They finally managed to continue the discussion.
The elderly woman sitting in front of Tang Yuan suggested that Tang Yuan give up the house. However, when the house was originally built, it had cost thirty taels of silver. Since it was no longer new and had already been lived in for more than ten years, they could simply compensate Tang Yuan with twenty-five taels.
The moment Old Zhao Granny heard that they were going to give so much money to a mere girl, she couldn’t sit still again and was about to start protesting. Eldest Granduncle silenced her with a single glare.
He then turned toward Eighth Granduncle.
“Eighth Uncle, what do you think?”
The old man puffed on his long tobacco pipe several times before finally speaking.
“I need to go home and think about it. I haven’t figured out what to do yet.”
It seemed the matter wouldn’t be resolved today.
As Tang Yuan watched that family leave, she caught the vicious look Old Zhao Granny gave her before stepping outside.
Tang Yuan showed nothing on her face, but inwardly sneered.
Just you wait, you old hag. I’ll deal with you tonight.
A plan had already begun to take shape in her mind.
Since the matter wasn’t settled, Second Granduncle and Second Grand-aunt weren’t leaving that night. They lived in the city year-round, and the room they used to occupy in the village hadn’t been prepared for them. So tonight, they could only share a room with Great-Grandmother.
Fortunately, the kang bed was large enough, so it wasn’t particularly cramped.
Tang Yuan took the initiative and suggested that she sleep in the same room as Yingzi and Lanzi that night.
Great-Grandmother thought they were all young girls anyway, so there was no problem with them sleeping together.
After dinner, Tang Yuan carried her bedding into the two nieces’ room and made her own bed.
Only then did she let out a long sigh of relief.
It wasn’t that she disliked sleeping with Great-Grandmother. The old woman was simply too sharp-eyed. She had lived through decades of hardship and was extremely observant.
Whenever Tang Yuan wanted to sneak something out of her space—a cup of milk tea or a little cake—she didn’t dare do it in front of the old lady. She was afraid Great-Grandmother would notice something strange.
Once Yingzi and Lanzi had fallen asleep and Tang Yuan was certain they wouldn’t wake up anytime soon, she immediately entered the RV inside her space.
Back when she was in the modern world, her entire body couldn’t enter the space. She could only use her consciousness to retrieve things from it.
But after transmigrating, Tang Yuan discovered something new: she could actually enter the RV inside the space.
She didn’t know why.
Later, she guessed that perhaps because she had been inside the RV on the night she transmigrated, some kind of connection had been established between her and the vehicle.
Once inside, Tang Yuan looked at the familiar surroundings and the modern, high-tech interior.
Only a few days had passed, yet it already felt as though an entire lifetime had gone by.
The first thing she did was take out a cup of soy-milk rice mochi milk tea.
The moment she took a sip, Tang Yuan trembled with excitement.
This is it! This is the taste!
“Ah, it’s so good!”
She gulped down half the cup in one go.
Then she took out a spicy chicken burger.
The moment she bit into it, she couldn’t help sighing inwardly.
I’ve never thought junk food could taste this amazing.
After eating and drinking her fill, Tang Yuan decided to wash herself before going back out.
Because of the injury on her head, she couldn’t wash her hair. No matter how itchy or dirty it felt, she could only endure it for now.
She decided to take a proper shower instead.
She glanced at her toiletries.
The shower gel was too fragrant, so she didn’t dare use it. She chose soap instead. The scent would disappear after a while.
In the RV bathroom, Tang Yuan happily took a hot shower.
It felt absolutely wonderful.
Afterward, she stood in front of the full-length mirror behind the wardrobe and finally got a good look at herself.
She was only a little over 1.5 meters tall. Since she was still young, she would probably grow a little more.
She had large eyes, a high nose, and long, naturally curled eyelashes.
Compared with her modern appearance, this body was much prettier.
She wasn’t a breathtaking beauty, but she had the delicate, pleasant appearance of a girl-next-door. In Laobie Ravine, she could probably even be called the village belle.
The only problem was that her small face looked sallow, probably because of the injury and blood loss.
Tang Yuan thought that once this whole matter was settled and she moved out to live on her own, she would have to nourish her body properly.
After tidying herself up, she left the space and glanced at the two little girls.
They were still sleeping soundly.
I’ve eaten enough and rested enough.
Time to get down to business.
Tang Yuan quietly slipped out of the room without making a sound.
She then crept over to the courtyard gate, carefully opened it, and slipped outside.
It was truly cold at night.
The wind was strong, there was no moon, and the entire village was pitch-black.
Tang Yuan could only rely on her memories as she felt her way forward.
She was wearing a pair of somewhat worn cotton shoes. Since she had no socks, the cold wind kept blowing directly through the openings around her ankles.
Damn, this is cold.
If this had been her previous life, Tang Yuan would never have dared to walk alone along such a rural mountain path at night with no moonlight and no streetlights.
But strangely enough, people were often fearless when they were doing something bad.
At this moment, instead of feeling afraid, Tang Yuan was actually slightly excited thinking about what she was about to do.
By the time she reached the courtyard of her old home, she was even sweating slightly.
She decided to finish everything quickly.
She took out the projector she had assembled beforehand, along with the frame for hanging the projection screen and her laptop.
Back in the modern world, Tang Yuan had specifically bought a laptop and downloaded countless movies, novels, songs, and pictures onto it.
She remembered seeing a picture of Black and White Impermanence holding soul-reaping chains.
So she had made her decision.
Tonight, she would use that image to scare the life out of them.
So you want to wipe out an orphan’s household and bully a helpless little girl?
Let’s see if I can scare you half to death.
Late at night, the wind eventually died down.
The surroundings became completely silent.
Beneath the large poplar tree to the left of the front gate of the brick-and-tile house where Eighth Granduncle’s family was staying, a sudden white light appeared.
After the light disappeared, two figures suddenly appeared in its place.
One wore a completely black robe and a tall black hat.
The other was dressed entirely in white, with a long, bright-red tongue hanging all the way down to his chest.
The sight was horrifying.
Especially in this ancient mountain village, where the darkness was so complete that one couldn’t even see one’s own hand in front of one’s face.
Anyone who happened to glance over would probably be scared senseless.
Tang Yuan hid inside the RV in her space and observed everything through her consciousness.
Something still felt missing.
Then inspiration struck.
The chains!
Fortunately, she actually had one in her space.
She remembered that, back in the modern world, she had once gone to a construction site. While taking measurements in the basement, she had found an iron chain.
It wasn’t very long—less than two meters—but it was extremely thick.
The entire thing probably weighed thirty or forty kilograms.
The construction worker who had accompanied her had told her that it had been left behind by the previous earthwork crew. They had already left the site and hadn’t bothered taking the chain with them. It was supposed to be sold as scrap.
Tang Yuan quickly used her consciousness to locate the chain.
She aligned the two ends and hung it across the frame supporting the projection screen.
It weighed several dozen kilograms, so even with her small body, it took considerable effort to hang it up.
Everything was finally ready.
Tang Yuan took a deep breath.
Then she grabbed one end of the iron chain and slammed it hard against the other.
CLANG! CLANG! BANG!
The noise echoed through the silent night.
Almost instantly, a dog from a neighboring household began barking furiously.
Tang Yuan struck the chain several more times before finally stopping.
Then she quickly crouched behind the tree.
Coincidentally, Old Zhao Granny happened to have an upset stomach that night.
She was suffering from diarrhea.
Because the local climate was cold for much of the year, most households kept chamber pots inside their homes. Small matters could be handled inside, but for something more serious, they still had to go outside.
So Old Zhao Granny had no choice but to get down from the kang and feel her way toward the door.
In this village, most courtyard walls were extremely low. Some families didn’t even have proper walls and simply used wooden stakes.
Therefore, the moment Old Zhao Granny stepped outside and looked up, she saw that eerie patch of light beyond the low wall.
“What the hell is that?”
Old Zhao Granny was getting old and her eyesight wasn’t very good.
She cautiously took several steps forward.
When she finally got close enough to see what it was, she was so frightened that she nearly stopped breathing.
After taking a couple of moments to recover, she suddenly screamed.
“Oh my heavens! Old man! Eldest! Second! Third! Come out quickly! Something terrible has happened! The ghosts from the underworld are here to claim our lives!”
“Someone help! Save me! Oh, my heavens!”
Tang Yuan saw that her objective had been achieved and that the effect was even better than expected.
She immediately put everything back into her space.
Then she crouched down and hurried through the darkness toward Great-Grandmother’s house.
As she ran, she couldn’t stop herself from laughing.
How about that? Let’s see if I scared you enough this time!