As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Shen Shangxu looking astonished, but a hint of pity flashed in his eyes. It took him a while to speak again.
"Of course, but I was attacked by thieves and all my belongings were stolen. However, please rest assured, Madam Liu, I will personally present a generous gift to express my gratitude for saving my life!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Yingying stroked her chin thoughtfully, considering that there were no more phone calls to collect debts these days, and if he wanted to default on his debts, she wouldn't be able to find him at all.
At that moment, Shen Shangxu's voice rang out again.
"May I ask, Madam Liu, this is a remote mountain forest. Why are you here alone?"
Seeing the doubt and wariness in his eyes, Liu Yingying decided to be direct: "It's all because of this famine. The village has been without water for over a month. If this continues, everyone will either starve or die of thirst. So I thought I'd try my luck in the mountains to see if I could find a water source..."
"I see!"
Shen Shangxu looked as if he had just realized something, and then opened his mouth as if to speak, but hesitated.
Liu Yingying glanced at the sky. There was no time to argue with him now. They could talk about the money later.
Based on the original owner's memories, he pointed out a way out of the mountains to Shen Shangxu: "This place is not safe to stay for long. Just keep going along that path and you will reach the nearby town."
But Shen Shangxu looked at her with a puzzled expression and asked, "This place is dangerous. Madam Liu, why don't you leave with me?"
"No, I have other things to do." Liu Yingying smiled slightly and shook her head in refusal.
Seeing that she had her own ideas, Shen Shangxu didn't say anything more.
"Well then... I'll take my leave now. Take care, Madam Liu!"
Having said that, he limped off towards the foot of the mountain...
After his figure disappeared, Liu Yingying continued to search for signs of water in the canyon.
As the sun began to set, she still found nothing.
Liu Yingying wasn't discouraged. If everything in the world were that smooth, she wouldn't have ended up in this godforsaken place.
She plopped down on the grass, gazing at the fiery clouds on the horizon, lost in thought.
Blindly searching like this isn't a solution. If only we had a water source detector like the ones we have now!
Thinking of this, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration.
Using my mind, I opened the store interface and scrolled all the way to the last page.
As expected, she wasn't disappointed!
The words "Water Source Detector" are prominently displayed!
However, upon seeing the points required for redemption, Liu Yingying couldn't help but sigh to the heavens.
Three thousand points!
"How many evils would we have to punish to collect that many?"
But after a moment of dejection, Liu Yingying cheered herself up again.
Now that we have a clear goal, as long as we can accumulate enough points, the water shortage problem here can be solved.
As for where to find so many bad people?
"Hehe... Ma'ao Township, your old lady is here!"
Sunset.
Liu Yingying returned home laden with a pheasant, several green-shelled eggs, and some fruit.
As for the origin of these things?
It was naturally picked up from the mountains.
Liu Yingying stopped in her tracks when she overheard a conversation between a grandmother and her grandchild as she passed by the door of an elderly woman living alone in the village.
"Grandma, I'm so hungry. I haven't eaten in a long time."
"Baby, be good, just bear with it a little longer, and we'll have something to eat."
"Grandma, when can we eat meat as delicious as we did a few days ago?"
The child's innocent question was followed by a desolate silence.
Outside the door, Liu Yingying's heart clenched.
The elderly woman here is called Grandma Zhang, and the toddler is her only grandson, Chen Bao'er, who is five years old this year.
Grandma Zhang was also an extremely unfortunate person. When she was young, her husband was conscripted and sent to the battlefield, where he never returned. Grandma Zhang raised her only son alone, and she cried until she went blind.
They finally got their son married, but his wife died in childbirth. Fortunately, their grandson survived.
However, this proved to be true.
A rope always breaks at its thinnest point, and misfortune only finds those with a bitter fate!
Two years ago, Grandma Zhang's son, Chen Niu, was forced to build a river embankment, but he unexpectedly lost his life.
The lives of the poor have always been worthless. The government didn't even offer an explanation, and the matter was simply dropped, leaving the poor grandmother and grandson to struggle to survive in the village...
etc!
Something seems off.
Liu Yingying snapped out of her thoughts and suddenly frowned.
In this famine year, even the village chief's family can only eat blackened coarse rice with pickled vegetables. So where did Grandma Zhang, who already struggles to make ends meet, get meat for Bao'er?
Liu Yingying had a bad feeling and pushed the door open to go inside.
Who is it?
Grandma Zhang quickly pulled her grandson behind her, staring warily at the doorway.
"Grandma, it's Aunt Liu." Bao'er peeked out and looked at Liu Yingying, speaking in a soft, sweet voice.
"Oh...it's Koyanagi...what can I do for you?"
Liu Yingying tried her best to sound kind: "Grandma Zhang, I went to the mountains today and found some wild eggs. I thought Bao'er is growing and needs nutrition, so please keep these eggs for yourself!"
As he spoke, he took out ten eggs from the bamboo house behind him and placed them on the stove. At the same time, he noticed out of the corner of his eye that Grandma Zhang's leg seemed a little abnormal.
"This...this won't do...Xiao Liu, you need to take these eggs back right away. You have three children at home who need them!"
Grandma Zhang seemed a little flustered, but since she was blind and couldn't return the eggs immediately, she could only look anxious.
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