Is This Really the Countryside, Not a Transmigrators' Meetup?
Chapter 8

Calling Him Dad Was Enough to Make Him Sick for Half a Year

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Early in the morning, Bai Yao woke from his sleep.

Looking at the home, barer than an unfinished apartment, he was quite pleased with the results of his own raid.

As expected of him, he had wiped away every trace of the Li Family from the house.

After a quick wash, Bai Yao prepared to enjoy a delicious breakfast.

Once he had eaten and drunk his fill, he prepared to go to the hospital.

Of course, he wasn't going to take care of those rotten apples. He was purely going to watch the show and, while he was at it, see if he could make things a little harder for Li Dongxu and Li Bailian.

After leaving home, Bai Yao passed the kitchen and heard some neighbors discussing the Li Family's rotten apples.

Bai Yao wholeheartedly agreed and decided to listen carefully to find out what had happened.

But as he listened, he nearly burst out laughing.

Well, well. Li Dabao had disfigured Li Meimei to compete for favor, while Li Meimei, driven by love, had poisoned the whole family and meant to kill them all.

If he hadn't been the one who started it all, he would have believed it.

"Looks like something really entertaining happened last night."

With that thought, Bai Yao continued on to the hospital. After all, that was where the fun was happening.

Besides, he had to keep up his persona so that when he took the initiative to sever ties at the end, it wouldn't damage his reputation.

Although he didn't care about that himself, he couldn't let the original owner die with a bad name.

In this era, a person's reputation carried a lot of weight. He had to let the original owner rest a little easier.

Before long, Bai Yao arrived at the hospital and spotted Li Dongxu and Li Bailian standing at the entrance from afar.

Only one night had passed, yet the two of them looked five or six years older to him.

At that moment, they spotted Bai Yao too. As they had done before, they instinctively meant to scold him first, then have him take their place caring for Li Qiang and the others.

Before they could speak, however, Bai Yao called out loudly, "Dad, hurry to the bank! I heard someone say that if you lose your passbook, you can get a replacement at the bank. Don't go too late and let someone withdraw the money!"

Just calling him Dad made Bai Yao feel sick enough to last half a year, but for the sake of his next plan, he had to put up with it.

When Li Dongxu heard that, what he had originally wanted to say immediately changed.

"Really? That's right, it is true. So much happened yesterday that I nearly forgot."

At the thought of getting some of the money back, Li Dongxu's exhausted face finally relaxed a tiny bit.

Of course, he could only replace his own passbook. Although it held only a little over two hundred yuan, that was enough to get them through their current difficulties.

"Xiao Yao, stay here and take care of your older brother, younger brother and younger sister. Your mother and I will go take care of the passbook first." Li Dongxu started to leave as he spoke.

As for why he was taking Li Bailian along, it wasn't because Li Dongxu felt sorry for her. The household registration book was missing, so he had to go to the subdistrict office for proof of identity before he could get a replacement passbook at the bank.

Li Bailian worked at the subdistrict office and could save him quite a bit of time.

Seeing this, Bai Yao stopped them and said, "Then you need to leave me some money today. You can't expect me to go hungry for another day, can you? Besides, Li Dabao and the others need to eat too."

Li Dongxu was unhappy to hear that, but he couldn't refuse. After all, Bai Yao had a point.

He took out the money he had borrowed yesterday and counted it, then picked out a five-mao note to hand over. But just as he reached out, he stopped, put it back and finally handed over three one-mao notes.

"All this money was borrowed. Until we get the family's money back, we have to be careful with it. I'm giving you these three mao, so make sure you take good care of them today," Li Dongxu said, looking very generous.

Bai Yao: ...

Honestly, he had nearly burst out cursing, every word foul.

Three mao for three meals. That didn't include him at all.

And he was only giving him money, no grain coupons. Even if the hospital had food that didn't require coupons, what could that little money buy?

"There's no grain coupons. It's not enough."

Bai Yao wasn't going to be the kind of fool who swallowed his broken teeth and stayed silent.

Li Dongxu's expression stiffened. He wanted to get angry, but seeing that quite a few people nearby were watching the show, he could only suppress his anger and take out the five-mao note.

"That's enough now, isn't it?"

"It's enough." Bai Yao took it as he spoke, thinking that the five mao was enough to pay for his breakfast that day.

After getting the money, Bai Yao didn't intend to waste any more words on the two of them and headed straight into the hospital.

Li Dongxu and Li Bailian had no time for further talk either and hurried to the subdistrict office.

But their trip was destined to be a waste of effort.

Since Bai Yao had dared to remind Li Dongxu, how could he possibly let him get the money back?

Just last night, using the system's "Remote Proxy Withdrawal" service, he had withdrawn all the money from the three passbooks.

At that very moment, a pile of banknotes lay in his system space.

"Heh heh, time to start today's pig-raising activities."

With that thought, Bai Yao took out three battered lunch boxes and filled them with Super Pig Feed. Then he added some hot water to soak it into a mush before taking it to feed Li Dabao.

Li Qiang as the first kill and Li Meimei as the second kill had already been taken care of. Next, he had to hurry and complete the third kill with Li Dabao.

He entered the ward.

Li Dabao had only been rendered mute, so he was naturally full of energy. The moment he saw Bai Yao carrying the lunch boxes, he rushed over.

Without waiting for Bai Yao to speak, he snatched one for himself.

He opened the lid. The food inside naturally didn't look appealing, but the smell pleased Li Dabao. He picked up his chopsticks and began wolfing it down.

He soon finished one portion, but he hadn't had his fill and set his sights on the other two.

Seeing this, Bai Yao put on an act.

"No, those are for Li Qiang and Li Meimei. You've already finished your portion."

"Ah, ah, ah, ah..."

Even though Li Dabao couldn't speak, Bai Yao understood what he meant.

He was telling him to hand them over quickly, or he would complain to his parents that Bai Yao wouldn't give him food and have them beat him to death.

The original Bai Yao had been through this sort of thing far too many times, which was why Bai Yao understood so quickly.

What could he do in this situation? He could only try to act like the original owner, reluctantly handing over the lunch boxes and watching helplessly as Li Dabao finished all three full portions of pig feed.

Once he was full, Li Dabao went back to his hospital bed to rest, so he didn't see the look Bai Yao gave him, as though he were looking at a piglet.

"Wonderful. Three boxes, six portions of Super Pig Feed. Li Dabao, you'll definitely reach the result I want in no time."

With that thought, Bai Yao left. The next show was still waiting for him to watch.

As for Li Qiang and Li Meimei...

"System, customize two doses of medicine that will make Li Qiang and Li Meimei sleep for a day, then give it to them."

Feed them?

Ha! Just as they used to tell the original owner, missing one meal wouldn't starve them to death, so they could go hungry.

Besides, to make them forget their hunger, hadn't he put them to sleep?

After giving the command in his mind, Bai Yao left the hospital and headed for the bank.

Because the next big show would be staged there.

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