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Chapter 319: Retribution in This Life

Chapter 319: Chapter 319: Retribution in This Life

Wang Cuihua was making dinner with Suizi when several people arrived at the door.

It was the family of Yang Six’s wife, all of them wailing and crying.

An old lady so bent with age she couldn’t stand straight was sitting on the ground, weeping.

"You heartless thing, Chen Hansui! You’re bad luck personified! Give me back my great-grandson!"

Yu Jingting was still not back, busy in the fields.

These people chose their moment, timed their arrival just right.

Wang Cuihua was furious.

She tried to calm Suizi down.

"Don’t you dare get angry, they’re doing this just to upset you because you’re pregnant."

Being angry while pregnant is very bad for the baby. These people are utterly devoid of conscience.

"I’m fine, mother, and you shouldn’t go out there either." Suizi pulled two balls of cotton from the mattress and stuffed them in her ears.

If she didn’t hear, she wouldn’t get angry. Right now, nothing was more important than her baby.

"No way, this is too much, watch me give them a piece of my mind!"

Wang Cuihua picked up an iron shovel and went out. Everyone was in the fields, and the only ones at home were the elderly who couldn’t move easily.

These people chose this opportunity to cause trouble. Their purpose was to upset Suizi and take revenge on her.

Seeing them, Wang Cuihua didn’t bother with insults, she swung the iron shovel at them.

The old lady on the ground had her words of insult cut off mid-sentence, quickly getting up, suddenly nimble, no longer wailing.

She retreated several steps, directing the people behind her.

"Beat her up!"

"I dare you!"

Wang Cuihua was so angry she nearly started a wind with her shovel swinging. She had been oppressed for too long these days.

"I didn’t come to you, but you came to my house to make trouble? Your family raises a jailbird, and you’ve no shame? You muddled lot!"

"Wang Cuihua! Your family is begging for karma! Bringing a vixen like her home, alluring men with unladylike behavior, she’ll make your son wear a green hat soon!"

Wang Cuihua snapped at these words, smacking the shovel at the person closest to her, the impact sent the person flying.

"These were the things you said about me when I was young. Now you’re defaming my daughter-in-law. Your family is the one that will face retribution—"

"—It’s going to get struck by lightning." Suizi came out. In her hand, she held a kitchen knife.

Seeing the shovel and knife held by the mother and daughter, the people from the Old Yang family fled in all directions, fearful that, in their fury, the women might just start chopping people up.

Wang Cuihua pursued them relentlessly, hitting two more unfortunate souls.

Still, she was fuming.

"Worthless lot! Pah!"

"Mom, calm down. Isn’t that what you advised me?" Suizi said, trying to placate her mother-in-law.

"Wait till Tiegen returns! I’ve kept track of all their names. We’ll return the favor, house by house! This isn’t over!"

Wang Cuihua cursed for a while before she returned home. The people of the Old Yang family had now thoroughly offended her. New feuds piled on old grudges.

Yu Jingting kept working till it was dark before he came home. When Wang Cuihua reported the events to him, he was livid.

Rolling up his sleeves, he was about to gather his men for a fight. Suizi could barely hold him back.

He came home just to water the fields and hadn’t found the time yet to settle scores with the Yang family. But these people were not afraid at all. Sending over these old men and women, did they honestly think he wouldn’t dare lay a hand on them just because they were old?

Just as he was stepping out of the house, a streak of lightning flashed across the sky.

Suizi and Yu Jingting both stopped. Yu Jingting, recalling Suizi’s earlier intervention at the Old Yang family’s house, squinted at the sky.

"Heaven will deal with them, why should we get our hands dirty?"

No sooner had Suizi finished her sentence than a thunder clap shook the sky. She quickly pulled Yu Jingting back into the house.

There were only two bolts of thunder, and still no rain.

Suizi felt that the loud noise occurred somewhere close, wondering if the knowledge she had learned had been put to use...

The family ate dinner in a huff, mainly the three Yu family women. But Suizi ate and drank as she pleased.

As they had only just begun eating, a neighbor ran in.

"Auntie Four! You better get out there and see. The house of Yang Lau Liu has been struck by lightning. They’ve been punished!"

Upon confirming that Yang’s house had indeed been hit by lightning, Wang Cuihua could no longer suppress her true feelings and burst into laughter.

She didn’t care about the meal, leaping up in excitement.

"Let’s go! I must see. How were the gods so just this time! Well-executed. Well-timed. What an earth-shaking event!"

In common belief, only bad guys get struck by lightning.

Similarly, the house of a bad person would also be struck by lightning.

Of course, Suizi knew that wasn’t really the case in reality. Lightning strikes people and houses because they’re highlighted targets during a storm; it can also happen because the lightning protection measures weren’t installed properly, or perhaps not at all.

The whole family gathered around in a merry mood.

Jiaojiao even asked on the way.

"Sister-in-law, truly the heavens have eyes, striking their house with lightning, right?"

"They’ve done too many bad deeds, they deserved punishment." Suizi answered skillfully.

What she didn’t say was that the punishment doesn’t necessarily come from heaven.

"Why didn’t their lightning strike other houses?" Jiaojiao firmly believed that mysterious powers had punished the bad guys.

"When we go back to the city, let your brother take you to a construction site. Modern buildings have lightning protection measures during construction. But some construction crews, relying on experience alone, don’t install lightning rods properly and not only fail to prevent lightning strikes but even attract them."

Jiaojiao nodded in comprehension, pondered a bit, and then drew her conclusion.

"The Yang family, they installed the lightning rod incorrectly?"

Suizi just smiled and didn’t answer.

Wang Cuihua responded, "They’re as poor as church mice, every single one of them illiterate. Where would they get the idea to install a lightning rod? They’re simply under divine punishment."

"Yeah, and a cultured divine punishment at that." Yu Jingting was in a good mood, too.

He exchanged a glance with Suizi; a smart Suizi, right?

Suizi blinked. Though the idea was hers, the person who implemented it was him, wasn’t it?

If he hadn’t cooperated, she wouldn’t have been able to do it herself.

The husband and wife exchanged a knowing look, and finally agreed.

"They had it coming."

By the time they arrived, the Old Yang’s house had already attracted a crowd. The village chief was looking at the house, a gaping hole blown through by the lightning.

Seeing Yu Jingting arrive, he called out to him.

"Tiegen, come look!"

The villagers around them shared the same expression as the village chief.

This place could serve as an educational base to propagate the idea of retribution for evil deeds. Looking at the house blasted with a hole by the lightning, everyone voiced their heartfelt opinions.

"Wow, that lightning was awfully accurate." Yu Jingting whistled, quite pleased by the effectiveness of the lightning rod he and Suizi had spent so much time perfecting.

The main thing was heaven showing favour, the unusual weather in recent days giving the couple a chance to conduct their experiment.

A direct hit. If that wasn’t divine will, what was it?

"Everyone agrees that it serves them right. Tiegen and his wife are such good people."

The villagers were all grateful to Yu Jingting. Without his help in spending his own money on diesel for watering the fields, the whole hamlet would have been in trouble.

"Tiegen’s mother, can you see any meaning in all of this?" The village chief asked.

Wang Cuihua had been waiting for this opportunity, and she began muttering calculations with an air of authority.

"It’s over, it’s over, the Old Yang family’s finished..."