Chapter 54 Chapter 54 Become Beautiful
Old Mrs. Yu ran away so fast that when Yu Qin and Wang turned around, they could only see her back disappearing into the kitchen.
Both of them were speechless.
Over the years, Old Madam Yu has been running rampant in the Yu family. Her loud voice can make people collapse. Only others can avoid her, so why would she avoid others?
But now, every time I see Yu Li, it's like a mouse seeing a cat.
She wanted to hide.
This scene also made Wang very emotional.
A few months ago, she would never have thought that the old lady actually feared someone, and that person was the granddaughter of the second wife. The old lady did not treat these granddaughters as human beings. She would scold them if they ate one more bite, as if she was holding a little toy.
Seeing Yu Li turning around to look at her, Wang Shi stiffened her face and greeted him, "Li, Li Niang, are you feeling better?"
Yuqin said nothing and moved toward the clothes hanging out to dry.
She still remembered that Yu Li almost hit her before.
The Yu family also knew that Yu Li had fainted that day. After the old lady heard about it, she muttered something like asking God to take her away, but she only said it in a low voice and did not dare to shout loudly.
Yu Li just fainted, he's not going to die, so we still don't dare to provoke him.
If she really died someday, I guess the old lady would dare to tremble.
Old Master Yu and the first wife and others were hoping that something would happen to Yu Li. As long as Yu Li was around, they would not dare to act rashly, not to mention how frustrating their life was.
Unexpectedly, she woke up after sleeping for two days.
When they learned about this, they were very disappointed.
Then news came out that Yu Li's health was seriously deteriorating and he needed to rest well, otherwise he would not live long.
Why is there a loss? It’s all because of the hard work I did in the Yu family.
Many people heard about this and when they saw the people from the Yu family, they openly or secretly accused the Yu family of not treating the girl as a human being in the past, and they were quite contemptuous of them.
This incident also alerted some families in the village who did not value their daughters.
It’s not that they don’t love their daughters, it’s just that their family is poor, so they have to take care of the boys first. The daughters have to come in at the back and will be the last to get anything.
Fearing that their daughters would suffer from poor health like Yu Li and die young, these families treated their daughters much better and gave them more food instead of giving it all to the boys.
When others talk to her, Yu Li will usually stop and respond politely, and will not deliberately ignore others.
She said to Wang: "Thank you for your concern, Third Aunt. I am in good health and have been taking care of myself recently."
This is also said to the people passing by.
She now has life powers that can be used to repair her body, and she will soon be healthy again. If her health is too good by then, it will definitely attract attention.
Now that she's talking about conditioning her body, no one will be too surprised if she experiences any changes after her health improves.
Sure enough, an old lady carrying a basket of pig grass asked, "Mother Li, how do you take care of your body?"
The idea of conditioning the body sounds quite new, and the villagers don’t quite understand it.
"The doctor prescribed me some tonic medicine," Yu Li replied. "Drink one bowl every morning and night. He said that drinking it for half a year should be enough."
The old lady was shocked. Drink tonic? And drink it for half a year? How much money would that cost?
Another lady asked, "Mother Li, how much does a dose of tonic cost?"
She thought that her daughter at home looked thin, and if she was also in poor health like Li Niang, she would have to find some tonic medicine for her.
Yu Li said: "A pair is about two or three hundred coins."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present gasped.
A dose of tonic costs two or three hundred coins? And it takes half a year to take it?
This is food for money, right?
People in the countryside work in the fields all year round to make a living. When the autumn harvest is harvested and taxes are paid, the excess can be sold. If you add odd jobs during the slack season, you can only earn four or five taels of silver.
One tael of silver is worth a thousand wen, and this dose of medicine costs two or three hundred wen. Who can afford it?
Someone muttered, "Could it be that this medicine contains ginseng and ganoderma lucidum? Why is it so expensive?"
They knew that ginseng was a life-saving thing, and that a single ginseng root was extremely expensive. If anyone could dig up ginseng in the mountains, they would become rich instantly.
Unfortunately, ginseng is very precious and not easy to find.
"Yes." Yu Li said affirmatively, "The tonic contains ginseng roots, which is why it is so nourishing."
She heard from Fu Wenxiao that the tonic she drank did contain ginseng roots. It was Zhou who asked the doctor to add it, and she was not stingy with the money.
Hearing this, everyone looked at her with envy.
The ginseng root in this tonic was actually added by Zhou? Zhou is such a good mother-in-law. Is she raising her daughter-in-law like her own daughter?
Looking at Yu Li more closely, they were surprised to find that she had completely changed.
The person is still the same person, but he no longer looks skinny. His face has more flesh and his skin has become whiter. His hair, which was originally as dry and yellow as weeds, has become much darker.
Although he still looks thin, he is not skinny.
She was wearing a plain green dress, standing there gracefully, with an indescribable charm, very special and very eye-catching.
Someone said in surprise: "Li, Li Niang, you seem to have grown taller?"
In fact, she not only grew taller, but also became more beautiful.
This is what a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl should look like. She is as beautiful as a flower bud and does not need any special dress-up to make people's eyes light up.
The ladies then noticed how Yu Li's face was so handsome.
Look at her eyebrows, long and thick, as beautiful as if they were painted; her eyes are bright, with clear black and white; her nose is straight, and her lips are just right. Although her skin is not as white and transparent as those girls in the county town, it has no spots from the sun and looks smooth and refreshing.
Yu Li nodded, "My mother-in-law's cooking is so delicious. I've been eating a lot recently, so I've grown taller."
Seventeen years old is the time when people grow up. The original owner did not eat well, did not sleep well, and did heavy labor, which weighed down his shoulders, so he was not tall.
Now she has become Yu Li, which may be the infusion of soul, or it may be because she eats more and better in the Fu family, plus now that she has awakened her special powers, her height has started to increase.
Yu Li estimated that the original owner was only about 1.5 meters tall before, and that she could grow to about 1.7 meters tall after using her special powers to improve her body.
Qingshi Village is located in the south of the Daqing Dynasty. People in the south are generally not tall. Few men are over 1.8 meters tall, and most are around 1.6 to 1.7 meters tall.
However, Yu Lao Er and Liu are not short, so their children are naturally not short either.
If they get enough nutrition and get enough rest, the Yu Jin sisters won’t be too short in the future.
Everyone listened with envy.
They knew that the Fu family was rich, but they didn't know how much money the Fu family had.
When Yu Li got married to bring good luck, people felt it was pitiful that she married a sickly man.
Putting all this aside, the Fu family is actually a rare and good destination just because they are rich. Look, the Fu family actually buys tonics for Yu Li to regulate her body. They are willing to let her take a dose of tonic that costs two or three hundred coins for half a year. The food she eats is also so good, and they have brought her up to be like this.
They all remembered what Yu Li was like before she got married. Now seeing how well she was raised by the Fu family, it was evident that the Fu family was not only rich but also very kind.
How could it not be a good destination?
If Fu Wenxiao was not ill, I'm afraid everyone in the village would want to marry their daughters to him so that he could enjoy a better life.
While Yu Li was talking to those people, Wang, who was drying clothes in the yard, was also full of envy.
The Fu family is really rich and generous. They love their daughter-in-law like their own daughters. No wonder she was so confident after leaving her mother to go to the Fu family and even dared to go back to her parents' home to make trouble.
If she had married into the Fu family, she would definitely have gone even further than Yu Li. Not only would she have asked the Yu family to split up quickly, she would have also taken more money from the old couple as her dowry.
Wang thought that it was because she heard that Zhou was going to Wa City to buy a little girl to bring back for marriage, and she turned around and told her husband about it, which led to the marriage.
It was her credit that Yu Li was able to marry into the Fu family, right?
However, she didn't dare to ask for credit in front of Yu Li, for fear of being beaten by Yu Li.
The ladies pulled Yu Li aside to talk to him, and Yu Li answered patiently without any impatience.
This was quite surprising to them. They didn't expect her to be so easy to talk to. In the past, she always buried her head in work and was busy every day without even taking a break. Naturally, she had no time to talk to the villagers, which led to everyone being unfamiliar with her.
Finally, as the sun was getting high and everyone had to go to work, they dispersed.
Yu Li also returned to the Fu family.
Soon, no one appeared in front of the Yu family’s gate.
Old Mrs. Yu poked her head out of the kitchen, and when she saw that Yu Li was gone, she muttered a few curses, but because she spoke too quietly, neither Wang nor Yu Qin could hear clearly what she said.
Yuqin looked a little lost and was absent-minded while working.
When I saw Yu Li just now, she was standing there pretty, calm and composed. She had a unique aura that made it difficult to take your eyes off her.
She felt as if she didn't even recognize her, and couldn't even remember what Yu Li looked like in the past.
Looking at myself again, I was wearing coarse cloth clothes that I had never worn before. They were gray and were worn just to make it easier to work. I looked dusty and dirty.
She felt like crying for some unknown reason.
Obviously she was not like this before, doing hard and tiring work every day, and was scolded by grandma, who said she was lazy and greedy and couldn't do any work well...
Wang said with a complicated look: "It was a good decision for Li Niang to marry into the Fu family. It's a pity that Mr. Fu is not in good health. If only his health could get better..."
Old Madam Yu felt uncomfortable and said unhappily, "What good can a sickly girl, who is too ugly to be seen in public, have?"
She was unwilling to admit that she had facilitated this marriage for the sake of the twenty taels of betrothal money, which resulted in the Yu family becoming like this.
Not only did she not get a penny of the betrothal money, but the Yu family was also forced to split up.
The Yu family got nothing in the end, but that damn girl Yu Li became better and better, which made Old Madam Yu very upset.
Wang and Yu Qin were both stunned when they heard this.
They had forgotten about it.
The fact that Fu Wenxiao is an ugly man has now spread throughout Qingshi Village. People say that no matter how rich the Fu family is, it is of no use if their son is a sickly, ugly man who cannot be seen by others.
Yuqin suddenly felt much better.
What does it matter if Yu Li is living a good life now? Her husband is a sickly and ugly man and he will be a burden in the future.
**
Zhou kept Yu Li at home to rest for five days, and finally let her go out to work.
Even so, she was still very worried: "If you feel uncomfortable, we will stop doing this. Come back and let Xiaoge'er take care of you. I can also take care of you. I will take on more large embroidery jobs..."
Yu Li said: "But I eat a lot."
"It's nothing!" Zhou waved her hand, "Tell Xiao'er to copy more rare books and sell them in the future. He has read a lot of rare books anyway." The first handwritten rare book that Fu Wenxiao sold was the one she brought to her study, so she knew everything about it.
Yu Li: “…”
Yu Li blinked and confirmed once again that Fu Wenxiao was a gold nugget.
When she returned to her room and saw Fu Wenxiao sitting by the window reading a book, she couldn't help but stare at him.
Fu Wenxiao put down the book, his brows softened, and he asked in a gentle voice: "Li Niang, what's the matter?"
Yu Li sat across from him and asked seriously, "Have you read many rare books?"
"Not bad." Fu Wenxiao said implicitly, "My family used to have some heritage and collected quite a few rare books. I've read a few of them in my spare time."
Yu Li exclaimed: "I finally understand why everyone wants to study."
Because it is really easy for people with knowledge to make money.
What is meant by "scholars are good for nothing"? In fact, it refers to those useless Confucian scholars. For those who have truly read books and have flexible minds, it is still easy for them to make money.
Fu Wenxiao laughed. The purpose of studying is not to make money, but to gain fame, to enter another class, to hold power and to be respected.
Making money is secondary.
This is the norm in the world. No man doesn't want to achieve success.
Yu Li added: "I will go to the county town tomorrow and take the silver back from the study."
Fu Wenxiao held the book in his hand and looked at her with a smile.
She added, "Xiao brother, when you get better, remember to make money for me."
At that moment, Fu Wenxiao couldn't tell what he felt in his heart, or maybe he was not thinking about anything, his mind was blank.
She said, when he gets better...
This was the first time she had heard for sure that he would be in good health.
She said it so naturally, as if it was a matter of course that his health would get better.
Fu Wenxiao never thought that he could live like an ordinary person with this broken body. Instead, being alive was a luxury.
I did try to find a miracle doctor to save him, but in the end it was useless.
He gave up long ago.
He was never a person who accepted his fate, but reality forced him to do so.
Stranded in this remote village, I repeat the painful and boring days year after year, day after day. Every day I lie in bed, silently counting the time, feeling my life slowly coming to an end.
When his life was about to come to an end, a girl suddenly appeared and told him that he didn't have to die.
He will get better.
"...Okay." Fu Wenxiao said hoarsely, "I will work hard to make money for you."
Fu Wenxiao had everything in the past, so he didn't care about money and regarded it as something outside of his body. In fact, money was the least important thing in his hands.
Fu Wenxiao has nothing now, so he has to work hard to make money for her.
**
It was still dark outside, but Yu Li had already woken up.
She took the basket of scallion pancakes covered with a cloth from Zhou.
The roads in this world are all dirt roads. When the wind blows, dust rises. If people walk outside for a whole day, they will be covered in mud and dust, and look exhausted.
"Mom, I'm leaving. You go back to sleep." Yu Li said to Zhou, who got up in the middle of the night to make breakfast for her.
Zhou responded and said, "If you are hungry, eat more. If it is not enough, tell me and I will make more tomorrow."
"It's enough. There's still food in the county town."
Yu Li asked Zhou to go back to her room and sleep, and she went out carrying a basket and a backpack.
It was pitch black outside the door, and the stars were twinkling.
Yu Li was no longer completely in the dark like a blind person. With the help of starlight, he could see some outlines of tree shadows in the darkness.
When she used her supernatural powers to repair her body, her night blindness was naturally cured without medication. Now, even when she walks at night, she can still see things without lighting a torch.
After arriving in the county town, Yu Li went straight to the butcher shop.
She met a drunk on the road, and when he saw her, he actually wanted to tease her. Yu Li was not polite and slapped him away. The drunk hit the wall, fell down dizzy, and then fell asleep.
Yu Li ignored him. Anyway, there would be patrol officers passing by and dealing with the drunkard.
She arrived early, and when she reached the butcher's shop, only Zhang Fu was squatting there with sleepy eyes, sharpening his knife. No one else had arrived yet.
Seeing Yu Li, Zhang Fu sobered up. He dropped his butcher knife and walked over to look her over for a while. "Mother Li, how are you? Are you feeling better? Why did you come here today instead of resting at home?"
They were all very worried about her health, and when they learned that she was in a coma, they were afraid that something might have happened to her.
Fortunately, Boss Tu said that she woke up after two days of sleep and needed to recuperate, so he let her have a good rest at home.
Yu Li said: "I'm fine, I've rested enough, so I came here."
Zhang Fu looked at her in the light of the oil lamp and felt that she was in good spirits and there should be nothing wrong.
When Boss Tu and the others came over and saw Yu Li, they also asked about his well-being.
Yu Li answered them one by one and said that he was fine.
"Sister Yu, your face looks fat." Zhang Yaoping was still a teenager, and he spoke without restraint, "Have you been sleeping and eating at home these days?"
Zhang Fu slapped him on the back of the head, "What do you mean by sleep and eat, eat and sleep? Do you think this is raising pigs?"
Zhang Yaoping was not convinced, "Didn't Boss Tu say that she needed to take care of her body? Doesn't that mean eating and sleeping, sleeping and eating?" He looked at Yu Li again, "Seventh Uncle, look at Sister Yu. I haven't seen her for a few days. She seems to have grown a lot. She looks like a grown-up girl."
He treated Yu Li as his elder sister, and knowing that she was already married, he naturally had no such thoughts and spoke frankly.
The others looked at Yu Li. Doesn't she look like a grown-up girl?
In the past, they treated me like a little girl because I was short and skinny. But now...
When it was bright, Yu Li came back from delivering the goods, and they realized how much Yu Li had changed.
If the person was still the same person, and the face was still the same face - no, the skin had become much whiter, and the eyebrows, eyes, and facial features seemed to have finally grown out, giving people a beautiful and delicate feeling.
It's hard to recognize.
"Li Niang, is the effect of your conditioning so good?" Uncle Luo said in surprise, "Which doctor prescribed the tonic? I'll give my daughter Niuniu some conditioning, too."
Zhang Yaoping immediately said, "Uncle Luo, please don't treat your daughter Niuniu. She has become so fat."
Uncle Luo stretched out his hand as if to hit him. In the eyes of a father, his daughter was not fat, but healthy and plump.
Yu Li said: "It's Doctor Xu from Huichun Hall."
Hearing this, everyone was suddenly enlightened. "It's Doctor Xu. His medical skills are really good. He is the best doctor in our county."
Everyone in the butcher shop was amazed at Yu Li's transformation.
If Yu Li hadn't been slowly transforming right under their eyes, from skinny to gradually gaining weight and then adjusting her body, when they suddenly saw her now, they would have thought she was a different person.
Of course, no one thought much about it. They thought that she had been recuperating at home these days, and her face had become pale. Plus, it was normal for her to become like this during the period of recuperation.
After talking to them for a while, Yu Li collected his wages and left the butcher shop.
She did not go to the study first, but to a small alley in the city called Luoyu Lane.
There is a big banyan tree at the entrance of the alley. Usually, children from the neighborhood come to play under the tree, and there are also some idle people squatting in the corner to gamble.
When Yu Li passed by, he looked over there and saw a group of idle people gathered together to gamble.
She paused, walked over there, and kicked a idle man who had his back to her.
The idle man fell forward and bumped into the person opposite him, instantly knocking all the people surrounding there to the ground. A group of people turned around cursing and looking fierce.
When they saw Yu Li standing there clearly, the ferocity on their faces turned into surprise.
"Li, Li Boss?"
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