Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Su Xi’s first reaction was of course to prefer the finely crafted silver hairpin. No girl would be able to resist beautiful jewelry! Moreover, the silver hairpin was antique, with an extremely exquisite hollow pattern. The fragrant and white snow pattern was only available in ancient times. In modern times, it would look like an antique!
For a moment she almost forgot that this was a game, and sat up straight on the sofa excitedly, stretching out her fingers to pick at it – trying to get the silver hairpin out.
But obviously, this subconscious action was too stupid. How can you pick out things from the game?!
Su Xi held the screen, full of resentment.
She didn’t know whether to blame the game’s original artist for drawing this silver hairpin too beautifully, or whether to blame the baby for giving a gift that was so sweet that it touched the old mother’s girlish heart.
I want it, but I can’t get it.
She had checked before and found that there was no backpack system in the game interface, only a harvest column for the cubs. But obviously, this gift was not included in the harvest.
She wanted to put the gift into her backpack like in other games, but she couldn’t do it.
——Then how can I take this away?!
Su Xi used her fingers to fiddle with the silver hairpin on the table, hearing the clear and pleasant sound it made. She felt itchy in her heart, but she had no way to deal with the hairpin for the moment.
…But even if I can’t take it away, I can’t just leave this gift here and ignore it.
Otherwise, when my son comes back and sees the gift is unopened, he will be very disappointed, and will have to sit alone in the sunset like last time, with a sad expression on his face…
Su Xi slapped her thigh: Got it!
Although she was a little reluctant, this was the only way.
She pressed the screen with her finger and moved the silver hairpin. The hairpin was picked up from the edge of the table and immediately illuminated by the light coming in from the window, appearing silver like moonlight and even more beautiful.
Su Xi originally intended to take the silver hairpin, but her eyes could not help but fall on the equally exquisite men’s belt on the table.
Greed was probably an instinctive desire of human beings.
She couldn’t help but pick up the belt, and then, excited about finding a treasure, she switched the interface to the bamboo forest in the distance outside the firewood house.
She planned to find a place to bury the two gifts first.
In this case, for the cub, she would have already accepted the gift.
After exchanging it in the mall, she bought a hole-digging and hole-filling operation. Su Xi carefully placed the two boxes in and then covered them with soil.
It was a bit of a pity, but this was all she could do for now.
Su Xi looked at the gift she had buried with nostalgia for a while and memorized several of the more distinctive bamboos around it. She planned to dig it out and take it with her when the cub left Ning Wang’s Mansion and changed the map.
Su Xi was so excited because he spent money on this unexpected gift that she couldn’t put her phone down. She switched the interface to the house and continued to think of ways to make the bow and arrow that the cub needed.
The mall naturally had everything, from expensive to cheap there were “Crescent Wolf Bone Arrows”, “Black Dragon Iron Back Arrows”, “Phoenix Feather Arrows”, “Birch Feather Arrows”, “Wooden Feather Bamboo Arrows”, “Wooden Pu Water Arrows”, “Hunter Arrows”, “Ordinary Bows and Arrows”, “Broken Bows and Arrows”, etc.
Various pictures were listed, and the most expensive one looked particularly strong and sharp!
If Su Xi had not won the lottery before, she would have had very little pocket money and would have been so stingy that she could only buy the most ordinary bow and arrow.
But now she just wanted to spend money and give her baby the best, so her finger moved to the most expensive “Crescent Wolf Bone Arrow” worth 2,000 gold coins without hesitation.
But as soon as she touched it, a message popped up below – for royal use only.
It turned out that there was a royal totem engraved on it.
The best weapon the princes could use was the Phoenix Feather Arrow.
In order to avoid causing unnecessary trouble to the cub, Su Xi had to give up temporarily and bought the best phoenix feather arrow available!
Soon, a phoenix feather arrow with a beautiful shape and round like an autumn moon was placed on the table.
Su Xi remembered the side quest and excitedly picked out a piece of bright red silk from the mall and carefully tied it to the bow.
This side quest was a free point question, probably used to adjust the rhythm of the game. It was very simple, but it was quite laborious to tie a bow through the screen, and it still took Su Xi a long time.
After finally tying it crookedly, the system popped up the reward for completing the task:
“Side quest 1 completed, reward gold +50, points +2.”
The system asked: “You have 17 points now. You can choose a section to unlock. Which section do you want to unlock?”
Every time a new section was unlocked, Su Xi was a little excited, because the scenery details in the entire game were very delicate, the bluestone roads and even the eaves of the corridors were extremely exquisite.
Every time a new block lit up on the map, it was as if she was exploring the entire ancient capital, or even the entire Yan State, step by step.
It was a very novel feeling.
Su Xi said: “Let’s see where the baby is first.”
The map popped up, and the capital outside the Ning Wang Mansion was very large, divided into four sections: the Imperial Palace, the Inner City, the Outer City, and the Moat. Su Xi didn’t look at the specific divisions for the time being, but it was similar to the Inner Ring Road, the First, Second, and Third Ring Roads.
Near the moat, there was a building that looked like a temple, and the light of the baby was flickering there.
“Where is that?” Su Xi was surprised. It was the first time she saw the cub running so far.
The system explained: “The Yong’an Temple in the capital was once visited by the Queen Mother to burn incense, so the incense there is very popular. However, this winter, there was a frost disaster, and it snowed heavily for several months in a row. There were thousands of starving people outside the capital, and refugees were displaced. Many people in the capital also caught colds and had no medicine to cure them, so they gathered at the Yong’an Temple, hoping to meet some dignitaries and ask for an explanation.”
Su Xi felt that there might be a new plot about to be unlocked, and immediately said, “Help me unlock the Yong’an Temple.”
….
Lu Huan went to the market today, originally intending to use the remaining silver from buying the silver hairpin and the pearl belt to buy birch wood and feathers, but these materials could not be found in ordinary markets, so he left the inner city and went to the mountains outside the city.
But he never expected that all he would see along the way were people who were dying because they had caught a cold and couldn’t find a doctor!
Where had all the doctors gone?
It turned out that during the days when he caught a cold some time ago, a cold broke out in the capital city and spread rapidly like a plague. More than a dozen servants in Ning Wang’s mansion were dismissed and driven away as a result.
Naturally, all the doctors in the capital were hurriedly invited away by the dignitaries to treat the patient.
If these ordinary people had some savings, they could still hire a doctor. But if they were penniless, they could only wait for death.
These people were unwilling to wait for death, so they gathered at the Yong’an Temple and tried to seek an explanation.
Walking along the outer city, he saw people suffering from coughs and colds everywhere. Outside the stalls of a few kind-hearted doctors, there was a huge crowd of people waiting for help, which was a shocking sight.
The further he walked, the more his brows became twisted into a “川” shape.
….
Su Xi opened the new map section of Yong’an Temple and first locked onto the cub in the crowd.
It was the first time she saw the cub’s attire when he went out. He was wearing a fur robe and a black hood and cloak on his head to avoid being recognized by the people in Ning Wang’s Mansion.
The little kid was mixed in the crowd, walking with his hands behind his back, looking stern, and looking even more dashing than usual.
Su Xi was about to laugh when she was suddenly startled by the huge number of seriously ill people lying on the ground in Yong’an Temple.
There were people everywhere!
Because there was no cure for the cold, they fell sickly in the corner, as if they would die in the next second!
There were old people with wrinkled faces, babies still in their mothers’ arms, and strong young men. They all had the same symptoms when they got the disease: fatigue, high fever, and chills.
Although all these people on the game screen were just cartoon stickmen, Su Xi still felt horrified and couldn’t bear it!
It turned out that the plague caused by cold in ancient times was so terrible?!
It was simply a disaster. Who knows how many people will die this winter!
Although those doctors tried their best to diagnose and treat patients, it was obvious that their medical skills were limited. They could only use herbal remedies and folk remedies to save those with relatively mild illnesses. Some people had high fevers for days and their faces were almost pale, and they had all been given up by the doctors.
Su Xi never expected that such a common viral cold in modern times could kill so many people in the ancient times of the game.
She only bought one dose of medicine that day, and the kid only drank it once and recovered quickly!
——Doesn’t that mean the medicine I bought from the mall can save all these people?!
As this thought flashed through Su Xi’s mind, Lu Huan looked around at the shocking sight of people in agony and his brows furrowed, thinking about the same question.
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