243: Chapter 41: A Smile is Enough Now 243: Chapter 41: A Smile is Enough Now When God unleashed the Great Flood, I wonder if He realized that stating “only Noah deserved to be saved” implied that He had failed as God.
Perhaps He didn’t realize it, after all His followers have joyfully talked about this matter for years.
Li Mumu had never felt she had the right to stand on moral high ground and criticize others.
Which is why she was very forgiving towards Jiang Yinyin.
Just a kid, who hadn’t seen much of the world, whose parents weren’t exactly role models—it was normal for her not to have learned how to conduct herself properly in society.
There are certainly prodigies, but you can’t expect everyone to be a prodigy with both high EQ and IQ.
As the saying goes: “if a child does not behave, it is the parents’ fault; if the child is not strictly taught, it is the teacher’s laziness.”
Now that Jiang Yinyin was a maid in her household, she, as a master, naturally had the responsibility to teach her these principles.
“Feeling wronged?”
“Not wronged, it’s just…” the little maid sobbed softly, biting her lip, “but I don’t know what to do.”
The child’s virtue was obedience, but her vice was being too obedient—having no opinion of her own.
“Your problem now is that you owe too many favors to others.”
Li Mumu lay lazily in the bathtub as she explained.
“If I’m not mistaken, this isn’t the first time your parents have sold you, right?
Going to school has little to do with them; someone else pulled strings for you, didn’t they?”
Jiang Yinyin nodded vigorously.
“That’s one favor.
Your little friends finding you through others is the second favor.
Wang Yunxiao’s help is the third, and mine is the fourth.”
“For you, the best choice is to stay in my house, earn your wages and thus have the ability to repay these favors, right?
After all, with others, it’s just favors, but with me, you owe a huge debt.
Favors can be slowly repaid, but if you quit your job to go back to school, you might never be able to pay off this debt.”
She nodded frantically.
“You made the right choice, but they don’t understand you and even blame you, right?”
The little maid nodded again while wiping her tears.
“You’re thinking about it the wrong way; their real reason for being harsh isn’t because you’re ungrateful, but because they think you’re degrading yourself.”
Li Mumu lifted her hand and wiped the foam on her tear-streaked little face, smiling, “Your friends, and those who helped you, didn’t aim for any return from you.
They wanted to see you climb out of the pit, take control of your destiny, and have a better future.
They don’t understand because by giving up school to work here for money, you’re essentially turning all their efforts for you into wasted efforts, even a joke.”
“If you don’t know what you can do, then use the simplest method to deal with it.”
“Wipe away your tears and smile.”
“Let them see a bright, confident, genuine smile on your face—that’s the best response to those who’ve helped you.”
“Speaking of our household chores, they haven’t oppressed you to the point where you can’t smile, right?”
Kneeling beside the bathtub, Jiang Yinyin sniffed hard, wiped her face with hot water, and said with utmost seriousness: “Miss, thank you.
From today on, I will cry no more.”
“Really?
Then keep it up, I believe in you!”
Li Mumu gave a big thumbs up, sending a great deal of praise, while suppressing the wicked thought to make her cry again right then and there.
I really am a gentle and kind woman.
After soaking in the bath and dressing in pajamas, Li Mumu sat barefoot on the sofa and picked up “String Theory” to continue studying.
Everyone says that once you understand one principle, you understand all, and after Yaoqin’s guidance, Li Mumu now had quite a few new insights into the two “Secret Manuals” in her possession.
The core of every problem lies in “recognition.”
Once you clarify this core concept, all those complex theories derived from reasoning can be essentially resolved effortlessly.
Mu Yuming had work during the day and had already gone to bed early.
Li Ya was busy with her research and disappeared into the bedroom.
Only Wendy, a night owl, stayed by Li Mumu’s side, also holding a book.
It was a comic book version of Journey to the West.
Li Mumu always claimed that Wendy was a foreigner who could not listen, speak, read, or write Chinese.
In fact, this was a lie.
Wendy had been freeloading at their house since she was four, mastering everything Li Mumu knew, and even those things Li Mumu did not know…
Of course, due to laziness, she would rather lie flat and play dumb rather than show off.
Now she had even mastered the local accent of the Tianmen people.
If she didn’t have to act as Li Mumu’s protector tonight, she would have already run off to who knows where.
Since she didn’t have classes tomorrow, Li Mumu glanced at the clock on the wall, instructed Jiang Yinyin to go to sleep, and decided to pull an all-nighter herself.
Pulling an all-nighter is fun for a while, but always fun if you keep doing it.
Don’t say nonsense that you can’t pull all-nighters without a phone or computer, that’s just low quality.
As long as there are lights in the house, she could sleep whenever she wanted.
Li Mumu checked the time and decided to head to the kitchen to cook a bowl of noodles, perfect with the leftover sauce pork ears and braised beef from dinner for another late-night meal.
The teenage years when you don’t have to worry about your weight are truly bliss…
But just stepping into the kitchen and unexpectedly lifting her head to see a woman’s face outside the window nearly scared her into revealing her true form right there and then.
“Yo, junior sister, you haven’t slept yet!”
Zuo Yan was leaning outside the window, all smiles.
Li Mumu asked with a stern face, “Senior sister… why didn’t you use the door?”
“You know I work night shifts, I didn’t want to disturb your family’s rest!”
Zuo Yan held up the gory thing in her hand, “I brought you some fresh pig’s heart and also blood sausages, want to take over?”
“Please use the front door.”
“Tsk… fine, unless you don’t mind if people find a puddle of blood spilled down your stairway tomorrow…”
Li Mumu had no choice but to open the window and let her in, catching the still dripping blood sausages in a basin.
“These blood sausages need to be blanched with cooking wine first, otherwise the intestine smell on the outside is too strong.”
“I’ll thoroughly cook them.”
“It’ll coagulate and not taste good if fully cooked… okay, however you want to eat them.”
Zuo Yan put down the pig’s heart and blood sausages, turned on the faucet to wash her hands, and turned back to Li Mumu with a smile, “I’ve been busy lately and haven’t had the chance to come see you, I’m not sure if you’ve settled into life here yet.
If you’re not sleeping tonight, I can take you out to have some fun!”
“Going out at night?
Any fun places?”
Li Mumu was skeptical about this, knowing that her senior sister didn’t usually consider whether a place was appropriate for people when deciding if it was fun.