Chapter 90: Wei Lingxia, Get Lost!!!

In Dajiao’s plastic bag, there were two bottles of water, two jin of mushrooms, and two potatoes the size of soccer balls.

Xiaojiao’s plastic bag was the same.

Xu Xuejiao looked at the two piles of food in surprise, then nervously asked Dajiao,

“When you were with Shi Yuebai today, what did she have you do?”

Team Leader Qiao frowned. “Yuebai just had them do some manual labor, don’t talk like that.”

The more he realized how much there was to gain by following Shi Yuebai, the more protective Team Leader Qiao became of her.

Xu Xuejiao’s tone and way of questioning were problematic.

What could Shi Yuebai possibly have Dajiao and Xiaojiao do?

“It’s a house full of women. What could they possibly do to your daughters?”

Team Leader Qiao scolded Xu Xuejiao, “If you keep this up, Yuebai will end up rejecting your daughters too.”

Xu Xuejiao realized she was being a bit too anxious.

She glanced nervously at the entrance of the pit. “Shi Yuebai can’t hear us from here, right?”

Team Leader Qiao let out a cold laugh and said nothing.

How could she not hear? All those paper airplanes flying around were Yuebai’s eyes and ears.

Dajiao clapped her hands. “Digging dirt, dirt, it’s fun.”

The sixteen-year-old girl’s face broke into a smile even more innocent than a child’s.

Xiaojiao wasn’t as articulate as her sister; she didn’t even understand her mother’s question.

Xu Xuejiao finally relaxed, sitting quietly in the pit without saying another word.

Team Leader Qiao didn’t talk to her either. He just took out some water and started eating raw potatoes.

Tomorrow, he’d have to lead a few people from the team out scavenging again. He needed his strength.

Xu Xuejiao moved her lips, drank a little of the water her daughters had brought home.

The next day, before dawn, Xu Xuejiao, who had been silent all night, got up and continued digging.

She said to Team Leader Qiao, “I want to make our pit a bit bigger. What do you think?”

Team Leader Qiao glanced back at her and nodded.

Before climbing out of the ditch, he said to Xu Xuejiao,

“You need to see things for yourself. Don’t just listen to what others say.”

Team Leader Qiao would never tell anyone about Shi Yuebai being an ability user.

Not even Xu Xuejiao.

So he hoped Xu Xuejiao could figure things out on her own.

“Xuejiao, we can’t live in a pit forever. We have to move up someday.”

Xu Xuejiao nodded. “We will. I’ll figure it out.”

After Team Leader Qiao left, Xu Xuejiao stood there in a daze for a while before picking up her hoe and continuing to dig.

She wanted to widen, deepen, and lengthen the ditch, so Dajiao and Xiaojiao would be safer.

The dug-up dirt was placed in a basket and hauled out of the ditch.

Every day, Second Sister-in-law Shi would come by to help carry the dirt away.

The soil dug from the riverbed was full of sand, which could be used to mix cement.

But Second Sister-in-law Shi never spoke to Xu Xuejiao.

Until Shi Yuebai accepted Xu Xuejiao, no one would bother with her.

Wei Lingxia’s head popped up from the other side of the ditch.

She looked at the ever-deepening trench and said to Xu Xuejiao,

“My second uncle is here to pick us up. We’re getting ready to leave.”

“Xuejiao, you and your daughters should come with us.”

“Second Uncle says following Team Leader Qiao is a dead end for you and your girls. He’s willing to take you with us.”

Uncle Chen from the neighboring muscle team had even specifically mentioned Team Leader Qiao’s wife and daughters.

Say what you will, Xu Xuejiao had been beautiful when she was young.

Beautiful, smart, the undisputed school belle.

Even now, though older, she was still not useless.

As for Dajiao and Xiaojiao, even more so.

In times like these, pretty girls who’d managed to survive to fifteen or sixteen under protection—

They were valuable.

Xu Xuejiao looked up at Wei Lingxia. “Your second uncle?”

Chen Huaihai’s younger brother?

She asked warily, “Why is he so interested in me and my daughters?”

The bruises on Wei Lingxia’s face from Wu Haoran’s beating had mostly healed.

After her home was looted by those runaway women, Wei Lingxia had almost lost her will to go on.

Luckily, Uncle Chen came back in time, gave her some food, and got the lay of the land.

Then Uncle Chen got busy again.

When he returned, he focused his questions on Dajiao and Xiaojiao.

He even asked Wei Lingxia to bring Xu Xuejiao and her daughters over to their side.

Wei Lingxia smiled from the edge of the ditch,

“Why else? To give you a better life, of course.”

“Shi Yuebai treats you like beasts of burden, your husband sides with the Shi family—how can you go on like this?”

No need to ask; Team Leader Qiao’s attitude was now completely biased toward the Shi family.

But no one in the team really cared.

Now, apart from a bunch of burdens, there wasn’t a single decent man left in the group.

“Everyone’s leaving. The team’s about to fall apart. You’re the team leader’s wife—you should understand.”

Wei Lingxia did her best to persuade Xu Xuejiao,

“To tell you the truth, Zhang Xueyao is planning to come with us too. Her husband’s dead, and she hates the Shi family.”

“Xuejiao, let’s go have a good life together.”

Xu Xuejiao stood at the bottom of the pit and couldn’t help but sneer,

“A good life? Where is there a good life? If I take my daughters with your Uncle Chen, we’ll have a good life?”

The Chen family had lots of men, and their reputation in the bridge team wasn’t good.

Rumor had it that in other teams, they were basically pimps.

Otherwise, why would there be so many women living under the Chen family’s tarp?

Xu Xuejiao didn’t even need to ask to know what Uncle Chen wanted her daughters for.

Wei Lingxia didn’t bother hiding it. She said bluntly,

“Xuejiao, you’re smart. You know what the Shi family is up to.”

“If you come with us, at least the Chen family won’t treat you badly. Every man you take gets you a meal.”

“And you won’t have to do hard labor.”

Wei Lingxia was openly trying to persuade her to become a prostitute.

“Shi Yuebai has a bad temper, acts all high and mighty, and makes you work like a mule. Can you really stand her?”

In Wei Lingxia’s eyes, Xu Xuejiao had already “gone to sea” (entered the sex trade), and had sent her daughters to the Shi family too.

Everyone could see Dajiao and Xiaojiao playing in the same enclosure.

Whether it was with the Shi family or the Chen family, it was all the same.

At least with the Chen family, Xu Xuejiao wouldn’t have to be bullied.

So why not go with them?

“Dajiao and Xiaojiao haven’t started taking men yet, right?”

Wei Lingxia smiled as the two beautiful girls emerged from the pit,

“The mercenaries haven’t come back these days, so they must still be untouched.”

“Don’t worry, my uncle will find them a good place.”

At the bottom of the ditch, Xu Xuejiao took a deep breath.

None of them noticed a white paper airplane perched quietly on the edge of the ditch.

Just as Wei Lingxia was about to keep persuading her—

Xu Xuejiao gathered her strength and shouted,

“Wei Lingxia, get lost!!!”

Thank you all for enjoying Baozi’s apocalypse novel, hehe, hehe."