When the Villainess Transmigrates as the Heroine of a Sadistic Novel [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 26

Chapter 26: Moving Out Arc

“What’s the rush? It’s just a small injury,” Jiang Chenyue said indifferently, though she was secretly delighted by Ning Yunqing’s concern. Her junior sister was truly hers; she couldn’t live without her. Parting her vermilion lips, she asked, “Was the person caught?”

“Mhm, she’s in the Medicine Pavilion waiting to die,” Ning Yunqing replied casually, her eyes fixed intently on Jiang Chenyue, fearing she might become blurred again like she did a moment ago. “Forget about her, let me apply the medicine.” Wrapping her arms around her lover’s slender waist, Ning Yunqing gently pulled back the clothing and dripped the Jade Dew onto the wound. Her movements were delicate and her expression gentle, though her eyes held lingering reluctance and pity.

“You usually aren’t this clingy,” Jiang Chenyue said, reaching out to pat her face with a smile. “I’m not going to die, why so sorrowful?”

Ning Yunqing hesitated to speak. “I… I just want to hold you.”

“If you want to, then hold me.” Jiang Chenyue leaned into Ning Yunqing’s embrace, turned her face toward her, kissed her cherry-red lips, and coaxed, “Yunqing, don’t worry. Even if we part now, we will meet again.”

“Fengxuan?” Ning Yunqing called out instinctively. Jiang Chenyue did not respond, but simply squeezed her hand and closed her eyes slightly. “Find me, Yunqing.”

“I will.” As those words fell, Ning Yunqing’s surroundings instantly transformed. Yellowish earth, red brick walls, roosters and hens clucking and running across the ground the air had the freshness lacking in big cities, along with oink oink the stench of a pigpen.

“The pigs are so hungry they’re squealing, and you still haven’t gone to feed them, Hua’er!”

Hua’er? Ning Yunqing turned her head and spotted a sallow, thin rural woman walking out of the house. Her brow was deeply furrowed with thick wrinkles, and her eyes were squinted into lines, wearing her bitterness plainly on her face.

“I told you to go, so get moving! The pigs are so loud, what if they wake up Shu’er?” The woman cursed with her hands on her hips. Ning Yunqing found it somewhat laughable; could pigs really wake up a “tree” (Shu)? She curled her lips into a smile, which the woman took as a provocation.

Picking up a nearby rake, the woman rushed toward Ning Yunqing. “You brat, your courage has grown! You’ve only had a few years of schooling and you’re already like this. If you actually went to university, who knows how you’d try to fly to heaven!”

Ning Yunqing realized this person was likely her “cheap” mother in this world. Seeing this cheap mother waving a rake and charging aggressively, Ning Yunqing stepped back slightly and sidestepped to avoid her.

“You dare to dodge!” The woman raised the rake and charged again. Ning Yunqing felt helpless; if she actually fought back, she could pin the woman down in a second. However, out of respect for the woman being her cheap mother, she remained on the defensive.

“You little brat! Don’t move!” It seemed the woman handled most of the labor at home; after Ning Yunqing dodged several times, she didn’t lose heart but instead swung the rake with more vigor. Ning Yunqing thought that if this continued, she would have to wake up “Shu’er” herself.

“So noisy!” Before she could shout, the legendary Shu’er, who was supposed to be asleep, made an appearance. He was a boy with an outdated male haircut, his black hair puffed up like he was wearing a hat. He wasn’t very old, looking about fifteen or sixteen, and he stood leaning against the doorframe with bleary eyes, shouting, “Can’t a person get some sleep? Get lost! All of you, get lost!”

What a poorly raised little beast. Ning Yunqing’s gaze was full of disdain, but the arrogant woman beside her immediately lost her fire. She dropped the rake and said with a fawning smile, “Shu’er, you must be tired from studying yesterday. Go back and rest, Mom will stop making a fuss.”

“Annoying!” Shu’er glared at his mother and glanced at Ning Yunqing before putting on a coat, shuffling back inside in his slippers. As soon as he left, the woman’s anger returned. She glared at Ning Yunqing with her weathered, triangular eyes. “You woke your brother up! Honestly, I can’t control you anymore! If you’re so capable, then leave on your own! If you go, don’t ever come back!” With that, she pushed Ning Yunqing out the front gate and bolted the door behind her.

Finally, peace. Ning Yunqing brushed the dust off her sleeves and began walking along the dirt path. She originally thought she had entered the set of a “Rural Love Story,” but after accessing the plot settings, she realized this was actually the miserable story of a rural “human bun” (a pushover).

After crossing through three worlds, it was only in this world that Ning Yunqing received a new name though she detested it for being dreadfully rustic: Ning Xiaohua (Little Flower). Ning Xiaohua was a country girl with a pair of parents who favored boys over girls and a spoiled younger brother.

The naming style of this family was very consistent, all reeking of rural flavor: the crooked head of the household, Ning Fugui (Rich Fortune); the rural woman, Zhu Cuihua (Jade Flower); and the rotten younger branch, Ning Dashu (Big Tree). Oh, and there was the equally fitting village name Pojiu (Broken Chive) Village.

The sister was named Little Flower and the brother Big Tree; Ning Yunqing scoffed. Even the names were biased, though fortunately she wasn’t “Dahua” (Big Flower), which would have been even more rustic. Ning Xiaohua was two years older than Ning Dashu, eighteen this year. According to a normal school age, she should be preparing for the college entrance exam, but because her ignorant parents believed a girl’s education was a waste, her schooling had been delayed.

It wasn’t until the village teacher noticed her always eavesdropping on classes that they told the Ning family that nine years of compulsory education was free. Since it was free, Ning Fugui agreed to let his daughter go to school. However, by then Ning Xiaohua was already ten years old, becoming the “over-aged” student in her class.

Ning Fugui was stingy with money. Thinking that going to high school would cost money, he hid her admission notice for the city’s key high school and directly cut off her education. Ning Xiaohua understood but played dumb, suffering in silence.

The village teacher was even more regretful and would occasionally come to the house to persuade the couple. Since persuasion didn’t bring money, Ning Fugui and Zhu Cuihua only offered lip service, making excuses that their daughter wasn’t suited for studying or that she wouldn’t be able to marry if she got too old, eventually driving the teacher out.

The reason Zhu Cuihua had been arguing with Ning Yunqing just now was that she had just sent off a teacher who had been painstakingly trying to convince her to let her daughter go to school. Zhu Cuihua was annoyed.

After finally getting rid of the teacher, she went inside to drink some plain water and felt uneasy: Why were all the village teachers playing lobbyists for her daughter? Did no one think about her son? To give birth to this son, she had lost her factory job, and the couple couldn’t survive in the city, which is why they returned to their hometown.

Currently, her family wasn’t wealthy, and their savings weren’t even enough to buy a house for her son in the county town; where would they get money for someone else’s future daughter-in-law’s education? Honestly, back then that old doctor clearly said she would have a son how did a “Hua’er” come out first?!

Zhu Cuihua was very distressed and felt a sense of imbalance. When she came out and saw the daughter now inhabited by Ning Yunqing’s soul, she felt even more displeased and started looking for trouble, leading to the scene just now.

This happened often. The original owner of this body, Ning Xiaohua, was long used to it. What Ning Yunqing didn’t expect was that despite being treated so differently by her family, Ning Xiaohua only complained in her heart and never showed it. It wasn’t until Ning Fugui realized he didn’t have enough money for his son’s vocational school housing and planned to “sell” his daughter by marrying her off to Uncle Li, a big farm owner in the neighboring village, that Ning Xiaohua truly couldn’t take it and ran away.

She had no money and couldn’t run far, reaching only the county town, where she took labor-intensive jobs that didn’t require an education, serving food and washing dishes. But how far was the county town from Pojiu Village? There were many people from the village working in the county town; someone saw her and told Ning Fugui and his wife. The two found her and, using the excuse that her workplace provided housing, demanded she give them money to buy a house for her brother.

Ning Xiaohua’s salary was low at the time, and her parents made a scene at the shop. She didn’t want to lose face and didn’t want to break ties with her family, so she was forced to give them money. Like Zhu Cuihua, Ning Fugui believed that once a daughter married out, she belonged to another family; a smart person takes as much money as possible for their son before the daughter marries.

Ning Fugui considered himself smart and repeatedly asked his daughter for money, resulting in almost all of Ning Xiaohua’s monthly salary ending up back in her parents’ hands. After exploiting his daughter for nearly three years, Ning Fugui finally saved enough for the down payment on a house in the county town for his son, effectively establishing their residency there.

Although they carried a loan of several hundred thousand, Ning Fugui didn’t mention it, and the villagers, being unaware, were very envious of his family. Ning Dashu also became a “hot commodity.” Aunts and relatives from the village constantly introduced potential partners to him, including wealthy farmers, but Ning Dashu had been so spoiled by his parents that he believed he was a “favored son of heaven.” He looked down on these country girls and insisted on finding one himself.

The couple pampered him; since he wanted to find his own, they let him. Ning Dashu had high aims but low abilities. He sought out several former vocational school classmates in the county town, but they rejected him because he had no job. Ning Dashu realized this was bad and needed to find a job but how? He looked down on jobs that were too lowly, and high-level jobs looked down on him.

Ning Dashu was anxious, and the Ning parents were even more frantic. At this juncture, Ning Xiaohua had been promoted to lobby manager, and her parents set their sights on her. Zhu Cuihua heard that hotel chefs earned high salaries, so she ordered her daughter to arrange for her son to become a head chef.

Ning Dashu didn’t even know how to cook, so Ning Xiaohua naturally couldn’t do it and could only make excuses. Zhu Cuihua got angry and made a scene in the hotel lobby. This caused a huge stir, and people close to Ning Xiaohua at the hotel advised her to leave and go somewhere far away.

Ning Xiaohua found this reasonable and finally made up her mind to take a train to New City for a fresh start. But she never expected that on the way to the train station, disaster would strike she was hit by a car. She was in critical condition and needed immediate surgery, but the Ning family hid far away, unwilling to pay. She could have lived if her leg had been amputated, but to avoid a future burden, they heartlessly watched their daughter die.

“So it’s an exaggerated realistic tragedy,” Ning Yunqing sighed, feeling both anger and sorrow for the original owner of her body. If Ning Xiaohua had stood her ground back then, things wouldn’t have been so bad. Fortunately, she was tough enough.

Ning Yunqing wasn’t worried about meeting the end described in the settings; she only worried about not being able to find her lover. Only a few people appeared in the plot description: Ning Xiaohua, Ning Dashu, Ning Fugui, Zhu Cuihua, plus unnamed village teachers and hotel colleagues. The clues were pitifully scarce.

Does she have to find her lover in the village? Ning Yunqing smiled bitterly: If she really found them in the village, they could start a “rural love story.” However, she didn’t believe the Main God would set her lover in a place as easy to find as a village.

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