As long as it has a proper ending, that's all I ask. Keep it up!
After dying in a bungee-jumping accident, Jin Jinghuai chooses to return to ancient times as a vending machine.
More precisely, he starts with only salt, water, and wood.
He must sell each item one by one and save enough money to get home before he can return to the modern world in human form.
But here's the problem:
How can he get people here to buy salt, water, and wood, things they can find anywhere?
It was an age of constant warfare. The people of Fengshu Stockade hid in a maple forest to avoid conscription, where they discovered a tree stump.
Three items lay on top of it.
They could see the objects right in front of them, but no matter how they reached for them, they couldn't pick up a single one. A man who had traveled far and wide said they were sea monsters.
Being able to see things that weren't really there was frightening at first. Luckily, after a while, they got used to the sight, and it no longer stirred much emotion.
Hiding deep in the mountains kept them safe from trouble, but life was still hard.
One day, while fleeing a wild beast, the people hid on the mountain again. One of them slipped and fell, crushing the beast to death. He was also badly injured.
They casually placed the beast near the sea monster, and it disappeared. In its place appeared clean water they could touch and pick up, along with some salt.
The white grains and the transparent liquid were truly miraculous.
They simply covered the wound with them and wrapped it in cloth, and the injury slowly began to heal.
As long as they placed something near the Sea God, they could obtain life-saving medicine. In a single night, everyone in Fenglin Stockade learned of it. The sea monster was no monster at all, but a deity who rescued the suffering and saved lives: the Sea God!
The people tried every way they could to offer tribute to the deity. In the barren maple forest, they began to live safe, happy lives with plenty to eat and drink.
A different time travel novel. Very pretty.