Chapter 4 Serious Illness

Five kilometers away from Baishi Town, a newborn was born in Mingzhu Village, which is only two kilometers away from Ono Village.

In this village with scarce resources, although there will be no weddings or other activities for the birth of a newborn, the villagers will come to congratulate, and the elders will give the child a name to pray for safety.

After some consideration, the elders thought that this child's ancestors were hunters, destined to learn to run, and born smart, not stable enough, it is better to hide the edge, pray for safety, and use "Shi" as a name to suppress this fate.

So, Yun Ye got the new name Yang Shi by accident.

Although ordinary, it is quite in line with his heart.

...

In a blink of an eye.

Yun Ye is already five years old.

Mingzhu Village is a subsidiary village of Baishi Town, which bears part of Baishi Town's material consumption. The most special one is a strange plant called Mingzhu.

This Mingzhu is as hard as iron, and it seems to have a muffled thunder when it is waved. It is a material for making weapons.

Every year, Baishi Town needs a large amount of Mingzhu, and there must be no shortage.

For this reason, Baishi Town specially opened a plantation and moved in a large number of slaves and civilians for planting.

This is Mingzhu Village.

Baishi Town's requirement for Mingzhu Village is that it must hand in 10,000 Mingzhu every year. If it cannot be completed, it needs to be offset by the price of 30 black coppers per piece.

Although Yun Ye is not engaged in bamboo felling, he knows the general situation through hearing and seeing.

This is a huge number, not as simple as imagined.

Mingzhu is a plant with various properties comparable to metal. An adult cannot cut down a Mingzhu in a day.

And the whole village has more than 200 people, even if half of the bamboo cutters do nothing but cut Mingzhu.

It takes a whole year without repair to hand in 10,000 Mingzhu on time, and work hard for a whole year. This is a huge burden for Mingzhu Village, which has poor food and drink.

And the lack of a Mingzhu requires 30 black coppers, but an extra Mingzhu can only receive 3 black coppers.

A ten-fold gap.

You know, the first 10,000 bamboo shoots were paid for free.

If you don't want to work for nothing for a year, you need to pay 10,000 bamboo shoots and then cut bamboo shoots to support a year's food supply.

Obviously, the purchase price of excess bamboo shoots directly determines the living standards of bamboo cutters.

According to the current situation of Mingzhu Village, the purchase price of three black copper coins is just barely enough to keep them from starving to death.

Obviously, even if it is one copper coin higher, the result will be very different, and the situation of Mingzhu Village will be much better, but the government deliberately stuck at this point, making Mingzhu Village exhausted.

Although Mingzhu Village is stronger than Ono Village, it is also extremely limited.

The same is true for the hunter family that Yun Ye was born in.

Although eating is barely a problem, it is impossible to save money, and the ability to deal with crises is almost zero.

"Cough cough cough..."

The haggard woman coughed while weaving straw sandals, and looked at the child on the bed from time to time, showing a very distressed look.

Five-year-old Yun Ye was lying on the bed, his face was a little pale, he was now extremely desperate.

He had been very careful not to repeat the same mistake, but reality was unreasonable.

The bitter cold this winter was not at all useful for him to be careful, and he finally couldn't stand it and got a serious illness.

In ancient times, being sick was simply a death sentence for the King of Hell, and the chance of survival was very small.

Even the princes and grandchildren of the emperor's family often died in large numbers, let alone a powerless and untouchable?

What made Yun Ye feel most desperate was not that he was sick, but that his mother in this life...

She was also sick!

If he died, he could still be reincarnated, but if his relatives in this life died, there was no way to revive them!

It's only been a few years, is he going to watch his family die in front of him again?

"So annoying!"

After thinking about it, Yun Ye couldn't find a solution and couldn't control his anger, so he punched the bed board.

The woman was startled, thinking that Yun Ye was tortured by the disease and couldn't bear it anymore, so she hurriedly said: "Don't worry, Xiao Shi, Dad will buy medicine soon. The medicine will definitely cure the disease by then. Just bear with it!"

Yun Ye shook his head.

Of course he knew that Yang Shu went to buy medicine, but with the savings of the Yang family, how could they buy enough medicine?

And even if they bought enough medicine, he was a child with low immunity and the possibility of survival was extremely low. I'm afraid that he would be tortured in vain and die in the end.

Feeling more and more uncomfortable, Yun Ye had the idea of ​​suicide in his heart.

He had a way out of reincarnation, and dying once would only reduce his lifespan by one year. He felt that this price was affordable.

And if he died early, he could reincarnate early. If he just delayed for five years, there would still be hope.

As the idea came up, the idea of ​​suicide took root and sprouted uncontrollably.

As long as he died, all the diseases he was suffering from would disappear, and he could return to health.

And the price he paid was just a short lifespan of one year.

This thought swirled around for a long time.

With his willpower, even the pain caused by fever can make him want to live or die.

After twenty years of tempering, this threshold has been raised a little, but with the knowledge that he can be reincarnated, this threshold was instantly kicked to the bottom.

Since he can be resurrected, why suffer this pain?

As an ordinary person with full-level laziness in modern times, he rejects all troubles and sufferings in his heart.

So much so that this illness is even worse than the first life. He had the idea of ​​suicide in just one day.

After this idea hovered for a long time, Yun Ye still defeated it.

The reason is very simple.

Right next to him, his mother, who suffered from the same disease, was sweating profusely, but she was still working.

Except for checking on his condition from time to time, she never stopped.

The whole room was filled with only the sound of breathing and the sound of Sasha knitting.

"..."

Seeing this scene, Yun Ye silently gritted his teeth and used his own willpower to fight against the disease.

He can indeed be reincarnated, so death doesn't matter.

But his death is an unbearable pain for this family.

Just like when he found out that Onomura was massacred, he was almost disheartened and didn't plan to live anymore.

His mother's life support is him, her own son.

Once he died, I'm afraid that his mother, who was too sad and seriously ill, would be no different from walking into the gates of hell.

"Live on, become a superior person, and then, live forever!"

At this moment, Yun Ye had only this simple thought. He deeply understood that the price of powerlessness is his own pain.

And at this moment, Yun Ye's forehead flashed with fire patterns, as if he was about to wake up.

"Bang!"

The thin door was suddenly pushed open, and the sturdy man in animal clothes walked into the house with a suppressed angry expression, and then immediately closed the door to prevent the cold wind from blowing away the only heat.

"Husband, are you back?"

"Shuzhu... Hey."

Faced with his wife's surprise, Yang Shu could only sigh sadly.

He said: "This disease is prevalent throughout Baishi Town. There are a large number of patients, and there is not enough medicine. I spent all my money and only got back half of the disease-eliminating talisman."

"Half?" Shu Zhu was stunned.

I thought that even one portion was hard to accept, but the store in Baishi Town suddenly raised the price, so that all their savings were only exchanged for half of the disease-eliminating talisman?

Are they so cruel?