She didn't exaggerate for the Original Host. The Original Host was a very perceptive person, but her poor health had always been a burden to the Leng family, making her feel guilty. Therefore, whenever something related to the Leng family occurred, she would lose emotional control and be restricted by her concerns in her actions.
Take Wang Yue, for instance. The Original Host saw in just one meeting that this person had ill intentions and was very jealous. However, because of Wang Yue's grandfather, she feared affecting the Leng family. Even though the Original Host disliked her, she endured and received Wang Yue repeatedly.
Uncle Wei didn't expect that the innocent little girl in his heart would say such things. After a moment of stunned silence, his eyes immediately welled up.
Don't underestimate him just because he's a mere guard. He's been a guard for the Old Chief for over twenty years. How could he be any good at judging people and situations if he didn't have some skills?!
He could understand three parts of a situation from just one part of the explanation. This was their basic training. Little Xi didn't need to explain in detail; he already understood Little Xi's previous concerns.
He wasn't a member of the Leng family. Although the Leng family treated him well, he was ultimately an outsider. Therefore, hearing Lin Yuexi's words, he felt a sense of resonance with her.
Lin Yuexi: "..."
What's going on?
This stoic, tough guy of an uncle of hers, was he actually this emotional?
Fortunately, Ren Yan entered, rescuing the somewhat flustered Lin Yuexi. "Come out for dinner. Uncle Wei, don't forget to tell Grandpa Leng later that Xi Xi was bullied."
Uncle Wei's face went blank again. He stood up, moved aside, and took away the chair he had just been sitting on. "Don't worry, I won't forget."
After a moment of silence, he added, "And don't forget to prepare your things for going to the countryside. Focus on Little Xi's things; pick out the best and most refined items."
Originally, elders would prepare such things. However, Zhang Hongying had gone to the Northwest with Leng Zhi a few days ago, only hastily leaving money and food tickets for Lin Yuexi.
As for the Old Chief, he no longer wished to meet with Lin Yuexi, no matter how much he thought about it now.
Lin Yuexi did have an Eldest Aunt and a Third Aunt who could help. However, the Eldest Aunt had long been unhappy with the Old Chief's favoritism towards Lin Yuexi and had been feigning illness recently. The Third Aunt was in An City.
Therefore, preparing supplies for the countryside now fell to Lin Yuexi and Ren Yan themselves.
Ren Yan glared at Uncle Wei impatiently. "Do I need you to remind me? I've already asked someone to make clothes and quilts. I originally wanted to keep things simple, but Third Brother Leng sent a telegram this morning saying they've already prepared a house in the village. Our Xi Xi won't have to squeeze into the Educated Youth Point with other educated youths; the space is large and can hold more things. I plan to go shopping again tomorrow."
Guiding Lin Yuexi to the dining table, Ren Yan placed the millet porridge she had specially simmered for her in front of her.
Seeing Little Xi looking listless, the fine blood vessels on her pale face were visible. Her exquisite beauty was heart-wrenching.
It was clear the little girl had no appetite. Uncle Wei felt so pained he almost blurted out, "I'll eat it for her."
Fortunately, he restrained himself at the moment the words were about to escape, preventing Little Ren from having another reason to scold him.
Ren Yan never indulged her friend when it came to eating. She wouldn't let her friend be willful and refuse to eat if there was an opportunity. She forcefully shoved the spoon into Lin Yuexi's hand. "If you don't finish this bowl of porridge tonight, you'll have three bowls of traditional Chinese medicine a day starting tomorrow."
This threat not only held the Original Host in its grip but also Lin Yuexi. Like the Original Host, she detested the taste of strange traditional Chinese medicine, especially medicine containing Huanglian.
Slowly, spoonful by spoonful, she swallowed the millet porridge, suppressing the urge to gag from time to time. For a moment, Lin Yuexi found herself somewhat amazed.
Someone from the apocalypse actually detested food. For a transmigrator who had come from the apocalypse, this should be quite a shocking development.
After finishing his meal, Uncle Wei returned to report to the Old Master. Ren Yan was also an early riser and early sleeper. Before nine o'clock, the entire Leng family courtyard fell into silence.
Lin Yuexi didn't 'wake up' immediately. Instead, she used her Spiritual Power to monitor the movements in the opposite room. After confirming Ren Yan had returned to her own room opposite, she still didn't relax her vigilance, carefully probing with her consciousness to see if her space was still there.
Phew, thankfully it was still there.
She had awakened her space ability when the apocalypse arrived. However, her space ability was different from others. While others' beginner spaces were typically a cubic meter to five cubic meters, her space ability was as large as a basketball court from the moment she woke up.
It was easy for others' space abilities to upgrade; they could easily reach level five or six by absorbing crystal cores. However, her space ability couldn't be upgraded with crystal cores. It was like cultivation in a cultivation novel; it had to be improved with Spiritual Power.
In other words, without Spiritual Power or with weak Spiritual Power, the special space she activated could only be as large as it was at activation and would remain that size for life.
Fortunately, not long after awakening her space ability, she also awakened her Mental Power Ability. The two abilities complemented and enhanced each other.
Although her space upgraded slower than others, those who reached level five only had a maximum size of two hundred cubic meters. By the time she reached level two, her space was already over four hundred mu and more than ten meters high.
The reason she always chose to be a loner was also directly related to the special nature of her space ability. Everyone in the apocalypse understood the principle of "possessing a treasure invites trouble."
Moreover, the thrill of "zero-dollar shopping" when alone was indescribable.
Whatever you saw, if you could grab it and walk away, it was yours.
Scanning her space, which she had spent over ten years upgrading to level four and which was now tens of thousands of mu in size, with her consciousness, and confirming that all her belongings were still there and not lost due to transmigration, Lin Yuexi finally breathed a sigh of relief and no longer worried about her life as an educated youth.
With a full space of supplies, she had managed to survive alone for over a decade in the apocalyptic environment. What was there to fear about being an educated youth in the countryside?!
After leaving her space, she tried to poke the system, which seemed to have frozen. When the apocalypse arrived, besides luckily awakening her abilities, she was also very fortunate to be bound by a "Sign-in and Eat Melon" idiot system.
After binding to her, the system tearfully told her that it had not only bound the wrong person but also traveled to the wrong world.
Although the system was very idiotic and had a bad temper, it was also thanks to it that Lin Yuexi didn't suffer from depression after being a loner for over a decade. At least she had a companion and could occasionally "eat melon."
After poking it a few times, a familiar, irritable baby voice echoed in Lin Yuexi's mind: 【I advise you to be kind. I'm telling you, systems have rights too. Be careful, or I'll self-destruct. That's all, stop disturbing my sleep.】
'Your system needs to sleep too?'
First time I've heard of that. You're lying to a ghost.
【Do you think anyone can just transmigrate? It was me, me who almost exhausted all my energy to send you here. Now I'm a completely pure, useless system. It will take at least several decades to recover my energy and continue eating melon. As for signing in, don't even think about it.】
You bullied me for over a decade, I won't scare you to death.
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