Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Cheng Linshi’s triangular eyes widened. She thought this heartless woman was just bluffing, but she dared to go directly to the village chief. Wasn’t she deliberately trying to smear the Cheng family?
Cheng Xuening reacted quickly, immediately speaking up, “Yun Zheng, how can you say that? My mother and I treat you as family. It’s true you gave us grain and land, but that was voluntary. Shouldn’t family members help each other? How can you say we deceived you? According to you, who would dare borrow grain in the future? Would they all be liars?”
Cheng Xuening was clever, deliberately shifting the blame. What was originally a dispute between the Cheng and Qin families instantly escalated to involve other villagers. In the current economic downturn, there were many villagers who, despite dividing their households, still helped each other.
If Yun Zheng’s claim was true, wouldn’t they all be liars?
“Zheng’er, that’s not right of you! What’s with all this talk of lying among family?”
“That’s right, the Cheng family is your direct relatives. What’s wrong with you helping out?”
“You’re already so calculating before you’ve even started earning money. Won’t you become an ingrate later?”
Cheng Linshi thought that Cheng Xuening was much more filial. Although she wasn’t a biological daughter of the Cheng family, she was far more sensible than that money-losing brat. She straightened her back and said,
“Our Cheng family has committed a sin! My poor granddaughter! She used to be so sensible, how could she be so heartless now? The Qin family is a disgrace, corrupting my descendants!”
The Qin family was so angry they could hardly breathe. Qin Baishi’s eyes were bloodshot, and she was about to rush forward.
“You old hag, you’re making up lies about my granddaughter! I’ll fight you to the death!”
Yun Zheng quickly pulled the old lady back, comforting her by holding her hand tightly. Even though Qin Baishi was furious, she couldn’t bear to pull away from her daughter’s hand.
But in the eyes of the Cheng family, the Qin family had lost, and Cheng Linshi instantly felt triumphant.
Cheng Xuening appeared gentle and kind, but a subtle smile flickered in her eyes. She knew Yun Zheng’s personality all too well; she was a fool, and even if she were momentarily sober, she would be easily led astray by Cheng Xuening’s words. Cheng Xuening looked up at Yun Zheng. The girl’s face was still deathly pale from the recent high fever, exactly the same as before. However, her usually dull and lifeless eyes suddenly seemed to have been infused with a vibrant spirit, inspiring awe. Cheng Xuening’s lips trembled slightly, feeling a chill creep up from her feet.
There was no expected anger or frustration; but just a glance from Yun Zheng made her feel like she was a queen from a storybook.
How could someone change so drastically?
She could never imagine that the current Yun Zheng was no longer the fool she could manipulate.
She was a female professor who had created a business miracle in the 21st century and was hailed as a new god of medical research.
Cheng Xuening’s little tricks were nothing but clownish antics in Yun Zheng’s eyes.
“Sister Xuening, you keep saying you treat me like family, but when I jumped into the river and my life hung in the balance, did you even come to see me once?”
Yun Zheng’s face was full of sorrow, her tone trembling with emotion, every word carrying the grievances and accusations of so many years.
“When I fell into the icy river, it was my eldest brother who jumped in to save me without fear of death! When I had a high fever, it was my grandmother who dragged her elderly body to borrow money from door to door to buy me fever-reducing medicine! Did your Cheng family do anything for me? Do you really consider me family?”
The Cheng family members were immediately embarrassed. Yun Zheng was too good at talking; they couldn’t argue with her at all. Only Cheng Xuening looked worried.
“Yun Zheng, this is the fate of us maids. Which maid in the village doesn’t have a hard life? Our family only has one descendant, my eldest brother, so we have to be careful with the money and give it to him. It’s not that we don’t care about you, it’s just that the Qin family has always protected you, so we don’t need the Cheng family. We actually still care about you!”
Yun Zheng sneered inwardly. These words could only fool the uneducated. After all, she had lived for 28 years in her previous life and watched so many palace dramas. The innocent and naive girls in those dramas weren’t for nothing.
“Is your concern just encouraging me to pursue Xu Tianzhi and confess my feelings to him?” Yun Zheng asked innocently.
“Sister Xuening, I didn’t know anything before. But uou kept mentioning Xu Tianzhi to me, saying how good he was, which made me develop feelings for him. I originally wanted to wait until I was old enough to formally propose, but you told me to be bold and pursue him. So I listened to you and did those shameful things. I couldn’t take the blow and jumped into the river.”
“Ning girl, that’s too immoral. Nowadays, marriages are arranged by matchmakers. How could you encourage her sister to pursue a man? Isn’t that malicious?”
“That’s right, it’s a disgrace to the whole family. I was wondering how Zheng girl could be so shameless. It turns out someone taught her that.”
The villagers started gossiping. Cheng Xuening, as the older sister, not only didn’t guide her younger sister, but she also fanned the flames, almost causing a death.
Cheng Xuening’s image as a well-behaved girl in everyone’s mind was instantly gone.
Cheng Xuening couldn’t keep up the act any longer and angrily retorted, “Qin Yunzheng, you’re talking nonsense! When did I instigate you?!”
This was a reputation-ruining matter; Qin Yunzheng was too vicious!
Unfortunately, she was older than Yun Zheng, even if only by two months, but in everyone’s eyes, she was the elder sister.
What did Yun Zheng, a little girl, know about love? If it wasn’t her older sister who taught her, who else could it be?
Seeing Cheng Xuening’s speechless expression, Yun Zheng wanted to burst into laughter.
In her past life, the original owner’s reputation was ruined by Cheng Xuening, leaving her with a shameless reputation until her death.
Now, she’d let Cheng Xuening taste the bitterness herself.
She pressed on, “Sister Xuening, if I hadn’t died once and regained my senses, I would never have imagined you would do this to me! And now I realize, how do you know Xu Tianzhi so well? You know everything he likes to eat and do. You two aren’t actually that close, are you?”
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