"Misfortune lasts a thousand years. How could I die so easily?" Su Miao wore an expression of seeing through everything but saying nothing. "Let's eat first."
Su Yuyan remained silent and motionless, clearly unwilling to comply.
Su Miao suddenly felt an itch in her hand. Considering he was still a child who had lived in such a repressive environment for a long time, it was normal for him to be a bit difficult.
"You're not expecting someone to feed you at your age, are you?" Su Miao teased.
Su Yuyan glared at her. "Of course not."
"Then hurry up and eat. Go to bed early after dinner. We're moving tomorrow," Su Miao said as she picked up her boxed meal and started eating.
This body was too weak; she needed to eat more.
"Moving?" Su Yuyan paused in his eating. "Did the landlord kick us out?"
Something seemed to dawn on him, and Su Yuyan looked at Su Miao with an expression of disbelief. "You didn't go to the landlord to terminate the lease and take out the security deposit, did you?"
No wonder she had money to buy things. So that was it.
Was this woman stupid?
If she terminated the lease, where would they live?
"???"
Su Miao looked up, a chicken leg still in her mouth. She spat the chicken leg back into the meal box. "You have quite an imagination. With such creativity, you might as well write novels."
"I was thinking that you're at the age where you should be in school. There are no schools nearby, and the environment isn't great. We should move to a better place."
In fact, the main reason was that she really couldn't stand this living environment. This was no place for humans to stay.
She suspected that this little antagonist became a villain later precisely because he lived in such a depressing environment for too long.
She couldn't let this kid become a villain. Otherwise, what if he imprisoned her in the future? How would those handsome guys out there manage without her in their exciting world?
If her world lost handsome men and an exciting life, some of her finer qualities would be lost as well.
The thought alone was terrifying.
"If you didn't withdraw the deposit, how would you have money?" Su Yuyan asked with a stern little face, completely disbelieving Su Miao.
Su Miao: "..."
She'd been underestimated by this kid.
Su Miao pulled out a wad of red bills from her pocket and slapped them on the coffee table. "Is the deposit this much?"
You brat, who do you think you're looking down on? She was the apocalyptic Su Miao, not his cannon fodder birth mother.
Su Yuyan looked at the red bills on the coffee table, his jaw tightening. "Did you break the law?"
"???"
Su Miao was utterly speechless.
This kid's thought process was beyond normal.
"No... I didn't." Su Miao enunciated each word clearly, then ignored him and continued eating.
Su Yuyan wasn't about to let it go. "If you didn't break the law, where did you get so much money? Even if it's not illegal, it's not okay if it goes against public order and morals, or if it's unethical."
He had seen many cases on the news. Don't think you can deceive him just because he's young.
Su Miao: "!!!"
This kid was just short of directly accusing her of doing something unsavory.
"You should be a good person. Doing things that go against morals will make people look down on you," Su Yuyan said, uncharacteristically talkative.
Su Miao: "..."
You, a big villain, lecturing me about being a good person? Ridiculous.
Seeing that Su Yuyan wanted to continue, Su Miao quickly interrupted him. "You're overthinking. I'm a law-abiding citizen. I won't break the law or go against public order and morals. Now, can you please close that little mouth of yours?"
"Then where did this money come from?"
Su Miao blurted out, "Delivering food."
"Can food delivery earn that much? Are you trying to fool a child?"
Su Miao: "..."
Were all children this hard to deceive? Or was it just this particular child?
"Why aren't you answering? You're lying, aren't you? If you want to break the law, go ahead, but don't implicate me."
"You can get salary advances."
"..."
With money in place, everything becomes easier.
Su Miao only needed one day to find a new house and move. Then, within a week, she found a school for Su Yuyan.
Just from that one fight with Xiao Zeyan, Su Miao had received a payment of 500,000 from him, not counting the 100,000 she won from the bet. So, Su Miao now had enough money to live on for a while.
However, one must pay the price for one's words.
Because of that impulsive claim about delivering food, Su Miao actually went to deliver food.
Su Miao didn't really want to deliver food at all, but she was afraid Su Yuyan might get ideas.
Since birth, his life had only included his mother, and this mother didn't even like him much, ignoring him most of the time.
So Su Yuyan was much more mature than other children his age, and his thoughts were much deeper.
If Su Yuyan found out she wasn't earning money by delivering food, who knows what he might imagine.
Since she had gotten this body, she should also deal with the additional problems that came with it.
Su Miao bought a second-hand electric scooter, applied to join the ranks of riders, and after dropping Su Yuyan off at school every day, she would cruise around the streets on her electric scooter.
After two days of this, the delivery station manager found Su Miao.
"What's going on with you? Two days have passed, and you haven't taken a single order." The station manager was a short, fat guy with an extremely loud voice.
Su Miao had a cigarette dangling from her lips. Hearing the voice, she half-opened her eyes to look at him.
"What did you tell me initially? You said you were a single mother and asked me to give you a chance. Now I've given you the chance, and you're useless." The station manager was exasperated.
Su Miao sat up. "Don't be so angry, Manager. Actually, I don't want to be here either. It's mainly because the kid at home is strict with me."
"Look, Manager, you don't have to pay me. You can even charge me a fee. Just turn a blind eye and let me experience life here, okay?"
"You..."
In the end, the station manager left, resigned.
During this time, Xiao Zeyan had called Su Miao, saying he wanted to discuss long-term cooperation. Su Miao didn't directly refuse, but she didn't agree either, only saying they'd talk about it in a few days.
It was lunchtime again. Su Miao looked up at the sky; the sun was at its zenith.
Too hot.
Su Miao took out her phone, ordered lunch on the food delivery platform, then sat by the roadside waiting for her meal.
When the delivery guy arrived, he was stunned.
"You ordered this?"
"Yes, order number 0255. Hurry and give me the food, I'm starving," Su Miao reached out for the food.
The delivery guy stared at her blankly. "You're wearing this outfit... are you cosplaying?"
"No, I'm a food delivery person," Su Miao shook her head.
The delivery guy's mouth twitched slightly. "Delivering food? What food did you order?"
"Who says delivery drivers can't order food themselves?"
The delivery guy: "..."
Watching the delivery guy leave, Su Miao quickly took out her lunch. "Although this place is more backward than the apocalyptic world, the food is definitely much better. The stuff in the apocalypse could hardly be called food—it was more like animal feed."
Su Miao was happily eating, holding a fried chicken leg in one hand and a milk tea in the other, when she looked up and saw a familiar figure.
"What are you doing here?"
They both blurted out the exact same question simultaneously.
Su Miao thought: Shouldn't this kid be in kindergarten?
Su Yuyan wondered: Isn't it lunchtime? Shouldn't she be out delivering food?