Five kilometers away from Baishi Town, and only two kilometers away from Ono Village, a newborn was born in Mingzhu Village.
In this village where supplies are scarce, there will be no wedding or other events when a newborn is born, but people in the village will come to congratulate the baby, and the elders will give the baby a name to pray for safety.
The elder thought about it and thought that this child has been a hunter for generations and is destined to learn to run. He is also born smart and not stable enough. It is better to hide his edge, seek peace, and suppress this fate by using the name "Stone".
As a result, Yun Ye got the new name of Yang Shi due to a strange combination of circumstances.
Although it is ordinary, it suits his wishes quite well.
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In a blink of an eye.
Yun Ye is already five years old.
Mingzhu Village is an affiliated village of Baishi Town and bears part of the material consumption of Baishi Town. The most special one is a strange plant called Mingzhu.
This Ming Bamboo is as hard as iron and sounds like thunder when you swing it. It is a material for making weapons.
Every year, Baishi Town uses a large amount of Mingzhu, which is indispensable.
For this purpose, Baishi Town specially opened plantations and moved in a large number of slaves and civilians for planting.
This is Mingzhu Village.
Baishi Town's requirement for Mingzhu Village is that it must hand over 10,000 Mingzhu Village every year. If it cannot be completed, it must be offset by the price of thirty black coppers per rod.
Although Yun Ye is not engaged in cutting bamboo, he knows the general situation through his own influence.
This is a huge number, not as simple as imagined.
Ming bamboo is a plant whose properties are comparable to metal. An adult cannot cut down a song bamboo in one day.
There are more than 200 people in the whole village, even half of the bamboo cutters do nothing but cut down bamboo.
To deliver 10,000 pieces of Mingzhu on time also requires working hard for a whole year without any repairs. This is a huge burden for Mingzhu Village, which has neither good food nor drink.
If there is a missing Ming Bamboo, 30 Mysterious Coppers must be made up, but if there is an extra Ming Bamboo, you can only receive 3 Mysterious Coppers.
A tenfold difference.
You know, the first 10,000 singing bamboos are all without money and must be paid.
If you don't want to work for a year in vain, you need to hand over 10,000 singing bamboos and then cut down the singing bamboos that can support a year's rations.
Obviously, the purchase price of excess bamboo directly determines the living standards of bamboo cutters.
According to the current situation in Mingzhu Village, the purchase price of three black coppers is barely enough to avoid starvation.
Obviously, even one more copper coin would have made a big difference in the outcome, making Mingzhu Village's situation much better. However, the government deliberately stuck at this point, leaving Mingzhu Village exhausted.
Although Mingzhu Village is stronger than Ono Village, it is also extremely limited.
The same is true for the Orion family that Yun Ye came from.
Although eating is barely a problem, he can't save any money at all, and his ability to deal with crises is almost zero.
"Cough cough cough..."
The haggard woman was knitting her straw sandals while coughing. She looked at the child on the bed from time to time, showing a very distressed expression.
Five-year-old Yun Ye was lying on the bed, his face a little pale. He was simply desperate now.
He had been extremely careful not to make the same mistake again, but the reality didn't make sense at all.
This winter's bitter cold was not something he was careful about, but he still couldn't bear it and fell seriously ill.
In ancient times, getting sick was simply a matter of death, and the chances of survival were very few.
Even for the princes and grandsons of the emperor's family, it is common for a large number of them to die at one time, let alone a mere pariah with no power or power?
What made Yun Ye feel most desperate was not that he was ill, but that his own mother in this life...
He is also sick!
If he dies, he can still be reincarnated, but if his relatives in this life die, there is no way to resurrect him!
It's only been a few years, is he going to watch his family die in front of his eyes again?
"So annoying!"
Yun Ye, who couldn't find a solution after much thought, couldn't control the anger in his heart and punched the bed board.
The woman was startled, thinking that Yun Ye was tortured by the disease and couldn't bear it any longer, so she quickly said: "Don't worry, Xiaoshi. Daddy will be back soon to buy medicine. The medicine will definitely cure the disease by then. Just bear with it!"
Yun Ye shook his head.
Of course he knew that Yang Shu had gone to buy medicine, but with the savings of the Yang family, how could he possibly buy enough medicine?
Moreover, even if enough medicine is purchased, the child's immunity is too low and the possibility of survival is extremely low. I am afraid that the torture will be in vain and he will die in the end.
Feeling increasingly uncomfortable, Yun Ye had thoughts of suicide in his mind.
He has an escape route of reincarnation, and each death only shortens his lifespan by one year. He feels that this price is affordable.
And if you die early, you can be reincarnated early. If you delay for five years, there is still hope.
As the thought emerged, the idea of suicide took root uncontrollably.
As long as he dies, all the illnesses he is suffering from now will disappear and he can regain his health.
What you have to pay is just one year of life limit.
This idea swirled around for a long time.
With his willpower, even the pain caused by fever can make him die or live.
After twenty years of hard work, this threshold has been raised a little, but as soon as he learned that he could be reincarnated, this threshold was instantly kicked to the bottom.
Since you can be resurrected, why do you have to suffer this sin?
As an ordinary person with full level of modern lazy cancer, he rejects all troubles and sufferings in his heart.
So much so that this illness was not as good as the first one, and he had thoughts of suicide in just one day.
After lingering on this thought for a long time, Yun Ye finally defeated it.
the reason is simple.
Right next to him, his mother, who suffered from the same disease, was still working despite breaking out in a cold sweat.
Except for checking on him from time to time, he never stops.
The whole room was filled with the sound of breathing and the weaving of salsa.
"..."
Seeing this scene, Yun Ye silently gritted his teeth and used his own willpower to fight against the disease.
He can indeed be reincarnated, and there is no need to die.
But his death was an unbearable pain for this family.
Just like when he discovered that Onomura was massacred, he was almost disheartened and had no intention of living anymore.
His mother's life support is his own son.
Once he dies, my mother, who is overly grieved and seriously ill, will be no different than walking into the gate of hell.
"Live on, become a master, and then live forever!"
At this moment, Yun Ye only had this simple thought. He deeply understood that the price of powerlessness was his own pain.
And at this moment, the fire pattern on Yun Ye's forehead flickered for an instant, as if he was about to wake up.
"boom!"
The thin door was suddenly pushed open, and a sturdy man in a fursuit walked into the house with an expression of suppressed anger, and then immediately closed the door to prevent the cold wind from blowing away the only heat.
"Ms. sir, are you back?"
"Shu Zhu...hey."
Facing his wife's surprise, Yang Shu could only sigh sadly.
He said: "This disease is prevalent throughout Baishi Town, there are a large number of patients, and the medicine is not enough. I spent all the money and only exchanged half of the disease-curing charms."
"Half portion?" Shu Zhu was surprised.
I thought that even one portion was already hard to accept, but the store in Baishi Town unexpectedly increased the price temporarily, so that all their savings were only exchanged for half of the disease-curing charm?