Chapter 50: Holy crap! Child prodigy!

A sulphurous smell spread.

Li Xiaoya held up a wooden stick that was thicker than her wrist and hit the clothes.

"Is it okay now?" Xu Ruying asked in surprise.

Li Xiaoya nodded, took the clothes off the rope, and returned them to Xu Ruying. Then he turned around and brought out a small bamboo basket filled with many small sandbags, all sewn together with rags. When you get close to it, you can smell a strange, complex aroma.

"What's this?"

"Sachet."

Xu Ruying had never seen such an ugly and rough sachet.

But Li Xiaoya picked them up and handed them to her one by one: "This is Patchouli." "This is Rosemary." "This is Lemongrass." "This is Mint..."

"They all have the effect of repelling insects, but they smell different. You can choose the one you like." said Li Xiaoya.

Xu Ruying was stunned: "When did you do it?"

Li Xiaoya said: "Last night."

Xu Ruying stammered: "You, you, you are trying to please me?"

Li Xiaoya looked at her in confusion: "To please?" She shook her head and said, "Because you look terribly scared."

Xu Ruying was a little embarrassed. But when she thought about how Li Xiaoya was so young, and how he went up the mountain at night to pick various plants and herbs for her, and made sachets of different scents for her to choose from, Xu Ruying felt overwhelmed by the sincere and enthusiastic emotions of the child.

To ease the embarrassment, Xu Ruying asked: "How can you distinguish so many plants?"

“That’s how it works.”

“…”

Xu Ruying's mouth twitched as she said, "You really should be my parents' daughter."

Li Xiaoya looked at her curiously: "Why?"

"My dad likes to study plants, and my mom likes to study animals. They love nature and science. But I just want to study finance and media, and they think I am a money-grubber." Xu Ruying said with a bit of sadness, "And I don't have any talent in these areas. I don't understand why wintersweet and plum blossom are not the same thing!"

Ning Heng came out. This person was not very good at studying. When he heard this, he was shocked and asked, "What? Winter plum and plum blossom are not the same thing?"

Li Xiaoya nodded: "Yes, they are not the same."

Now Xu Ruying was shocked: "How did you know?"

Li Xiaoya said: "It's written in the book."

"Books? What books?"

"The books in the book corner donated by the charitable people. It says that wintersweets belong to the family Chimonaceae, and plum blossoms belong to the family Rosaceae."

Xu Ruying and Ning Heng looked at each other and suddenly felt that they were not as good as a child.

"Do you always go reading?" Xu Ruying asked.

"Well, if you help the teacher organize the books, you can get a red flower."

"I can exchange the red flowers for candy for Brother Sheng, right?" Ning Heng suddenly felt greedy, "When can you exchange one for me?"

Sheng Yuxiao came late and uttered a few words: "Dream on."

"What other books are there?" Xu Ruying became even more curious.

"A lot." Li Xiaoya counted on his fingers, "There are Andersen's Fairy Tales, Architecture and Garden Design, The Red and the Black, Horror Stories, National Geographic, and Stories of Soulmates..."

"Well, the variety is quite rich." Xu Ruying was surprised.

“There shouldn’t be too many requirements for books donated to mountainous areas, as long as they are books.” Sheng Yuxiao said after thinking for a while.

"How many books have you read?" Xu Ruying asked again.

"I've seen them all." Li Xiaoya answered seriously.

Xu Ruying said without thinking: "Impossible! How could you have seen them all?"

Lai Siu-ya said puzzledly: "But I have seen them all, but there are some that I don't understand."

Xu Ruying thought to herself, I knew it. How is it possible for a child like you to read and understand all the books?

Li Xiaoya said: "Some characters are strange, crooked, like tadpoles."

Xu Ruying looked confused: "What is this? Small seal script?"

Sheng Yuxiao thought for a moment and then asked, "Arabic?"

Li Xiaoya suddenly realized: "So it's called Arabic. I can only write it down, but I don't know what it says."

Xu Ruying was stunned again: "Huh? You can remember it?" "I don't believe it!"

Xu Ruying immediately took out her business card and pen and gave it to her: "Just write a few words in the blank space for me to see."

"Oh." Li Xiaoya did not refuse. He took the pen and wrote on the blank space of the business card. No, it was more like drawing words.

But the words she drew...

Xu Ruying and Ning Heng were both stunned.

Sheng Yuxiao was still sober and uttered slowly, "It looks like printed words. Yes, it is indeed Arabic."

Xu Ruying: “Oh my god!”

Ning Heng: "Child prodigy!"

Even the staff standing by felt a tingling sensation as they watched this scene.

It seems that Li Xiaoya's precocity and tenacity are indeed innate to her, not just honed by the environment. If she has such talent, plus these rich second-generations teach her everything every day, what kind of terrifying person will she become when she grows up?

The staff didn't even dare to think about it.

"Sister." Li Xiaoya suddenly spoke softly. She said, "I just want to be my mother's daughter, not someone else's daughter."

She said to Xu Ruying: "You too. Your parents only want you to be their daughter, no one else will."

Xu Ruying looked at her in a daze.

is that so?

"Li Xiaoya! Li Xiaoya!" At this time, someone ran closer while shouting her name.

It had been a while since anyone had bothered them.

Li Xiaoya was surprised when someone came to see her suddenly. She turned her head and saw that person suddenly fell down in front of her. But she was so anxious that she didn't even bother to get up. She hurriedly said, "Someone, someone is looking for you! They said, they said it's your relative..."

Sheng Yuxiao suddenly thought of that damn Li Hongguang and sneered, "Who is this blind man again?"

The messenger swallowed and said, "No, not a distant relative, it's... it's your mother's relatives who are looking for you..."

Li Xiaoya, who had been acting like a little adult and was extremely emotionally stable, suddenly shed two tears.

She took a step forward, then stepped back timidly.

The cold expression on Sheng Yuxiao's face gradually disappeared.

So fast?

Is this the person arranged by my uncle?