"Shut up!"

Cheng Shanshan then twisted her other arm: "If you shout again, I'll break this arm too!"

"...Waaah!"

Cheng Xiulan forced herself to keep her voice down, but the intense pain caused beads of sweat to quickly appear on her forehead.

Grandma Cheng anxiously jabbed the ground with her cane, shouting, "Cheng Shanshan, you brat, release your aunt right now!"

Cheng Shanshan said coldly, "I can release her, but she has to release my mother first."

These words made Old Mrs. Cheng's eyes widen: "You unfilial daughter, how dare you treat your aunt like this! Release her at once!"

But Cheng Shanshan showed no intention of letting go at all.

"Cousin, don't be impulsive." Cheng Wan'er took a step forward. Unlike Old Madam Cheng's fury, she gently advised, "I know you're angry right now, but we are all members of the Cheng family after all. Although there have been some misunderstandings and frictions, it's not enough to warrant you committing such a serious crime of disobedience. If word gets out, you'll be in big trouble!"

Are you threatening me?

Cheng Shanshan looked at Cheng Wan'er with utter contempt: "Cheng Wan'er, I don't want to waste any more words with you right now. If you know what's good for you, release my mother, or I'll make you regret it."

With a slight exertion of force in my hand.

Cheng Xiulan immediately screamed like a pig being slaughtered.

In this situation, Old Mrs. Cheng was truly frightened. She quickly released Bai Shi and tried to dissuade her, saying, "Alright, alright, Shanshan, let's talk this out."

"OK."

Cheng Shanshan gave a light, nonchalant reply.

After Bai Shi walked up behind her, her eyes hardened again: "There's a score we really should settle." With that, she pushed Cheng Xiulan away.

Because Cheng Xiulan was so big, Old Lady Cheng and Cheng Wan'er were knocked down and staggered to the ground. The three of them looked extremely disheveled.

But Old Mrs. Cheng, disregarding her own safety, rushed to check on Cheng Wan'er and Cheng Xiulan, completely unaware that Cheng Shanshan had already picked up the stick Cheng Xiulan had prepared and was walking over...

Then, Bai looked at the three wailing figures and silently turned her head away.

Half an hour later, someone in the village suddenly shouted, "Fire! Fire!"

People were awakened from their sleep and rushed to put out the fire.

Cheng Shanshan, however, sat on the roof of the dilapidated house, watching the raging fire while eating the spicy hand-shredded rabbit she had made earlier.

She added a lot of spices to this, making it incredibly flavorful.

Just as she was enjoying her meal, Huo Mingchen's voice suddenly rang out: "You're eating all by yourself."

"Brother Huo."

When Cheng Shanshan saw Huo Mingchen, her eyes immediately lit up with a smile: "Come and have some with me, there's plenty more here."

Huo Mingchen did not refuse, and went straight up to the roof and took out a pot of wine: "I also brought some good stuff, would you like to try some?"

"Alcohol?" Cheng Shanshan was indeed thirsty, but the strong liquor clearly didn't quench her thirst. "I can't hold my liquor. I'm afraid I'll cause trouble if I drink."

"You won't cause trouble if you don't drink it?" Huo Mingchen glanced at the three people who had been stripped naked and were groaning not far away, his face full of teasing: "This is fruit wine, it won't make you drunk."

"Fruit wine, huh?"

Cheng Shanshan was immediately delighted.

Perhaps because he was too relaxed, he casually took out two small wine glasses from his storage space.

This behavior surprised Huo Mingchen for a moment, and Cheng Shanshan was also startled. She quickly explained, "This is a magic trick I just learned. Isn't it pretty good?"

"Um."

Huo Mingchen nodded.

He didn't continue talking about that, but instead poured her a glass of wine.

Cheng Shanshan took an awkward sip, then immediately felt the fruity aroma fill her mouth and exclaimed, "This tastes so good! Where did you buy it?"

Huo Mingchen said calmly, "If you like, I can bring you some next time."

"Did you brew it yourself?" Cheng Shanshan couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "Brother Huo, you've gained another amazing skill."

"..."

Huo Mingchen coughed lightly.

When I saw the glint in Cheng Shanshan's eyes, I don't know why, but I felt as if my heart skipped a beat.

In this situation, he could only awkwardly change the subject: "Well... this time things were handled very well without any dragging on."

"Is that so?"

Cheng Shanshan took a sip of her drink, then chuckled, "But why do I still feel uncomfortable, even a little sad?"

She just beat up all three of them in a fit of anger.

Beating them wasn't enough; they even stripped them naked and set them on fire, forcing the three to choose between humiliation and death.

Seeing them being pointed at and talked about in the distance, she should have been happy, but for some reason, she felt a little unhappy.

Huo Mingchen poured Cheng Shanshan a glass of fruit wine before speaking, "Because you are a person who plans things out. Teaching them a lesson this time was clearly not what you wanted, but a choice you had to make out of desperation."

"Um."

If it weren't for Bai's soft heart...

She really didn't want to waste her time and energy on these three people for the time being.

After all, she learned a lesson from her second life: nothing is more important than living. So her first thought was to stockpile goods on a large scale and renovate the cave.

As for hatred, she wanted to hold back for now. This time, it was clearly a passive and impulsive act, and she figured they would definitely take this opportunity to report it to the authorities.

She knew that officials would come to arrest her and interrogate her, and the thought of possibly facing the imprisonment and natural disasters made her feel sorry for the cave that Huo Mingchen had worked so hard to expand for her...

Is this a case of man's plans being no match for fate, and fate being no match for unexpected events?

The thought made her clench her fist in annoyance: "It's only two days left!"

"Two days?"

Huo Mingchen repeated the word.

He noticed that Cheng Shanshan seemed to have been calculating the time from the beginning, doing all sorts of precise calculations, as if she knew something in advance.

Cheng Shanshan did not speak.

At this point, she no longer wanted to explain, but instead started thinking about how to resolve the situation herself.

Just as she was fretting, Huo Mingchen suddenly spoke up: "Don't worry, they won't sue you."

Cheng Shanshan was a little surprised: "Huh?"

Huo Mingchen took a bite of the hand-shredded rabbit meat before continuing, "I don't need the silver; this meat will do as payment."

"……good."

This time, Cheng Shanshan did not refuse.

After all, if Huo Mingchen could help her solve it, then she would be rid of a big problem.

Of course, if that wasn't possible, she had already decided that she could simply tie up the three of them.

And then... it's done once and for all!

After having this idea, Cheng Shanshan was no longer worried.

But when she returned to the house, she was surprised to find that Madam Bai was not asleep. When she saw her, her eyes instantly reddened: "Shanshan, I've caused you trouble this time, haven't I?"