From Folly to Fortune：I Rewrite My Life After Rebirth!-Chapter 817 - 813: Predatory Gazes (Second Update)
The crowd followed the direction Mrs. Lin pointed and went after Mu Danyan.
Mu Danyan was terrified, fleeing in a panic without choosing a path, eventually reaching the third branch’s toilet.
The voices shouting "catch the thief" grew closer and closer, and were about to break through the toilet.
What Mu Danyan did wasn’t honorable; if caught, he would surely be soaked in a pig cage.
Thinking quickly, Mu Danyan jumped into the cesspit, enduring the stench, and plunged headfirst into the muck.
The crowd searching for the thief flashed their torches around the toilet, didn’t see anyone, and then left.
When Mu Danyan rose from the cesspit, he was entirely covered in filth, smelling foul beyond belief.
Fortunately, he wasn’t caught.
Mu Danyan thought with relief.
Unable to catch the thief, everyone resigned themselves to doing their own thing. After a night’s chaos, Mu Dalan was utterly exhausted. He returned to his room, cut open his finger with a knife on a silk handkerchief, and fell asleep holding Huang Bita.
The next day, the people from the third branch were awakened by a sharp scream from Yuanbao.
He pointed at the toilet, crying mournfully to Mu Shuangshuang, "Sister Shuangshuang, your toilet was blown up!"
Mu Shuangshuang’s hand, wrapped in a quilt, twitched, almost dropping the quilt.
Kids from farm households don’t have many entertainment projects; the stuff everyone plays with is pretty primitive.
Spinning tops, catching crickets, the most famous being blasting cow dung and such.
Whenever there’s a red or white event, there will always be little ones scavenging the unfinished firecrackers outside the courtyard.
Everyone would bundle the firecrackers together to blow up small ditches or directly in cow dung, usually scattering dung far and wide.
But blowing up someone’s toilet, this was the first time Mu Shuangshuang saw that.
She went into the house to change her jacket, following Yuanbao into the toilet.
Once inside, she was nearly overwhelmed by the stench.
The ground was covered with that stuff, spreading quite a distance, looking nothing like firecracker damage, more like someone jumped into the toilet and crawled out afterward.
The more she thought, the more Mu Shuangshuang believed this was likely.
But cleaning up was problematic; her toilet was made of mud, without flushing, everything had to be shoveled out.
With no one else around, Mu Shuangshuang had to do it herself. When the work was done, she was utterly worn out.
Faced with such hard labor, Mu Shuangshuang naturally wanted to find out who had troubled her.
Finally, from several guests, she learned a thief was around last night.
Right outside the door of Mu Dalan and Huang Bita.
Upon hearing this, Mu Shuangshuang immediately understood. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
No thief, must be her own family eavesdropping.
If it were a real thief, they’d surely steal from Old Mrs. Mu’s room. All the bride price was kept by Old Mrs. Mu. Outside her room, there’s something to gain, but outside others’ rooms forget it.
Mu Shuangshuang might listen to this herself, but couldn’t tell others.
Or she’d invite trouble, and bring trouble to Mu Dalan as well.
Forget it, she decided to change clothes and go to town with Yuan Feng to check out the restaurant, and tidy the courtyard a bit.
Changing clothes, Mu Shuangshuang found Lu Yuanfeng who had arrived, helping Yu Si Niang cook breakfast. Mu Shuangshuang discussed her thoughts with Lu Yuanfeng, and he immediately nodded.
He said, "Shuangshuang, should we invite Aunt and Uncle to town to have a look? The restaurant was leased; they haven’t seen it, nor the courtyard."
Mu Shuangshuang thought it was right, the courtyard had been cleaned a bit a few days ago but inside it remained in chaos; more hands would speed up the cleanup.
"Why not bring the three kids along, borrow a cow cart, what do you think?"
Lu Yuanfeng naturally agreed, as usual going to borrow a cow from Wang Fugui’s house. Speaking of which, Wang Fugui lay on the bed for over a month now, growing thinner, and daily ginseng soup was forced down by Fu Gui Niang.
Though not dead, he was hardly different from being dead.
The Wang Family’s cousin returned home after the incident and never appeared in Er Gui Village again.
Only Old Man Wang and Old Mrs. Wang stayed with their son, watching over the house. Even the fields would have been desolate without the long-term worker.
Lu Yuanfeng and Mu Shuangshuang had no sympathy for Wang Fugui, whose heart was too wicked, causing harm to many. Now turning into a vegetable was heaven’s retribution.
Once the cow was borrowed, the family was set to head to town but hadn’t left the courtyard before Mu Dalan stopped them.
He asked, "Shuangshuang, may I join you?"
After getting married, Mu Dalan no longer roamed far alone. Now he wanted to save some time to spend with Huang Bita.
"Hurry up and get on!" Mu Shuangshuang pointed to a spot beside her. The whole group set off for town.
As soon as Mu Dalan left, Mrs. Lin approached like a cat who stole fish, and knocked vigorously on Mu Dalan’s door.
"Wake up, wake up, the sun’s already at mid-morning, why are you still sleeping, you lazy woman?" Mrs. Lin’s abrasive voice echoed through the Old Mu Family.
They had just finished breakfast; relatives and neighbors had already left.
Only the Old Mu Family remained.
Mrs. Lin became even more unabashed in her actions.
Huang Bita groggily awoke, opening the door in a daze, only to have a bucket of cold water thrown onto her face.
In the winter, water felt like needles piercing her face, bringing her to instant awareness.
Seeing Mrs. Lin, she didn’t dare refute.
"I told you yesterday, rise with the first rooster crow, what? Do you treat my words like the wind?" Mrs. Lin berated.
"Mother, I did get up this morning, but..." Huang Bita began to explain but was interrupted by Mrs. Lin.
"But what? You little fox, don’t tell me it was my son who stopped you from getting up. I’m warning you, my son is young; if you dare keep him from doing shameless things all day, I’ll peel off your fox skin and parade you through the village, soaked in a pig cage!"
"Disgusting little witch!" Mrs. Lin finished, rudely bumping Huang Bita to the floor, striding to the kang bed of Huang Bita and Mu Dalan, examining the bloodstains on the white fabric. Her face finally relaxed slightly.
"Good thing, you’re not used goods someone else touched, or I’d make you pay dearly!"
With those words, Mrs. Lin strutted out of Huang Bita’s room like a peacock.
Each of Mrs. Lin’s words felt like sharp knives leaving Huang Bita bleeding all over.
She closed the door, wanting to cry but not daring.
After a while, Mrs. Lin’s shout echoed from the courtyard.
"Why are you still in the room, should I as the mother-in-law do the wife’s work? Get out!"
