This discovery instantly filled Liang Qiaoqiao with immense delight.
In the countryside, plants were the last thing in short supply.
Once she found time to go up the mountain tomorrow, how many points would she be able to obtain?
By then, not just upgrading one level—even multiple levels would be no problem at all!
Liang Qiaoqiao identified plants all along the way.
Surprisingly, just from this round trip, the wild grasses and trees lining both sides of the road had earned her quite a few points.
Returning home, Liang Qiaoqiao opened the points column for a look.
She was less than a hundred points away from the 250 points needed for the second upgrade.
Liang Qiaoqiao: o(￣︶￣)o, only this little left? How effortlessly achievable.
She was growing more and more confident.
Just wait—tomorrow she would upgrade her Space to Level 2!
No matter how much the Space expanded with each upgrade, it cost nothing anyway, so why not take what was offered for free?
Every additional square meter meant she could carry more with her in the future.
If it kept expanding level by level, hiding a person or storing a whole house full of supplies might not be impossible.
With a cheerful heart, she slept soundly through the night.
The next day, Liang Qiaoqiao got up bright and early.
When the sky was just beginning to lighten, she braved the frost to deliver fire and meals.
Snow was rare in Nan County during winter, and it was said that Wutong Village hadn’t seen snow for many years.
Though there was no snow, frost was unavoidable, making the morning temperatures very low.
Shivering all the way, Liang Qiaoqiao, fueled by her anticipation, completely forgot to pay attention to how cold the weather was.
To gather more points, she deliberately took a different path up the mountain.
The journey went smoothly. Although she didn’t earn as many points as the day before, she still managed to collect several dozen, nearly a hundred.
She glanced at the points column—just a little more, and she would have enough to upgrade to Level 2.
Her mood was exceedingly cheerful, and she even felt a warmth spreading through her body, no longer noticing the cold.
By the time she descended the mountain and headed back, the sky was fully bright.
Liang Qiaoqiao casually turned into the village. As she passed through an alley, she saw a fifteen- or sixteen-year-old boy standing at the alley entrance, his venomous snake-like eyes glaring fiercely at her.
Liang Qiaoqiao: ??? What’s wrong with him? Blocking the path early in the morning to bring others bad luck!
Her good mood instantly vanished.
“Liang Qiaoqiao, you bitch! Just wait until my grandparents and parents come back—they’ll beat you to death!”
Hearing this, Liang Qiaoqiao immediately recalled the identity of this wretched brat from her memories.
“Heh… So it’s you—the son and grandson of robbers and murderers.”
She cast a mocking glance at the boy. “Your grandparents, parents, uncles, and aunts aren’t coming back. Given the evil they’ve committed, even if they don’t face execution, they’re definitely headed for labor reform. You should worry about how to feed yourself and that litter of little brats at home instead.”
The white-eyed wolf cub, son of Chen Laoer’s eldest, had inherited every bit of his grandparents’ and parents’ traits.
In the original host’s memories, she had suffered plenty of grievances from this little white-eyed wolf.
But now, with Liang Qiaoqiao in charge, would she give him a friendly face?
What a joke!
Even before crossing over, she had never given her own biological younger brother a kind expression, okay?
The more her parents doted on that brat, the more she schemed behind their backs, making sure he suffered just as much as she did.
They were biological siblings from the same parents—why should she endure hardships while he enjoyed a life of ease?
Family life should be lived in harmony!
Since she couldn’t win against the two adults, surely she could handle the little one…
Shaking off the bitter memories of her past life, Liang Qiaoqiao completely ignored the cursing of the little white-eyed wolf behind her and headed straight back to her own courtyard.
Taking advantage of the good weather today, she planned to go up the mountain later.
For her current self, nothing mattered except leveling up her Space.
So she needed to earn more points, aiming to reach Level 2 and then save up to charge toward Level 3.
After reaching Level 1 last time, the Space had automatically split into two halves: one for storage and the other for planting.
All the flowers, plants, and trees she had collected through the Treasure Collection Function had automatically taken root in the planting area and were thriving.
Moreover, Liang Qiaoqiao discovered that each time she planted something, a corresponding patch of yellow soil would automatically unlock in the planting area.
She guessed it was likely intentionally designed by the Space for her to freely cultivate crops.
This setup felt familiar, almost identical to the farming games from the future.
Liang Qiaoqiao wasn’t annoyed by this planting function in her Space; on the contrary, she was quite pleased with it.
After waking up in this productivity-backward, food-scarce 1970s, unexpectedly having such a portable farm was already a huge Cheat for her.
At the very least, she could freely grow grains, vegetables, and fruits without worrying about starvation.
If she planned well, achieving fruit freedom was within reach.
However, she currently had no seeds on hand. If she wanted to grow anything, she would have to plan slowly.
But the top priority was to level up the Space first.
As the Space expanded, the available land for planting would also increase!
With land, she could buy some seeds to grow crops, and if there was surplus, she could trade them for money or goods.
Killing two birds with one stone!
After returning home and filling her stomach, Liang Qiaoqiao prepared to head up the mountain.
As the most remote and impoverished village in the Honghua Brigade of Nan County, Wutong Village was not only deep in the mountains but also surrounded by hills on three sides.
From the mountaintop, the only relatively flat area in the entire village was the side where the entrance road was laid.
With little arable land in the mountains, the plots the villagers had barely managed to cultivate at the foot of the hills were far from fertile.
The barren mountain soil was so poor that it yielded very few food crops throughout the year.
This was the reason for Wutong Village’s generational poverty.
Relying solely on those fields, even without encountering a famine, the farmers here could barely eat a few full meals.
However, being in the subtropical southern region with its mild and humid climate, the mountain vegetation was lush and abundant.
Liang Qiaoqiao, the time-traveler, carried a basket on her back, along with a chopper and a wooden stick, and cheerfully made her way up the mountain.
Having never learned hunting skills in either of her lifetimes, she didn’t even dare to dream of bagging any game on this trip.
Of course, if she actually encountered wild boars or wolves like in those time-travel novels, it certainly wouldn’t be her hunting them—she’d be the one getting hunted.
To put it plainly, her purpose for going up the mountain was to identify and collect more valuable plants to earn points for leveling up her Space.
Hunting game was not on her agenda for now.
The weather in December was already very cold, and many trees had shed their leaves.
But with the abundance of vegetation on the mountain, she could still see plenty of evergreen trees along the way.
Liang Qiaoqiao wasn’t picky. Whenever she encountered plants she hadn’t yet identified, she would stop to examine them.
This was Liang Qiaoqiao’s first time going up the mountain, and she was wearing one of the original owner’s only two sets of clothes.
Though they had been washed clean, they were patched in numerous places.
In these times, fabric was scarce. Throughout the entire Wutong Village, no household had thick winter clothing to wear.
Basically, everyone owned one slightly thicker garment and would layer it with several thinner pieces, barely managing to muddle through the winter.
Liang Qiaoqiao was also afraid of the cold.
If not for the fact that prolonged movement would eventually warm her up, coupled with the tempting prospect of leveling up her Space, she would never have ventured up the mountain to face the bitter wind.