Young General Song Lan is dead.
Just moments before, she lay on the couch in the military tent, barely breathing, and vaguely heard the imperial edict from the capital bestowing upon her the title of "Marquis of Zhanbei".
The next moment, she appeared in a red dress, her figure as light as clouds, standing in the bamboo house she once knew so well.
Unexpectedly, before she could react, she was pulled away by an unknown force.
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The moment she regained consciousness, Song Lan felt a gust of wind coming towards her left cheek.
Without thinking twice, she instinctively swung her hand to block and kicked out!
"ah……"
A woman's sharp scream of pain rang out.
"You bitch, you dare hit me, and you even dare kick me?!"
Song Ning scrambled to her feet, ignoring her disheveled state, and lunged at Song Lan with gritted teeth.
"Smack!"
Song Lan wouldn't allow the other party to lay a hand on her. She slapped her again and kicked her at the same time. The woman who had been baring her teeth and claws at her earlier fell to the ground with a "thud," completely losing her composure.
Covering her burning face, Song Ning looked at Song Lan in disbelief, her shrill voice filled with resentment: "You ingrate! When I said you were an ingrate, neither Mom nor Dad believed me. Now the whole family has seen it with our own eyes. Not only did you take Mom and Dad's kindness for granted, but you also hit me, your older sister, and even kicked me! Song Lan, you just wait, I'll make you pay sooner or later!"
"I'll wait."
Song Lan didn't know where she was or what situation she was facing, but she knew one thing: the people in this courtyard could answer all the questions that were on her mind.
Her clear, calm peach blossom eyes narrowed almost imperceptibly as she shifted her gaze to the other people in the courtyard.
"Second sister, how could you hit eldest sister?"
The woman who spoke was about eighteen or nineteen years old. Her name was Song Jiaojiao. She said with a mix of heartache and helplessness, "Uncle Qin had an accident, Aunt Qin is gone, and even my second sister's husband has been missing ever since he left home on our wedding day."
Your parents love you dearly and are afraid that you will suffer because of the Qin family's younger siblings. That's why they suggested that you divorce your second sister's husband and remarry. Don't you think about your parents' good intentions at all?
As your older sister, I don't want you to be so stubborn, so I can't help but give you some advice. I don't mean any harm, so why are you treating me like that?
Or rather, is it because... because you're not Mom and Dad's biological child, because you're not our blood sisters, that... that you're ignoring our advice and wanting to completely turn against us today?
Song Jiaojiao was like a combination of green tea and a pure lotus flower. Her eyes were moist, and her tone was filled with grievance and apology: "Second sister, I know you might resent me... resent that I shouldn't have come back to this family, back to Mom and Dad's side."
But I'm innocent too. It's not that I wanted to come back. My cousin ran into me by chance and found that I looked exactly like my mom, so she brought me to my parents.
Our origins are not something we can choose. I don't resent you for living with Mom and Dad for nearly twenty years in my place, and I certainly didn't... I certainly didn't ask Mom and Dad to send you to their home in the countryside. Second sister, even though I've thought of you this much, you still... you still can't accept me?
Tears welled up in her eyes and dripped down her face. Song Jiaojiao choked and said, "If I go back to the countryside, would you be willing to listen to Mom and Dad's advice, get a divorce and remarry, instead of... stopping your stubbornness and letting yourself continue to suffer in the Qin family?"
"Jiaojiao, why do you want to go back to the countryside? That's not your home. Do you want to continue to be treated like a slave and not be treated like a human being by that family?"
As Song Ning spoke, she glared fiercely at Song Lan: "You bitch, since you're willing to be an ingrate, then don't have anything to do with our family anymore. If you have any problems in the future, go find your peasant parents in the countryside!"
"Ningning!"
Luo Yueqin pretended to be angry and scolded her eldest daughter, Song Ning: "What nonsense are you talking about? Lanlan is your sister, and in our family, she always will be!"
"Mom...you've favored that bitch for almost twenty years, but she's not my biological sister. My biological sister is Jiaojiao. And yet, even after Jiaojiao came back to this family, you still favored an ungrateful wretch. I won't accept this!"
With bloodshot eyes, Song Ning's gaze was filled with resentment and unwillingness.
At that moment, Song Lan felt a sharp pain in her head, and then everything went black before her eyes, and she collapsed to the ground.
Before she completely lost consciousness, she heard footsteps approaching her hurriedly, and at the same time, she heard a boy's voice, which was going through puberty, call out: "Sister-in-law!" The boy's voice was urgent, with unease and concern in it.
Feeling that the other party meant no harm, Song Lan felt relieved and plunged into the darkness.
As we approach the end of August, the temperature in Beijing isn't particularly hot. With the rain in the previous two days, today's temperature is around 20℃.
When Song Lan left home early in the morning, the original owner of this body was wearing a white dress and a light blue cardigan over it. The dress was normally quite warm, but at this moment, both the dress and the cardigan were soaking wet.
The boy reacted quickly and managed to catch Song Lan.
Without saying a word, he wrapped Song Lan's upper body in his military green jacket, then glared fiercely at Luo Yueqin and the others: "If anything happens to my sister-in-law, I'll never forgive your whole family!"
The woman he was supporting with one hand, his sister-in-law, was pale, with purple lips and thin, wispy bangs clinging to her forehead... The boy knew that this was caused by the basin of water that Song Ning had splashed earlier.
—To stop my sister-in-law from leaving!
However, in his view, there was an element of revenge involved.
Song Lan was unconscious, and her exceptionally beautiful face appeared particularly frail at this moment.
"Auntie, could you please do me a favor..."
The boy turned to look at the slightly plump middle-aged woman peeking in at the entrance of the Song family compound. He politely asked her for a hand.
"It's nothing, your aunt will help you. After all, I watched your sister-in-law Lanlan grow up. She's a good girl!"
The middle-aged woman's surname is Hu, her given name is Chunniu, and she lives next door to the Song family. Her husband is the director of the second workshop of the steel plant.
Because her husband is capable and her sons are all adults with jobs, Hu Chunniu is not looked down upon or given trouble by her neighbors, even though she comes from a rural background.
But Hu Chunniu has a problem: she likes to join in the fun and she's quite talkative.
In this residential area, you can always find her wherever there's something interesting to see.
Moreover, Hu Chunniu never keeps a secret.
"Aunt Hu, we're neighbors, we see each other all the time, so don't gossip about us!"
Luo Yueqin spoke to Hu Chunniu in a joking tone, but in her heart she was cursing and complaining, thinking that Hu Chunniu was a big mouth who couldn't stand to see her family doing well.
It's such a trivial matter, everyone has to go to her yard to watch the commotion. It's really annoying!
"Sister Yueqin, what are you saying? My mouth is sealed tight! Besides, nothing untoward has happened in your family, so why would I gossip about your family outside?"
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