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The Great Yan Kingdom, Kaoshantun.

The cold wind of early winter rattled the old wooden windows and doors.

The dilapidated house was drafty, and Ye Qingqing's wet hair was covered with frost. She was huddled in a patched-up quilt, still shivering from the cold.

I really don't know where the original owner got the courage to jump into the river in the dead of winter!

The original owner of this body was fifteen, a lazy girl who was spoiled rotten by her family.

Last year, she got engaged to the son of a family in the neighboring village who was studying. In order to raise money for his books and to become a wealthy official's wife in the future, she threw a tantrum, crying and making a scene to force her father to go hunting in the mountains.

Who knew that my father would fall off the mountain and break his leg? Without money for treatment, he could only lie half-dead in bed.

She disregarded everything and even stole the family's food rations to give to the scumbag in exchange for money. As a result, she caught him kissing the village head's daughter behind a woodpile. Unable to win the argument, she jumped into the river in a fit of anger.

The original owner's series of outrageous actions left Ye Qingqing in awe!

She didn't care about her reputation, her face, or even her family, leaving behind a mess that caused great suffering for Ye Qingqing, who had transmigrated from another world!

In the dead of winter in the north, people can really die if they don't have food!

"Original owner, you're such a love-obsessed idiot!"

The pressure of survival weighed on Ye Qingqing, and she gritted her teeth and cursed, "He doesn't care about the lives of his whole family and runs off to be a lapdog!"

What an idiot! A bootlicker will only end up with nothing! Wouldn't it be better to use that energy to study hard and improve yourself?

In her own time and space, Ye Qingqing focused all her energy on cultivation and has become a high-level divination master, having crafted three personal divination slips.

She sits in the Taoist temple, casting three divinations for people each day, each one revealing the truth of life and death, and offering guidance through confusion.

Despite the high price of a single divination, the line of people going to the Taoist temple to have their fortunes told by her could stretch from the temple to the Pacific Ocean!

Today, her personal fortune slip suddenly indicated that she was facing a major calamity. Before she could understand it, she was swept away to another time and space by a sudden flash flood.

When Ye Qingqing opened her eyes again, she found herself in the body of the original owner of the body who shared the same name as her.

Forget it, the most important thing right now is to make up for the original owner's debts and at least feed the family of six so they don't starve to death.

There's a famous saying that goes something like this: With great power comes great responsibility.

From now on, this family will depend on her!

Fortunately, the three divination slips she carried with her were still there. Ye Qingqing immediately concentrated her mind and used her consciousness to retrieve them:

"Today's divination slip will tell me how to increase my wealth!"

"Ding-dong..."

The divination slips appeared before my eyes, sparkling brightly.

"Clang..."

The divination sticks made a crisp sound, and after shaking them a few times, each revealed luminous golden characters:

[Xiao Ji: At the foot of Qiushan Mountain, a pheasant was killed by a falling rock. There are nine eggs inside the cave. Go and collect them to get a reward.]

[Zhongji: Near a pine tree on the mountainside of Qiushan, there are herds of roe deer. Hunting them can yield animal hides and meat.]

[Extremely ominous: A lone wolf prepares to hunt a herd of roe deer; without a foolproof plan, going forth will be extremely dangerous.]

Ye Qingqing looked at the prompts on the divination slip, her heart trembling with excitement.

A lucky sign indicates you might find a wild pheasant for free.

A surge of joy welled up in my heart from the thought of getting something for nothing.

The China-Kyrgyzstan lottery is even more enticing. If you can find a way to get a roe deer, you can not only eat and sell its meat, but also sell its pelt.

In the northern borderlands, winters can be deadly, so furs are incredibly valuable!

But the ominous sign also said that the lone wolf had its eye on the roe deer herd, and that she was unarmed and going to fight the lone wolf for prey?

If she were to run into someone, she'd be adding food to the wolf's diet!

Let's go pick up some pheasants first and get through this difficult time.

With three divination sticks by her side, she could obtain information that others could not, and ensure that her family had enough to eat and wear to get through the cold winter.

However, in ancient times, to live well in this remote mountain village, one had to buy land, have grain in the granary, and have money in hand to build a place for oneself to settle down and make a living!

Ye Qingqing pondered for a moment before reaching out and taking off the small lucky charm.

The divination slip transformed into a ray of light and vanished in my palm.

A scene immediately flashed into my mind:

In front of a partially collapsed cave, a large number of stones had fallen, and buried under the stones was a plump, grayish-brown pheasant.

Ye Qingqing sat up abruptly, then shivered violently, "Achoo..."

The original owner jumped into the river and soaked all her cotton-padded clothes and trousers, leaving her only wearing a thin, coarse summer dress.

The moment my skin came into contact with the cold air, goosebumps all over my body, even the roots of my hair, stood up instantly.

"Second sister, you...you're awake?"

Hearing the noise, Ye Cuicui pushed open the door and came in, carrying a set of old, coarse cotton clothes. She hesitated for a moment before walking to the bedside, head down, not daring to look at her. After a long pause, she finally spoke softly.

"Your clothes are drying in the main room, Father said, Father said..."

"What did Father say?"

Seeing her pale and thin face, her small body as thin as a sheet of paper, Ye Qingqing waved to Ye Cuicui, "Can't hear me? Come closer and speak..."

Before she could finish speaking, Ye Cuicui thought he was going to hit her, and instinctively raised her hand to block him.

Ye Qingqing twitched the corner of her mouth.

"Why are you hiding? I'm not going to hit you. I just wanted you to come closer so I could hear you."

That wretched original owner! She must have bullied her sister a lot in the past. Look how scared she's made that child!

Ye Cuicui glanced at her in surprise, then had no choice but to move forward a little.

"Father said you should wear Mother's clothes from before she passed away, don't mind... once his leg heals, we'll buy you new ones!"

In the past, when my second sister went to see the Fang family's son, she would always vent her anger on her and never give her a kind look.

This caused Ye Cuicui to be afraid whenever she saw her second sister, and she didn't dare to say a word to her.

Strange, is Second Sister possessed by an evil spirit today? She didn't even scold her as a little slut!

"Hmm, it's alright, Mom's clothes are fine."

Ye Qingqing was thinking about the pheasant, so she crawled out of bed to get dressed.

The cotton-padded clothes and trousers were especially warm from the heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), and as she wrapped her cold body inside, her heart warmed up as well.

A somber mood hung over the dilapidated mud-brick house. The family members sat or leaned against each other, heads bowed and silent.

The eldest brother, Ye Dali, whose once robust physique was now thin and hunched over, spoke in a muffled voice with his hands tucked into his sleeves.

"Father, don't worry. I'll go to town and find some manual labor tomorrow. We can't let the family starve to death."

"Even if you do hard labor, it'll take you a month or two to see any money! Are we going to starve for that month?"

Sister-in-law Li Chunyan wiped away her tears and said angrily,

"That second daughter of mine has really lost her mind! That man surnamed Fang isn't her father or mother, yet she ignores you when you broke your leg, but instead rushes to give him our family's grain as a gift. How are we, a family of six, supposed to survive!"

Ye Dali quickly glared at her.

"Don't say that, it will upset Er Yatou if she hears it... No, no, I'll go borrow some food from the village head's family first, and pay them back after next year's harvest."

"She'll be upset? She only cares about that Fang family, when has she ever considered us as her family!"

Li Chunyan angrily held up four fingers and waved them, gritting her teeth as she said,

"Besides, is it so easy to borrow grain from the village head's family? If we borrow one bushel, we have to return one and a half bushels—it's like being skinned alive! How are we going to pay it back then?"