's clothes?" Qin Hao's small eyes widened in shock.

Qin Shuangshuang ignored him and secretly pondered that although the man was wearing coarse linen clothes on the outside, the material of his inner garment was of extremely fine quality, which was definitely not something that could be bought in nearby villages and towns. He must be either rich or noble.

She pretended to take food out of her bundle, but actually, on a whim, she took out herbs from her spatial storage and put them in the man's mouth so he would hold them in his mouth.