Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 142 - 139 Naive Idealism

Chapter 142: Chapter 139 Naive Idealism

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After Zhang Shanni’s family of three left, the villagers came back to their senses and most of them looked at Wang Guicai’s family of three with weird expressions. The majority of the villagers, with unsettled thoughts, dragged their feet and heavily walked away.

About twenty minutes later, Wang Junxuan groggily woke up.

After he opened his eyes, he was still a bit confused and unclear. What had happened to him? Why does Dad look so upset?

"Xuanxuan, how are you feeling now?"

Wang Guicai, after all, is a middle-aged man known for his composure, and his spirit is certainly stronger compared to the children. A few minutes after Zhang Shanni withdrew her spiritual power, he gradually regained consciousness.

When he noticed that something was wrong with his son and daughter, his heart raced with panic. One was lying down, unconscious, while the other sat foolishly, unresponsive to calls, and he was extremely pained and confused inside.

His mind was a blank mess and his thoughts were in turmoil. Throughout this time, Wang Guicai couldn’t dare to relax his attention towards his children for even a second.

Seeing his daughter as if her spirit had been crushed, sitting there dumbfounded and ignorant, he felt utterly helpless.

On the other hand, he was anxiously observing his only son while recalling the words Zhang Shanni had yelled at him, each sentence striking with weight!

Was it really his fault? Wang Guicai kept asking himself in his heart.

However, no one gave him an answer. Perhaps, the answer was already in his heart.

"Umm~" A soft moan brought Wang Guicai out of his pale stupor.

"Xuanxuan, are you awake?" Wang Guicai instinctively and anxiously asked his son, carefully observing him as he awoke.

Immediately, he noticed that his son’s complexion had returned to normal after waking up, showing no signs of the pain that had caused him to faint just twenty minutes earlier.

"Dad? How am I supposed to feel?"

Wang Junxuan looked at his dad bewilderedly, naturally straightened his waist, and sat up effortlessly.

When he saw his sister sitting at the foot of the bed, dazed and staring blankly, he looked up at his father in confusion, "Dad, why am I here? What’s wrong with my little sister?"

Only then did Wang Junxuan look around and realize not only did his sister appear stupefied, sitting still as a post and utterly motionless, her gaze vacant.

Around the doorway and windows, after looking around and seeing groups of villagers encircling their direction with ’I knew it’ expressions, he couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.

Wang Junxuan stood stiffly in front of the window, looking around in utter confusion.

"..." Wang Guicai, in response to his son’s amnesia-like questions, was silent for a while, his voice laden with profound helplessness, slowly explained: "Forget it, Xuanxuan, you and your sister should head home first. We’ll talk about everything at home."

"Oh..." Wang Junxuan, with his head white and swollen from the surrounding stares, and having always held deep respect for his father, obediently pulled his similarly bewildered sister to walk home with him.

Wang Xiuzhen was dragged home by Wang Junxuan.

Halfway there, Wang Junxuan’s head gradually cleared up, and he finally realized why he was at the village committee, and why his father showed such a conflicted and helpless expression!

Thinking back to the pain he had experienced, Wang Junxuan really had no desire to provoke it a second time.

He had thought that without Xie Jingchen, the Xie family’s remaining issues were minor. After he had forced Xie Jingzi into a ’fait accompli’ situation, how could the Xie family dare do anything to him? Moreover, he was willing to marry Xie Jingzi, and even if Xie Jingchen was angered, for Xie Jingzi’s sake, he wouldn’t do anything to him—

In this way, the trouble he had caused in the county town might just be resolved with Xie Jingchen stepping in to help him!

Wang Junxuan’s imagination was beautiful, but he simply didn’t understand that every issue has two sides, and he only imagined the good ones, without considering:

What if Xie Jingzi thought of suicide? That would make them sworn enemies, and Xie Jingchen would wish he could kill him immediately!

What if Xie Jingzi is unwilling? What if she prefers death to marrying?

What if the Xie Family is unwilling? They would rather stay in the Old Xie Family and not go out, supporting her themselves rather than letting her marry into the Wang Family and suffer!

Can he still imagine that after forcing himself on someone else’s sister, he could ’successfully’ ’marry’ her and bring her home? And expect her to willingly work and protect him thoroughly?

How big must one’s imagination be to think so broadly?

Still, the ’naively simple’ Wang Junxuan who’s beyond help, he won’t think of these things, because he has always been an ’idealist’ and simply refuses to accept the negative side of his perfect imaginations.

In fact, it’s not entirely his fault for having such thoughts. In that era, there were truly not a few families who did such things. The examples were all there, making Wang Junxuan’s ’inevitability’ not seem so abrupt.

Compared to Wang Junxuan, who recovered from his pain with a relaxed attitude, Wang Xiuzhen’s expression was still trapped in a nightmare, staggering with a face overwhelmed by fear.

Let’s not talk about how Wang Guicai ’taught his son in front of the hall, and instructed his wife by the bedside’ after he returned home.

After sending his children away, Wang Guicai pretended to normally organize medicinal herbs, but only he knew that his hands were trembling.

Just the thought of Zhang Shan Ni’s ’sky-reaching’ methods, coupled with his son’s excessive actions this time, Wang Guicai could not feel at ease.

Ever since he moved to Qingfeng Village more than ten years ago, other than the first three or four years when he had to face some disgusting incidents, the whole Qingshan Team treated him with great respect and rewards, and no one dared to disgust him anymore.

After all, this era was just seven or eight years, such ’advanced and bad’ ’major incidents,’ in the countryside it was like setting off a huge whirlwind!

The villagers, out of the fact that Xie Jingzi was the victim and was also seriously appealed by the village chief and the village cadres, were not allowed to spread rumors and tarnish the girl’s reputation. If someone acted rashly, that could result in a proper loss of life!

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On the other side, after receiving a letter from Zhang Shan Ni, the three brothers of the Zhang Family finally rushed back during the winter harvest break.

However, they returned just as the busy farming season began. The land of their own, their uncle’s, and their grandmother’s had not been properly harvested yet.

The busy harvest season only lasted two weeks, and their own land was already more than what the Xie Family had by two acres. This was because the Zhang Family originally did not lack for people, with three half-grown boys alone.

In the past, they had to reserve an additional two acres of land for ’relief’ for their dog-skin relative, Zhang Zhiguo.

And then there was Aunt Zhou Dahua’s family, where only one relative was alive, and she herself was living with her cousin. Strictly speaking, a half-grown girl shouldn’t need much grain, but the problem was that Aunt was short-sighted and always insisted on grain and money.

No matter what, there was no reason for someone surnamed Zhou to take on the surname of Zhang Family and stay for long, so this forced Zhou Dahu to rely on the Zhou Family for grain all year round, especially during the summer and winter harvests when they demanded the Zhang Family’s help.

However, that niece was the only offspring left from their own nephew; Zhou Dahua couldn’t just ignore her.

By the time the three Zhang brothers finished their busy work, it was the last day of the winter harvest break. It wasn’t that they didn’t care about Zhang Shan Ni, but they were severely pressed for time with back-to-back harvests. They were so tired but made up their minds that even if it killed them, they would see their cousin Zhang Shan Ni first.

Because the three brothers studied in two different places, the two who were closer had no trouble discussing the matter. Upon receiving the letter from their cousin, the two were almost ecstatic, but upon reading the content, they felt extremely helpless.

However, it was the first time they saw their cousin mention in a letter what she wanted, and the two brothers happened to have a little money on them and were familiar with the town, so they agreed to go to the ’Recycling Station’ and pick out some good things for their cousin.

Of course, the main thing was that their cousin really wanted medical books, which could only be found in the recycling store!

Now that the three brothers had finally finished their hard labor, they were eager to see their little cousin~~

Thinking of their obedient, smart, and clever sister, the three Zhang siblings looked at each other and all showed a smile on their dark faces.