Chapter 164 Would you like a ride?

Feng Wanjia and Zhang Shuting: "..."
Even so, they still found it just a tiny bit unaccustomed.
Had they known about soul possession, they would have definitely guessed that Jiang Xun's body had been hijacked by another soul.

In the blink of an eye, the Dragon Boat Festival arrived, and the school was back on track.
After school that day, Lin Jingyue walked out of the classroom with her students and noticed a crowd gathered somewhere, buzzing with commotion. She hurriedly walked over. "You brats, fighting with classmates in the same grade is fine, but if the seniors bully the juniors, this teacher will make sure you learn why the flowers are red..."

Parting the students, Lin Jingyue's voice stopped abruptly.
What the hell!
Looking at the two people rolling around and wrestling on the ground, she almost blurted out some colorful modern curses.
Li Cuihua and Zhao Hua—these two plagues were actually fighting in broad daylight?!
It completely shocked her for a whole year.
She stood aside, enjoying the spectacle with great relish.

"Ah, you hit my aunt, I'll beat you to death!" Tiedan squeezed his way in too. Seeing his aunt pinned underneath, he thrashed his limbs and lunged forward, only to be yanked right back by the scruff of his neck by Lin Jingyue.
"Sister Lin, let me go, I'll beat him to death, he's bullying my aunt..."
"Tiedan, you go first, I'll go pry up some bricks!" Niu Niu, that little squirt, also joined in the excitement.
Lin Jingyue...
She gave the two of them an exasperated tug. "Cut it out, the brigade commander and the others are here, you don't need to get involved."

Hearing her words, the surrounding crowd dispersed.
The brigade commander led a whole train of people over, his face as dark as charcoal, and pulled the two fiercely fighting combatants apart. "Stop right there! Aren't you embarrassed enough yet?!"
All the remaining dignity of his old face had been utterly thrown away by this daughter of his.

Pulled apart, Li Cuihua's face was scratched and bruised, and she was covered in mud. Since it had rained that morning, her clothes were practically indistinguishable from their original color.
Zhao Hua didn't look much better either; his face had been clawed to shreds by Li Cuihua.
His expression was gloomy and dark. "I want a divorce!"

Oh ho! As soon as those words came out, before Li Cuihua could even react, the brigade commander's expression turned uglier than ever before in his life.
If this daughter of his got divorced yet again, the sheer volume of gossip and spittle could drown her alive!
"What kind of nonsense are you spouting? Which married couple doesn't fight from time to time? You can't just talk about divorce on a whim!" At that moment, he didn't dare scold Zhao Hua; being driven to the point of demanding a divorce meant his daughter had probably done something that angered both man and gods.
"Educated Youth Zhao, why would you want a divorce? You've gotta have a reason, right!" Qian Guihua loved watching a good disaster unfold and wasn't afraid of making things bigger.
Her old man had a good relationship with the brigade commander, which didn't mean she had a good relationship with Li Cuihua's mother.
That bitch was better than her at everything, and hmph—didn't she still end up giving birth to a tramp of a daughter? She deserved to be mocked for having a tramp of a daughter-in-law!

"This bitch Li Cuihua..."
"Zhao Hua!" Aunt Chun ran over, sweating profusely, and bellowed with an ugly expression, cutting off Zhao Hua's words.
The brigade commander also wore a chilling face. "Zhao Hua, you and Cuihua are a family now. Remember, a family doesn't speak of separate houses; you two are one and the same entity."
What the brigade commander really wanted to say was: prosperity shared, ruin suffered together.
Of course, his words also carried another meaning—a threat, reminding Zhao Hua that he was now a son-in-law of the Li family.
"Our brigade is considered quite harmonious, but it's not like couples don't fight; it's completely normal. Once you've had a fight and the anger passes, everything will be fine."
Right, another reminder to Zhao Hua that this was Qingshan Brigade.

Sure enough, Zhao Hua's face turned livid, and he said nothing more.
Aunt Chun and the brigade commander shot fierce glares at Li Cuihua, grabbed her, and turned to leave.
Just then, Zhao Hua called out to Lin Jingyue, "Educated Youth Lin, it's hard to guard against a thief for a thousand days; you should be careful."
He cast a meaningful glance at Jiang Xun, who was just riding his bicycle back from town.
Lin Jingyue understood instantly.
She glanced at Li Cuihua and realized, sure enough, obsessive obsessions are not easily let go.

Jiang Xun happened to catch Zhao Hua's remark. He stopped his bicycle, his voice cold as he spoke, "This is the first and last time I will warn you—warn everyone here. If I ever hear anyone linking me with some irrelevant person again, don't blame me for being ruthless!"
He threw a glance at Li Cuihua, whose face gradually turned pale.
She knew that Jiang Xun never showed mercy.
The brigade commander's pupils constricted slightly. If anyone knew just how ruthless Jiang Xun could be, he certainly counted as one of them.
He made a firm resolution in his heart: he must break and reform Li Cuihua's twisted mindset.

Actually, Zhao Hua had misunderstood this time. Li Cuihua did harbor a fixation on Jiang Xun, but it wasn't more important than her own life and second half of her life.
Staying with Zhao Hua, she had been prepared to settle down. Zhao Hua was an educated youth, and perhaps he would have a chance to return to the city in the future, allowing her to follow him there.
Compared to the other girls in the brigade, she was doing well; even as a second-time bride, she could live better than anyone else.
Last night, when they were being intimate in the heat of passion, she had dazedly called out Jiang Xun's name in a blur. She swore she hadn't meant to do it.
But Zhao Hua had kept dwelling on it today, taunting and accusing her of tricking him. Their words had escalated until Zhao Hua slapped her across the face—how could she possibly endure that?
And so they had started brawling.

That night, deep in the quiet hours, Jiang Xun locked his door and turned around, freezing when he saw a dark silhouette standing behind him.
He felt somewhat helpless. "Jingyue..."

"I want to go." Lin Jingyue spoke up in the darkness.
She knew right away that this fellow was going to teach Li Cuihua an unforgettable lesson, completely crushing her spirit so she would never dare to cause trouble again.
And so, the two of them tiptoed stealthily out of the educated youth dormitories.
Along the way, Lin Jingyue watched as Jiang Xun fished a hemp sack out of the bushes. Seeing the sack wriggle, she gave a start. "Don't tell me what's inside is..."
"Mhm." Jiang Xun nodded.
Lin Jingyue... "You're a beast!"
In her heart, she silently lit a white funeral candle for Li Cuihua.

They arrived at the small courtyard containing the two-room adobe house shared by Zhao Hua and Li Cuihua.
Jiang Xun slipped inside stealthily, telling Lin Jingyue to wait outside.
With practiced skill, he jimmied the door open.
"..."
On the kang bed, Li Cuihua and Zhao Hua were sleeping side by side. Standing beside them, Jiang Xun curled his lip at the sight.
He untied the hemp sack and dumped its contents right onto the kang. Instantly, a writhing mass of snakes slithered across the bedding.
Scalp-tingling terror. (The author's scalp is tingling—snakes are the absolute most terrifying things in this lifetime.)

In their sleep, Li Cuihua and Zhao Hua felt a cold, clammy sensation and groggily reached out to grab at it...
Then they snapped their eyes open. In the pitch-black night, they couldn't see a thing, but a dark shadow loomed right beside the kang.
"Ah! A ghost—"
A shrieking, miserable scream tore through the air. Jiang Xun wasn't in a hurry at all, watching them with detached composure.
Within a hundred-meter radius of where the two lived, there wasn't a single soul.
In the middle of the night, no one would hear them, and even if someone did, he wasn't afraid.

"Ah, snakes, there are snakes..." Li Cuihua trembled violently, terror-stricken as she hurled the snake in her hand away.
"Snakes!" Zhao Hua was scared out of his wits as well.
At that moment, Jiang Xun abruptly switched on a flashlight. The brightly colored, patterned snakes nearly frightened the two of them into fainting on the spot.
"Alright, these ones aren't venomous at all." Jiang Xun stated coldly.
Just as the two of them subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, he suddenly gave a casual flick to another snake he was holding by the tail. "The venomous ones are right here. Would you like me to send you on your way?"