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Cheng Xiao Xiao was quite aware of the situation the family was in. They were just starting out, if they really have to take on those gossipy women, they would only bring about bigger problems. So she would have to hold back for now.
"Ay, Xiao Xiao, it was all our fault. Otherwise, you should be looking for a husband right now!" Mrs. Cheng was filled with guilt. Her daughter was at the age of looking for a husband, but there was no suitable family around. And after the insult of those obnoxiously mean women, she felt even more guilty.
"Mom, don't say such things!" Cheng Xiao Xiao frowned lightly. She had no interest in looking for a husband so soon. She was only 16, back in her old life, she'd still be a kid going to school.
She saw herself as a child, but Mrs. Cheng thought otherwise. But with the current situation at home, there was nothing she could do. Sadly, she resigned, "Xiao Xiao, mom will find you a nice family."
"Mom, no rush. Really!" Cheng Xiao Xiao smiled and said, "Mom, I am going to start cooking lunch. We are having braised fish today!"
"Okay!" Mrs. Cheng understood that her daughter had no interest in continuing with this topic, so she stopped.
In the afternoon, the family enjoyed a serving of delicious braised fish. As expected, the three young ones screamed in joy. The two large fish was picked clean. Mrs. Cheng looked at the happy smiles on her sons and daughter and smiled herself.
After lunch, the sibling didn't even take a break before they called the dogs and ran out to play. After Cheng Xiao Xiao had finished the dishes, there was no one to be seen.
After walking outside and hearing the voices of her sibling from the back of the house, Cheng Xiao Xiao walked over there and saw them playing around the well and her color changed.
"Zheng Yuan, Zheng Bin, Lan Lan, you guys come back now!"
"Big sister!"
"Big sister, you are here!!"
"Big sister, how come you came too?"
The three young ones all started talking at the same time, especially when they saw her worried and upset look, the three of them exchanged looks, and all looked down from now.
"You guys want to die? Do you know how deep this well is? If you fall in you won't be able to climb out of it. This is not like the river outside, you can't drown in that!"
Cheng Xiao Xiao was angry and upset. She dragged the three of them away from the well. She was deadly afraid of them falling inside. At the same time, she regret not thinking about adding a fence or something around it to keep the young ones away from it.
"Big sister, what are you worried about? Big brother knows kung fu. He will come save us!" Said Zheng Bin begrudgingly.Little Lan Lan chimed in in the midst of all this, "Big sister, don't worry. Big brother is here too, he won't let us fall inside!"
"Shut up!" Shouted Cheng Xiao Xiao angrily.
They have never seen their big sister so angry before, the two youngest ones looked as though they have been scolded unjustly. Pouted, they didn't say anything else. Cheng Xiao Xiao gazed more time angrily, then focused on the older brother, "Did you bring them over here?"
"Big, big sister, I am sorry!" Cheng Zheng Yuan was already thirteen. Seeing how angry their big sister was, he apologized right away.
Cheng Xiao Xiao was still angry and continued to scold him, "Did you think you are invincible knowing that little bit of kung fu? If either one of them fall into the well, not even dad could save them, let along you. You think are you so brave to take them here!"
Her austere words made Cheng Zheng Yuan too afraid to rebut. He knew he shouldn't have taken the younger sibling there.
"Big, big sister, please don't be mad any more." Little Lan Lan tugged on her sleeves with her puppy eyes. "Big sister, it's all Lan Lan's fault. Lan Lan asked big brother to take her over here. Will you please forgive big brother?"
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