Chapter 201

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Consciousness Space

"Although perishing together at the end was a bit painful, considering the amount of merit earned, if there's a next time, it can be considered."

Shen Yao rubbed her chin, thinking that although the title of Savior had been snatched by her and draped over herself, her three children later enabled the task world to smoothly undergo Spiritual Qi Revival, and even ascended to the Upper Realm in a huff while hugging the thigh of an entire planet — that also counted as another form of Savior.

System: …

"Host, you are absolutely right. Please accept this mission's rewards."

Shen Yao took a moment to glance at her space and discovered the system had given quite a lot of rewards.

The most obvious was a one-cubic-meter small space — this time, twelve were given at once.

It doesn't compare to the cultivation world, but it's more than other worlds.

"Host, you can't look at that. Isn't the most important thing the merit you've acquired?"

Good grief, densely packed full of Shen Yao's rewards — even the system's eyes ached from looking.

"This is only right. I paid so much, and in the end still perished together."

You should know, among all the task worlds she experienced, only the previous one's exit method was tragic.

If the World Consciousness hadn't given extra compensation, Shen Yao would probably have complained privately for a long time.

System: …

"But you haven't complained any less now. It's not like there was only this one path to take — you just didn't want to wait, wanted to make a big score."

Shen Yao rolled her eyes. "Hitting is affection, scolding is love. Right now I feel nothing but deep gratitude toward the World Consciousness.

Truly a good boss. If there's a chance, I hope to cooperate again."

But at that time, her appearance fee won't be just this little bit in front of her eyes.

Can't help it. Everyone's getting more and more competitive, inflation is visible to the naked eye. To live well, no matter what you do, you have to calculate seriously."

She immediately patched the rewarded spaces into her own space. Shen Yao had a bit of OCD; seeing the three extra small spaces sitting awkwardly on the left and right made her uncomfortable. In the end she could only temporarily stack them in a corner and pretend they didn't exist.

"Next time you give rewards, remember to give enough, or watch out for me filing a complaint."

Shen Yao backhanded a retort at the system, then continued organizing her space.

In the previous task world, Shen Yao used quite a lot of treasures from her space.

Calculating carefully, she still came out ahead, because merit is hard to obtain. And what she used were all various spiritual objects she had stored away during her time in the cultivation world.

Including those Buddha Light Petals — she didn't know how many she'd picked up at the Bathing Buddha Festival; there were still leftovers in her space right now.

"System, you said before the next task world is an Ancient World. Any other hints?"

Shen Yao took out some commonly used gold, silver, pearls, and jewels and placed them separately in a corner of her space.

Besides that, there were rice, flour, grain, oil, fabric, and cloth materials. It's an ancient world, after all — not many things can serve as currency.

In the previous task world, Shen Yao had spiritual power and used a Storage Bag to collect quite a lot of daily necessities.

Now staying in the Consciousness Space with no restrictions, she naturally needed to prepare some emergency supplies in advance. All kinds of situations had to be considered.

"Host, there is indeed news," the system spoke, once again sounding hesitant.

Shen Yao stopped what she was doing, glanced back at that cloud floating in midair. "Good or bad?"

The system's voice was weak. "There's good and bad. But it depends on how the Host sees it.

The system can't help it either — truly suitable candidates are few, but the potential is definitely strong."

Shen Yao didn't really believe the system's big pie — after all, the system had a long track record of offenses.

"Never mind that for now. Just one thing: if I enter the task world, can you give me the maximum action permissions?"

Seizing the initiative — step one: open your mouth and ask. Whether it succeeds or not, trying first definitely isn't a loss.

The system thought for a moment. "Yes, as long as it doesn't exceed the scope of system duties, the system will provide assistance to the Host for free."

Shen Yao wore a fake smile. "No spiritual energy?"

The system was very blunt. "None."

Right. One sentence basically locked Shen Yao down completely. Shen Yao didn't waste more nonsense on the system — she simply doubled all the supplies she had organized earlier.

Fortunately the Storage Bag couldn't be used, but her space area currently wasn't small.

She put the temporarily unneeded things into the corner, then moved the usable ones to the center.

Shen Yao busied herself while patching gaps, until she had checked the contents of her space several times over and confirmed everything was correct. Only then did she call the system and urge it to transmit the new task world.

The system was obsequious to the extreme, even using a function that could reduce mission transmission discomfort. Unfortunately, spatial fluctuations aren't something that just get better because you say so. By the time Shen Yao came to her senses again, her head and body were still all kinds of uncomfortable.

She hurriedly took out a pill to restore her body and swallowed it. Shen Yao closed her eyes and rested a while, then had the system transmit the memories.

This time, Shen Yao took quite a while to receive the memories.

"System, this is what you called 'not good, not bad'?"

Shen Yao was speechless. She thought: this body has already given birth to children, not to mention the husband even delivered a Divorce Letter to her.

Tsk tsk tsk

"System, do the children born earlier count as the mission?"

They were born from this body, but not born by her — they also count as born by her, right? Only she didn't know about it.

Rubbing her forehead in a mess, Shen Yao didn't wait for the system to answer before hurriedly getting off the bed. First she found a copper mirror to observe her own appearance and figure.

How to put it? She could count as the village beauty. But compared to those noble young ladies who never step out the main gate or the second gate, her skin texture and bearing still fell short by quite a lot.

"Host, those children cannot count. Because strictly speaking, they have no relation to the Host."

They are the offspring of this body of the Host, but the Host has only just arrived, and the relevant mission progress bar is still at 0%.

"That doesn't matter, but I can't just ignore it. Leaving me with this kind of mess — System, you really know how to pick people."

Shen Yao gritted her teeth in anger, telling the System to stay far away for now and not disturb her.

Thoughts tangled in a thousand threads, Shen Yao first had to figure out the basic situation of this world.

Combining the relevant information of this body, Shen Yao gained an understanding of her own identity.

A daughter who was divorced, raising five children, currently living in her ancestral home, helping prop up her family's business.

Shen Yao's birth father Shen Fugui and birth mother Lady Zhou gave birth to three sons and one daughter in total.

Shen Yao ranked third; above her were two older brothers Shen Danian and Shen Er You, below her a younger brother Shen Si Yu.

Shen Fugui is currently a butcher in town, doing the business of slaughtering and selling pigs.

Lady Zhou was originally a medical woman, and opened a small medical hall in town serving as the Hall Doctor.

Shen Yao is currently helping out as an assistant in the medical hall; mother and daughter basically handle all the work inside and outside the hall, but even so, the money they earn barely maintains daily expenses.

After all, Shen Fugui's whole extended family is too large. In town they are wealthy, but that is only compared to the surrounding villages; they cannot compare to the more distant county city, and as for the even more distant prefecture city, they can't even scrape a connection.

"Eldest Young Master Shen's family has three children, Second Young Master Shen's family has three children, Younger Brother Shen's family has one child, and adding the five children I'm still raising —" counting them up, Shen Yao felt a headache; they really can reproduce, can't they.

It does satisfy the ancients' desire for numerous descendants, but just daily food alone is an astronomical figure, and this is based on butcher and doctor being relatively lucrative professions in ancient times.

Otherwise, swap in those villagers in the countryside who rely on a few mu of farmland to live, and they fundamentally couldn't support them.

Creak—

Pushing open the tightly shut room door, Shen Yao looked at the medicinal herbs drying across the entire small courtyard and silently walked over to work.

"Aiyo, you just woke up, why are you still doing work? Hurry back to your room and rest more."

Shen Yao's birth mother Lady Zhou came in from the front courtyard, saw her own daughter fiddling with medicinal herbs again, and anxiously pulled her up to push her back into the room.

Shen Yao: …

Shen Yao backhandedly grasped Lady Zhou's hand, "Mother, my body is already much better.

Besides, if I don't work now, I don't know what else to do either."

Lady Zhou listened, fell silent for a moment, then pursed her lips and directly started scolding Shen Yao's former husband's family.

Shen Yao: …

Shen Yao didn't stop Lady Zhou from scolding; after all, the reason this body ran into trouble was because the Wei family in Qinghe Village, her former husband's family, deliberately made things disgusting for her.

The town they stay in is called Qinghe Town; Qinghe Village is the wealthy village closest to the town.

The Qing River, which influences the layout and direction of the entire town, cuts across Qinghe Village, bringing fertile land and wealth to Qinghe Village.

The reason Shen Yao originally married from town into the Wei family was because the Wei family was one of the top wealthy families in Qinghe Village.

Who knew the Wei family's second son Wei Fan she married had the nature of a white-eyed wolf; he went to be a soldier, gained heavy trust and promotion, then turned around and divorced Shen Yao to marry his superior's daughter — his upward management is simply full marks.

Poor Shen Yao had just finished her postpartum confinement when she received the divorce letter, and forcibly enduring her grief brought her five children back to her ancestral home.

Now the youngest daughter Wei Zhen is already five years old; time passes fast yet the Wei family still hasn't quieted down.

Here, Old Master Wei and Old Madam Wei are making all kinds of trouble, wanting Shen Yao's several children to come visit them.

Pressured by filial piety and the trap Shen Yao left in her haste to leave the Wei family back then, the several children had no choice but to go.

Right now, Shen Yao touched her chest, and in the midst of Lady Zhou's worry stated they couldn't continue sitting and waiting for death, "The Wei family is getting more and more insatiable, Mother, I want to take Wei Cheng and them to live in the county."

Lady Zhou: …

Lady Zhou's scolding words jammed; she looked at Shen Yao with a face full of shock, "Mother's Yao'er, if you go to the county city, how will you live?"

Five children are not easy to raise; Shen Yao, a weak woman, would probably find it hard to bear.

Shen Yao took out a piece of silver from her chest (actually space) and handed it to Lady Zhou, "Mother, I originally wanted to save it until Wei Cheng and them grew up to use as bridal price and dowry.

Right now I can't care about that much; if we drag it out further, the Wei family will definitely go back on their word.

I am determined not to let Wei Cheng and them go back; these people of the Wei family have abnormal intentions."

Old Master Wei and Old Madam Wei don't truly like Wei Cheng and those children either; more than anything they still want to dig money out of Wei Cheng and them.

Back then when Wei Fan sent the divorce letter home, it even included fifty taels of silver.

Shen Yao clutched this silver especially tight; the Wei family didn't get a single fraction of it.

Otherwise there wouldn't have been these years of Wei Cheng and those children having to return to the Wei family every few days.

You have to know in this world, an ordinary farming family's yearly expenses are only about three taels; fifty taels is a sky-high price.

Lady Zhou looked at the heavy silver in her hand, then looked at her daughter's determined expression, and finally nodded, "Should have done this long ago.

Those two undying old things of the Wei family scheme all day long for just this bit of silver.

You leaving Qinghe Town is good too; at least you won't need to worry about the Wei family coming to bother you again."

In ancient times travel was inconvenient; from Qinghe Village to Qinghe Town a round trip needed nearly a day, from Qinghe Village to the more distant Linshan County needed nearly three days.

They are all villagers with farm work at home; with the distance so far, who still has that leisure time to make trouble? Delaying the harvest in the fields is a matter of life and death.