Quick Transmigration: When Can I Just Lay Down and Wait to Die?

Chapter 165 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 8

When Lin Ziye brought over the dirty clothes, Liu Yuxi changed his dressing again and told him to go back and rest. She told him to wash the clothes, hang them out to dry in the yard, fill the water tank, wash up, and then go back to the house to rest.

A few days passed, and Liu Yuxi realized that Lin Ziye didn't want his hands to get better at all. After all, once his hands were healed, he would have to work, but if his hands weren't he, he would be treated like royalty.

Every day at the appointed time, I would eagerly go to Liu Yuxi's house for dinner. Fortunately, I knew that those who eat for free have no say, so I wasn't picky about food and ate whatever was cooked.

But after the blisters were popped, they usually healed in a few days. On Friday afternoon after school, Liu Yuxi looked at his hand and announced that he was fully recovered: "He's fine, you can continue working on the land."

Upon hearing that they would have to clear more land, Lin Ziye was completely dumbfounded. He followed behind Liu Yuxi and said, "How about you see if I'm more suited to doing something else?"

Seeing his cowardly appearance, Liu Yuxi suppressed a laugh: "What you do is not my decision, it depends on the production team! Haha!" In the end, she couldn't hold it in anymore.

Early Sunday morning, Liu Yuxi picked vegetables from her garden, selecting the best ones and putting them in a basket to carry to town to sell. She also sold more than twenty eggs, as they wouldn't keep well in the heat.

After preparing the vegetables, I started cooking. After eating with my grandma, I gave her some instructions and then headed to town with my basket on my back and a carrying basket on my shoulder.

Uncle Niu next door runs a shop in town, so she'll set up her stall in front of his shop and borrow his scale. All she needs to do is bring what she wants to sell.

Uncle Niu's business was good, and since she was young and her items were all reasonably priced, they sold out in less than an hour.

With 76 yuan to sell his wares, he put the basket in his backpack, thanked Aunt Niu, and started strolling around town. As for Uncle Niu, he was building a house in the village.

I bought a pound of pork belly at the pork stall in the market, and as usual, I also bought two large bones. Seeing that they were selling crucian carp, I bought two more crucian carp to braise when I got home.

Seeing the fish reminded Liu Yuxi of the abandoned ponds in the village, which were contracted by villagers in the past but did not make any money. Now the owners have all gone out to work and do not return to the village.

From time to time, villagers would go to check if they could catch a fish to eat, but very few succeeded. So now, most villagers have almost forgotten about those fishponds, and only a few families with young children will remind their kids not to play near the ponds.

Thinking that those fishponds must have been neglected for years, Liu Yuxi didn't care whether there were fish or not, but there should be plenty of crayfish and eels by now.

We'll weave a few eel baskets and go down to the river to see what we catch. If it's not much, we'll keep it at home; if it's a lot, we'll take it to town to sell. Anyway, the owner said before he left that the villagers can do whatever they want with those ponds.

Thinking of this, Liu Yuxi quickened her pace. She didn't see Lin Ziye when she got home this time; he must have gone to complete the tasks assigned by the production team.

However, she would come over at lunchtime. She would first give the money left over from selling vegetables to her grandmother, who usually didn't have much pocket money. If she needed to buy something, she would ask her grandmother for it, explaining what she had spent the money on. Her grandmother would then say, "All you ever think about is eating!"

However, her grandmother only said it in words. The two of them were practically dependent on each other. Since she came, both of them had been eager to do chores at home, and her grandmother only felt sorry for her.

Stew the pork bones, clean and prepare the fish, fry the fish first, then cook it again at noon, and hang the meat in the well.

Because I got up early this morning, I arrived in town at 7 a.m. and got back to work at just over 9 a.m. I went to the storage room and saw the bamboo that the original owner's father had chopped at home.

It was originally intended to be used to build trellises for the vegetable garden in the backyard. Wooden sticks are prone to rotting, while bamboo branches can be reused repeatedly. The thinner parts were cut off to build trellises, and the thicker parts were left in the storage room.

He found a few bamboo strips, pretended to ask an old man in the village who knew how to weave bamboo, borrowed a bamboo splitting knife and sandpaper, and came back to start processing the bamboo. Because these bamboos had been dried and stored for several years, Liu Yuxi directly split them into bamboo strips.

After separating the bamboo strips, Liu Yuxi smoothed them with sandpaper several times to make sure there were no burrs, and then began weaving the eel basket. Liu Yuxi had learned this craft during his previous time travel, and he knew most bamboo weaving techniques.

I was a little clumsy at first, but I got the hang of it before I was even halfway through. By the time it was time to cook, I had already finished two. I cooked first and will continue working on them in the afternoon.

While cooking, her grandmother asked her why she was weaving an eel basket. Liu Yuxi said she wanted to eat eels, and her grandmother said the same old thing: "All you ever think about is eating!"

Haha! Come to think of it, isn't that right? Since coming to this world, she has indeed spent a lot of energy thinking about food. There's no way around it; in modern society, things come from all sorts of sources.

She does all this for show. Later, she'll walk around all the fishponds and use her mental power to collect half of the large eels, lobsters, and fish into her spatial storage. She already has all of these in her space. After she succeeds once, she'll take these things out again. People will just think she's a kid with good luck.

When it was time to eat, Lin Ziye arrived right on time. You could really feel the enthusiasm of a hard worker from him.

Looking at the dishes on the table—braised pork with green beans, braised crucian carp, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and bone broth—Lin Ziye asked Liu Yuxi, "Why are the dishes so good today?" He had been eating vegetables for days, and the sight of two meat dishes made his mouth water.

"It's the weekend today. We don't usually have time to go to town to buy groceries."

"Oh!" she replied, and then picked up a piece of meat with more fat than lean and put it into her grandmother's bowl. "Grandma, you eat."

"Okay! Okay! Your child can eat too!" Her grandmother said happily to Lin Ziye. "Yes!" Lin Ziye replied. Damn, has the male lead been craving meat for days?

If Lin Ziye hadn't served food to his grandmother and then immediately started serving himself, eating heartily, she would have truly believed that the male lead was a sensible and respectful child.

After dinner, seeing that Lin Ziye's hand had healed, she arranged for him to wash the dishes. Her grandmother was still standing by, trying to stop him, saying, "How can you be so inconsiderate? How can you ask a guest to wash the dishes!"

She pulled her grandmother back to the room to sleep, saying, "Grandma, don't worry about him. He's eaten so many meals at our house. What's wrong with washing a dish? You go to sleep first."

When she got back, she sat in the kitchen, weaving an eel basket while watching Lin Ziye wash the pots and dishes. She was afraid he would break the dishes if she didn't keep an eye on him. Don't say you don't know how; as long as you learn, anyone can do these low-skilled tasks.