Heavenly Blessed Baby: Fleeing Famine, Busy to Prosper!-Chapter 78: Wasted Talent

The two adults started by giving Qi Manman a bath.

The little girl was completely naked, sitting in the wooden basin, giggling non-stop.

"This girl, she gets especially happy the moment she’s bathing."

Mrs. Qi gently wiped Qi Manman’s arms with a cloth, her face full of doting smiles.

Yi Meng was undoing the little girl’s hair bun, first smoothing it out with her fingers, then using a wooden comb to slowly work through, and finally switching to a fine-toothed comb to finish.

Once the hair was fully detangled, Mrs. Qi hurriedly used a gourd dipper to mix hot and cold water, adjusted the temperature, and began to gently pour it over the little girl’s hair.

By this time, Qi Manman was already lying in the wooden basin, her head resting on its edge.

Yi Meng remarked, "As long as a child hasn’t been submerged in water, they generally love it."

"Isn’t that the truth."

Mrs. Qi countered, "Those little rascals at home act as if it’s the end of the world every time we ask them to bathe or wash their hair."

Mrs. Qi held a deep-seated dislike for the sons and grandsons in the family.

Yi Meng just smiled at this remark and didn’t argue.

She was referring to young children liking water.

As they grow up, their personality and experience change a lot, which also affects their preferences for other things.

After wetting the little girl’s hair, Yi Meng applied soap thoroughly and carefully to her hair.

Then she gently massaged the little girl’s scalp, making her so comfortable she squinted, as if she’d fall asleep at any moment.

Once the hair and scalp were clean, Yi Meng wrapped the little girl’s hair in a clean cloth.

The two adults each took a side and began to scrub the little girl’s body.

The shed was surrounded by old bedding used as a windbreak, more effective than ordinary leaves.

The little girl just soaked in the wooden basin, not feeling cold at all.

Once she was bathed, her body dried, and she had on clean clothes, they wrapped her in a blanket and sent her out.

Wang Daya, who had been waiting outside, took the little girl and brought her to the fire.

Having just been bathed, her little face was rosy as she listened to everyone talking, she and Qi Shilang giggled together and soon fell asleep.

After Yi Meng sent the child out, she began attending to her mother-in-law’s bath.

Mrs. Qi wasn’t a difficult mother-in-law to serve, on the contrary, she treated her daughters-in-law even better than her sons.

Every daughter-in-law in the family was particularly filial to Mrs. Qi.

Yi Meng scrubbed the old lady’s back, while the old lady scrubbed her own arms.

Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law chatted as they bathed, the atmosphere very pleasant.

Once the old lady was taken care of and finished bathing, the eldest sister-in-law, Wang Daya, came in.

Wang Daya helped Yi Meng scrub her back, and then Yi Meng helped Wang Daya scrub hers.

Then came second daughter-in-law Qu Laodi and third daughter-in-law Mu Yunniang.

Finally, Ai Zhaodi entered, first bathing her young son, and then asking third sister-in-law Mu Yunniang to help scrub her back.

Now the women of the household and the two youngest children were all washed, leaving only the men.

The women of the house didn’t care at all about how the men bathed.

People in the village, seeing how the Qi Family was bustling about, had their share of sour remarks and envious glances.

But only about two or three families could actually afford to set up a separate bathing shed for the elderly, women, and children like the Qi Family.

Those women without such conditions were really envious and waited for the Qi Family to finish bathing, then gathered around, asking to borrow the shed.

The Qi Family wasn’t stingy, directly agreeing.

Originally meant as a good deed, but it was not guaranteed to be problem-free.

Yi Meng was hugging her daughter by the fire when she heard a scream from the nearby shed.

Everyone collectively turned to look at the Qi Family’s bathing shed and saw a woman clutching her clothes tightly, running out crying as she went.

"What’s happened here?"

"What’s going on?"

Everyone curiously headed towards the Qi Family, afraid to miss any spectacle by moving too slowly.

The woman rushing out didn’t head elsewhere but instead directly ran to the Qi Family’s fire resting area.

Mrs. Qi hadn’t been sleeping well these days, and after a bath with the warming sun, she was naturally feeling drowsy.

Just about to fall asleep, she was startled awake by the scream, snapping alert in a jolt.

"What’s wrong, what’s wrong? What’s happened?"

Mrs. Qi was so startled her face turned a little pale.

Yi Meng, beside her, hurried to comfort her, "Mother, it’s nothing, it’s nothing, calm down."

Yi Meng, with one arm around Qi Manman, gently rubbed Mrs. Qi’s back with her other hand.

Meanwhile, Yi Meng was also wondering what in the world had happened.

But it didn’t take long to realize. Seeing the woman from the shed running towards them, Yi Meng felt her heart skip a beat.

A bad premonition arose, as if this incident was targeting the Qi Family.

Mrs. Qi also saw the approaching figure and frowned immediately, "Why on earth isn’t she wearing her clothes properly while running outside?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the woman reached Mrs. Qi, kneeling down with a thud.

The action was so sudden that no one reacted in time, just watched her kneel in front of them.

"Aunt Qi, please, you must seek justice for me!"

"What?"

Mrs. Qi didn’t quite understand, "What justice do I need to seek for you?"

The woman raised her head, revealing a tear-streaked face.

Only then did everyone recognize her.

It was Liew Sanya, the third daughter from the old Liew family in the village.

Liew Sanya was fourteen this year and if it weren’t for the rebellion’s commotion, she should have been looking at suitors.

Now, Liew Sanya had messy hair, her clothes evidently thrown on in a panic, disheveled, just barely covering her skin. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Kneeling on the ground, Liew Sanya cried intensely but didn’t hinder her from loudly lamenting, "Aunt Qi, I’ve always considered you as a dear aunt of our family! I’ve considered your sons like my own brothers. But, but I never expected..."

Saying this, Liew Sanya suddenly choked up.

By this time, quite a few villagers had gathered, craning their necks to get a good view.

Mrs. Qi, seeing this, was anxious beyond belief, "I say, Liew Sanya, what on earth is going on with you? Speak up, crying and sniveling won’t help at all!"

Liew Sanya wiped away her tears, glancing around to ensure a good crowd had gathered, then tearfully said, "I came over to borrow your shed to wash myself, but, but after I’d just undressed, I, I, I saw... boo hoo hoo..."

Ah, stuck at the crucial moment again.

Yi Meng standing by couldn’t help but want to roll her eyes.

This Liew Sanya, if she’d been in a different era like in Yi Meng’s past life, not writing novels would be a waste of talent.