Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming-Chapter 18 - All-Out Mobilization

Chapter 18: Chapter 18 All-Out Mobilization

Chapter 18 -18 All-Out Mobilization

The door lock was smashed open, and the door creaked open as Bai Xiao’s eyes rimmed with reddish moisture.

This was the place she once lived in for fourteen years. The weeds in the yard were not too tall, only ankle-high; probably her brother had just cleared them when he came back a while earlier. The doors inside the house were also locked. Bai Xiao took out the key from around her neck! Her older brother had given it to her, asking her to visit when she had time, but when would she ever have the time?

The Bai Family practically wanted her to work twenty-four hours a day without sleep. When she returned from school, she had to do so much housework to avoid bothering anyone. Ever since she left this home in her past life, she never had the chance to return.

This time, she had returned.

Upon opening the door, Bai Xiao saw the table and stools covered with thick dust, and the mats on the bed rolled up. The main room’s roof had some leaks, evident from the recent rainfall, and on the table inside, one could see the water droplets and mud spots from the leaks.

The entire house was filled with the scent of decay and dust. In the kitchen next door, half of the stove had collapsed. Pots and pans must have been stored away in the cupboards, leaving no trace of cooking fumes, and even the water tank by the wall had a big hole in it.

The room she and her sister once lived in, that poor little house, had nearly collapsed beyond recognition.

Aside from the courtyard wall still standing firm, the interior walls had mostly crumbled, and after being exposed to wind and rain, it was basically uninhabitable.

She carefully pushed open the door, her heart sinking. She saw the room filled with fine cobwebs and thick dust, inhabited by many small insects and animals.

“Rats!” she stepped back in fright as a bold rat scurried past her feet.

Bai Jianguo lifted a smug smile, letting you show off your prowess.

He displayed a face of innocent grievance to Liu Baoguo, “Village chief, take a look at this house, how can anyone live here? I really am doing this for Bai Xiao’s good!”

Liu Baoguo also hesitated. The house still looked like a house from the outside, but it was indeed in disrepair for many years. Now, to say it was habitable was a bit of a stretch and if that was the case, one couldn’t blame Bai Jianguo for not allowing Bai Xiao to stay. It appeared that this uncle still had some affection.

“Bai Xiao, look at this house. Are you sure you want to live here? It probably can’t be cleaned up in an afternoon,” Liu Baoguo said kindly, noting there wasn’t even a stove, making having a meal virtually impossible.

“Xiao, you better go back with us. There are rats and spiders here, and who knows, maybe even snakes from the mountains. I’m worried about you, a young girl staying here alone. Your uncle promises never to let your grandma hit you again,” Bai Jianguo choked with sorrow.

Bai Xiao shook her head. “Uncle, I won’t go back. I can go without eating tonight if there’s no stove. Uncle village chief, please ask everyone to help me set up a stove. If it can’t be used today, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, it will eventually dry up and be usable. If before today, I’d have hesitated to stay here, seeing this state of decay has made me determined. I must stay here. This is the house of my parents, the only thing they could leave to my brother and me. Having the house end up in this state is my fault, and I’m sorry to my parents.”

“If I had stayed here, lived here, and cleaned every day, this house wouldn’t look like it does now; it’s all my fault. From now on, I will live here and take good care of this house. When my brother comes back, he will have a warm meal to eat and a clean place to stay. Uncle, Aunt, fellow villagers, please help me! This is the only thing my parents left behind. I can’t let them rest in peace under the ground.”

Bai Xiao bowed deeply to the crowd! She bent her body low, humbly begging. This was her home, as well as her siblings’, a shelter from the elements, which absolutely must not be destroyed by Bai Jianguo.

People have hearts of flesh, and hearing Bai Xiao’s words, everyone in the village, old and young, male and female, felt sad. If anyone heard such words, how could they be at ease? If one day they were to die and their children couldn’t keep the house and family business they had left behind, they would probably jump out of their coffins.

This child is right; this is the only thing left by her parents. She couldn’t let this house fall into ruin.

An Zhiyuan waved his hand, “Fellow villagers, every family has children, and every family faces tough times. Let’s all lend a hand. We, the student comrades, will take the lead. Don’t worry, we are all engineering students. We’ll handle these repairs, whether it’s the roof, the courtyard walls, or the stove. We are responsible for fixing it. Everyone who can help, please do so. After all, we all live in the same village, and you have all watched her grow up. I believe everyone here is kind-hearted,” he turned to the students behind him and spoke.

“Fellows, let’s go. Everyone, grab your tools, those who can borrow a cart, borrow it. The rest will make clay balls. Some stay here to start on the roof and the courtyard walls. Once the clay dries tomorrow, we can start repairing the collapsed part of the house. The stove also needs to be rebuilt. Let’s get to work.”

At An Zhiyuan’s command, the dozen or so students behind him immediately rolled up their sleeves, borrowed carts from the villagers, went to their car outside to get their tools, and came back ready to work.

Seeing the students in action, Liu Baoguo didn’t hesitate and quickly urged the other villagers, “No more talking, anyone who can help, start now. Go home and push carts if you need to. Everyone working together will speed up the work. Let’s at least get the house habitable for this girl tonight so she can live in it.”

Immediately, everyone got to work.

The medic had been brought over, helped Bai Xiao to sit on a broken stool in the courtyard, and began disinfecting and cleaning the wound on her arm, then suturing it. Because there was no anesthesia, Bai Xiao sweated profusely from the pain.

In fact, she could have chosen not to have the medic treat her. In the dead of night, when no one was watching, she could have locked the door and healed her wound herself. Her special ability was the Healing Ability. Although it consumed a lot, every time she finished healing, her body turned cold as if she had fallen into an ice hole, but that was the price she had to pay.

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As long as she was alive, no matter what the injury or illness, her special ability could bring her back from the brink of death.

But now was not the time to use it. If she healed her injuries too easily, the Bai family might start spreading rumors and slander about her, possibly claiming she was faking it. So, while the medic treated her, she bit down and endured.

Only by letting the entire village see her agony today, if the Bai family wanted to cause trouble again, everyone, with eyes to see and brains to think, would question what was really going on. Then it would be impossible for Bai Jianguo and Li Chunhua to spout nonsense and distort the truth.

For that outcome, she was willing to pay this price.