Thinking that everyone in the family was asleep, Wang and the others did not deliberately lower their voices when they spoke, only slightly lower than usual.
Zhang, who was eavesdropping under the corner of the wall outside, suddenly felt her legs go weak and was about to fall backward. Liu quickly helped her up so that she wouldn't fall to the ground and be discovered by the people inside.
"Sister-in-law...did you hear that? Jiang Bai..."
Zhang was trembling and could barely speak coherently.
Fortunately, she only opened her mouth, and used only breathy sounds.
Liu was calmer than her. She helped the person away and hid them in the shadows under the corridor. Only after making sure they wouldn't be discovered did she nod.
"This is terrifying!"
Thinking of Jiang Bai, whom they had seen during the day, and the ghost inside his body, how terrifying!
"Cui'er, what's so scary about ghosts? What's scary are people."
Zhang's name was Zhang Cui. The two sisters-in-law got along well, so Liu usually called her Cui'er.
Hearing Liu's words, Zhang swallowed nervously. She leaned closer and lowered her voice, saying, "Sister-in-law, do you think Third Aunt was really sold by them?"
"Last time we heard it, we could say we misheard."
"But this time, could it be that we misheard?"
Zhang knew it was impossible.
They heard it clearly; their third aunt had really been sold out by them.
"They are absolutely terrifying."
Zhang shivered.
"If we run out of food, will they sell us too?"
Zhang muttered fearfully to himself.
Liu didn't say anything, but she knew that if the family really ran out of food, the women would definitely be sold off.
Not to mention them, even their mothers-in-law would probably not escape the fate of being sold.
"Therefore, Cui'er, the grain and things you stole from Uncle San's house must never be returned."
“You know how much grain we have at home. The weather this year has been too strange; it hasn't rained for months. If we can't harvest the grain, the grain we have now will be our food supply for the next year. If we return the grain we took from Uncle San's house, I'm afraid we'll…”
Before Liu could finish speaking, Zhang had already figured it out.
If the grain is returned, and there isn't enough food at home, they might all be sold off by the family.
The household registration documents were all in Grandma's hands, and they dared not try to snatch them from her.
“But Jiang Bai isn’t human?” Zhang’s voice trembled. How could a human fight a ghost?
"So you want to become the next Third Aunt?"
No, I don't want to.
"Think about it, if there's a drought this year, will your parents still have enough food to take you back and support you? If your husband's family doesn't have enough food, neither of us will have a good ending."
Zhang felt as if the sky had fallen. She hurriedly grabbed Liu's hand and said in a trembling voice, "Sister-in-law, what should we do?"
"Didn't Tiger find a cave when he went up the mountain before?"
"How did you know, sister-in-law?"
"Do you understand what we're doing?" Liu lowered her voice and secretly discussed with Zhang. Zhang's eyes lit up and she couldn't help but praise, "Sister-in-law, you're so smart."
Liu's smile was bitter; it wasn't her who was clever, but someone else who was.
Zhang hurriedly returned to her room, while Liu also returned to her own room.
Unlike Zhang, who pretended to be asleep as soon as she entered the room, she sat on the edge of the bed as if waiting for someone.
The door creaked open, and a person walked in, took off his outer robe and put it aside, then walked towards the bed.
He gently embraced Liu, who was lying by the bed, and whispered in her ear, "Did you tell those things to your sister-in-law?"
Liu was a little scared. She had been very calm in front of Zhang, but now she was flustered and her body was even trembling slightly. She answered timidly, "I told you everything."
"Very good," Jiang Songzong smiled with satisfaction, then lowered his head and bit Liu's shoulder.
Liu felt the pain, but instinctively put her hand in her mouth, afraid to scream.
A chill ran through her body, and pain spread throughout her entire being. Liu gasped for breath, tears streaming down her face, but she dared not offer any resistance.
A desperate gaze fell on the sleeping toddler in the bed, filled with hope that the child would wake up in the middle of the night. However, the toddler slept soundly, completely unaware of the pain his mother was enduring.
A sliver of pale moonlight peeked in through the window, illuminating the shocking bloodstains on Liu's snow-white skin. Liu's soft sobs were eventually swallowed by the darkness and fell silent.
No one knows what happened inside the eldest son's room.
In Jiang Songhu's room, Zhang was ruthlessly woken up. She angrily pushed him back, no longer showing the panic she had in front of Liu, and scolded, "Jiang Songhu, why aren't you sleeping at night? What's wrong with you?"
"Am I going crazy?"
Jiang Songhu's voice was gloomy as he grabbed the man and asked coldly, "Were you eavesdropping on our conversation outside just now?"
Zhang was startled, but quickly realized what was happening and angrily retorted, "What nonsense are you spouting? What do you mean, 'talking'? Who are you talking to?"
"Well, Jiang Songhu, have you been seeing other women behind my back? And you're afraid I'll hear you talking?"
"I knew you'd be gone by midnight, and this is how you treat me?"
"Jiang Songhu, do you not want to live like this anymore?"
"We've only been married a few days, and you're already so impatient, going to find that vixen outside?"
Enraged, Zhang pounced on Jiang Songhu, biting and attacking him repeatedly, leaving the questioning Jiang Songhu stunned. Fortunately, he remembered that he shouldn't disturb his family, so he didn't cry out in pain, but simply grabbed Zhang's hand that was causing the disturbance.
Did she really not hear it?
But he vaguely heard her voice. Could he have misheard?
Seeing that Zhang's appearance didn't seem fake, Jiang Songhu changed from grabbing to hugging, coaxing her in a low voice, "I don't have any other vixens outside, you're the only vixen I have."
After saying that, he didn't give Zhang a chance to speak again, and directly shut her up. The night became enchanting.
After all the passion subsided, Jiang Songhu had fallen asleep from exhaustion. Only then did Zhang turn her back to him and silently shed tears of fear.
For a moment, she even felt that he wanted to strangle her.
When Jiang Bai arrived, the entire old house was silent. Many families in the village kept dogs, but they were not among them.
When Jiang Bai sneaked in, no one noticed.
As the couple at the top of the family food chain, Jiang Minchang and his wife naturally lived in the best main room, with the door bolted from the inside.
Jiang Bai scanned the area, arrived at the kitchen door, raised her hand to grasp the lock, and with a gentle squeeze, the sturdy lock turned into a lump of iron in her hand. She pushed the door open, went inside, quickly found the kitchen knife, weighed it in her hand, and then went back out.
Upon arriving at the main room, they pried open the bolt on the inner door and pushed it open.
It was midnight, the time when people are most sleepy, and because she was quiet, Jiang Minchang and Wang Shi were fast asleep inside.
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