Chapter 81: Rebirth in the '90s: The Tyrant Flower, Chapter 81: Exterminating Kin for Righteousness

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Youqing dragged the wood home, and Chai Mi was feeding cattle over there.

Seeing that elm log, Chai Mi was stunned too. She ran over to look at it, somewhat puzzled, and asked, "Dad, did something shock you? Why didn't you split it open, bring it back in pieces? You carried such a huge log back—can your back take it? Did it break?"

Chai Youqing's eyes were vacant; his shoulders, arms, hands, and thighs were all rubbed raw and red, and he had no strength even to breathe.

"I figured I'd use the whole log as a house beam later."

"Then you carried it back yourself? Didn't you think to hitch a cart?"

"You wouldn't let me hitch a cart..."

Chai Mi awkwardly curled her lip: "Well, it depends on the situation. I didn't know the tree there was so thick. If I'd known, I'd have had you hitch the ox cart. Even if our ox won't do, we could borrow someone's donkey."

In this era, borrowing a cart or a donkey wasn't unusual.

"Borrowing someone's donkey, you'd still have to feed it..."

"Uh..." Chai Mi felt her father Chai Youqing made such damn good sense that she couldn't even refute him...

Fine!!!

So him carrying it back was right.

Someone like him, afraid to borrow another's donkey and afraid the donkey would eat his family's grain—he deserved it... deserved to be so capable.

"Put it behind the house, so others don't see and report you for stealing trees."

"What's there to fear?" Chai Youqing retorted. "I picked it up on the mountain top. Picking it up isn't stealing."

"I'm afraid my grandmother will report you," Chai Mi said helplessly.

Chai Youqing was speechless.

Afterward, Chai Youqing dragged the wood to the back of his own house.

Because Chai Youqing felt Chai Mi made sense—just now he had really only run into his own mother Wang Huirong—but Chai Youqing had recently figured a lot of things out: his own birth mother absolutely might report him.

Other people might be fine, but this birth mother was extremely likely to screw him over.

Seeing Chai Youqing struggling alone, Chai Mi helped.

After moving the wood to the back, Chai Mi took some corn stalks, bundle by bundle, to cover the wood.

So that no ill-intentioned person would see it and cause endless trouble.

In these times, the people don't report and the officials don't investigate.

One elm tree wasn't really anything, but if someone saw it and stirred things up by reporting it, they'd still investigate, and might even fine you.

It just wasn't worth it.

Chai Mi knew that after arguing and fighting with those lunatics at the old house, she'd inevitably be picked on by them, so everything was better kept safe.

Chai Youqing ate and went straight to nap; he was exhausted and sleepy, sleeping a long time before waking.

When Chai Youqing woke, it was already the next morning.

Chai Mi had already cooked the meal and was about to eat when she saw a dense crowd of people at the doorway.

Chai Mi was stunned: What's going on?

Then Chai Mi went into the inner room to ask Chai Youqing: "Dad, when you brought that elm tree back yesterday, who did you run into? So many people at our doorway—clearly locals. I even recognize one: Xiao Liuzi from the police station in the township. They're definitely here for that tree..."

Chai Youqing scrambled up, flustered: "I... I ran into your grandmother when I got back yesterday."

Chai Mi rolled her eyes at Chai Youqing: "Then that explains it. I was wondering who the hell had nothing better to do than cause trouble. As expected."

"Dad, I'm not saying this about you. No one else would do such a ridiculous thing—who's sick in the head to report a tree? Only my grandmother has such high consciousness, messing around for no damn reason... exterminating kin for righteousness!"