Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 516 - 511: Troublesome Matters When Returning to Hometown 46 [Mass Release 40]

Chapter 516: Chapter 511: Troublesome Matters When Returning to Hometown 46 [Mass Release 40]

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"You, are you Second Brother Xie’s wife?" The leading young man, with his eyes shining brightly, looked at Yan Jinsu.

"Um, who are you?" Yan Jinsu was stopped and thought there was going to be trouble, but to her surprise, a group of young men, actually excitedly gathered around her for introductions!

"Hey, Chen Saozi, I’m Xie Jingbin, I’m from the seven branches of Brother Chen’s clan."

"Aunt Chen, I’m Xie Yuting, from the fourth branch of the clan!"

"Chen Saozi, me too, me too! I am Zhou Guoqing, from the third branch of the Zhou family!" The youngest boy, sixteen or seventeen, squeezed behind Xie Jingbin and Xie Jingtian, and exclaimed lively.

Yan Jinsu looked bewildered at the three overly familiar youngsters opposite her. Three more youths behind them had flushed side profiles, not daring to act rashly, but their expressions obviously showed they also wanted to rush up and introduce themselves.

Yan Jinsu quickly spoke, "Um, hello everyone, is there anything you need?" All of you big young men, stopping a young wife like her, the gossipy women in the village are going to start talking.

So frustrating! Hidden behind the old tree, Wang Qingmei angrily glared at the troublemaker Xie Jingbin, then looked at Yan Jinsu’s silhouette with a face full of indignation.

Unfortunately, though her calculations were good, thinking to make the villagers see Yan Jinsu as a fierce woman to strike her down, she didn’t consider that Qingfeng Village was full of dissatisfaction due to the village elders not letting these youngsters go up the mountain!

Which seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man doesn’t want to take a walk in the mountains?

Especially since parents of the previous generation, having experienced it themselves, naturally harbored a sense of terror towards Qingfeng Mountain and absolutely forbade their children from going up. When the children were small, any of them who dared to sneak up were beaten quite severely.

Especially since there were two incidents in the village where children didn’t return after going up the mountain, thereafter, the village children did not dare mention it anymore.

Where there is oppression there is resistance. Growing children without the experiences of the older generation harbor a fearless heart—others might not, but why not themselves? Just because there were incidents, parents imposed strict measures, so no one dared mention going up the mountain again.

Xie Jingchen was willing to take them up the mountain but only up halfway at most, any further was off limits. Since there were too many people on the mountain and Xie Jingchen was only one person, it was impossible to look after everyone.

For safety reasons, of course, they wouldn’t venture too recklessly.

Besides, in Xie Jingchen’s eyes, it was just about taking the village kids up the mountain for a bit of experience. If he made them too brave, and something happened after he was gone, it wouldn’t be easy for the family members left in the village.

Just the idle gossip was enough for the family to endure. Xie Jingchen, a deeply thoughtful and scheming person, how could he possibly allow his family to be in a vulnerable position.

Thus, those half-grown youngsters couldn’t help but feel aggrieved!

Unexpectedly, besides showing great strength a few days ago, Yan Jinsu could also hunt!

This delighted the youths who were enthusiastic about hunting, their instinctive reaction was to gather around Yan Jinsu with silly smiles—

"Aunt Chen, I want to go hunting on the mountain too, can you take me please?"

The youngest, Zhou Guoqing at sixteen years old, had the thickest skin. Seeing the gentle smile on Yan Jinsu’s face, his brain short-circuited and he blurted out his deepest desire.

The young men beside him, upon hearing this, all had their eyes wide open, all looking brightly at Yan Jinsu.

Zhou Weimin, hearing this from behind, wanted to give his nephew a big thumbs up—truly a good brother, a good nephew!

"Um!" Yan Jinsu took a step back, not because she was afraid, but because being stared at made her scalp tingle.

Six youths stood in two rows in front of her, just like children waiting for candy, making Yan Jinsu feel quite embarrassed!

"Aunt Chen, we are very obedient and strong, please take us up the mountain for a new experience!"

Yan Jinsu was stunned for a moment, but quickly shook her head in response:

"Great-nephew, it’s not suitable! Sorry, I can’t help with this, I have something at home and need to go back first."

With that, Yan Jinsu turned around to avoid the group of young people in front of her and hurried home.

If she didn’t leave, she feared that further pleading would drive her mad.

Adolescents, with faces full of longing, made her feel utterly uncomfortable. It’s just a trip to the mountain, she wondered how the elders in the village even think...

What else could they think, if not cherish their lives?

Without having lived through that era, how could one understand? The children, one after another, either died young from starvation or illness, or went up the mountain to find food but ended up being doomed.

Thinking of those famine-stricken years in the early fifties, all the older generation in the village couldn’t help but tremble with fear.

"Oh dear, I really want to go up the mountain!" Zhou Guoqing cried with a somber face, watching Yan Jinsu disappear in an instant. With his naive mind, unlike his older brothers who think more, he wailed in sorrow.

"Guoqing, she’s gone, stop howling, it’s annoying!" Zhou Weimin knocked on his head, annoyed.

"You think it’s only you? Who doesn’t want to go! But didn’t Chun Mei invite us here to pick wild fruits? Why hasn’t she appeared yet?" Xie Jingbin remembered their original purpose only after Yan Jinsu had left.

Wang Chunmei is Xie Yuting’s cousin on her mother’s side, so she grew up with them. Over time, everyone treated the sensible Wang Chunmei as their sister. Hearing that she wanted to go up the mountain to pick some wild fruits for New Year’s, they volunteered to help.

It was almost evening, yet no one had appeared?!

"Brother Bin, I have been waiting for you guys over there for a while now, what are you doing here? It’s going to get dark soon!"

"Oh~coming!"

The six of them responded and quickly ran forward—

At the foot of the mountain, in the deepest part of the old fruit orchard, there were two extremely old trees, one a persimmon tree and the other an olive tree. Whether due to soil conditions or geomancy, the fruits hung from August or September all the way until early winter after the autumn harvest.

The preserved fruits made from these were especially delicious, both sticky and sweet, hence many people from Qingfeng Village liked to pick them for their New Year’s fruit.

These two old trees were very ancient, at least forty or fifty years old, and indeed were planted by the ancestors of the third branch of the Xie Family, but Xie Tiesheng did not oppose villagers coming here to pick them as long as they did not damage the tree trunks.

Because these old fruit trees were planted by the ancestors of the third Xie branch, when Xie Tiesheng wanted to build a new house here, nobody dared to object.

"Oh, so Chun Mei, you went inside ahead of us. We just saw Brother Chen’s wife! Seeing the game she carried, I really wanted to go up the mountain!" Zhou Weimin ran to Wang Chunmei, touching his head while lamenting pitifully.

"Please don’t, Brother Bin, Brother Min, don’t go up the mountain without permission. If the elders find out, it won’t end well, and you’re surely in for a harsh ’cane-braised meat’ punishment!

Besides, there are packs of wolves on Qing Mountain, don’t forget, the child from the second branch of Xie family vanished on the mountain!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Chunmei thought to herself that this was bad. She only intended Yan Jinsu to be slighted, not to harm these big brothers and younger brothers here, so she quickly spoke up to dissuade them.