Chapter 2: Slapping Faces, Small Scenes

“Zihan, stop, he’s already dead.” Shen Zihan was startled awake by her mother’s voice. She dropped the iron hammer and turned to look at her mother.

Her mother calmly wiped the blood off her forehead with a towel.

Shen Zihan threw herself into her mother’s embrace. “Mom, you’re not dead, sob sob.”

“Silly child, mom is fine, aren’t I? Don’t be afraid, you have me,” Yu Meijuan gently stroked her daughter’s thin shoulders, a wave of sorrow swelling in her heart.

Shen Zihan looked at her mother.

At this moment, her mother appeared clear-headed, her expression calm. Gradually, hatred filled her eyes.

She shifted her gaze to the scumbag, her face cold and terrifying. Even in Shen Zihan’s arms, she felt her mother’s change. She hugged her mother tighter.

Yu Meijuan sensed the shift in her daughter’s demeanor and thought she was frightened, so she gently released her daughter.

“Mom needs to deal with this person,” Yu Meijuan said decisively.

Her words alerted Shen Zihan. Just as she was about to store the man in her space, she was stunned by her mother’s actions.

With impressive agility, her mother reached into the bed’s nook and rummaged around for a moment. She pulled out a small box and opened it, retrieving two small porcelain vials. She fluidly opened one vial and poured the powdered substance onto her wound.

Then she opened the other vial and poured a mysterious liquid onto the scumbag.

In an instant, that chunk of flesh disappeared. Only a puddle of water remained on the ground.

Yu Meijuan opened the door and found a shovel in the yard to scoop up some dirt. She covered the puddle with it and shoveled the muddy water into a tree pit in the yard.

Casually, she smoothed out the soil in the tree pit, calmly and diligently completing all her tasks.

After a while, the tree pit was neatly leveled.

Shen Zihan was stunned by her mother’s actions, staring blankly at Yu Meijuan’s movements.

She felt as if her mother was no longer the same. Could it be that her mother had also been reborn?

After completing all of this, Yu Meijuan dipped a ladle in water and sprinkled it evenly over the ground. Then she carefully washed her face and hands. In front of Shen Zihan, she changed out of her clothes.

She added some firewood to the stove and tossed the old clothes inside. Soon, the fire blazed fiercely in the stove, turning the clothes and firewood into ashes slowly.

Shen Zihan watched her mother complete all of this in a daze. She had a fixation about this rebirth: to deal with those who had harmed them and, more importantly, to rescue and protect her mother, to live happily together.

Now, seeing her mother take such decisive action, she felt that her mother didn’t need her protection at all.

“Zihan, mom remembers everything from before. So, from now on, no one can bully us,” Yu Meijuan said, looking at her bewildered daughter.

“Really?” Shen Zihan exclaimed, looking into her mother’s beautiful large eyes, which were no longer vacant but clear and resolute.

Shen Zihan was so happy; rebirth was truly wonderful. Not only had her mother not been humiliated, but she had also regained her memory.

This is amazing!!!

Yu Zihan excitedly threw herself into her mother’s embrace. She missed this warm hug so much.

A loud knocking at the door shattered the cozy atmosphere.

The mother and daughter instinctively looked down and found that there were no traces left on the floor. They exchanged a smile.

Yu Meijuan poured herself and her daughter each a cup of hot water, and they sat by the stove, warming themselves while waiting for a show to unfold.

“Yu Meijuan, you worthless piece of trash! How dare you flirt with someone in broad daylight? This is misfortune for our family! My son is truly unfortunate. How could a decent village official marry such a vixen?

You entered the Shen family and not only failed to give us a grandson, but also engaged in such shameless acts. Woe is me! What sins have I committed? How can I explain this to my husband in the afterlife?”

Old Lady Shen’s lament was comparable to a performer on stage, portraying herself as a wronged elder who had suffered immense humiliation.

Her wailing grew louder and louder.

Hearing Old Lady Shen’s familiar and venomous words, the mother and daughter exchanged disdainful smiles. They would no longer be afraid or sad because of such words. Of course, they would not tolerate it either.

Yu Meijuan squeezed her daughter’s hand and looked at her with her beautiful big eyes, as if to say, “Daughter, with mom here, these are just small matters.”

Shen Zihan glanced at her frail mother and thought about her mother’s astonishing methods just now. She even felt that the meaning of her rebirth had changed. However, isn’t it better to have her mother protecting her?

The noisy voices outside grew louder. Old Lady Shen looked at the crowd gathering around and knew the show was about to officially begin. She stopped her lamenting and wiped her eyes with her dirty sleeve.

“Jianguo, my poor son, hurry and kick the door open. Don’t feel ashamed. Since that vixen dared to do such a thing, we don’t need to spare her any face. Today, I’ll let everyone see what kind of worthless person your good wife is. I will personally tear off her fox skin.”

Shen Jianguo walked forward with a pained expression and kicked open the front door of his house.

People surged in, filling the Shen family’s courtyard. With no entertainment options available, watching the misfortunes of others was the only pleasure for the townsfolk, especially when it came to the village secretary’s family.

Shen Jianguo and a crowd of villagers rushed toward Yu Meijuan’s room, their hearts racing with excitement as they imagined the scandalous scene.

The village secretary’s daughter-in-law is famous for her beauty far and wide. Now, not only do they have the chance to enter her room, but they might also see some even more private things, so it’s easy to imagine how eagerly everyone is anticipating this.

With their own thoughts, the crowd roughly pushed the door open!

The moment the door swung open, everyone revealed expressions of disappointment.

They saw Yu Meijuan and Shen Zihan sitting by the stove drinking water. Although the bedding on the kang was old, it had been tidied up neatly. This was not what they had hoped to see.

“You shameless hussy…” The prepared words were only half spoken when Old Lady Shen’s voice abruptly stopped.

“Mom, you are at least the village secretary’s mother. Aren’t you ashamed to speak such filthy words? People who don’t know might think your mouth is connected to your backside, just spewing crap.

I’m your daughter-in-law, sitting here peacefully at home, and you dare to dump a pot of filth on my head. Have you gone mad trying to put a green hat on your son?” Yu Meijuan heavily placed the water jug on the stove and stood up to face the crowd.

In the past, Yu Meijuan was like a transparent person in the village; she rarely spoke, just quietly working.

People even thought this woman was mute and that she had been a workhorse in the Shen family, assuming she had a soft personality.

But today, what had they heard? That clear and pleasant voice, those logical and reasoned words, were actually coming from this woman’s mouth.

The Shen family was at a loss, especially Old Lady Shen, who stared in shock at the woman before her.

After a moment of daze, she suddenly remembered the purpose of their visit.

She hurriedly spoke up, “You shameless vixen, where have you hidden that scumbag?”

As she spoke, her squinty eyes darted left and right.

Yu Meijuan snorted coldly, “Mom, I think you’re seriously ill and have lost your mind. You should get treatment quickly to avoid talking nonsense and making a fool of yourself.

How could that scumbag be in our house? Did you go seduce him? Zihan and I have been at home; I haven’t seen any scumbag.” While speaking, she glanced around at the people.

“Did any of you see that scumbag enter my house?” She scanned the onlookers with her beautiful eyes.

Everyone, under her gaze, suddenly realized that they had been drawn in by Old Lady Shen’s shouting, and no one knew what was really going on.

The onlookers felt quite innocent at this moment.

Shen Jianguo stared intently at Yu Meijuan. This woman was so different today; she would never normally speak such sharp words.

Had she regained her memory? As this thought crossed his mind, beads of sweat began to form on his forehead in the cold winter air.

The current situation was not a good time for her to regain her memory; he needed to think of a safe way to make this mother-daughter duo permanently silent. Otherwise, he didn’t dare to imagine the consequences.