Chapter 5: Chapter 3: Tomorrow, I Will Make You Unable to Reach Me

Song Chu followed her memories back to her home.

Just as she reached the doorway, she heard sharp, scolding shouts: "Eat, eat, eat, all you know is how to eat! Are you a pig? Even a pig can be slaughtered for meat at the end of the year, but you, you bottomless pit, eating is just a waste of food."

This was the original body's mother, Tang Feng, the village's most sharp-tongued, top-tier character, and the undisputed champion of combat effectiveness.

"Mom, I was just looking in the kitchen, I haven't even eaten anything yet. Ah, stop hitting me, ah!" A panting voice rang out, clearly from someone running away.

Without even looking, she could guess that this was her second brother, Song Jianguo, who was gluttonous and loved to slack off.

"Pah! If I hadn't known you were faking a stomachache to sneak back and steal food, and followed you back, would you have succeeded? You little bastard, stand still for me!"

Hearing this vigorous scolding, Song Chu felt a sense of familiarity and pushed the door open to walk in.

"Ah! My precious baby, what happened to you?" Seeing her youngest daughter walk in covered in mud, Tang Feng rushed over. She didn't care that Song Chu's hands were dirty, grabbing them and asking with concern.

In her previous life, Song Chu's parents had an accident shortly after she was born, and she was raised by her grandfather. This was the first time she had ever felt the care of a mother.

Having inherited the original body's memories and emotions, plus the promise she had made, she quickly stepped into her role and treated the woman as her own mother.

She smiled and said, "Mom, Gu Yue and I accidentally encountered a mudslide on the back mountain, but I'm fine."

"What? A mudslide?" Tang Feng was startled at first, then immediately began to carefully pat Song Chu down. Finding that she was indeed uninjured aside from being dirty, she finally let out a sigh of relief. "As long as you're fine, as long as you're fine!"

Her eyes were filled with a loving smile. "My Chuchu is truly blessed; you won't find a girl in the whole village with more luck than you."

"..." Hearing her mother shamelessly praise her younger sister, Song Chu's second brother couldn't help but roll his eyes.

Tang Feng glared at the second Song brother. "Didn't you see your sister is dirty? Why aren't you going to boil water for her to bathe, you useless glutton!"

"..." As expected, they brothers were all picked up; only the little sister was born to her.

"Mom, my stomach hurts. Can't we wait until Big Brother gets off work to boil it?" the second brother said, clutching his stomach.

"Pah, keep pretending for me." Tang Feng reached for the broom to give him a few whacks. "If you don't go, don't bother eating tonight!"

"I'll go, alright?" Hearing this, the second brother shuffled toward the kitchen, muttering under his breath, "So biased, it's ridiculous!"

Tang Feng couldn't be bothered with him and pulled Song Chu aside to ask, "Did you go on a date with that educated youth, Gu Yue, today? Don't go to such remote places like the back mountain anymore; it's prone to landslides when it rains, it's not safe."

"It wasn't a date. I just asked him to talk for a bit. He isn't interested in me, and I don't like him anymore either!" Song Chu shook her head.

They were only in a brief cooperative relationship now.

"What?" Tang Feng frowned, unhappy. "He's actually not interested in you? You're the village beauty, is he blind? If you hadn't liked him before, I wouldn't have even looked twice at that pretty-boy face of his."

"..." The second brother, who had just reached the kitchen door, twitched his mouth.

His sister might be the village beauty in terms of looks, but had his mother forgotten that his sister was also the village bully?

Gu Yue was the most handsome educated youth in the entire commune. Even the men in the village stayed as far away from his sister, that tigress, as possible. It would be a miracle if that educated youth liked her. His mother must be the one with bad eyesight.

Song Chu smiled in agreement and coaxed her, "His eyes are indeed a bit dim. You're the one with the discerning eye, Mom!"

Then she glared at her second brother, who was full of internal drama. "What are you looking at? Go boil the water, I want to bathe!"

This guy was no good; he often tricked the original body into doing bad things.

"..." The second brother turned and walked into the kitchen. She really was a tigress!

Song Chu had her own room, which contained a wooden barrel specifically for bathing.

Her status in the family was the second highest. First, because she was doted on by Tang Feng, who held the highest status, while her father was a coward; second, because she possessed immense strength, and her other brothers couldn't beat her.

Once the second brother finished boiling the water, she carried it into her room to mix and bathe.

After a refreshing bath, Song Chu was getting dressed in her room when she heard her mother asking from the doorway.

"Precious, you were scared today. Mom will make you an egg to calm your nerves!"

"Do you want it steamed, boiled, or fried?"

"Mom, I want a fried egg!" the second brother said.

Tang Feng's scolding rang out: "Eat, eat, eat, is something as precious as a fried egg for you to eat? Why don't you just eat your mother instead? Why did I give birth to such spendthrift brats like you!"

"Then why can the little sister eat it?" the second brother said, unconvinced.

"Can you compare to my precious? Pah!"

"Biased!"

"I am biased, what are you going to do about it?"

"..." The second brother was speechless.

Song Chu pushed open the door and walked over to Tang Feng, smiling as she took her arm. "Mom, steam an egg for me. I'll take it to Gu Yue later."

"Ah! You want to take it to Gu Yue? Why?" Tang Feng looked confused.

Then, as if remembering something, she gave Song Chu a light pinch. "You silly girl, you just said you didn't like him, and now you're thinking of him even when eating an egg. You really are saying one thing and meaning another!"

Logically, she really looked down on that pretty boy—he couldn't carry a load or lift a weight—but her precious daughter liked him.

She thought for a moment and suggested, "If you really like him, why don't you just make it official?"

She didn't want her daughter to marry away anyway. "I'll go make a scene with your eldest uncle, saying that pretty boy took advantage of you, and make him a live-in son-in-law. If he dares to deny it, I'll go to the police station and report him for hooliganism."

Once he was in their house, with her watching, that pretty boy wouldn't dare bully her daughter.

"..." Song Chu was stunned. This was quite the move.

Not to mention, while this idea was underhanded, it was actually feasible in this era. The crime of hooliganism was no joke; once convicted, you'd be facing a firing squad.

She recalled that her eldest uncle was the production team leader in the village. The old lady was truly formidable!

No wonder she was the woman who raised her daughter to be the village bully!

She looked at Tang Feng and asked, "Mom, do you think I'm pretty?"

"Pretty! You're the prettiest girl in the whole village." The more Tang Feng looked at her daughter, the more beautiful she thought she was—just like her!

"I'm the prettiest girl in the village, it's not like I can't get married. I don't want to 'make it official' with him, it would make him seem so sought-after," Song Chu pouted.

Tang Feng thought that made sense, but she was still puzzled. "Then why are you steaming an egg to give to him?"

Song Chu naturally couldn't tell her about the cooperation, and she would still need to interact with Gu Yue even after she stopped bringing him food, so she needed a long-term excuse.

"Who told him to look down on me right now?" She came up with an explanation that wouldn't break her persona, saying proudly, "I'm going to be good to him first, then let him discover my worth, make him fall in love with me, and then I'll dump him."

"Isn't there a saying: 'If you look down on me today, I'll make you unable to reach me tomorrow'!" She was the most dazzling kid in the whole village.

"..." The second brother, sitting on a small stool not far away, had black lines on his forehead. He couldn't help but feel some sympathy for Gu Yue. So his sister wasn't just a tigress, she was a heartless woman who wanted to play with people's feelings!