These words successfully hit Bai's sore spot.
Without further hesitation, she immediately retrieved her hidden jewelry box and solemnly handed it to Cheng Shanshan: "No matter what you do in the future, your mother will support you. Your mother just wants you to be well!"
"Don't worry, things will get better and better between Mother and me in the future." Cheng Shanshan said this not only to Bai Shi, but also to herself.
Madam Bai smiled with relief: "Then keep this safe, Mother will go in and see your grandmother." After saying that, she went into the house.
However, she did not notice that Cheng Shanshan simply waved her hand, and the jewelry box disappeared into thin air.
Cheng Shanshan immediately saw a long corridor with ten doors on each side, and she opened the door of the first room on the left.
On the wall were written the dimensions: 10 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 2.5 meters high. Although the measurement method was different from the zhang and chi she knew, she guessed that this should be the size of the room.
This was a storage space she had obtained by chance. Time was frozen inside, and things put in it would not spoil or deteriorate. In her previous life, she had survived by relying on this space and even managed to support those two ungrateful wretches, Lin Sheng and Lin Wan'er.
However, due to the successive torrential rains and floods that destroyed all the fertile fields, there was basically nothing left to eat, so her life was extremely difficult and painful.
Fortunately, fate was kind to her, giving her a second chance.
A month is neither a long time nor a short time, and she must use it wisely.
Just as she was secretly making plans, Old Mrs. Cheng woke up inside the house. She struggled violently, sobbing and crying for help: "Waaah! Waaah!!!"
Just as Cheng Shanshan was about to knock her unconscious again, she unexpectedly heard a familiar voice: "Mother, Grandmother, I'm back! What are we having for dinner?"
"Cheng Wan'er!"
When Cheng Shanshan called out that name, she almost bit her teeth to pieces.
When Cheng Wan'er saw Cheng Shanshan, she immediately turned pale: "Cousin, weren't you... already dead?"
Cheng Shanshan sneered: "Thanks to you, my cousin, I've come back to life after I died."
"That's...that's wonderful!"
Cheng Wan'er went from being terrified to beaming with joy in the blink of an eye.
It took Cheng Shanshan a long time to suppress the urge to slap her to death, despite her so-called cousin and enemy from a past life being her.
Just then, Old Mrs. Cheng inside seemed to hear Cheng Wan'er's voice and hurriedly struggled and made a commotion, which prompted Cheng Wan'er to rush inside.
When she saw Grandma Cheng tied to the bed, she couldn't help but scream, "Grandma, who tied you up like this!"
When she was finally released, Old Mrs. Cheng burst into tears, sobbing, "My son, my son, this jinx has killed your mother!"
Cheng Wan'er was completely puzzled: "Grandmother, what do you mean by that? What's wrong with my mother?"
Old Mrs. Cheng raised her hand tremblingly, her eyes filled with a hatred that seemed to want to devour Cheng Shanshan alive: "This jinx tied up your mother and sent her to the Chu family!"
"What?!"
Cheng Wan'er finally understood.
Her mother specifically sent her out today to help her avoid this unlucky arrangement of a ghost marriage, but she never expected that she would come back to this state.
At this moment, Old Lady Cheng picked up her pepperwood cane and was about to hit Cheng Shanshan: "Give me back Xiulan's life!"
In the past, Cheng Shanshan would have just stood there and waited to be beaten, but now that she had experienced the hardships of the ten-year famine, how could she be afraid of an old lady who was over seventy years old!
In that instant, she reached out and grabbed the cane that was being swung at her, glaring at him coldly: "Cheng Xiulan's fate is her fate, but mine isn't?"
Old Mrs. Cheng glared at him: "Who do you think you are? What makes you think you can compare to my son Xiulan? If you're not good enough, I'll beat you to death and send you to the underworld to keep my Xiulan company!"
"Give it a try!"
Cheng Shanshan's voice was extremely cold.
To hell with filial piety and etiquette, she didn't want to endure it any longer.
So he grabbed her cane and swung it forcefully, the powerful momentum causing Old Lady Cheng to fall to the ground.
When Cheng Wan'er saw this, she immediately scolded Cheng Shanshan: "Cousin, we are all family, why did you have to be so ruthless?"
"A family?"
Cheng Shanshan smiled.
The smile carried a chill and a hint of mockery: "Since things have come to this point, I have no intention of staying in this house any longer. I might as well sever ties with you all, and from now on, you and my daughter can go your separate ways."
By this time, Bai had already packed all her things. The two of them together had only two small, empty bundles of valuables. She carefully placed them on the table and laid them out one by one: "I only took a few clothes for me and Shanshan."
Seeing the two of them like this, Old Lady Cheng was so angry that she wanted to continue fighting with them.
However, Cheng Wan'er remained rational and quickly grabbed her hand: "Grandmother, let them go. Let's go save my mother first. Maybe we can still make it in time!"
"Yes, yes, yes."
Grandma Cheng then realized what was happening.
He immediately chased the two away and hurriedly went to the Chu family.
The autumn night was extremely cold. When a cold wind blew by, two people stood at the door with two small bundles in their hands.
At this moment, Cheng Shanshan pulled Bai Shi, who was filled with fear, and said with a slight smile, "Mother, our new life has begun."
"A new life?"
Bai felt that the world was so vast that he had nowhere to go.
But Cheng Shanshan was very purposeful, hurrying straight to a long-abandoned house at the entrance of the village.
Once inside, she first tidied up an area for Bai Shi, then gathered firewood and lit it in front of her, saying, "Warm yourself by the fire to ward off the cold." After saying that, she didn't rest, but instead broke off a lot of leafy branches at the door to block the windows and doors, and even used the dry grass in the yard to make a large bed.
Watching her work so methodically, Bai was utterly astonished: "Shanshan, where did you learn all these things?"
Cheng Shanshan then realized that her subconscious behavior was a product of the suffering caused by the ten-year famine: "I have always wanted to leave that hellish place, so I have been studying and planning all along."
"Shanshan".
Madam Bai grabbed her hand: "It's my fault for letting you down. Why don't we leave? We'll leave tomorrow morning, the farther the better."
"No, we can't leave." The village they were in was situated on high ground, giving it a natural advantage. They only had a month left to prepare, and if she used that time to choose a location, she wouldn't have time to stock up on supplies, which would be a huge loss.
Although Bai was puzzled, he did not press the matter further.
The mother and daughter spent their first night together, nestled close to each other.
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