Zhu Yanyan had intended to scare Old Lady Zhu and the others into behaving themselves and not offending her, but who knew that these people seemed determined to oppose her.
Left with no other choice, she turned around and looked at Chen Xiang, who was lying on the ground resting leisurely, and loudly reminded him.
"Lord Chen, shouldn't we stop this? We don't want someone to die, or we'll have trouble explaining ourselves later."
Hearing the sound, Chen Xiang slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Liu Shi and Wen Xiuya who were still fighting, pretended not to hear, turned over and continued to sleep.
"Now that your strongest backing is useless, I'd like to see what other tricks you have up your sleeve?"
Following Zhu Yanyan's gaze, Old Lady Zhu looked at Chen Xiang. Seeing that Chen Xiang ignored Zhu Yanyan's plea for help and spoke with a mocking tone, she asked him curiously.
Zhu Yanyan was so angry that her face turned pale, her chest heaved, and she clenched her fists as she watched helplessly as her mother was humiliated.
Only after Liu had completely vented her anger did she release Wen Xiuya's hand, panting as she threw the hair she had pulled from Wen Xiuya's head back at her.
"I'll let you off this time, but if you dare to talk nonsense and slander my sister-in-law again, it won't be as simple as just a beating."
Wen Xiuying collapsed to the ground, covering her swollen face, and cried loudly.
Only after Liu left did Zhu Yanyan glare fiercely at Old Madam Zhu and say menacingly.
"You can move aside now!"
Grandma Zhu glanced back at her daughter-in-law, stepped aside to make way, and raised her hand in a gesture of invitation.
Zhu Yanyan ran to Wen Xiuya's side and helped her up with heartache.
"Yan Yan, you must avenge your mother and kill all these people."
Wen Xiuying turned to look at Zhu Yanyan, her eyes turning bloodshot, and pointed at Liu Shi, crying loudly.
Zhu Yanyan suppressed her humiliation and helped Wen Xiuya up from the ground, slowly walking towards her own carriage.
After helping Wen Xiuying into the carriage, she took out the drinking water she had brought from her spatial storage and handed the water bag to Wen Xiuying.
"Mom, have some water."
“I won’t drink it. Then I’ll ask you, can’t you let them die? Are you just going to stand by and watch your father, your mother, and your brother be bullied by them?”
Wen Xiuying didn't want to drink the water Zhu Yanyan handed her. She was filled with anger and had nowhere to vent it, so she angrily threw away the water bag and questioned loudly.
Zhu Yanyan didn't know how to answer Wen Xiuying's question. She was clearly the protagonist of the book, possessed spatial abilities, and was familiar with the entire plot.
Logically speaking, her life should have been smooth sailing, but why are these cannon fodder who should have died long ago not only alive, but also receiving Chen Xiang's help and still able to live to this day?
"Mother, don't worry, I need to find out what exactly happened."
"Investigation? Investigate what?"
Wen Xiuying noticed her daughter's pale face, so she slowed down her speech, stepped forward, took her daughter's hand, and said in a choked voice.
"Yan Yan, what exactly happened? You are our family's lucky star. Ever since we were exiled because of the Zhu family, your mother, your father, your younger brother, and I have never suffered any injustice or hardship."
“Even the fierce escorts treated you with utmost respect, but how did everything suddenly change? Mother also saw those things you used to use suddenly appear and smash them against that flock of crows.”
"Does that mean someone else owns those things as well?"
Her mother's words immediately snapped Zhu Yanyan out of her daze. She squinted and asked anxiously, "Mother, what do those things look like?"
"It's that chocolate you often eat, the packaging is red, and there's also something like Le, in a round bottle made of iron."
Wen Xiuying tried hard to recall what she had seen. She was too scared at the time and only glanced at it in a hurry, so she didn't see clearly what was hitting the crow.
However, she was quite certain that the things were all red on the outside and were things her daughter often ate.
Upon hearing her mother's words, Zhu Yanyan seemed to recall something terrible, her eyes revealing fear and unease.
No, no, it can't be her. She's clearly dead, right in front of me.
When Wen Xiuying saw Zhu Yanyan's pale face, she felt a little scared and quickly went forward to touch her daughter's forehead, asking her in a low voice.
"Yan Yan, what's wrong?"
"Mom, take me to the scene, I want to see those things!"
Coming to her senses, Zhu Yanyan pulled Wen Xiuying toward the woods. She simply didn't believe that anyone else in the world could control her space besides herself.
When Wen Xiuying heard that Zhu Yanyan was going to the woods, she grabbed her in fear and said in a trembling voice, "Don't go. It's terrible there. There are corpses everywhere, and crows that mutate after eating the rotting corpses."
"I originally wanted the crows to attack Liu and the others, but in the end they managed to escape."
Thinking of how Liu had narrowly escaped death, she stomped her feet in anger. If the plague-infected crows had bitten these people, they would all be dead.
Zhu Yanyan instantly grasped the important clue, grabbed Wen Xiuying with her hand, and asked in a low voice with surprise.
"Mother, you said that Lady Liu came into contact with crows infected with the plague?"
"No, I just saw crows eating those rotting corpses."
Wen Xiuying was unaware of Zhu Yanyan's intentions and shook her head with a regretful sigh.
Zhu Yanyan disagreed. Even without contact, she could claim that the person had contracted the plague simply by being face-to-face with her.
After all, in this era, the plague virus was something that people feared, even if Chen Xiang intended to favor Old Lady Zhu and the others.
Faced with a choice between death and life, others might not necessarily allow Old Lady Zhu to stay in the group.
"Mother, the show is about to begin. Old Mrs. Zhu and the others are doomed. Even if they have never met, I have a way to make sure they never leave this remote forest."
Zhu Yanyan smiled slightly, her lips curling upwards, her face exuding an evil aura, and pulled Wen Xiuya back to her own carriage.
The conversation between the two was overheard by Xixi, who had just woken up. She was especially angry when she heard that Zhu Yanyan was going to do something naughty again. She clenched her chubby fists and waved them in the air.
[Is he out of his mind? Why is this person doing something bad again?]
They even tried to frame my mother for the plague and instigated everyone to expel her from the group.
Do you really think Xixi is a vegetarian? Even a rabbit will bite when it gets angry.
Grandma Zhu, who was holding her granddaughter and feeding her rice porridge, listened attentively to Zhu Yanyan's rambling with a solemn expression, and subconsciously turned her head to look in Zhu Yanyan's direction.
While wiping her niece's mouth, Mrs. Sun noticed that her mother-in-law's expression was not good and asked her in surprise.
"Mother, what's wrong? You look so pale."
"It's nothing. Mother was just thinking that now that she's really antagonized Zhu Yanyan, she'll definitely let it go."
Grandma Zhu dared not speak of what she had heard. With a sullen face, she looked at her granddaughter in her arms and sighed with worry.
Tao, who was sitting next to him, suddenly felt nauseous and clutched her stomach in discomfort.
Oh dear! Auntie is pregnant, please take good care of her!
Hearing her niece mentioning Sun, she quickly came to Tao's side and gently patted her back, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"
"I don't know, I just feel nauseous." Tao leaned against a big tree, her face pale.
Upon seeing this, Madam Sun hurriedly felt her sister-in-law's pulse and discovered that she was indeed pregnant. She happily exclaimed.
"Sister-in-law, you're pregnant."
Tao thought she had misheard and stared blankly at her younger brother and sister-in-law, "I...I'm pregnant?"
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