The Little Life of a Big Landlord

Chapter 168 Subduing Demons

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"Look at that mink coat, it's made of ferret! Just the materials alone must have cost so much! I heard the design was created by a famous designer..."

"Well, it's silk. If it's real silk, it'll be worth a fortune..."

"In my opinion, a mink coat exudes a more sophisticated and grand presence..."

"Grand my foot! That's just coarse breathing. Only nouveau riche wear those kinds of clothes... I still think Hanfu is better. It makes you look so elegant..."

"A mink coat is nice..."

"Hanfu is good..."

Below, a group of students were making a ruckus. There were first-graders, second-graders, third-graders, and students from the review class. There were even a few teachers mixed in.

Amidst the clamor, the beauty contest ultimately failed to produce a result. Some said the mink coat was luxurious, while others said the Hanfu was elegant. In short, various opinions followed one after another, and no winner was ever determined. In fact, it wasn't that a winner couldn't be determined, but rather that no one had bothered to compile the opinions.

The beauty contest started off quite well, but then it went off in a mess. However, everyone was still in high spirits, especially after getting a deep impression of Hanfu. After all, Hanfu is not a mainstream modern clothing style; you can only see it in some wedding photography studios.

This outcome, which is not a result, is actually what Wang Yufang most hoped for. At the very least, it won't affect the relationship between classmates. Moreover, the beauty of Hanfu is truly reflected today, which Zhuo Mengfei has naturally seen as well. If Zhuo Mengfei can come to like Hanfu, then there is a great chance that the relationship between her and Li Xuefei will be eased. This is the biggest reason why she wants to compete with Zhuo Mengfei in beauty.

In the classroom, the afternoon preparatory bell had already rung for a while, and the students were all seated. Some were doing their homework, some were chatting, and some were resting on their desks. The teacher had also entered the classroom early and strolled slowly in the aisle, waiting for the class bell to ring so that she could begin teaching the students.

"Erfang, where did you buy this Hanfu?" Zhuo Mengfei had already folded and put away her mink coat, and was wearing her school uniform over her evening dress. She asked Wang Yufang, who sat behind her, very seriously.

"There's a clothing company in Zhengjia Village. This clothing company has only two shareholders: Brother Yang and Sister Liu, the village chief of Zhengjia Village. Sister Liu is also the tailor of this clothing company. This Hanfu I'm wearing was made by Sister Liu herself," Wang Yufang said.

"Hey, what do you want? Let me tell you, a worthless person like you doesn't deserve to wear Hanfu at all..." Li Xuefei walked over at some point, pointed at Zhuo Mengfei's nose, and said.

Zhuo Mengfei rolled her eyes at the time, but she really didn't intend to argue with Li Xuefei now. She now felt that maybe being a Han chauvinist wasn't so bad. At least she would have a deep understanding of Han Chinese clothing. If she became a Han chauvinist one day, it would definitely be because of Hanfu. Although she didn't want to admit it, that was the truth. She was already captivated by Hanfu the moment she first saw it.

"Xuefei, don't talk nonsense..." Wang Yufang glared at Li Xuefei. She was trying so hard to ease the tension between them, but Li Xuefei had no sense at all and had to speak so rudely.

"Hmph..." Li Xuefei hummed twice from her throat, turned her head away, and stopped looking at Zhuo Mengfei.

"Mengfei, if you want to buy one, I'll take you to Zhengjia Village to find Aunt Liu during winter break. You can ask for any style or price you want, and Aunt Liu will definitely satisfy you..." Wang Yufang breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Li Xuefei was quite accommodating.

"Really???" A glimmer of hope flashed in Zhuo Mengfei's eyes.

"Of course it's true. Aunt Liu's skillful hands are the most famous in the surrounding area..." Wang Yufang said.

"Okay, let's go to Zhengjia Village this winter vacation..." A determined look flashed in Zhuo Mengfei's eyes.

Jingle Bell……

An electronic bell rang, signaling the start of class. The teacher strode to the podium: "Alright, everyone quiet down. If you have anything to say, say it after class. Let's begin now. Take out the worksheets we handed out yesterday..."

In the pitch-black cave, two colorful birds lay quietly on their eggs, incubating their chicks. Although they had degenerated into egg-laying birds, they still had an instinct to identify which of their eggs were fertilized before laying them in the nest and incubating them.

"Hmph, Ms. Gu, are you hungry?" Wei Qingqing came to the cave again to visit Gu Pan.

Gu Pan sat cross-legged on the ground, her beautiful body shivering from the cold. Her lower abdomen was rumbling, and she was unusually listless. In just half a day, she seemed to have lost her soul.

Upon hearing Wei Qingqing's voice, Gu Pan slightly raised her eyelids, a glimmer of light appearing in her previously empty eyes: "I'm hungry, I'm so hungry..."

"Hungry???" Wei Qingqing smiled slightly.

"As long as you can give me food, I'll do anything you ask..." Gu Pan said pitifully.

"You'll do whatever I tell you to do???" Wei Qingqing's lips curled into a smile.

"Yes...yes...I, I can, I can tell you about things in the organization, things you definitely want to know..." Gu Pan said pitifully.

"Hehe, to be honest, Ms. Gu, I have absolutely no interest in the organization you mentioned. The reason I'm disciplining you like this is actually very simple: I just don't like you..." Wei Qingqing giggled, then her face turned cold. "You dare to have designs on my husband? I'm sure you can accept that reason, right?"

"I...I didn't..." Gu Pan's pale rebuttal was utterly unconvincing.

"Hmph..." Wei Qingqing sneered, crossing her arms. "Since I've said it like that, you should be smart and admit it... Do you know why you're so hungry???"

"Why???" Gu Pan's eyes turned green as soon as Wei Qingqing mentioned "hunger".

"Why? Hmph, because I smeared a herb on the surface of the fruit you ate. This herb, if taken in moderation, can cure loss of appetite. However, if taken in excess, it will act like a drug, making you crave food indefinitely. You'll feel like your stomach is a bottomless pit, never full... Unfortunately, I was afraid you wouldn't have an appetite, so I put a little too much on the fruit I gave you. I'm sorry to tell you, from now on, you'll have to endure hunger forever..." Wei Qingqing sneered.

"You're so cruel..." Gu Pan's face turned pale upon hearing this. She was terrified. In the past half day, she had personally experienced what it was like to be hungry, and it was not a pleasant feeling at all.

"How ruthless? I'm just a woman, an ordinary woman. I don't want my husband to be coveted by others, especially by someone with malicious intentions..." Wei Qingqing's expression was cold and stern.

Gu Pan was terrified by Wei Qingqing's gaze. She never expected that this seemingly ordinary woman, who had no outstanding features except for her beauty, would have such ruthless methods and such a cruel heart.

"Scared, aren't you???" Wei Qingqing sneered as she looked down at Gu Pan from her high position.

Gu Pan nodded with a look of fear on her face.

"It's good that you know fear..." Wei Qingqing smiled slightly. "Knowing fear means you're not beyond redemption. I'm afraid you'll become a suicide squad member, the kind who disregards life and death. Such people are difficult to train, and there's no fun in training them..."

From the moment Gu Pan used that butcher knife to kill herself instead of committing suicide in the morning, Wei Qingqing knew that Gu Pan was definitely not the kind of person who was indifferent to death and had no desires.

Looking into Wei Qingqing's eyes, Gu Pan became even more frightened, because she saw in Wei Qingqing's eyes the anger of an ordinary woman. This kind of anger did not need to consider any national affairs or international repercussions; it was just a very ordinary, very ordinary woman's anger.

Moreover, his disappearance does not rise to the level of a national event, and his true identity will not cause any international impact.

How ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. Gu Pan felt so ridiculous at this moment. She had always thought of herself as a hero, a hero of her nation, a hero of her country, but she had been utterly and utterly defeated by an ordinary woman.

Wei Qingqing saw the self-mockery in Gu Pan's eyes and became even more aggressive, asking sarcastically, "Tell me, do you want to die?"

"I don't want to... I don't want to die..." Under Wei Qingqing's intense gaze, Gu Pan involuntarily lowered her head. When she heard Wei Qingqing's question, she couldn't help but shiver. When she raised her head again, her face was already covered in tears.

Hunger and intimidation had nearly driven her to madness.

"That's good, that's good. As long as you don't want to die, I won't let you die. Our family may not have much else, but we have plenty of food. I'll raise you like a pet..." Wei Qingqing nodded slightly, straightened up, and turned to walk out of the cave.

Wei Qingqing's actions were merely aimed at crippling Gu Pan's already fragile spirit. She wanted to strike Gu Pan hard, shatter her beliefs completely, and then mold a Gu Pan into the form she needed.

Wei Qingqing exited through the exit beneath the small wooden house. The small wooden house already contained a large amount of food, which was preserved by freezing and was not at all worried about rotting or spoiling.

"Hehe, you're back???" Wei Qingqing had just crawled out of the wooden house when a voice rang in her ear, startling her.

"Sister Liu, what are you doing..." Wei Qingqing was surprised to find herself caught red-handed by Sister Liu after crawling out of the mouse hole, and she couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

"Hehe, I just took a bath in your hot spring pool, and then came here to do this work..." Aunt Liu had a half-smile on her face, "After all, it's warmer here..."

"Hehe, that's true..." Wei Qingqing smiled awkwardly.

"Hehe, who knew I'd witness such a spectacle of rats scurrying into their holes..." Aunt Liu said with a mocking expression.

"Sister Liu, you..." Wei Qingqing glared at Sister Liu with a hint of anger, "You're so mean..."

"Tell me, where does that hole lead down to?" Aunt Liu raised her head and pointed to the deep hole with her pointed chin.

"You're as cunning as a monkey! Where's my mom???" Wei Qingqing didn't answer Liu Sao's question, but instead asked.

"After all, the child in my belly is Yang Ming's. Your mother-in-law is also my mother-in-law, so I naturally can't neglect her. She just left a little while ago. She knows that you were born in the Year of the Monkey and are naturally clever and lively, so she asked me to keep an eye on you and not let you run around, lest you disturb the fetus..." Aunt Liu said.

"Oh my god..." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes. She really didn't expect her mother-in-law to evaluate her like that.

Wei Qingqing had become somewhat accustomed to Liu Sao's claim that the child in her womb was Yang Ming's, and was almost too lazy to bother with it.

"I agree. I know best how lazy you are, Wei Qingqing. How could you possibly be associated with monkeys? If you say you have a pig-like nature, I would quite agree..." Aunt Liu laughed.

"Just say you want a beating. I'm telling you again, I'm just as strong as you now. If you dare to bully me again, I won't be polite to you." Wei Qingqing's face turned red with anger as she glared at Aunt Liu.

"Alright, alright, I'm not going to argue with you anymore. I didn't come here to spy on you, you know," Aunt Liu said, straightening her expression. "Your husband just called and asked you to clean up the west room of your house. Your ex-uncle and his wife are very likely to come back for the New Year. Oh, and he also asked you to tell your mother-in-law to clean up their west room as well. If your ex-uncle and his wife don't want to live in your house, they can move to your mother-in-law's house in Liu Family Village."

"You told my mom???" Wei Qingqing sat cross-legged on the floor, picked up a bunch of grapes, and started eating.

"No, Mom just left, and Yang Ming called right after," said Aunt Liu.

"I said, can you please stop calling me 'our mom'? That's my mom, my mother-in-law..." Wei Qingqing said angrily.

"What's the difference? We both share the same husband. Your husband is my husband, and your mother-in-law is my mother-in-law too!" Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"My husband is my husband alone, and my mother-in-law is also my mother-in-law alone, because my husband is an only child..." Wei Qingqing said.

"Yes, yes, it's yours..." Aunt Liu said with a sour face.

Wei Qingqing ignored her, glanced at Liu Sao, grinned, and said, "That girl Gu Pan wanted to compete with me for Yang Ming. Do you know what happened to her now???"

"What? Are you threatening me??" Aunt Liu pouted. "Looks like I'll have to have my daughter curry favor with you, because who knows, one day you might lock me up..."

"Lock her up?" Wei Qingqing raised an eyebrow, feigning disdain. "You're dreaming. Gu Pan isn't wearing a single piece of clothing right now, she's practically naked. Hmph, you dare to seduce my husband? I'll strip you naked and lock you up too, then let Yang Ming teach you a lesson..."

Wei Qingqing's words were rather explicit, and Liu Sao felt a surge of heat in her heart. If she were naked and facing Yang Ming... just thinking about that scene made Liu Sao feel like her bones were on fire.

"Don't worry, at most I'll just strip you naked and lock you up. You think you can take advantage of my husband? Dream on..." Wei Qingqing rolled her eyes when she saw that Aunt Liu's face had turned red.

"You filthy wretch, I see you rolling your eyes all the time, you'd better watch out and go blind..." As soon as Wei Qingqing said this, Aunt Liu's face turned bright red. "If you want to lock me up, fine, strip me naked, no problem, but you have to let Yang Ming watch me, otherwise I won't feel safe..."

"If you feel safe, I won't feel at ease..." Wei Qingqing looked at Aunt Liu with disdain. "It's not that I don't trust Yang Ming, it's that I don't trust you. Who knows, you might suddenly become a beast and force yourself on Yang Ming..."

"Hehehe, don't worry, as long as you let me and Yang Ming be in the same room, I guarantee that when you go in, Yang Ming will be completely naked, and when you come out, he will be completely naked as well. I'll make sure he doesn't lose a single hair..." Aunt Liu said with a smile.

"Yes, not a single hair will be missing. I might even be able to pick a few strands off his clothes..." Wei Qingqing was so angry she didn't know what to say.

"Hehe..." Aunt Liu shook her head with a smile and said nothing more. If she said anything more, even if Wei Qingqing knew it was a joke, she would get angry.

"You seem so proper, but deep down you're quite the flirt..." Wei Qingqing said, sizing up Liu Sao as she ate grapes.

"What you're saying is all nonsense. I'm a normal woman. Even though I'm a widow, you can't expect me to be unable to even think about men, can you?" Aunt Liu spoke the truth.

"Sister Liu, if I agree to you having a relationship with Yang Ming, will you two actually have a relationship?" Wei Qingqing's question was rather sharp.

hiss……

Aunt Liu gasped in shock; it turned out she had accidentally pricked her hand with a needle.

"..." Wei Qingqing stared at Liu Sao, her face gradually darkening. This Liu Sao really did have some thoughts about her husband.

Aunt Liu didn't even look at Wei Qingqing. She was clearly stunned by Wei Qingqing's words, her eyes unfocused, as if she were in a trance.

After a long while, Aunt Liu came to her senses and continued with her work.

"You haven't answered my question yet..." Wei Qingqing asked.

"No..." Aunt Liu said.

"Why are you so certain in your answer? Does my husband not meet your standards?" Wei Qingqing was puzzled this time.

"No, that's not it. Yang Ming may seem unremarkable, but once you get to know him, he can definitely make any woman's heart flutter, and I'm no exception. However, I am, after all, a widow. A widow naturally has to endure more than an ordinary woman. Compared to having a physical relationship, what you care about more is your image in his eyes. Although you are a widow, you still have your chastity and can be considered pure and innocent. But..." But what? Aunt Liu didn't say, but Wei Qingqing understood. It meant that once she lost her chastity, she wouldn't have the right to joke and play around with them without any restraint. She would definitely feel inferior to them, whether in front of Yang Ming or Wei Qingqing, and would unconsciously play the role of a concubine.

However, Mrs. Liu thought again that if she could find a man to rely on wholeheartedly, it wouldn't be a bad thing... Deep down, every woman has a desire to be protected, and always wants an absolutely strong man to dominate her heart. Being protected by a powerful man is also a kind of happiness, isn't it?

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