My domineering ex-husband is living off his wife in ancient times.

Chapter 9: The villagers lying down, densely packed.

Cheng Ruoan closed his eyes and immediately began his spiritual journey.

Si Shaoheng had previously added Cheng Ruoan's access permissions to the space's electronic butler, so she can now come and go on her own.

Cheng Ruoan checked the e-management system and found that Si Shaoheng's highest level of administrator privileges could not be modified.

"Damn it, doesn't this mean I can't abandon this man? Otherwise, he shamelessly followed me in that time and kicked away my access card, so I wouldn't have been able to get into the villa!"

Regardless of whether the supplies in the villa are usable, according to the rules that Si Shaoheng knew, anything she brought in from outside had to be placed inside the villa's main gate; otherwise, the items would be swallowed up by the white mist outside and disappear.

Therefore, the entrance is very important!

Si Shaoheng, this "key," is also very important!

Cheng Ruoan swiped the screen a few times while cursing, and suddenly saw an animation of fireworks exploding.

[Congratulations to the space owner for accumulating 10 reputation points! Your space level has been upgraded to Level 2!]

Oh mo?

Is it because she successfully gained control of the Si family that her reputation points increased?

Now she can take anything out of the space at will!

Cheng Ruoan chuckled, thinking that he would try taking two cartons of milk out for Si Xin and Si Nian to drink later.

She happily continued tapping the screen, and the electronic butler returned to the main interface, where she found the space instruction manual.

It was exactly the same as what Si Shaoheng had told her, and it wasn't even as easy to understand as what Si Shaoheng had said.

In simple terms, the space upgrade rules are that the space owner and his family gain reputation points in the current plane. Every time a certain number of points are accumulated, the space will upgrade. The benefits of the upgrade are so great that Cheng Ruoan would be overjoyed just thinking about it.

1级到2级只需要10点声望，但2级到3级需要100点，3级到4级需要1000点，以此类推。

To upgrade the space to its maximum level, Cheng Ruoan alone would probably have to ascend the throne as an empress.

So once the family had settled in the north after their escape, Cheng Ruoan had to bring fame to the family and rely on the total reputation of the entire family.

As she packed food and medicine for their escape in the villa, she also thought about specific plans for her family to rise to prominence.

Si Shaoheng should definitely take the imperial examination route, hoping to rise rapidly to become a high-ranking official.

Unlike other female protagonists in time-travel novels who possess medical skills, she chose the path of business.

In this way, her mother, her sister, and her brother-in-law could also go into business and increase their prestige together.

The two children... Si Xin started pestering Si Sanlang to read to her when she was two years old, and she will also take the imperial examination in the future. As for Si Nian, Cheng Ruoan thinks it's best to let nature take its course.

It's amazing if you can grow up happily.

It's not necessary for young girls to work hard for this space.

The rest of the Si family can do whatever they want, as long as they don't hold her back.

Cheng Ruoan packed the supplies into small portions and placed them on the coffee table in the living room so that she could easily access them by opening and closing her eyes.

Finally, when it was almost dawn, she went up to the master bedroom on the second floor to check the medicine in the bedside table.

Upon seeing it, I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Luckily, it's not that bad." Cheng Ruoan took out the painkillers and swallowed two with mineral water.

Si Shaoheng reminded her to take her medicine, probably because he was worried that if she traveled with a broken leg, she would faint from the pain several times a day.

The two remained in their previous lives within the space, their bodies naturally intact. However, the last time they entered, they discovered that after eating, drinking, and relieving themselves in the space, their bodies outside would also experience corresponding sensations.

So, after taking the medicine inside, when Cheng Ruoan opened her eyes again, the pain and numbness in her fractured leg were gone, replaced by a mild, tolerable pain.

Before dawn, Si Dalang returned with Xia Shi and her family of five.

He smiled innocently at Si Shaoheng: "Third brother, I've persuaded your sister-in-law's family to come with us."

Si Shaoheng nodded, looked at everyone who was ready to go, and gave the order in a deep voice: "Let's go."

The Si family consisted of eighteen people, and they pushed four wheelbarrows, all of which were modified overnight by Si Shaoheng and Si Silang.

Their family used to have an oxcart and a donkey cart. Coincidentally, a few days before the earthquake, the old ox was lent to the villagers for land reclamation, and the donkey died of old age.

Therefore, the two handcarts were stored in the warehouse before the earthquake. As a result, the building collapsed and the handcarts were smashed, leaving only four wheels that could be used. Si Shaoheng simply converted them into four wheelbarrows so that they could carry luggage.

The earthquake destroyed the house and a lot of belongings, leaving only a few pots and pans, small wooden boxes and other valuables, as well as Shisaburo's books.

In addition, the couple from the fourth house took the children to the mountain yesterday to collect wild game. Two pheasants and four rabbits were plucked, skinned, and roasted.

There was also a sack full of wild vegetables and mushrooms.

The rest of the people didn't have much luggage, and the four wheelbarrows were just enough to hold all the items from each room.

The four men of the Si family pushed their own wheelbarrow, while the women and children walked alongside it.

Si Shaoheng frequently glanced at Cheng Ruoan, who was walking with difficulty using a cane beside him: "We don't have much stuff, we can have even less. Why don't you take the car up, I'll push you."

Cheng Ruoan understood what he meant: he wanted her to take advantage of the fact that no one was looking to put some of the tattered books into her space and make room for her to sit down.

But her two little ones were still with her. They're young, but they're not stupid. How could they not see that there were fewer books in the car?

"Alright, let's go. My mother, sister, and brother-in-law are waiting for us at the village entrance. They have a donkey cart, and I'll ride there in a bit."

"Ah."

To get from the ruins of the Si family's house to the village entrance, you have to pass the open space in front of Dr. Hu's clinic.

The group of more than twenty people, young and old alike, all saw the villagers parked on the open ground, covered with straw mats or dirty white cloths... densely packed, just like when the village held a general meeting before.

"Mother, you damned brat!" Li shouted immediately.

Upon seeing this, Zhao clutched her chest and cried out repeatedly, "Oh my God! My God!"

The other adults did their best to cover the eyes of the young children in the family.

Older children don't need to be covered; they'll run away quickly, too scared to look.

Si Shaoheng frowned and urged, "Let's go quickly."

In the late summer heat, the bodies decomposed quickly, and a strange smell was already emanating from the open ground.

Cheng Ruoan wished her legs were still intact so she could tuck the baby under one arm and run away as fast as she could.

The group quickened their pace and went straight to the village entrance, where they met up with the Cheng family and then set off onto the straight, muddy road.

Amidst the envious gazes of the other women from the Si and Xia families, Cheng Ruo'an was carried by Si Shaoheng onto the Cheng family's donkey cart.

Seeing that there were still empty seats, Cheng Ruoan quickly called to Si Shaoheng, "Bring Niannian and Si Niu up too. I can hold them and we can sit down."

Upon hearing this, Si Silang quickly took the two-year-old Si Niu from Lin Shi's arms and handed her over to Cheng Ruo'an.

He smiled and said, "Thank you, Third Sister-in-law. You're still the same as before, a very kind person."

Li rolled her eyes to the sky: "So what if your family has a broken donkey cart? What are you pretending to be, pretending to be a good person? I haven't seen you show any filial piety by letting your mother ride in it."

Turning her head, she heard Cheng Ruoan's mother, Cheng Niangzi, calling out to Zhao Shi with a smile from the donkey cart: "Mother-in-law, come quickly, I've saved a seat for you here, come on up."

Li: ...

Why can Cheng Ruoan succeed by stirring things up, but I can't?

Why!