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

Frustrated, Li Dong pulled the blanket over his head.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Li Dong, get up right now!"

School starts in a month, have you previewed the material for the first year of high school?

How can you get ahead of others like this? How can you get into university like this?

Li Dong closed his eyes, his brows furrowed into a small mountain, and covered his ears tightly with his hands.

"I'll count to three, and if you don't get up, I'm going to come right in!"

Li Dong let out a long sigh as if giving up the struggle, and said weakly, "Get up."

Li Nuansi's satisfied voice rang out from outside the door: "Get up quickly, start reading after you finish eating."

Li Dong rubbed his hair in frustration, his eyes tightly shut, extremely impatient.

The next second, Li Nuansi burst through the door.

Seeing that Li Dong was still lying in bed and hadn't gotten up, a surge of anger rushed to his head.

He strode forward and yanked back the sheet.

Wearing only shorts, Li Dong clutched his chest in terror and cried out in despair, "Mom!"

"What 'Mom'? Do you still want to go to college? Get up now!"

Li Dong snatched the sheet, wrapped it around himself, and said angrily, "You can't just walk in and pull off my blanket!"

Li Nuansi didn't take it seriously: "What's wrong with pulling off your blanket? You're my son, what part of your body haven't I seen before?"

Alright, stop nagging and get up!

After she finished speaking, she saw that Li Dong looked angry and was glaring at her.

Li Nuansi found it amusing, but she knew he was suppressing his anger, so she didn't say anything more and turned to leave.

Li Dong breathed a sigh of relief once he was sure Li Nuansi had closed the door.

He rubbed his tired eyes, turned around, and hid the novel under his pillow on top of the cabinet.

He stepped back a few paces and looked around.

Only after confirming that Li Nuansi was too tall to notice did he turn around, put on his clothes, and go out.

Aojiaping.

Wang Pandi's farce did not affect Liang Yili's business; on the contrary, it accelerated the sales of her products.

As the goods on the oxcart dwindled, Liang Yili told Liang Ruotao to continue selling the goods.

He stood on the oxcart, holding a gong and drum.

While banging on the door, they shouted, "Collecting recyclables! Recycling recyclables! Old books, waste paper, plastic bottles..."

Upon hearing this, the women who were picking through their belongings in front of the oxcart asked curiously, "You collect scrap? You collect scrap too?"

"Yes! But for now, we only accept plastic bottles and old cardboard boxes."

"Auntie, if you have any scraps, you can bring them to sell to us!" Liang Ruotao said gently.

The woman rolled her eyes twice and asked, "What's the price you pay for scrap metal here?"

“塑料瓶1毛8，旧书1毛3，旧纸壳7毛。”

As Liang Yili had instructed her beforehand, Liang Ruotao quoted half of the recycling price offered by the scrap yard.

The woman frowned slightly: "Why is your price so low? The other scrap collectors didn't offer this price."

Liang Ruotao's mouth opened slightly, clearly stunned.

Liang Yili smiled and said, "Auntie, you said it yourself, that was before."

Have you noticed that no one has come down to collect recyclables for several months?

The scrap metal market has been terrible lately, and the recycling prices offered by the authorities are getting lower and lower. I only earn the delivery fee after making a trip.

But the weather is so hot now, it's so tiring to go out!

If you can't even afford water with the money you earn, who would want to do it?

If we weren't selling things here and planning to drive back empty, taking whatever we could, we wouldn't have bothered with all this trouble!

The woman looked suspicious.

Just as Liang Yili said, no one has come down to collect recyclables for several months.

The junk piled up in my own yard is something I can't bear to throw away, but I can't sell it either.

Piled up in the yard, they not only take up space, but also attract mosquitoes.

My daughter-in-law just gave birth to a baby and has complained more than once about how dirty and messy the house is, fearing that the baby will get sick.

The woman gritted her teeth: "You really collect scrap?"

"Honest and fair dealing! Payment will be settled in person!"

If we really want to settle the payment in person, I'd be willing to give a discount, but...

The woman hesitated as she looked at the delicate faces of Liang Yili and her sister, and Hua Yuansheng's faded clothes, seemingly assessing in her mind whether they could afford to pay.

Liang Yili laughed: "Auntie, didn't you just see? I just sold a lot of socks and towels. If you really don't have any money, I can just give you the money!"

Upon hearing this, the woman agreed and struggled again: "Higher price! I'll sell it to you if the price is higher!"

As soon as she finished speaking, perhaps realizing she had little bargaining power on her own, the woman quickly added:

"If you raise the price again, I'll help you call more people from the village!"

The person next to her chimed in, "Yes, we all have a lot of scrap at home. Young lady, how about raising the price a bit more?"

Liang Yili's long eyelashes obscured the gleam in her eyes, and she bit her lip, looking quite troubled.

Liang Ruotao's eyes flickered a few times before she said, "Pears, we can't lower the price any further!"

We're already not making a profit at this price; any lower and we'd be doing all the work for free.

Upon hearing this, the woman became even more enthusiastic, grabbing Liang Yili's hand and urging her:

"Don't worry, little girl, I won't let you work for nothing. I'll go and call someone for you! I know which family has a lot of recyclables!"

"Yes! We can all help you call for help!"

Seeing that Liang Yili seemed to be persuaded, Liang Ruotao said sternly, "Lizi!"

Liang Yili pleaded, "Sister~"

Liang Ruotao frowned and looked at everyone with a troubled expression. After a few seconds, seemingly unable to resist their pleas, she let out a long sigh:

"Alright! But the buyback price really can't go any lower."

We need to eat too, right? If we don't make money, who will come next time? But..."

"But what?" the woman asked impatiently.

Liang Ruotao looked at the few remaining socks on the oxcart and said:

"Our small business relies entirely on the help of our fellow villagers."

You're so kind to help us call for help, we can't let you work for nothing.

We've got a few pairs of socks left, so we're not going to sell them.

"If any of you can get five households to come, and each household produces at least ten pounds of recyclables, we'll give you a pair of socks, okay?"

A thoughtful look flashed across Liang Yili's eyes as she spoke:

"Sister, how about we collect the scrap metal and stuff from these aunties' houses too?"

The woman pressed further, "What's the price of scrap metal?"

“废铁3毛，废铜2块3，铝线1块1。”

Liang Ruotao glanced at Liang Yili without saying a word: "Okay!"

He turned and grabbed the woman's hand, whispering, "Auntie, this is something only a few of us know about. Please don't tell anyone else!"

Scrap metal is expensive, so we weren't originally planning to collect it...

And the socks, all of them were meant to be sold for money...

Logically speaking, if we took a gong and drum and went around the village shouting, we could attract quite a few people.

But since you're so kind, Auntie, we're happy to do you a favor.

Looking at Liang Ruotao's sweet expression that said, "I won't talk to anyone else, but I'll be nice to you, Auntie," the woman felt extremely warm inside.

She repeatedly assured them, "Okay, okay, Auntie knows! You wait here, Auntie will go home and get the recyclables!"

The others nodded vigorously: "We won't say, we won't say!"

Liang Yili laughed: "This is a secret between us!"

Secretly, the relationship between Liang Yili and her sisters and the other women was quickly strengthened.

Hua Yuansheng looked at his two granddaughters, who had seemed rather strange since earlier.

He glanced again at the women's cheerful departing figures, and a look of sudden realization flashed across his honest and simple face.