Demon King's Repayment - chapter 294

The eldest sister took Yuan Xiang back to her house.

The courtyard wall made of rammed earth, the roof made of thatched straw, there were two small thatched huts, a loose-leveled courtyard, and two thin and slender hens were raised in the courtyard. Other than that, the home had four walls.

As a result, Nan He and others didn’t even have space to enter the house, and just stood and waited in the yard.

Yuan Chunhua ran into the little girl who she hadn’t seen for many years, so she was excited and could not care about anything else. Leading Yuan Xiang into the room, she pulled her hand and looked at her from head to toe.  Her eyes were already red.

“You have grown so much, become fair, and beautiful. I just looked at you from behind for a long time, I didn’t dare to come forward to recognize each other.”

She twitched the corners of her mouth to barely smile at the little girl who had been reunited for a long time, but her tears couldn’t help cracking down, and she had to cover her face with her sleeve.

“Xiang’er, you don’t know. After you were taken away, Zhaodi and I held each other and cried for several days. During those days, I couldn’t sleep well every night. I always dreamed that you were bullied, had no food, and were hungry and for me.” She choked up as she spoke.

Her six or seven-year-old eldest daughter, and her three- or four-year-old sister, brought tea into the house sensibly, and hurriedly comforted her mother, “Don’t cry, mother, why are you crying?”

Yuan Chunhua hurriedly wiped her tears, “No, I have never cried, I’m just happy. Girls, this is your aunt, please greet her.”

The two little girls yelled loudly and put the freshly brewed thick tea in their hands on the table.

“Don’t just serve this, go, cook some poached eggs, put some sugar, and serve two to the guests in the yard,” Yuan Chunhua said to her eldest daughter.

The young girl obviously hesitated. Eggs and sugar were precious things to their family. There were so many visitors that day.

“Go ahead, what are you doing? I hadn’t seen your aunt for more than ten years,” Yuan Chunhua gave her a push.

Not long after, the fat white poached egg was soaked in sugar water and brought to the table.

“Hurry up, you liked this when you were a kid.”

Yuan Xiang took a sip, the white water boiled in the soup with a hint of egg fragrance and sweetness, which seemed to have been eaten only once when the little brother was born in memory. At that time, she probably didn’t like this kind of food, but because she didn’t have anything to eat, she was so hungry and panicked all day. They rarely saw a bit of meat and fish, and she almost swallowed her tongue.

The two little girls looked at her timidly and couldn’t help swallowing quietly.

Seven and four years old, with dirty faces, and thin limbs like firewood. They were young, the young one was pulling her sister’s skirt, like Yuan Xiang and Yuan Chunhua when they were young.

Yuan Xiang fed them the poached eggs in the bowl, so they looked at her with bright eyes.

“I married into this village eight years ago. It’s not far from our natal house, and occasionally I could go home to see my parents. Now there are two new houses built in my family. Last year, they got a daughter-in-law for Da Lang, and she’s now pregnant. The younger brother should have a family in two years. Grandma is still there, but she can’t get up, and she doesn’t recognize people anymore. She still drinks medicine every day,” the elder sister talked about her natal family’s situation.

Only the other girl in the family was not mentioned.

“Where is my second sister?”

“Her…” Yuan Chunhua hesitated for a moment, “My parents married her to an employee in the town as a concubine.”

Yuan Xiang’s movements stopped for a moment, and then after feeding the whole bowl of sugar water, she wiped the mouths of the two little girls with a handkerchief.

“Selling me alone, wasn’t that enough?” She took the bowl back and said calmly.

“Zhao was willing to do it herself. She said she didn’t want to marry a poor person and live a hard life.” Yuan Chunhua sighed, “What could be done? It’s useless to help.”

She held Yuan Xiang’s hand, “Ah Xiang, if you have time, you should go to her and have a look.”

Yuan Xiang looked at the elder sister’s hands. The fingers were thick and covered with cracks and calluses. It must have taken so much hard work to turn a pair of soft hands into this look.

The eldest sister was undoubtedly a hardworking and gentle woman, walking on the mountain road with her younger brother on her back, and she did not forget to share the weight of pigweed from the young Yuan Xiang.

She would stand on a chair while she was cooking, while she would pick out some delicious food from the pot and secretly stuff it into the mouth of her younger siblings.

The eldest sister, who was always busy, was almost like a person who had never had a childhood. She was born mature and sensible, and had worked hard since she was a child.

Yuan Xiang undoubtedly liked this sister who had lived with her for seven years, but at the same time she would never agree with her sister’s outlook that was solidified by the times.

There was a little noise outside the courtyard, and a man dressed as a hunter pushed open the courtyard and came in.

Yuan Chunhua pulled Yuan Xiang out and introduced, “Xiang’er, this is your brother-in-law. Lang Jun, this is my youngest sister, the one I told you about before.”

The man was burly, dark-skinned, carrying a load of firewood. When he entered the yard and saw people sitting in the yard, everyone was holding a bowl of eggs in their hands, and his complexion became ugly. With a dark face, he did not greet them, and went in without a word.

Yuan Chunhua was very embarrassed, so she soothed Yuan Xiang, and hurriedly followed up into the house.

Soon the voice of the couple arguing in the house came, “Last year, my brother-in-law got married, and you took all the savings at home. The mother-in-law only came a few days ago, and you stuffed her with the pheasant I got for you to stew, and now this?”

Yuan Xiang took two purses, squatted down and put them in the arms of the two nieces, and went into the house to say goodbye to her eldest sister.