CHAPTER 44: CHAPTER 44: TOO SMELLY

Jiang Xiaoxiao helped Fan Xiuying into the house.

Once inside, Fan Xiuying held Jiang Xiaoxiao tightly.

"Mom, please don’t be sad. In the future, Fang Xiaohui will naturally know who her real family is. Mom, stop crying. You’ve been so strong all your life, you can’t let these things defeat you now."

Jiang Xiaoxiao understood Fan Xiuying.

She was strong herself.

But today she was crying her heart out.

The words she spoke were purely to comfort, because she knew Fang Xiaohui would be heartless in the future.

"I feel sorry for you! Your father doesn’t care about you, and your mother doesn’t love you. Now your biological parents even ignore you, I don’t know how they could be so cruel. You’re such an obedient child, how could they just abandon you like that?

Xiao Xiao, rest assured that Mom and Dad will never abandon you. You are this family’s child. This is your forever home."

Jiang Xiaoxiao was moved by her mother.

She was always the first to put her in her heart.

No wonder Fang Xiaohui was jealous.

In her past life, she had begged Fang Xiaohui on behalf of Fan Xiuying and them, and Fang Xiaohui said that Fan Xiuying and her husband always doted on her, constantly mentioning Jiang Xiaoxiao.

If Jiang Xiaoxiao was so capable, she could treat them herself.

If they never treated her as their own daughter, then now they shouldn’t expect her to fulfill their filial piety.

In the past life, she was the culprit of hindering the deep bond of emotions between Fang Xiaohui and Fan Xiuying.

In this life, she was here again.

Once more, she severed the connection between her parents and Fang Xiaohui.

Perhaps subconsciously, Jiang Xiaoxiao didn’t want her parents to neglect her because of Fang Xiaohui.

She was still selfish.

In the past life, she was selfish.

In this life, she was the same.

Jiang Xiaoxiao felt guilty.

Her parents didn’t deserve such treatment.

But it seemed hard to remedy the situation.

Unless Fan Xiuying and Jiang Honest had a stroke of great fortune.

To give Fang Xiaohui a strong enough support.

Otherwise, Fang Xiaohui had learned too much from Ye Hua’s opportunistic ways.

Without power or influence, Fang Xiaohui would never truly care.

This was reality.

Jiang Xiaoxiao firmly told herself she hadn’t done anything wrong.

"Mom! I am your child. I will always be your daughter. Having you, dad, big brother, elder sister, and second sister love me is enough. Others don’t matter. Please don’t cry anymore. In my entire life, I’ve never seen you cry; seeing you cry makes me sad. Our family should be happy together."

Fan Xiuying bravely nodded, wiping her tears with force, as if doing so would erase all her sadness.

"Yes! You are always your mom and dad’s daughter."

The mother and daughter both smiled.

Jiang Honest returned.

Upon hearing about the incident, he sighed too.

In truth, he didn’t feel they were in the right, even though it was Xiao Xiao who insisted on going to the countryside herself.

But it’s hard to stop others from gossiping.

When words spread, who knows how they might change?

The only consolation was that after all this commotion, the child still stayed with them.

He understood Fang Xiaohui’s choice, after all, she grew up with the Fang family and was used to that life.

She was closer to the parents over there.

Her choice to return was also a form of responsibility towards Fang Xiaohui.

As parents, they could only lament their lack of ability to give their children a better life.

The child made her own choice. All they could do was respect it.

Jiang Xiaoxiao went to bed at night.

The room was quiet this time.

She didn’t have to worry about being discovered.

Jiang Xiaoxiao directly entered her own space.

From morning to evening, there had been changes again.

The peaches, which were still green in the morning, had turned a rosy red.

Now it felt like human faces and blooming peach blossoms reflected each other’s beauty.

Most importantly, the peaches were rosy, juicy, sweet, and fragrant, the finest quality among peaches.

Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn’t resist picking a peach.

She had loved fruit since she was young.

Especially various peaches, her favorite.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have chosen the peach tree over the pear tree.

She washed the peach clean in the nearby spring water and took a bite.

The juice overflowed, extraordinarily sweet and fragrant.

Jiang Xiaoxiao finished a whole peach in one go.

If she hadn’t eaten so much for dinner, she might have eaten a second one.

Satisfied, she left the space, now clear that the peach tree grew rapidly in her space.

In almost two days and one night, a peach tree had flowered and borne ripe fruit.

The only regret was that this space had only this one piece of land, and she planted fruit trees on it.

This wasn’t like the land outside.

With the peach tree planted, who knows what underneath might sprout randomly.

Once a peach tree was planted on the land, she was automatically blocked from planting anything else.

So far, she hadn’t found any sign of a second plot of land being developed.

Of course, maybe like leveling up in games, when certain conditions were met, a second piece of land might just open up.

But this space had no text descriptions or system instructions.

Just blindly exploring, finding her way across the river by herself.

Even so, it was enough to satisfy.

After all, this space could store things, and grow things.

The growth speed seemed quite fast.

It was already an incredible existence.

She was quite fulfilled with this talent.

Given her past life’s experiences, achieving this result was already heaven’s blessing.

An overwhelming stroke of luck,

Jiang Xiaoxiao fell asleep contentedly.

The next day, her door was knocked loudly.

"Xiao Xiao, Xiao Xiao, wake up! What’s wrong with your room? Why does it smell so bad?"

Fan Xiuying woke up in the morning and smelled a strange odor, initially thinking it was the family’s unclean chamber pot.

That morning, Fan Xiuying cleaned inside and out, scrubbing the chamber pot multiple times, yet she could still smell it.

Fan Xiuying found it puzzling where this smell came from? It was really stinky.

She followed the scent to her daughter’s room, alarming Fan Xiuying.

Her daughter loved cleanliness, how could there be such a smell?

Could it be her daughter was ill?

Jiang Xiaoxiao groggily got out of bed and opened the door.

Then Fan Xiuying was startled.

Pointing at Jiang Xiaoxiao, "Oh my goodness, where did you go last night? Did you sneak out again to play with those saplings? Look at what you’ve done to yourself. You didn’t even wash before bed. Hurry up, I’ll fetch you some water to wash."

Covering her nose, Fan Xiuying went to fetch water.

That finally woke Jiang Xiaoxiao up.

She glanced at herself.

Oh heavens.

She was like a mud-monkey.

A layer of black stuff over her body, with a pungent smell.

Jiang Xiaoxiao was almost fumigated by herself.

My goodness.

So stinky.