Chapter 2649 - 1524_2

She hadn’t even bothered to study it.

No matter how malicious someone might be in broad daylight, they still wouldn’t dare pull any tricks out in the open. Nighttime was a different story.

Maybe the news about Ding Ning selling her job and cashing in on the pension money hadn’t spread yet. The people eyeing her house and her job were only making little moves for now.

"Ding Ning, are you going to work and coming back? You’re always going out alone to buy groceries and then going to work, that’s so tiring. How about Auntie introduces you to a young lad?"

"I’m just buying groceries, it’s not that tiring. I’m not considering that for the time being."

Ding Ning could only turn her down tactfully.

The neighbors she ran into now, plus those aunties she knew, the way they sized her up and tried to play matchmaker—none of them were even professional at it.

Hearing their chatter, Ding Ning walked even faster. Being treated like prey gave her a mixed, complicated feeling.

She’d known them for many years, and she knew exactly what kind of people they were.

Ding Ning finally made it home and felt a bit glad that the male and female leads had diarrhea so badly today they were too embarrassed to show their faces in the family compound!

That whole scene in the morning, by the time it wrapped up and Ding Ning got back, they’d already taken medicine, stabilized a bit, and were wiped out from all the running to the toilet.

Of course, after taking the medicine the result was that they had to sleep more.

On her way back, aside from people greeting her as she passed, Ding Ning also heard some other comments.

The whole compound’s "celebrities" had been gathered and put on display, so naturally people were talking—she’d given that Scumbag Man and that cheap woman a little punishment, and the two of them were having a miserable day.

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Once back home, Ding Ning put the vegetables and eggs from the basket into the courtyard kitchen. Then she took some food from the courtyard kitchen, had a taste, and went back to her room to continue cultivating.

She was already in seclusion; she’d decided that whoever came to look for her now, she wouldn’t go out.

If they came with good intentions, she’d chat a bit. If they had ulterior motives, she’d give them a little laxative.

The priority targets, of course, were the Scumbag Man and the cheap woman. Those two focal-point scumbags, with their minds and bodies out of commission, had their parents making the rounds for them—and those two elders would get hit the same way.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan and the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua had stunk up the entire compound in the morning, farting nonstop, and not just farting—reeking—and spending the whole day running to the toilet.

Then the diarrhea left their legs weak. They went to the service station to get anti-diarrhea medicine, but it didn’t help much.

They were still so weak from the runs that even after taking the medicine, things didn’t improve. In the end they had no choice but to go to the hospital.

It was still noon when their parents saw how bad they looked and took them to the hospital for an examination.

Both kids with diarrhea, of course the parents were puzzled. The two of them hadn’t eaten anything out of the ordinary, hadn’t eaten anything strange—so how could they both have diarrhea?

And they’d heard the neighbors gossiping, smelled the stench themselves.

They naturally wouldn’t despise their own children, but after hearing the comments from others, their faces were ugly. They couldn’t really curse anyone out either.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan and the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua, once their stomachs eased up a bit in the afternoon, just stayed home to rest, not daring to go out.

But that talisman, she’d thrown it away at the hospital, flinging it in anger.

Even though the Peace and Blessing Talisman didn’t contain any fragments of the space, it had been nourished in the Spiritual Energy of the space for a while, so it did have a certain health-tonic effect.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan only stopped having diarrhea in the afternoon.

The Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua, maybe thanks to his protagonist halo, also didn’t need to be hospitalized.

But the two of them still looked awful, sickly and worn out, which made the two elders at home worry. The two elders were worried but didn’t dare take too much more time off, since they’d already taken a lot of leave.

They couldn’t exactly say, "Our kids have diarrhea, so we’re taking leave," could they?

It wasn’t some serious illness.

The Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua had a dream while sleeping, where Ding Ning got into university—into the same university as him—and Ding Ning also had a job and pension money.

Her life afterward went pretty well. The Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua fell deeply in love with Ding Ning, pursued her, and got her.

And he gave the job to the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan, secretly enjoying the blessing of two women with her on the side.

After they graduated from university, the two had money, and since they were in the provincial capital with jobs and had bought a place,

they didn’t bring the whole family over, but one wife in the provincial capital, one wife back in the county—they were living very comfortably.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan was a bit older, and even got pregnant before marriage. Later they sold off the job and brought her to the provincial capital, even renting an apartment.

The provincial capital then became two households for them. Their parents aged, but the two properties they had ended up bringing in a lot of cash thanks to demolition payouts.

In the dream, the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua got a ton of money and felt like he’d really made it, laughing out loud in his sleep.

Separated by a wall, the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan also had a dream, which felt exactly like the premonitions she’d had before.

She obtained a space with a Spiritual Spring from the talisman hanging on Ding Ning’s neck. It was a peace charm, and once she opened the space, the Spiritual Spring Water made her beautiful. Later she used this spring water to make handmade cosmetics to sell, opened a beauty salon, and earned a lot of money.

She also married the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua, managed to get into university, and with money and the space, they had a house in the provincial capital.

Her life afterward was very happy—kids, career, the whole package.

As for Ding Ning, even though she "married" his older brother, it was nothing more than a fake marriage.

They got a fake marriage certificate with no legal protection at all.

And the two of them flew off together and rarely came back to this county.

In the end, Ding Ning became too much of an eyesore, and with the house here about to be demolished, they didn’t want her getting any demolition compensation.

So they plotted and got Ding Ning killed.

In this dream, the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan also laughed, a blissful laugh.

Then she was jolted awake by Mr. Xiao and Mrs. Xiao coming home from work!

They heard their kids laughing in their room and had no idea what they were laughing about.

They knocked on the door of the two siblings and asked about their health.

Mrs. Xiao also felt that if the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan, this adopted daughter, was feeling better, she ought to come out and help cook.

Day in, day out, with no job, always some issue going on. Mrs. Xiao had to cook after work, still run around doing chores—it was really exhausting.

The man had it a bit easier; he didn’t have to cook or do the laundry.

There were still some clothes at home, dirty clothes that hadn’t been washed yet.

With the kids having diarrhea these past two days, they’d gotten the clothes filthy and stinky too.

Back in reality, the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua and the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan, woken by their parents’ knocking, were a bit dazed.

Because the dream had been too blissful, they felt like they’d lived many years in it.

Now waking up again in this cramped little room, on this small lousy bed, they felt confused.

Afterward, they started recalling the scenes in the dream and comparing them with reality.

The Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua hardened his resolve again in his heart: he had to win Ding Ning over and get her house and her pension money entirely into his hands.

As for the person herself, she’d belong to him too, and of course he’d be able to get her job allocated elsewhere as needed.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan had different thoughts. Her mind was turning over the scenes in the dream—it had felt too real. Could that Talismans really contain a space?

But what she tried in the dream was exactly the same as what she’d tried in reality—she could obtain the space in the dream, so why not in reality?

That was when she remembered she’d thrown that peace charm into the hospital trash can.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan started suspecting: did Ding Ning already know that the peace charm contained a space and had already obtained it?

When they swapped, the peace charm she got had already been contracted by someone, and the space was no longer usable.

With that suspicion, she was distracted all evening while helping her adoptive mother cook and eating dinner, her mind elsewhere.

The others just assumed the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan still wasn’t feeling well and didn’t ask much.

Asking meant spending money.

The Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua was a bit more attentive; later that night he quietly asked the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan about it.

The cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan, faced with this gentle "big brother," couldn’t hold it in and finally told him the secret on her mind—the secret from the dream.

After hearing the secret the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan described, the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua had his doubts about whether it could be real.

At first he just assumed the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan was dreaming and that none of it could exist in reality.

But then he remembered how the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan had had Koi Carp Luck many times before—how what she wanted and certain hunches tended to be spot on.

So the Scumbag Man Xiao Jianhua said, "Then why don’t you try contracting your own Peace Pendant, see if you can contract it? See if there’s a space?"

After hearing her brother’s words, something she’d never tried before, the cheap woman Xiao Yuhuan decided to give it a shot. She took a needle, pricked her fingertip, and smeared the blood onto the Peace Pendant at her neck.