How I Pampered the Tyrant Into Devotion With My Space-Chapter 26: Burn the Bridge After Crossing, She Turns the Tables and Splits the Family

Old Madam Tang blushed at Pei Shu’er’s mention of "making things difficult for a young girl."

But humans are like this; she thinks of fairness normally.

However, when it comes to her own son’s life or death, her son’s right or wrong becomes less important than their lives.

She sighed, "Shu’er, Grandma thought you would understand, your uncle and aunt’s family are all dying of thirst."

Pei Shu’er glanced deeply at Old Madam Tang.

Tang Peilin sneered, "Mother, Pei Shu’er has always been an outsider. Now that she has gained power, she is taking the opportunity to retaliate against us. She can spare water for even the servants, but she refuses to share with us from the main house. This clearly means she doesn’t see us as family."

Those unaware might think the main house was as powerless as a white lotus blossom, little knowing how vicious they had been before.

Some onlookers also felt that Pei Shu’er was hard-hearted; after all, they were relatives.

Pei Shu’er laughed, "Uncle, Aunt, you say I don’t treat you as family, so let me ask you, do you treat me as family?"

"Furthermore, your accusations are baseless. At the start of the journey, I allocated 30 bamboo tubes of water to your main house, but you refused."

"When I offered, you didn’t want them; now that I have no water myself, you’re seeking more from me. Uncle, do you want me to bleed myself dry for you to drink?"

Everyone saw that before departure, she indeed gave water to the main house.

The people from the main house were not grateful, instead they cursed at Pei Shu’er and threw the bamboo tubes in front of her, making her cry in grievance.

Thinking about the thirty bamboo tubes, it was entirely possible to cross this desert.

However, the main house was ungrateful and so malevolent in attitude; now Pei Shu’er’s lips were chapped and dry from thirst, having no water, yet the main house came pleading for more.

It’s just too excessive for the main house to force a young girl like this.

At this moment, no one felt any sympathy for the main house; instead, they found them foolish and greedy.

Tang Peilin had initially pleaded with Pei Shu’er thinking she still had water. Now knowing she does not and that he had begged in vain, he utterly despised Pei Shu’er.

He frowned, angrily said, "Then your third house shouldn’t take advantage of us either. Look at your third house bringing along so many unrelated people, the young and the infirm; just split off and scatter the third house."

Tang Peilin’s gaze swept over Tang Zan and Tang Shuo, full of hatred.

Their main house should have had a boy, but Tang Zan accidentally bumped into the pregnant Aunt Lin while walking, though she didn’t fall, she staggered several steps to steady herself.

That night, the fetus died, and when it was delivered, they discovered it was the boy he had longed for.

Afterwards, there were no more children, despite having many women.

At that time, the entire Tang Family had to rely on Tang Peizhong. Despite his hatred, he didn’t dare take it out on Tang Zan. Now that everyone became captives, the grudge he harbored for eight years no longer needed to hide.

Better to let the third house go their own way, letting them sooner meet their end.

This would also avenge his son.

Old Madam Tang’s face changed; she wanted to stop it.

It’s so difficult now, they can’t separate. Being cast out means death.

Pei Shu’er’s heart leapt with joy; it’s like being given a pillow when you’re sleepy, just as she wanted to part ways with the Tang Family.

But she couldn’t agree; she had to show the plight of their third house so that the main house would firmly decide to cast them out.

Her face turned pale as if terrified.

"Uncle, Aunt, you can’t drive us out, we have so many mouths to feed. If we’re cast out here in this vast desert with nothing to eat, what will we do?"

As soon as she said this, the main house was eager to sever ties with the third house, hoping never to interact again.

Dragging others down is useless.

The second house also hesitated.

Tang Peixiao sighed, "Niece-in-law, you see those people following you, maybe you should send them away, we can barely fend for ourselves, let alone support so many people."

Liu Xu glanced at Pei Shu’er, then at Tang Zan whose dark eyes were filled with anger, knowing neither wanted to stay involved with the Tang Family.

So, she sighed, "Since that’s the case, we’ll split off and fend for ourselves. On this journey, we’ve relied on Shu’er. Without her, we couldn’t have made it here."

Though gentle-natured, once she made up her mind, Liu Xu wouldn’t change it.

She grasped Pei Shu’er’s hand, speaking softly yet firmly.

"Shu’er, I know you have your reasons for keeping these people; I won’t stop you. Since you’ve married into Zan’er, you’re part of our third house, and naturally, as your mother, I will protect you."

Tang Qingning also snorted, "When Shu’er caught game, you shamelessly ate with us. Now resources are scarce and techniques can’t be applied, and you want to kick us out after using us."

"It’s better to separate now, or when our third house is so exhausted we’re unconscious, we’re afraid you’ll leave us to feed the wolves."

Upon hearing "feed the wolves," everyone looked at Tang Peilin with peculiar eyes.

Mrs. Li sneered, "Let’s just hope after you leave us, you’ll still have such confidence, and you won’t come crawling back."

Pei Shu’er was giddy inside; with her space full of billions in resources, why would she ever beg the Tang Family who have nothing?

If nothing else, she’ll just spice up meals for everyone.

On the night of the separation, Pei Shu’er searched nearby, finding a bit of wild vegetables.

The subordinates looked at Pei Shu’er in disappointment, but then saw a smile appear at the corners of her mouth as she rummaged through her big basket and astonishingly found a piece of pre-marinated salted fish. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

When everyone saw the fish, they were momentarily stunned.

Previously, Pei Shu’er would occasionally pull out a bit of food, but not much, just enough to keep everyone from starving.

The eyes of those following Pei Shu’er brightened.

"Great, now there’s food."

Pei Shu’er gave those people a cool glance.

"You guys said before that if I gave you water you’d follow me, but no one said I also had to provide meals."

At these words, everyone was momentarily taken aback; indeed, they hadn’t said that, nor was it reasonable.

Everyone following Pei Shu’er was basically forming a small group to help each other when needed.

There was no intention to support each other financially.

So the person who said they had food was just trying to take advantage of Pei Shu’er because she was young.

If Pei Shu’er was any less thick-skinned, she would end up feeding them all.

The others shared this mindset, so naturally, they wouldn’t expose it.