Chapter 182
Chapter 182: So Heartbreaking It Makes You Cry, You Want To Raise Them All Over Again
Crack, crack, crack. A rain of slaps fell on Wolf Luo Feng’s face. Her face swelled and split open. She wanted to argue, but not a sound came out of her mouth.
Wolf Xin Wei’s face was covered in tears and snot. The more she hit, the crazier she became. Her hysterical questions and screaming made the other dozen or so children of the Lang Family Estate rush over too.
Jiang Tea Tea gave Sui Xuan Chu and Cheng Xiao Ting a look. The two of them threw the broken legged and broken armed Wolf Yin Feng over.
Sixteen children, including Wolf Xin Rui and Wolf Xin Ping, the brother and sister who had already left Barley Star but were called back by Wolf Xin Yi, swung fists and kicked at Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng. They bent down, bit them, and questioned them.
“Wolf Yin Feng, Wolf Luo Feng, so you are not our dad and mom. You were never our dad and mom.”
“In the whole M31 Star System, no one is more vicious than you. When you die you will go to hell. The Beast God will punish you.”
“Villain, scum. I only made one tiny mistake, but to punish me, you made me hit Eldest Brother. You said I did not have enough strength, so you made me bite Eldest Brother. You made me bite off his flesh.”
“Eldest Brother hurt so much that his tears fell, but he still hugged me and comforted me, saying it did not hurt, it did not hurt.”
“I asked myself, why are other people’s dad and mom so good, but my dad and mom make me bite the Eldest Brother who loves me, just to hurt him?”
“I will bite you too. I will bite you and bite off your flesh, so you can feel Eldest Brother’s pain.”
“Wolf Luo Feng, I did not want to marry that fat pig beastman. You forced me to marry him. I refused, so you used my younger sister to threaten me. You used my twin younger sister to threaten me. Go die, go die!”
“Wolf Yin Feng, you used me to curry favor with old beastmen so you could earn more profit in business. Once, twice, three times, countless times. You still disliked me and said I was useless because I did not bring you even more profit.”
“Ha ha ha. I even doubted myself. I thought my grades were not good enough, my work was not good enough, so that is why you treated me like this.”
“But that was wrong. It was not my fault. It was you, it was both of you. You stole us and made us your children, but you never treated us like people. You only treated us as tools for making money.”
“I hate you. I want to kill you. I want to kill you…”
“Ah ah ah!”
“Ah ah ah!”
Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng let out painful, sharp screams.
All the guests who had done business with them stood there with pale faces, shaking. It was over. Everything was over.
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun watched, their hearts pounding hard, faces full of pity and sorrow. They had never liked Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng. They always felt the couple were crooked and shady, the kind of people who could not be shown on a proper stage.
They never thought the two of them had done so many filthy things, and that all seventeen of their children were stolen from others.
Their eyes moved to Jiang Tea Tea.
The little female wore a loose, easy to move in training uniform. Her hair was tied in a high ponytail. Her face was the size of a palm, with fine, delicate features. Black hair, jade like skin, and dark eyes like a night sky with no end.
Her body was small but well proportioned. Her aura was calm and strong. Just standing there, no one present could overshadow her.
In less than ten minutes, Jiang Tea Tea lifted her hand and waved. The attendants at the banquet hall pulled off their outer clothes and showed the uniforms of Barley Star’s Garrison Troops underneath.
All around, large groups of Garrison Troops appeared. They held guns and cannons and started to count and control every guest on the huge lawn.
Wolf Xin Yi, Wolf Xin Wei, and their sixteen brothers and sisters were pulled apart by the Barley Star Garrison Troops. Every face was full of anger, tears, unwillingness, and deep hatred.
Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng’s formal clothes were torn to shreds. There was not a single good patch of skin left on their faces or bodies. They were beaten and bitten everywhere.
Their blood dyed the grass red beneath them.
They were almost dead.
They were barely breathing, but still alive.
The Barley Star Garrison Troops picked them up like trash and threw them into healing pods. Now was not the time to let them die.
The garrison wanted to take away the sixteen brothers and sisters like Wolf Xin Yi right away, but the siblings asked for some time.
Their lives had been too rough. No matter if they were older or younger, they were all pitiful.
The soldiers stationed on Barley Star were not heartless. They could see the siblings wanted to talk to Jiang Tea Tea. They left two soldiers to watch over them, and sent more people to arrest the guests at the scene.
Wolf Xin Yi, Wolf Xin Wei, and Wolf Xin An, the three who had once protected their younger brothers and sisters while also helping Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng do evil, brought the younger ones over to Jiang Tea Tea and bowed deeply to her.
“Miss Tea Tea, thank you. Thank you for helping us get rid of them. Thank you for letting us know we are not their biological children.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s gaze swept over the sixteen people who followed Wolf Xin Yi. She opened her mouth and said: “You do not need to thank me. You were bitter and miserable for decades and for more than ten years. From now on, you will not suffer like that anymore.”
“Some of you have committed crimes. Later you need to honestly confess what you did. Commander in Chief Chong Ming will give you lighter punishment.”
“Those of you who are not yet adults and did not take part in any crimes will not be punished by the Empire’s laws. Commander in Chief Chong Ming will not make you take collective blame either.”
Wolf Xin Yi, Wolf Xin Wei, and Wolf Xin An, who were the ones hurt the most, wiped their tears and choked out: “Thank you, thank you.”
Jiang Tea Tea reached out to support the bent over Wolf Xin Yi: “You do not need to thank me. You have my contact number. If you run into any trouble you cannot solve, you can send me a message or call me.”
“As long as you do not break the Empire’s law code and you do not slap me in the face, I will help you solve it if I can.”
The leftover consciousness of the fake young miss inside her body felt deep empathy for these sixteen brothers and sisters. Even though she knew they were not born from the same mother and father as her, after learning everything they had gone through, she cried for them.
She had thought that living alone for three years, being disliked, bullied, and cursed was already bitter enough. She never thought that compared to them, her suffering was nothing. The bitterness in their lives was a thousand times heavier.
Wolf Xin Yi was a beastman male in his thirties or forties. When he heard what Jiang Tea Tea said, his tears poured out like a spring: “Younger sister, no, Miss Tea Tea, can I hug you?”
Jiang Tea Tea opened her arms: “Of course you can.”
Wolf Xin Yi took a step forward and hugged her. He buried his face in her neck. Tears fell onto her skin as he spoke with a shaking voice: “Tea Tea, thank you. Really, thank you.”
“I know we may not be related by blood. But I still feel happy and honored that, for a short time, I could have you as my younger sister.”
Jiang Tea Tea was a tree spirit and was not good at comforting people. But the fake young miss’s remaining consciousness used her hand and gently patted Wolf Xin Yi’s back: “I also feel honored that, for a short time, I could have you as my older brother.”
“And Sister Xin Wei, and Brother Xin An…”
When Jiang Tea Tea said the other two names, she was looking straight at them.
Wolf Xin Wei and Wolf Xin An lifted their heavy feet, which felt like a thousand jin each, and came to stand beside them. They stretched out their arms and hugged them too, and they cried.
The other Lang Family Estate children saw this and hurried over to join the hug. One hugged another, then another, until everyone except Jiang Tea Tea was crying loudly.
Sui Xuan Chu and the other six stared hard, blinking their sore eyes to hold back tears.
Mo Jing Chun wiped her tears over and over. She could not wipe them fast enough. These children were too pitiful, so pitiful it made her chest hurt. In her heart, Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng were two beasts who should be shot ten times, a hundred times, and even that would not be enough.
Cheng Mian stood by her side and comforted his partner. His own eyes were red too. Who would have thought Wolf Yin Feng and his wife could be so heartless and crazy.
Jiang Tea Tea was hugged and cried on for more than ten minutes. Only then did they let her go and wipe away their tears.
Suddenly, Wolf Xin Rui, Wolf Xin Ping, and Wolf Xin Chong, the triplets, stood in front of her. They bowed and gave her a sincere apology: “Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea, we are sorry. We should not have stolen your military merit at the academy. We should not have looked down on you for going back home, and we should not have wanted to ruin you.”
“We are really, really sorry. We do not dare hope that you will forgive us. We just want you to know that the ones who made us bring you back were Dad and Mom. They warned us that if we did not get you back, they would stop giving us pocket money and would not give us any resources.”
“At first we did not want to do it either. But we had only been adults for less than two years. We were scared that without our family backing us, we would not even be able to buy the lowest grade mecha armor parts or repair tools.”
“Sorry, we really are sorry…”
“I forgive you.” Jiang Tea Tea calmly cut off their words.
Wolf Xin Rui and her two brothers stared at her in shock.
Jiang Tea Tea looked back at them. The fake young miss’s remaining consciousness in her body had already forgiven them. As a tree spirit, she had nothing to hold against them.
She repeated to them: “I forgive you. I will not hold it against you. I hope you study hard and have a good future.”
Wolf Xin Rui and her two brothers felt their tears well up again after they had just wiped them away. They nodded hard and promised her: “Okay. Okay. Jiang Tea Tea, we will work hard to become the best mecha armor makers and mecha armor repairers.”
“We will study hard. Just wait, just wait and see. When we become the best, we will give you a mecha armor and repair your mecha armor for you.”
Jiang Tea Tea’s lips curved in a light smile: “I am very picky. I hope that when the time comes, you can give me the best mecha armor.”
Wolf Xin Rui and Wolf Xin Ping nodded heavily. They promised her, and they also promised themselves: “Okay. We will definitely give you the best.”
Their sincere apology and grateful eyes made the three of them look like bright young men and women standing in sunlight.
Jiang Tea Tea watched as the sixteen of them were taken away separately by the Barley Star Garrison Troops. Around them, the other guests had almost all been taken away as well.
Cheng Xiao Ting grinned and bounced over to his dad and mom. He spoke with loud pride: “Old Cheng, Great Beauty Jing Chun, see, I was not lying. Sister Tea is super cool, super flashy, super A, right?”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun pulled him aside with disgust: “You not cool, not A little male, get out of the way. We want to get to know Schoolmate Jiang Tea Tea all over again.”
Cheng Xiao Ting: “!!!”
He knew his dad and mom looked down on him, but he did not know they looked down on him this much.
No love, no love at all.
Jiang Tea Tea looked at Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun and was about to speak when a deep voice came from above them: “Sorry, everyone, excuse me a moment.”
In a second, Sui Xuan Chu and the other six stood straight and looked up at the image screen that appeared in mid air.
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun’s faces also grew serious. They looked up at the Commander in Chief Chong Ming on the screen with great respect.
Jiang Tea Tea was much more relaxed than they were. She lifted her eyelids and glanced over, then asked: “What is it, say it.”
On the giant screen, Chong Ming was wearing a sharp, straight military uniform. Two bright golden dragon horns rose from his forehead. His long golden hair was tied up, making him look even more young and handsome.
It had been almost a full week without his spiritual power to soothe her, no blood to drink, and no meat to gnaw. Even through the screen, she felt like he was seducing her and making her hungry.
Chong Ming’s gaze swept over everyone present. In the end, his eyes landed on Jiang Tea Tea. He called out eight names and praised them: “The eight of you worked well together. You completed the mission well. Congratulations.”
Besides Jiang Tea Tea and Sui Xuan Chu, the other six were so happy at being praised by their idol and heartthrob that they looked like big 200 jin fools. They answered loudly and with full energy: “Everything for the Commander in Chief, everything for the Empire!”
Chong Ming nodded slightly and looked at Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun: “Mister Cheng, Madam Mo, in this mission you also helped them a lot. You worked hard.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun were both shocked and flattered. They did not dare take credit: “It was not hard at all. The main thing is that these eight children were brave and strong.”
“As husband and wife, we did not help much. We do not deserve any praise.”
Chong Ming looked at them and said: “Mister Cheng, Madam Mo, you are being too modest. You helped these eight a lot. I saw it all.”
“So there is one thing I need to tell you.”
Commander in Chief Chong Ming had something to tell them?
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun respectfully asked: “Commander in Chief, please speak.”
Chong Ming said: “The fief of the White Wolf Tribe will be taken back because of Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng. Right now we still do not know how many people in the White Wolf Tribe have followed them into crime.”
“After we finish checking and clear out all criminals, you two will take over the White Wolf Tribe’s fief. The innocent people of the White Wolf Tribe will be put under your supervision and care.”
“There is one more thing. According to the gene profile match, Wolf Yin Feng and Wolf Luo Feng illegally stole other people’s youngling embryos. Four sets of embryos came from your Black Wolf Tribe.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun were shocked: “Commander in Chief, do you mean that among their seventeen children, four of them are wolf little brats from our Black Wolf Tribe?”
Chong Ming nodded: “Yes.”
Cheng Mian and Mo Jing Chun quickly asked: “Who are they, Commander in Chief? Have you matched their biological parents?”
Golden light flashed in Chong Ming’s eyes: “Their biological parents do not know they exist, just like those children themselves did not know, until half an hour ago, that they were not Wolf Yin Feng and his wife’s children.”
“So I did not have anyone compare their gene profiles to find out who their biological parents are.”
“The reason is that if their biological parents already have their own partner and younglings, the sudden appearance of these children would only add trouble and cause them a second round of hurt.”
“I am telling you two this because after the case is over, I hope the two of you can accept them, let them return to the Black Wolf Tribe, and join the Black Wolf Tribe clan, so they can feel like they belong somewhere.”
“Of course, this is not a command or mission I am giving you. I am discussing it with you. You have the right to refuse.”
Mo Jing Chun’s eyes were full of tears. Her heart ached for those children. She did not even think before blurting out: “We agree, Commander in Chief Chong Ming. We agree. Even if all seventeen of those children come to the Black Wolf Tribe, our Black Wolf Tribe is willing to accept them and raise them all over again.”