Chapter 177: Home Invasion

It wasn’t until he left the factory that he finally relaxed his tense body. He turned his head to glance at this place where he had thought he could make a leap in his career, sighed, and then gathered his belongings to leave.

In the past few days, Qingshan Village was buzzing about the Sun and Gao families. Sun Baoqing from the Sun family’s second household lost his job due to taking too much leave, while his wife Kong Yuru cursed Shitou as a jinx and lamented loudly.

The people in the village joked daily about Kong Yuru bringing trouble upon herself, oblivious to her own faults. Some even said she had a malicious heart and only received her retribution after Sun Baoqing lost his job.

As for the Gao family, the doctor from the commune health center suggested that Gao Shunyi take Li Xiulan to the city to see a specialist, hoping for a solution.

However, after discussing it with Li Xiulan, Gao Shunyi discharged her from the hospital and brought her home to rest, also bringing Gao Rushen back home. This left his eldest daughter-in-law, Feng Xiaojuan, in a difficult situation, constantly caught between her mother-in-law’s and sister-in-law’s demands, ultimately causing her to angrily leave and go back to her parents’ home.

Gao Shunyi was quite astute. After his son spoke of strange occurrences at the hospital, he returned to the village the next day. Taking advantage of everyone being at work, he visited the educated youth dormitory.

But he followed his son’s mentioned and he searched the area but found no traces whatsoever. It was clear no one had entered there, suggesting his son might indeed have encountered something supernatural, as it couldn’t have been a hallucination otherwise.

Then he finally let go of his suspicions about Luo Qiao, and thought about going privately to consult a shaman for his son and checking the house. With recent successive incidents in the family, he wondered if there was something unclean at home.

Luo Qiao had long noticed someone had entered the courtyard near the male educated youth’s place, but she didn’t want them to suspect her. She didn’t care how they would struggle in the future.

If the Gao family didn’t involve her, she wouldn’t take action again, hoping Li Xiulan would learn from this experience.

One noon, as Luo Qiao was almost done cooking, she was about to call Shitou to eat when she heard him crying. She hurried over to Lu Yichen’s courtyard.

When she arrived, she saw Kong Yuru rummaging through Lu Yichen’s home. It looked like she had just started, and Shitou desperately tried to stop her, but Kong Yuru pushed him into a corner.

Luo Qiao signaled to Shitou with her eyes, quietly backed out of the courtyard, and quickly ran to the captain’s house. She briefly explained the situation, and the captain immediately gathered a few people and headed towards Lu Yichen’s house.

Kong Yuru was still focused on searching and didn’t notice the people entering the courtyard. She continued to curse, “You’re just a jinx. Your mother was killed by you, and now you dare to meddle with our Sun family.”

“If it weren’t for our Shengyuan suffering so much, where is the scar removal gel? Are you going to tell me?” She said, trying to hit Shitou.

Then the captain shouted, “Kong Yuru, what are you doing?”

Kong Yuru was too absorbed and didn’t hear anyone approaching the courtyard. When she heard the voice, she turned and was startled to see people at the door.

She became scared, “I haven’t done anything! I just wanted to borrow some scar removal gel from Shitou. This brat… this child won’t say where it is. I was just about to look for it myself, really! I haven’t done anything else.”

The captain said, “Come out of the courtyard first, Kong Yuru.”

Kong Yuru glared fiercely at Shitou, “Bah, you jinx.”

People outside made their way, “Kong Yuru, do you know this is a home invasion?”

As soon as Kong Yuru heard the captain’s words, she thought of something, summoned the courage, and pushed aside the blocking person to run outside the courtyard.