"The master once said that if you, eldest sister, would be with the six brothers-in-law from the Liang family, perhaps the deadly tribulations in your fates could be broken. Look at the second brother-in-law? The master had predicted he wouldn’t live long, but look, isn’t he still well and alive? Now that you’re better too, eldest sister, that’s wonderful, really wonderful!"
After that, she began to sob again.
"Back then, I was only a year younger than you, eldest sister, but when that old hag sold you to a human trafficker, I was already old enough to remember. If only I hadn’t been so useless, with so little strength and such short legs, you wouldn’t have had to protect me and get knocked out by that old hag with a club, and then carried away by her. We thought we’d never see you again, eldest sister, but who would have thought, who would have thought that you would come back, only to have become like that..."
Speaking of the heartbreaking past, Dong Xinyuan couldn’t stop crying.
Eldest sister was pitiable, born skinny and small, and also regarded as a little monster by everyone in the village, because of her Innate Divine Strength.
Dong Xinyuan sighed incessantly, while Dong Huiying tenderly held a handkerchief, gently wiping her tears away.
When Dong Xinyuan’s emotions gradually stabilized, she broke into a smile through her tears and her face showed a bit of embarrassment, "I’m sorry, brothers-in-law, for making you laugh at me."
Afterward, she grabbed Dong Huiying’s hand, her expression became urgent, "Eldest sister, can you please stop blaming mother, okay?"
"I know mother forced you against your will to accept the marriage proposal, and wasn’t considerate of you. Mother knows you blame her, but all this while, to avoid the long trips between Daliu Village and Kaoshan Village from wasting too much time, mother has almost been living in the mountains. Every time she hunts and manages to get a little something, either exchanging it for chicken and duck eggs to nourish the body, or buying meat and medicine, or even selling it for silver, she has to come here every other day or two. And she doesn’t dare come by day, only sneaking over after dark when you and the brothers-in-law are asleep before she dares to come..."
"Her heart is suffering too! But she just loves you too much, she didn’t want to watch you die with her eyes open!"
Dong Xinyuan was a simpleton, blurting out everything on her mind.
However, Yixuan, who had been silent for a long time because of his mood, suddenly said, "She had to come every other day? Doesn’t that mean she has been sending things over for more than a year?"
Yue Ning nodded dumbly, "Yeah! Could there be some mistake?"
Dong Xinyuan was stunned, "What? A mistake!???"
Yixuan’s expression turned somewhat dark.
Just then, Shu Yu suddenly curled his lip, his cold and indifferent eyes glancing towards the neighboring Wang family. "The intention was good, but pity it ended up benefiting others."
Dong Xinyuan looked utterly confused.
A long while later...
With a ’bang’, Dong Xinyuan slammed her hand down on the wooden table, which then completely shattered, collapsing under her hand.
Her face flushed with embarrassment, "This... this table isn’t very sturdy, is it?"
Scratching her head, she then became enraged, "That’s utterly shameless! So all the meat and silver my mother worked for went to benefit that Wang fellow? If I, Dong Xinyuan, can swallow this grievance, I might as well write the Dong character upside down!"
Although they hadn’t spent much time together, Dong Huiying had already come to understand quite a bit of Dong Xinyuan’s temperament.
Mainly because Dong Xinyuan was an easy person to understand — straightforward in her character, direct, with a bit of a violent streak, and her affection for her own family was genuine and heartfelt.