webnovelfull Chapter 50 The Fool 'Meng Fuqing'
Chapter 50 The Fool 'Meng Fuqing'
"Foolish Qing, foolish Qing, father beats people, mother suffers misery, even a sixty-year-old man doesn't want him, younger siblings are starving and crying!"
Meng Xiaocong led several children behind Meng Fuqing, reciting rhymes and laughing and joking.
Meng Fuqing was still clean, but her once neatly combed hair was now a mess from being chased. She had lost one of her shoes, and her bare feet were red from the cold, with signs of frostbite on the insteps and toes, but she seemed completely oblivious to it.
She wiped her nose haphazardly, and when she saw the slender figure she had seen by the river in the distance, her dull eyes suddenly lit up.
"Sister, sister..."
She called out softly as she ran recklessly toward the riverbank.
Seeing this, Meng Xiaocong and the others followed behind Meng Fuqing and recited the rhyme even louder.
Hearing the sound, Meng Linlang, who was by the river, looked behind her and saw that Meng Fuqing had already run up to her.
Meng Fuqing pointed at Meng Xiaocong and the others, "Afraid...afraid..."
Seeing Meng Linlang, the boys stopped talking. "Linlang, what are you doing standing here? It's so cold!"
Meng Linlang had never liked dealing with Meng Fuqing before, and now that Meng Fuqing was mentally challenged, she wanted to ignore him even more. She just smiled at Meng Xiaocong and the others and said, "My parents and brothers have all gone to the county town. I came to see if they have returned yet."
Meng Xiaocong, with her sharp eyes, immediately noticed that Meng Linlang's left index finger, which was wrapped up, seemed to be bleeding. "Linlang, what happened to your hand?"
"It's nothing, I just got scratched by accident."
"You'd better be more careful in the future; injuries are harder to heal in winter."
"Yeah, yeah."
Hearing everyone's concern for Meng Linlang, Meng Fuqing lowered her head and picked at the frostbite on her hands, wanting to sneak away when no one was looking.
She tiptoed, staring at the ground, and moved outward step by step, thinking that if she didn't look at others, others wouldn't be able to see her.
She hadn't taken two steps when a figure blocked her way.
"You idiot Qing, don't go! Look at my hand, I accidentally hurt it while holding a stone. Apologize to me!" Meng Xiaocong said unreasonably.
Upon hearing the word "stone," Meng Fuqing touched her head, which was covered by her bangs. The blood there had already dried, indicating that this person had hit her on the head with a stone.
She suddenly got angry and shoved Meng Xiaocong hard.
No one expected that the silly Qing, who never got angry no matter how much they teased him, would do something like this, and they were all stunned.
Meng Linlang, unaware of what had happened, assumed Meng Fuqing had suddenly gone mad and hurt someone, and immediately rebuked him, "Meng Fuqing, why did you push him?!"
Seeing Meng Fuqing walk towards Meng Xiaocong without saying a word, she thought the other party was going to do something, so she reached out and grabbed him, "I'm talking to you, did you hear me?"
Unexpectedly, Meng Fuqing forcefully shook off her hand the moment she turned around. She was standing closest to the riverbank, and the muddy ground was slippery. With that push, she fell into the river.
Her body was enveloped in the icy river water. As she struggled, the cloth covering her cut fingers came loose, and blood mist seeped into the river from her bleeding fingers.
Just before she lost consciousness, a red light flashed before her eyes, followed by endless darkness.
Sweating profusely, Meng Linlang opened her eyes and sat up abruptly in bed. After catching her breath for a moment, she realized that someone was sitting next to her.
Feeling damp and sticky all over, as if she had sweated a lot, she complained, "Mom, I'm sweating, and it feels so uncomfortable."
Yuan Qianniang seemed to be lost in thought, and only came back to her senses when she heard voices. "Wait a minute, I have something to ask you."
Meng Linlang felt uncomfortable because of her mother's cold attitude. She had just fallen into the water, so why was her mother treating her like this?
She was dissatisfied, lowered her head, and said "Oh" in a wronged tone, "Mother, go ahead and ask."
"Linlang, aren't you afraid of water? Why did you go to Meng Fuqing again and again and take her to the river?"
Meng Linlang shuddered, remembering what she should have confirmed the moment she woke up.
Luo Shui, Meng Fuqing, Lingquan Space!
What about her spiritual spring space?
She closed her eyes as if in a dream, trying to sense the existence of the spiritual spring space, but all she saw was darkness and nothing at all.
"No? How could there be no?" Meng Linlang said urgently, frowning as she began to recall the scene in her dream. Her gaze fell on her index finger, and her brows instantly relaxed.
So that's how it is; it's just because her hand wasn't injured.
Once she recovers, she can simply cut her hand, squeeze out some blood, and drop it into the river. As for Meng Fuqing, once she obtains the Spirit Spring Space, Meng Fuqing won't stand a chance against her.
As she was thinking this, she didn't notice that Yuan Qianniang's expression was becoming increasingly strange.
If Meng Linlang was still suspicious before she woke up, now, watching her daughter talking to herself, sometimes tense and sometimes relaxed, she became more and more convinced that those dreams were caused by ghosts and monsters to harm people.
She didn't ask any more questions, got up and walked out of the room.
When Meng Linlang realized that she was the only one left in the room, she felt a moment of confusion. But then she thought that her mother must have gone to prepare hot water for her, and she smiled again, a smile of contentment.
***
Two days have passed since Meng Linlang fell into the water. In these two days, Meng Fuqing has thoroughly explored the newly upgraded space.
The hot spring in the front yard can be used for bathing to cleanse the body of toxins; the stream water is sweet and can irrigate the soil and also has the effect of strengthening the body.
Every room in the villa was furnished, but her supplies had been buried there. Time had stopped inside the villa and in the front yard, so the supplies wouldn't spoil if placed in those two locations.
The backyard has a faster time flow, making it suitable for planting trees. The large area in front of the yard has a slower time flow, making it suitable for planting annual herbaceous plants, such as crops.
Moreover, living things can now enter this space.
Overall, Meng Fuqing was very satisfied, except for one problem: she had to do the farming herself in the space.
Meng Fuqing, who had never even used his supernatural abilities in the apocalypse, said that there are always more solutions than problems.
Her hair vines are plentiful and obedient. Apart from consuming a lot of energy and not being able to do heavy work to prevent hair loss, it's still possible to plant a seed.
However, what interested Meng Fuqing the most was the lush green mountain peaks in the distance. On the night she returned from the river, she tried to walk to the edge of the land and enter the mountains, but she couldn't get close at all, as if she were in a maze, so she gave up.
She spent two nights searching through the villa for various fruit tree seeds, which have now filled the entire backyard. She also made good use of the space between the fruit trees by planting perennial herbs that she had found in the mountains.
She didn't know exactly how much time could be accelerated within the space, so she could only wait and see.
As for the large tracts of land in front, we can only cultivate them slowly.
The most convenient thing for Meng Fuqing after the space upgrade was the hot spring in the front yard.
Since the apocalypse, taking a bath has become a major problem. With the hot spring, I can run to the backyard to dry my hair after taking a bath every night before going to sleep, feeling completely relaxed.
Meng Fuqing heard from Meng Ali on the afternoon of the third day that Meng Linlang had woken up. He also said that Meng Linlang had been making a fuss about going to the riverbank all morning and had even cut her finger.
Meng Ali leaned closer to her and asked mysteriously, "Big sister, do you think my cousin Linlang is bewitched by something in the river? Otherwise, why would she ask you to push her and hurt yourself?"