Chapter 20

Jiang Ning looked embarrassed and turned his head away. “Who’s looking at you? I’m just thinking about something.”

Ji Yanli sat up and approached Jiang Ning. “What are you thinking about? Can you tell me?”

Jiang Ning avoided his approach and said, “Nothing, just wishful thinking!”

After she finished speaking, she lay down and turned her back.

“Jiang Ning, are you thinking about the village chief punishing you to clean the pigpen?” Ji Yanli asked.

“No, I’m just cleaning the pigpen. It’s not worth my thinking too much.” Jiang Ning responded indifferently.

In the afternoon, the whistle for work sounded!

Jiang Ning wore a fisherman’s hat, a sun mask and gloves and prepared to go out.

“Jiang Ning, I’ll do the cleaning of the pigpen.” Ji Yanli said as he sat up from the kang.

Jiang Ning glanced at him and said, “You should heal your wound first!”

“I can do it slowly…”

“You might not even be able to clear a fence by the time the sun goes down, so you’d better just stay home and lie down!”

After saying this, Jiang Ning opened the door and walked out.

In the yard, Ji Hongzhi, Tian Yufang and Ji Yansui, who were about to go out, were stunned when they saw her outfit.

“Ningning, you don’t have to go to work. I’ll do the cleaning of the pigpen.” Tian Yufang said.

“It’s okay, I can do it.” Jiang Ning said indifferently.

“Sister-in-law, you rest at home. I will do the job of sweeping the pigpen.” Ji Yansui also echoed.

“It’s okay, just go and earn work points, don’t worry about me.” Jiang Ning said and left the house first.

In fact, Jiang Ning didn’t really have to listen to the village chief and clean the pigpen. She just guessed that Er Laizi and Sun Hehe would take the opportunity to do something bad while they were working in the afternoon.

Her mother-in-law and sister-in-law were no match for those two men, so she had to go into battle herself and teach them a lesson.

As Jiang Ning approached the pigpen, he heard whispers of people talking inside, mixed with a few cold laughs.

She paused, the corners of her lips slightly raised.

Sure enough, Er Laizi and Sun Hehe had arrived first.

The two men were standing in the pigpen, holding brooms in their hands, but they were not cleaning at all. Instead, they were secretly pouring something into the pig trough.

When Jiang Ning approached, Sun Hehe suddenly looked up, and a resentful light instantly flashed in her eyes.

“Jiang Ning!” She gritted her teeth, her voice extremely low, but it couldn’t hide her fierceness. “How dare you come here?!”

At noon, Jiang Ning threw her into the river, making her look disgraced in front of the whole village, and forced her to get involved with a scoundrel like Er Laizi.

Sun Hehe now wishes she could tear her apart alive!

Er Laizi also smiled sinisterly, revealing his yellow teeth: “Hey, Ji’s wife, you’ve come just in time. We’re helping you clean the pigpen!”

As he spoke, he deliberately kicked the pig trough with his foot. Inside was a mixture of moldy rotten vegetable leaves and unknown medicinal powder. It was obvious that he intended to make the pigs in the pigpen that Jiang Ning was responsible for cleaning sick after eating it.

In this way, when the village chief blames them, they will insist that it was Jiang Ning who did it, and she will be in big trouble.

Jiang Ning took a glance and his eyes instantly turned cold.

“Oh?” She walked over slowly, her tone calm, “Thank you for your hard work.”

Seeing her calm demeanor, Sun He He was even more furious. She suddenly grabbed a handful of mud mixed with pig manure and threw it at Jiang Ning’s face.

“Bitch! Let’s see how you can keep pretending!”

Jiang Ning was prepared and dodged to the side, but the shovel hit the mud back like a tennis ball.

The mud “splattered” on Er Laizi’s face.

Er Laizi was caught off guard and had his mouth filled with smelly mud. He was so angry that he jumped up and down: “Sun Hehe! Where the hell are you throwing it?!”

Sun He He was also stunned. Before she could react, Jiang Ning had already grabbed her wrist and twisted it with his backhand.

“Ah!” Sun Hehe screamed in pain. Jiang Ning pressed her against the wooden fence of the pigpen, with her face almost buried in the pig manure.

“Jiang Ning! Let me go!!” She struggled desperately, but couldn’t get free.

Jiang Ning sneered, leaned close to her ear, and said in a voice as light as a knife: “Sun Hehe, do you think I don’t know what you want to do?”

With her other hand, she grabbed a handful of moldy vegetable leaves from the pig trough and stuffed them into Sun Hehe’s collar.

“Ah——!!!” Sun Hehe collapsed and screamed, twisting wildly, but Jiang Ning’s hands were like iron clamps, holding her tightly.

Seeing this, Er Laizi picked up a broom and hit Jiang Ning on the back: “You bitch! You’re looking for death!”

Jiang Ning didn’t even turn his head and kicked –

“Bang!”

Erlaizi was kicked out and fell heavily into the mud pit in the pigpen, splashing dirty water.

Jiang Ning finally let go of Sun Hehe, clapped his hands, and looked down at the two people’s embarrassed appearance with a cold tone:

“If you dare to mess with me and my family again, next time you stuff something in your mouth that won’t just be rotten vegetable leaves.”

After saying that, she turned and walked away, her back was neat and tidy, not even bothering to give them an extra glance.

Sun Hehe sat slumped in the pigsty, stinking and shaking with anger, but for the first time, she felt a little fear of Jiang Ning in her heart.

This woman… is so scary!

Er Laizi climbed out of the mud pit, rubbing his butt, and walked over to Sun Hehe, slapping her across the face. “You’re useless! The two of us can’t deal with that stinky woman.”

Sun He He covered her face to endure the stench, “You’re still talking about me, you’re a man and you can’t even beat a woman, you’re a loser.”

“You dare to talk back? Wait a few days, when you marry me, I’ll show you how I’ll deal with you.” Er Laizi said and slapped Sun Hehe again.

“Who wants to marry you? I won’t marry you,” Sun Hehe shouted loudly.

Er Laizi raised the shovel in his hand with a look of hatred, “Say it again.”

Sun He He was frightened by his ferocious look and shrank back, but she still said stubbornly, “I just won’t marry you!”

Er Laizi was so angry that he raised the shovel and was about to hit Sun Hehe.

At this moment, the production team leader came to the pigpen with his hands behind his back. Seeing this scene, his eyes widened with anger and he shouted, “Er Laizi, what are you doing!”

Er Laizi paused, the shovel almost hitting his foot. He quickly put the shovel down and put on a smile: “Captain, I… I was just trying to scare her.”

The team snorted coldly, “Hmph, if you don’t work hard, I’ll go to the village committee with me to write a self-criticism and hold a mass meeting to criticize you!”

When Er Laizi and Sun Hehe heard this, their faces turned pale. They wanted to argue but didn’t dare. They could only bury their heads in work in shame.

As soon as the captain left, Sun Hehe looked resentfully at Jiang Ning, who was busy working in another enclosure. “Jiang Ning, you’re the one who hurt me. I will never let you go.”

Ji’s side

Ji Yanli couldn’t sit still at home. He felt uncomfortable when he thought of Jiang Ning working in the smelly pigpen.

He supported himself on a bench and slowly walked to the yard, where he found a thicker stick from the firewood pile to use as a crutch.

“Yanli, where are you going?” Grandma Ji came out of the house and asked.

“Grandma, I want to get some water to Aning!” said Ji Yanli.

“Oh, Ningning told you to stay at home and don’t cause trouble for her.” Grandma Ji said.

Ji Yanli still insisted: “Grandma, I can’t just lie at home all the time. Otherwise, when I can walk normally, I will go and see you. It won’t cause any trouble.”

Grandma Ji couldn’t persuade him, so she could only remind him: “Then be careful, go and come back quickly.”

Ji Yanli nodded and slowly walked out the door with his crutches.

Along the way, he walked and stopped, and every step seemed a little difficult, but when he thought of Jiang Ning, his eyes were full of determination.