Becoming the Villain's Discarded Wife
Chapter 104: Seeking Refuge

Chapter 104: Chapter 104: Seeking Refuge

Early the next morning, Shen Miaomiao noticed that Su Tao’s complexion was rather off.

"Su Tao, were you up all night?"

Hearing Shen Miaomiao’s words, Aunt Guihua also glanced at Su Tao. Seeing the dark circles under her eyes, she asked with concern, "What’s the matter? Couldn’t sleep well because it was too hot?"

"No, it’s nothing. I just had a nightmare last night."

Feeling their stares, Su Tao gave a forced laugh and quickly finished the porridge in her bowl before returning to her room.

She had been pondering about the purpose of the bracelet all night since she came down from East Mountain yesterday.

But she found nothing throughout the whole night.

Seeing Su Tao in such a hurry, Shen Miaomiao and Aunt Guihua shared a glance. They couldn’t help but feel that she was hiding something from everyone.

Considering Su Tao was a stranger and had paid to stay, Aunt Guihua refrained from asking any further questions.

After breakfast, Shen Miaomiao went to Su Tao’s room and called out, "Su Tao, do you want to join us to cool down at East Mountain?"

"I won’t go today, you guys go ahead."

With the bracelet in her hand, Su Tao had no intention to go to East Mountain.

All she thought about was figuring out the use of this treasure.

Hearing her refusal, Shen Miaomiao didn’t question further. After all, if Su Tao didn’t come, she would have more time to play with Sister Nanzhi!

Packing up their dry food, the whole group, along with the children, headed towards East Mountain.

The morning was hotter than yesterday. Concerned about the shortage of water at home, everyone remembered to bring a wooden bucket before leaving.

From a distance, Nanzhi saw Shen Miaomiao and the others coming and hurriedly waved hello.

"Sister Nanzhi."

"Didn’t Su Tao come with you?"

Seeing no hostess following the young girl, Nanzhi felt a bit relieved.

After all, Su Tao was a female host. As a cannon fodder character herself, she would inevitably feel uneasy around her.

"She said she had a nightmare last night and doesn’t feel well today, so she didn’t want to come."

"I see." Nanzhi nodded, glad she didn’t need to avoid Su Tao anymore.

The jubilant group ascended the mountain, only to be dumbfounded when they reached for their buckets to fetch water.

The spring, which was full yesterday, was now left with just a thin layer at the bottom.

"What happened?"

A woman spoke first. She had also fetched water from the spring yesterday, and the water had been overflowing the spring all the time!

The pool was full!

How come there was nothing today?

"Could it be... is the water gone?"

Aunt Guihua’s words set everyone off in a flutter of worry.

The river at the end of the village had dried up completely long ago!

Everyone had been relying on the mountain spring for water these days. If the spring stopped supplying, how would the villagers live?

Nanzhi, looking at the thin layer of water left, was also puzzled.

How could the groundwater dry up suddenly in just one day?

Over at Su Tao’s side, the bracelet still didn’t react even after she had gone through the blood-bonding process.

Just when she was about to give up, a sudden thought struck her.

Could this be a space bracelet?

After all, didn’t the female leads in novels all have some sort of space?

Sure enough, when she saw the twenty-cubic meter space, Su Tao felt she had discovered the truth.

"System, didn’t you say this was a Heaven and Earth Spiritual Treasure? Why does it only have a space and only twenty cubic meters at that?"

The system was equally puzzled, but offered a cryptic explanation, [Host, perhaps the bracelet isn’t your destined item, you can only use it as a space bracelet.]

The system’s words were blunt, and Su Tao’s face darkened slightly, but she didn’t argue further.

She put the bracelet on her wrist, and then began to pack up to leave.

[Host, are you leaving?]

"What else?" Su Tao answered back.

Since opening the Mall requires more luck, she will leave here and go to where there are more people. Sooner or later, she will become the female lead of this world.

Liu Dame and her group headed straight to Li Zheng’s house after coming down the mountain.

They had to tell him about the lack of water on the mountain. Everyone needed to think of a solution together.

"Mom, why are Grandma Liu and the others in such a hurry?" Shen Zhiyu looked at them hastily heading towards the village entrance, feeling strange.

Why wouldn’t they go home to have dinner this late?

"Zhiyu, be a good boy, let’s go home first." Nanzhi glanced at the crowd and then took Zhiyu home.

"Mom, I want to eat fragrant rice porridge!"

Zhiyu was holding a small wooden sword and said happily.

"Okay, we’ll have fragrant rice porridge tonight!" Nanzhi brushed against the little guy’s nose, and also felt a bit worried in her heart.

She watched Zhiyu go play in the main room, before heading towards the backyard.

She was afraid that there wouldn’t be any water in the well.

People can’t live without food or water.

If the backyard well was in the same state as the spring on East Mountain, suddenly dried up, she and Zhiyu would be doomed.

Upon reaching the well in the backyard and seeing that it still held less than a third of its water, Nanzhi was relieved.

At least it proved there was some water left at home.

Glancing at the big wooden basin next to her, Nanzhi remembered that it had been several days since she had added any water for the river clam.

But surprisingly, when she went to check, the basin was filled to the brim.

Nanzhi was taken aback. There shouldn’t have been an error in her memory – it had been almost two weeks since she last added water.

The clam in the wooden basin was feeling aggrieved inside.

What was wrong with this woman?

If it wasn’t for its own distinct abilities, it might have died of thirst by now!

"As long as everything is fine." Nanzhi glanced at the clam, then went to gather some eggs and headed to the kitchen.

No matter what, thankfully they still had drinking water at home.

Everyone in the Lin family of Stone Village was huddled together.

"Now, what should we do?" Lin’s father held an empty dry tobacco pipe with a distressed expression on his face.

There was only one bucket of water left at home, and following the villagers to search for water on the mountains in the past days yielded nothing.

"Dad, let’s go to my younger sister’s place." Sun Cui, who was holding her son, spoke up after being quiet for a while.

"How can we do that?! It’s already difficult for her with Zhiyu, if we go over too, won’t we be making trouble?" Before anyone else could answer, Lin’s mother was the first to speak.

Sun Cui wiped the corners of her eyes, and said softly, "Then, let Maomao go to my younger sister’s place. I, I will exchange it for food..."

Watching her relative in such a state, Chen Qiulan gently touched her own son, Doudou’s face.

She had the same idea, even if it meant sending Doudou to her younger sister’s house, it was worth it!

Watching his wife and son, Lin Yicheng finally clenched his teeth and said: "Dad, Mom, it’s almost September, and the weather is still so hot. We can’t just perish! My younger sister said that if we ran out of water at home, we can all go to Lihua Village to find her."

Once Lin Yicheng finished speaking, the room fell silent.

They had all hoped that the autumn harvest would bring new grain but all they received from the fields was a pile of weeds.

Now the village was short of water. They were on the verge of running out of water at home. Would they really just give up on their chance of survival?

"There are eight people in our family. If we go, how will my daughter manage?"

Lin’s mother left only these words and said no more.

Every village feared being rushed by people from other villages during famine years.

If they went, how would their daughter manage in Lihua Village?

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