Black Widow, killer of virtuous men.
For the past few days, these matters had made them utterly unwilling to see Ye Tiancheng. If they encountered him one day, these five sisters would all avoid Ye Tiancheng like he was a plague god.
Ye Tiancheng never expected to fall to such a state, which made him extremely dejected. He didn't know if the people spreading these rumors had malicious intentions or were driven by envy and jealousy, making their slander.
"Kid, never pry into people's hearts. The darkness of the human heart is something you can never imagine," the system told Ye Tiancheng.
Hearing this, Ye Tiancheng couldn't help but laugh wryly.
He had never felt such a tragic situation, never felt so desperate. In such a helpless state, it was truly a case of calling out to heaven but receiving no answer, and calling out to earth but finding no response.
"What's the big deal? Hardship is the stepping stone to success. When you were young, you always treated tribulations as tribulations. Only adults treat tribulations as tempering."
The system continuously encouraged Ye Tiancheng, hoping he would pull himself together.
After experiencing too many things that others couldn't, one would grow and become a distinguished figure.
After this, he would transform into a completely new person. Even he himself would recognize his flaws, and that would be the true moment of growth.
"So, rumors always stop at the wise."
At this moment, Xiao Hu Zi suddenly appeared before Ye Tiancheng. Seeing his smug look, Ye Tiancheng was puzzled.
Could this guy be getting married?
"Why are you smiling so creepily?"
Ye Tiancheng didn't understand his smile and looked at Xiao Hu Zi with a strange gaze.
"Because my sweet potatoes have successfully sold 1,000 jin."
This amount was indeed substantial, but it indicated that the situation was not that simple. Something big was bound to happen, and this guy had no grasp of it. Therefore, Ye Tiancheng keenly felt that if the sales volume for this day was equivalent to half a month's sales, it would mean terrifying events were about to unfold.
As someone from a civilized world, he knew the value of sweet potatoes.
In the world Ye Tiancheng had once inhabited, sweet potatoes were a staple food that bridged the gap between lean and abundant seasons. Since sweet potatoes were being bought in large quantities in this era of food scarcity, it indicated either impending war or a period of famine.
In such a case, if food wasn't stockpiled quickly,
a terrible fate would await them: starvation.
Therefore, in his opinion, the key to this problem lay in how they handled it. Handling these issues required building warehouses to store sweet potatoes.
He had farmed before at the Hou family ancestral hall and understood the importance of farming. Thus, he had to cultivate sweet potatoes on eighty mu of land within a month and stockpile them in large quantities. Sweet potatoes had a very long shelf life; as long as they were stored in a cellar, they could last for half a year.
At this time, Hou Mingzhu had transformed into another woman, the witch he had met in Muyu Village. She was also stockpiling grain.
"This woman is indeed as I imagined."
However, the critical issue was that stockpiling grain without military protection was like fattening sheep for wolves to devour.
Therefore, how to protect wealth also became a top priority.
If Ye Tiancheng had to protect his own wealth, he would certainly have the ability and time.
But if he also had to protect five sisters, he would feel extremely strained.
Hello, hello. Ye Tiancheng quickly planted sweet potato seedlings on the eighty mu of land after improving it. Since he had farmed in that world, he was very familiar with soil improvement and sweet potato seedling management.
However, the growth period of sweet potatoes was generally half a year. Therefore, to cultivate sweet potatoes, scientific management and planting methods alone were not enough. The spiritual energy of cultivators was needed to nourish them, which would shorten the growth period of these sweet potato plants.
Completing all these tasks in one month would be equivalent to doing half a year's work in one month.
Therefore, Ye Tiancheng's subsequent cultivation would be carried out in the sweet potato fields.
Fortunately, the system had spells to assist agricultural planting.
This spell was called the Rain Summoning Technique.
The clouds and rain created through cultivation methods contained a considerable concentration of spiritual energy in their raindrops.
Ye Tiancheng ensured that these eighty mu of land received the spirit-infused raindrops without any deviation.
After this, the growth period was indeed shortened. In about half a month, these sweet potatoes had all grown into lush green seedlings.
From a distance, the verdant expanse resembled a green jewel. However, at this point, the sweet potatoes had not yet produced tubers; they had only grown leaves.
Therefore, Mr. Ye still needed to put in more effort to make the sweet potatoes grow tubers. Roughly, it would take about a week of growth-stage rainfall.
Another week would bring them to maturity. During this period, rainfall needed to be reduced, and the sunlight exposure for the sweet potatoes should be one-third more than usual. Only through reasonable photosynthesis could the sweet potatoes grow larger and sturdier.
After that, of course, it would be the harvest period. Once the sweet potatoes were dug up and placed in the cellar, the task would be considered accomplished.
In this world, there were no preservatives or anything similar. Food was naturally stored in cellars. When it was time to eat, one would open the cellar and take it out.
Ye Tiancheng had just completed the sweet potato harvest when, as expected, the city-state of Duogongna fell into a food famine.
At this moment, the穿越者 (transmigrators) at home had plenty of food.
Among these native inhabitants, the穿越者 like Ye Tiancheng became demons who stole their food.
Then, a fierce battle against these穿越者 began. Those who had not had time to join Ye Tiancheng's fifth family suffered bloody invasions, and the entire city-state of Duogongna was shrouded in a somber, bloody haze.
In just three days, over 10,000穿越者 were killed.
Most of them had few possessions. The reason for killing them was merely an excuse for robbery, blaming these transmigrators for various strange reasons. The transmigrators possessed advanced knowledge and technology.
They naturally lived comfortably, while the natives did not know how to use science and technology to create material wealth. They were accustomed to the most primitive methods of farming.
Therefore, they became poorer and more marginalized. They attributed all their misfortunes to the transmigrators. Thus, when the world changed, these seeds of hatred found their soil and spread rapidly.
Seeing so many transmigrators die, Ye Tiancheng felt heartache.
However, he would soon not be sad, because almost all the transmigrators had been slaughtered.
"This way, you will become unique. You can monopolize the entire market, the entire city-state, and then you will be number one here."
When Ye Tiancheng was no longer loved, the system saw his peculiar thoughts.
It had to be said that Ye Tiancheng was thinking from a selfish perspective. In fact, thinking about such matters was not unreasonable, as everyone was selfish and planned for their own benefit.
If these transmigrators were wiped out, then Ye Tiancheng would no longer have rivals, and whatever industry he pursued would be unique.
The population of the city-state of Duogongna was about 3 million. If over a million were Ye Tiancheng's loyal fans, it would mean he would possess over a million in wealth.
In this city, everything seemed so primitive. All actions had to be done in a primitive manner.
Even though his fourth sister's family had electricity and various modern appliances, Ye Tiancheng disdained to stop there. He thought of various ways to make money and get rich.
The goal was to make the city-state of Duogongna the center, radiating to cities across the continent, uniting all city-states, and finally forming a large nation.
Only by forming an alliance of city-states and creating a national organization could they have the ability to resist external forces.
As society and the economy developed, people increasingly valued economic benefits.
As long as one had money, there was nothing that couldn't be obtained.
The system also defaulted to this clumsy reason, as it too, through non-material generation, would eventually understand some inherent human thoughts and willpower.
Only by collecting these and supplying them to the system would the next step of decomposition and explanation be carried out immediately.
Regarding this, Ye Tiancheng had absolute hope. He did not wish for his dream to be shattered. He firmly grasped this opportunity to once again ride the wave of success. As long as he could leverage this momentum, even a pig would fly.