Chapter 190 (Catching Bugs)
The system looked at Yunmian's skillful cover-up behavior, and in a trance it seemed to see the scene in the previous mission world where the host's mother dealt with the corpse of the woman upstairs.
Even though all his abilities have been sealed and even though he has lost all his memories, Yunmian is still that smart and clever child.
After returning home, Yunmian stepped on wooden stakes to wash the dishes and put them away, then sat on the steps at the doorstep, basking in the sun and daydreaming.
After the warm sunlight warmed her whole body and the stench of the cowshed on her body disappeared a lot, she could not help but search through the memories of this body.
Yunmian didn't live at home. The house was limited and there was no space for two cheap girls to sleep and live.
When she woke up, she was in a small dark room not far from the cowshed and the pigpen.
That house is where Yunmian and He Fang live.
But Yunmian had lived in that small dark room for so long that she never knew that in the cowshed not far away, besides the cows, her mother was also tied up.
Maybe He Fang knows.
But He Fang would not tell Yunmian.
In the slightly dazzling hot sunlight, Yunmian sat on the steps, supporting her chin with her hands, thinking about how to rescue her mother.
"Uncle System, I can't open that chain..."
Yunmian had tried it just now, and no matter how hard she tried, the iron chains tied her mother's hands and feet tightly.
Yunmian also saw many bumpy scars on her mother's wrists with the help of the light. The system uncle said that those were caused by her mother biting her wrists herself. She wanted to bite off her wrists and escape, but she failed because, in addition to bleeding to death, the most important reason was that there were chains tied to her feet.
The system squatted in the child's palm and sighed, "Mianmian, you can't open it."
If she, a five-year-old child, could break the chain, the He family would not have tied up Yun Jinxing for so long, let alone leave Yun Mian alone at home without worrying that Yun Mian would let Yun Jinxing go.
This village already had enough experience in dealing with these situations, and there was no loophole to exploit. Otherwise, how could someone as smart as Yun Jinxing be trapped here for so many years and not be able to get out of the mountain until his death?
"Then what can I do to save my mother?" Yun Mian hugged her knees and stared at the weeds and gravel on the road in a daze. Her red eyes never got better. She couldn't help wanting to cry when she thought of her mother. She raised her hands again and again to rub her eyes to wipe away her tears, and her eyes were swollen and sore.
"Only outsiders who enter this village can save your mother." The system gave a not-so-subtle reminder.
It cannot give any relevant rescue methods, cannot provide any help to the host, and can only test the bottom line of the rules and occasionally give reminders and suggestions.
Outsider?
Yunmian thought of the plots she had watched.
She couldn't understand the words at first, but she didn't know how the system uncle made it so that she could understand the plots in her mind all at once. For this reason, Yunmian even secretly learned several words.
It seems that the people in the plot will not arrive until tomorrow morning. They have to stay in the village for seven days. If they haven't walked out of the mountain in seven days, they will never be able to go back.
"Yunmian, what are you doing sitting there?" Occasionally, people passing by would ask her this question when they saw her.
Yun Mian looked at them, matched them one by one with the people in her memory, and then replied that she was basking in the sun.
"Uncle System, I don't like them." The child followed his instincts, holding his face and continued to be in a daze while listening to the noisy cicadas.
The system doesn't like those people either.
It thought for a moment, then said to its host, "Mianmian, He Jiarong is coming back from school."
He Jiarong, the only boy in the family, is the treasure that the whole family pampers and supports in sending him to school and hoping he will leave the mountains in the future.
Yun Mian couldn't help but puff up her cheeks: "I don't like him either."
The brother in my memory was so annoying. He always bullied Yunmian and her sister He Fang, and he always got to eat the most and best food...
Yunmian finally got up from the steps, wearing her sister He Fang's old shoes. The soles were very thin, and her toes were exposed from the worn-out uppers. Anyone could see how poor the family was.
Or maybe it's just that the girl is poor.
She did not return to the house, nor did she get familiar with the village environment and people, nor did she risk going to the cowshed again.
Yunmian ran to the foot of the hill and began to look around following the sound of cicadas.
"...What are you going to do?" The system's past experience made it feel something was wrong.
"Catching cicadas." Yun Mian answered quickly and clearly: "This cicada smells delicious when roasted. It's delicious~"
Of course Yunmian in her previous life didn’t understand, but in this life Yunmian has many memories of the experiences of rural children in getting food. After all, if you don’t have enough food to eat, you can only find more edible things to fill your stomach in life.
system:"……"
When did my host fall to the point of having to catch cicadas from the trees to fill his stomach?
It's a little pitiful, but also a little funny.
Especially when she saw the little girl holding onto the tree trunk and struggling to climb up for a long time, only to slip down again, let alone catching cicadas, she scared away the cicadas on the tree by her own strength.
Half an hour later, the child sat dejectedly under the tree, holding his rumbling stomach. He couldn't understand why the Yunmian in his memory was so powerful, but he couldn't climb up it!
The system looked at this scene and inexplicably remembered a famous saying of humans: Master Yun has been busy all day...
As a result, he didn't catch the cicada, but instead made his digestion faster.
"Uncle, will I starve to death here?" Yun Mian lay down on the grass. She had not eaten enough to begin with, and now she was so hungry that her whole body and limbs were weak.
I just didn't eat enough just now and I'm feeling so hungry now. My mother must be feeling even more uncomfortable after not eating for so many days.
Yun Mian listened to the system uncle's comfort, looked at her dirty little hands, then picked up a handful of grass from the ground and stuffed it into her mouth.
system:"!!!"
Yun Mian frowned and swallowed the bitter grass stem in her mouth despite the system uncle's attempt to stop her.
Then he couldn't help but pout: "It's not delicious at all..."
“Mianmian, these grasses…see if there is anything else edible. If not, we can go and steal!” The system was also furious. It didn’t believe that there was nothing edible in such a big mountain!
The host was only five years old at the moment, which was pitiful enough. He swallowed a handful of grass, and the system was almost heartbroken to death.
Yunmian would not eat grass for no reason, it was simply because she had memories of eating grass. But how could a five-year-old child choose to eat grass unless she had been starved to the point of having no other choice when she was younger?
After hearing what the system uncle said, Yun Mian stood up obediently again, supporting herself with her weak and heavy hands and feet, and continued to wander aimlessly on the hillside looking for something to eat under the sun.
"The core of this grass stalk is sweet and crispy. Mianmian, try pulling out a piece. Be careful not to cut your hands on the leaves." The system stopped in front of a pile of weeds that was much taller than Yunmian.
But Yunmian still remembered what the system uncle said, that he could not provide her with any help.
The little girl stood in front of the haystack a little uneasily, looking up and whispering to it: "Uncle, if you help me find food, will you also be beaten with a stick?"
The most terrible punishment she could think of was the beating she received from He Guizhi before. It hurt so much that her legs felt like they were broken.
The system flew down and rubbed the kid's cheek, saying gently, "No, even if I am punished, I will not leave you alone in this world. Don't be afraid, Mianmian. Try this and see if it tastes good."
Yun Mian opened her eyes wide and stared at it for a few seconds. After making sure that it had not lied to her and would not disappear secretly, she smiled with a little relief and nodded obediently: "Yeah, thank you uncle~"
You are a super hitter!
The kid put a "good ball" label on the top of the light ball, and then he began to expectantly break off a long grass stalk with his hands.
The sound of the grass stalk breaking was very crisp. When Yunmian pulled it out, it turned out to be a piece of tender green grass core.
The child tentatively put it in his mouth and took a bite.
The next second his eyes widened in surprise.
"Uncle, it's so sweet!" Yun Mian shared it with surprise, and couldn't help chewing the piece in her mouth. Only then did she spit out the remaining fibers in her mouth reluctantly.
"Uncle, this looks like sugarcane, do you want to eat it?" She squinted her eyes happily, stood on tiptoe and raised the remaining grass stalks in her hand high, wanting to share them with the light ball that helped her.
Seeing the host's smile of pure joy, the system couldn't help but feel happy too. It flew around the child two or three times before pushing the piece of straw towards her mouth again.
"Thank you, Mianmian, but I don't need to eat human food. You eat it quickly, and then we can look for other edible things."
Yunmian nodded vigorously, and after chewing the grass stalk in her hand that was half her height, she touched her stomach, and at the suggestion of Uncle System, she broke off another one and held it in her hand, eating as she walked in the forest.
"Mianmian, pick up another long branch and hold it in your hand." The system flew around the hillside and came back to say to Yunmian, "There may be snakes in the mountains. Use the branch to knock on the grass and walk with a little more weight, and the snakes will be scared away."
Yunmian nodded obediently at first, and then stopped when she picked up a long branch.
She didn't know what she was thinking about. She squatted in front of the branch and asked the system curiously: "Uncle, can snakes be eaten?"
system:"……"
Baby, are you hungry?
Snakes... Of course you can eat snakes, but look at your tiny arms and legs, you should be thankful that you are not eaten by snakes, right? ?
But the system just couldn't bring itself to say "I can eat" no matter what. It felt that if it answered, something unacceptable would happen.
This is to make up for yesterday's update.
I must update earlier today!
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