Chapter 107: Teach Her a Lesson
Xiaoguo saw who it was under the moonlight. It was Mrs. Yang!
“What was she doing here?” Xiaoguo stared at her in surprise.
Mrs. Yang looked behind her and saw no one. She continued with what she was doing.
“Why can’t I open this broken door?” Mrs. Yang tried hard to unpick the lock.
Li Zhaodi’s house had a wooden door. It wasn’t a single-paneled door. It was a two-way door that opened both ways. Mrs. Yang pushed the door inwards and reached in with one hand to grab at the big lock.
What a miscalculation!!
Mrs. Yang resisted the urge to kick the door open. Why was it so difficult to teach Li Zhaodi a lesson?
Mrs. Yang walked to the side of the house and looked at the height of the wall. She then used her height as a gauge and made a decision.
“Let me try!”
She took a few steps back and was about to count down to three when a faint voice sounded behind her.
“Do you need help?”
Mrs. Yang was shocked. She quickly covered her mouth and turned around, thinking that she had been discovered.
Little did she expect to see Xiaoguo’s smiling face.
Mrs. Yang recovered from her shock after a while. She patted her heart and punched Xiaoguo. “You scared me to death!”
Xiaoguo could tell from Mrs. Yang’s reaction that she got a bad fright just by looking at her breathing.
Xiaoguo rubbed her arm, which didn’t hurt at all, and walked over to soothe Mrs. Yang.
“What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”
Mrs. Yang rolled her eyes at Xiaoguo. “Li Zhaodi has to be taught a lesson!”
Xiaoguo wondered why Mrs. Yang was so annoyed with her. However, Mrs. Yang’s intentions for coming today coincided with hers.
“Hey, what are you doing here?”
Mrs. Yang looked at Xiaoguo and asked her with a smile. She looked like she was also up to no good.
Xiaoguo added fuel to the fire and told Mrs. Yang about Zhuang Zhuang. When Mrs. Yang heard about it, she was furious. Zhuang Zhuang actually got frightened!
Mrs. Yang felt terrible as she imagined Zhuang Zhuang’s pitiful appearance. The two of them chatted softly for a while. In the end, they decided on a plan to teach Li Zhaodi a lesson!
Fortunately, Li Zhaodi’s family was not so wealthy. The walls of her house were low so it would be easy for them to climb over.
Xiaoguo climbed up the wall first and sat on top. She grabbed Mrs. Yang’s hand and pulled her up to sit on the wall.
Xiaoguo looked around the courtyard to see if there were any animals that could possibly make any noise. Just as Mrs. Yang was about to jump down, Xiaoguo stopped her. She hadn’t got a clear view of the surroundings yet. They shouldn’t be so rash. What if there were animals that could make noises. Li Zhaodi would be alerted.
Mrs. Yang waved her hand and whispered into Xiaoguo’s ear, “Don’t worry. They don’t keep any animals. With her laziness, she finds it troublesome just to settle her own meals. Why would she bother to keep animals that she had to take care of?”
Xiaoguo thought it sounded logical. She jumped down from the wall with Mrs. Yang. Both of them were used to manual labor, so they were quite agile. At this height, it was a piece of cake for them.
Xiaoguo tried her best to make as little noise as possible. When she reached the courtyard, she carefully walked to the window. Xiaoguo and Mrs. Yang looked inside. Under the moonlight, they saw Li Zhaodi sleeping with her big belly exposed. Her snores were very loud.
Xiaoguo quietly opened the door. Mrs. Yang happened to find a bucket of water in the courtyard. The two of them placed the bucket on top of the open door.
After finding a good angle and making sure that everything was set, they got ready to leave. When Li Zhaodi gets up early in the morning and opens the door, the bucket of water will give her a good drench.
Just as the two of them were about to leave, Li Zhaodi suddenly shouted angrily.
“I’ll beat you to death! Stinking widows!”
The two of them were shocked. They thought that she had woken up. They squatted down and waited for a while, but there were no other movements. It seemed that Li Zhaodi was talking in her sleep.
The two of them looked at each other and nodded. They went to the foot of the wall and got out.
On the way back, the two of them smiled knowingly at each other. Mrs. Yang felt a little regretful. “If I had known, I would have brought a bucket of feces.”
As she spoke, she kept shaking her head, looking very regretful.
Xiaoguo was fine. As long as she could teach her a lesson, anything was fine.
When the two of them arrived at their respective houses, Mrs. Yang hesitantly said what she wanted to tell her during the day.
“Xiaoguo, don’t take to heart what that shrew said.”
At first, Xiaoguo couldn’t remember what the words were. She tried to think if it was these two words. “A shrew?”
Mrs. Yang scolded Li Zhaodi a few more times and comforted Xiaoguo.
Xiaoguo smiled gently. So that was the reason. She had wondered why Mrs. Yang, who was always nice to everyone, would find Li Zhaodi irksome? So it was because she had called her a widow.
So Mrs. Yang had gone to teach Li Zhaodi a lesson in the middle of the night just because she had called her a widow today?
The question popped out of her mouth. Mrs. Yang nodded and said, “The more I think about it when I get home, the angrier I get. Since I couldn’t fall asleep, I thought of beating her up again.”
Looking at Mrs. Yang’s angry expression and her chattering mouth, Xiaoguo felt very warm at this moment. It was so good to have someone standing up for her at all times!
“If Li Zhaodi creates trouble again, I’ll beat her up…”
Before Mrs. Yang could finish her words, Xiaoguo gave her a big hug.
“Thank you.”
Xiaoguo’s trembling voice thanked her again. “Thank you so much.”
Mrs. Yang came back to her senses and patted Xiaoguo on the back. She smiled and said, “Do you think I address you as a sister for nothing?”
Xiaoguo smiled through her tears. As their children were still at home, the two of them said goodbye and went home.
Xiaoguo washed her hands first and tiptoed back into the house. The candle on the table was flickering. Xiaoguo used a pair of tweezers to remove the excess wick on the candle. The candle immediately regained its steady glow.
Xiaoguo put down the tweezers and sat on the bed. She looked at Zhuang Zhuang, who was sleeping soundly on the bed. She couldn’t help but feel satisfied. She took off her coat and crawled under the blanket in her underclothes. Zhuang Zhuang seemed to have sensed her presence and rolled into her arms. Xiaoguo patted him and waited for him to fall into deep sleep again. Then she got out of bed and blew out the candle.
The next day, before dawn.
Xiaoguo was woken up by the faint sound of cursing coming from outside. When she opened her eyes, Zhuang Zhuang was still sound asleep. Afraid that she would wake him up, Xiaoguo covered him with a blanket and got out of the house.
Standing in the courtyard, she carefully identified the direction of the voice. It sounded vaguely like Li Zhaodi’s voice. As it was far away, she could only hear a faint voice.
However, if one listened carefully, they would recognize her voice. After all, there was no one in the village who could speak louder than her.
She didn’t listen for long before returning to the house. It seemed that their plan had worked.
When she returned to the room, Zhuang Zhuang was rolling over. Xiaoguo quickly got back to bed and continued with her sleep.
On the other side, Li Zhaodi was ranting with fervor. “You b*tch, you had better admit it! You black-hearted b*tch! Come out!”
What happened was, Li Zhaodi, had woken up from her sleep before dawn, as her stomach was in pain. She was in a hurry to get to the lavatory, and didn’t notice why the door was left open. When she pushed it, a bucket of cold and smelly swill fell from above and she was drenched from head to toe.
A light breeze came through the door and she started shivering. Above the neck, she was sneezing, and below the neck, she was having the runs.
After being tormented for the entire morning, her sharp face became even more prominent.
Once her stomach got better, she started cursing and screaming in the courtyard. It was a noisy scene.