hidden old spring

Chapter 4

Su Changan lived in a room where the sundries were kept at home. There was no bed, only a dirty straw mat that had been stepped on.

The living environment was very worrying. Su Changan was not used to living in such a place. During the past few days, he had been sleeping on his side on a mattress that looked relatively clean.

Same this time.

But as soon as she sat down, Li Da Niu's loud voice came from outside the windowless utility room.

"Tomorrow, remember to get up early and go dig weeds in the mountains. You will be like a lazy pig all day without working, just waiting for me to serve you! Even other girls in other families know how to take care of their younger brothers to do housework. You are the only one who is so lazy. , I can’t do what I want and I can’t eat what I want!…”

Li Da Niu scolded her fiercely across the wall, so fiercely that Su Changan was frightened, fearing that she would suddenly kick open the door and come in and beat her again.

Fortunately, this kind of thing didn't happen. Li Da Niu cursed for a while and then left. She came out to go to the latrine. When she walked under the wall here, she suddenly thought of Su Chang'an.

It just so happened that she didn't want to get up early tomorrow, and she felt that Su Chang'an was getting older and would be getting married in less than two years. If she didn't take care of her, she would have no chance, so this happened.

Su Changan's eyes widened and he curled up. He didn't bury his head between his arms until Li Danniu's footsteps were too far away to hear, and quietly digested the fear that was rising up.

[Host, are you okay?Not afraid, not afraid (っω｀)(╥ω╥)】

Su Changan, who was alone, saw comfort in the simple system font. Although she knew very well that this was just an inherent program calculated by the system's emotion module, she still couldn't stop crying.

She wants to live, but why is it so hard to live?

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Su Changan woke up to Li Da Niu's scolding. Before dawn, her door was kicked open by Li Da Niu. She looked at Li Da Niu in horror, but Li Da Niu pinched her. He grabbed her ears and dragged her out with gritted teeth.

"Damn lazy girl, are you a dead person? Are you still pretending to be dead in the house? Do you want to starve us to death?"

Su Changan was so frightened that her lips trembled and tears fell down. Her ears were pulled so hard that it even hurt her ear canals. However, Li Da Niu pinched her harder and harder and pulled her out of the house. He crossed most of the courtyard, then threw her towards the baskets piled against the courtyard wall, and warned her fiercely.

"We have dinner at home in the morning, don't let me skin you!"

Su Changan covered her ears with pain and didn't know what to do. Seeing her like this, Li Da Niu got angry and kicked her, causing her to stagger. After she fell, she touched the basket in the dark before she reacted. Come here, raise your eyes to see Li Danniu in the dark, and say while holding back her tears.

"I, I'm afraid of the dark..."

"Afraid of the dark? Why don't you die? You're afraid of the dark! Damn girl, I think you're just itchy, waiting for me to raise you? You lose money, even if you die today, you'll die outside!"

Li Da Niu kicked her hard again, and the pain on her thigh bones was heartbreaking. Compared with Li Da Niu, the darkness seemed not so scary.

She put the basket on her back, and the empty basket was already weighing her down. Seeing that she was still lingering, Li Da Niu directly pushed her out of the courtyard, then closed the courtyard door mercilessly and unlatched it.

"You're a money-losing debt collector, but you're still afraid of the dark? You don't have the life of wealth but you have the disease of wealth. Do you think you're a young lady from the county? I think you're just a lazy person!"

Li Da Niu cursed and went back to the house. Su Changan huddled at the door of the courtyard. You could still hear the sound of Li Da Niu closing the door forcefully.

It was completely silent, and Su Changan stood on the old door panel at a loss. It was pitch dark, and she didn't understand why she wanted to go out to dig wild vegetables at this time.

[Host, are you okay?Would you like some vegetable dumplings? (ΘｏΘ)】

Against the dark background, the text of the system turned into warm yellow. It was clear that the system had no entity and could only send out text. At this time, Su Changan still felt a sense of comfort.

She slowed down, finally suppressed the fear in her heart, and said with a trembling voice.

"I, I'm fine."

Su Changan sat down against the old door panel, took out a vegetable ball and started eating.The vegetable dumplings produced by the system are still very good. The boiled cabbage and spinach taste good, have enough water, and have a little salty taste. Everything is just right.

After eating, her stomach was filled with such a large vegetable group. After eating, her mood was obviously much more stable.

She knew it was useless to stay here. If she didn't bring back enough wild vegetables before eating, she would be beaten severely.

So she groped in the basket behind her and found a small hoe. She held it in her hand to encourage herself. She stood up, carrying the basket on her back, and moved forward with difficulty.

Su Changan had no such life experience. Although she had washed wild vegetables for several days, she really didn't know what the edible wild vegetables looked like.

Or to be more precise, Su Changan's common sense was that the food eaten at that house these days were all inedible.

So she moved a few meters away, then squatted down and fumbled with a small hoe to hoe the grass on the ground.

The system found that Su Changan threw grass into the basket behind him, and after analyzing the reason for Su Changan's doing so, he said something.

[Host, you can’t eat that grass. 】

Su Changan was stunned, and his men stopped moving.

[Ask the host to collect 50 kinds of plants before breakfast, and you will be rewarded with a basket of edible wild vegetables. 】

The system discovered Su Changan's difficulties and specially assigned a task to her.

Su Changan clenched the small hoe in her hand, and it took a long time before she whispered.

"Thank you."

Su Changan's voice was soft, gentle and pleasant.

[You're welcome (*￣︶￣), come on host, after completing this task we will do another task, and try to make the host eat boiled eggs today! 】

Thinking of hard-boiled eggs, Su Changan swallowed in dismay.

Her body was too weak and she hadn't eaten anything good since she was a child. Her body's instinctive demands were beyond Su Changan's control.

With a clear goal and system to accompany you, the dark sky doesn't seem so scary anymore.

Su Changan was still 'weeding' near her home at first. Some systems were collected and some duplicates were thrown away by her.

But there wasn't much grass in the village. After a while, Su Changan walked out of the village and groped around outside.

Fortunately, it was already dawning at this time, and although the surroundings were still eerily silent, Su Changan still mustered up some courage.

Su Changan barely managed to get 50 kinds of plants before the sun fully rose. Su Changan was relieved when the task was completed.

Carrying a heavy basket on his back, he trudged back to the door of his house. At this time, someone in the village had already gotten up. Su Changan shrank his neck to avoid the possible gazes of these people. He hurried back to the door and put down the empty basket before relaxing. Take a breath.

"The system is ready."

The originally empty basket was instantly filled with wild vegetables. Seeing these wild vegetables, Su Changan felt relieved. She just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Li Da Niu yelling.

(End of this chapter)