Chapter 22
They cried out to God and begged him, kneeling in the fields where locusts were flying all over the sky and no grains of food were left, and kowtowed again and again with tears streaming down their faces.
She was still young at that time, but that scene undoubtedly had a huge impact on her young world.
Zhao Xiaoli looked at the tiny grasshopper in her hand, and suddenly a deep feeling of powerlessness surged from the bottom of her heart.
"Mianmian, how did your mother manage to keep you alive back then?" She murmured in a low voice, not letting Yunmian hear her question.
But the system caught it.
The system froze in mid-air for a moment, and then became confused: Yes, several people from other relatively wealthy families in Zhaojiagou starved to death, so why could Yunjin, a widow, and Yunmian survive well?
It only has a certain script, but is not clear about the details of the plot in the world, so even if it has the same doubts as Zhao Xiaoli, the system cannot draw a conclusion.
Yun Mian was carefully observing the grasshopper in her hand, preparing to find a long and thin grass leaf according to her body's original memory, then put it into the grasshopper's mouth and poke it out little by little. In this way, she would be able to successfully thread the grasshopper on the straw rope and take it back to feed the chickens.
Just when he selected a perfect grass leaf, Zhao Xiaoli next to him suddenly pressed the grasshopper under his feet and stood up.
Then he applied a little force with his toes and when he moved away, the green grasshopper had been crushed into a pile of mixed colors, its wings and legs broken beyond recognition and mixed in the gray-brown soil, making it impossible to see its shape.
Yun Mian saw a happy look in Zhao Xiaoli's eyes. After the two looked at each other, she raised the grasshopper in her hand and asked tentatively: "Can you step on this one too?"
Zhao Xiaoli: "...No need, I was just a little angry just now."
Yun Mian would not console her by saying something like "don't be angry, it's not worth it". She thought about it carefully, stomped the grasshopper to death, and then turned her head to ask Zhao Xiaoli: "How long do you plan to be angry for? I'll come and play with you after you're done being angry?"
Zhao Xiaoli held her breath in her heart and couldn't let it out for a long time.
She glared at Yunmian speechlessly. This time she was really angry: "Go away! Don't come to play with me anymore. I will be angry for the rest of my life!"
Just mad at yourself to death!
Yunmian bent down and caught two more grasshoppers, stuffed them into Zhao Xiaoli's hands enthusiastically, and replied with a smile: "Okay, then I'll go back to find my mother. My mother said she is very busy today, so I will go back to help her with the work. You can get angry slowly, bye~"
Then she left.
He left without looking back.
Looking at her excited back as she ran down the mountain, Zhao Xiaoli was so angry that her eyes turned red. She stomped her feet angrily and stomped on the nearby grass to vent her anger, scaring away countless grasshoppers.
The system flew over Yunmian's head and kept broadcasting: "Current mission progress: 29%, 29.3%, 100%..."
It's confusing.
I have thought about how to complete this world mission countless times, and have made various calculations and analyses, but I never expected that what prompted the protagonist's mental progress was not a big thing, but just Yunmian's lack of understanding of romance...
"Mianmian, she seems to be crying because of you." The system stopped at Yunmian's shoulder and whispered.
Yunmian paused.
The system thought that she finally had a change of heart and was ready to go back to comfort Zhao Xiaoli, but it turned out that Yun Mian really never did anything.
She refuted seriously with a stern face: "Uncle System, you are wrong. It was not me who made Little Li cry. She was angry with the grasshopper, and the grasshopper that made her cry has been stepped on to death by her!"
She also didn't understand why Xiaoli was still unhappy even though she had taken revenge?
system:"……"
Have you ever thought that most of the reasons for this are caused by you?
But Yunmian was busy going home to help her mother, so where did she have time to reflect? She ran so fast that her hair didn't even touch her back, for fear of being late.
As for the still angry Xiaoli sister, Yunmian happened to meet Xiaoli sister's mother when passing by her house.
"Mianmian, where are you going and what are you doing so fast?" Li Jiaxiu called her with a smile.
Yunmian smiled widely: "Aunt Jiaxiu, my mother is working at home. I have to go back to help her. Otherwise, it will be very hard for her to work alone."
Li Jiaxiu exclaimed in surprise: "Oh, our Mianmian is only five years old and is so sensible and filial. I really envy your mother. She raised you so well!"
Yunmian puffed out her chest proudly: "Because I am my mother's little cotton-padded jacket, I must protect my mother!"
Li Jiaxiu was amused by her words and laughed so hard, but she turned around and asked, "I remember Xiaoli said she went to play with you, why are you alone? Where is our Xiaoli?"
Yunmian blinked her eyes and said honestly, "Little Sister Li was playing with jumping insects on the mountain. She wanted to kill them one by one."
She saw it with her own eyes, and she didn't lie to a single word.
The smile on Li Jiaxiu's face gradually froze, and her tone was tinged with murderous intent: "She didn't come back with you?"
Yunmian shook her head innocently: "No, I went home to help my mother with work. Sister Xiaoli didn't have to work, so she didn't come back."
Li Jiaxiu: “…”
She forced a smile and saw off Yunmian who was running home happily. When the little girl disappeared, the smile on her face disappeared in an instant. She turned around, gnashing her teeth, picked up the stick standing in the corner, and walked out aggressively.
Yunmian, who had already arrived home to help her mother dry beans and sweet potatoes, had no idea that she had inadvertently added some hellish suffering to the protagonist, and was happily making matters worse for her mother.
The system squatted on the wall, and the electronic sound broadcasting the progress of the task gradually became numb.
"…30.7 percent…"
Yunmian didn't understand percentages, so she naturally didn't know that her little sister Xiaoli was crying and being chased all over the mountain by her mother with a stick.
She secretly glanced at her mother who was still cooking sweet potatoes in the kitchen, sniffed the rich sweet fragrance of sweet potatoes that filled the yard, smacked her lips, stretched out her paws and scooped out two dried sweet potatoes from the dustpan in a flash, and the next second she and the three dogs squatted in the corner to share the snacks.
"Pingping, this is yours." He tore off a small piece and placed it in front of Pingping.
"An An, this is yours."
"An An, don't push it to the little gray wolf. It has some too. Hurry up and eat it yourself, or else we'll all get beaten if mom finds out!"
As Yunmian spoke, she stuffed her own piece into her mouth, fearing that her mother would find out if she ate too slowly.
One man and three dogs continued to commit crimes, thinking that their actions were fast and flawless, but in fact...
Yun Jin almost laughed out of anger when she saw the half-empty winnowing basket. She put down the new sweet potato chips in her hand and looked at the four little ones in the corner with innocent eyes wide open. She asked coldly, "Did you steal some?"
Yunmian's cheeks were still bulging with food, and there was some sweet potato pulp stuck on her mouth. Upon hearing this, her eyes widened slightly and she shook her head like a rattle, demonstrating with her actions that she definitely did not steal any of the food.
Yun Jin stared at her daughter's mouth, which was still chewing furiously, and laughed angrily: "Really? Then tell me, as long as you say you didn't cheat, Mom will believe you."
Yunmian: “…”
Her mouth was so full of sticky sweet potatoes that she couldn't speak at all!
Under her mother's all-knowing gaze, Yunmian looked down, bent down, picked up a lucky one, and lifted it up high with great effort.
Pingping suddenly jumped into the air: "Woof?!"
Yunmian finally swallowed the sweet potato that nearly choked her to death, and quickly confessed: "Mom, not only did I eat it, Ping An An and Little Gray Wolf also ate it! You can't just hit me~"
We eat sweet potatoes together, and we suffer beatings together. No dog can escape.
But my mother is a very good person. Even though her sweet potatoes were stolen, she didn't really beat her.
After the cheating incident was over, Yunmian tiptoed to the other end of the long bench, looking at the yard full of dried sweet potatoes, dried pumpkins, fried dried beans, pickled vegetables, etc., and asked in confusion: "Mom, why do you have to prepare so many things? I am full after eating two dried sweet potatoes."
But there were at least a few hundred dried sweet potatoes and many other things drying in the yard.
Yunmian counted on her fingers and felt that these things were enough for her to eat for many days. There were so many that she couldn't count them even after counting them with her ten fingers several times.
Yun Jin was turning the roasted beans over to dry them in the sun. Her hands kept moving as she heard him speak, but she kept saying, "Mian Mian, do you still remember the rat we caught last year?"
Of course Yunmian remembered it. The rat was big, black, and slippery, and when it was discovered, it was stealing eggs from the chicken coop!
Those were eggs, her morning rations, but they were almost stolen by mice. The mice also bit several holes in my mother's clothes, making them unwearable.
So, driven by all kinds of new and old grudges, the five-year-old Yunmian picked up a stone and rushed towards the chicken coop.
She single-handedly broke the leg of the big fat rat. Later, her mother killed the rat and no one knew where it was thrown.
But the presence of one mouse meant that there was probably a large nest of mice. After that, mice would still be seen occasionally in the house. Only after Mom brought Ping An An and Little Gray Wolf back home did the mice disappear from the house.
But Yunmian didn’t know why her mother suddenly mentioned the mouse.
Touching his daughter's bewildered face, Yun Jin whispered, "Those thieves, rats, are the smartest. They steal our food and hide it away. They hide a lot of it. When we had a famine before, many people starved to death. Later, some people couldn't stand it anymore and dug rat holes. They survived by relying on the food stored in the rat holes."
"Mianmian, we should also learn from these thieves and store more food. If there is a famine and people starve to death one day, mom will ensure that we can survive."
Yun Jin doesn't ask for herself and her daughter to live a wealthy and prosperous life in the future. She only hopes that her daughter will be safe and healthy, and live a life without illness or disaster.
Yunmian vaguely understood something: "Mom, is it because there are too many springtails and they will eat up all the food we planted in the field?"
Hearing her daughter's innocent question, Yun Jin's face changed, but she suppressed the urge to ask further questions and said in a gentle voice, "Maybe, but Mianmian is still young, so you don't have to think too much. Now help your mother continue to dry the sweet potatoes, okay?"
Yunmian nodded obediently. Anyway, she had just eaten her fill, so she would be able to help her mother with the work next time!
So when Zhao Xiaoli cried and shouted to her mother that Yunmian was a liar, and was dragged all the way to the Yun family courtyard by her mother by the collar, what the mother and daughter saw was Yunmian helping to dry the grain in the courtyard like a little bee, diligently.
Yunmian also saw Zhao Xiaoli and waved her paw with a smile: "Sister Xiaoli, have you finally caught all the springtails?"
Facing her mother's dying gaze, Zhao Xiaoli couldn't help but feel sad again and cried even louder.
Zhao Xiaoli: (Breaking down and crying) Yun Mianmian, please behave yourself! !
There will be another chapter at 9pm, boobo~
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
1 bottle of leg;
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