Chapter 328: Not Likeable
Li Laiyu remembered it very clearly. She was eight years old when her grandfather Li Guoping died. Her father Li Guangyuan went crazy. At the most serious time, he didn't even know how to put on his pants or clothes. He was so strong that her uncle Li Guangwen couldn't hold him down by himself.
He liked to run around everywhere, grinning foolishly when he saw people, and occasionally he would go crazy, pick up stones and hit people, cursing incoherently.
The women and children in the team avoided him as if he were the plague.
Li Laiyu couldn't control him either.
Hu Laixi, who is the same age as Li Laiyu, is already in the second grade. Li Laiyu doesn't want to go to school and doesn't have the conditions to go to school.
There is so much work to do at home.
Her mother-in-law Wang Chengying's health has been up and down, and her uncle Li Guangwen has become the only laborer in the family. Because of their family's special circumstances, she and Wang Chengying went to the brigade to cry twice. In the end, they were treated equally and could get the same work points as long as they did the same work.
Since the two adults went to work, all the housework fell on Li Lai Yu.
Cooking, washing clothes, and weeding in the private plot were all her jobs. At the beginning of the year, she caught four chicks. Two of them died, but there were still two left, which just met the requirement.
The two "dead" ones were thrown into the space by her, and now they look much happier than the two outside.
September is harvest season, and she wished she had ten arms so she could bring home everything. Aside from cooking, she didn't bother with her private plot, spending her days and nights wandering the mountains.
That day, when Hu Laixi got home from school, she rarely went out. She sat on the doorstep with needle and thread, mending her clothes.
After Hu Laixi finished his meal, he brought his homework book and a chair over to sit next to her.
When the situation was at its worst, her family didn't allow her to play with Li Lai Yu, but since they lived in the same yard, how could they not play together? So they did it secretly.
Now Li Guoping's family is composed of orphans and a widow. Even if the team makes trouble, they can't be affected. What is there to make trouble for when the main person is dead? Although not many people interact with them, they live in the same yard, so there are no so many taboos.
Hu Lai Xi was raised by his family and has a very cheerful personality. He smiles at everyone he meets and has a sweet mouth. He has a really good personality.
Li Lai Yu and she are simply two extremes.
The two were the same age. Li Laiyu was also eight years old, but she looked like she hadn't grown much at all. She was a head shorter than Hu Laixi, dark and thin. She never greeted anyone, even if she saw someone in the yard, she would pretend not to see them. Unless necessary, she would never speak. When she looked at people, she was cold and creepy. An eight-year-old like this was really not pleasing.
She has no friends and she doesn't need any.
She just wants to live a good life.
No one likes her except her own family, and Hu Laixi is an exception.
The more she didn't speak, the more Hu Laixi liked to look for her, ask her to recite, ask her to do homework, and ask her to go out together.
"Aren't you going up the mountain today?"
Li Laiyu rarely responded: "I'm tired, let's take a rest."
Hu Laixi leaned over to take a look, his eyes full of admiration: "Laiyu, you are really amazing. Your needlework skills are better than my mother's."
Li Lai Yu didn't say anything. She wasn't really only eight years old.
Even though she had never touched these things much in her previous life, it didn't mean she didn't know how to do it.
Her mother-in-law, Wang Chengying, was also very good at sewing, but her eyes were damaged from crying, and now she can't do such delicate work as threading a needle.
Someone has to do the work, so she took over all the cleaning, sewing and mending chores around the house.
"It's a new book. Do you want to take a look? I feel it's much more difficult than what I learned last semester." Since the beginning of school, Hu Laixi liked to give books to Li Laiyu to read, so that she would have a feeling that Li Laiyu was actually accompanying her to school.
Li Lai Yu picked up the Chinese textbook, flipped through two pages and put it back, then picked up the arithmetic textbook.
She was not very interested in the current academic knowledge, but she was very interested in arithmetic. Although what she learned from Hu Laixi was relatively simple, she had to say that it was much simpler and easier to understand than what she learned back then.
She glanced at Hu Laixi and called out to her, "You wrote it wrong."
Hu Laixi was stunned for a moment, and the pencil in his hand made a dot on the notebook made of straw paper.
"What's wrong? How do you know it's wrong?"
Li Laiyu took the Chinese textbook and pointed it out to her: "The pinyin is wrong."
Hu Laixi blinked several times and looked at her in disbelief: "You just took a quick glance and you remembered it?"
"It happened."
After saying that, he continued to busy himself.
Hu Lai Xi already thought she was amazing, and now he admired her even more.
When she went to bed at night, she murmured to Zheng Xiulan, "Grandma, let me tell you, Lai Yu is really amazing. The patches she makes are more beautiful than those made by my mother."
In the same courtyard, Zheng Xiulan knew what kind of person Li Lai Yu was. Children from poor families have to grow up early. Except for her bad personality, Li Lai Yu was perfect in all other aspects. Not to mention those of the same age, even those who were three or five years older than her might not be as capable as her.
Zheng Xiulan vaguely remembered that the child was very well-behaved when he was young. Although he didn't talk much, he would still say hello when he met people. When did he become dull? Maybe after Li Guoping's death? She couldn't remember clearly.
After Hu Laixi finished speaking, she laughed: "Patches are just patches, how can they look good? But you can learn from her. Girls still need to be diligent and capable."
Hu Laixi rolled around in the quilt like a giant bug: "Yeah, I will definitely learn from her. She is amazing. She has never been to school, but she can recognize everything I read. She also knows what I wrote is right and what is wrong."
Zheng Xiulan didn't care. After all, her granddaughter had always liked to stick to the girl from the Li family since she was a child, and she couldn't control her no matter what.
Li Laiyu is smart, but when it comes to studying, it's hard to imagine someone who can master something without even attending a single day of school. If that were the case, then he'd be no ordinary person.
Li Lai Yu didn't want to study, and none of the educated people around him had an easy life.
Moreover, given their family background, even if she could go to school for a few days, she would not be able to take the higher examination.
Just take a look and don't waste your time.
It was cool in the morning, and she got up as soon as Wang Chengying got up. She took a basket and went to the private plot to pick some radish leaves, chopped them up and fed the chickens. Then she locked the door and went up the mountain with the basket on her back.
There are many things to eat in the mountains during this season, such as chestnuts, wax gourds, and various wild fruits.
Of course, this is not the main point. The main thing is that the mountains are bustling in this season, and all kinds of birds and animals come out to look for food.
With her current strength, she can't hit bigger objects, but she can still hit small things like birds. Although she lacks strength, she still has good accuracy.
In recent years, she often walks a little further, finds a secluded place, builds a fire, and roasts a bird to fill her stomach.
The only regret was that she couldn't take it home because she couldn't explain where it came from.
He built a fire, wrapped two turtledoves that had their internal organs removed and smeared with salt and buried them underneath. Then he quickly climbed up a nearby chestnut tree and knocked on it with a bamboo pole. He could hear the sound of chestnut thorns falling down with a crackling sound.
When the backpack was almost full and the birds were almost buried, he nibbled on them randomly to satisfy his craving for meat. Then he turned off the fire, buried the bones and other things, wiped his mouth, pulled out a few thatch roots and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them, and went down the mountain.
At noon, Wang Chengying came back to eat and asked her, "How much food do we have left?"
Ever since Li Lai Yu started cooking, she gradually stopped caring about the food at home.
Li Lai Yu doesn't have any cooking skills, he just cooks until the food is cooked, but this is the way it is these days. It's good enough to have something to eat, no one cares whether it tastes good or not.
But she is willing to spend money, so every meal is definitely enough and not too bland.
Although there were only two meals a day, Wang Chengying always felt that the food was definitely not enough. She had to borrow money from the team before she could get her rations.
But every time he asked, Li Laiyu always said the same thing: "There's more, enough to eat. We are a small family, so we don't need to spend money on food."
It’s not like she hasn’t looked at it before; it’s indeed there.
She didn't think much about it. After all, they had a variety of dishes with every meal, and it was all thanks to Li Lai Yu.
After dinner, Li Laiyu discussed with Wang Chengying: "Grandma, I want to go to the city."
She was fed up with this life where she couldn't eat any oil or meat and had to be sneaky to eat, so she wanted to go to the city.
Wang Chengying was stunned for a moment: "What are you going into the city for?"
Li Laiyu said: "See the world!"
Wang Chengying said angrily, "I don't know what the world is like, but there are kidnappers in the city who specialize in kidnapping children your age."
After saying that, she felt uneasy and added, "Just stay home and be quiet. If you want to go out, wait until the autumn harvest is over and I'll take you to the commune."
"The commune is only about an hour's walk from here. If it's further away, it'll take two hours to get to the town. It's even further to get to the city, probably four or five hours. You'll cry if you walk there."
Li Lai Yu sighed and gave up the idea.
Commune, she had been to the commune once. There was a supply and marketing cooperative there, and it was okay to buy things there, but she wanted to do more than just buy things!
Buying things requires money and tickets, but she has neither.
The warehouse in the space was full of things, and she wanted to find a way to get some of them out and exchange them for money or tickets.
She still didn't dare to take the risk of going to the commune. It was quite close and the demand didn't seem to be that great.
When there was not enough food, people would go to the team to write a note and ask for a loan. No one would go to buy food.
However, if the county town is really so far away from here, she will have to wait a little longer.
Wang Chengying looked at her without saying anything, thinking that she had given up the idea of going to the city and went to work with peace of mind.
Li Lai Yu leaned against the doorpost without moving, his consciousness had already entered the space.
I have been really hardworking in the past two years. Not only have I accumulated a lot of crops, but I have also accumulated a lot of diligence points.
The space has been upgraded to level five. It not only has running water and houses, but also a fruit forest she planted.
Seeds and seedlings are rewards given by the system when the space is upgraded.
She can bring in living plants and animals from outside, but until now, she still cannot bring in living things.
Ask the system, the system is an emotionless machine, it always has only one sentence: "Host, please work hard to get rich, upgrade steadily, it is shameful to cheat!
Li Laiyu: s(?｀ヘ′?;)ゞ is very angry╰_╯
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