Reborn 99 Days Later, Becoming a Landlady and Getting into Tsinghua and Peking Universities

"How did you finish it so quickly...?"

Liang Ruotao licked her dry, chapped lips and muttered to herself.

Liang Yili stepped forward, picked up an empty can, tilted her head back, and poured the contents into her mouth.

Half a day later, a drop of water slowly flowed into my mouth along the inner wall of the bottle.

"Liang Yili? Liang Ruotao? What are you doing here?"

Suddenly, a girl with a round face and a ponytail ran over from a distance, asking in surprise.

Liang Yili blinked, trying hard to remember who this was.

"Yuan Xiangqiao? What are you doing here?"

Liang Ruotao was equally surprised to see her junior high school classmate skipping and jumping around.

Yuan Xiang smiled and said, "My home is in Aojiaping! But you two..."

"We're here to sell things!"

"So the towel my mom bought this morning was from you."

Liang Yili remained silent throughout their conversation.

It wasn't until Liang Ruotao and Yuan Xiangqiao agreed that Liang Yili would go to Yuan Xiangqiao's house to fetch water that Liang Yili finally managed to find relevant information about Yuan Xiangqiao deep in her memory.

But all I could remember was that we were junior high school classmates.

There's no way around it; I've been a ghost for too long, and it's hard for me to remember everyone.

What's more, they were classmates with whom they didn't have much interaction to begin with, and had no contact with each other since graduating from junior high school.

"In this sweltering heat, why aren't you resting at home? Why are you out selling things?"

On the way to Hara Kako's house, she suddenly asked.

Liang Ruotao smiled and said, "Saving up for tuition!"

"Saving up for tuition? Oh, right, you got into the city's No. 1 High School."

But your mother already...you're out of money, aren't you? Why do you still want to continue your studies?"

Liang Yili raised an eyebrow and noticed that Yuan Xiangqiao's face showed only simple curiosity and no malice.

Before the two sisters could answer, Yuan Xiangqiao let out a long sigh:

"I really envy you guys. I wish my family wasn't rich either, then I wouldn't have to go to high school."

Liang Ruotao was shocked: "I remember you got into the county's No. 1 High School?"

Yuan Xiangqiao casually picked a foxtail grass from the roadside, and while twirling her finger around the foxtail, she answered:

"I passed the exam! But I don't want to go."

High school is so boring. Sigh... I really envy you guys.

To be honest, Liang Ruotao felt that this was the first time in her life she had been so speechless.

Liang Yili frowned: "If you don't go to school, what do you want to do?"

"There's so much I can do... Sister Yingying!"

Yuan Xiangqiao's eyes lit up instantly, and she looked ahead with admiration as she shouted.

Qian Yingying forced a smile onto her heavily made-up face and nodded casually.

But as she gracefully passed by, a strong, pungent perfume scent suddenly assaulted Liang Yili's senses.

Liang Yili wrinkled her nose: "Ahhh~"

Yuan Xiangqiao, however, took a deep breath with a look of fascination and said, mesmerized:

"Can you smell it? The air around Sister Yingying is different from everyone else's, it's like she's sprayed... sprayed perfume!"

Do you know about perfume? I've heard it's something you only find in big cities.

Even her clothes and makeup were different from ours...

Big cities, when will I be able to live in a big city?

I heard the buildings over there are incredibly tall, dozens or even hundreds of stories high, and there are also large shopping malls, fried chicken shops…

Liang Yili, holding the jar, turned to look at Qian Yingying, feeling that something was amiss.

Yuan Xiangqiao grew increasingly annoyed as she spoke, and vigorously rubbed her hair:

“I’ve already talked to my grandma. I’ll go to Guangdong with Sister Yingying when she leaves this time.”

But my parents absolutely refuse to agree, I really don't understand what they're thinking...

"Studying, studying, isn't it all for making money? Sister Yingying didn't even go to junior high school..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Liang Yili suddenly stopped and looked up at Yuan Xiangqiao:

"What did you call that woman just now?"

"Sister Yingying!"

"Which nightingale? What's her surname?"

But whatever you do, don't tell her that the woman's surname is Qian.

Yuan Xiangqiao sniffed: "Qian Yingying, the Qian of money, the Ying of singing and dancing."

Isn't this a nice name? Doesn't it sound like a movie heroine's name? Unlike me, Yuan Xiangqiao, so corny! When I grow up, the first thing I'll do is change my name!

Liang Yili's eyes widened suddenly.

Yes, that's her!

Qian Yingying!

But that matter hasn't been exposed yet...

Liang Yili said calmly, "Judging from your tone, you seem to admire her a lot?"

Yuan Xiangqiao nodded vigorously as if it were the most natural thing in the world: "That's right, not just me, all the girls in our village admire Sister Yingying."

After saying that, she pointed to the only three-story red brick house not far away and said:

"See that building? It was built with the money that Sister Yingying sent back during the two years she went out to work."

And her brother's blind date this time, I heard the bride price alone is 1688, not including things like color TVs and refrigerators.

Without hesitation, Sister Yingying agreed.

Liang Yili raised her eyebrows high: "How do you know it was her who earned the money? Her parents..."

"Tch, we're all from the same village, everyone knows each other!"

Before Sister Yingying went out to work, in the entire Aojiaping area, if her family dared to say they were the second poorest, no one would dare to say they were the poorest.

It's all because her parents are lazy that she caused this trouble.

But now, look at this…

Yuan Xiangqiao pointed to the only red brick house among all the mud houses, her eyes practically green with envy.

Liang Ruotao asked curiously, "How did she earn so much money in just two years? Did she just work in a factory?"

"Yup!"

Liang Yili snorted coldly, "Ha, working in a factory?"

She worked in a factory for three years in her previous life, so how come she didn't know which factory paid such high wages?

As they were talking, Yuan Xiangqiao stopped in front of a farmhouse courtyard.

Pushing open the courtyard gate, a well comes into view.

Yuan Xiangqiao skillfully picked up the bucket next to her and bent down to draw water from the well.

The Liang sisters quickly took the jars to fill with water.

These days, when someone says they're borrowing "water," they really mean it.

To save firewood, most rural families drink water directly from wells.

Those who, like Liang Ruotao, boil water, let it cool, and then drink it are actually a minority.

After filling all the canned food jars she had brought, Liang Yili noticed the piles of waste paper scattered around the corner of the courtyard.

She discovered that it contained not only waste paper but also some scrap metal.

An idea flashed through her mind.

Before she could think it through, a sharp questioning voice came from the inner room.

"I brought more than a dozen eggs with me, and it was only with great difficulty that I managed to get the Qian family to agree to take Xiangqiao with them when the time came."

You're saying you're not going now? Then all my dozen or so eggs will be wasted!