He Hua's eyes widened: "You...you dare!"
Xiao Yunying was too lazy to waste any more words with her and simply swung the axe down.
"ah!"
He Hua screamed, her body went limp, and she squatted down against the wall.
With a "bang," the axe chopped into the wall.
Everyone around covered their eyes, too afraid to look. He Hua dodged for a moment, then bent down and ran towards the courtyard gate from Xiao Yunying's side.
Xiao Yunying reached out and grabbed He Hua's hair, pressing down hard. The force was so great that He Hua was pulled down and lay on her back on the ground.
Xiao Yunying pulled out her axe, released He Hua's hair, and stomped on her chest: "Trying to run? Do you think you can escape?"
He Hua groaned as Xiao Yunying stepped on her foot. She tried to move Xiao Yunying's foot by grabbing her ankle with both hands, but Xiao Yunying weighed about 150 pounds, which was not something she could move.
He Hua could only scream at the top of her lungs like a pig being slaughtered: "Help! Xiao Yunying has gone mad! She's killing people!"
Someone nearby said, "Go and call the village chief quickly."
"Call her parents over too."
Xiao Yunying turned around and pointed her axe at the crowd: "Let's see who dares to leave. This is between her and me. If I find out who went to call people and dealt with He Hua, I'll take this axe and go sit at the house of the person who sent the message, and we'll talk about whether a person's bones are harder or my axe is harder."
Xiao Yunying's expression was too terrifying at this moment, and with the axe gleaming coldly in her hand, no one around dared to move an inch after hearing her warning.
He Hua kept screaming for help, her voice sounding particularly shrill in the quiet night. Lin Shi came out of the house and froze on the spot when he saw the scene in the yard.
It took him a while to come to his senses and realize that he wasn't dreaming.
He Hua's two sons also ran out of the house. The younger one saw that the woman who had stepped on his mother had blood on her face and was holding an axe, so he turned around and ran back into the house.
Xiao Yunying recognized the older one; he was the one who snatched Luo Li's bubble water. He had some guts and ran towards her, shouting, "Let go of my mother!"
Then Aunt Lin hugged him, preventing him from going over.
Lin Shi took a few steps forward: "Yun Ying, what's wrong?"
Hearing her man's voice, He Hua cried out for help: "Lin Shi, save me! Xiao Yunying has gone mad! She's going to kill me!"
Lin Shi took two more steps forward: "Yun Ying, did she cause you trouble again? Don't take it to heart..."
"Stop right there, don't come any closer."
Xiao Yunying pointed the axe at Lin Shi. She didn't want to hurt him, she just wanted to scare him. If Lin Shi came over and tried to take the axe from her, the others might join in.
Xiao Yunying had no patience to explain to him again that He Hua wanted to kill her, which was why she came to find He Hua. Ignoring Lin Shi, she pointed the axe at He Hua's head and said, "I'm asking you one last time, why did you want to kill me!"
So far, He Hua has not given any reason. The more she hides it, the more Xiao Yunying feels that the reason is not simple.
Lin Shi was stunned again upon hearing this. Kill her? Who killed her? His wife?
He Hua, startled by the axe blow, realized that she couldn't admit she wanted to kill her: "I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't push you."
"Very well, you're tough on the tongue. I wonder if your bones are as tough as your tongue. Since the authorities may not be able to convict you, I might as well get rid of you first, so that I won't have to live in peace day and night, and have to be on guard against you harming me every moment."
Xiao Yunying raised her axe once more and swiftly chopped it down before He Hua could speak.
The sound of the axe hitting the ground seemed to strike everyone's hearts. People around waited for a while before daring to peek into the Lin family's yard through their fingers.
He Hua felt a tightness in her scalp, then a release. She reached up and touched the top of her head, where she felt the ends of her hair that had been neatly chopped off by the axe.
"Ah! My hair!"
Xiao Yunying pulled out the axe and slowly raised it: "Sorry, the river water was too cold, it made my body stiff and my hand was not very obedient, so I chopped off course. Don't worry, it won't happen this time. Even if I can't cut your neck, I can still shatter your skull."
He Hua's eyes were filled with fear; Xiao Yunying really wanted to kill her!
Aunt Lin said anxiously, "Yun Ying, you can't be impulsive! If you kill her, you'll be beheaded too! Let her go, and we... Ah!"
Before Aunt Lin could finish her words of advice, Xiao Yunying's axe fell again, startling her so much that she quickly covered her grandson's eyes.
He Hua watched helplessly as the axe came crashing down on her face. The tension in her mind snapped, and she cried out, "Don't kill me! It was my fault! I shouldn't have pushed you into the river. You saw me with my cousin in the cave, and I was afraid you'd tell, so I wanted to kill you."
From the very first axe blow, Xiao Yunying was just trying to scare He Hua. She had never even killed a chicken in her life, let alone a person.
Therefore, he stopped swinging the axe immediately after He Hua spoke, without using too much force and being unable to stop.
"A cave?"
Xiao Yunying keenly caught the word and recalled carefully: "You mean, the two white figures I saw entangled together in the cave a few days ago, were you and Liu Ge?!"
Upon hearing this, the people around were no longer afraid, and they lowered their hands from their faces and began to gossip.
"My goodness, what did I just hear? He Hua and Liu Xiucai?"
"No wonder Scholar Liu isn't in a hurry to get married; it turns out he's having an affair with the Lin family's wife."
"What kind of taste does this Liu scholar have? He has so many young and beautiful girls to choose from, but he's taken a fancy to this He Hua."
"I wonder how long they've been hooking up. What about the two grandsons of the Lin family? I wonder if they're Lin Shi's children."
Xiao Yunying was also quite shocked, glancing at everyone in the Lin family out of the corner of her eye.
She initially thought it was a personal grudge, but unexpectedly, a huge scandal was uncovered. Looking at the expressions of the Lin family members, she now didn't know what to do.
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