Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 995: Chapter 995: Fetching Water

If she remembered correctly, even by the 2010s, many rural areas around here were still within the poverty alleviation scope.

The place looks like it has beautiful mountains and clear waters, but many areas have deep valleys and ravines, barren land, severe water shortage, limited fields, where the main produce is potatoes and corn. The local housing often uses stacked stones, earth bricks for walls, and thatch tiles; the population is large.

Especially in this era.

The poverty in this place is not just slight.

It’s a pity Xiaoyu couldn’t understand Bai Xiao’s thoughts.

Even He Xin looked at Bai Xiao with disdain, thinking this girl only talks about what happened last night. Where’s that enthusiasm to jump off the car and help push it?

Once at someone else’s place, she starts acting high and mighty, buying a chicken, buying mushrooms, bamboo shoots.

Why don’t you throw a big feast?

Almost telling the Dean openly that his meal is not good enough, making future meals live up to this standard.

She’s simply embarrassing them at Ruiyin; it’s a shame he considered her a rival. This kind of rival is really embarrassing.

The three returned to the hospital, each with their thoughts.

In the lobby on the first floor, Dean Lv was consulting patients with another doctor.

Most of the patients here don’t have money, trading goods from baskets as exchanges.

Bai Xiao glanced at baskets sometimes with just a handful of wild vegetables, a few bamboo shoots, and then looked at the medicine Dean Lv gives away. noveldrama

She couldn’t help but shake her head.

If the hospital operates like this and is responsible for its own profits and losses, with Dean Lv like this, the hospital is bound to fail.

Dean Lv is a good man, but under the current market economy, operating a hospital like this won’t sustain.

As a hospital, you need to buy medicines, have various expenses, including machinery, water, electricity, and personnel costs.

Medicine wholesalers won’t accept a wild vegetable or a few bamboo shoots as payment.

Continuing like this really has a bleak future.

Previously you could rely on state subsidies to get by; now, with healthcare reforms inevitable, how will Dean Lv’s hospital survive?

The purchased items were placed in the kitchen.

Bai Xiao and He Xin returned to their room.

Since she bought the chicken and other things, He Xin’s face has been difficult. Last night, she was able to join with a pleasant face and some effort; even her attitude softened.

But today, obviously, she hasn’t spoken to her at all.

Both of them were tired and lay down to take a nap.

When Bai Xiao opened her eyes, it was already two in the afternoon, and from here, she could hear the bustling voices in the lobby downstairs. She had a feeling of not knowing where she was.

It seems to take her back to the feeling in Liupan Village.

A quiet and serene mountain village, with the sound of chickens, barking dogs, insects, and human voices, those incomprehensible dialects also seemed to become a kind of friendly native speech.

This is a life far from the bustling city, simple and pure, letting one’s body and mind quiet down, removing the impetuousness, starting to return to the primitive.

Bai Xiao’s movements made He Xin open her eyes. Seeing she woke her up, she felt quite sorry; there’s nothing she could do, this bamboo bed makes noise once it moves, like someone singing some emphasized opera.

"Doctor He, since you’re awake, let’s go find Doctor Zhang and the others, have a small meeting to unify our thoughts."

He Xin didn’t want to move, thinking of Bai Xiao’s nouveau riche behavior today, still feeling angry in her heart, she turned her head, stubbornly refusing to speak.

Bai Xiao laughed. Well, quite spirited indeed.

"Then I’m leaving. At that point, I’ll go with majority rule for voting. Once it’s passed, whatever opinions you have won’t matter!"

Going to fetch water to wash her face, fetching water here requires going downstairs to the courtyard well. Bai Xiao noticed in the morning that Xiaoyu went there to fetch water.

She grabbed a bucket and left.

He Xin was anxious upon seeing this.

Bai Xiao is sly and extravagant. If she takes advantage of her absence and votes on something she disagreed with, wouldn’t it be harmful to her?

She jumped up and closely followed Bai Xiao, only realizing she was tricked again when they reached the courtyard well.

Bai Xiao proves to be cunning indeed.

Bai Xiao dropped the bucket down the well, swung it forcefully, then raised her arm to haul up a bucket of water, slowly winding the well wheel, lifting the bucket and pouring it into another bucket.

The water level dropped.

She got only a bit more than half a bucket.

Bai Xiao reflected quietly; it seems she’s been living well for too long, getting rusty with these farming tasks.

He Xin, however, was intrigued, immediately taking over, insisting on fetching a bucket of water.

Of course, Bai Xiao couldn’t stop her, so she quickly handed the bucket to her.

Intending to give some hands-on guidance, but He Xin abruptly squeezed her aside with disdain.

Bai Xiao smiled, noting the childishness. Suddenly she felt like an adult dealing with a child throwing a tantrum.

He Xin dropped the bucket splash into the well, upon hearing the sound, Bai Xiao wanted to cover her face.

Thinking that a bucket must be an expense, doing it this way, I guess the bucket could be scrapped in two days.

He Xin tried recalling Bai Xiao’s earlier movements, then imitating them determinedly, refusing to believe she couldn’t outperform Bai Xiao.

With all her might, she swung it once, then huffed and puffed as she rolled the wheel for a long while, feeling somewhat smugly side-glancing at Bai Xiao, thinking it’s not that hard after all.

Turns out she is quite talented.

Bai Xiao stood by the bucket with arms crossed, waiting quietly.

Finally, the bucket came up.

He Xin confidently lifted it down, intending to pour it into the bucket, then froze.

Inside the bucket, there was only a shallow layer of water, not even higher than a finger joint, her face blushing.

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Bai Xiao took the bucket from her hand, poured the small amount of water into the bucket, then handed the bucket back to her.

This fetching water isn’t much of a technical task; with some practice, anyone can master the skill. She was willing for the fetching.

Just afraid the young lady would think she’s showing off, so she passed the bucket to her.

Unfortunately, despite this, He Xin still cursed Bai Xiao in her heart fiercely.

This woman did it on purpose to make her look bad, isn’t it intentionally?

Yet, strong self-esteem absolutely wouldn’t allow her to show weakness in front of Bai Xiao.

She took the bucket, adopting a different strategy this time, gentler in putting the bucket down, swinging the rope for a while, even testing the rope by lifting it slightly.

It had quite some weight.

So she pulled the bucket up with effort.

This time she clearly improved.

The bucket came up half-full of water, much more than last time.

He Xin snorted coldly.

"Hmph!"

Proudly poured the water from the bucket deliberately into Bai Xiao’s bucket, moving slowly many times, just to make Bai Xiao see.

Bai Xiao nodded in appreciation.

"Not bad, really not bad. Doctor He is indeed smart, picking it up so quickly."

Arguing with someone having the intelligence of a child below ten, you’d end up embarrassed yourself.