Late Ming Dynasty: I Have a Treasure Gourd

In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, there were mass graves outside Nanyang City. Twelve-year-old orphan Shen Mu picked up a copper-colored gourd from a withered skeleton. The gourd can store food, turn rotten grass into good medicine, and sell three cents of wild vegetables for three taels of silver - but it only vomits seven or eight kilograms of food every day, while outside the city there are people dying of hunger and in the city there are powerful cannibals. He is not a time traveler, has never read a book, and cannot read. He only has one life, one gourd, and one truth he learned from the mass graves: People are no different from dogs. I bite when I'm hungry. The difference is that people first calculate where the bite is most cost-effective. From a beggar selling herbal medicine to the best medicine shop owner in Nanyang City; from the medicine shop owner to a wealthy businessman; from a wealthy businessman to... In the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, Li Zicheng raised the flag, Zhang Xianzhong massacred the city, Chongzhen hanged himself, and the Manchus entered the pass. Everyone is fighting for that chair. Shen Mu touched the gourd on his chest: I just wanted to live. But this world doesn't allow people to live, so let's change the world.