Chapter 24: Treat others in their own way
Ruan Anan quietly slipped back to the gate of her own yard, spotted the most inconspicuous shadow at the base of the wall, took out an old rattan rocking chair from the space, wrapped herself tightly in the old blanket, and curled up in the rocking chair like a dormant night cat.
The glaring incandescent light coming through the side room window made people dizzy.
The flickering kerosene lamps in the windows of the neighboring houses looked like fireflies compared to this one.
Ruan Anan sneered inwardly: "Oh, the lights are on brightly! It's not our own electricity bill, so it doesn't hurt to spend it, right?"
She remembered it clearly. Before Old Lady Xu was arrested, Su Qingyue was so frugal that she even wanted to break a candle in two.
Now that the old woman is gone, I’m alone at home, and the lights in the east and west rooms are so bright!
Ruan Anan smacked her lips, the admiration in her heart was genuine.
Especially after experiencing the terrifying moment of "black eating black" in the black market today, she finally understood everything.
The heroine can be the heroine, all thanks to the word "pretend"!
What kind of place is that black market? They eat people without leaving any bones behind!
She had deliberately dressed up in red and green today, looking extremely tacky, but she still nearly got into trouble because she showed off her wealth with that hundred yuan.
Su Qingyue and Xu's mother had stolen antiques from her house and taken them to the black market several times before, and they always came out intact.
From this point, it can be seen that Su Qingyue's ability to pretend is better than hers.
"Every failure is a learning experience!" Ruan Anan secretly warned herself, "This time, Su Qingyue must be completely eliminated!"
Just as this thought came to my mind, the glaring light in the side room suddenly went out.
The door hinge made a very slight "creak", and Su Qingyue tiptoed out like a thief.
Holding a brown paper envelope tightly in his hand, he moved stealthily towards the gate.
Ruan Anan narrowed her eyes and carefully examined Su Qingyue's outfit in the moonlight.
A thick cotton-padded jacket with a red background and floral patterns, a striking emerald green headscarf, and a pair of washed-out black lace-up shoes...
Ruan Anan almost laughed out loud.
Isn't this the same outfit she wore when she went to the black market that day? They're practically cut from the same mold!
Looking at Su Qingyue's outfit, he thought about what happened to him in the black market during the day.
A thought flashed through Ruan Anan's mind like lightning—
"Scapegoat, isn't this delivery to your door?"
Just as Su Qingyue's hand was about to touch the cold door bolt, a chilly sound suddenly sounded in the shadows.
"Hey, sister-in-law, it's so late at night, and you're dressed so... festively. Where are you going to visit?"
"ah--!"
Su Qingyue was so frightened that she took a big step back and almost sprained her ankle.
She looked in the direction of the sound in horror and saw Ruan Anan sitting in the shadows.
The pale moonlight slanted down, illuminating half of Ruan Anan's face.
The corners of her mouth were curled up, as if she was smiling, and she looked like a ghost that had just crawled out of the grave to take her life!
Su Qingyue felt a chill swoosh from the soles of her feet to the top of her head. Her teeth chattered and her voice trembled incoherently: "You...you...you...Ruan Anan? You, you're not sleeping in the middle of the night, sitting...what are you doing sitting in this damn place?"
Ruan Anan slowly stood up from the rocking chair and walked step by step to Su Qingyue, who was shaking like a sieve. Her cold fingertips, with irresistible force, suddenly pinched the other's chin.
"What a delicate, white and tender little lotus..."
Ruan Anan's voice was sickeningly sweet, but her eyes were filled with venom. "But have you forgotten whose territory this is? Huh? This is my home, Ruan Anan's. I can sit wherever I want! Even if I sit on the rooftop chimney to enjoy the breeze, that's my freedom! Who are you, an outsider, to tell me what to do?"
She leaned closer, her breath practically spraying on Su Qingyue's pale face, and her voice suddenly became harsh: "It's you! Su Qingyue, sneaking around in my yard in the dark. Could it be that... you're not clean and touched anything in my house?"
My jaw was pinched so hard that the bones seemed to be broken.
"No...no! An An, you misunderstood!"
Su Qingyue put the letter in her hand behind her, tears welling up in her eyes, her voice choked with sobs and grievance, "I... I'm just worried that you'll be scared at home alone... Such a big thing happened to the Xu family, and we're the only ones left to depend on each other... I, I just want to be with you..."
"Hahaha!" Ruan Anan seemed to have heard a huge joke, and her laughter was particularly harsh in the silent night.
She flipped her wrist and moved as fast as lightning, and the envelope behind Su Qingyue had been snatched away by Ruan Anan!
"A letter of accusation?" Ruan Anan glanced at the words on the envelope and sneered.
"Give it back to me!" Su Qingyue's face suddenly changed, she screamed, and stood on tiptoe to grab it regardless of anything.
“Bang!”
A loud slap, with great force, landed heavily on Su Qingyue's face.
Su Qingyue covered her burning and painful cheek, and her big eyes, which usually pretended to be pitiful, were filled with fear and resentment.
"Stop... stop hitting me... I'm pregnant! An An... I know you hate me... but, but this was all Xu Yanli and his mother's idea! They are the ones who are plotting against your family property! I'm a weak woman, what can I do? What can I do?"
She burst into tears and tried to throw away all the dirty water.
Ruan Anan shook her numb wrist, her eyes looking as if she was looking at a pool of disgusting filth, and she moved closer again step by step.
"Su Qingyue, do you think I'm that idiot Xu Yanli? Just because you say a few sweet words and peed a few times, I have to believe you?"
"No! No! That's not what I meant!"
Su Qingyue was completely panicked.
The Ruan Anan in front of her had a look of cruel clarity and ruthlessness. How could she still be the fool who was fooled by her before?
She is clearly an evil ghost in human skin!
Su Qingyue felt hatred and fear in her heart: "How could you do this? You are also a woman! How can you be so cruel..."
“Bang!”
Before the resentment in her heart could ferment, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her scalp!
Ruan Anan grabbed her emerald green headscarf and slapped her mercilessly with her other hand.
"Heartless?" Ruan Anan's voice was filled with an almost insane pleasure and coldness. "You deserve it for being cruel!"
“Bang!”
Another slap, even harder!
"Have you forgotten how this bastard in your belly came about? His father is a scumbag who cheated and robbed his entire family! His grandmother is a vicious old hag who schemed to take over my Ruan family's fortune! And you, Su Qingyue, are a ruthless, vicious bitch!"
When the third slap landed, Su Qingyue felt dizzy and even tasted blood in her mouth.
“Mmm… wuwuwu…”
Su Qingyue could no longer hold on. She covered her face, slid down the wall and sat down on the cold ground, letting out a suppressed and painful whimper.
"Please let me go, An An, please let me go, I know I was wrong..."
Ruan Anan didn't even bother to give her a glance.
In the still bright moonlight, she quickly pulled out the letter and glanced at its contents.
After reading it, a sarcastic sneer rang out, "Su Qingyue, with your ability to make up lies, it's a waste of talent if you don't write a play! You said I seduced Li Jianguo? Had an affair with him?"
Ruan Anan shook the letter as if to shake off some dirt. "For the past three days, it was Sister Li who personally entertained me! Last night, we even slept on the same kang, and I cursed you and Xu Yanli's ancestors for eighteen generations!"
"Ah?" Su Qingyue suddenly stopped crying, her face, which was swollen like a steamed bun, was full of shock and distortion.
"You didn't seduce Li Jianguo... You, you seduced his wife?!"
Ruan Anan: “…”
She looked at Su Qingyue with a complicated look, as if she were looking at a fool. In the end, it turned into a tired and annoyed sigh: "You... forget it."
Why waste time talking to the heroine of a wife novel whose mind is only concerned with things “below the belt” and “how to live off a man”?
What a waste of spit!
Su Qingyue was really confused.
Could it be that... if you can control a man's wife, you can also control the man?
This... is this also okay?
Unfortunately, her "academic discussion" is destined to remain unanswered.
Because the next second, a sharp pain suddenly came from the side of her neck, and Ruan Anan's face turned from one into two...
Immediately afterwards, the whole world suddenly fell into thick darkness.
Ruan Anan expressionlessly retracted a small syringe into the space.
Looking at Su Qingyue who had collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness, her eyes were cold and expressionless.
If you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze.
The original owner proved this truth with his life in his previous life.
Therefore, she would never give Su Qingyue any chance to turn things around!
With a thought, the unconscious Su Qingyue disappeared from the spot.
It only takes twenty minutes to ride a 28-inch bicycle from the Ruan family's small Western-style building to the district security office.
Ruan Anan threw Su Qingyue, who was like a dead pig, in front of the closed door of the Public Security Bureau, and then hung the Zhou family seal, which was the key "physical evidence", firmly around her neck.
After doing all this, she got on her bike and her figure quickly blended into the night.
This day I was either riding a bike or preparing to ride a bike.
In addition, the bumpy and dilapidated road in the early 1970s made her internal organs almost displaced.
My buttocks were shaken so hard that they felt like they were split into eight pieces, and they were numb and painful.
"Hiss... I have to take a hot bath when I get home, or my bones will fall apart."
However, when thinking of Su Qingyue, Ruan Anan curled up the corner of his mouth in a sneer.
The witnesses and evidence are all there, no matter how good she is at making the dead come back to life, she can't escape this time!
When she was almost at the entrance of the alley near her home, Ruan Anan noticed a thin figure in a military green uniform standing under the dim street light.
He looks familiar, as if he is the guard beside Li Jianguo.
Seeing who was coming, she quickly got out of the car and said, "Comrade, it's so late, what can I do for you?"
The guard immediately straightened his back and stuffed everything in his hand to Ruan Anan.
His tone was filled with the seriousness of someone who had completed a mission: "Comrade Ruan! This is an urgent telegram from the island we just arrived at! I also have a letter of introduction from the military district and a train ticket to the island for tomorrow at noon! Please keep it, you can leave tomorrow!"
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