Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 4: Shoes Falling into the Toilet
Wei Jingli looked at Tao Qiuyi in horror, her eyes filled with fear. She shook her head repeatedly. "No, no, I'm not hungry. I really am not."

"I just said it casually. Why are you so excited?" Tao Qiuyi blinked. She just felt that Wei Jingli was as pitiful as the original owner. She sighed that the little girl's reaction was a bit too much.

"No, I'm not excited, really not." Wei Jingli hurriedly waved her hands to deny it.

Grandma said she ate too much and didn't let her eat enough at every meal. She also didn't allow her to tell anyone, otherwise she would beat her to death.

Tao Qiuyi was very smart. The little girl looked horrified and kept denying things out of fear. It was obvious that she was being oppressed so much that she didn't dare to tell the truth.

She turned her head to look at Wei Jingyuan and saw that his stern face was calm and his obsidian eyes were looking straight at her sister. It was obvious that he didn't know how her sister was treated in the Wei family.

Men, you can be so careless sometimes.

"No, then no. Don't worry. Let's go into the house first. It's so cold outside. I'm almost freezing to death." Tao Qiuyi spoke in a gentle tone and smiled as she held Wei Jingli's thin arm. The cold touch of the bony arm made her feel distressed. She lowered her eyes and saw that her hand was also just bony. Her smile froze and she wanted to swear.

After only two steps, Tao Qiuyi's stomach started to rumble again. She quickly let go of Wei Jingli and rushed through the small door. Ten minutes later, she came out holding the door, one of her yellow rubber shoes missing. She said with a sullen face, "Wei Jingyuan, one of your shoes fell into the toilet. When I'm better, I'll buy you a new pair."

She doesn't like to owe favors to anyone, the sooner she pays it back the easier it will be.

She herself had no shoes to wear, yet she still wanted to return him a new pair of shoes. How could she do that? What could she use to return them? Wei Jingyuan sighed and didn't respond.

It was the first time Wei Jingli heard that someone could drop their shoes into the toilet, and she widened her eyes in disbelief.

"What's with that look on your face? Don't you believe what I say?" Tao Qiuyi was dissatisfied with the brother and sister's reaction and glared at them fiercely. "I always keep my word. If you don't believe me, you are disrespecting me."

"It's cold outside, go inside." Wei Jingyuan reminded.

Tao Qiuyi was furious, but she could do nothing. She let Wei Jingli help her into the house, then sank into bed sickly. After several trips to the bathroom, she felt completely exhausted. Long-term malnutrition, lack of food and sleep, had left her fragile. Even minor illnesses could kill her. When she recovered, the first thing she wanted to do was improve her health.

Hey! Wait...

The pills in the wooden box in her ring space are great things for changing human body functions. There is no need to wait for the disease to heal. After taking the pills and sleeping for a few hours, her body will naturally improve.

Tao Qiuyi did it as soon as he thought of it. He didn't even need to enter the ring space. He just took out the box, opened it, picked up a pill and swallowed it, threw the box back into the ring space, covered himself with the quilt and went to sleep.

In the kitchen, Wei Jingyuan sat on a stool and lit a fire. Wei Jingli took out the cooked fungus and put it in a bowl, poured out the water in the pot, put a few washed sweet potatoes into the pot, added water to cover the sweet potatoes, and covered the pot.

All that was left was to wait for the sweet potatoes to cook. Wei Jingyuan hadn't forgotten that there was someone else in his room, so he asked his sister to go check on her. "Xiao Li, go inside and see how she is doing?"

"Okay." Wei Jingli went out and soon came back and said to Wei Jingyuan, "Brother, I checked. She's asleep."

Nodding, Wei Jingyuan was not surprised that she fell asleep. She was exhausted from all the trouble she had been doing.

Wei Jinghuai returned carrying a large bundle of firewood. The brother and sister had already prepared lunch and were waiting for him at the square table in the main hall. Putting down the firewood, Wei Jinghuai wiped his hands on his worn clothes, walked into the main hall, and sat on a long bench. On the table lay several fist-sized sweet potatoes, a bowl of corn soup, and a bowl of black fungus.

"Why did you cook and eat black fungus?" When grandma comes back and sees you, she will definitely scold you for eating alone. Wei Jinghuai didn't say the rest of the words, but frowned and looked at his twin sister.

Wei Jingli wanted to say that she made it because her elder brother agreed to let her cook it, but then she thought that it was indeed her who asked her elder brother and he agreed, so it was her fault. She looked at Wei Jingyuan nervously and lowered her head.

"I asked her to do it." Wei Jingyuan said, picking up a sweet potato and handing it to Wei Jingli.

After a moment of hesitation, Wei Jingli took the sweet potato.

Wei Jinghuai glanced at his elder brother, said nothing more, reached out and picked up a sweet potato to peel it.

The three siblings finished their lunch in silence. Wei Jinghuai went to wash the dishes, and Wei Jingyuan asked his sister to go into the room to check on Tao Qiuyi.

"Brother, come quickly, she has a fever again." Wei Jingli's scream came from the room.

Tao Qiuyi felt so hot in her sleep that she kicked the quilt several times but it was covered back on her. She had no choice but to give up struggling and continue sleeping despite the high fever.

It was unknown how long it had been before Tao Qiuyi was awakened by a burst of shouting and scolding. She opened her eyes in a daze and saw Wei Jingli's skinny little face with a pair of big eyes looking straight at her.

"Who are you? Why am I here? Did you save me?" Tao Qiuyi's three consecutive questions confused Wei Jingli.

Looking at the confused look of the little girl, Tao Qiuyi burst out laughing. The little girl really couldn't stand being teased.

"You're scared, sister is just teasing you." Tao Qiuyi raised her hand and pinched the skinny face of the little girl. She sighed, she was too thin. If she had a little meat, it would definitely feel comfortable to pinch.

"Wei Jingyuan, you unfilial son of a bitch, you deserve to be called a good-for-nothing cripple. Who gave you the guts to disobey me? Watch out for thunderbolts from the sky and kill you." The woman's voice could be heard from outside the door. "Yesterday you brought that unlucky fool home without telling me. I didn't know then, but today I know. I asked you to get that unlucky thing out of my house, and you dared to find an excuse to refuse."

"You useless piece of trash, you think you're something big just because you've been a soldier for a few years? Look at you, you're so useless, you dare to disobey your elders. Bah, you're as useless as your good-for-nothing mother." The yelling and cursing of the old woman outside became louder and louder.

Tao Qiuyi understood. This was another person blaming Wei Jingyuan for saving her. Or rather, except for Wei Jingyuan's three siblings, everyone else in the Wei family was blaming Wei Jingyuan for saving her.

She sat up, threw off the quilt and got down to the ground. Her movements were swift and smooth. Tao Qiuyi was surprised by the changes the pill had brought to her body when her arm was grabbed. Wei Jingli said in a trembling voice, "Don't go. Big Brother will...block you."

Looking at the little girl's pale face, Tao Qiuyi knew that she was very scared.

"Boss, third brother, are you dead? You only have heads to show off to others. These two bastards who disobey their elders are blocking the door, don't you know to kick them away?" The shouting and cursing continued outside.

Tao Qiuyi held the little girl's hand and tried to comfort her before she could say anything. The door was slammed open. She hurriedly pulled the little girl behind her and saw Wei Jingyuan and Wei Jinghuai lying on the ground, as well as the two men who walked in. She narrowed her eyes, rushed over, and kicked them out.

(End of this chapter)