Following the sound, Jiang Hua turned to the side, and a sickle slashed down at her body.
Xu Yaozu stared at Jiang Hua, who had dodged him, his eyes bloodshot, his hand holding the sickle still trembling slightly.
"Your hand is all better now?"
Hearing Jiang Hua mention his hand, Xu Yaozu's anger intensified, and he charged forward again with his sickle to strike.
Before he could even touch Jiang Hua's clothes, he was kicked away by her, and his whole body flew like a parabola, landing heavily on the ground.
Overestimating one's abilities.
Jiang Hua smiled and slowly walked towards him, stepping on his chest with one foot.
"Useless." Jiang Hua mercilessly moved her hand from his chest to his palm and then crushed it hard.
"Ah—!" Xu Yaozu cried out in pain, and could only glare hatefully at Jiang Hua.
"Is it because of something about me that makes you think I'm too easy to bully?" Jiang Hua bent down and squatted down, looking at him leisurely.
A dagger, pulled from his spatial storage, appeared under his sleeve and gently slapped Xu Yaozu's face.
"What are you going to do to me?" Xu Yaozu felt the dagger hitting his face, and his whole body trembled. The pain in his hand made it difficult for him to speak properly.
"Your eyes have been staring at me for so long, they're getting a bit out of my way. I'm wondering if I should gouge them out." Jiang Hua sneered, and the dagger in her hand landed near Xu Yaozu's eye socket.
She didn't want to live the kind of life she had in her previous life, where she spent her days killing. She didn't cause trouble, but trouble kept finding her every few days.
"You'll go to jail for this! Be careful, or I'll report you to the authorities!"
"Tsk." Jiang Hua raised her hand and stabbed the knife into his arm, then watched with a look of great pleasure as Xu Yaozu screamed in agony.
"I think it's faster for you to go to the yamen, or for me to kill you and throw you to the wolves."
At this moment, Xu Yaozu was in so much pain that he was covered in cold sweat and didn't dare to breathe. He could only let Jiang Hua humiliate him.
"Do you still think you're the Xu Yaozu you used to be? You've lost your status as a student of the Imperial Academy, and now you're just a despicable person who harbors evil intentions towards his cousin."
"What do you think would happen if this got out?"
Xu Yaozu felt a chill run down his spine upon hearing this. How did she know?
Seeing Xu Yaozu looking like a defeated rooster, completely deflated, Jiang Hua finally released her foot and slowly got up.
Upon seeing this, Xu Yaozu reacted quickly, not even having time to pick up the sickle that had fallen to the ground, and scrambled away towards Xujia Village.
Jiang Hua then slowly took out a handkerchief to wipe the blood-stained dagger, and looked up to see Qing Ling and Qing Yue sitting on the wall.
"Huahua, remember to take me with you next time you do something like this. You're just my type." Qingyue flipped over and jumped down from the wall.
"So you guys have a penchant for spying on others," Jiang Hua said as she walked home.
...
Xu Yaozu staggered back to the courtyard and heard his father and grandmother instructing Xu Shi, speculating about how promising the child in her womb would be. Standing in the courtyard, he couldn't calm down for a long time.
"Yaozu, where have you been again? I haven't seen you for dinner. We've already finished eating, there's food warming up in the kitchen, go eat by yourself." Madam Xu didn't even want to walk towards him, and went straight back to the inner room.
Xu Yaozu stared at Madam Xu with an ambiguous look in his eyes, then looked around the courtyard. This was only a temporary place for them to stay. The family's land was still under construction for a brick house, so they could only live in an uninhabited thatched hut for the time being.
Lin Shuyan went to town to spend the night and didn't come back. Xu Yaozu suddenly had a ferocious smile on his lips, his eyes fixed on the jar of wine that Xu Dagui had in the kitchen.
In the dead of night, Xu Yaozu tiptoed from the inner room to the kitchen, opened the sealed jar of wine, scooped some out, and then poured it little by little onto the wall of the thatched hut. The people inside were still fast asleep, completely unaware of what was happening outside.
If he's having a hard time, no one else should expect to have one!
After pouring out a jar of wine, Xu Yaozu locked the doors of the two inner rooms from the outside, so that the people inside could not open them from the outside.
Immediately afterwards, a tinderbox was thrown over, and because the wine had been broken, it quickly caught fire.
Xu Yaozu took one last deep look at the courtyard in front of him. He thought, "Let them all die! How dare they treat me like this!"
Just as he turned to leave, he saw Jiang Hua standing at the door and was so startled that he took a step back.
"When did you get here?" Xu Yaozu's heart tightened. Had she seen everything he had just been doing?
Jiang Hua smiled without saying a word and slowly walked towards him. Xu Yaozu could harbor murderous intent towards her. His family, who once supported him, had now fallen on hard times and become a useless person. Moreover, Xu's wife was pregnant. Wasn't this a double whammy?
It's not surprising that he would commit arson and murder. Ever since Xu Yaozu left, Jiang Hua immediately had the little white snake follow him, and this just happened to be the case.
The second before Xu Yaozu screamed, Jiang Hua swiftly severed his tongue at the root with her dagger, then knocked him unconscious with a palm strike and tossed him into the burning fire.
She could just watch helplessly as Xu Yaozu was engulfed by the sea of fire, unafraid of being seen, because the little white snake in the space would help her erase the trace of her existence.
She never said she was kind. Even though she once worked for the Paranormal Bureau, she believed that anyone who harbored murderous intent towards her could not be spared. If the weeds were not eradicated at the root, they would grow back in the spring breeze.
This action can be considered as avenging half of the original owner's revenge. Now it's your turn, Lin Shuyan.
The fire raged for a full half hour before anyone noticed it. A villager quickly went to call Xu Wanli, and only after Xu Wanli arrived and gave instructions did they realize they needed to put out the fire.
The fire wasn't extinguished until dawn. When the villagers went to rescue the family, they discovered that only Xu Shi was still alive, so they quickly carried her out.
Xu Wanli went inside. Xu Dagui, Madam Xu, and Xu Yaozu were burned beyond recognition. He carefully reached out to check their breaths; they were all dead.
"Report to the authorities! Go report to the authorities immediately!"
Three people died in the village at once, and Xu Wanli was already struggling to cope. Now, Xu Shi had fainted and had not yet woken up, leaving him at a loss.
"Go to my house, fetch the oxcart, and report to the authorities," Xu Wanli instructed the villager beside him.
This was the first time I'd ever seen anything like this, and the villager hurriedly left.
Half an hour passed, and Xu Wanli did not receive any officials from the yamen. Instead, he received Lin Shuyan, who had returned from the shop in town.
Lin Shuyan stepped down from the carriage as if nothing had happened, but was instantly dumbfounded when she saw the still-smoking ruins in front of her!
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