Chapter 16: Even All My Possessions Are Very Little
Lu Zhiyin sat on the bed for a long time, and before she knew it, the sky had darkened, and the room had become very dim. The wardrobe and mirror were no longer clear, and only their general outlines could be seen.
Lu Zhiyin came back to her senses. The white-haired girl supported herself with her arms and slowly moved to the edge of the bed, stretching out her arm to turn on the bedroom light.
The pure white light shone through the lampshade on the ceiling, bringing the bedroom back into the embrace of light.
After turning on the light, Lu Zhiyin slowly moved to the wheelchair and climbed into it with much effort.
During this process, she didn’t do anything foolish like pushing the wheelchair away or falling to the ground. It was hard to say whether she was lucky or smart.
“Hoo… Regardless, let’s eat first…”
Lu Zhiyin touched her stomach. She was really hungry. Although Leng Qing Qiu had treated her to a meal at noon, she had only eaten half of it, which was not enough to fill her stomach.
Muttering to herself, Lu Zhiyin left the bedroom, intending to go to the kitchen to see if there was anything to eat.
Perhaps, as she was talking to herself, she had already figured out how to reply to Leng Qing Qiu.
She needed money. Although harming people with Leng Qing Qiu would weigh on her conscience, she couldn’t fill her stomach with air, could she?
“It’s all Qin An and God’s fault.”
Lu Zhiyin pursed her lips, went to the kitchen, and turned on the kitchen light.
What greeted her eyes was a clean cabinet, a stove facing the window, and the gas tank beneath the stove.
To her right was the washstand, an old washing machine, and a small two-tiered refrigerator.
Opening the refrigerator door, she saw a freezer compartment with only a few lonely sausages, and a refrigerated compartment containing two cabbages.
“…”
Looking at the somewhat empty refrigerator, Lu Zhiyin didn’t know what to say. She thought that after she had money, she would definitely fill the refrigerator with delicious food.
Closing the refrigerator door, Lu Zhiyin went to the cabinet again and opened the cabinet doors one by one. All she saw were stacks of washed bowls and half a bag of rice.
Above the cabinet, Lu Zhiyin opened the rice cooker.
“Fortunately… there’s still some food.”
In the rice cooker was half a pot of porridge, and no one knew how long it had been there.
Perhaps it was from the day before Lu Zhiyin came to this world? Who knows.
Taking a bowl from the cabinet, Lu Zhiyin scooped a large bowl of rice from the rice cooker. She sniffed it carefully and, after confirming there was no peculiar smell, began to eat.
The plain white rice, which had no taste, was a bit thick because it had been left for a while. However, it was indeed still edible.
After eating one bowl, Lu Zhiyin scooped another one until she had finished the remaining half of the porridge in the rice cooker. Only then did she finally feel full.
Handing the inner pot of the rice cooker and the used bowl, Lu Zhiyin cleaned them up, turned off the kitchen light, and left the kitchen.
She returned to the bedroom, opened the wardrobe, and saw school uniforms of the same style. Besides the school uniforms, there were only some private replacement clothes, as well as shirts and underpants. She didn’t see any skirts or stockings in the wardrobe. For Lu Zhiyin, perhaps this was a good thing?
Having found nothing in the wardrobe, she closed the wardrobe door and started rummaging through the bedside cabinet. Finally, she found a black old wallet.
Opening the wallet, she saw her ID card inside.
“18 years old, birthday is July 12th.”
She briefly confirmed the information in the wallet, which was the same as the game settings in her memory.
“Hoo…”
Lu Zhiyin let out a sigh and thought, this is the main event.
She opened the zippers of every compartment of the wallet, then held the wallet opening downwards and shook it.
Banknotes and coins fell onto the bed one by one.
“Fifty cents… one dollar and fifty cents, six dollars and fifty cents… two hundred and thirty-five dollars… two hundred and eighty-three dollars and fifty cents.”
She counted all the money bit by bit, and then recounted it several times. Finally, Lu Zhiyin confirmed her entire fortune.
In total, there were 283 yuan and 50 cents. The largest denomination of banknote was a hundred-yuan bill, but it was the only banknote of such a large denomination. Most of them were five or ten yuan bills, with an occasional twenty-yuan bill. Besides banknotes, there were more than a dozen one-yuan coins and three fifty-cent coins in the wallet.
The money together felt a bit heavy, although most of the weight came from the coins.
“…”
Staring blankly at her entire fortune on the bed, Lu Zhiyin was a little dazed.
It was true, she was poor…
In her previous life, two hundred yuan was just her weekly food expenses, but now, her entire fortune was less than three hundred yuan.
Would this money be enough for her to live for two weeks? If she spent it sparingly, maybe it would be enough, but Lu Zhiyin still felt she was very poor.
Perhaps there was some money on that phone, but unfortunately, she could no longer get that phone.
After putting the money away, Lu Zhiyin only kept thirty-three yuan and fifty cents on her. This would be her food money for tomorrow and the day after. If she spent it sparingly and went hungry for a few more meals, perhaps it would last longer? Lu Zhiyin was uncertain.
She carefully put the wallet back into the bedside cabinet and returned to the living room. She turned on the TV.
Before she knew it, it was already seven o’clock in the evening.
Lu Zhiyin remembered what Leng Qing Qiu had said. She said she would come to find her tonight, but she didn’t say exactly when.
Afraid of using too much electricity, Lu Zhiyin turned off the TV as soon as she knew the time.
The light in the living room was not turned on either. Lu Zhiyin could see things in the living room only by the light spilling from the bedroom.
She was truly afraid now and dared not spend even a penny, although she knew that the electricity for turning on the lights wouldn’t cost much.
Sitting at the wooden table, Lu Zhiyin quietly looked at the white wall in the bedroom through the open bedroom door.
Her mood was a little anxious.
Thinking about going out to kill people with Leng Qing Qiu soon, her heart couldn’t stop trembling.
She was afraid, she dared not, dared not kill.
“I am absolutely, absolutely a coward…”
Muttering to herself, Lu Zhiyin clenched her fists.
She was afraid to kill, afraid to commit crimes, but even more afraid of starving to death.
Looking at the white wall, Lu Zhiyin recalled the blood she saw yesterday and the bags Leng Qing Qiu used to put bodies in.
Her mind began to conjure up images of her strangling someone’s neck and stabbing a knife into their body.
However, this could only be an imagination.
After a while, she managed to dispel the fear in her heart. Lu Zhiyin began to worry about Leng Qing Qiu again.
Would she forget what she said? Would she not come to find her? Even if she really killed with her, would she break her promise and not give her the reward?
Hesitant and indecisive, Lu Zhiyin was such a person.
However, her doubts were quickly dispelled.
“Zhiyin, Zhiyin, open the door.”
Outside the door, a familiar voice sounded. It was Leng Qing Qiu’s voice.
Lu Zhiyin scrambled to maneuver the wheelchair to the door, turned the doorknob, and opened it.
