Chapter Twenty: Villagers Provoking Trouble
Jiang's mother looked at her daughter with a complicated expression. It seemed she needed to find an opportunity to test her daughter.
She felt too embarrassed to ask Huo Ran in front of her now.
She shook her head: "What are you daydreaming about? How are you feeling?"
"Mom, I'm fine. I just scared you!"
"Silly child, it's good that you're alright." Jiang's mother patted Jiang Mi's head and sighed.
"Bang bang bang!"
Before Jiang's mother could finish speaking, a series of banging sounds came from their courtyard gate, accompanied by the angry roars of the villagers: "Jiang family, you raised a vixen like Jiang Mi! Your whole family is no good! You will corrupt the spirit of Qingyun Village and kill us! Get out of Qingyun Village! Qingyun Village does not welcome you! Get out!"
"Get out!"
"Get out!"
Accompanied by roars of things rolling out, and the sound of countless stones or other objects crashing into the yard.
A foul stench wafted in as well.
Jiang's mother clenched her fists. These people were simply going too far!
Just as she was about to get up and confront the villagers, her father grabbed her hand: "Don't go out!"
When Jiang's mother saw that Jiang's father was holding her back, her anger flared up instantly. She slapped Jiang's father's hand away and said, "Jiang Cheng, I, Zhu Huali, have been married to you for so many years and have worked hard without complaint. I haven't said anything. But today they are riding on the backs of the Jiang family. If you don't show the demeanor of a head of the family, I will not live with you anymore. You might as well take the children and go back to your parents' home."
Jiang Cheng pulled his enraged mother back again: "Don't go. I'll go."
Father Jiang put his pipe on the table, got up, and walked outside.
As soon as he opened the door, a rotten egg was thrown at his head.
At this critical moment, she suddenly stepped forward and pulled him away.
The broken egg hit the ground, emitting a disgusting stench.
Jiang's mother's face immediately darkened.
Immediately afterwards, a dung scoop with a spoonful of excrement was thrown in. If Huo Ran hadn't taken Jiang's father away again, the excrement would have landed on the two of them.
"This is outrageous!" Jiang's mother roared, and was about to rush out the door to argue with the villagers, but Jiang Mi stopped her in time.
"Honey, don't stop your mother. If I don't let them know how powerful I am today, I'll write Zhu Huali's name backwards."
Jiang Mi smiled wryly, looking at the feces and rotten eggs on the ground, and advised, "Mom, don't go. You don't want to get covered in their excrement, do you?"
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The system's cold announcement rang out in her mind again, causing Jiang Mi's face to darken.
However, the most urgent matter now is not to argue with the villagers. These people are probably already out of their minds. If their family members go out, it will inevitably lead to a dispute, and it would be bad if someone got hurt.
"But we can't just let them make a scene here, can we? Even if they throw feces all over me, I won't let them get away with it." At this moment, Jiang's mother's fiery temper flared up.
"I'll go," Jiang Mi said, pressing her mother down.
"No way!" The Jiang family couldn't let their precious child face those evil people.
Besides, Honey has just fallen into a coma, and they can't bear to part with her.
Jiang Mi didn't argue with them. Instead, she threw off the covers and broke free from her family's hands: "Since they all think I'm an evil ghost, then I'll be an evil ghost for once."
[Please do not add fuel to the fire, host. Once your "good woman value" drops to -1000, you will be humanely destroyed.]
As for the advice that kept circling around her ears, Jiang Mi was too lazy to pay attention.
Everyone else is bullying her. Even if she wants to be a good woman, what kind of good woman is she if she can't even protect her own family? No, to be precise, she's not even human.
Having been given a second chance at life, she would never allow the tragedy of her past life to happen to her family again.
Huo Ran saw Jiang Mi walking out and, worried that she might be harmed by the enraged villagers, followed her out.
Jiang Mi arrived at the door.
The villagers who had been throwing excrement and objects at her house stopped what they were doing. When they saw her come out, they even took a few steps back, their eyes filled with terror.
They were afraid that ginger honey would cause them harm.
Hidden among the villagers, Yang Liu witnessed this scene, a shadow of gloom flashing in her eyes. She then pushed aside the retreating villagers and stepped forward: "Jiang Mi, I know you are occasionally controlled by evil spirits, and I know you are usually a good person, but what if you are suddenly controlled by an evil spirit? So for your family and for the villagers, you should leave the village! As long as you leave the village, your family can still live peacefully in the village."
"No! Since she's possessed by an evil spirit, we must burn her!" Just then, a blind old woman dressed in clothes with mysterious runes walked over, leaning on a cane.
Upon seeing the blind old woman, the villagers spontaneously made way for her.
"Zhou the sorceress. Why isn't she staying in her temple? What's she doing out here?"
"She said she wanted to burn the Jiang family's children. Isn't that a bit too cruel?"
"Yeah! Wouldn't it be better to just kick them out?"
When Yang Liu saw Zhou the sorceress come out, a smug smile flashed across her face.
It was worth it for her to take three taels of silver from Village Chief Yang to find this witch Zhou to perform this play.
Before Zhou the fortune teller arrived, she was really worried that Zhou the fortune teller would be too careful with her reputation. Now it seems that money can move people's hearts, and even Zhou the fortune teller is not immune.
Amidst the murmurs of the crowd, Granny Zhou, leaning on her cane, took another step forward: "What do you know? This is an evil spirit. If you don't burn her to death, she will bring us calamity. She has already appeared today, and our village will definitely suffer a series of misfortunes from now on, unless we get rid of her! This is the will of the gods."
The sorceress pointed her cane at Jiang Mi: "She's a demon in human skin now."
Then she turned her head, her sallow face contorting into a ferocious expression: "When she gains power and kills your families, causes you losses, or brings about any disaster, don't say I didn't warn you. I won't have the ability to deal with her when things go wrong. Now I'm using the divine power bestowed by the gods to suppress her evil spirit form. Take this opportunity to suppress her and burn her."
After Zhou the sorceress finished speaking, she sat cross-legged on the ground, her body began to sway, and she began to mutter incantations.
The villagers looked hesitant at that moment.
Are we really going to burn the ginger honey to death?
“Listen to the sorceress, burn her! I’ll take responsibility if anything happens!” Just then, Village Chief Yang, who had just seen off two terrified constables, pushed through the crowd and said to the villagers, “We cannot let this scourge remain in the world and bring us disaster.”
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