CHAPTER 107: CHAPTER 101 BROTHER-IN-LAW QIN MING

"Qin Ming, come and give a hand, my sister is here! Let’s move this stuff to the storage room first."

Jiang Yue looked at Qin Ming, her eyes filled with tenderness.

When Jiang Yue spoke, it was different from how she addressed Jiang Xiaoxiao, very gentle, a gentle warmth flowing in.

Now it was even more so.

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt complicated as she looked at her elder sister, knowing she was someone who valued relationships deeply.

If her elder sister didn’t like Qin Ming, she absolutely wouldn’t have married him.

But in doing so, her sister walked the same path as before.

She didn’t want her sister to suffer an early tragic death like in her past life.

Her biggest goal, in reliving this life, was to ensure her tragically fated relatives could live happy and joyful lives.

She wanted to change her sister’s life.

She wanted her sister to leave this place.

Never to be hurt by this place again.

Yet she never expected that upon her return, her elder sister had already married Qin Ming.

And it had happened much earlier than before.

When she arrived, her sister’s letter hadn’t mentioned anything about a wedding.

She had only been here a few months.

Her elder sister’s belly was already this big, which meant that when she enrolled to go to the countryside, her sister was already married.

It was all too unexpected.

Jiang Xiaoxiao remained silent.

As soon as Qin Ming heard it was his sister-in-law!

He rubbed his nose, instantly understanding where the hostility came from.

Their marriage was only just known to her family, of course they would have opinions about him.

Looking at Qin Ming, with his cheerful and generous smile, he said nothing and moved the food directly into the storage room.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sighed deeply.

To be honest, Qin Ming wasn’t bad, he looked decent, and he was cheerful and humorous, by nature honest and gentle.

He had no bad habits, didn’t smoke or drink.

She couldn’t say Qin Ming was bad, this former brother-in-law was a good person.

In everyone’s eyes, Qin Ming was a great guy, good to everyone.

A person everyone called honest, a good man.

But he was also foolishly filial.

It was precisely because of his honesty and gentleness, always yielding to his parents, always taking care of his younger siblings, that he caused her elder sister to suffer so much grievance.

It was also because of such a Qin Ming, that his father selfishly trapped her sister in this place for his son.

Believing that her sister’s kind nature would help Qin Ming and the kids move to the city if things were made clear.

But Qin Ming’s father wouldn’t let his son leave, he knew the implications.

He just didn’t want his son to leave, with no one to care for the family in his absence.

Qin Ming was the pillar of the house, an altruistic old ox.

If Qin Ming left, who would feed all the younger siblings?

This selfish thought led the team leader—Qin Ming’s father—to forcibly keep her sister here, causing her sister to contemplate running away one snowy night alone.

But at this stage, what could she still say?

Should she ask her sister to get a divorce, to not have the child in her womb?

That would be too unkind.

"Yue’er! Let your sister come inside, you shouldn’t be standing either, get warm inside, I’ll go boil water for you two, sister-in-law, have a seat, I’ll be right back." Qin Ming greeted warmly, and indeed turned around and went into the kitchen.

This was his wife’s family, meeting them for the first time, even if it was a sister-in-law, he had to be hospitable.

Jiang Yue pulled her sister into the house.

The house was very clean.

This yard had only three rooms, this must be the main room where the couple lived.

It was like a suite, inside was a large kang (traditional heatable brick bed).

On it was a kang table, the furniture inside was half-new.

But the windows still had faded double happiness characters pasted on them.

It was clear, the marriage took place here, some time ago.

Of course, after all, Qin Ming was the eldest son of the team leader.

When the team leader’s involved, not arranging a room for his son would surely be inappropriate.

Jiang Yue had her sister sit down.

Seeing her sister’s face, Jiang Yue could tell she was puzzled, also quite worried.

"Say what’s on your mind, Xiaoxiao, I know you’ve got a lot to say but didn’t ask on the way here for fear of being laughed at. Your temper has changed a lot now, not like before when you spoke without regard.

Whatever you had to say would come out all at once."

Jiang Yue took out a candy box, opened it to reveal sunflower seeds and peanuts, with a few sweet candies on top.

She pushed it to her sister.

Her sister used to love these snacks.

"Sis, what’s going on here? The family didn’t know anything about your marriage. If I hadn’t come to see you, were you not even going to tell the family you were married? The child is almost here!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was truly angry, her sister’s actions destroyed herself.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was heartbroken and desperate; all her efforts were to save her family, but she never expected.

Her sister in this life would marry half a year earlier than in the last life, with her belly already this big.

"Xiaoxiao, don’t be like this. I didn’t tell the family because it happened suddenly, at that time, the cart we were riding tipped over, and your brother-in-law got seriously injured saving me. He was almost dead. My in-laws cried and begged me to marry Qin Ming to bring some good luck, and you know, since he saved me, when he was nearly gone, I thought, at least repay his kindness somehow. But then, just after we got the marriage certificate, he got better immediately. The doctors said it was a miracle. Your brother-in-law treats me well, so I thought since we were married, let’s just be together, and then we had this child."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded, anyone who heard this would see it as a blatant trap.

This was a pit they dug for her sister, and she just jumped right in.

"Sister, how could you be so foolish? How could things be so coincidental? I think their family set you up, colluding with the doctors to deceive you, how could you believe this? What can I say about you!"

Jiang Yue was stunned, not expecting her sister to say this.

Seeing her sister’s little face flushed red with anger, cheeks puffed up, like a little squirrel.

Her angry look really made one feel both love and heartache, she couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"You, you’re such a child, you must have read too many novels. Your mind full of who-knows-what all day long? Where are there so many plots and schemes? Your brother-in-law is a very good, extremely honest person, even if someone else deceived me, he wouldn’t."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was speechless, knowing that no matter what she said now, her sister wouldn’t believe it.

"Sister-in-law, come! Have some water. I specially added sugar for you, Yue’er sit down, why stand with your big belly? Sit on the kang, you two talk for a while, I’ll go get some meat, we’ll make dumplings for lunch.

Sister-in-law, you’ve arrived, but you shouldn’t bring so much food over here. Have you brought all your own rations? I heard your farm has already started production quotas. You don’t have much of your own rations, you can’t bring them all to us.

Rest assured, I can support your sister, and won’t let her suffer at all. Even if I go hungry, she and the child won’t."

The firmness in his words, Jiang Xiaoxiao suspected he overheard her, saying this for her to hear.

Afraid the sister-in-law would split them up.

"Alright, alright, Xiaoxiao already brought it over, are you going to make her take it all the way back now? Go start cooking. I’ll chat with Xiaoxiao for a bit."

Jiang Yue hurried her husband out, mainly afraid her sister’s temper would flare up and give Qin Ming a scolding, leaving him embarrassed.

Qin Ming looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao, her face clouded over, shuddering inside, he put on a smiling face and went to cook.

The sister-in-law was scary indeed.

Qin Ming was deeply worried, fearing that the in-laws wouldn’t be friendly either.

Future prospects seemed bleak.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at Qin Ming, then at her sister’s blissful countenance.

She sighed deeply.

What was wrong with this world?

Where did things go wrong, why did she arrive just a step too late?

What to do now?

What could she do?