Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Chapter 231: Escape from the Mountains (12)

As the sun sets, Xiaocao and Xiaohua return home and find the yard littered with broken bottles.

Li Yuliang came back around the afternoon and drank a lot of wine again.

Xiaocao walked to the door bolt of the dark room and saw that it had indeed been pried open.

After sweeping all the debris aside, Xiaocao heard some movement coming from Li Yuliang's house.

Looking through the window, Li Yuliang was drinking in the house.

Seeing Xiaocao's face, Li Yuliang threw the bottle in his hand towards the window. The bottle shattered immediately when it hit the window, and the fragments instantly cut Xiaocao's right face.

The wound was just below my eye and almost flew into my eye.

Xiaocao took a step back. Xiaohua, who heard the noise, saw the blood on Xiaocao's face and her eyes immediately turned red.

"Sister, you, you, blood! Blood!"

Li Yuliang roared: "What are you arguing about! Damn it, cook for me!"

Xiaohua was afraid that Li Yuliang was going to hit someone again, so she quickly ran into the kitchen to cook. There were a few big sweet potatoes on the stove.

Blood beads slid down his cheeks, and when he wiped them with grass, a glaring red smear appeared on his fingertips.

Staring at the bright red, his drooping eyelids hid the undercurrent in his eyes.

...

At night, Xiaocao locked the door, lit a candle and began to study the drawings given by Wang Yuanyuan.

Xiaohua sat on the bed, holding a charcoal stick and writing the simple arithmetic problems assigned to her by Xiaocao.

Pencils and notebooks require money to buy, so Xiaocao went to the principal to ask for waste paper and used the charcoal sticks left over from the kitchen fire to write.

Xiaohua sat next to her mother and smelled the faint herbal fragrance emanating from the woman.

"Sister, why, why, do you use pig's tooth soap to wash clothes for me?" Xiaohua didn't understand. Isn't pig's tooth soap used for washing clothes?

Xiaocao said: "Pig tooth soap can clean and fight bacteria, and humans can use it, but the dosage should not be too much." Soapberry is an alkaline plant, and it is a bit toxic if used too much.

Therefore, more mugwort leaves will be used to make tea. Mugwort leaves can detoxify, and also have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.

There is also winter rubescens, which is also a good thing and is recognized as the king of Chinese medicine antibiotics.

Unfortunately, I never saw winter ling grass again after the first time I went up the mountain.

Xiaocao memorized the contents of the drawing, then folded it and hid it.

She turned her head and looked at Xiaohua, saying, "Xiaohua, you must correct your stuttering problem."

Xiaocao quickly became nervous when he saw Xiaohua's expression.

"Don't be nervous. Stuttering isn't a big deal, but it will really affect people's first impression of you."

Xiaohua didn't understand.

Xiaocao said, "Look, doesn't the stutterer's speech give people the impression that he has stolen something?"

Xiaohua immediately said, "But, but, I don't have it."

Xiaocao smiled, and Xiaohua immediately understood. She didn't know what suspicion meant, but she had already grasped the meaning.

"People who stutter when they speak give off a sense of insecurity and guilt, which makes others think they are easy to bully."

Xiaohua lowered her head and said aggrievedly: "But, but, how can I change it?"

Xiaocao knew that the reason why Xiaohua stuttered was definitely not innate. It was most likely because she was too timid. She didn't dare to talk to anyone except the original owner, so she spoke very little.

"Starting tomorrow, whenever you see someone, go up to him and say ten words to him."

Xiaohua shuddered immediately: "I, I, don't dare."

The grass said, "Then talk to the non-human thing first."

Xiaohua didn't understand.

Xiaocao pointed at the candle, the bed, and the cabinet and said, "Talk to them."

"Say, what?"

Xiaocao said, "Say whatever you want to say."

"Tell them what's bothering you, what happened today, and share your life with them."

Xiaohua seemed to understand but not quite.

Xiao Cao said, "Starting from tomorrow, you know what? You don't have to go to school tomorrow. You and I will go out together."

Xiaohua nodded.

"Okay, have you finished these questions? Let me see."

...

There was no need to go to class the next day, so Xiaocao helped Aunt Hua herd the cattle. After finishing everything, he took Xiaohua to Dr. Wang's house.

In the morning, Xiaocao helped Dr. Wang prepare a batch of fresh medicinal materials. In the afternoon, Dr. Wang took the two children to the mountains to look for medicine.

There are many mosquitoes in the mountains, so Dr. Wang gave each of them a sachet.

Xiaohua didn't know the medicinal herbs, so Xiaohua asked her to pick some wild vegetables that the locals were familiar with.

When there was a famine in Xiaoba Village, every household would take their children to the mountains to dig wild vegetables.

Xiaocao heard Xiaohua following behind, mumbling while digging wild vegetables.

When they were returning to the village, they passed by the stream where Xiaocao had first been. The three of them saw several boys playing in the water and bathing in the stream.

Among them were Li Yougen, Little Monkey, and Aunt Hua’s son next door.

The little monkey also saw Doctor Wang and the little grass and flower, and splashed water on his hands: "Hey Yougen! Aren't those your sister and sister?"

Li Yougen, naked, turned around and took a look, sneering: "Tsk, two money-losing bastards."

"Where are they going? Why are they with Wang Laoxian?"

"How should I know!"

"I heard that Elder Wang has wine made from poisonous snakes and scorpions. Has anyone seen that?"

"Hey - Monkey, you want to drink!"

"Let's go and have a look."

"We can definitely run faster than them!"

Several boys with naked buttocks and no clothes on ran away without a trace.

Doctor Wang shook his head and went to the stream to wash the mud off his rubber shoes.

Only then did Xiaocao discover that there were several Tian-shaped notebooks scattered on the grass beside him.

When I picked it up, I saw the little monkey's name written on it.

It looks like the little monkey’s homework book.

Xiaocao deliberately left it here and didn't plan to return it. He threw it into the bamboo basket and gave it to Xiaohua as an arithmetic book.

...

When I got home, Li Yuliang was not at home.

Xiaocao returned the cow to Aunt Hua, and Aunt Hua gave Xiaocao half a yam.

Yam can nourish qi and yin, replenish the spleen, lungs and kidneys, and is used to treat spleen deficiency and poor appetite. It is very suitable as a food supplement.

They steamed the yam together with the sweet potato that Li Yuliang brought back yesterday, and also fried a pot of wild vegetables. They quickly prepared dinner for the three of them before Li Yuliang came back.

After dinner, Xiaocao was about to go to the kitchen to boil some water, but she saw Li Yuliang limping back home carrying two bottles of wine.

Li Yuliang actually has spare money to buy wine?

There are not many ways to make money in the village. Either you go to the town to sell food, or the villagers make money from each other.

For example, Wang Qi at the entrance of the village is a carpenter, Wang Wu, whose chicken was stolen by Li Yougen, can weave some bamboo baskets and winnowing dustpans, and Wang Yuanyuan's mother sometimes collects vegetables grown by the villagers.

But most of the village's income comes from growing wheat and selling it in town.

Li Yuliang is a lazy man who only drinks and sleeps all day long. Where does he get the money to buy alcohol?

Could it be that Li Yuliang’s ancestors were really landlords?

"What are you looking at? Go and cook for me!"

"You two bitches, you shouldn't have listened to the nonsense from the neighbor's wife. You've only known how to eat me since you were born. You don't do anything! Bah! Money-losing goods!"

"It should be sunk in the pond!"

Li Yuliang passed by the kitchen cursing, and Li Yougen was dancing and doing some shameless gestures behind him.

"Sink into the pond! Sink into the pond! You deserve to be drowned!"