“To get the money to buy Yu Qinghuan’s substitute-teacher position!”
Li Chunhua’s shriek rang out loud and clear beyond the courtyard walls.
At that moment, the entrance to the Li family home was already crowded with villagers who had risen early to head out to the fields.
They had originally come to laugh at the Li family for getting robbed.
Who could have imagined they would stumble upon such explosive gossip instead?
“Well, would you look at that! Li Chunhua guarded against everyone else day and night, but she couldn’t guard against a thief in her own family!”
“She’d steal her own mother’s retirement savings just to snatch her sister-in-law’s job? What a shameless woman!”
“And that Wang Ergou? Everyone knows what kind of trash he is, yet Li Chunhua treats him like a treasure. They’re a perfect match!”
The villagers pointed fingers and whispered among themselves, their voices flooding into the courtyard like a rising tide.
Listening to their gossip, Miao Cuihua’s old face flushed bright red. She wished the ground would open up and swallow her whole.
At the entrance to the woodshed, Yu Qinghuan slowly straightened up.
She casually brushed the dust off the hem of her clothes.
The terrified, helpless expression she had been wearing vanished in an instant.
In its place appeared an icy, mocking smile.
She had been waiting for this moment for a very long time.
“Li Chunhua.”
Yu Qinghuan’s cool voice cut through the noisy courtyard and landed directly in her sister-in-law’s ears.
“Did you just say you wanted to buy my job?”
Li Chunhua was still being dragged around by Miao Cuihua, her hair disheveled and her face smeared with mud and blood.
Hearing Yu Qinghuan’s voice, she turned her head, her eyes filled with venom.
“So what if I do?! You’re an orphan with no father or mother, a woman with no family to rely on! What gives you the right to become a teacher in the city?”
“My brother is an officer in the army, and I’m the Li family’s own daughter! That job should have been mine from the beginning!”
“If you know what’s good for you, you’ll sign the transfer agreement today. Otherwise, I’ll tear you apart!”
Even now, Li Chunhua was still dreaming of going to the city and becoming an official’s wife.
Looking at her face twisted by greed, Yu Qinghuan suddenly burst out laughing.
Her laughter was filled with contempt.
“Big Sister, did a donkey kick you in the head before you left the house?”
As she spoke, Yu Qinghuan slipped a hand into the pocket of her ragged cotton-padded jacket.
The moment her hand went inside, she mentally connected with her dimensional space.
In the next second, a red certificate bearing an official red seal and beautifully printed lettering appeared out of thin air in her hand.
It was the Appointment Letter for Substitute Teacher, personally issued by the county primary school.
Yu Qinghuan held the appointment letter high above her head. Its red official seal gleamed glaringly in the sunlight.
“Everyone, take a good look!”
Her clear voice rang throughout the entire alley.
“This is an appointment letter specifically issued to ME by the county primary school!”
“My name, Yu Qinghuan, is written right here!”
“I worked hard to earn this teaching position through my own efforts. Why should I hand it over to a useless woman who can’t even sweep the floor properly?!”
The moment Li Chunhua saw the red certificate, her eyes turned bloodshot.
That was her long-dreamed-of ticket to the city!
“Give it to me! That job is mine!”
Li Chunhua went completely berserk and lunged at Yu Qinghuan with her claws outstretched.
She wanted to snatch the certificate and tear it up—or force Yu Qinghuan to press her fingerprint onto a transfer agreement.
Yu Qinghuan stood perfectly still, not even blinking.
Holding the appointment letter in one hand, she waited until Li Chunhua was almost upon her.
Then Yu Qinghuan flicked her wrist.
She pulled another sheet of paper from her pocket.
It was the Voluntary Job Transfer Agreement that Miao Cuihua had forced her to sign in her previous life.
RIIIP!
With a sharp tearing sound, Yu Qinghuan ripped the agreement cleanly in half.
Then, her slender fingers moved rapidly as she tore the paper into tiny pieces and scattered them into the air.
The scraps fluttered down like snowflakes, landing on Li Chunhua’s face.
“My job? I’d rather feed it to a dog than give it to an ungrateful backstabber like you!”
Every word from Yu Qinghuan struck like a knife.
“You want to take my place? Keep dreaming!”
“AAAAH! You bitch! I’ll fight you to the death!”
Staring at the scraps of paper scattered across the ground, Li Chunhua felt as though her dream of moving to the city had been shattered forever.
She let out a shriek like a vengeful ghost and charged straight at Yu Qinghuan.
A cold glint flashed in Yu Qinghuan’s eyes.
Instead of retreating, she moved forward, lowering her body slightly to dodge Li Chunhua’s outstretched hands.
Then—
Yu Qinghuan twisted her waist and drove her right leg in a sharp arc close to the ground.
A textbook-perfect, clean and decisive sweeping kick!
Whoosh!
Her right leg slammed into Li Chunhua’s ankle.
SMACK!
Li Chunhua suddenly felt the ground disappear beneath her feet. In an instant, she lost her balance completely.
Her hefty body traced a ridiculous arc through the air before flying straight out.
And right behind her—
As luck would have it—
Was the wide-open pig manure pit in the corner of the Li family courtyard, where they collected fertilizer!
The enormous pit contained the accumulated waste of the Li family’s two fat pigs from the entire winter. The sludge was thick, sticky, and reeked of a suffocating stench.
SPLASH!
With a tremendous crash and a spray of filth shooting into the air, Li Chunhua landed with pinpoint accuracy—bottom-first—in the deepest part of the pig manure pit!
The thick green sludge swallowed her whole in an instant.
【Ding! The host has successfully delivered physical purification! A top-grade troublemaker has landed in the pit! +150 Rampage Points!】
【Ding! The surrounding spectators are shocked! +200 Rampage Points!】
【Current Rampage Points balance: 450!】
Listening to the delightful system notifications in her mind, Yu Qinghuan narrowed her eyes in pure satisfaction.
Gloop, gloop…
A few black bubbles rose to the surface of the pig manure pit.
A moment later, Li Chunhua’s enormous face emerged from the green sludge.
Her head and face were covered in foul-smelling pig manure. Thick green muck filled her mouth and nostrils, and even her eyelids were plastered shut.
“Help… Ptooey! Help me! I’m choking! Ptooey, ptooey!”
Clinging to the edge of the pit, Li Chunhua frantically spat out the filthy muck in her mouth while bursting into loud sobs.
The stench immediately spread throughout the entire courtyard.
The watching villagers covered their noses and hurried backward.
“Oh, my goodness! That stinks!”
“Is she taking a bath or getting hit with a biological weapon?!”
“Serves her right! She tried to steal someone else’s job, and now she’s getting her just deserts!”
Old Man Li trembled with rage, pointing at Yu Qinghuan.
“You… you unfilial daughter-in-law! How dare you injure your own sister-in-law!”
Seeing her precious daughter transformed into a walking pile of manure, Miao Cuihua was so furious that her eyes nearly rolled back into her head.
Their entire family fortune had been stolen. Her daughter had fallen into a manure pit. Their bride-price table had been smashed.
And all of it had happened because they had married this jinx into the family!
“This is outrageous! Absolutely outrageous!”
Miao Cuihua shrieked in exasperation, raising her voice as she shouted:
“Come on! We’re going to the production brigade headquarters to have the secretary settle this!”
“Our Li family is breaking off this engagement! Today, I’m going to have you divorced and thrown out of this family once and for all!”