This child actually told her she was going to the restroom!
And she even dressed herself neatly!
Didn’t she always used to sit on the kang and shout that she needed to pee?
Didn’t I always have to dress her before?
Mother Leng rode her little scooter, zipping along after Leng Xuan to the outdoor toilet.
She was afraid that without her help, her daughter would fall in while using the toilet.
It wasn’t until Leng Xuan came out of the toilet and saw Mother Leng waiting outside that she asked in confusion, “Do you need to use the toilet too?”
Mother Leng asked in disbelief, “Xuan’er, are you better? Are you?”
Only then did Leng Xuan realize that Mother Leng had noticed something was different about her. She quickly pushed Mother Leng back into the house, “I’m all better now. I’m not foolish anymore!”
Mother Leng’s eyes immediately welled up with tears, and she offered a round of thanks to the heavens and Bodhisattvas.
“Don’t you worry. From now on, the task of providing for the family is on me!”
With tears in her eyes, Mother Leng said, “Good, good. As long as you’re better, that’s all that matters!”
She deftly ladled a bowl of thin congee and handed it to Leng Xuan.
The congee was truly thin. At the bottom of the pot were perhaps a dozen yellow grains that looked a bit like corn grits. Floating in the congee were some unidentifiable vegetable leaves, the kind that had been rehydrated from dried leaves.
She took the bowl and drank it all in one go. Gazing at her Second Brother outside, who was chopping firewood with loud thuds, she couldn’t help but sigh. Heaven was indeed fair.
It hadn’t given this family brains, but it had given them incredibly strong bodies.
She had personally witnessed her Second Brother eat almost nothing from last night until now, yet he could still chop wood like a perpetual motion machine!
Leng Xuan put down the bowl, eager to go out scavenging.
After a few rounds of back-and-forth with Mother Leng, Leng Xuan finally won, securing her qualification to go out scavenging for the day.
Mother Leng quickly called her second son back and gave him a bowl of thin congee as well. The brother and sister, dressed in thick, patched leather coats, stepped out of the house onto the frosty ground.
Leng Xuan glanced at the Detector in her hand, which showed the temperature was -25°C.
Wasteland Scavengers almost always chose this time to go out.
Although it was a bit cold early in the morning, leaving early meant they could get more scavenging time. By the time the hot sun came out at noon, they would have to find a shady place to hide.
The severe cold wouldn’t kill you, but the scorching heat could increase the risk of radiation exposure!
She noticed that among the people they passed on the road, almost no one greeted her and her brother. Everyone was in a hurry, and the few who did glance at them did so with looks of either pity or contempt.
“I heard Leng Lao Er and his big fool of a daughter went into the high-radiation zone and almost died in there. Qi Xu had to carry them back!”
“Tsk, tsk, that big foolish girl got exposed to high radiation yesterday, and she’s already out scavenging today. The Leng family’s physiques are truly amazing!”
“Isn’t that the truth? Other families have trouble conceiving even one child their whole lives, but their family pops them out in litters. They can even have two in one go. Isn’t that infuriating? Just like a sow giving birth to piglets…”
“But they’re all fools when they’re born. What’s the point of having so many? Tsk, tsk, tsk…”
Leng Xuan narrowed her eyes, staring at the backs of the two women.
They clearly thought a fool wouldn’t understand, so they made no effort to be discreet when discussing her family.
She was very annoyed, but in her previous life, she had always lived in an ivory tower and had never encountered people who spoke so crudely.
She really didn’t know how to respond.
But considering her current identity was that of a fool, shouldn’t she do something to maintain that persona?
The original owner loved to hit people. If she hit someone now, wouldn’t that be perfectly reasonable?
Besides, with her Second Brother as her helper, Leng Xuan was sure she wouldn’t be at a disadvantage. So, she picked up a stone from the ground and threw it at the back of one of the women.
The hit wasn’t hard; she didn’t have much strength to throw it any harder. She just wanted to let the woman know that she had heard, and she was angry.
The woman who was hit turned around and cursed, “Which son of a bitch hit me?”
Leng Xuan’s cold gaze fixed on the woman, who was so startled by her look that a shiver ran down her spine.
At this moment, seeing his sister getting into a fight, Leng Yi was instantly energized. Mom had told him that he was a man and he had to protect his sister. So, he picked up a large rock and charged after the two women.
The two women hadn’t expected the second fool to suddenly go berserk. They covered their heads and fled.
A secret joy rose in Leng Xuan’s heart. It turned out that being a fool who could fly into a rage at any moment was quite satisfying.
The people around cast gloating glances in their direction.
Some old rascal suddenly shouted, “Zhou Cuihua, run slower, your underwear is showing.”
The passersby burst into roaring laughter.
They seemed very pleased to have watched such a farce of a fool beating someone on this boring morning.
Leng Yi chased Zhou Cuihua and the other woman until they were out of sight before returning to Leng Xuan’s side, chest puffed out proudly.
He gave a thumbs-up. “How about that, Sis? Am I awesome or what? Two old hags, taken down with ease!”
Leng Xuan also gave him a thumbs-up. “Awesome!”
“Let me tell you, my master is the sect leader of the Huashan Sect. I know martial arts. Don’t believe me? I’ll show you!”
With that, he picked up a stick from somewhere and began to perform the “Huashan Sword Technique.”
Leng Xuan: “…”
“Sis, I’m so handsome. Do you think Liu Erya will fall for me?”
Leng Xuan: “…”
It turned out her Second Brother wasn’t a fool, but a lunkhead!
“Sis, who do you think is prettier, Liu Erya or Wang Hong? I want to choose Liu Erya, but Wang Hong is okay too, just that her butt is a little small.”
Leng Xuan grabbed her lunkhead of a brother and pulled him into a small alley!
It was too embarrassing. Leng Yi’s comments made many people chuckle as they walked by, though they didn’t dare laugh out loud for fear of being chased by the fool.
Leng Xuan looked around to make sure no one was there before quickly scolding her Second Brother, “Shut your mouth. Don’t say these things outside in the future.”
Leng Yi was unhappy, but Leng Yi was obedient. He immediately went quiet.
Only then did Leng Xuan have a moment to observe this world.
The leaves of the unusually large plants were all frozen into clumps of ice. The strange thing was, when she had transmigrated yesterday afternoon, these leaves had been fresh and lush green.
It seemed the plants in this world had also mutated, able to automatically adapt to severe cold and scorching heat.
Leng Xuan took out the Detector and poked the tip of its needle into a leaf. Ding. High-level Radiation Contamination. Inedible.
She then tested the leaves of several large dandelions. Ding, ding, ding. All were highly contaminated with radiation and inedible.
Leng Xuan gave up. Without Luck Value, it was indeed impossible to find any food.
At this moment, she felt her hands and feet turn ice-cold, and her whole body shivered.
Her current body was simply too weak. She hadn’t walked far, yet she was already this feeble.
She found a stick for herself to lean on and slowly walked forward along the path.
Leng Xuan’s eyes focused on the areas under the leaves, hoping to find some mutated insects to kill for some Points.
Suddenly, she saw a beetle the size of a fingernail. It was frozen like a small ice sculpture, not moving at all even when Leng Xuan picked it up.
Leng Xuan quickly stomped on it, crushing the beetle.
She waited expectantly, her eyes on the light screen in her mind, but the anticipated ding never came.
What was going on?