Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine

Chapter 267: 267 Zhao Yanping

Zhao Yanping started crying aloud, and the child in her arms joined in, crying weakly like a little kitten.

Yanli grew anxious. ”Is this how you want to live from now on?”

Zhao Yanping cried even more aggrievedly. Now their cries echoed throughout the house.

Yanli heard sounds of things smashing and banging next door.

”Just tell me, do you still want to live like this? If you do, I’ll leave right now and consider you no longer my sister for the rest of my life.

If you don’t want to live this way, we are here for you, our siblings will definitely help you get justice.”

Yanli’s voice was full of anger and urgency.

”Xiao Li, I’ve had enough, really had enough. They don’t care about me, they even don’t consider Daya as part of the Xiang family.”

”Why are you crying? Spineless. Pack your things. If they don’t recognize Daya, I will, as her aunt.”

Yanli’s eyes reddened too. Her elder sister was always a gentle person, unlike the second sister. Even though the second sister usually didn’t speak much, she was a determined person.

Seeing her elder sister turning around with the child in her arms, Yanli couldn’t hold back her tears, and they fell down immediately.

”Can you continue living like this? If I hadn’t come, would you have kept enduring? Would you wait until your life is over to leave?”

Seeing her younger sister in tears, Zhao Yanping’s own tears fell again.

”Alright, don’t bother packing anything, just take Daya and come with me. Let the Xiang family send your things later. If they’re missing a single thing, I’ll burn down the Xiang household.”

Yanli suddenly remembered the words Yuanyuan said to Tang Dalin who had stolen ducks from her family before.

Outside, Xiang Zhiqiang’s mother heard these words and was startled.

Actually, she felt guilty and quickly went outside to the vegetable garden to find her eldest son.

Yanli took Daya, ”Let’s go. Is there anything you’re reluctant to leave here?”

Zhao Yanping hesitated for a moment, then quickly shook her head, ”No, I don’t, I’ve already lost hope in the Xiang family.”

”Then let’s go. You don’t have to pack your things now. If anything’s missing, I’ll come and get it for you.”

Zhao Yanping cried again. She was the eldest sister, but now her younger sister had to stand up for her, truly incompetent.

The two sisters came out from the house and walked straight out of the yard.

”Let’s go to our big brother’s house and discuss it. You can come live with me.”

Being alone, there’s no issue, but if she stayed with her big brother or second brother for a long time, their wives might not be willing.

”Xiao Li.”

”Don’t say anything, you’re my big sister, and I’m your younger sister.”

The road was muddy, and they walked slowly. They had just been out for a while when they heard someone calling for Zhao Yanping from behind.

Yanli turned her face to look at her elder sister, seeing her eyes red, but she didn’t stop. There’s still hope then. If she still couldn’t bear to leave that man, there really would be no hope.

”Xiao Ping, Xiao Ping.”

Yanli handed the child back to Zhao Yanping. She directly reached into the basket, where there was a pick handle Yuanyuan had told her to carry for self-defense since a girl traveling outside should have something for protection.

Xiang Zhiqiang caught up, just as he tried to grab his wife, Yanli swung the pick handle and struck forward.

This blow was fierce and ruthless, hitting Xiang Zhiqiang’s arm directly.

”Xiao Li?”

”Xiang Zhiqiang. Do you remember what you promised in front of us siblings? Is this how you treat my sister?

Now you don’t have to say anything. Xiang Zhiqiang, wait and see.”

She had just hit Xiang Zhiqiang, seeing that her elder sister didn’t have any particular reaction, which reassured her.

”Xiao Ping, don’t leave, we are husband and wife.”

Zhao Yanping just calmly stared at Xiang Zhiqiang. She didn’t say a word, and turned away with the child in her arms.

Xiang Zhiqiang still wanted to pull Zhao Yanping, but was stopped by Yanli’s swinging pick handle.

”Return every one of my sister’s belongings to us without fail. And for the past two years, you know how much she’s earned and eaten in that house, bring the remainder to us.

If not, I’m not afraid. You better have someone watching the Xiang family at all times, or I’ll burn your house down.”

The Xiang family members who rushed over heard these words.

”You wretched girl, how dare you come to my house looking for trouble?”

Yanli just sneered and spoke to Zhao Yanping behind her, ”You take Daya and go find our big brother first.”

”Xiao Li.”

”Are you stupid?”

Zhao Yanping paused for a moment and immediately turned to leave; she would only hold her younger sister back right now.

Yanli sneered as she looked at Xiang Zhiqiang, ”Remember now? How did you swear in front of us siblings?

Anyway, someone as cowardly as you wouldn’t dare admit it even if you remembered. Unable to protect your wife and daughter, if I were in your place, I would have gone long ago; it’s too humiliating.”

”Xiao Li, that’s not it.”

”You don’t need to say anything to me now. Bring my sister’s things and money, go find my two older brothers.

Don’t look down on us, try if you don’t believe it.”

Yanli’s demeanor subdued the Xiang family members, she looked at Xiang Zhiqiang with disdain, and then turned and left.

In Xiang Zhiqiang’s mind were his sister-in-law’s questions, and that disdainful look just now.

He turned back to look at his parents, and his younger siblings, then looked again at the distant back of his wife leaving.

Was there truly such a big gap? When did his wife become so thin?

He made excuses for himself, saying it was because his wife was tired. It was spring planting, and the work was too tiring now, so being thin was normal.

But why hadn’t his younger siblings lost any weight?

Yanli hurriedly caught up with Zhao Yanping, reversed the pick handle into the basket on her back, took over her little niece, this child of three plus months felt so light.

”You’re unfit to be a mother, the child has already become like this. Why didn’t you speak up? Even when we were young, Mom knew to sneak us food when she could. What have you done?”

Zhao Yanping, scolded, lowered her head in shame. Tears streamed down her face.

Yanli was so angry now, utterly disappointed in her sister.

The Xiang family and Zhao Qingxiang’s family weren’t far apart, they were in the same group.

So it only took less than an hour to reach their big brother’s house.

Sun Yun was pregnant again, weeding in the yard; she couldn’t do work in the fields now, so she settled for tidying the yard.

Seeing her two sisters-in-law coming in, she hesitated for a moment, not surprised they had come, but because the elder sister-in-law was really too thin, and looked completely drained.

”What happened? What’s wrong? Come inside quickly.”

Hearing her sister-in-law’s voice, Zhao Yanping burst into tears again.

”Stop crying, what’s the use of crying?” Yanli’s anger still hadn’t subsided.