Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Qin Baishi was furious when she saw Qin Shuanglu. She then said irritably, “Oh, you ungrateful wretch, you finally know to come back? I thought you’d run off to enjoy a life of leisure.”
“Mom, look at what you’re saying! This is my home. Where else could I go if I didn’t come back?”
Qin Shuanglu smiled ingratiatingly, smelling the aroma of the grain and unable to resist reaching out to touch it. “It’s truly a blessing from heaven that our grain is still perfectly fine…”
Qin Baishi slapped her hand away.
“What do you mean, ‘our home’? What does this grain have to do with you? Have you ever done a single penny of work?”
Qin Shuanglu, feeling guilty, gave a fawning smile. “Mom, I was so confused before. I didn’t know the grain was still good, so I didn’t want to work for free. I was thinking we wouldn’t have any grain for the rest of the year, so I went out to look for work…”
What kind of person was Qin Baishi? She could single-handedly support such a large family; without some ability, she would have been bullied to death long ago. In this world, apart from Yun Zheng, no one could fool her in the slightest.
“Before you say that, you should wipe the grease off your mouth first.”
Qin Shuanglu immediately tried to cover up her guilt by wiping her mouth, desperately trying to explain, “Mom, listen to me…”
“I’m too lazy to listen to your ungrateful nonsense.” Qin Baishi rolled her eyes, seeing right through her selfish nature. “I’ll put it this way: this harvest is entirely thanks to my dear granddaughter; otherwise, we would have had nothing. So most of the fine grain belongs to my granddaughter. Do you have any objections?”
The Qin family all followed Qin Baishi’s lead and willingly spoiled Yun Zheng. Years of habit meant they even felt that good things should naturally go to Yun Zheng. They’d give her all the fine grain, let alone most of it— so of course, there were no objections!
But Qin Shuanglu became anxious, “Mom, I know you love Yun Zheng, but you can’t just lie through your teeth. You, my elder brother and sister-in-law have always done the work in the fields. Although I haven’t done much, Yun Zheng hasn’t even weeded a single weed. The harvest is everyone’s effort, what does it have to do with Yun Zheng?”
Qin Baishi spat at her, “You don’t know anything! If it weren’t for the good fortune that Nannan brings to our Qin family, do you think that barren land would have yielded such a bumper harvest? Saying that God favors us is just an excuse; it’s all thanks to Nannan.”
After Qin Baishi said this, Yun Zheng remembered that when the original owner was born, her maternal grandfather was critically ill. He had almost passed away, but because of her birth, he was brought back to life, although he only lasted three years before passing away. But to Qin Baishi, this was a blessing.
She believed the original owner had brought auspicious blessings to the family. Even a fortune teller in the village said the original owner was blessed, so Qin Baishi doted on the original owner even more. Even after the original owner became a demon, she didn’t regret it at all.
“What blessings? That’s all feudal superstition.”
Qin Shuanglu didn’t believe it at all. If Yun Zheng was really blessed, would the family be in such a dilapidated state? She was more like a jinx! But she dared not say that.
“Shut up! What I just said only applies to those who did the work. As for you, you lazybones, you won’t get any fine grains. You can only eat coarse grains.”
Qin Baishi was now truly heartbroken towards this daughter. Her usual selfishness was insignificant and she could overlook it, but this time the family almost suffered a great disaster. Everyone was frantically trying to find a solution, but Qin Shuanglu only knew how to be lazy and only cared about feeding herself, without caring about the family at all. She was really unlucky to have such a daughter!
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At dinner, everyone except Qin Shuanglu, who only had a bowl of corn porridge, had a bowl of white rice.
The plump, white grains of rice were distinct, emitting a mouthwatering aroma that even made the men, who weren’t particularly fond of the food, swallow hard.
Qin Baishi was determined to dampen Qin Shuanglu’s spirit; she wouldn’t even allow Qin Lang to share half his bowl of rice with her, and instead, to avoid upsetting her, she sent her to eat alone on the kang (heated brick bed) at the back.
Smelling the aroma of the white rice, Qin Shuanglu couldn’t possibly eat any coarse grains; her resentment soared and she felt she couldn’t stay in this house any longer.
Yun Zheng, observing Qin Shuanglu’s changing expression, suddenly had a plan.
That night, while the Qin family was asleep, Yun Zheng secretly slipped up to the back mountain.
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