Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 122 - 120: Having You as a Broom Star

Chapter 122: Chapter 120: Having You as a Broom Star

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As soon as Zhang Shanni spoke, nobody dared to deliberately make things difficult for Wang Xiuzhen anymore.

From another aspect, it also reflected how poor the Wang Family’s reputation was!

If she were Wang Xiuzhen, she would willingly accept the village chief’s punishment.

At least by doing so, such a ’minor mistake’ could be lightly glossed over. Anyone who dares to stupidly bring up this issue again would be expressing dissatisfaction with the village chief’s arrangements and handling!

By that time, without her needing to say another word, Village Chief Xie Jingqiang, for his own reputation, would make an effort to justify her.

However, Wang Xiuzhen and her father Wang Guicai, one being overly naive and opinionated; the other overly anxious out of paternal love, did something foolish.

Village Chief Xie Jingqiang, who became the village chief, was certainly not dumb. Hence, after hearing Zhang Shanni’s words and exchanging glances with his uncle Xie Tiesheng who nodded, Xie Jingqiang immediately responded.

"Brother Xie, I..." Wang Guicai ran gasping to the village chief, trying to interject before he caught his breath, but was cut off by the village chief gesturing with his hand.

Village Chief Xie Jingqiang patted his shoulder reassuringly, preempting Wang Guicai and gently said following Zhang Shanni’s implications:

"Brother Wang, don’t panic, this was just a misunderstanding, everything will be fine once discussed. The child, after all, is still young, mistakes are inevitable, that’s okay, we can correct them! We’ve been neighbors for years, we know what your family is like. We, all being elders of comrade Wang Xiuzhen, have watched her grow up and will definitely not deliberately make things difficult.

Brother Wang, you relax, don’t be anxious! Us old officials wouldn’t do something to trouble a young lady, right? Let’s do this, since the parties involved are not pursuing the matter anymore, let’s just let it go. From now on, just be more careful and pay more attention. Alright, since it’s settled, let’s all disperse!"

Village Chief Xie Jingqiang, in the minute while the other was catching his breath, rattled off a series of words, not giving Wang Guicai a chance to reply, and very understandingly patted his shoulder again, whispering:

"We’re both fathers; I know you love your daughter, and I won’t make things hard for her, don’t worry! Alright, take your child home and teach her well, I’ll help my auntie back home first, this situation has really been blown out of proportion!"

Saying this, Xie Jingqiang didn’t stop moving; he waved to disperse the crowd while also helping Zhou Xiuhua along with his uncle. Zhou Xiuhua, upon hearing the Third Son’s Wife say to let it go, was initially very upset, but a firm handshake from her husband bewildered her, and owing to her natural trust in her spouse, she then calmly awaited the aftermath.

Only a short while later, she honestly heard her village chief nephew repeatedly calling her ’child,’ ’little girl,’ and then she realized, though not openly vindicative, the Third Son’s Wife had indeed set a trap for her!

’Child, little girl,’ in the countryside, are not terms of endearment, especially when repeatedly reminded by others, but, in fact, when someone is actually not ’young’, it’s a clear mockery.

Wang Xiuzhen, being almost twenty years old, even a year or two older than the Third Son’s Wife, is now categorized as a ’child, little girl,’ effectively making her a grown child?!

Wang Guicai rushed over quickly, now panting so heavily that his mind was cloudy, completely failing to grasp the other’s intentions. Hearing that the village chief ’dared not’ punish his daughter, he could only feel self-satisfied, completely blind to others’ thinly veiled mocking glances.

While initially unaware of any impropriety, Wang Xiuzhen was joyously pulling her father, laughing upon hearing the village chief wouldn’t deal with her, feeling triumphant inside. When she turned around, she caught a disdainful look that was all too familiar from her dreams, falling upon her and her father, causing her heart to seize suddenly.

Wang Xiuzhen, perhaps influenced by the inexplicable dream she had, grew slightly more mature. Seeing the eyes that had watched her in her dreams for three long years, her hand clutching her father’s arm suddenly tightened—

The negative emotions labeled as ’Broom Star’ or ’fiance and family jinx’, surged forth all at once, causing her to glaringly peer at those villagers she caught red-handed.

The mocking expression of the counterpart, when caught, twisted into an awkward shrug and swiftly, they scampered away.

"Ssss, what’s wrong with Zhenzhen?" Wang Guicai felt the pain from his daughter’s tight grip and turned his head in confusion, inadvertently allowing Xie Jingqiang to slip away.

Following his daughter’s gaze, he only saw scattered villagers who did not stop.

From an angle Wang Guicai couldn’t see, many villagers ’ptooed’ silently, showing their disgust at Wang Guicai’s unjust actions internally.

"..." Wang Xiuzhen, however, couldn’t hear the slight concern in her father’s voice at the moment, her mind was filled with those malicious, mocking, disdainful looks, replaying over and over like a stuck record!

At the same time, she subconsciously delved deeply into what wrong she might have done to be treated with such disdain by the villagers!

Seeing his daughter standing there with a blank stare, as if in a daze, Wang Guicai was so frightened that he touched his daughter’s head and gently called out, "Zhenzhen, what’s wrong?"

Wang Xiuzhen, as if stung, snapped out of it and immediately upon seeing Zhang Shanni about to leave, she rushed up frantically, trying to grab her while shouting in panic, "Zhang Shanni, was it you? It was definitely you, you must have done something, right?"

It must have been Zhang Shanni who did something to make the villagers look at her with those eyes again!

She thought that before her dream, she had avoided any involvement with Xie Jingchen, and all the suffering she endured in the dream would now be borne by Zhang Shanni!

Never again would she have to innocently bear the name ’Broom Star’ of jinxing her fiance and family, ending up marrying an old, hunched man!

Although her dream was incomplete, she couldn’t even figure out how she was only a fiance jinx, questioning why it involved family and why she only had a vague impression of the old, hunched figure.

Now, feeling that it was just a dream, and the events seemed to occur over the next about three months, she couldn’t remember at all what might happen next in the dream, only a somber imprint remaining: jinxing the fiance and family.

She had absolutely no idea who was the family member she supposedly jinxed.

Even because of Zhang Shanni’s unexpected appearance, she grew skeptical about the dream.

Because the dream was unsettling, she couldn’t help but be a little guarded.

At that moment, confronted with the same look from her dreams, her psychological defenses collapsed, and she uncontrollably shouted at Zhang Shanni as if to vent all the frustrations that had been haunting her these days!

"Right, it’s all because of you, this Broom Star, that I am cursed—"