Chapter 208: Tooth For A Tooth
Jiang Yihuan watched Su Yaoguang’s departing figure, her eyes full of jealousy.
What did she have to be so smug about?
It was easy to ruin a woman, and now that she was alone here, it would be even easier.
“Su Yaoguang, laugh all you want, you won’t be laughing for long.” Jiang Yihuan’s eyes were full of malice.
At night, Su Yaoguang was alone in the room, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
When Zhou Wangshu was here before, she thought the room was small, but now that she was alone, it suddenly felt very spacious, making her somewhat unaccustomed.
As she was about to get up to drink water, she suddenly heard a noise outside. She slowly walked to the window, and when she saw a sneaky figure flipping over the wall, she picked up the wooden stick nearby.
That man tiptoed into her room.
The moment he pushed the door open and entered, she swung the stick, banging it right on his neck.
That man didn’t even have time to scream; his neck hurt, and he fell to the ground.
“Mmm…” Huang Daniu opened his eyes and found himself tied up, with a rag stuffed in his mouth.
He looked in terror at Su Yaoguang sitting opposite him, holding a thick wooden stick.
Su Yaoguang smiled at him: “I can take the rag out of your mouth, but you have to promise not to shout or yell, or else just like this stick…”
With that, she directly performed a trick of breaking a rolling pin with her bare hands.
Huang Daniu nodded repeatedly.
“You sneaked in to steal silver?” After removing the rag from Huang Daniu’s mouth, Su Yaoguang got to the point.
Huang Daniu hesitated for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.
“You’re lying!” Su Yaoguang had seen something off from the moment he hesitated. “If you confess honestly, I’ll spare you. But if you’re not honest now, I’ll give you a good beating first until you tell the truth.”
As Su Yaoguang spoke, she picked up the vase nearby, tested its feel, then swung it toward Huang Daniu’s head.
“I’ll talk…” Huang Daniu screamed.
Su Yaoguang stopped her action and looked at him indifferently: “Speak! This is your only opportunity. If you don’t cherish it, don’t blame great-granddaughter for dealing with you.”
“A woman said you had money, and if I could tarnish your innocence, you’d have a handle on me afterward, and I’d be able to ask you for as much money as I want. I’m a bachelor who’s never had a woman. Seeing you were pretty and rich, I thought her idea was good, so I wanted to… I was wrong, great-granddaughter. If I’d known you were so formidable, I wouldn’t have dared.”
“The woman you mentioned, is she the woman next door?”
“I don’t know who the woman next door is. I was about to go home when she stopped me and said those things. She was wearing a veiled hat, so I couldn’t see her face clearly. But her figure was very slender and delicate, swaying her little waist as she walked. Though I couldn’t see under the veiled hat, it was obvious this woman was young and surely pretty.”
Su Yaoguang listened to this description and confirmed the guess in her heart.
She only had one archenemy here, and only one person vicious enough to want to tarnish her innocence. She just didn’t want to wrong someone and needed to confirm it again.
“I can spare you, but you need to help me with one thing. If you do it, this matter will be written off. If you don’t complete the task, I’ll make your life worse than death.”
“Female hero, you say.” Huang Daniu said with a mournful face.
Late at night, noisy voices arose. Several women came to the courtyard gate in front of Su Yaoguang’s place, hesitating whether to push the door open.
“Sisters-in-law and aunties, don’t hesitate. That thief went in and hasn’t come out. If we don’t think of a way to catch him soon, he might run away.”
Before, Zhou Wangshu had brought so many scholars under the pretext of catching thieves, making her and Xiao Yanci lose all face. Now she was paying back in kind, using the pretext of capturing the thief to catch her in adultery.
Su Yaoguang, when you become a slut that anyone can have, will there still be so many people admiring you, worshiping you, and talking about you endlessly?
That old bachelor should have succeeded by now, right?
Zhou Wangshu was still young and definitely hadn’t consummated with Su Yaoguang. Now she was sending her a man to let her taste what it’s like to be a woman; she should thank her properly.
Jiang Yihuan’s eyes were full of madness.
At this moment, the sound of a woman’s delicate panting and the creaking of a shaking bed came from inside.
In this late night, such sounds made the women’s faces change.
“Oh my god, could there really be a thief, and a flower thief at that? Zhou the scholar has entered the examination hall, leaving only his young wife at home. She mustn’t be bullied.”
“Is it a thief or a paramour? Listening to that sound, the woman seems to be enjoying it quite a bit. If it were a thief, she should be calling for help.” Another woman said with a face full of disgust.
The women around here were all female relatives of scholars. Recently, the couple Zhou Wangshu and Su Yaoguang had been very prominent, with many scholars praising them highly. If it was just praising Zhou Wangshu, of course there was no problem; that was camaraderie among scholars. But those men also praised Su Yaoguang, which inevitably made the female relatives feel jealous.
Whether it was a thief or a paramour depended on the female relatives’ attitude. Now everyone was hesitating, unsure whether to rush in.
Jiang Yihuan saw that those women didn’t dare to take the lead and secretly cursed them as useless. Since they wouldn’t, she would lead the way and fan the flames even higher.
“This won’t do; we can’t just stand by.” Jiang Yihuan said, then pushed open the courtyard gate.
The other women followed Jiang Yihuan and rushed in upon seeing this.
“Su younger sister, I’m here to save you…” Jiang Yihuan directly pushed open the room door.
When the room door was pushed open, the women who had been watching the show were stunned one by one upon seeing Su Yaoguang pushing the big bed.
Su Yaoguang looked at these people who had barged in in astonishment, blankly watching them: “What are you doing?”
One woman asked puzzledly: “What are you doing?”
“I wanted to move the bed a bit, so…” Su Yaoguang said, “It’s too stuffy tonight; I wanted to move the bed over here a little, right by the vent, so it’ll be much cooler.”
The several women: “…”
Su Yaoguang’s forehead was full of sweat, and seeing her panting heavily, she must have expended a lot of strength.
Jiang Yihuan hadn’t expected this scene. The unsightly picture she had imagined hadn’t appeared.
No, she watched Huang Daniu enter the room; that man was tall and strong, impossible to be no match for one woman. Right now, she should be under him.
Could he be hiding?
Jiang Yihuan strode in and pulled open the wardrobe.
“What are you doing?” Su Yaoguang said angrily, “We’re not close, are we? You come to my house in the middle of the night to rummage through my wardrobe; are you sick?”
“Since it’s a misunderstanding, why not leave? Instead you’re searching the wardrobe in someone’s room. You must really have some serious illness?” one woman said.
