The Princess's Deadly Daily Life

An old lady suddenly appeared, which startled Li Xi.

The old lady stared at Li Xiying blankly, her eyes full of tears. Her sunken eye sockets were red and swollen, as if she had been crying for a long time.

Li Xiying thought she had disturbed her, so she was about to apologize and leave, but she couldn't control her trembling and grabbed Xiying's hands, crying excitedly: "Shan'er, it's Shan'er! Child, you're back, come in quickly."

The old lady's hair was already covered with sparse white hair, and she was hunched over. Her legs and feet were still shaking when she walked. She must have reached her eighties.

Li Xi was dragged into the house by the old lady without knowing why. She saw that the old lady, who had been energetic just now, suddenly became scared and trembled, "Shan'er, your grandfather will be back soon. You'd better hide, hide quickly."

"You've made a mistake..." Li Xiying explained, looking at her anxious and panicked expression.

"Hide here, Shan'er, hide quickly!"

Li Xiying was pushed into the inner room by the old lady. She didn't dare to avoid her, fearing that she would fall down due to the empty push, so she supported her as best she could.

"Grandma, can you tell me why I have to hide?" Li Xiying asked tentatively.

She looked so startled, perhaps she was suffering from some disease, or maybe something had stimulated her to this point.

Shan'er must be her relative.

"Silly child, if you don't hide, your grandfather will sell you again." The old lady's tears kept pouring out like a river bursting its dam.

"I... was sold by my grandpa?" Li Xiying repeated her words in disbelief. If her grandma wasn't so heartbroken, she would never have believed it.

Is there really someone in this world who, as the book says, buys and sells his own daughter? What kind of person would have such a vicious heart!

Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs, and there doesn't seem to be any famine here.

She thought that all parents in the world were like her grandfather, sometimes pretending to be strict, but loving their children in their hearts.

"Your grandfather is a useless man. It's fine that he has relied on women for his life, but once a woman dies, he actually wants to sell his daughter to a brothel to make a living! He is a beast, not worthy of being a human being!"

The old lady spoke fiercely, and even hated herself for giving birth to him.

"How did you escape back? My poor Shan'er, you've become thin and hungry." As she said this, the old lady touched Li Xi'er's face. Her skinny palms were icy cold as she stroked the "Shan'er" she was talking about.

Li Xiwei looked at the pitiful appearance of the old lady in front of her and had given up denying that she was Shan'er. She planned to take advantage of the time to hide from the rain to chat with the old lady for a while.

"Shanluo, my poor child, you have suffered a lot. Let me see the wounds on your body." The old lady asked Li Xiying to sit down, and she spoke to herself while tremblingly and carefully rolling up Li Xiying's sleeves.

Although there was no blemish on her fair skin, the old lady was immersed in her own world and insisted on getting medicine to apply to Li Xi. "Child, does it hurt?"

Only then did Li Xiying notice that the old lady's eyes were covered with a layer of light dark gray, and with her eyelids drooping, she didn't know whether she could see clearly.

But what is certain is that the old lady may be a little confused.

Perhaps he fell ill because he missed his granddaughter, or perhaps he was stimulated by the unfilial son she mentioned.

The old lady scribbled for a long time, then remembered something and hurriedly opened a shabby cupboard. There were two bowls of food in it. She confirmed several times before taking out a bowl and bringing it to her lips with a smile.

"Shan'er, are you hungry? I made this dish yesterday. I deliberately hid it from your grandfather, thinking that if you could escape back, you could eat the meal made by your grandmother right away."

The dish looked like a mess and it was hard to tell what it was. It also smelled pungent. Li Xixiao, who had never smelled rotten food, found it unbelievable and couldn't move her chopsticks after taking the bowl.

Seeing that she didn't move her chopsticks and looked at the cupboard with an awkward expression, the old lady reached out to close the cupboard and took a deep breath. "My Shan'er has always liked to eat this wild vegetable. You can eat it without worrying about me. There is only a little left in the bowl in the cupboard after three days of eating. Well, as people get older and their appetites get smaller, this is enough for a meal. Just eat this. Don't eat anything stale."

Li Xi was silent for a moment, then said, "Ah... Grandma, the food that was confiscated cannot be eaten."

Since the old lady treats her as her own granddaughter, it is not an exaggeration to call her grandmother.

"Your grandfather is useless. He can't earn enough to eat and drink. He lives from day to day. I am old and have no savings. Sometimes I can fill my stomach by digging wild vegetables. But your grandfather cooks fresh food every day these days. He is reluctant to throw away the leftovers when they become rotten. He won't eat them, and the one he bought them for won't eat them either. So I am the only one who eats them. It would be a pity to throw them away. Anyway, I don't have teeth, so I can't tell if they are rotten or not after swallowing them."

"The one you bought?" Li Xixiao frowned, shocked at the reason why she ate rotten food, and even more surprised by these few short words.

After selling his daughter to improve his life, he still had spare money to buy someone?

"Don't say anything, it's a sin." She sighed and took out a handkerchief from her pocket and stuffed it into Li Xi's arms, "Child, your damn grandfather will probably sell you again if he knows you're back. You should keep this and find a rich family to be a maid. It's better than staying here."

Li Xiying refused to accept it, as the things in the handkerchief might be her most valuable things.

What's more, her real granddaughter is probably still suffering at this moment.

Suddenly, hurried footsteps were heard outside the door. It was a middle-aged man with a voice as loud as a firecracker, complaining: "What a horrible weather!"

The sound had already reached outside the hall, while she and her grandmother were in the bedroom. She was like a wounded bird, and she began to tremble as she held Li Xiying's hand.

"Your grandpa is back, hide quickly!" The old lady took her to a cabinet, hurriedly pushed her into the cabinet, closed the door, and bolted it.

Li Xiying didn't know where the old lady suddenly got so much strength. A horizontal board of the cabinet had been broken and placed aside. The space inside was neither too big nor too small, just half a person's height, and there were only a few pieces of the old lady's clothes in it.

There was a tiny gap on the side of the cabinet, through which a ray of light came in. She looked at the handkerchief that the old lady hurriedly stuffed into her hand. She could clearly feel that there was something inside the handkerchief, and she could even feel the coolness through the fabric.

The old lady didn't go out, and a middle-aged man with a big belly walked into the house.

He searched back and forth. There was no place in the room where anyone could hide. The many wooden lanterns piled up in the corners and the broken cabinet behind her were all picked up by the old lady.

He searched everywhere in the bedding and under the bed, and suddenly in a rage he kicked the bed leg that was infested with insects. With a bang, the bed leg collapsed.

He turned a blind eye and pointed at the old lady standing in front of the cabinet, frowning and angrily saying, "Why are you standing here looking at me? Where's the young lady? You can't even keep an eye on a living person?"

The old lady was frightened by the sudden roar and the corners of her lips trembled in response. My mother staggered with stiff steps, found a crutch beside the cabinet, and barely stood up with the support of the crutch.