Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 9 - 00: The Brainless Village Girl

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"Little girl, what are you digging?" Xie Jingchen noticed the clumps of earth rolling down to his feet and had to take a few steps back before he asked aloud.

"I'll be done soon." Zhang Shanni didn't explain what she was digging. It was better if just the two of them knew about it. Announcing it would be problematic, especially since they were in the wilderness, and attracting attention would spell trouble!

She swiftly passed the gold ring to her hand with her consciousness and stealthily held it while rolling it a few times in the pit she had dug. To make it seem more realistic, she pressed the ring firmly into the mud with a stone, dug a little further down, then pretended to be done with the digging. She slipped the object into her pocket, grabbed the cloth bag, found a good spot to leverage, and jumped down from a height of over three meters without a change in expression.

The original owner of the body wasn't afraid, so she was even less so. After all, she had survived an apocalypse before; her courage was far greater than the original owner's!

"Be careful!" Xie Jingchen reflexively took a large step and managed to catch her small body as it fell, getting slapped by the heavy cloth bag in her hand. A numbing sensation immediately spread up his arm, indicating the impact was quite strong!

Xie Jingchen knew his arm strength was over 300 jin, yet he hadn't expected this little aunt to weigh so much despite her slender appearance!

"Ah, are you alright? Are you hurt?"

Zhang Shanni's face flushed with embarrassment, she quickly hopped down from his arms, and seeing him maintaining his posture immovably, she deduced that her weight must have numbed his arm. She guiltily approached, took his hand, and started massaging it gently yet firmly, while apologizing in a low and anxious voice:

"I'm sorry, I'm used to jumping and didn't think it was that high; it caused you to get hurt."

"I'm fine; it's just a bit numb, it will recover in a moment," Xie Jingchen said, looking down and speaking in a subdued voice as he caught a glimpse of the height she had just jumped from.

By his estimate, the distance from the ground was at least three meters. This little aunt was truly fearless, her courage surpassing even that of his troops'!

At this moment, Xie Jingchen's thoughts were somewhat strange, and more than that, was he feeling a bit of an urge to laugh and cry? This little aunt clearly was used to fending for herself at home and had her own ideas.

Looking back at her previous appearances and actions, if Xie Jingchen were to say she was a brainless village girl, even he wouldn't believe it.

"Xie Jingchen, you're a genuinely good person!" Even Zhang Shanni, a pragmatic woman, had to acknowledge that this man had a good nature!

If it were someone else who saw her jump, whether they would save her or not was one thing; most would instinctively move farther away! She couldn't help but mentally give him a 'good person card', feeling that the Rong Wei of this era indeed had character!

"Uh," Xie Jingchen turned black-faced; today he truly was a nice guy, nothing like the hellish 'Xie Luocha' his subordinates spoke of! Seeing her nonchalant actions, he still spoke earnestly:

"Don't come here again, it's too high!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you. I won't come here anymore; I probably won't have many chances to visit here in the future anyway."

Zhang Shanni wasn't afraid of his scowl; she found that although he has a stern appearance, he was warm-hearted and easily blushed—a blush that was hard to notice unless you really looked. If it weren't for her sharp eyes catching the redness from his ear tips, she would have never known that simply holding her wrist could make him shy!

This gave Zhang Shanni a sense of guilt. But then she remembered her own bizarre experiences, and she retracted her guilt. At best, she'd just be nicer to him from now on; she really couldn't erase her experiences from her past life.

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"...Mm." Xie Jingchen really hadn't interacted much with women, and he didn't know how to comfort her. He could only respond in silence. After a slight delay, once the feeling returned to his arm, he slowly said:

"From now on, I won't let you go hungry!"

The moment she took the cloth bag down, he knew what was inside. It was filled with food that was easy to store: sweet potatoes, peanuts, corn, potatoes, and even a few smoked wild game. From the scent that wafted out of the bag, he could tell there were smoked chickens and smoked rabbits.

"Mm!" Zhang Shanni nodded with a smile upon hearing his words, a bittersweet feeling fluttering in her heart, inexplicably lifting her spirits and sweeping away her earlier unease.

"It's getting late, let's hurry up." Xie Jingchen picked up the cloth bag by her feet and once again took hold of her wrist to continue on their way.

"Wait, which village is your home in? Old Lin Village or Qingfeng Village?" Her home was in Shanglin Village, with Old Lin Village next to it and Qingfeng Village being the furthest in, followed by the Primitive Mountain. It could be said to be the most remote area.

"I'm from Qingfeng Village."

"Then let's take this mountain path. The direct path will be much faster!"

With the original host's memories, and considering that she was quite fearless, she had traversed all the small hills around the area. She knew clearly which way to go and how to get there faster. With the original host's memories, Zhang Shanni now had a mental map and knew where to go to reach their destination in the shortest time.

Seeing Zhang Shanni confidently navigating the terrain like she was a local, Xie Jingchen followed her advice, "Alright, I'll listen to you."

"By the way, Xie Jingchen, how many people are in your family? Can you tell me? I don't know anything about them." The original host was a homebody; aside from doing farm work and house chores, her main concern was just to fill her own stomach. She knew practically nothing about the people in the surrounding villages.

Lucky for her, the original host had a bit of sense, which allowed this body to remain lean with the necessary curves, hidden away beneath her loose, coarse clothes—unnoticed by others. This was something Zhang Shanni was quite pleased with.

"Mm. My family lives at the foot of Qingfeng. My father has four sons and two daughters. Among my siblings, I'm the third."

As he led her along, Zhang Shanni's face paled slightly upon hearing this. Wow, women of this era can really give birth! So... envious!

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"My eldest brother is Xie Jingwei, my eldest sister is second in line and her name is Xie Jinghong, the fourth is my younger brother Xie Jinggang, fifth is my brother Xie Jingyang, and the youngest is my sister Xie Jingzi who is only 17 this year. She was born when my mother was over thirty and is considered a late blessing. Except for her and myself, everyone else is married. My eldest sister is married in the neighboring town and seldom comes back. My youngest sister is currently studying in high school in our town, and my younger brother got into a university in the city last year and is now in his second year. They rarely stay at home."

Xie Jingchen looked back to see her listening attentively and continued, "In the third generation, there are seven children from the nephews and nieces, five boys and two girls. My eldest sister has given birth to three boys."

"Wow... Prosperous!" Zhang Shanni was taken aback by the number of nephews and nieces and summed it up with a word.

Such a bunch of little carrots, and mostly boys!

"Mm. You don't need to worry too much about the younger generation, but among our generation, my eldest sister-in-law is very dependable, my younger brother's wife is shrewd and worldly, my other brother's wife doesn't suffer fools, and as for my youngest sister, she's just a child and easy to coax." In a family, especially a big one, it's usually the women who tend to squabble.

He thinks a girl one year younger than her is still a child? Then what does he think of her? Zhang Shanni glared at the man's back, muttering to herself, but she didn't dare to voice it aloud.

Humph, showing favoritism!