Quick Wear: Reversing Life

Chapter 221: Escape from the Mountains (2)

As night fell, Xiaocao boiled a pot of bath water in the kitchen, preparing to add some cold water to help the woman clean herself.

It was the hot summer of June, and in just a few minutes, Xiaocao's legs were bitten by several mosquito bites.

She remembered that the original owner had dried some mugwort in the yard.

Following the moonlight, I saw a winnowing basket next to the vegetable garden, with some dry mugwort scattered on it.

Xiaocao grabbed a handful, lit it with a match in the kitchen, and began to fumigate the yard and the house with mugwort.

"Damn it! What are you burning?" Li Yuliang started cursing as soon as he smelled something in the house.

When Xiaocao heard this, he turned around and went into the room where he and Xiaohua slept, fumigated the room, and then closed the doors and windows.

When I turned around and walked out of the gate, I was bumped by a wet person.

There was no electricity in Li Yuliang's house. In the dim light, she looked closely and saw a boy with a shaved head.

The original owner's younger brother, Xiaohua's older brother, Li Yougen.

In the original owner's memory, Li Yougen seemed to be Li Yuliang's fourth child.

The two girls who came after her died.

The first one was thrown into the pond by Li Yuliang in front of the original owner as soon as it was born. The second owner tried to stop it but to no avail.

When his younger brother was born, Li Yuliang was extremely happy and named him Yougen, Li Yougen.

Only Li Yougen's name was given by Li Yuliang, while the names of the original owner and Xiaohua were both given by the original owner himself.

When Li Yuliang was happy, he called them "girls", and when he was unhappy, he called them "slutty things".

Li Yougen's personality is exactly the same as Li Yuliang's, he is vicious and competitive, and has a habit of stealing.

He didn't go to school and often fought with the children in the village. The villagers disliked him.

Every time Li Yougen was caught stealing, the villagers would come to Li Yuliang to complain, but Li Yuliang always ignored it and fooled them away.

Li Yougen deliberately bumped into Xiaocao, made a very disgusting and annoying face at her, and then ran into Li Yuliang's house.

Then he heard Li Yuliang's voice: "You little bastard, you went to play in the pond again!"

Xiaocao ignored his despicable behavior. She walked into the kitchen to scoop out hot water, but when she lifted the lid of the pot, she smelled a pungent smell of urine.

The room was dim. She lit a match and couldn't see whether the hot water had become turbid, but she saw two black footprints on the stove.

Li Yougen——

Hold on! Hold on! She can't just kill people in this small world!

Xiaocao took a deep breath, then scooped up a spoonful of contaminated hot water, walked to the yard and poured it on the clothes that Li Yougen had just hung up.

After scooping away all the dirty water, Xiaocao took the towel that Li Yougen used to wash his face and wiped the pot clean.

Then he boiled a pot of water.

At this time, Xiaohua, who had just finished taking a shower, came in and helped her add cold water to the plastic bucket.

Xiaocao carried the bucket into the yard, then led the woman out of the house. The woman did not struggle, as if the night always gave people a sense of security.

Xiaocao asked Xiaohua to take a handful of mugwort leaves, light them, and go to the woman's room to smoke away some mosquitoes, while she dragged over a large basin that was usually used for washing clothes.

After making the woman sit inside, she started pouring hot water on her.

The yard was dark, with no light except the moonlight.

Xiaocao touched the woman's bones and found nothing serious. However, she was too thin. If he hadn't touched a layer of skin, Xiaocao would have thought he was touching a skeleton.

After helping her take a bath, Xiaocao asked Xiaohua to bring the woman into the main room to sleep with them.

Xiaocao walked into the woman's room, took the cotton and sheets to the yard, and threw the sheets into the bathtub.

People in this village use the juice made by boiling soapberry fruits picked from the mountains to wash clothes instead of soap.

After finishing all the work, Xiaocao simply washed herself in the kitchen and walked into the main house.

The main house has a symmetrical layout, with rooms on both sides and a living room in the middle.

On the right is the house of the original owner and Xiaohua.

Li Yuliang and Li Yougen slept on wooden beds, while the original owner and Xiaohua's bed was an earthen bed made of mud and stones. There was a layer of bamboo mat at the bottom, and some cotton wool on top, which made it a bed.

Xiaocao felt his butt hurt when he sat on it for a while.

She sighed silently.

"Xiaohua, come to school with me tomorrow."

In the darkness, the grass heard the flower's response.

Fortunately, it was June and the night was not particularly hot. She covered the woman and Xiaohua with a thin blanket, and then lay down next to the woman.

It was the first time that Xiaohua didn’t sleep next to her sister, and she was a little scared.

She opened her eyes wide, and saw pitch darkness before her, without even a trace of moonlight.

"Sister...I'm scared."

Xiao Cao said, "Then you sleep leaning against your mother."

Xiaohua asked, "Mom, what is it?"

Xiaocao: "That's mother."

Xiaohua thought to herself, my sister knows so much.

She moved and leaned against the woman's slender back, seeming to feel a little at ease.

...

The next morning, when the first ray of morning light shone into the house, Xiaocao opened his eyes and found that the woman who had been sleeping quietly beside him was gone.

Xiaocao woke up immediately from her sleepiness. She hurriedly got out of bed, walked out the door, pushed open the door of the cowshed, and felt relieved when she saw the woman curled up inside.

But what followed was a bitterness in my heart.

During the day, she seemed reluctant to leave this room. For her, this was a safe house.

Xiaocao was silent for a while. She knew that this wouldn't work, but she needed to proceed step by step.

She pulled the door shut, but did not close it tightly, letting in a beam of light.

Now Li Yuliang was no longer worried that she would run away, and there was no lock on the door.

Xiaocao went into the house and woke Xiaohua up, then went to the kitchen to cook noodles.

The noodles here are made from flour ground from their own wheat and mixed with water.

Xiaocao made three portions. She let Xiaohua eat first and took a bowl to feed her mother.

While feeding her, the morning sunlight allowed her to see the woman's skin and flesh clearly. There seemed to be old wounds and ulcers on her legs. Fortunately, it did not look like it had festered yet, so it should be easy to treat in the early stages.

After feeding her another bowl of water, Xiaocao walked out of the house and locked the door.

After dinner, Li Yuliang and Li Yougen had not yet gotten up.

Xiaocao took out the five dollars he had saved from the room, then took Xiaohua's hand and walked out of the yard and headed towards the primary school at the entrance of the village.

If she wanted to leave this place, the first thing she had to do was to understand the terrain of this area and then get money.

The original owner's activities in the village were not extensive. Apart from being in the village, he would go up the mountain to herd cattle.

In the original owner's memory, she had never seen a road anywhere when she was herding cattle.

This village seems to be trapped deep in the mountains.