"Zhou Lang is right! Leave the money! Throw the person out!" I agreed.
Having said that, Zhou Lang readily agreed and lifted up his half-crippled body.
"Crack! Boom!" Suddenly, a bolt of lightning and a clap of thunder resounded through the night sky.
Zhou Lang was startled by the thunder and the person in his hand dropped to the ground.
Now Zhou Lang is perfect and outstanding in every way, but the sound of thunder still terrifies him as always.
My heart tightened and I quickly stepped forward to hug Zhou Lang, comforting him: "It's alright, it's alright, Zhou Lang, I'm here!"
Immediately afterwards, a torrential downpour began outside, and a gust of cold wind swept in, blowing open all the doors and windows inside the house and making a constant clanging sound.
Even the houses started to sway and look like they were about to collapse.
I watched helplessly as a crack began to appear in the roof, and rain started to leak into the house.
There's a saying that goes, "When it rains, it pours."
It seems even the heavens are against us!
The house was originally a thatched hut, and tonight a fierce wind and torrential rain began to blow, causing the roof to buckle and shake violently.
A series of crackling sounds came from the roof.
Finally, with a loud "boom!", the roof collapsed.
Luckily, I reacted quickly and managed to pull Zhou Lang out of the house before it collapsed.
Almost instantly, the thatched hut in the courtyard where Zhou Lang and I lived turned into a pile of ruins!
Zhou Lang and I stood there dumbfounded in the torrential rain, staring at the pile of ruins...
"My piano!"
"My flowers!"
Zhou Lang exclaimed in surprise, disregarding the fear of the thunder roaring overhead, and rushed into the pile of ruins to search for his guqin.
But what I care about is the pot of flowers that Wenheng's consciousness is attached to.
Almost simultaneously, Zhou Lang and I rushed into the pile of rubble and started digging.
As soon as I started digging, I suddenly pulled out a muddy, grotesque arm of Ye Chen sticking out from the mud, which startled me.
Ye Chen coughed violently and struggled to stand up from the muddy mound.
Seeing him makes me angry. He's not only a lackey but also a jinx. I knew nothing good would come of meeting him.
"Go to hell!" I angrily pushed him back into the mud, spitting on him in disgust and stomping on his hand.
He clutched his hands and howled in pain in the mud, looking just like a live mudfish rolling around in the mud.
I started digging through the mud again, and finally spotted a potted plant that was shimmering in the light in a corner that was propped up by wooden stakes.
"Thank goodness... thank goodness..." In my panic, I quickly knelt down in the mud and took the flowers and plants out of the corner like treasures, then hugged them to my chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
As I turned around, holding the flower with great joy, I saw Zhou Lang, covered in mud, carrying the guqin out of the mud pile.
In the pouring rain, Zhou Lang and I looked at each other, smiled, and ran towards each other.
Unexpectedly, I was tripped again by Ye Chen, who was struggling to stand up, and almost fell. Luckily, Zhou Lang steadied me in time!
I looked down at the mudfish with disdain and kicked it back into the mud pile: "You jinx! Get out of here!"
Thunder roared, and wind and rain poured down all night.
Fortunately, Zhou Lang and I spent the night huddled in a makeshift doghouse made of stones, glaring resentfully at the ruins before us.
The "live loach" lay listlessly in the mud all night, its eyes closed, its life hanging in the balance. The heavy rain washed away all the mud from its body.
"Why did our house collapse?" I looked at everyone else's houses, which were intact, while my house and Zhou Lang's house were in complete disarray.
"It must be because of that jinx!" I glared angrily at the person in the mud!
At dawn, when the villagers saw Zhou Lang and me in such a disheveled state, they all gathered around and pointed and gossiped.
"This girl seems honest and hardworking. Could it be that she's taking advantage of Zhou Yu's stupidity to secretly keep a lover at home? Even the heavens couldn't stand it anymore and struck her down with a thunderbolt!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" I jumped up from the doghouse in anger!
"Don't spread rumors! My Ah Hua isn't what you're saying!" Zhou Lang also crawled out, took my hand, and came to my rescue.
"Yes, everyone, please don't wrong this young lady!" At this moment, the person lying on the ground suddenly struggled to get up and began to explain to the onlookers.
When the hell did I become his sister?! I stared at that annoying guy in astonishment.
“Ah Hua is my long-lost biological sister…” Ye Chen swayed as he stood up and continued.
"You're biological siblings, why didn't your sister or brother-in-law help you up when you were injured like this? And you're injured like this." It was unclear which sharp-tongued bystander questioned.
"I am very unhappy that my wonderful sister married such a foolish brother-in-law, and that has strained our relationship. Isn't he a good brother-in-law?" Ye Chen asked Zhou Lang, pretending to be serious.
Since he's already said that, is Zhou Lang going to refute or deny it? Zhou Lang had no choice but to agree: "Yes!"
"These are all family matters, everyone please disperse! If you still want to continue watching, we wouldn't mind if you helped tidy up my sister and brother-in-law's house..."
"Thank you all!"
Upon hearing that they needed help cleaning up the mess, they all found excuses and casually scattered.
"Hey? Everyone, don't go! Don't go!"
Ye Chen called out helplessly.
No one responded to him.
"Don't think I'll thank you just because you got me out of that predicament! If it weren't for you, you jinx! Would I have been gossiped about and slandered by these people?" I shouted at Ye Chen, feeling very unwilling.
"Pay me money! If you don't pay me money, I'll sell you to a brothel!"
Ye Chen looked troubled and saddened: "If the brothel had been willing to take men, I wouldn't be so desperate and penniless as to have no money to treat my mother..."
"Then I'll chop you up and feed you to the pigs!"
"I'm so thick-skinned, even pigs wouldn't want me!" Ye Chen said with a wry smile.
"Ah Hua, don't waste your breath on him, I'll throw him out to feed the dogs!" Zhou Lang went up and tried to pull him up again.
"No, no! I can build a house! Besides, we just acknowledged that we are family in front of everyone. Throwing me out like this might not be good for your reputation!" Ye Chen hurriedly explained.
What he said makes sense; we can't let him off so easily!
"Then get up and get to work right now!"
But Zhou Lang frowned and looked unhappy: "Ah Hua! Zhou Lang can also help build the house! We don't need his help! I think we should just throw it out quickly."
"That would tire Zhou Lang out! We can't let this scoundrel get away so easily!"
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