Transmigrated into a seven-year-old child, my fate is in my own hands, not in the heavens.

Once outside the door, Zhao Feng finally breathed a sigh of relief. She couldn't help but turn to Zhao Lian and say, "Zhao Lian, what's wrong with you these days? You're always talking back. You need to know that in the end, you'll be the one who suffers."

“Our mother is gone, and our father doesn’t care about us. We have no one to support us, so we have to be careful and not easily anger them.”

“Yes, what you said is right, eldest sister.” Zhao Di nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Lian didn't say anything. She was hungry. She had only drunk a little bit of wild vegetable porridge since last night, and now she was starving and her legs felt weak.

Zhao Lian turned her head and saw that He Yue'e and the others had also gone out and were behind her.

Zhao Lian knew that every time they came out, her second and third aunts would secretly give them food, unlike her and her two sisters who always came out to work hungry.

Zhao Lian noticed that He Fang and the others were doing the same thing today, secretly eating the food their mother had given them.

Seeing that they had reached the wasteland at the edge of the village, Zhao Lian stopped, looked back, and waited for her cousin He Fang to approach. She couldn't help but ask, "Cousin, I'm hungry. Could you share some food with me?"

He Fang's eyes widened: "This was given to me by my mother, why should I give it to you? Grandma said you're a jinx, and the reason our family is so poor is because of you."

Zhao Lian was furious. She looked at her so-called cousin, who spoke in a manner very much like her mother, Liang Shi, arrogant and domineering.

Zhao Feng quickly pulled Zhao Lian aside: "Zhao Lian, bear with it, it'll be lunchtime soon. We'll dig up some wild vegetables to cook then."

"Big sister, but I'm so hungry," Zhao Lian said pitifully.

As he spoke, he glanced back at He Yue'e and He Dong, whose mouths were also bulging as they ate.

He Dong rolled his eyes as he saw Zhao Lian looking over: "What are you looking at? Who told you to be motherless?"

He Yue'e chimed in from the side, "Brother, let's ignore her. Mother said she's a jinx; anyone who's with her will be unlucky."

Seeing them calling each other "jinxes" and "jinxes," Zhao Lian was furious.

Damn it!

My head injury from a while ago hadn't healed, but I'd put up with them for a long time.

Because the three sisters had no one to support them, they were naturally weak and were often bullied by He Fang and her friends.

On the surface, they are cousins, but He Yue'e never treats them as sisters. Relying on their mother's support, she always takes the opportunity to bully the three sisters.

Zhao Lian remembered that every time she sent them out to dig for wild vegetables, He Fang, He Yue'e, and the others would always sleep in there.

Before leaving, the group of people snatched the wild vegetables that the three sisters had painstakingly dug up, claiming that they had dug them themselves.

As a result, the three sisters always returned home with very few wild vegetables in their baskets, and they were always the ones who got scolded. They also ate very little.

Whenever He Fang and her friends did something wrong, they always blamed it on the three sisters.

Since they treat her badly, she doesn't need to care about brotherly and sisterly affection anymore. After all, she is not the same Zhao Lian she used to be.

It's a dog-eat-dog world; since we're all just trying to make a living anyway, we might as well starve them instead of ourselves.

There's no one else around right now, just a few of them. Don't think she's easy to bully. Even though she's a bit small, she's still a 32-year-old at heart.

She refused to believe she couldn't beat them, because when she used to run a street stall, she always encountered some difficult customers.

To this end, I even learned Sanda (Chinese kickboxing) and won the championship in a local competition.

However, these skills are still useful for self-defense. Some time ago, she secretly recalled them and practiced a few moves. Unexpectedly, she hadn't lost her kung fu.

Although I am small and not very strong, I am more than capable of dealing with them.

At home, she would naturally tolerate and hide it in front of the adults, but now that she was out of the house, she didn't intend to tolerate it anymore.

She glanced at him, deciding not to make a move on He Dong, since he was two years older than her and a boy, and quite strong.

He Fang and He Yue'e were different; although they were taller than him, they were still thin.

Seeing that He Fang and He Yue'e both had black pancakes in their hands, Zhao Lian quickly ran over, snatched the pancakes from them, tore off half of one, and ate it.

Then he stuffed the rest into Zhao Feng and Zhao Di's hands, urging them to eat quickly.

Zhao Feng and Zhao Di finally realized what was happening and were terrified. What was wrong with Zhao Lian? She had never acted like this before.

"Ah~"

He Fang and He Yue'e then realized what was happening and chased after them, cursing, "You jinx, how dare you steal my black pancake! Zhao Feng and Zhao Di, you two dared to eat it, give it back to me right now!"

"Big sister, second sister, don't listen to her, eat quickly, fill your stomach first!" Zhao Lian said, and quickly stuffed the black pancake in her hand into her mouth.

"Just eat!"

Zhao Gong and Zhao Di watched as Zhao Lian stuffed the black pancake in her hand into her mouth. Since things had come to this, they gritted their teeth and decided to eat it anyway.

When the two saw them running up, they quickly ran forward as well, stuffed the black flatbread in their hands into their mouths, chewed it for a while, and swallowed it down.

Zhao Lian swallowed the black pancake, then stopped running and stood there laughing loudly.

"Hahaha……"

"I ate it, so what? So what?" she said, then playfully made a face at them.

"I'm going to tell my mother!" He Fang cried, stamping her feet.

"Brother, you must avenge me." He Yue'e ran to He Dong's side.

Although He Dong was slow-witted, he knew how to protect his sister. He realized what was happening and glared at Zhao Lian, yelling, "You jinx, how dare you steal my sister's things? You're asking for it!"

Then, she came running towards Zhao Lian with her hands on her hips, pointing at Zhao Lian and cursing, "Brother, hit her!"

Zhao Feng and Zhao Di were frightened because He Dong was physically strong but simple-minded, and he had a lot of brute strength.

Zhao Lian is rather thin and small; if he were to punch you, you'd probably get a pretty bad beating.

Zhao Feng and Zhao Di quickly ran over and pulled He Dong away: "He Dong, calm down. It's all our fault. Don't be angry. How about this, we sisters will dig up some more wild vegetables for you later?"

"You two get out of the way."

After He Dong finished speaking, he flung Zhao Feng and Zhao Di aside with both hands, pointed at them and cursed, "Do you even need to tell me? It's always been like this!"

"Let me tell you, I'm going to tell Grandma about what happened today, and she'll make sure you don't get any food."

When He Fang and He Yue'e saw Zhao Feng and Zhao Di fall to the ground, they immediately burst into laughter and clapped their hands.

He Yue'e clapped her hands and shouted, "Big brother, keep it up!"

"Big sister, second sister, are you two alright?"

Seeing Zhao Feng and Zhao Di being thrown down by He Dong and unable to get up for a long time, Zhao Lian couldn't help but feel anxious.

"How dare you hit my eldest and second eldest sisters!" Zhao Lian's eyes widened in anger, her fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

“I’m beating you guys.” He Dong rolled his eyes. “My mother said it’s all because of you guys, otherwise we wouldn’t be able to eat our fill every meal.”

"You guys used to seem pretty honest, but I never expected you'd dare to steal my sister's pancake today. Don't blame me for being ruthless."

He Dongren was stupid and didn't understand anything else, but his mother, Gao, told him to treat his younger sister, He Yue'e, better, because she was his real sister.

Because when his younger sister grows up and gets married, he can get a wife from the dowry, and then He Dongke will have a wife.

He always remembered what his mother had told him.

"Didn't you want to hit me? Come here!" Zhao Lian beckoned to He Dong.

"Zhao Lian, stop causing trouble and apologize." The eldest sister, Zhao Feng, struggled to her feet.

He Dong is a brainless man who doesn't know his own strength. With Zhao Lian's small frame, how could she withstand his punches?