Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 115

Chapter 115: Chapter 115: Uninvited Guests

Today was New Year’s Eve, and the Summers family had been busy since the crack of dawn.

Miss Lowell and Melody’s grandmother had already prepared the fried foods yesterday: fried chicken nuggets, crispy small fish, fried stuffed eggplant, crispy fried pork, and fried shrimp... They were all perfectly crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Melody Summers and Albus had snuck quite a few pieces.

It seemed that ordinary food tasted exceptionally delicious on New Year’s Day.

Her grandmother and Miss Lowell were in the kitchen preparing dumpling fillings. For the meat fillings, they had pork, beef, and a three-delicacy seafood mix. For the vegetarian options, they had chive and egg, and fennel and egg.

After lunch, the whole family would gather around to make dumplings while watching TV.

When Melody Summers had been stockpiling supplies, she had bought a lot of dried fruits, nuts, and candy, which were now coming in handy.

She arranged peanuts, melon seeds, almonds, pine nuts, milk candies, brittle, fruit drops, and liqueur-filled chocolates on a platter and placed it on the coffee table. Instantly, the festive New Year’s atmosphere filled the room.

After setting out the snack platter, Melody Summers ran to the backyard. The satsuma oranges on the fruit tree there were all ripe.

Thanks to the irrigation from the Arcadian Stream, the small satsuma tree had produced a bumper crop, its branches laden with golden fruit. Melody Summers planned to pick a small basketful; they were the perfect snack for eating while watching TV.

By the pond in the backyard, her uncle and aunt were scooping up fish with a net. After the mountain fire, Sophie Thorne had sent over many freshwater fish. Nourished by the Arcadian Stream, every single one had grown lively and energetic.

It was a tradition embodying the saying "may there be abundance year after year," so the Summers family planned to catch the two largest, plumpest fish from the pond for the New Year’s Eve dinner.

Winnie Summers was in the front yard’s vegetable patch picking tomatoes and green beans when the doorbell rang.

Winnie Summers thought it was Crystal Lynch’s family of three, so she hurried to open the gate.

The Lynch family wasn’t going back to their hometown for the New Year, so when the Summers family found out, they invited them over to celebrate together. The two families had gotten to know each other well over the past year, and having more people around would make the celebration livelier.

But when she opened the gate, she was surprised to find two people she didn’t recognize standing outside.

"May I ask who you are...?" Winnie Summers asked, a little confused.

Robert Lancaster surveyed the villa. He had a sharp eye and could see that quite a few vegetables were being grown in the front yard.

Moreover, after Winnie Summers opened the gate, they could feel a cool breeze wafting out from the yard, indicating that the air conditioning was on.

’This is perfect,’ Robert Lancaster thought with satisfaction. ’If my family can move in here, our current financial struggles will be solved...’

He had just asked around at the property management office; this villa was registered under Melody Summers’s name. Since Melody Summers was the Lancaster family’s biological daughter, it was only natural for the Lancasters to live here. As long as Melody agreed, the Summers family had no grounds to object.

Elaine Hughes stared intently at Winnie Summers, a bitter taste in her mouth.

Today was New Year’s Eve, and Winnie Summers had changed into a new set of clothes. She looked even younger than when they had run into each other at the gallery in the Nimbus Hotel.

Winnie Summers was naturally beautiful, with fair skin and few wrinkles. She looked like she was in her thirties, a clear sign that the nearly year-long natural disaster hadn’t worn her down at all.

Seeing Winnie Summers’s healthy complexion, Elaine Hughes couldn’t stop a surge of jealousy. In contrast, she herself had developed several new wrinkles from the stress of tedious housework over the past two months.

Robert Lancaster put on a respectable smile, holding up the gifts in his hands. "We’re family," he said to Winnie Summers. "It’s the New Year, so we came to pay a visit."

Winnie Summers saw the beads of sweat on their foreheads and noticed the sun was getting higher in the sky. After a moment’s hesitation, she stepped aside to let them into the yard. "It’s hot out here. Please, come in and talk."

Robert Lancaster and Elaine Hughes felt the heat too and eagerly stepped into the yard. Silas Lancaster, however, followed behind them reluctantly with his head down.

Silas Lancaster hadn’t wanted to come at all. He would rather have his water and electricity cut off, rather starve or die of thirst, than come here and be at Melody Summers’s mercy.

But Elaine Hughes and Robert Lancaster had yelled at him and forced him to apologize to Melody Summers, threatening to disown him if he didn’t...

He had no choice but to bite the bullet and come.

Winnie Summers wracked her brain but couldn’t recall who these relatives were. The young man who followed them in kept his head so low she couldn’t even see his face.

She could only ask again, somewhat awkwardly, "I’m sorry, it’s been so long since we’ve visited with relatives, I’m afraid I don’t quite remember... Which side of the family are you from?"

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