Xue Langjing has never eaten a full meal since she was a child, and she hardly knows what meat tastes like, even if she can hit one or two prey every once in a while.

Of course, there are also eight of her sisters who don't have enough to eat.

If nothing else, maybe their lives will go on like this.

Until one day, Xue Boqing died!

Their lives have changed dramatically.

So, who is Xue Boqing?

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Zhaojia Village, as the name suggests, more than half of the people in this village are surnamed Zhao, and the other surnames are all small surnames here.

There was a Xue family in the group of families closest to the foot of the mountain in the village.

The Xue family is counted two generations up and can be regarded as quite wealthy in the entire Zhaojia Village, the head of the Xue family is called Xue Yongqiang, his father and grandfather turned out to be famous hunters in the village, and one of them hunting alone is enough to feed the whole family, plus the harvest of other people's field work, so that the Xue family has also saved a lot of silver in those years.

Do you have some money and silver in your hands, so you naturally want to get rid of the identity of mud legs, and how much money can you earn by digging in the field? Whether you have food or not, you can only look at God's face, and look forward to the emperor Lao Tzu who is a sage in the court.

But if there is a scholar in the family, it will be different, if there is a talented man, then he can turn from a clay leg to a cultivator.

So after Xue Yongqiang's eldest grandson Xue Boqing was born, Xue's father made up his mind to train this great-grandson to be a scholar.

Xue Yongqiang, Old Man Xue, has two sons under his knees.

The eldest son Xue Yuhai, that is, Xue Boqing's father, he and his wife Shen have a son and four daughters, Xue Boqing is the eldest, twenty-four years old, and there are four younger sisters below.

The second son, Xue Yuhe, and his wife Liang also gave birth to five children, but they were all daughters.

Let's focus on the granddaughters of the Xue family.

The nine granddaughters were originally called directly by the eldest girl, the second girl, and the third girl, so they were called according to the ranking, and they were not named.

It wasn't until later that Xue Boqing became educated and disgusted with the vulgarity of these local names, so he gave his sisters official names.

Dafang's four daughters, the second Xue Shanjing, the fourth Xue Zhujing, the sixth Xue Huanjing, and the seventh Xue Yujing

The five daughters in the second room, the eldest Xue Linjing, the third Xue Kejing, the fifth Xue Longjing, the eighth Xue Langjing, and the ninth Xue Xuanjing.

Because of long-term malnutrition, the nine sisters are all yellow and thin, and their faces are not much better, and they look very thin.

Unlike the other eight sisters.

The fourth daughter in the second room, Xue Langjing, who is the eighth in the sisters, is a capable person.

What is a Competent?

Capable people are born with greater strength than the average person, and their physical fitness is stronger than the average person.

And when they are fourteen years old, they can go to the government to buy the elixir of enlightenment, and if they drink the elixir, there is a chance that the elixir will be successful, but only the first time it is effective, if the first time is not successful, it will be ineffective if it is drunk again.

If the spirit is successful, it will not only strengthen the body, but also continue to take medicinal herbs to continuously improve physical fitness in the future.

If it is not successful, it will only be invalid, and there will be no damage to the body, but if you still want to improve your ability through medicinal materials, don't think about it.

However, after being tested by the government and confirmed as capable, those with male ability can buy a potion with only five taels of silver, while those with female ability must have fifty taels of silver.

Why is there such a big difference between the two?

The cost of the configuration of the spiritual elixir is extremely high, it is said that in the early days, only the upper nobles or the rich and noble families can afford to use it, to Chu Renzong, that is, the strongest period of the Chu Dynasty's national strength, due to the rich treasury, in order to improve the overall quality of the people, the imperial court took over this burden, the spiritual elixir was uniformly configured by the imperial court, and then sold to the people at a low price, benefiting the people.

However, even if the imperial court purchased medicinal materials in large quantities and configured them in a unified manner, the cost could only be reduced to fifty taels of silver at most, which was ten times the selling price.

Later, during the reign of Emperor Wuzong of Chu, the imperial court promulgated new regulations.

Because it was found in practice that the success rate of women with female ability to take the spirit potion was extremely low, coupled with the lack of treasury, it was a waste of the imperial court's financial resources to give them anyway, so the imperial court raised the price of female ability to the cost price of fifty taels.

Five taels of silver for ordinary people, that is, a family of three for a year's chewing, unless it is really poor, otherwise grit your teeth and buy it, anyway, even if it fails, the loss is not big, but what if it succeeds? Even if you don't take the herbs anymore in the later stage, the benefits will far outweigh the loss.

But compared to the price of ten times that of men, it is difficult for ordinary families to afford, and it has a very low probability. And even if it succeeds, the daughter will marry after all, and the water spilled by the married daughter is not cheaper for others, and it is not cost-effective. As for the daughter-in-law with a foreign surname who married back, she won't buy it, and it's also an outsider, in case she runs away after being cultivated, in case her mother's family sees that it is profitable to make trouble and rob it.

Therefore, unless there is a lot of money in the family and there is nowhere to use it, there is basically no family that will buy the elixir for the woman in the family.

And the Xue family, who can raise all their granddaughters to the yellow muscles, skinny skin, and bones, obviously won't buy the elixir for their granddaughters.

But it's a person with ability, even if he doesn't have a spiritual elixir, his physical fitness is not bad.

Because of this, and the fact that the Xue family was a well-known hunter for several generations, Xue Langjing was asked to hunt with the hunters in the village when he was thirteen years old.

Although letting a young girl mix with a group of big men all day long is an obstacle to her reputation, it is obviously more important to bring more benefits to the family than what men and women are afraid of.

The Xue family originally thought that she could have a little bit of great-grandfather's ability, and hunt more prey to come back to improve the family's food, but Na Cheng thought that this granddaughter was also useless, and now she is seventeen years old, and she has not grown much, and the prey she has hit is not as much as other ordinary hunters, which makes the Xue family even less good at her, just raise it like other granddaughters, and she will not die of hunger.

Actually, I don't really blame her, it's really that she's hungry!

It is true that the capable people have better physical fitness and stronger strength than the average person, but they also consume a lot more energy to survive.

For example, if they are given the same food to eat, ordinary people can barely survive, but those who are able can't, this amount of food can't meet her survival needs at all, and she will only feel hungry.

This is also why the average man has more strength than the woman, but the corresponding amount of food is also larger, and with the same amount of blood loss, the woman can live but the man can't hold on, because the man is strong in exchange for the lack of endurance.

Xue Langjing is even worse, when she goes hunting with those hunters, it's not that she can't do it, but before she gets to the place, her strength is almost exhausted, in order to make herself last a little longer, she can only let herself move a few times and save more energy, if you are lucky, you can find some wild fruits on the mountain, and you can mix a little full.

It's not that she didn't mention to her family that if she was fuller, she would be able to hunt more vigorously, and the extra harvest would definitely be more cost-effective than the food she ate.

It's a pity that no one listened to her at all, in the eyes of the Xue family, this is her excuse for being greedy, and in exchange for a beating, it is naturally a scolding.

At home, when she was a child, she didn't know how to shout when she was hungry, and few people paid attention to her, at most, the sisters who were sympathetic to the same disease couldn't stand it, and they saved their own few foods.

Such a useless thing that has been dizzy since she was a child, the Xue family is even less concerned about her.

Originally, it was a little better, after all, the family was still relatively wealthy, but in the later period, in order to provide for the grandson to study for a long time, the life of the Xue family became even more embarrassing, after all, reading is too expensive, and not ordinary people can afford to read.

The granddaughters' rations are even more deducted, even if they are adults, one person will probably only have the amount of a nest, and then give a few chopsticks and wild vegetables, or drink some sparse porridge water, and the eight sisters have to use their own share to make up a nest and a half for Xue Langjing to barely let her resist.

Naturally, the prey that Xue Langjing brought back could not be in the bowl of their granddaughters, not to mention the meat, even the broth could not reach their hands, the meat was distributed by Xue Grandma to several men in the family, and even Grandma Xue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law themselves were also foamed meat broth, and the granddaughters, if they had any extra words, they could also give some soup to taste, and the prey that was slightly more valuable might be saved, and when the baby grandson came back one day, he would make up for it.