latelenovela Chapter 158 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 1
Chapter 158 The Rural Girl in "Metamorphosis" 1
When Liu Yuxi regained consciousness, she felt something was wrong with the touch beside her. She didn't rush to open her eyes, but instead used her mental energy to scan her surroundings.
This is a small courtyard in the countryside. The house has a layout reminiscent of the 1980s and 90s, with three brick and tile rooms in the main house, two side rooms, a kitchen, and a storage room.
The front yard is small, about 80 square meters, and has a well. The back yard is larger, with a chicken coop, some vegetables, potatoes, and corn planted there. There is a simple toilet in the northwest corner.
There are three rooms. The middle room is the main room, and the left and right rooms are bedrooms. Liu Yuxi is lying in the west room, and an old lady is lying in the east room. There is not much furniture in the rooms except for beds, wardrobes, a large dining table in the living room, and a few long benches.
Is this a rural area from the 1980s or 90s? Where are the adults at home? Liu Yuxi mentally summoned Xiao 6 to transmit the original owner's memories.
After receiving the memories, Liu Yuxi felt a little resentful. She didn't usually have such emotions, but the original owner's experiences were just too infuriating.
The original owner was born in 2006, and it is now 2015. The original owner is 9 years old. This is a village at the foot of Hengshan Mountain in northern Hebei Province.
The original owner's family consisted of four people. When her parents were still alive, they worked as migrant workers on construction sites and only came back once a year for the Spring Festival. However, her grandmother took care of her, and her parents would leave her a year's worth of living expenses before they left each year, so they lived a decent life.
Two years ago, the couple died in an accident at the construction site. The villagers didn't understand the law, or rather, no one was willing to offend the foreman for the sake of the grandmother and granddaughter, since they still had to make a living under the foreman.
Anyway, someone later brought the couple's ashes and 30,000 yuan. She became an orphan.
After the funerals of her parents were over, only the grandmother and grandson remained in the house. The grandmother was old and had lost her son in her old age, so her health collapsed immediately.
People in rural areas usually endure illnesses on their own rather than go to the hospital and spend money. After all, the family has no income now, and the future of the grandmother and granddaughter is uncertain. Her grandmother dares not spend another penny.
The village applied for a minimum living allowance for the grandmother and granddaughter, but it was only 200 yuan a month. Her grandmother was old and she was young, so they couldn't grow many crops or raise large livestock like pigs.
The family's six mu of land was rented out to villagers to farm, and they could only harvest enough food to last them each year. Her grandmother would busy herself with the vegetable garden in the backyard every day and raise a few chickens. Sometimes, when there were extra vegetables and eggs, she would ask villagers to take them to town to sell for some money.
She went to school, and the school waived the textbook fees. Basically, the only thing that cost money was the school uniform. The two of them lived like this for two years.
Knowing that her family was struggling, the original owner studied very hard and took the initiative to do chores when she returned home. At such a young age, she was capable of handling all the work in the house and fields, fearing that her grandmother might overwork herself and fall ill, leaving her all alone.
Because the village is located deep in the mountains and there are no tourist attractions nearby, the village is very poor. In three days, a TV crew will be coming here.
The original owner didn't understand what the program crew did at the time. She only knew that after the program crew entered the village, they stayed at the village chief's house, and then the village chief brought the program crew to her house.
The village chief said that some city kids are born into good fortune but don't know it, so the program team arranged for those kids to come to the countryside to suffer. The selected families would receive three thousand yuan, but in exchange, the selected child would have to live with a child in the city for a month.
The village chief asked the original owner if she was willing to go. If she did, she would receive three thousand yuan. This amount of money was a considerable fortune for the original owner and her grandmother, so after discussing it, they agreed.
The original owner's grandmother signed the contract, pressed her fingerprint, and received 1500 yuan in advance. The original owner and his grandmother were very happy. They wanted to thoroughly clean the house, since the other party was going to stay for a month. Although the house was poor, it couldn't be messy.
However, the production team wouldn't allow it, saying they wanted to maintain a comparison, and even specially replaced the furniture with some more worn-out pieces. Although the original owner and her grandmother didn't quite understand, they knew that the old man was the one paying, so they didn't object.
When the show started, the original owner, carrying a schoolbag, boarded a plane, along with tender corn and potatoes that her grandmother had given her, and a bag of eggs, and went to Chengdu with the production crew.
At the airport, a middle-aged couple came to pick her up, bringing a bouquet of flowers. The original owner also gave the couple the things she had brought from home. The original owner did not see the disgust in the couple's eyes, but only the smiles they maintained in front of the camera.
The couple didn't take her home. Instead, they took her directly to the wholesale market and bought her several sets of clothes and shoes. The original owner kept saying that they were too expensive and that she didn't want them, saying that she had brought her own clothes. But the couple still bought her several sets of clothes and made her change into them right then and there.
She only realized later, when she grew up, that it was because they disliked her clothes and shoes. They even bought her a new schoolbag, and apart from her textbooks, stationery, and herself, none of her belongings were allowed into their house.
Even the potatoes, corn, and eggs she brought were left in the trunk and not brought into the house. As for her original clothes and schoolbag, she simply threw them away.
Before she came, her grandma gave her 200 yuan. Luckily, the money was in her pencil case, which was a reward from the school for her getting first place in her grade. It was still relatively new; otherwise, they probably would have replaced the pencil case too.
The first thing I did when I got home was to take her to take a bath and wash her hair. The more time passed, the more uneasy the original owner became. When we ate, the original owner's bowls and chopsticks were specially prepared with cartoon characters.
Although the "parents" arranged by the program team were very enthusiastic, the longer it went on, the more the original owner felt that they didn't seem to like her.
The original owner was originally quiet, but later she spoke less and less. As a result, when the program aired, it was said that due to family reasons, the original owner was withdrawn and did not know how to be polite.
After the cameras were turned off at night (this was a live broadcast), the couple told her not to leave her room, which also had a toilet, and not to walk around the house or touch anything unnecessarily.
After the original owner nodded in agreement, she stayed in her room every day after going to school, only coming out when they called her for dinner.
After the show aired, the couple added a lot of drama, giving the impression that they wanted to pamper the original owner like a little princess, and the original owner just accepted it.
Viewers felt that the show's producers had introduced the original owner as someone who was diligent and capable at home, so how come she became a completely different person as soon as she arrived in the city? Was it because her identity changed too quickly? Or did the original owner not do any housework at home? In short, there were no positive discussions about the original owner.