Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 37: Chapter 37: Turns out There’s a Space

Chapter 37 -37: Turns out There’s a Space

It was quite small, roughly only as big as a ping-pong table; she could walk across it in just a few steps.

The soil was black and looked very loose.

There was nothing on the land, and the surroundings were vast and boundless.

She felt as if she were standing on this land, but at the same time, she was acutely aware that she was still sitting under the yellow-skinned fruit tree in the courtyard. This sensation terrified Chiang Xiao.

At that moment, she vaguely smelled a faint scent of medicinal herbs.

Chiang Xiao looked down at the slightly wilted herb in her hand and suddenly remembered: it was right after she picked up this herb that she saw this piece of land.

“Hey, Little, you’re amazing! You actually swindled Five Yuan and a basket of eggs from Guiying!” Song Xiyun’s voice abruptly brought Chiang Xiao back to her senses.

With a jolt, the land before her eyes vanished, and she was still sitting on the stone bench.

Glancing up, she saw Song Xiyun standing on the other side of the courtyard wall, munching on sunflower seeds, spitting the shells into her courtyard.

Chiang Xiao’s brow furrowed deeply, suddenly feeling that, compared to other matters, there was something even more important at hand.

That was to build the courtyard wall higher to keep the people from the Old Chiang Family from peeking over all the time, destroying any sense of privacy in her own yard, just like the one with Song Xiyun—it was annoying.

Seeing that she got no response, Song Xiyun pouted her lips, continued cracking seeds, and spat the shells into her side while saying, “Little, now that you have money, go to the grocery store, weigh out some candy, and bring it back for Dongdong. He loves sweets.”

Chiang Xiao immediately scoffed.

She knew someone would be jealous of the Five Yuan.

But really, where did Song Xiyun get the gall? She was pushed into the water by Ding Dani and only asked for Five Yuan as compensation; now her family was so poor they were clanging for cash. Let alone spending the Five Yuan in urgent needs, even if she wanted to buy snacks and gobble them all up herself, it wasn’t the turn of the Old Chiang Family to benefit!

The Dongdong that Song Xiyun mentioned, whose full name was Chiang Lidong, was the Old Chiang Family’s first male grandchild, just six years old this year. The elderly couple, Chiang Songtao and Ho Laidi, doted on him like a precious gem.

And it was precisely because Song Xiyun bore this favoured male child that Ho Laidi was extra tolerant of her.

In the Old Chiang Family, Chiang Lidong’s status was only slightly lower than that of Chiang Yuequn, just by a little bit.

Chiang Yuequn, the youngest son of Chiang Songtao and Ho Laidi, was seventeen years old; Chiang Xiao even had to address him as her little uncle.

“Auntie, Dongdong is not my son; why should I buy him candy? Whoever gave birth to him should buy it.”

As she spoke, Chiang Xiao stood up, took a broom from the corner of the wall and a dustpan, and quickly swept the sunflower seed shells off the ground into the dustpan. Then, she lifted it and poured the contents over towards the courtyard wall, causing dust to land on Song Xiyun’s face and body.

Song Xiyun started screaming and jumping, while Chiang Xiao had already dropped the broom and entered the main house.

“Chiang Xiao! You damned girl, what’s with your attitude? Get out here!”

Song Xiyun’s angry voice came in, but Chiang Xiao simply locked the door of the main house.

In the past, she had often played the maidservant for Dongdong, and whenever her grandparents had something tasty, Song Xiyun would often forcefully take it for her son, claiming that as the eldest grandchild of the Chiang Family, everyone should indulge and prioritize him.

She would not be so foolish from now on.

Chiang Xiao entered the inner room and thought again of the black land she had “seen” with her consciousness. Her heart stirred, and suddenly the scenery in front of her changed, and she was standing on that black land once more.

This time, she was truly standing on the black soil.

Chiang Xiao was dumbfounded.

In her previous life, she had never discovered this patch of Black Land.

Could it be a space? A small space without anything?

But, but, but what use could it be?