Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 620 - 616: Became the Xie Family’s Adopted Daughter

Chapter 620: Chapter 616: Became the Xie Family’s Adopted Daughter

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Yan Jinsu, though not well, was gently present throughout the gathering. She did not drink alcohol, but she could certainly participate by drinking plain water instead.

As a result, Brother Rong and his group didn’t feel neglected by their sister-in-law at all; in fact, they were particularly touched. Just from observing what she chose to eat, it was clear that she was prioritizing a gentle and nurturing diet at the moment.

Whenever Xie Jingchen was toasted, Yan Jinsu did not object but simply smiled and watched the camaraderie among these military comrades with amusement.

Yan Jinsu didn’t quite understand these men’s bonds, but seeing her husband drink with such ease, she knew he must have an astonishing tolerance for alcohol.

Furthermore, her man possessed spiritual power, and he had a little cheat: the Space Button.

If she were to still prevent Xie Jingchen from ’interacting’ with his comrades, that would be truly foolish of her!

Xie Jingchen appeared to drink heartily, but each of the warriors drank with extreme self-control. After they got a little tipsy, they would pour themselves strong tea to sober up and not drink more good wine than necessary.

They weren’t new to following Xie Luocha; they knew exactly where their leader’s boundaries lay.

After about two hours of lively drinking, the group left the Xie Family in small clusters.

With so many people, it was clear the Xie Family couldn’t host them all. To be fair to everyone, it was best that the guests left together – and that turned out to be quite nice.

After the Winter Solstice gathering, the next reunion would likely be after the New Year, so some people found a new place to continue their banter after leaving the head’s house.

The revolutionary camaraderie among military friends is often solidified at the dining table. A group of tall and robust guards picked a clean establishment and even booked a place to sleep before beginning to drink seriously, making sure even in private to fulfill all of Xie Luocha’s requirements.

Once the Winter Solstice was over, life returned to its peaceful rhythm.

Yan Jinsu’s health was still unstable, so Xie Jingchen didn’t want her to worry too much. Xiaojiu and Xiao Shi were also very sensible, staying in the west wing only about three or four hours during the day.

Normally, they’d play with Xiao Si, Xiao Wu, and Xiaoqi, learn to talk, to walk, and in the blink of an eye, December had passed.

On New Year’s Day, Xie Jingchen made a rare departure from home. He had many responsibilities and, though reluctant to leave, sometimes had to be away for a day or two.

To be honest, with dutiful guards and security personnel at home, Xie Jingchen wasn’t too worried about Yan Jinsu’s safety, considering his hometown was Y County after all.

Following the incident with Yan Jinsu, the Zhou family felt that the village shouldn’t neglect defense just because there was no war.

The bustling farming season leaves no spare labor, but now it was the slack winter. The kids wanting to learn martial arts need to keep up their strength; the simplest and most direct way was patrolling.

Groups of four or five youths regularly patrolled the village roads on schedule, and true enough, lesser ruffians from other villages no longer dared to visit Qingfeng Village.

Before, troublemakers from Old Lin Village and Shanglin Village liked to harass widow’s homes in the village. Now, with patrols organized by the village’s youths, these lesser ruffians from other villages were scared off from causing trouble.

Suddenly, the safety of Qingfeng Village improved significantly.

Within a month, the village’s youth had beefed up like water-injected melons, robust and eye-catching.

This was thanks to the strong support from Zhou Weiwu and Zhou Weihai, who wisely managed the village’s labor force. Those willing to learn martial arts and join the patrols could eat for free at the village courtyard; sticking to this for a month had substantially boosted the village’s spirit and vitality.

Especially since Xie Jingchen knew that these changes were all due to his little wife’s initiative, he fully supported these reforms.

The village’s youth, having nothing else to do, also liked to come to the Xie Family Courtyard to learn from the dutiful guards. Rong Body Boxing wasn’t a state secret, and Ma Shan Ding, seeing that most of the youth wanted to learn, taught some moves whenever he had spare time.

After half a month, most of the village youth could fluidly perform all the moves of Rong Body Boxing.

The only thing that Xie Jingchen couldn’t rest easy about, it seemed, was the ’time bomb’ that was Wang Chunmei at home.

He didn’t know what this little village girl was thinking, afraid that Yan Jinsu would really listen to Xie Jingchen and dislike her.

So, she very calculatedly ’confessed’ first. After all, a little village girl does have her own small schemes, but she isn’t as adept at ’plotting’ as city folks. Her admitting her faults was more direct, as she laid bare her thoughts in one breath, standing there and swearing:

She, Wang Chunmei, truly no longer harbored any desires for Xie Jingchen, putting forth that if she ever harbored any feelings in the future, she deserved to meet a terrible end, to die without a place to be buried!

In those times, taking an oath wasn’t something taken lightly like in future generations. In the rural areas, people still very much believed in ’deities’, and generally wouldn’t swear carelessly.

Wang Chunmei, in order to show her loyalty to ’Sister Yan’, even dissected her own psychological changes and presented them truthfully to Yan Jinsu, conveying her line of inner monologue. Finally, Wang Chunmei opened up her heart about Xie Jingchen, no longer harboring any ’improper thoughts’ towards him.

To say that Yan Jinsu had no knots in her heart, how could that be possible?

But, when Wang Chunmei spoke of how she originally only had an expectance for twins, she still harbored a last shred of extravagant hopes. But when she heard again that Yan Jinsu was pregnant, her last bit of hope disappeared.

Although she wasn’t a good person, she also didn’t want to let her selfish desires harm the happiness of many.

If she was able to make just Sister Yan unhappy, she could still speak righteously, as she would be the happy one in the end.

However, after Xie Jingchen made it clear that without Yan Jinsu, there would be no place for her, Wang Chunmei, and if she were to still selfishly harm everyone, then she would truly be an ’evil person’.

She could be cruel to others, but she couldn’t be cruel to herself. A man who had no heart for her at all was not worth her bearing all the moral condemnation and the shackles of conscience.

Wang Chunmei had received education, she wasn’t ’foolish’.

She said, her staying at the Xie Family wasn’t for Xie Jingchen, but for herself.

She wanted to change her own destiny through her own efforts. She didn’t want to spend her life stuck in the countryside, becoming the wife of a mud-legged farmer, then continuing like the elders in her family, only able to look after a small piece of farmland and toiling for their entire life...

Yan Jinsu thought about it, and she believed Xie Jingchen. She wasn’t afraid of this ’pitfall’ that was Wang Chunmei.

As for Wang Chunmei’s declaration, she believed Wang Chunmei’s heartfelt admission at this moment.

But people’s hearts can change easily. In order to get along better, Xie Jingchen very generously had Zhou Xiuhua, the old mother, formally acknowledge Wang Chunmei as an ’adoptive daughter’.

Putting other things aside, Wang Chunmei’s ability to care for children was truly top-notch, she was genuinely attentive when it came to household chores, she was clean and tidy, and she was serious about her work.

In this regard, she greatly satisfied both Zhou Xiuhua and Yan Jinsu.

Moreover, Wang Chunmei was originally from the same village as Xie Jingzi and was good sisters with her. In the past when they went to school, they often chatted and shopped together.

When Zhou Xiuhua heard from San’er that, to make things sound better, she should acknowledge Wang Chunmei as her adoptive daughter, she was truly stupefied.

But after thinking it over, she felt it was quite a good idea. After all, Wang Chunmei was still an eighteen-year-old young girl, and it was inevitable that staying in the same room with the Xie Family men day after day would lead to trouble.

However, once she recognized Wang Chunmei as her adoptive daughter, then Wang Chunmei would only be able to be an ’adoptive daughter’ to the Xie Family for this lifetime!

If Wang Chunmei did not respect herself and ended up in a relationship with a man of the Xie Family, the first to be scolded would definitely be the Wang Family.

No matter what, society would first criticize Wang Chunmei, as a woman.

Xie Jingchen’s move was a masterstroke, directly forcing Wang Chunmei to declare her stance!

Once she became an adoptive daughter of the Xie Family, she could no longer become the Xie Family’s daughter-in-law—