Sweet Dreams in Famine Years: The System Leads to a Brilliant Life

Zeng Zhengen could see through what Mrs. Zhang was planning at a glance.

"Mother-in-law, there's no need to go through so much trouble. I'll go with you! This way, you won't have to make an extra trip." Zeng Zhengen said calmly.

Mrs. Zhang wanted to refuse, but Zeng Zhengen didn't wait for her to speak and directly dragged her towards Zhang's house.

The onlookers followed one after another. Seeing their mother's plight, Zhang Jiajun and his three brothers also hurried over.

At the Zhang family, old man Zhang took his two sons out, leaving only his two daughters-in-law at home.

"Mom..." Tang Jiali and Wang Ju were surprised to see their mother-in-law being restrained by her eldest daughter-in-law.

"Sister-in-law, what are you doing? How can you treat mother like this?"

"Yes, sister-in-law, no matter what, mother is the elder, and it is really wrong for you to do this."

Both of them blamed Zeng Zhengen.

"So what?" Zeng Zhengen remained calm in the face of accusations from his two sisters-in-law.

"So you must let mother go quickly, then go buy some meat and apologize to mother." Wang Ju said immediately.

"Mom, do you think so too?" Zeng Zhengen increased the strength of his hands while asking the question.

"No...ah...no..." Mrs. Zhang was in so much pain that she was sweating all over and shaking her head like a rattle.

"In that case, mother, please return my dowry as soon as possible!" Zeng Zhengen said in a cold tone.

At this time, Mrs. Zhang no longer dared to play any tricks.

"Second son's wife, go to the closet in my room and get out ten taels of silver, and also bring the silver hairpin." Mrs. Zhang said to Tang Jiali.

Tang Jiali was unwilling to do so. Ten taels of silver was the harvest of the family for the past year. If she exchanged it for food, plus the silver hairpin, how much food could she get? There had been drought for the past six months, and almost all the crops in the fields had died of drought. If she took out so much silver, how would her family survive in the future?

But she did not dare to disobey her mother-in-law. After all, in this era where filial piety is supreme, if you disobey your mother-in-law, it would be a great act of unfilial piety.

"What are you still standing there for? Go get it quickly!" Seeing Tang Jiali standing there in a daze, Mrs. Zhang immediately scolded her harshly.

After being scolded by Mrs. Zhang, Tang Jiali did not dare to delay and ran into the house. After a while, she came out with ten taels of silver and a silver hairpin.

"Mother..." Tang Jiali looked at Mrs. Zhang, her voice filled with helplessness.

"Give the thing to her quickly!" Mrs. Zhang said sternly.

Tang Jiali had to reluctantly hand over the ten taels of silver and the silver hairpin to Zeng Zhengen.

Zeng Zhengen remembered that his household registration was still with Mrs. Zhang, so he spoke again: "What about our household registration? Where is it?"

Mrs. Zhang wanted to deny it, but Zeng Zhengen exerted force on her hand and she immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered: "It's... under the pillow in my room, second son's wife, go get it!"

Tang Jiali had no choice but to go into the room again and take out Zeng Zhengen and the others’ household registration.

Zeng Zhengen let go of Mrs. Zhang's wrist only after he confirmed that everything was correct.

"Since mother has returned the things, I will go back." Zeng Zhengen said, turned around and left, and the three little guys hurriedly followed him back.

When the crowd of onlookers saw the excitement fade away, they also left one after another.

Mrs. Zhang took a long time to calm down. Looking at the ten taels of silver and the silver hairpin that were taken out, Mrs. Zhang cursed at her two daughters-in-law: "Are you two blind? Didn't you see that I was caught by that unlucky guy? Why don't you come to help me?"

Listening to Mrs. Zhang's curses, Tang Jiali and Wang Ju felt very aggrieved, but they did not dare to disobey Mrs. Zhang and could only endure this injustice silently.

Zeng Zhengen brought the silver, the silver hairpin, and the three children back home. As soon as he got home, Zeng Zhengen couldn't wait to go into the room.

"System, you said before that I can use the currency of this dynasty to exchange for system coins? Then can I exchange all this silver into system coins?"

[Back to the host, yes. 】

"Then exchange all these ten taels of silver into system coins!"

As soon as Zeng Zhengen finished speaking, ten taels of silver disappeared in his hand, and the system coin column on the system screen immediately increased by 100,000 system coins.

Seeing that series of numbers, Zeng Zhengen immediately felt like he had become rich overnight. After the system currency arrived, the price of the product also appeared.

Rice is two system coins per pound, flour is also two system coins per pound, and pork is ten system coins per pound. Zeng Zhengen looked at these prices and was so happy that he could hardly close his mouth.

The things in this system mall are so cheap that it's unbelievable! In the original owner's memory, the price of rice is eight coins per catty, and eight coins is equal to eighty system coins.

It just so happened that there was no rice left at home, so Zeng Zhengen immediately decided to buy ten kilograms of rice.

[Ding, congratulations to the host for successfully spending 20 system coins and gaining 20 points. ]

"System, what are these points for?" Zeng Zhengen asked.

[Return to the host. When your points reach 1,000, you can draw a prize on the lucky draw page. The chance of winning a prize is 90%.]

After the system finished explaining, Zeng Zhengen did see a lottery page on the screen, but due to insufficient points, the lottery page was now gray.

Suddenly, Zeng Zhengen seemed to have thought of something, looked at the system screen and asked: "System, shouldn't you give me a novice gift package?"

She remembered that when she was in college in her previous life, she had read several novels about binding systems, which usually came with a novice gift package.

The system screen suddenly twisted a few times.

[Host, how did you know? ]

Zeng Zhengen raised his eyebrows. It seems that there really is a novice gift package.

"System, are you trying to embezzle my novice gift package?" Zeng Zhengen asked tentatively.

[Nonsense, how can the host doubt this system? This system is an upright ruler! ]

The system was eager to prove its innocence and immediately sent a system gift package to Zeng Zhengen.

Zeng Zhengen was too lazy to argue with the system and turned his attention to the gift package. He clicked the "Open Gift Package" button and the gift package was quickly opened.

After seeing the contents of the gift package, Zeng Zhengen smiled with satisfaction.

It turned out to be a 10 square meter system space! Although 10 square meters of space is not very large, it is enough for now.

Zeng Zhengen kept a pound of rice on hand and put the rest of the rice into the system space.

Just as Zeng Zhengen was about to go out, the voices of a few kids were heard outside the door.

"Mother...mother..."

Several people shouted several times, but there was no response.

"Brother, second brother, nothing will happen to Mom, right?" the youngest Zhang Jiahu asked anxiously, his eyes full of worry.

After hearing what his brother said, Zhang Jiajun also began to become anxious.

"Brother, why don't we kick the door open and go in to see how Mom is doing?" Zhang Jiaqi suggested.