Chapter 2 is finished, and the clothes are torn from washing.
Pressing her aching stomach, Liu Ye came out of the pigsty and went straight to the kitchen, only to find someone there—none other than the silly girl's mother, Liu Wangshi.
Liu Wangshi was not ugly; she had a small face the size of a palm, willow-leaf eyebrows, and cherry lips. However, her skin was a bit dark and yellow, and she was thin. Her arms and legs were as thin as sticks. Although she was in her thirties, she looked like an old woman in her fifties. She was not short either. Because she was too thin, her clothes hung loosely on her body. In addition, her clothes were very tattered and patched, which made her look very down and out, and very mean and mean.
In fact, she was also very mean and mean, otherwise she wouldn't have abused her own daughter. She didn't act like a mother at all. A mother should be a child's support and a warm harbor, but Liu Wangshi was not worthy of being a mother!
Just as she was about to turn and leave, Liu Wangshi called out to her: "Stop! Hurry up and help me start the fire, you deaf and stupid wretched girl! After you finish starting the fire, go and empty the chamber pot!"
Liu Ye nodded with her hair disheveled, mimicking the silly girl's usual manner, and squatted blankly by the stove to tend the fire. A pot of cornbread suddenly appeared on the stove, and the aroma wafted into her nose, making her drool. If she hadn't kept her mouth tightly shut, she would have been drooling. But now was not the time to make a move; she had to wait for the silly girl's mother to leave before taking action.
She had barely finished thinking that when a gruff male voice rang out from outside: "Er Ya's mother, get in here right now and find me some clothes!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Wangshi quickly left the kitchen and ran into the three dilapidated thatched houses on the east side. The old Liu family's courtyard had three main rooms, where the old man and his wife lived. The three side rooms on the east side were where the eldest son of the Liu family lived, and the three side rooms on either side were where the second son of the Liu family lived. All of them were dilapidated mud houses. When it rained outside, it drizzled inside. The old Liu family was notoriously poor in the village. The whole family was lazy and had bad hearts. No one wanted to hire them as workers because they were lazy and didn't work, and they also had a habit of stealing chickens and dogs.
Liu Ye quickly reached back towards the basin and put two cakes into her spatial storage. She couldn't take too many; otherwise, it would become obvious that the silly girl could withstand a beating, but she couldn't.
Soon, Liu Wangshi returned, but she didn't notice that the cakes in the basin were missing. The silly girl from before dared not steal any food without permission because she was afraid of being beaten.
Liu Ye finally breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Wangshi cooked another half pot of cabbage soup, and breakfast was ready. Liu Wangshi kicked Liu Ye with a look of disgust: "Get out! Go empty the chamber pot and don't forget to feed the pigs!"
Liu Ye rubbed her bottom, her eyes glazed over, and came out of the kitchen. She ran out of the Liu family's gate and headed up the mountain behind the house. When she reached the hillside, she found people already there early in the morning, seemingly digging for wild vegetables. She had to avoid them and walked a distance further into the mountains until she could no longer see anyone. Then she quickly hid behind a thick tree and took out some flatbread from her spatial storage to eat. But when she reached out, the stench was so strong that it almost made her vomit again.
No, that silly girl smells terrible. She needs to take a bath right away, or she'll either starve or be suffocated by the stench.
Liu Ye closed her eyes, searching her mind for the silly girl's memories, trying to find a river. She opened her eyes and walked westward along the mountain. After walking for about half an hour, a shallow river appeared in front of her, its water flowing from the mountain.
Liu Ye looked around but didn't see anyone. She quickly took off her clothes and sat down in the stream. The water was shallow; when she sat down, it didn't even reach her thighs, and it looked like she was about to dry up.
Liu Ye could easily rub off a clump of dirt by rubbing her body, and the same thing happened to her face. Good heavens, this silly girl probably doesn't even wash her face, or maybe she's never washed her face in her entire life...
Liu Ye washed herself in the river for a full half hour before she was finally clean. No more mud came out when she rubbed. She also scrubbed her hair with mud for a long time. It was so dirty! Not only was it dirty, but it was also all tangled up like a chicken coop. She tried to untangle it for a long time but couldn't, so she just left it there.
She's an idiot now, so having her hair too smooth won't work. Her messy hair is a prop to cover her up; when her hair is down, you can hardly see her face.
Liu Ye emerged from the water and sat on a rock on the bank to wash her clothes. As for her shoes, the silly girl was wearing straw sandals, which she had woven herself. If she could make straw sandals, she could make them; she would weave a new one in a little while.
The silly girl's clothes were filthy. Since there was no laundry detergent, she grabbed a handful of mud from the river and vigorously rubbed the clothes against the rocks, which actually cleaned them up quite well.
But when she finished washing the clothes and shook them open, she was shocked to find that the silly girl's clothes were torn, her pants were ripped open at the crotch, and her coarse cloth skirt had several large holes in the front and back, as well as in the sleeves. How was she supposed to wear that?
In her memory, the silly girl had no change of clothes except for the ones she was wearing. Oh dear, if she had known, she would have... If she had known, she would have washed them even if they were ruined. She would rather starve to death than die of filth.
Liu Ye hung the torn clothes on the rock to dry. She reached into her spatial storage, took out some cornbread, and ate it in big bites. After finishing two cornbreads, her stomach felt full and the pain was gone. However, she looked at the clothes that had dried on the rock. It seemed that she could only wait until dark to go home and then steal a set of Liu Ya's clothes to wear. OK, that was the decision.
Liu Ye put her tattered clothes back on, but it wasn't very comfortable; the crotch was a bit drafty, and she felt a little insecure...
She picked some licorice from the side, wove a pair of straw sandals, put them on, and lay down on the rock to sunbathe. When she was taking a bath, she saw in the water's reflection that the silly girl looked quite like her, especially like her when she was fifteen or sixteen. She was just a bit thinner and fairer than her, and her face didn't have a single pimple or blemish. This might be related to her dirty face, which was covered with a layer of black mud every day, so the sun couldn't penetrate it, and she wasn't as dirty as the mites and bacteria.
She was a little chubby when she was fifteen or sixteen... but she was tall. She was 1.68 meters tall when she was 16, and 1.7 meters tall after graduating from university. She didn't look chubby at all...
However, the silly girl isn't short either, she looks to be 1.68 meters tall. She's very satisfied with her height; she doesn't want to be a shorty.
Liu Ye lay on the rock, basking in the sun, lost in her thoughts, unaware that the Liu family was in an uproar. The silly girl's grandmother, Old Lady Liu, had a peculiar habit: the first thing she did after every meal was to go to the pigsty to check on the pigs. Today, after eating, she went to check on the pigs again and discovered that the pigs were gone.
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