Chapter Thirty-Two Is on Fire

  "Mother, something's wrong! Hurry back home, our house is on fire!" The newcomer kicked open the Chen family's front door and shouted anxiously.

  "What? How did our house catch fire?" Li Zheng's wife jumped up, sweating on her forehead, pale face, and tears streaming down her face, wiping away the powder, making the scene even more vivid.

  Although they knew it was not good to laugh at this time, Xi Mei and Xi He couldn't help but burst out laughing. It's as if the heavens were helping them too. But, what's with this voice and figure that seems so familiar?

  Ignoring her son's evasive gaze, Mrs. Li grasped his sleeve and asked, "Son, what's going on? Stop looking for that little tramp! What happened to our house?"

  It's better not to mention it, but as soon as he heard the words "cheap person", Zhou Dazhuang's face changed, and without regard for the Chen family present, he said with hatred: "I don't know which little bastard did it, he piled up a lot of firewood under our wall corner, now that the weather is dry, that wall corner is right next to our haystack."

  As he spoke, he stopped suddenly. "Why aren't you talking? Are you trying to drive me mad?" His mother pulled at his clothes and after a long while, she finally heard him say, "What's even more infuriating is that not only did they burn our family's haystack, but also charred the walls black. And that's still not all...

  "On the dark wall, two big characters were written in white powder: 'Cheap person'. After hearing this, the whole room fell silent for a moment, and then burst into laughter."

  "This is what a cheap person looks like, Third Sister, Fourth Sister, did you hear that? Cheap person, haha!" Xi Mei couldn't help but laugh at this point. It's really relieving, evil people will be ground down by other evil people.

  Li Zheng's wife couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing her son finish speaking, but upon hearing that their own wall had been burned and the words "cheap person" written on it, she couldn't shake off the bad feeling. She thought about the villagers who would be gossiping and spreading rumors afterwards.

  The family has made such a big joke, and the son's reputation was already bad. Now it is guaranteed that no daughter-in-law will be willing to come to their home again.

  After some thought, it seems that this girl must go to her home. He turned his head and said to Zhao: "It's a blessing for your family that my son has taken a liking to you. I'll give you three days. If you don't hand over the girl, humph, my brother who is a teacher in town won't show any mercy."

  "When the time comes, your family will be in a mess, don't say I didn't warn you." After finishing speaking, she followed her son out the door. Zhou Dazhuang didn't see Jikui being pulled away by his mother, and he felt somewhat disappointed, but his mother's strength was too great for him to resist.

  The old woman looked quite majestic. However, the disorderly footsteps still revealed her anxiety.

  They all left before Xihe went forward to close the door, spat a mouthful on the ground with a "pfft" sound, turned around and looked at Zhao who was deep in thought, and anxiously walked forward calling out "Mother?"

  Zhao nodded and comforted her, saying: "Don't be afraid, I don't believe that there is no justice in the world. Can the Zhou family still forcibly take someone away?"

  Sister Xi looked at her mother, silently sighing. Her mother was obviously comforting herself, as it has been the case since ancient times that officials and merchants collude. Moreover, that woman had just said that her brother was a teacher, if he were a good official, she wouldn't have dared to say such things.

  It seems that this teacher has a problem, and the county magistrate's problem is not small. What I'm afraid of is that after taking the money from the Li family, her father will still have to come to the prison for a free trip. Not only did she get involved, but also the whole family's property.

  This person is really bad to the bone, no wonder he can dominate the village for so many years. And look at that man earlier, I finally remembered after thinking about it for half a day, that's the one who tied her up and took her away at the fair!!!

  That's right, she remembered that person very clearly, not just the voice but also the figure. She didn't think of it just now because she really couldn't think of it, and it was actually done by someone from a village, and it was so close.

  That's easy to handle, new and old hatreds are calculated together, with anger flashing in her eyes. However, how can their family possibly win against theirs, her little head drooped down instantly.

  Right, where's her big brother and Little Overlord? While searching for the two of them, suddenly the three words "Little Overlord" flooded into her mind. How could she not have thought of it? Just because his house doesn't mean Zhang's house doesn't exist either.

  Think about his family's courtyard, his parents' demeanor, they must have always been wealthy at home, that makes things easier, having hope is better than having no hope.

  "Sister, where's big brother?" Xi Mei hastily asked. Xi Mei opened her mouth: "Just now when I came in, I didn't see anyone, and that annoying ghost was with them, where did they go?"

  But it turned out that these two people had left the house not long after the woman entered, but because Little Overlord saw him and wouldn't let go, he also took him along. Where did the two of them run to?

  They ran to the gate of Lǐ Zhèng's courtyard, Ruì Xuān looked at the wind direction and instructed Zhāng Zǐ Shàng to pick up some dry firewood. The confused Little Overlord didn't want to go, but seeing Ruì Xuān's determined face, he had no choice but to follow orders.

  After gathering and arranging the firewood, Rui Xuan took out a lighter from his pocket. At this moment, Xiao Bao Wang had already wasted several years of his Taoist practice.

  Excitedly, she snatched the lighter from Rui Xuan's hand and lit it herself. The firewood was dry to begin with, and it being a hot summer day, the fire caught on quickly. Before long, the flames grew larger and even ignited the dry hay in the wall.

  The poor black dog tied up beside it was on fire and couldn't run away, its fur burnt off in many places, and you could smell the scent of its own flesh, barking even more loudly.

  Watching the fire raging as expected, Rui Xuan pulled Zhang Zishang to hide, and several people in the yard were busy collecting their belongings to escape.

  As the fire was almost extinguished, no one came to put it out. Rui Xuan saw that there was no one around and took a prepared lime block, writing two large characters "Cheap Person" on the wall with great force. After finishing, he pulled the stunned Xiao Bao Wang away.

  She hurried home, only to find everyone covering their mouths and staring at her. When she finally returned to her own house, what she saw in front of her almost made her faint.

  Her home's dark wall corner was surrounded by wave after wave of people, pointing and giggling, occasionally bursting into laughter. When she walked in to take a look, they scattered in all directions. After taking a closer look at the two characters on the wall, she almost vomited blood again.

  All she saw was the two characters "cheap person" written in bold and upright strokes on the dark wall. If it weren't for her own wall, she would have praised the handwriting as "good writing", with powerful brushstrokes, indeed a talented person. But on her own wall, she just wanted to angrily bang her head against it.

  The fat on his face was almost squeezed into a ball, and he shouted "Who did it?" but all he got were a few sarcastic laughs.

  Ignoring the onlookers, he pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard, kicking away the big black dog that had come forward seeking comfort. His whole body was filled with anger. It wasn't that he didn't suspect the young Chen, but thinking about it, those poor devils hadn't even attended school, how could they write words, and yet they were so beautifully written?

  Kicking open the door of the house, she saw the scene in front of her and had completely fainted.

  Hey, hey, reward me, collect me, recommend me, you can go crazy and throw them at me.