Unexpectedly, Chu Nian swung a shovel again, and Liu Quan's eyes rolled back as he collapsed to the ground once more.
"Girl, why did you knock him out again?" Ling Da complained.
Chu Nian said, "We can't let him just leave like that." She paused, then added, "We need to find out how he knew I was still sleeping in the house when I went to work in the fields."
Normally at this time, if Ling Nian isn't at school, she'll be working in the fields with her family and won't be in this house.
Ling's father complained, "Then why did you knock him out again? What if he really brings his uncle with him?"
Chu Nian: "So, we absolutely cannot let him leave like this. We have to intimidate him first, so that he won't dare to go after his uncle to take revenge on us."
Ling's father: "This... will scare him?"
Ling Da said with a hint of realization, "So, little sister, you were just trying to scare him when you said you wanted to eat his flesh?"
Chu Nian blinked at the idiot and asked, "Otherwise what?" Who would want to eat this disgusting stuff? These morons actually believed it?!
Just then, a noise came from outside. They could hear two women talking, slowly approaching. One sounded quite young; it was Li Fangqi from next door. The other woman, they recognized, was Da Huan, the doctor from the village clinic.
Chu Nian quickly gestured to Ling's father and the others to tie Liu Quan up again, saying, "Everyone in the village knows Liu Quan's lecherous character. Even if Aunt Da Huan and Li Fangqi see us tying him up, they'll understand what's going on and probably won't gossip."
Now that these two outsiders are here, let's have them act as witnesses and get Liu Quan to honestly confess how he knew I was lying in the room by myself.
The Ling family members were clearly simple-minded; otherwise, they wouldn't have been so easily fooled by Liu Ma's few words when she came to arrange the marriage. They had no ideas of their own and simply nodded in agreement after hearing Chu Nian's words.
Li Fangqi led Da Huan into the courtyard.
Da Huan said, "It doesn't look like no one's home!"
Li Fangqi pretended to guess, "When I came to visit earlier, I saw Niannian lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) unconscious. Perhaps his family was worried and came back from the fields to check on him."
Actually, she guessed that Liu Quan must have come, but she couldn't tell Da Huan that!
After Li Fangqi finished speaking, she even shouted something into the house in a very serious manner.
Ling Er came out of the house and said, "Da Huan, Siya, you're here. Come in quickly, I need your help with something."
Li Fangqi was taken aback when she saw him, but quickly recovered: after all, she had lived two lives, so she could still control her emotions to some extent.
Siya was Li Fangqi's original name. After her rebirth, she felt that the name sounded like it didn't indicate much of a future, so she changed her name to Fangqi. However, the villagers were used to calling her Siya, and only her classmates at school called her Li Fangqi.
Da Huan said, "Siya said Niannian is sick, so I came to check on her."
Ling Er: "She's alright, you should all go inside quickly, there's still someone inside!"
Da Huan looked at Li Fangqi with some surprise. Li Fangqi shrugged, feigning confusion, indicating that she did not know who Ling Er was talking about.
The two women followed Ling Er into the house, only to find that all the men of the Ling family were there, but they were all standing, except for Ling Nian, who was sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed). A man was tied to a chair opposite them; it was none other than Liu Quan, a notorious hooligan in the entire Zhegu Village.
When Da Huan saw Liu Quan's head drooping and bloodstains visible on the back of his head, she was startled and asked, "What happened?" She quickly went to check the injury on the back of Liu Quan's head.
Chu Nian said, "I was lying on the kang (heated brick bed) when I heard a noise inside. I thought a thief had broken in, so I kicked him and knocked him over. I ran out to get a shovel and came back to see him just getting up from the ground. He had his back to me, so I couldn't see who it was and just assumed it was a thief, so I... I..."
"You hit it with a shovel?!" Da Huan exclaimed after examining the injuries. "You hit it more than once, didn't you?!"
Chu Nian nodded obediently and said, "Yes, I only patted it twice."
Da Huan said helplessly, "Two pats are not enough. I think this injury might leave him with long-term effects."
To be honest, Chu Nian has long been experienced in beating people up.
This Liu Quan is a scoundrel. Chu Nian would feel guilty if she didn't teach him a lesson. So when she took action, she only made sure that she didn't kill him and that he would be alive and kicking when he woke up.
However, as Da Huan said, there are aftereffects. Liu Quan will definitely suffer from epilepsy in the future.
Chu Nian: "Who told him to sneak into my house when no one was home? I'm still a virgin. Even if he wasn't stealing anything, he definitely didn't have good intentions."
Da Huan naturally knew what Liu Quan was planning to do by sneaking into the girl's room. As women themselves, they felt that Chu Nian's actions weren't excessive. In any case, Liu Quan wouldn't be in any real danger.
Da Huan applied medicine to Liu Quan's wound and bandaged it.
Liu Quan woke up quickly and wasn't too surprised to see two more people in the room.
Seeing this, Chu Nian said, "Liu Quan, you're quite calm. You're not afraid at all, even though we have two more witnesses."
Liu Quan demanded, "What am I afraid of?" With outsiders present, he was even less afraid. Did the Ling family think they could cut off his flesh and eat it in front of Da Huan and Li Siya?
Chu Nian said, "I'm asking you, why aren't you working in the fields at this hour? What are you doing at my house?"
Liu Quan snorted.
Chu Nian: "You came to my house and went straight into my room. Did you know I was alone in the house?"
Liu Quan felt extremely unlucky. He thought he would have a good time first thing in the morning, but he was hit on the head and was now tied up. He replied irritably, "I ran into Siya when I went to the fields. She told me that you were sick and had fainted at home alone."
Everyone turned to look at Li Fangqi in shock.
As soon as Li Fangqi saw Ling Er, she guessed that Liu Quan had been arrested, and began to think about how to deal with the current situation.
Seeing everyone looking over, she immediately accused Liu Quan: "Uncle Liu, you're so old, how can you be so shameless? You know that only Niannian is sick and alone at home, and she's still delirious, yet you still come to steal from her! I never knew you were this kind of person. If I had known you were like this, I wouldn't have said a word to you, I wouldn't have even spoken to you!"
The Ling family's simpletons immediately believed her, thinking she genuinely didn't know Liu Quan's true purpose, after all, Li Fangqi was still an unmarried young girl. Back then, rural areas were relatively closed and backward, and women generally only learned about these things after marriage.
Chu Nian said, "Come on, Li Fangqi. Ever since you came home yesterday, you've been urging me to avoid blind dates. I knew you were trying to cause trouble. Your cousin Li Mei is also going on blind dates to get married, so why don't you advise her to run away from the marriage? Instead, you're advising me to do the same."
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