A Snake Transmigrated as a Scum A - Chapter 49

Arriving in front of the car, Li Yingxue opened the trunk, and Fu Man handed her the umbrella, leaned in, and took out the luggage.

Li Yingxue quietly watched her movements, noticing the rain drifting into the umbrella, threatening to wet the woman’s clothes behind her. Li Yingxue stared blankly through her sunglasses for a few seconds, and by the time she came to her senses, the umbrella had already shifted slightly, shielding her from the light rain.

After Fu Man took out the suitcase, she placed it on the ground, closed the trunk lid, glanced at the distant misty mountains, and the raindrops in front of them played a melody. A slender, white wrist appeared in her line of sight.

It was Li Yingxue’s hand holding the umbrella, slender and long.

Fu Man’s gaze followed her wrist upwards, and her eyes fell on her red lips, cold yet fiery like flames.

Because she was wearing sunglasses, she couldn’t see her emotions being revealed. Fu Man could only turn and look into the distance, “Do you ever feel like it’s just the two of us left in the world?”

Especially in this misty rain, it seems as if everything in the world has disappeared, leaving only the person beside her.

Li Yingxue looked up at her calm face, following her gaze. The misty rainy day either made people uncomfortable or overly sentimental.

A sound of “mm” came from her throat, agreeing with her words.

She even felt like she was the only person left in the world.

Alone and solitary.

Fu Man felt a bit happy that someone could empathize with her feelings, smiled, and said, “Right?”

“Let’s go back.” Fu Man pulled up the handle and walked back.

“Okay.”

On the road, passing by a sheep pen, one by one, the little lambs were taking shelter from the rain in the pen.

Fu Man curiously glanced over, and with that one glance, she suddenly grabbed Li Yingxue’s hand tightly, “That sheep in the corner is so beautiful, just like you.”

“……”

Li Yingxue glanced around, looking at all the sheep before finally turning to the one in the corner. Its appearance was indeed much more striking than the others, clean and tidy, with its fur gleaming with an exceptionally smooth luster.

“You’re so boring.”

“……” Fu Man was momentarily taken aback, then continued walking alongside her, saying as they walked, “I’m complimenting you.”

Li Yingxue: “No need.”

“……”

Back at the inn, the inn was very small, so small that the wooden stairs could only accommodate one person at a time. The sound of shoes echoing on the steps could be heard. Fu Man carried her suitcase upstairs, with Li Yingxue following behind her, looking for the room number to enter. Grandma was by the window watching the rain.

She heard an echo and turned around: “You guys are back?”

The kind voice is filled with love.

Li Yingxue felt a surge of emotions, nodding while changing her shoes: “Right.”

Grandma saw that they were all soaked and, feeling sorry for them, urged, “You all go change your clothes quickly, don’t catch a cold.”

“Grandma, don’t worry, we’re going to take a shower right now.”

Fu Man squatted on the ground, opened the suitcase, took out a set of clean clothes, and handed them to Li Yingxue, saying, “You go wash up first.”

Li Yingxue took it, cleared her throat with a sound, turned around with the clothes, and soon the warm yellow light and the gentle sound of water could be heard from inside the bathroom.

Fu Man sat on the sofa, poured a glass of water, and casually glanced at the door, asking her grandma, “Grandma, would you like some water?”

“Pour me a glass, will you?” Grandma said with a smile.

Fu Man poured her a cup and handed it over, saying, “Be careful, it’s hot.”

Grandma elegantly leaned against the back of the chair, holding a cup of water in her hand: “Xiao Man, what do you think of our Yingxue?”

“She’s a pretty good person.” Fu Man took off her coat and draped it over the armrest of the sofa.

“Where is good?”

Fu Man paused and said, “Good-hearted.”

Grandma asked again, “Beside this?”

Fu Man: “Pretty clever.”

The little spells taught can be learned after one or two tries.

“Is there more?”

Fu Man noticed that Grandma’s question seemed a bit off, and realized that Grandma might be asking on behalf of Li Yingxue. Anyway, it would probably end up reaching Li Yingxue’s ears eventually.

“She’s a bit aloof and doesn’t really like to interact with people.”

But the situation has improved recently, perhaps because she explained to her that she doesn’t see her as a tool for reproduction, so Li Yingxue’s attitude towards her has softened a bit.

“She wasn’t like this before,” Grandma said.

“When?” Fu Man suddenly became interested.

Grandma sighed, “When she was studying, her temperament wasn’t actually dull. Once she said she made a good friend, and that friend treated her very well, often picking her up and dropping her off from school.”

“Picking her up and dropping her off from school?” For some reason, Fu Man suddenly recalled that memory fragment, where there was Min Tian, and Li Yingxue was clinging to her neck out of fear.

Thinking of this scene, Fu Man’s eyes unconsciously darkened.

“Is that friend named Min Tian?”

Grandma recalled, “I think her name was Tian, but later they drifted apart for some reason. Since then, Yingxue’s temperament has become gloomy, and because of her parents, she increasingly doesn’t want to connect with people. Now she doesn’t have a single friend.”

Fu Man cast a glance at the bathroom, her thoughts complicated.

“Grandma, don’t worry, I will take good care of her.”

Just as she said this, the bathroom door opened, and Li Yingxue came out with a towel, drying her hair. Hearing the words “I will take good care of her,” her eyes showed no emotion.

Coming up to them, Li Yingxue directly sat down and said, “It’s your turn to wash up.”

Fu Man took the clothes inside.

Li Yingxue was drying her wet hair, and Grandma, with her hands tucked in, asked, “Yingxue, how is Xiao Man treating you?”

The hairdryer made a buzzing sound, and Li Yingxue turned it off, thought for a moment, and said, “She treats me… quite well.”

From the current perspective.

Besides occasionally scaring her.

“Are there any places that aren’t good for you?”

“Not yet.”

Grandma took her hand and gently patted it, “Grandma thinks she’s quite nice too. Look, others don’t even want to bring an old woman like me when they go out to travel, thinking it’s a hassle and it affects their mood. But Xiao Man is different. She insisted on bringing me along, taking care of everything herself, and she doesn’t discriminate against me just because I’m a Beta old woman. I was worried before that your dad would introduce you to a terrible partner just for money,

“Grandma, this has nothing to do with Dad.” Li Yingxue reminded her, if she didn’t know that the current Fu Man wasn’t the original Fu Man, she might have thought her dad wasn’t that bad.

But the experiences of the past life are vividly remembered, and he never considered his daughter’s feelings at all.

“Alright, I’ll listen to you.” Grandma sighed, then asked, “When are you two going to set the wedding date?”

“……” Li Yingxue was at a loss for words, feeling quite troubled, “This matter won’t be resolved so quickly.”

Not even at all.

Because in at most six months, that woman will return to become an immortal, she will transform into an immortal to protect her people.

“Has Xiao Man come out?” Grandma, seeing Fu Man come out, couldn’t help but smile, “Come over and sit.”

“Grandma, aren’t you going to take a shower?” Fu Man placed the towel she used to dry her hair on the sofa, then turned the wheelchair around and said, “Come on, let’s give Grandma a bath.”

Li Yingxue stared at Fu Man’s actions, taking a long time to come to her senses. It wasn’t until Fu Man called her to bring over her grandma’s clothes that she finally snapped out of it.

Is she serious?

Would she really bathe an elderly person who can’t walk and with whom she has no blood relation without any complaints?

Li Yingxue took the clothes and walked over, standing at the door, hesitantly looking inside. She saw Fu Man taking off her grandma’s clothes, gently lifting the skin that had already borne many years of marks, and placing it on a stool without any hint of disdain or disgust.

After applying the foam, Fu Man rolled up her sleeves and started washing her grandma. At first, her grandma was a bit uncomfortable, but later she got used to it and didn’t hesitate anymore.

“Xiao Man, how did you come up with the idea of giving me a bath?” Grandma stared at her.

Fu Man smiled and said, “It was I who brought you here, so naturally, I will take care of everything for you.”

“Then, will you dislike me, this old woman?”

“It’s just a shell, Grandma, you don’t need to worry too much about it.”

Although she usually does have a thing for looks and loves beauty a bit more, she views natural aging equally.

Grandma looked at her with satisfaction, then glanced at Li Yingxue standing at the door, as if to say she hadn’t misjudged her.

After Fu Man rinsed her off, she asked Li Yingxue to bring over a large towel, dried her off, and then helped her grandma get dressed.

Finally, she carried grandma to the wheelchair and pushed her out.

Li Yingxue’s gaze followed her all the way, from disbelief to a gradually warming heart.

After dinner, the three of them gathered around the small coffee table to play cards.

After understanding the specific rules, Fu Man still played ridiculously poorly.

But she also has a competitive spirit. From a certain round onwards, she won every single game, consistently defeating her opponents in every round.

Li Yingxue sat on the sofa with her legs bent, her red lips tightly pressed together. As she hesitated whether to play the K 4, Fu Man raised an eyebrow and directly said, “Grandma doesn’t have anything bigger than K 4. Just use it and blow her up.”

Grandma: “……How did you know she was going to play K 4?”

Fu Man’s face didn’t flush, and her heart didn’t race: “I guessed.”

Li Yingxue glanced at her fingers, which were resting on the K 4, and all her cards were facing away from Fu Man. From a normal angle, it was impossible for her to guess which card she was going to play.

Unless she can “see” her own cards.

Li Yingxue vaguely guessed why she knew what card she was going to play, shot her a glare, switched to playing a low card, and said coldly, “A 3.”

Fu Man looked at that A 3, and she seems unhappy: “Why are you…”

Li Yingxue: “She is my grandma.”

In other words, she is trying to play the family card.

Fu Man frowned tightly, played a few rounds, and then didn’t want to play anymore.

“Grandma, I’ll carry you to bed, stop playing.”

After settling grandma in, there was only one bed left in the room.

Fu Man and Li Yingxue were both lying on top, perhaps because there were no adults at home, the two were a bit close to each other.

Fu Man smelled the dampness in her hair, “Is your hair still wet?”

“Done.” Li Yingxue turned around, facing away from her.

“I’ll check.” Fu Man raised her right hand, ran it through her hair roots, and rubbed her scalp. “Still wet.”

“Let’s leave it at that.” Li Yingxue didn’t want to get up again, nor did she want to disturb anyone else.

But the next second, the roots of her hair suddenly became dry. She hesitantly touched them and found they were completely dry.

“Alright, go to sleep.”

Li Yingxue covered herself with the blanket and didn’t say anything. The woman’s voice came from behind her, saying, “Li Yingxue, Grandma told me that you hardly have any friends.”

Li Yingxue’s whole body stiffened, her brows furrowing tightly as she turned around, lifting her eyelids to look at the woman lying there, waiting for her to continue.

“If you want, I can be your friend for half a year.”

Li Yingxue’s brows and eyes turned cold: “Are you pitying me?”

Fu Man opened her mouth to explain, but saw Li Yingxue turn her back, not wanting to deal with her anymore.

Fu Man noticed that she might be slightly angry and, feeling frustrated, leaned in. “That’s not what I meant. If you don’t want me to be your friend, I can be your sister instead.”

“Stop pitying me; I’d rather we just be strangers.”

As soon as these words were spoken, there was immediately no sound behind her. Li Yingxue opened her mouth, wanting to say something to remedy the situation, but she closed it again at the last moment.

The sound of someone turning over came from behind, and it was clear that the woman behind had been hurt by those words.

Li Yingxue didn’t move; she just clenched the corner of the blanket tightly, staring unblinkingly into the night until her eyes felt dry and painful, and then she closed them.