Chapter 133: Drowned in a Pig Cage! She Literally Peed Herself

In this situation, Li Jinhua couldn’t even think about standing up—she had no strength left in her body.

Lying on the ground and looking up, all she saw were the fierce, intimidating faces of the men towering over her, along with the thick wooden sticks in their hands—ready to come down on her at any moment.

“You… you… do you even know who my son is…?”
Li Jinhua stammered and trembled all over, her voice shaking so much she could barely form a sentence.

But the villagers from Shilin Village couldn’t care less about that. Each of them was full of righteous fury.

“Hmph! I don’t care who your son is. All I know is that you, you shameless old hag, bullied Comrade Chu—and even her child!”

“Comrade Chu stayed up all night on New Year’s Eve to save our village’s cow. That cow meant life or death for half our village! She saved all of us! I’m telling you, you can bully anyone else, but not her!”

“Damn it! I’m so angry! I’ve never seen such a despicable old woman! Did you all hear the kind of things she was shouting just now? She even went after a child! This old witch must be tired of living!”

The more the men spoke, the angrier they became. Their thick wooden sticks started pounding the ground, sending deep reverberations through the earth.

Li Jinhua turned pale, her soul nearly flying out of her body. She trembled uncontrollably.

Back in the compound, she’d only ever dared to bully the good-natured women. But facing men? She was just a spineless coward.

“My son… Zhijian… son… save me… my son is… he’s a company commander… you can’t touch me… you can’t…”

“Tch! So what if your son’s a company commander?”
Han Shi snapped back without mercy. “We’re not soldiers. Why should we listen to your son?”

Someone else chimed in right away:

“Captain Han, don’t waste time talking to her. Let’s just throw her into a pig cage and dunk her in the river!”

In this freezing winter weather, the river water was ice-cold. If Li Jinhua were actually dunked in a pig cage, she’d probably lose half her life—if she survived at all.

“No—I don’t want that—ahhh! I don’t want to be dunked in a pig cage! No, no, no—please no—”

At the mere mention of the punishment, Li Jinhua freaked out, scrambling wildly on the ground. She had seen women dunked in pig cages when she was younger—it was a miserable way to die.

There was no way she’d let that happen to her!

But no matter how she crawled, she couldn’t escape the crowd surrounding her. No matter how many times she cried out for Zhou Zhijian, he never responded—as if he’d completely disappeared.

“Ahh—don’t grab me! Please no… sob sob… son… help me… spare me… I won’t do it again… sob… I won’t…”

Gone was her earlier arrogance—Li Jinhua was now bawling uncontrollably, crawling and rolling around on the ground like a madwoman.

And then…

As she crawled—
a wet stream slowly trickled from beneath her rear.

“Ah! Look, everyone! That old hag just peed herself!”

One of the women saw it and blurted out loud before she could stop herself.

As her shout rang out, everyone turned to look—Li Jinhua had actually wet herself from fear, and no one had even laid a finger on her yet.

Poetic justice.

People like Li Jinhua could only be handled with equal cruelty. If you tried to reason with her politely, she’d never listen.

Chu Yue gave a cold sneer in her heart. She covered Lu Yuanbao’s eyes, not wanting him to witness such a nasty scene and have it leave a mark on his young heart.

Aside from all that, Zhou Zhijian’s reaction on the side was also quite interesting.

If this had happened in the past, as soon as Li Jinhua fell, this “filial son” would’ve rushed over to help her up.
But this time, he chose to watch coldly from the sidelines.

It seemed he had finally realized that Li Jinhua wouldn’t gain the upper hand with Chu Yue, and he was quite happy to see her get a taste of her own medicine.

This once foolish son, after finally seeing through Li Jinhua’s blatant favoritism, seemed to have finally woken up.

If things continued this way, then Wang Chunling’s life might finally become a bit easier.

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When Zhou Zhijian saw that Li Jinhua had already wet her pants, her entire body filthy and disheveled,
he couldn’t help but still feel a shred of familial attachment.

So, he stepped forward.

“Comrades, I’m sorry—truly sorry!
I apologize on behalf of my mother. She was in the wrong.”

Han Shi gave a few glances at Zhou Zhijian’s military uniform, and while his tone grew slightly more polite,
his words still carried a mocking edge:

“Apologize to us? Comrade soldier, are you sure you’ve got the right people?
We weren’t the ones being cursed. We don’t have any grudges with her.
Why are you apologizing to us?
If anyone deserves an apology, it’s Comrade Chu.”

“Yes, yes, you’re right. We should apologize to Comrade Chu.
Please, just move aside for a moment, let my mother stand up, and we’ll apologize right away.”
Zhou Zhijian wanted to preserve the last shred of dignity for Li Jinhua.

But Han Shi didn’t even bother to listen.

He turned to look directly at Chu Yue, who stood there calmly, and asked her:

“Comrade Chu, what do you say?
Should we let this person go?
We’ll do whatever you say.”

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The moment those words were spoken—
everyone around them gasped.

Such a fierce group of men, enough to scare off even tigers,
yet they all listened to a single young woman.

The shock of that image—
was almost indescribable.

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The air felt momentarily frozen.
Just as Chu Yue was about to speak, Song Hongmei arrived on the scene.

Seeing so many people gathered with clear tension in the air, she asked:

“What’s going on here?
Captain Han, didn’t you say you came to thank Sister Chu?
Why does it look like you’re about to start a fight?”

With that, the reason she had asked Chu Yue to wait at the gate earlier became clear:

Han Shi had wanted to make a grand gesture to thank Chu Yue—
maybe even present her with a big red ribbon or flower.

What was meant to be a festive, joyous scene had now turned into a near brawl.

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When Li Jinhua heard Song Hongmei’s voice, it was like she’d seen a savior.
She scrambled and rolled across the ground, desperate to cling to Song Hongmei’s leg:

“Director Song! Thank goodness you’re here!
You have to stand up for me!
I was already leaving like you told me, but these people—
they said they want to throw me into a pig cage!
They want to drown me in a pig cage!!”

Song Hongmei frowned. She didn’t yet know the full story,
so she turned to Han Shi and asked:

“What’s going on here?”

Han Shi scratched his nose, a bit embarrassed.
The truth was, someone from his group had said that line,
and Song Hongmei was the by-the-book type,
so it was awkward to explain.

Just then, Chen Fengying jumped out and shouted:

“That old woman cursed Sister Chu first!
If anyone’s in the wrong, it’s her!”

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Chu Yue swept a cold glance at Li Jinhua, then calmly walked over to stand next to Song Hongmei, holding Lu Yuanbao. She explained:

“Sister Song, the entire country’s been liberated—
where would there still be things like drowning people in pig cages?

Someone just blurted it out in the heat of the moment, that’s all.
But the old woman here—
probably guilty herself—heard it and got scared.
So she scared herself more than anyone else did.

Isn’t that right, Captain Han?”