Reborn Just To Be a Big Shot Family Freeloader

Chapter 35: Shocking

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The following day, the family spent some time cultivating, then they proceeded to practice martial arts for a while. Yan Lingsu began to eat breakfast, and Brother Monkey started to pack up the prey they wanted to sell along with the medicinal herbs that Yan Lingsu had accumulated over the past few days.

When they finished having breakfast, the sun began to rise. Uncle Lu had already gone to the Elder’s house to borrow a donkey cart to bring over. The two deers that his family has distributed were also slaughtered and sold as deer meat.

Yan Lingsu cleaned the deer antlers to be used as medicinal herbs or to be sold in the future at a higher price. Other than the two deers, the divided chickens and rabbits were also to be sold.

Uncle Lu had recently followed Brother Monkey into the mountains, and he had gathered quite a lot of prey. His family did not lack meat, and they even had some money saved up. Grandmother Zuo had talked about renovating the house after spring so that Uncle Lu could get married.

Yan Lingsu was afraid they would be hungry, so she made a scallion pancake and boiled ten eggs. She also poured some hot water into a bamboo tube and told them to bring it along as a source of food and water.

Gongyu Mingxi instructed her son, “Gongyu Hao, you haven’t visited your Fifth Uncle and Fifth Aunt the last time you went to the city. Go and visit them today if you have the time. Bring along a few chickens and rabbits for your Fifth Uncle as well as some of the badger meat and deer leg meat as well.”

Initially, Uncle Lu was worried about Gongyu Hao’s ability to drive a donkey cart. It didn’t matter if it were a cow or a donkey. He didn’t know how obedient they would be in the hands of Gongyu Hao. Gongyu Hao’s driving ability was even better than Uncle Lu’s, so he just let Gongyu Hao drive.

Uncle Lu shaded Yan Qixun as he teased, “These donkeys probably know that Gongyu Hao is someone who can kill big animals. They seem to be very obedient.”

As Brother Monkey’s silly fan, Yan Qixun thought to herself. ‘Monkey King is someone who can beat a fierce demon king until it begs for mercy.’

It was also quite annoying to have to borrow other people’s carts. Although every time Uncle Lu borrowed a cart, he would give the Elders some wild animals as a gift. It was a matter of repaying them for their favor. It would be better to buy his own donkey or even a horse. However, a good horse would cost more than a hundred taels of silver. It was like buying a luxury car. His family could not afford it for the time being, but purchasing a donkey was still a possibility. As for the cart, it could always be built. It would be much better than what was available outside.

Yan Qixun then suggested, “Second Brother, we could buy a donkey in the city later if we have enough money. Then we can build our cart. In the future, when you and Uncle Lu go into the city, you won’t have to borrow the Elder’s cart anymore. Would that be okay?”

Brother Monkey didn’t care. “As long as you think that mother doesn’t oppose it, you can buy one.”

Suppose Gongyu Mingxi was in a position where she could use her children and not worry about anything. As long as they had something that they wanted to do, she would not oppose it.

Yan Qixun waved her little hand. “Mother will not oppose this. Let’s buy one.”

Uncle Lu was happy deep inside. “Then you will have to feed the donkeys every day. Aren’t you busy enough with raising so many rabbits?”

Wild rabbits weren’t easy to tame. It would be impossible to raise them if it weren’t for the Zuo family. After all, rabbits multiplied quickly, so it was a steady source of income.

However, she had Brother Monkey around to help. Those rabbits were very obedient. The thirty or so rabbits that they kept were raised well. Uncle Lu had initially thought that Yan Qixun was only raising them for fun. She had only started with two rabbits. He didn’t expect her to raise more of them. They were very well taken care of, which surprised him.

Yan Qixun smiled and said, “It’s no trouble. Our farm is full of grass. Are you afraid that we might not be able to care for the rabbits? I had mentioned that we had raised some of them and gave some to Grandmother Zuo and my aunt to help raise them. We also kept a few of them. I reckon that we will have at least another one to two hundred of them in total by next spring.”

Zuo Guanglu did not know that she had raised rabbits for their fur. He thought that she had raised them as a source of food or even as a source of income. Rabbits ate grass, and there was no shortage of grass in the countryside. If they were raised well, it would be a pretty good source of income.

Zuo Guanglu smiled and said, “Then your mother will be happy. She has tried to raise rabbits in the past, but they died in just a few days.”

As it was not a busy day, they did not see many people on the way to the city. However, they passed by the city and did not enter. Instead, they went straight into the city. After passing the city entrance, the road to the city was along the riverbank.

Yan Qixun’s parents had brought her to the city in the past. She was young at that time, so she didn’t remember much. Now that she had the memories of her past life, she was shocked when she looked at the riverbank and canal. The empire they lived in was indeed a mighty one.

The city had a canal in her past life, but the river was less than one-fifth of the canal’s width in front of her. The riverbank was also ten meters wide. There were berms on both sides of the road. The leaves were beautiful, and the sky was blue during autumn. It was as beautiful as an oil painting. There were small and large ships in the river that were sailing back and forth, showing the prosperity of the times.

Yan Qixun did not pay much attention to the carts. She was staring at the ships that were in the canal. She had seen and studied the Ming dynasty ships that represented the cutting-edge technology of the ancient world. However, the large ships in the canal were much more majestic than the Ming Dynasty ships.

She had not expected the empire’s shipbuilding industry to be well developed. However, thinking about it, she understood. The empire was huge. So if transportation methods were not well developed, how would the people in power rule such a vast country?

The canal was massive, and the riverbank was one of the main paths of Linjiang Prefecture. One could know what the transportation methods of the empire were like.

The empire’s military power was also strong. Unfortunately, based on Yan Qixun’s understanding, the empire’s agriculture was not developed enough, and the manufacturing industry concerning people’s livelihood was not great either. It was much worse than her past life’s Song and Ming Dynasties. However, it was not even as good as the magnificent Tang Empire apart from the shipbuilding industry in terms of technology.

The empire was mighty, but people’s livelihoods were so ordinary. Yan Qixun could not help but feel regretful. Ping An city was about twenty to thirty miles away from the city. After passing through the city, they went onto the main road. They did not slow down. Apart from the shipbuilding industry and in less than two hours, they had arrived at the city gate.

In the gap between the lines of the city gate, Yan Qixun looked at the city walls of Linjiang City. The moat was more than ten meters wide, the city walls were twenty meters thick, and thirty meters tall.

The towering city wall was magnificent, and this was only Linjiang City. Imagine if it was the Capital City, the Great City, or Shengjing City.

If this were a movie, it would produce an imposing demeanor.

Yan Qixun, who had gone out of her home for the first time, was deeply shocked by this mighty empire. The hot blood that belonged to the soldier she once was in her past life was surging.

Unfortunately, she wasn’t a poet like her mother. Otherwise, she would have composed a song about the great empire.

This was the world that she wanted to spend her life in..