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Chapter 142: A Brilliant Flare Signals Good Fortune

Chapter 142: Chapter 142: A Brilliant Flare Signals Good Fortune

Suizi gave him two thumbs up.

If it weren’t for maintaining her image, she would have liked to give him a thumbs up with her toes too.

When it came to hurting others, Yu Jingting had never let her down.

After a while, Wang Cuihua returned, grumbling and complaining.

During conversation, they mentioned that Yang Laosi was getting married on the second day of the Chinese New Year.

The two families lived side by side, separated by a single wall, but Yang Laosi kept the news from Wang Cuihua out of fear.

Wang Cuihua was utterly annoyed to learn about it from others.

Yang Si’s wife, who was still alive, had a good relationship with Wang Cuihua and often gifted her with homemade pickles.

Wang Cuihua pulled Suizi over to sit with her on the heated brick bed, exchanging stories in remembrance of the deceased wife while expressing their scorn for the scumbag husband.

Yu Jingting sat quietly at the side, munching on melon seeds.

The two women got so absorbed in their conversation that their resentment towards individual scumbag men began to translate into a disdain for men in general.

Being the only man in the house, Yu Jingting inevitably became the target of their anger. To them, even his face was becoming repulsive.

They recalled trivial matters like how he had wet the bed as a child, or how he got into bed without washing his feet on their wedding day.

Those small quarrels continued, all contributing to making Yu Jingting feel uncomfortable.

He went out to the courtyard, posing thoughtfully in front of the house of Yang Laosi’s family.

Doing a little calculation, he concluded that the scumbag who made him the object of his wife and mother’s displaced anger would likely have to pay for it. He wondered where his slingshot was.

However, before Yu Jingting had a chance to break Yang Laosi’s windows, someone else beat him to it.

On the morning of the Chinese New Year, Suizi was still sleeping in bed.

Last night, a shameless man used the excuse of "clearing out old goods for the New Year for good luck all year round" to hold her hand and discuss poetry with her until midnight.

Even in her dreams, Suizi felt sore and tired.

Oddly enough, there were a carrot and a radish calling her "mom" and demanding to be held.

Suizi complained about her sore hands that couldn’t hold them anymore, and pondered why her children were a carrot and a radish.

Accepting that her children were vegetables was one thing, but why were they not even of the same kind...?

Outside of Yang Village, Chen Lijun was leading Chen Zixiao towards the Yu family home.

Before Chen Zixiao could speak, he sneezed.

"Sister, have you not given up yet?"

Ever since his sister found out about Suizi’s pregnancy, she became sort of a psychopath.

Yesterday, she said she would go back to the city and stop caring about that silly girl, Suizi.

Halfway there, she turned the car around.

She insisted that Yu Jingting would play Mahjong on New Year’s Eve and well as Suizi’s mother-in-law, and that she could take Suizi away as soon as she saw that both of them were not at home.

But nobody in their family had stepped out at all!

For the first time in his life, Chen Zixiao spent New Year’s Eve in a car and got a cold from it.

Early this morning, his sister was dragging him towards the Yu family house again, wanting to accomplish what they failed to do yesterday.

"So what if she’s pregnant? We can certainly afford it. We can’t just let her suffer here." Chen Lijun’s words were nasal, evidently from the cold.

"You’re not Suizi. How do you know she’s suffering?"

Chen Zixiao suspected his sister was going through early menopause as she seemed to be acting illogically and impulsively.

"You saw it yesterday too. While the men from other families were out playing Mahjong, only your son-in-law stayed at home to accompany his pregnant wife, and your mother-in-law was also home. It shows that they care about Suizi. We should just buy some gifts and visit them directly – to check on Suizi as in-laws–"

Chen Zixiao’s words were silenced by Chen Lijun’s fierce gaze.

"So, not playing Mahjong means he’s good to Suizi now? How would you know if he just caught a cold and was too lazy to go out, Achoo!" Chen Lijun sneezed.

"With all your fuss, aside from stirring your own emotions, you won’t move anyone else, especially Suizi. She’s living a perfectly fine life, and you just have to interfere."

Were it not her own sister, Chen Zixiao would think she’s a psychopath.

"What do you know? These country men, honorable before marriage, disgusting after marriage, lazy, lustful and unreasonable, acting the chauvinist, venting their frustrations at home."

"Isn’t that a bit extreme? There are so many rural men, you can’t judge them all based on one bad encounter. There are sincere farmers too."

"Sincere? Ha, that’s the biggest irony of the world." Chen Lijun looked in the direction of the Chen family, a cold smile playing at the corners of her mouth.

There’s no such thing as truly honest people in this world.

They’re just failures who don’t have the ability to create issues elsewhere.

Once they find someone weaker than them, these so-called honest people would intensify their bullying.

Just like that failure, Chen Kaide.

"Your son-in-law is not a simple man, didn’t you say he was a shrewd guy? Maybe he is truly fond of Suizi. Suizi is smart, a vocational high school graduate. Could she write such happy couplets if she’s not happy?"

It was better when they didn’t mention the couplets of the Yu family. Mentioning them now just made things worse.

Chen Lijun had been watching the old Yu family since last night and immediately recognized that the couplets on the front door of the Yu family were written by Suizi’s brush.

She had written: "Joyfully welcome the New Year, smilingly bid farewell to the old."

The horizontal scroll read, "Happy home full of joy."

"All the poetry and literature I taught her went to waste? After reading so many books, she wrote such naive stuff, there is no level to it at all!"

"Simple happiness is often expressed in simple ways. Could Suizi write ’Happy home full of joy’ if she felt wronged by someone?"

Everyone else’s couplets are about wealth and fortune, only Suizi’s is fun, simple, and full of joy.

"Anyway, I am not going to let her walk down the same path I once did. No matter what, I must take her away today."

Chen Zixiao knew about his sister’s rocky love life and the pain she had suffered from men had distorted her perception of love. To be frank, she had developed a psychological issue.

Unable to reason with his extreme sister, he could only follow Chen Lijun towards the old Yu family, while contemplating strategies along the way.

How could he prevent his disturbed sister from alerting Suizi? Chen Zixiao was slightly confused.

Suizi, unaware of the outside happenings, nestled in Yu Jingting’s warm embrace, continued to dream about her two carrots asking to be hugged.

Suddenly, both carrots shouted, "Mom, it’s so hot, someone wants to boil us."

Suizi woke up with a start.

She took a whiff and could smell something burning.

Was her mother-in-law warming the kang?

In her daze, Suizi reached out to feel the kang, but it was already cold.

It wasn’t her mother-in-law heating the kang, then what was the smell?

Suizi squinted and sat up, sniffing left and right, something was amiss—

Her gaze fell on the curtain and her eyes widened in shock.

The festive peony curtain was lit up by a glow.

Fire!

"Jingting, wake up quickly!" Suizi pushed Yu Jingting.

Yu Jingting sat up, bleary-eyed, and looked at Suizi. When Suizi drew back the curtain, the courtyard was ablaze.

"Dammit!"

Yu Jingting woke up entirely, hastily throwing on clothes while calling for Wang Cuihua and Jiaojiao.

The fire had started from old Yang’s house next door, spreading to the Yu family’s firewood stack.

At the same time, Chen Zixiao and Chen Lijun had arrived. Seeing the fire at the old Yu family’s, Chen Lijun’s blood ran cold.

"Suizi is still inside!"

Just as Chen Lijun was about to rush in, she was met with a sight she would never forget for the rest of her life.

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