When Xiao Yunying regained consciousness, the first thing she saw was a blinding white light.

I propped myself up and sat up, only to find myself in a supermarket.

Has the supermarket been repaired?

I tried to take a deep breath, but I choked on the water left in my nasal cavity and started coughing violently.

A strange mechanical voice came from my ear: "The host has been detected to be awake and vital signs are stable. The supermarket continues to repair itself. No living beings are allowed to enter. In order to speed up the repair process, except for the items that the host has left in the supermarket, nothing else can be taken out for the time being. Thank you for your cooperation."

Xiao Yunying was sitting on the ground coughing when suddenly she was taken out of the supermarket and found herself by the river.

Feeling that she had drunk a lot of river water, Xiao Yunying pressed her fingers against the back of her tongue, turned to the side, and vomited everything out of her stomach.

Xiao Yunying felt a burning sensation from her throat to her esophagus. She instinctively reached for a bottle of mineral water from the supermarket to rinse her mouth, but then she remembered what the mechanical voice had said.

You can only take what she stored: raw meat? Chestnuts? Or silver?

What use is it to her now? She needs clean water and clean clothes.

Staggering to the riverbank, Xiao Yunying didn't care whether the water was clean or not. She scooped up some water to rinse her mouth and then washed her face.

She accidentally scratched the wound on her forehead, which had already formed a thin scab, and warm blood flowed down her cheek.

Wiping away the blood, Xiao Yunying gritted her teeth and said, "Damn it, if it weren't for the supermarket, I would have died in this river today."

It was just a few words and a fight, and it was He Hua who started it. She actually wanted to kill me!

With nothing around, Xiao Yunying didn't bother with the wound. Wrapping it with dirty clothes could cause infection, but her body's protective mechanisms would stop the bleeding on their own. The wound wasn't large, so she shouldn't lose too much blood.

Braving the wind, she walked upstream along the riverbank. Her wet clothes clung to her body, and the wind made her shiver.

The thought of He Hua, that woman, made his anger rise from his heels to the top of his head, and he no longer felt cold. He was determined to go back and settle accounts with that woman.

She was still thinking about whether she would run into the villagers who came looking for her, and how she should explain that she could swim from the river to the shore, since most women in this world couldn't swim.

As it turned out, she was overthinking it.

She walked until she could see rows of houses in the village. Apart from the chirping of insects and birds, and the occasional bark of a dog, the surroundings were very quiet, and no one came out to look for her.

That shouldn't be the case. Even if Luo Li didn't hear her shout halfway through, she was certain that Luo Li saw her being swept away by the river. Even if Luo Li was stupid, he should have known to call someone to save her.

Even if she is so unpopular that the villagers are unwilling to come to her rescue, her parents and brothers will definitely come to save her.

Could it be that they didn't see me because I was in the supermarket and walked past?

Or perhaps it's because Luo Li didn't tell anyone that He Hua had pushed her into the river.

Upon realizing this possibility, Xiao Yunying's face instantly turned as cold as an ice sculpture. Instead of looking for He Hua, she returned to the spot where she had fallen into the water.

The wooden basin remains in its original place; it has not been taken away, nor has its location been moved.

"hehe."

Xiao Yunying put her hands on her hips and gave a self-deprecating laugh.

"Did Luo Li not tell Luo Chen and Luo Yang, or did they agree to pretend they didn't know?"

Xiao Yunying put the wooden basin into the supermarket and walked to another wooden basin not far away: "This should be He Hua's, right? Such good evidence, how could she not take it with her? What audacity! She even dared to kill someone."

After bringing the wooden basin into the supermarket, Xiao Yunying decided to go home first.

More than reprimanding He Hua, she was now curious as to why no one had come looking for her.

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Back home, Luo Chen had little appetite; he wouldn't have cooked if he wasn't worried about his younger siblings being hungry.

They hastily cooked a pot of porridge, and the group sat at the table, eating without tasting anything. Luo Li stirred the porridge with a spoon, tears falling drop by drop into the bowl.

Luo Xin ate a few bites and then let out a small sigh.

Sigh... When will Mother come back? Without her, even plain rice porridge doesn't taste good.

Xiao Yunying wasn't there, and Luo Xin didn't sit next to her; instead, she sat next to Luo Yang. Luo Li sat on the other side, so the little girl didn't notice anything unusual about her third brother; she just felt the atmosphere was a bit somber.

She thought her older brothers also missed their mother.

After finishing a bowl of porridge, Luo Xin refused to drink any more. Luo Yang took her to wash up and, using the excuse that Xiao Yunying might not return for some time, led the little girl to their room to sleep.

Seeing her younger brother crying so miserably, Luo Chen didn't voice her condemnation.

It's already like this, what's the point of saying anything more?

"Stop crying, eat quickly, don't waste food."

As if venting something, Luo Li scooped up large mouthfuls of porridge, finished eating, put down the bowl, went back to the room, pulled the blanket to the very edge, and lay down far away from Luo Xin.

Luo Xin sensed something was wrong: "Second brother, what's wrong with third brother? He didn't say more than a few words to Xin'er last night."

“Your third brother is a little tired today. Let him go to sleep early. Xin’er can talk to him again tomorrow, okay?”

"Okay, Xin'er, go to sleep early too. You'll see your mother tomorrow, right?"

Luo Yang didn't know how to respond to this: "...Go to sleep, it's already dark."

By the time Luo Chen finished washing the dishes, Luo Yang had already coaxed Luo Xin to sleep. Luo Li was quietly nestled in the corner, and it was unclear whether she was asleep or not.