On the way to escape famine, my parents divorced

Chapter 11 Why do I need such useless things as beauty pills?

The sound of ding-dong-ding in her ears made Li Shiyue feel relieved all of a sudden. She watched with satisfaction as Li's father signed the divorce document with a mixture of anger and helplessness.

She saw Qin Tao, who was standing beside Father Li, raise her eyebrows and smile smugly;

She turned around and saw Li's mother carefully putting away the divorce document with her signature and fingerprints.
She also saw her brother who was still ignorant beside Li's mother;

Li Shiyue let out a long breath and said happily to his brother, "Brother, come with me and follow Uncle and Grandma back to move the things."

Shitou never knew how to refuse Li Shiyue's words. He nodded as if he agreed to what Li Shiyue said.

As it was still dark, Grandmother Li took charge and, with Li Youfu as witness, first divided the cash in the house in front of everyone according to what was written in the divorce agreement.

What was surprising was that the part that should have been taken by Grandmother Li was actually given directly to Mother Li in public.

“Chun Niang, take all of these.

Although we are divorced, Wangming and I will live with you. Shitou and Shiyue are my dear grandchildren. Take this money. You never know when you will need it in the future."

Li's mother was a capable person. She said to Li's grandmother, "Don't worry, mother. I will take good care of it."

Li's mother took the purse, and the matter was settled.

Father Li, who was standing opposite Mother Li and the others, looked dejected and was really itching with hatred. Qin Tao, who was beside Father Li, stared at the purse in Father Li's hand with burning eyes, but Father Li refused to give it to her. He simply put it into his shirt.

Qin Tao's eyes rolled around quickly, and no one knew what evil ideas she was thinking of at the moment.

The next thing to be distributed was food. There were still some members of the Lijia Village who had not returned to their homes to sleep, watching the fun from the sidelines. At this moment, an enthusiastic man came forward to help move the bags of food off the donkey cart.

Li Youfu was watching from the side, picking out the share for Li's father one by one. In fact, there were only two and a half bags of grain, most of which were brown rice, a bag of soybeans, and a bag of millet that had not been shelled.

"Okay, just divide the big one," Li Youfu looked at Li's father and said, "Wangguang, you can use the donkey cart you took to Qin Tao's house. I'll leave this one to your mother and the others."

After taking a breath, Li Youfu turned around and looked at Grandmother Li who was still leaning on a wooden stick as a cane: "Sister-in-law, look at this, is it okay?
As for the trivial things like pots, pans, and bowls, you can just divide them among yourselves when daybreak comes, right?"

"Brother Youfu, Shiyang, thank you for your hard work tonight! Thank you very much!"

Grandmother Li was halfway through the salute when Li Shiyang held her arm, while Li Wangming, Li's mother, and Li Shiyue, who followed Grandmother Li in saluting, directly and firmly performed the salute.

"Alas," Li Youfu sighed, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing?
Alas, I don’t know what will happen on this road in the future?
Everything is fine, right? "

After watching Li Shiyang and Li Youfu leave, Grandmother Li pulled Li Wangming and Li's mother and bowed to the clan members who were still watching the excitement and said, "Everyone, it is my Li family's affairs that have disturbed your sleep tonight. I have delayed everyone, and I apologize to everyone."

After saying this, Grandmother Li, Li Wangming, and Li's mother bowed again.

Zhou Lanhua and her husband Li Wangshui were also standing nearby. Zhou Lanhua was straightforward, so she responded immediately, "Aunt Zhou is a very particular person. We are happy to hear your words. We are from the same village, so why should we talk about other things?"

Grandmother Li (Zhou Hemiao) looked at Zhou Lanhua with gratitude. After Zhou Lanhua's answer, the surrounding villagers also responded one by one.

"Well, we are all from the same village. What are you talking about? It's okay. It's nothing."

"It's enough to have your aunt say this."

"Ah, it's not easy for everyone. Let's go home. We can have some more sleep when we get home." Li Shiyue watched the villagers around her disperse one by one. Then she saw Grandmother Li holding Mother Li's hand and whispering something in her ear.

Then, Li's mother quickly shouted to the group of people who were leaving: "Not only have we disturbed you all tonight, but you have also been tired of helping us carry things up and down. Tomorrow morning we will boil a pot of sugar water and each family can come and have a bowl. After all, we have been gone for so many days, so let's give the kids something sweet."

The people in Lijia Village who had not yet walked far naturally all happily agreed to what Li's mother said. You know, even if they were not on the road to escape famine, something like sugar water is a precious item. Not to mention, they were on the road to escape famine, so this was really a good thing.

Li Shiyue watched as Li's father took Qin Tao out. Li's father also invited two men who had a say in the village to help carry the bags of grain that had been allocated to them to Qin Tao.

When leaving, Father Li didn't even look at Grandmother Li, and just went back to Qin Tao's house with her to sleep.

In the last ray of firelight, Li Shiyue seemed to see the crystal tears flowing from the corners of Grandmother Li's eyes.

After finally cleaning up most of the things, Li Shiyue finally lay down again, leaning against Li's mother. She was very excited and clicked on the red dot in the first row of the taskbar in the system in her mind.

After reciting the names of all the gods and Buddhas he knew, Li Shiyue clicked the lottery button in the air.

After a burst of gurgling music, a ball fell from the egg shaker on the virtual screen.

She stretched out her finger and touched the golden ball again, and then she felt three soybean-sized, round balls in her hand.

"Congratulations to the host, you won three beauty pills."

Although with his eyes closed, he couldn't see the white thing that looked like a pill in modern society, the so-called "beauty pill" in the system, but Li Shiyue still closed his eyes and complained in his heart: "Beauty pill?

What? Beauty filter? Make me beautiful?
What?

Is this the kind of useless thing I need at this moment?
I'm on the road to escape famine!
Let me become beautiful, do I think my life is not long enough?
I said before that if the three of us encountered any trouble on the road, we could at least die together, but I was just talking. How could I be willing to give up this hard-earned opportunity to travel through time?

What's wrong with a beautiful woman who has no ability to protect her beauty while fleeing from natural disasters and man-made tragedies?

Don't you understand that you are just waiting to be bullied, ravaged, squeezed, exploited, and waiting to die? "

No matter how much he cursed in his heart, Li Shiyue could only helplessly accept the fact that he had spent a lot of effort and put in a sincere performance to complete the novice task assigned by the system, but in the end he only got three useless beauty pills.

Carefully she put the three beauty pills in her hand into the small pouch on her waist in the dark. Li Shiyue looked back for a moment, allowing herself to get closer to her mother. She slowed down her breathing and fell asleep in a few breaths.

As for Father Li and Qin Tao, although they also lay down, and Father Li still had his arm around Qin Tao's slender waist, neither of them was asleep.

Qin Tao was thinking about the bag of money on Father Li's chest, and how she would live on the road of escape from the famine, and how she could get the money into her own hands;

Father Li, however, thought that he should not spend this money on Qin Tao's family in the future. After all, he only got such a small amount of money.

I don’t know how much money I will need while fleeing from famine.

So what Father Li was thinking was: "In the future, how can I get money out of Xiao Tao'er?"

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(End of this chapter)