The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 324 - 328: The Altered Life (10)

Chapter 324: Chapter 328: The Altered Life (10)

Outside, it was pitch-dark, yet it didn’t affect Su Li’s night vision at all.

She stepped out, turned right, and headed straight for Hei Yatou’s house.

Hei Yatou’s family was considered one of the impoverished households in Niu Tian Village. It was just a widow and her three children, an extremely difficult existence.

Their house was also dilapidated.

Su Li stood at Hei Yatou’s house where the door was missing a large piece, peering inside through the gap with her excellent eyesight.

Inside, there were just two simple thatched huts, one where Hei Yatou’s mother slept, and the other for the three children.

The rotten wooden door didn’t make a sound under Su Li’s palm as she gently pushed it open.

Like a ghost, Su Li stood at the head of Hei Yatou’s bed.

The three children were sleeping soundly, each sprawled out in a starfish position. The heat made beads of sweat form on their foreheads, and now and then they would turn restlessly, but even so, they didn’t wake.

During the day, they were overly exhausted from work.

Su Li had overheard from Granny Su that since the family lacked a breadwinner, the mother, like a man, went out to earn work points, leaving all the household chores to the few kids.

Although they were young, Hei Yatou and her siblings were quite efficient. With a bit more growth, they too would go out and earn some work points for themselves, perhaps easing their hardship a little.

Su Li quietly watched the children for a moment.

In her memories, the original owner had come to hate Hei Yatou very much.

Especially since the Su Family had not been neglectful in caring for her family, what Hei Yatou did was downright cold-hearted.

In Su Li’s opinion, the girl had truly fallen into undeserved misfortune.

Why would she say that?

Because... Su Li walked over to a window without a frame, lifted the dust rag from the table placed against the window, revealing an envelope with her name on it, already torn open, with a corner peeking out.

She fully opened the envelope to reveal a college admission notice torn in half.

Just yesterday, Qiao Xiaoxiao might not have known that although she followed Granny Su out, Su Li had left a wisp of her Divine Sense around the Su Family’s vicinity.

Her actions, which she thought were hidden from everyone, were just as obvious to Su Li as if they’d been done right under her nose.

Even Qiao Xiaohong, Qiao Xiaoxiao’s older sister, wasn’t deceived.

Indeed, Qiao Xiaohong was aware of her younger sister’s actions.

She was surprised, never expecting her usually quiet and calm younger sister to have such a scheme in mind. She hesitated, neither stopping her nor revealing her, pretending to be unaware.

Qiao Xiaoxiao’s crude method of framing someone else had succeeded, albeit inadvertently...

Hei Yatou would likely wake to find a torn-up admission notice on the low table. Overwhelmed with shock and panic, she would think it was her barely two-year-old little brother’s doing.

At that age, a boy wouldn’t know much of anything. Loving to run around and tear at things, he was quite naughty.

When Hei Yatou’s father was alive, he had attended a few days of elementary school and recognized some characters on the envelope.

She at least recognized the character "Su," and even without much understanding, she’d know her little brother had caused great trouble.

The Su Family was the village chief’s family; she was terrified.

Afraid that in their anger, the Su Family would no longer care for hers, and equally fearful of the village chief causing trouble for her family...

Hei Yatou was young and decided she might as well do a thorough job; she secretly found a place to bury the item.

Of course, all this was Su Li’s speculation and might not be accurate.

But this time, she wouldn’t let the young girl be troubled.

Su Li took the item and tucked it into her bosom before silently returning to the Su Family’s home.

A good night’s rest.

The sky had barely lightened when the Su Family’s home began to stir.

Nobody knew that someone had gone out the night before.

Qiao Xiaoxiao woke up with a very noticeable dark circle under her eyes, looking listless.

She tossed and turned in bed the night before, barely managing to fall asleep well into the late night.

Yesterday, consumed by jealousy, she had acted without much thought.

She felt some regret, yet also some satisfaction...

Upon returning home, she felt that she hadn’t considered everything thoroughly.

What if Hei Yatou discovered the truth and sent the items back to the Su Family? What then?

She had forgotten that Hei Yatou had attended elementary school for a few years and had learned a few words from the educated youth.

Qiao Xiaoxiao’s thoughts flitted back and forth between one thing and another, spending the whole night tangled in indecision.

"Were you out playing the thief late at night?" Mrs. Qiao couldn’t stand the sight of her second daughter slacking the moment she got up and started to scold her.

Qiao Xiaoxiao dropped the broom in her hand, "I went to my elder sister’s house..."

Then she quickly hopped out the door on one foot.

Mrs. Qiao was livid, opening her mouth to stop her, but then thinking that with the second daughter at the eldest daughter’s house, they could save a bowl of breakfast grain, she closed her mouth again.

"Tell your elder sister your foot is still injured, have her give you a few more eggs to bring back."

Qiao Xiaoxiao skulked around Hei Yatou’s house several times, hiding and ducking like a thief.

She ran into Hei Yatou, who was out early with a basket on her back, gathering wild vegetables.

Qiao Xiaoxiao inspected her face carefully, and seeing no strangeness, she tentatively asked, "Hei Yatou, you’re heading out... Did you sleep well last night?"

Hei Yatou was surprised that Qiao Xiaoxiao, who was not usually familiar with her, suddenly struck up a conversation.

Still, she replied amiably, "It was alright..."

"Nothing else happened?"

Hei Yatou: "What else could have happened?"

Seeing Hei Yatou’s expression as genuine, Qiao Xiaoxiao wondered suspiciously: Could it be that she didn’t see it?

Qiao Xiaoxiao soon found an excuse to accompany Hei Yatou into her house for a visit.

But the place where she had put the things yesterday was now empty.

Hei Yatou’s house was truly a case of four bare walls.

In the room, apart from a wooden plank bed and a small low cabinet, it was barren, there was nothing else.

Everything was visible at a glance; there was no place to hide anything.

Qiao Xiaoxiao’s suspicious gaze circled Hei Yatou a few more times.

She hadn’t expected that Hei Yatou, who seemed so honest, would lie so unabashedly.

"Sister Xiao Xiao, why are you looking at me with such a strange gaze?"

Qiao Xiaoxiao smiled, "Just carefully observing your features, you’re actually quite pretty. If you were a bit fairer, you’d definitely be more beautiful than Li Bao."

Qiao Xiaoxiao assumed that Hei Yatou harbored the same thoughts as she did.

How many of the village girls could refrain from feeling jealous of someone like Su Li?

Perhaps Qiao Xiaohong felt a bit guilty, and was mainly avoiding Su Li that morning.

She was quiet and did not behave like a spoiled brat.

Even her second brother was surprised to see his own wife acting this way and nodded his head in approval, thinking that his persistent nagging had finally had an effect.

Su Li didn’t bother to expose the truth.

The acceptance letter had been patched up by her and stored in the small cabinet in her room, secured with a small lock.

In the afternoon, Qiao Xiaohong, who had visited her parent’s home, returned home beaming with joy.