Chapter 36 My Fierce Wife

A slight breeze made her neck feel a little stiff; this box of matches was brand new.

Why can't these straws be lit?

Huang Zhaodi was flustered and left while swearing.

Suddenly a light appeared behind her, and Huang Zhaodi dared not move her foot that had been taken. Where did the light come from?

Do you want to light it?

A clear, ethereal voice entered her ears. Huang Zhaodi dared not look back and kept cursing, trying to drive away the evil spirit.

"Let me order for you~" That ethereal voice came again, and Huang Zhaodi's gaze shifted to her shoulder.

It was a flame emitting a ghostly blue light; she had never seen such a flame before.

Two words suddenly popped into her mind: will-o'-the-wisp!

"ah!!!!"

"Build...build the country, build it!" Huang Zhaodi was terrified, her body trembling uncontrollably.

"Help! There's a ghost!"

"Solid evidence! Help!"

"Don't come any closer! Back off, back off!!!" Huang Zhaodi was terrified by the will-o'-the-wisps around her: "Ahhh!"

"Go find Ji Huaizhi, don't come to our house!" Huang Zhaodi was so frightened that she sat on the ground, surrounded by many eerie blue flames.

Huang Zhaodi shuddered, seemingly scared out of her wits.

Because she saw a woman a few steps away, wearing a drab gray jacket, with a pale face and two long braids.

Huang Zhaodi was so frightened that she lost her voice.

She recalled asking Ji Shichui what the woman in front of him was like when she was young.

She had two long braids, often wore a drab gray jacket, and her eyebrows and eyes resembled those of Ji Huaizhi.

Everything matches up.

"No......"

She stared ahead, her body convulsing, her ears ringing, her head spinning, barely able to breathe, and her chest aching terribly.

The pulling sensation after her heart started racing brought her to the brink of death.

Just when she thought she was going to die, she finally caught her breath.

She was breathing heavily.

He was panting as he looked ahead, and his consciousness returned somewhat.

This is revenge; Ji Huaizhi's biological mother has come from the underworld to seek revenge.

"I was wrong, please don't kill me, I was really wrong."

"Waaaaah~"

Huang Zhaodi watched helplessly as the will-o'-the-wisps set her house ablaze, her son and grandson inside.

She tried to shout, but when she opened her mouth, nothing came out.

"don't want....."

The woman in the gray jacket disappeared sometime ago.

The eerie blue flames on the roof of the Ji family's house grew larger and larger, eventually turning into the normal color of flames.

The flames did not affect the Chen family or the Ji family; they only burned at the Ji family's house.

Ji Shichui was awakened by the thick smoke.

Seeing the fire and thick smoke in his house, he knew something was wrong.

He quickly opened the fire door and rushed out. Once outside, his throat was so sore he could barely speak. He saw the fire had spread to his two sons' rooms and shouted:

"Fire! Help!"

"Fire!"

He tapped the ceramic basin with a stick, waking up the people around him.

She got soaked and kicked open her son's room door.

Seeing them sleeping like that, a few slaps woke them up: "Wake up! There's a fire! Quick, save the children!"

"What?"

The couple woke up quickly, and each of them took the child and went outside.

Jianguo's wife still wanted to take the money, but Ji Jianguo quickly pulled her away: "Are you out of your mind? The fire is so big!"

Once the surrounding lights came on, everyone came over to help put out the fire.

Everyone was banging on their basins, calling for help from the village.

After Ji Jianshe, Ji Jianguo, and their children came out, they also helped put out the fire.

"Wait, where's Huang Zhaodi? Is she still inside?" Chen Honghua was the first to notice that Huang Zhaodi was missing.

Their hearts sank. Ji Jianguo shouted, "Jianhua isn't here either!"

Ji Shichui knocked over the basin of water: "Oh no! I was so focused on you guys that I forgot Ji Jianhua was right next door!"

When Ji Jianhua was rescued, he was lying in front of his house with obvious burns on his body and his hair was singed.

"This fire is burning strangely. Why is it only burning in your house? It's not spreading to the neighbors' houses."

"Yes, I was so scared I thought it would burn down to my house, but only the mud wall got a little blackened." Chen Honghua looked at the fire that was almost extinguished with lingering fear.

Thankfully, the fire didn't spread to their house.

The village chief was asking Ji Shichui how the fire started.

Did you leave the stove on after cooking?

But the two women insisted that it was definitely not true, and that the fire had surely gone out.

The village chief frowned as he looked at the house, which was burned beyond recognition. The fire was indeed strange. He told everyone to take a good look at the fire and then at Ji Huaizhi's yard.

"Where is Huang Zhaodi? Haven't we found her yet?"

The others shook their heads, looking disheveled and exhausted.

"Could it be that it burned to death?"

"I don't know. Anyway, we haven't found anyone. It hasn't been long. It's impossible for them to have been burned to ashes so quickly, right?"

"Could she have started this fire? And then run away?"

Ji Jianguo denied it, saying, "That's our own mother, how could that be?"

"Don't let me catch the arsonist, or I'll make him pay!"

"Village chief, we've found her! Huang Zhaodi is behind the house!"

Huang Zhaodi was awakened by being splashed with ice water. When she opened her eyes, she found that the people surrounding her all had the face of the woman in the gray jacket.

I was already terrified and out of my mind, and seeing so many ghost faces made my heart almost give way.

"Ah! Don't come any closer!"

"Ghost! Ghost, please, please let me go, I was wrong."

Seeing his mother like this, with her pants soaked, Ji Jianguo felt both embarrassed and confused: "Mom, what's wrong? What did you see?"

"Did you see someone set a fire?"

Ji Shichui frowned: "What's wrong with you?"

Huang Zhaodi kept kowtowing, and everyone wondered what had happened to her.

"Could she be possessed? It seems like the first thing she said when she woke up was that there were ghosts."

"You can't just say things like that..."

Huang Zhaodi: "I was wrong, I was really wrong. Wang Dami, I will never dare to do it again. Please let me go. I promise I will never go looking for your son."

"I will never mess with your son again!"

"Go back to the underworld. I was just confused for a moment. I really treated him like my own son. I didn't mean to start a fire."

"Please, I was wrong." Huang Zhaodi's head was already red from kowtowing. She cried and begged for mercy, "Please let me go."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Ji Shichui was shocked and grabbed her arm, questioning her.

All that resulted was Huang Zhaodi's even more panicked shouts.

"Wang Dami? Isn't that Ji Shichui's ex-wife who died of illness?"

"Is he really possessed? Did you hear that?"

"Village chief, we just saw a lot of straw behind Ji Huai's house next door, and there were also many burnt matchsticks at Huang Zhaodi's feet." The man lowered his voice as he spoke:

"There was a lot of straw there, which means Huang Zhaodi probably wanted to start a fire but failed to ignite it."

"But I don't know why their house caught fire."

The village chief roared in anger: "Those who do evil will not live!"

"Isn't this karma?"

People who deliberately set fires deserve to die!

Huang Zhaodi stared blankly, begging for mercy. Only when her pupils slowly focused did she realize that the person in front of her was not a ghost at all.

She looked around and clutched her chest.

"A ghost! I saw a ghost!"

Everyone stared at her, and Ji Shichui asked, his hands trembling, "Did you see a ghost when you set the fire?"

"Yes, I saw Ji Huaizhi's biological mother. She wanted to kill me. Go and bring back a sorceress. I'll make sure she can't rest in peace even in the afterlife!"

Ji Shichui slapped Huang Zhaodi across the face, sending her flying: "Madman!"

"You actually dared to set the house on fire?"