Starting in a Famine Disaster: Farming and Building Wealth with my Crazy Younger Sister
Chapter 1: Transmigrated as the Eldest Sister of the Future Crazy Villain
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The sky was dark and heavy, as if a storm were imminent.
Amidst the rolling torrents, two slender, small figures were crawling forward with all their might upon a long, narrow door plank.
After a long while, the door plank approached a small hill protruding from the water.
"There are no signs of vegetation being trampled, so there should be no one here!" In years of famine, Ding Xuewei had to be extra cautious. "I'll hold steady, you go up quickly."
"Big Sister, you go up first."
The delicate young girl behind Ding Xuewei was incredibly stubborn, her wrinkled, water-soaked little hands gripping onto low tree branches with all her strength.
Ding Xuewei felt a bit of a headache coming on. "I have a firmer grip here, hurry up."
The young girl's wrinkled fingers twitched, grasping more branches.
"Hurry up." Ding Xuewei lowered her voice.
Seeing her expression sour, the girl didn't dare persist. She pursed her lips and carefully climbed onto the hill. Once she stood steady, she turned around and tightly gripped the long door plank that carried them both.
Because she gripped it so tightly, Ding Xuewei didn't have to worry about the plank being swept away by the waves when she stood up. Grabbing a small tree trunk, she exerted herself and swung herself onto the hill.
After working together to drag the door plank onto the hill and wedging it between the tree trunks, the two finally breathed a sigh of relief.
After collapsing to rest for a moment, Ding Xuewei stood up. "You keep watch here, I'll go see if I can find anything to eat."
"Big Sister, you keep watch, I'll go," the young girl immediately insisted.
Regarding this new little sister who insisted on struggling for and snatching everything, Ding Xuewei felt a bit of a headache.
What could an eight-year-old understand?
In the past, if someone had asked her, she certainly would have said she understood nothing; in the future, however, she would say a lot.
This child was only eight years old, yet she had already experienced life and death, and compared to her own life, she cared more about her big sister.
And she, right now, was her big sister!
She, Ding Xuewei, was originally a college student in the real world who was about to graduate.
She likely died from sudden death.
After dying, her soul transmigrated into a novel she had read previously, becoming the elder sister of a crazed female supporting character who died early.
Looking at the little girl before her, though she was currently cute, sensible, and well-behaved, she would grow up to be a beautiful and capable crazed villainess—the type who nearly destroyed a country for the sake of a man.
Since she had been given a second life, she didn't want to be twisted to death by the male and female protagonists.
Therefore, after thinking for more than half a day, she decided to raise this little girl properly, letting her grow up in an environment full of love, so that the whole family could live out their lives happily and peacefully.
Right now was the turning point of the girl's fate. As long as she didn't let the child go to Chunping County, prevented her from being kidnapped, and rushed to meet up with the eldest daughter of the Ding family to protect her younger brother Anping—who would be eaten by refugees in the near future—the rest of the story wouldn't have much to do with her.
Although Ding Xuewei didn't want to accept the reality of being the elder sister of a crazed villainess, the facts left her no choice.
When a spasm hit her stomach, a flash of annoyance crossed her face.
"Don't be stubborn, Big Sister will be back soon."
Without giving the girl a chance, Ding Xuewei quickly snapped off a branch and climbed up the densely forested hillside.
The small hill, barely a hundred square meters, was hardly worth looking at; she searched it all in no time.
Forget fruit—there wasn't even common plantain or dandelion.
Though her stomach felt uncomfortable from being filled with floodwater, her stomach was protesting due to the lack of a single grain of rice.
Refusing to give up, Ding Xuewei circled the hill searching repeatedly. After searching the hill two, three, even five times and still finding nothing, she had to give up.
Standing at the highest point of the hill, Ding Xuewei muttered to herself with a desolate expression, "I really tried my best, seriously! Since I found out I transmigrated until now, I've only shed a few tears~"
Even though her heart felt that Pan Di, this future crazed villainess, was pitiful, compared to going home, it was better if Pan Di just felt a little pitiful. After all, she was just a story character; being pitiful and tragic was her setting!
But she had parents and a grandmother who loved her, and a bright future ahead.
"Let me go back! I really miss my dorm bed and the lion's head meatballs in the cafeteria!"
Having only eaten the cafeteria's lion's head meatballs once in her few years of school, Ding Xuewei desperately wanted meat at this moment—the kind that was oily, rich, and tender.
In a trance, she seemed to see steaming hot lion's head meatballs waving at her.
"Lion's head meatballs!" Subconsciously, Ding Xuewei stepped forward, leaning over the food serving window, desperately inhaling the enticing aroma of the meatballs.
"Ugh, this hallucination is too real!"
As she spoke, she reached out to poke a meatball. Upon touching that scalding sensation, she froze abruptly, then withdrew her hand and turned around.
Everything before her eyes was too familiar. This was the school's Second Cafeteria, the one that provided the best flavors for their dormitory!
At this moment, there was no one else in the vast cafeteria. The food, tableware, books, phones, and computers laid out on the tables all seemed so eerie.
Ding Xuewei's mind felt as if it were clouded by something. Her body moved stiffly toward the first row of seats. She picked up the branded phone that had been paused, pressed the return button, and the time appeared.
June 2nd, 2021, 12:00 PM.
...Fifteen minutes after her roommates had left.
How she had walked out of the cafeteria, Ding Xuewei had no feeling at all; how she had returned to the dormitory, she had even less of an impression of. Climbing onto her bed, she found her phone, which was currently charging.
However, she discovered that her phone also had no internet or signal. Aside from being able to see the time, only the songs in the playlist could make sound.
Clutching the phone, a thought formed in her mind. She turned back, grabbed her electric scooter keys, and quickly rushed out of the dormitory. After glancing at the grayish yet not quite dark sky at the dormitory entrance, she rode her scooter straight toward the school gate.
The school, the special commercial food district outside the school, the massive commercial leisure plaza, and the supermarket that supplied the five universities in the university town—none of them had people.
Along the way, there were not only parked cars, bicycles, and electric bikes, but also lush shaded trees, decorated flowers and plants, and frozen traffic lights.
Everything seemed to be filled with a terrifying aura of being paused.
This was the route Ding Xuewei took most often. Having exited the school gate, she subconsciously stepped onto this path, finally stopping in the dairy section of the supermarket, her favorite.
Having sprinted all the way, her throat was now parched and burning. Setting down her phone, she pulled a large-capacity yogurt, which she was used to drinking, from the freezer.
Gulp, gulp, gulp, she drank one-third of it in succession.
Her stomach was full of water; although she felt dry now, it was actually just her throat that was dry!
"Big Sister~"
"Cough, cough, cough~ Cough, cough, cough~"
Startled by Pan Di's voice, Ding Xuewei sprayed out the yogurt and choked, coughing repeatedly. And just as Pan Di turned around, she saw her own big sister, who had suddenly appeared while spraying something with a strange smell.
Pan Di: "?"
Was she seeing things?
Why did it feel like Big Sister had appeared out of nowhere?
Her beautiful phoenix eyes blinked; Pan Di was sure she was seeing things, after all, she hadn't eaten anything for two days!
"Big Sister, where did you go just now?"
"Burp!"
Realizing she was dropping her "mask," Ding Xuewei took a sharp breath, only for the breath she had finally managed to steady to break again: "Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough..."
Seeing her big sister looking as if she were about to cough up her lungs, Pan Di hurried forward to help pat her back. "Big Sister, slow down. You always tell us to slow down when we eat, and you always tell us to chew slowly, but then you don't follow it yourself! I'm not going to fight you for it!"
Ding Xuewei was stunned: "?"
She wasn't afraid?
Did she not see clearly?
Probably.
Misunderstood as wanting to eat alone, Ding Xuewei silently convinced herself to act like a turtle. To divert attention, she stuffed the yogurt bottle in her hand into Pan Di's arms. "Drink the yogurt."
"I'm not thirsty, no need to drink!"
Regardless of what yogurt it was, Pan Di instinctively pushed the bottle back into her arms.
Even if she didn't have a spatial dimension to give her confidence, even if she didn't, if she found a sweet potato or half a piece of edible leaf, she would share it with this child.
This child was too sensible, so sensible it made her heart ache!
"I just picked this up by the water. I was afraid there might be a problem so I didn't dare tell you. Now, I've tasted it, there's no problem. Hurry and drink."
Based on her understanding of the word "drink," Pan Di declined again. "Big Sister, I'm not thirsty right now, I'll drink it later."
"This isn't for a cough, this is yogurt. It's very nutritious. It's exactly what we need most right now."
As she spoke, Ding Xuewei pressed the bottle opening toward her. Seeing her sister's persistence, Pan Di endured the strange smell she had never encountered before and opened her mouth.
She took a small sip, then reached out to push it away.
Ding Xuewei's expression darkened. "Drink it. I've already drunk plenty; the rest is yours."
(End of Chapter)