studiobondurri Chapter 243 He Yuzhu: Slap me one more time and I'll break your hand!
Chapter 243 He Yuzhu: Slap me one more time and I'll break your hand!
Qin Huairu's world has truly collapsed.
He Yuzhu's tightly closed door was like a cold tombstone, burying everything she had relied on for survival inside.
She stood in the courtyard, looking lost and dejected.
The night wind brushed against her cheeks, and she realized with a start that her tear stains had long since dried.
Jia Zhangshi was so terrified by He Yuzhu's glance that she was completely shaken. Only when the door was closed did the invisible pressure that had been gripping her throat suddenly disappear.
She gasped for breath and collapsed to the ground, her back soaked with cold sweat.
"This is outrageous...outrageous!" Madam Jia pointed at He Yuzhu's door, her lips trembling. "That fool Zhu...he...he's got some nerve! How dare he talk to me like that!"
Qin Huairu turned her head numbly, looking at her shrewish mother-in-law, her heart no longer stirred, only a deathly silence remained.
She knew better than Jia Zhangshi that He Yuzhu was not joking.
Every word he says will become reality.
He really doesn't care about their family anymore.
"Mom, let's go back." Qin Huairu's voice was dry and hoarse.
"Go back? By what right!" Jia Zhangshi's fear was replaced by surging anger. She leaped to her feet. "Who does He Yuzhu think he is! This isn't over! Huai Ru, don't be afraid, Mom will make him kneel down and admit his mistake!"
In her view, He Yuzhu was a bully who preyed on the weak.
I must have been caught off guard and he intimidated me.
As long as I use my best skills, crying, making a scene, and threatening suicide in the yard, He Yuzhu will have to obediently give in for the sake of his reputation!
Having made up her mind, Jia Zhangshi immediately rushed to He Yuzhu's door like an angry sow, raised her fat hands, and pounded on the door with all her might, "Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"He Yuzhu! You coward! Open the door!"
"You bullied us, a widow and her orphans! You deserve to die a horrible death! May you be hit by a car and die wherever you go!"
"Neighbors, come and see! Sha Zhu's gotten rich and now he doesn't recognize us anymore! He's trying to drive us mother and children to our deaths!"
Jia Zhangshi's voice was sharp, high-pitched, and extremely penetrating, instantly disrupting the tranquility of the entire courtyard.
Windows were pushed open, and heads popped out.
Uncle Yan Bugui, dressed in his clothes and carrying a teacup, went out the door. He was always a professional when it came to watching the excitement.
Uncle Liu Haizhong, with his official belly protruding and hands behind his back, strolled over, ready to exercise his pitiful amount of power.
Xu Damao and Lou Xiao'e also stood at their own door. The former's face showed undisguised schadenfreude, while the latter's eyebrows were furrowed, filled with contempt for Jia Zhangshi's behavior.
Standing outside the crowd, Qin Huairu felt as if everyone's gaze was piercing her like needles, and her face burned hot.
She wanted to pull her away, but she knew that once her mother-in-law went crazy, not even ten oxen could stop her.
Seeing that the audience had all arrived, Jia Zhangshi performed with even more enthusiasm. She plopped down on He Yuzhu's doorstep, slapped her thigh, and began to wail.
"My poor son! Why did you leave us so soon! Leaving us, your mother and children, to be bullied like this!"
"I can't live like this anymore! He Yuzhu, if you don't give me an explanation today, I'll die right here in front of your house!"
Although the people in the hospital were tired of seeing this procedure, it had always been effective in dealing with He Yuzhu in the past.
But today, the inside of the door was unusually quiet.
Inside the room, He Yuzhu was slowly peeling an apple. The flesh was sweet and refreshing, with a subtle, almost ethereal quality.
The shouts and curses outside were nothing more than the buzzing of flies to him.
Seeing that He Yuzhu ignored her and cursed even more fiercely, Jia Zhangshi scrambled to her feet from the ground.
"I'm going in today, I'll see what you're up to, you ungrateful wretch!"
She pushed the door hard, but it didn't budge.
"Hey, you dare to lock the door?" Jia Zhangshi sneered, not believing that this broken wooden door could stop her.
She took two steps back, took a deep breath, and prepared to crash into him with her large body.
Just then.
Inside the room, He Yuzhu's voice, cold enough to shatter ice crystals, drifted out.
"Tap me one more time, and I'll break your hand."
The sound wasn't loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone in the courtyard.
The courtyard, which had been filled with noise, fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
Everyone stared wide-eyed. Was this silly Zhu... really going to do it?
Madam Jia was stunned, but her anger burned even brighter.
"Who are you trying to scare! You little brat, you dare to lay a hand on your elders? I'll take this today, and see how you break my hand!"
She wanted to show everyone that He Yuzhu was just a paper tiger!
Before she finished speaking, she raised her hand high again, mustered all her strength, and slammed it hard against the door!
However, just as her large hand was about to touch the door...
A pale blue halo flashed across the unremarkable wooden door, so fast that no one noticed.
Jia Zhangshi's hand slammed down firmly on it.
"Awooo—!"
A piercing scream tore through the night sky.
As if struck by an invisible giant hammer, Jia Zhangshi was sent flying backward in an exaggerated manner, crashing heavily onto the muddy ground three meters away!
She clutched her right hand, writhing on the ground in agony, screaming like a pig being slaughtered.
"My hand! My hand is broken! Ouch—it hurts so much!"
Everyone in the courtyard was completely dumbfounded.
No one saw clearly what happened.
All they saw was Jia Zhangshi knock on the door once, and then she flew away.
And not a speck of dust fell from that door.
"Clang!"
The third uncle, Yan Bugui, smashed the teacup in his hand on the ground, splashing tea all over his trouser leg.
He stared intently at the door, his mind reeling.
This scenario...
This scenario is all too familiar!
He remembered! Not long ago, he went to pick up some leaves from Mr. Lin's yard, but he was thrown by an invisible wall and broke several of his ribs!
It looks exactly the same!
Could it be... could it be that Sha Zhu's house, like Mr. Lin's, also has that kind of eerie "wall"?!
Yan Bugui's forehead was instantly covered in cold sweat. His gaze toward He Yuzhu's house changed from one of amusement to one of utter awe and fear.
He instinctively took several steps back, wishing he could get as far away from that door as possible.
Xu Damao was so frightened that his face turned pale and his tongue began to go numb again. He immediately connected Jia Zhangshi's miserable state with his own previous experience.
These two, uncle and nephew, are not human! They are monsters!
Qin Huairu was also terrified and scrambled to Jia Zhangshi's side, only to see her mother-in-law's right wrist twisted at a strange angle, the white bone fragments seemingly about to pierce the skin.
"Mom! Mom! What's wrong with you?" Qin Huairu cried out.
"It hurts...it hurts so much...He Yuzhu! You heartless bastard! What kind of sorcery did you use on me!" Madam Jia Zhang was covered in cold sweat from the pain, but she was still cursing.
With a creak.
The window of He Yuzhu's house was pushed open.
He poked his head out, holding a washbasin in his hand, and looked down expressionlessly at Jia Zhangshi, who was rolling on the ground, and the silent crowd.
"I told you, don't bother me."
As soon as he finished speaking, he flicked his wrist.
"Splash—!"
A basin full of icy cold water, mixed with a few rotten vegetable leaves, was precisely poured over Jia Zhangshi, giving her a thorough chill.
A series of suppressed "pfft" sounds rang out in the courtyard.
The cold water startled Jia Zhangshi, and her howling stopped abruptly.
She was soaked to the bone, with a wilted cabbage leaf still clinging to her face. Her wrists were throbbing with pain, and she was cold and frightened. She looked extremely disheveled.
She had never been so humiliated in her life!
He Yuzhu didn't even bother to look at her again, and slammed the window shut.
Inside, peace returned.
Inside the courtyard, however, things were in complete uproar.
"Oh dear, this Jia Zhangshi has really bitten off more than she can chew."
"That's right. Sha Zhu used to give in to her, but now he doesn't. She's nothing at all."
"Serves her right! Let her act like she's old and entitled all the time!"
Hearing the undisguised sarcasm and ridicule around her, Jia Zhangshi was so angry that she couldn't catch her breath, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted.
Holding her unconscious mother-in-law, Qin Huairu stared at the tightly closed window, her heart sinking into an abyss.
She knew that from this day forward, she and her home in this courtyard would become a complete joke.
And all of this is just the beginning.