Pseudo master, she just wants to live

Chapter 2 Luminous Mask
night.

In the main room, the murmurs of the mother and child had long since turned into a slight and long cry, and Fang Yao was lying on the hard and cold straw mat, unable to fall asleep for a long time.

I have been "investigating" Jiang's and Li's villages during the day, and I don't have time to think too much. Now that I am alone, it is inevitable that my mood will fluctuate and become sentimental.

Although there are inexplicably three more unrelated relatives here, she still misses her original world very much.

It's not that she was so reluctant to part with her parents who almost ignored her. On the contrary, Fang Yao will always remember their cold and disgusted faces when they shirked responsibility.

She is a superfluous person in the new life of the two of them. The result of experiencing the warmth and coldness of the world since she was a child has taught her to study hard and work hard to make money.

Before time travel, Fang Yao still had half a year to graduate from university, and the university tuition and living expenses were all earned by herself.

And with excellent grades, she signed an employment agreement with a well-known listed company last year.

Finally survived the unfortunate childhood, before reaching the pinnacle of life, she fell into this strange world after a fall.

Fang Yao was very worried, so let's time travel, how could she travel to such an indescribable place.

The results of her investigation in Lijia Village during the day were very bad.

The land on several hills inside and outside the village was dry and cracked, not to mention food, even those inedible weeds were scoured clean.

The whole village was lifeless, and adults and children were all starving and skinny.

At first, she disliked Jiang's boiled kudzu root paste that didn't even have salt, but finally found out that the living standard of Jiang's family is already enviable in the village...

As for the reason, she asked Jiang Shi, because she "lost memory", Jiang Shi also explained her many problems in great detail.

It turns out that Daxiangguo sounds like a good name, but in fact it is not like that.

The emperor recruited troops every year to expand, and the borders between the north and the south were very uneven. Jiang's men were forcibly taken away by the officials for military service five years ago, and there is no news of them until now.

This is not the worst. Since last year, there has been a drought in the south of Daxiang, and two-thirds of the land has almost no crops.

This year the emperor invited the national teacher to do it, but apart from a few rains in the capital, the disasters in other places are still getting worse.

The reason why the mother and son of Jiang's family can barely make ends meet is entirely because Jiang's family conditions were good in the past. They had their own fields in Lijia Village.

Due to the drought last year, she couldn't collect rent, so she began to slowly sell her dowry jewelry and exchange them for some cheap food in the town.

But if things go on like this, it won't last long.

Knowing this, how could Fang Yao not worry.

She has an extraordinary obsession with making money. Without money, there is no sense of security.

When reading those time travel articles, she also fantasized about how she would make a fortune in ancient times.

But in the current situation, let alone making money, living is enough, and the Internet major she studied is useless in such an era.

Fang Yao got out of bed in the dark full of melancholy, tossing and turning on the bed for a long time, made her feel like urinating, there is no toilet in the room, only Jiang's room has a bucket.

The house was dark, not to mention candles, and there were no kerosene lamps.

She was too embarrassed to disturb Mrs. Jiang, and was about to walk out while leaning on the loess wall, when she suddenly found a faint light on the bedside.

After leaning over, Fang Yao was pleasantly surprised to find that the light was actually coming from the mask. The whole mask exuded a faint golden light, and the place where the four fake eyes were engraved on it was faintly glowing red.

Unexpectedly, this seemingly shoddy and inferior product is actually a luminous one.

It turns out that the light effect picture on the advertisement is not completely deceiving? !
The carving on this mask is fierce. If other people see this scene in the middle of the night, they will probably be frightened, but in Fang Yao's eyes, there is only surprise.

In a place where there is no electricity, there is a natural illuminator, which is so cool!
She picked up the mask and walked all the way to the door in the dim light.

The moon was hanging high outside, but it was brighter than the house, and the dry toilet was in the yard. Fang Yao remembered the scene in the toilet during the day, and her legs became extremely heavy.

It's so late at night, and there's no one else, or...or... just solve it nearby...

Fang Yao stood up easily from behind the haystack, picked up the mask and walked back. In the silence, an extremely faint rustling sound tensed her originally comfortable nerves.

On the withered treetops, the moon was quickly blocked by a shadow at some point.

Under the dim light of the mask, Fang Yao, who has 2.0 eyesight and good night vision, saw a snake tail the size of a thumb swinging back and forth in an aqua toilet not far away.

Fang Yao secretly rejoiced that she didn't go to the bathroom just now, and was preparing to go back to the house slowly, when suddenly, the snake's tail flicked, and a black shadow rushed out.

Only then did she see clearly that this is not a snake, it is clearly a gray mouse about the size of a full moon bunny!

Fang Yao's hand tightened. Her family used to live in the south, and she had seen a mouse that was about the same age as a kitten, but this mouse... had a problem.

In the darkness, the mouse's eyes glowed a faint green. It seemed completely unafraid of people, and even opened its mouth to reveal sharp rodent teeth.

It wants to attack itself!

This idea suddenly appeared, and the mouse jumped towards Fang Yao like lightning, but Fang Yao was not slow, raised the mask in his hand, and smashed it with the same vigor as he used to surround the mouse in the dormitory.

The mask that was thrown out suddenly shone golden, twice as bright as before.

The mouse seemed to be frightened by the sudden light. It swung its body halfway, trying to change its direction, but it was unlucky, and it just collided with Fang Yao's slightly misaligned mask.

There was only a scream of "Zhi", and the huge mouse fell to the ground without breath.

One move kills.

Fang Yao picked up the mask and kicked the dead mouse away in relief.

It's a pity that the mask seemed to have been thrown out of order, and the original golden light became bright and dark, flashing non-stop.

"Hey."

After finally discovering the beauty of this luminous mask, it was damaged by beating a mouse.

……

The next day.

Fang Yao was awakened by the mournful cry.

She opened her eyes, and it was only dimly lit outside.

"Something happened to the boss!"

Jiang Shi also just got up and was still dressing the two dolls, when she heard the crying and greeted Fang Yao, she hurried out the door.

As soon as she left, Dabao and the younger sister went into Fang Yao's room with unfinished clothes.

"Auntie, help me get dressed..."

The little girl nestled into Fang Yao's arms with sleepy eyes, yawning and not treating herself as an outsider at all.

There was a loud cry outside, Fang Yao opened the window and looked out, while helping the two children tie up their clothes indiscriminately.

The children's clothes, which didn't fit well, were crooked by her.

But Jiang Shi, who came back in a hurry, turned pale and didn't care to pay attention to these things. She trembled her bloodless lips and said, "It's over, it's over, the village has been plagued by rats!"

(End of this chapter)