Chapter 216

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

"Old witch, what are you trying to do? Let me tell you, if you dare touch a single hair on my head, I'll have my dad, mom, and Grandmother come at you with knives!"

Sun Jiawei shouted anxiously, thinking to threaten Chai Chunfang this way. The stench up here made Sun Jiawei want to vomit; he almost threw up what he'd eaten for dinner. Especially when, by moonlight, he saw the clear color inside the feces pit, Sun Jiawei completely cracked. Bean-sized tears kept falling.

Crying and howling, Sun Jiawei yelled, "Dad! Mom! Grandmother! Come find me quick! This old witch is so bad wuwuwuwu!"

Chai Chunfang's eyes turned vicious. She slapped Sun Jiawei hard across the face and cursed, "What are you crying for! If you want to blame someone, blame yourself for provoking me. This is all your own doing!"

Quite a few curious older kids followed at a distance, emboldened but not daring to get too close, afraid the old witch would fly into a rage and take it out on them.

"Has this old witch gone mad? Dragging Sun Jiawei to the feces pit for what?"

"This place reeks so bad I can't even stand it."

"It's suffocating!"

The children only dared watch from afar, not approaching. The feces pit's smell was too pungent; they found it repulsive too.

Deep in the night, Sun Jiawei's cries were the most conspicuous.

Sun Jiawei was just a child, after all; where would he have seen such a scene? He started crying and begging for mercy, saying he'd never dare again.

But Chai Chunfang didn't care about any of that.

Over the years, her relationship with Sun Yuguang's brothers, as well as her own in-laws and sisters-in-law, had deteriorated to a bizarre degree. Beating the old and scolding the young — Chai Chunfang had done plenty of it.

An ordinary person, no matter how much anger they held inside, wouldn't bully a child.

But Chai Chunfang wasn't that kind of person. Her rule of life was: I can't beat Chai Mi, so can't I handle a few brats? Even children dare laugh at me, dare climb all over me and gossip behind my back.

How else would Chai Chunfang survive in the village from now on?

The more Chai Chunfang thought, the angrier she got. She threw Sun Jiawei bodily into the feces pit, then stepped back a ways, pinching her nose, watching Sun Jiawei struggle in the pit, her eyes full of malicious glee.

The feces pit was the old kind specially made for farm fertilizer, so although not very clean, it wasn't deep enough to drown a person.

The smell, however, was far from ideal.

Chai Chunfang turned around, wanting to grab a few more kids and throw them in.

Only now did the onlookers realize Chai Chunfang was playing for real! She didn't just want to mess with Sun Jiawei; she wanted to mess with them too!

"Run! The old witch is coming for us!"

"Run home and get adults! That damn Chai Chunfang is bullying children!"

"Go call the adults over!"

Someone shouted that, and the children scattered in a panic. But Chai Chunfang clearly didn't intend to let them off......

For a moment, the scene was chaotic.

Sun Yuguang was strolling back home unhurriedly. He figured he'd been away from home a good while; by now Chai Chunfang had probably cooled down some. He ought to go back, otherwise he'd have no place to stay.

Sun Yuguang sauntered with hands in his pockets, gazing at the evening glow, in a pretty decent mood.

Sun Yuguang, normally at home, was also afraid of Chai Chunfang. One, physically he was no match for her. Two, proximity makes you like those you're near — near red turns red, near black turns black.

Sun Yuguang wasn't a good person either.

Sun Yuguang and Chai Chunfang's household income wasn't much to begin with. For years they'd wanted to move out, leave this Dagou they lived in. Life here was extremely inconvenient.

Everyone else in Sanjiacun lived on high ground; only Sun Yuguang and his brother lived down in this Dagou.

That was truly stifling.

Moreover, because Sun Yuguang's father was originally an outsider who married in, a live-in son-in-law, his status was inherently inferior.

Furthermore, when the village allocated land, they treated them differently. Sun Yuguang himself had no land. Chai Chunfang's land was back at her Old Home; her household registration never changed, so the land couldn't be reallocated.

So Sun Yuguang's family truly "lived off the mountain."

Living off the mountain inevitably brought problems.

Sun Yuguang's family raised some sheep, about forty or fifty head, big and small. The Sun family's land — only Chai Chunfang's mother-in-law had any...... This was also the main reason Sun Yuguang and his brother became enemies.

Though Chai Chunfang's mother-in-law's land wasn't much, it bordered this side of Dagou; if reclaimed, there would be a lot.

In this era, reclaiming wasteland was still unregulated, which was why Chai Chunfang had beaten her mother-in-law violently back then and fought bitterly with her younger brother-in-law's family.

But then, Sun Yuguang's brother wasn't an easy lamp either.

Sun Yuguang had seized the land allocated to their mother, but this brother of his frequently ruined Sun Yuguang's crops.

As the saying goes: don't fear the thief who steals, fear the thief who keeps an eye on you.

Whenever Sun Yuguang wasn't home, just went out for a stroll, this good brother of his would definitely ruin him.

Lightly, he'd steal Sun Yuguang's corn; heavily, he'd drive a donkey cart into the fields and deliberately crush crops. Come autumn harvest, he'd steal corn in the dead of night.

And Sun Yuguang's brother had principles...... he only stole from Sun Yuguang's family.

So sometimes, although Chai Chunfang went too far, Sun Yuguang backed her behind the scenes.

"Forgot to divine the hexagram before leaving today, running into this kind of thing, sigh......" Sun Yuguang sighed to himself.

Sun Yuguang didn't know what his father-in-law wanted him back for. If he knew it was to raise money, he wouldn't go back even if he died.

Though they were husband and wife, Chai Chunfang's land had always been at her natal home, farmed by Chai Zhongxiao. All these years, her father hadn't taken a single cent.

Legally speaking, Chai Zhongxiao farming his married-out daughter's land was illegal.

Over this matter, Sun Yuguang had dragged his feet plenty.

But then, if he really didn't go back.

Chai Zhongxiao still held great authority in the Old Chai Family. Besides, back then Chai Chunfang's bride price, Chai Zhongxiao had already repaid using several of Chai Mi's family's sheep.

You should know, Chai Family's second daughter, Chai Chunhua, also had land at home. She'd asked for it many times, resulting in father and daughter becoming enemies.

Sun Yuguang naturally wanted his land back, but first, it truly couldn't be gotten back, and second, his own situation left him little choice.

He and his wife were already estranged from his parents; if they also fell out with his father-in-law, they'd be ignored even by the village dogs.

"My father-in-law isn't anything good either. You can be biased, but you don't pay for your own daughter's land while farming it yourself, and you still want to deduct money from us? As a result, that idiot Chai Chunfang helped her father cause trouble for Chai Mi, and Chai Mi scared them a bit, and those two old coots ran faster than monkeys. A father-in-law like that really isn't anything good. Why didn't I end up with a good father-in-law?"

Just as he was thinking, Sun Yuguang arrived home.

Then he saw a piece of glass broken in his own home.

"This dog thing, I know exactly who did it, causing trouble while I'm not home."

Sun Yuguang didn't need to think; he blamed his own brother.

"This bastard thing deserves a beating. Today he sees me and my wife going back to my wife's family home, so he comes to find fault; he really deserves to die."

Sun Yuguang got angry.

But......

The problem was Sun Yuguang just got angry for a moment.

He didn't have the ability to settle accounts with his own brother, after all he couldn't beat him.

And before, Sun Yuguang had asked the village to handle this matter,

such as crops being crushed, corn going missing.

But this era had no monitoring, nor witnesses like that, and Sun Yuguang's brother denied everything.

The village actually mostly tried to mediate for this kind of neighborhood dispute,

commonly called: muddying the waters.

Whether it was the old Village Chief before, or Liu Zhanggui now, they both muddied the waters, urging both sides not to be too calculative.

And, each had their own reasoning. One thought the other did it, the other firmly denied, and even said this was slandering his reputation......

Over time, no one cared anymore.

After all, the Village Chief is also human; Chai Chunfang's family matters were too damn many, no one wanted to manage, and couldn't manage either.

Sun Yuguang also knew today's matter would definitely have no one managing, and then he started cursing in the courtyard......

The vulgarity of the words was offensive.

After all, Sun Yuguang was cursing his own brother's mother, actually no different from cursing himself.

After cursing for a while without feeling relieved, he ran outside the courtyard to curse.

Just as he was cursing with great enthusiasm, a panicked child rushed over and bumped into Sun Yuguang's arms.

The child was flustered, shouting loudly, "Old demon hag... Old demon hag has gone mad!"

Sun Yuguang was completely baffled, what old demon hag? Did some ghost appear at midnight?

Sun Yuguang was puzzled in his heart, grabbing the child's hand and asking, "Who is that old demon hag you speak of, what happened, why are you so nervous, as if a ghost is chasing behind you."

The child cried; he would rather meet a ghost, this Chai Chunfang was truly more terrifying than a ghost.

Ghosts just scare people, but this Chai Chunfang was truly malicious......

She herself wasn't afraid of being dirty, just went all out to ruin other people's children; this kind of person was truly vicious.

"It's that old demon hag Chai Chunfang! She's now grabbing children to throw into the feces pit, you'd better leave quickly, if caught you'll get some shit and urine on you, disgusting!" The sky wasn't very bright, and the child didn't clearly see that the person before him was the "old demon hag's" husband......

The child broke free from Sun Yuguang's hand and ran outside, shouting while running, "I'm going to find my grandfather to make a decision for me!"

Sun Yuguang stood stunned in place; Chai Chunfang? Old demon hag? Grabbing children to throw into the feces pit? These words sounded so bizarre.

Wait! This couldn't be true!

Did this bitch go crazy?

Whose child did she grab....

Sun Yuguang was a bit panicked; Chai Chunfang doing this wasn't decent.

And it wasn't just an indecent matter; so-called misfortune doesn't implicate family aside, Sun Yuguang still knew a bit of law: cursing people was nothing, but hitting people was against the law......

And on the other side of the courtyard.

Sun Jiawei's father and mother were sitting on the bed preparing to sleep, but Sun Jiawei's mother glanced several times toward the small room opposite, and couldn't help but wonder, "Jiawei usually isn't asleep at this time and will make a fuss for a while, how is his room so quiet now."

Sun Jiawei's father lay on the kang, not caring at all, "Maybe Jiawei this child played too tired today and slept earlier today, his mother you don't need to worry, Jiawei this child is naughty and mischievous, very wild, maybe he went to play until tired and fell asleep."

Sun Jiawei's father rubbed his nose, suddenly thought of something interesting, got up and said jokingly, "Wife, you don't know, today I heard Lao Song say that Chai Chunfang went to settle accounts with her niece Chai Mi; a couple days ago she suffered a loss at Chai Mi's place, maybe she couldn't swallow the anger, today she went to find Chai Mi again, so guess what?"

Sun Jiawei's mother knew the matter behind; Chai Chunfang's noon matter had long been known by the whole village. But she still cooperatively asked, "What?"

Sun Jiawei's father laughed until his stomach hurt a bit, "The result was this Chai Mi wanted to drive a vehicle to crush this Chai Chunfang to death, and then Chai Chunfang was scared into peeing."

(The special word behind is not an error, it's local dialect, read with the second tone.)

"She deserves it, why didn't she let the vehicle crush her to death. Even if she was crushed to death by the vehicle, I wouldn't go....."

(This "wouldn't go" is a tone of very firm attitude, also our local dialect.)

"That won't do, if my elder sister-in-law died, I definitely would go....." Sun Jiawei's father said coldly: "I have to go watch the excitement....."

Sun Jiawei's wife also laughed, saying, "You, unnecessary. Don't bother with those two things; in my opinion, your elder brother and sister-in-law, even if you put a human skin on them, they'd still be blind. They can speak human words but don't do human things."

Suddenly, a sound came from the room door.

Urgent knocking sounded, "Dong dong dong" loudly.

Sun Jiawei's mother shouted outside, "Who is it, not sleeping at midnight and coming here to knock on the door."

She was thinking if this was some prank, after all the old Chai family's glass was broken not long ago; maybe someone came to prank their house.

Thinking of this, Sun Jiawei's mother was annoyed, but the knocking continued.

Sun Jiawei's father put on his clothes and shouted outside, "Who is it!"

"Second Uncle, Second Aunt, not good!"

A tender and urgent child's voice sounded.

Sun Jiawei's mother was slightly stunned, then realized, this voice sounded so much like Liu Dan Dan who played well with Jiawei!

As a result, when he opened the door and took a look, it really was! The little boy standing before him, not even as tall as his own waist, was precisely Liu Erdan, except the current Liu Erdan ran until he was panting heavily, his face color flushed red; he pointed at Sun Jiawei's room, seemingly wanting to say something, but at this moment he was somewhat unable to catch his breath, and needed to pause a bit.

"Zen Me Le?" Sun Jiawei's dad came from Hou Bian, and naturally also saw Liu Erdan clearly, exclaiming, "So it's Erdan, ah, it's already this late and you're still going out to play? My kid is already asleep, tomorrow then, tomorrow the two of you go out to play again."

After all, children all love to play, some kids at night will stay together and sneak out to play.

"Not going out to play......." The child ran until he was panting heavily.

Sun Jiawei's mom also patiently said, "Right now it's Already evening, you also just don't go Everywhere to play, playing at night has danger, and there are also few people staying Wai Mian, if you get abducted by some human trafficker what would you do? You also hurry and Return home, later if your mom can't find you she'll be Anxious."