Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

Yi Zhonghai and Yan Bugui had just slipped away.

The northwest wind, carrying snowflakes, slipped into the front yard through the crack in the door.

The blows landed on the faces of the guards standing watch outside the gate, but they remained as still as two iron towers.

"A no-go zone for spatial gravity..."

Zhang Huaimin silently pondered these words in his mind.

Just from the name, you know it's a powerful weapon.

Just as he was preparing to delve deeper into this newly unlocked advanced trait...

The system's powerful acoustic radar suddenly detected an extremely slight noise coming from the central courtyard.

That was the crunching sound of broken wooden wheels rolling on the snow.

It was accompanied by heavy breathing and deliberately lowered voices.

"Mom, slow down, the cart wheel is about to fall off..."

This was Qin Huairu's voice, filled with deep weariness and fear.

"Shut up! Push it now! If the soldiers see us at dawn, our whole family will have to go and keep the stags company!"

Jia Zhangshi lowered her voice, making it sound as unpleasant as an owl's.

Zhang Huaimin raised an eyebrow slightly.

What kind of mischief are these two, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, up to in the middle of the night?

He walked to the back window, gently parted a crack in the curtains, and looked out.

The corridor in the intermediate court was pitch black.

With the help of the reflection from the snow, two figures wrapped up like rice dumplings could be vaguely seen.

He was hunched over, pushing a dilapidated two-wheeled cart with a labored, labored effort.

On the cart, a small, dark mountain was piled up.

"thump."

When the cart reached the alleyway where the east wing and the central courtyard met, it suddenly stopped.

Jia Zhangshi, who was scouting ahead, saw guards standing on both sides of the east wing's main gate, holding steel guns.

Startled, his legs buckled and he collapsed onto his bottom in the snow.

Her right hand, with half a finger severed and wrapped in dirty gauze, was tightly clutching her chest as she gasped for breath.

"My goodness... that gun is still being held..."

Jia Zhangshi was trembling uncontrollably, as if she were being shaken by a leaf.

Ever since Banggeng was arrested and sent to a juvenile detention center, Liu Haizhong has been turned into a latrine cleaner.

The old woman became completely terrified.

She has nightmares every night.

She dreamt that the soldiers kicked open the broken door of the Jia family's house, pointed the dark muzzle of their guns at her forehead, and dragged her to a labor camp in Northwest China.

The more I think about it, the more afraid I become; the more afraid I become, the more guilty I feel.

She suddenly remembered that ever since Zhang Huaimin's father died.

She was used to being domineering in this courtyard and often ordered Banggeng to steal things from the Zhang family in the front yard.

Although they didn't steal any large items, they did manage to steal several dozen yuan worth of honeycomb briquettes for winter.

"Huai Ru..."

Jia Zhangshi grabbed Qin Huairu's trouser leg, and tears and snot instantly streamed down her face.

"That little ancestor is now a figure with connections to the heavens."

"What if one day he remembers that we stole his coal briquettes, and in a fit of anger..."

She dared not continue, and just kept trembling.

"Mom, what do you suggest we do?"

Qin Huairu was also terrified and turned pale.

She now truly understands what it means to be "at the mercy of others."

"Give it back! Give it all back to him!"

Jia Zhangshi gritted her teeth, as if she had made a tremendous decision.

"Not only must they pay it back, they must pay it back double!"

"Even if our family freezes to death in the dead of winter, we can't leave this weakness behind!"

then.

This led to the absurd scene of the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law pushing a cart to deliver coal briquettes in the middle of the night.

Jia Zhangshi took a deep breath and mustered her courage to get up from the ground.

She dared not approach the main entrance, so she went around to the back window of the east wing.

"Thump!"

Extremely decisive and efficient.

Jia Zhangshi's obese body, weighing over 150 pounds, knelt firmly on the snow.

Seeing this, Qin Huairu quickly knelt down beside her, not daring to utter a sound.

"Advisor Huaimin...my little darling...my little god!"

Jia Zhangshi deliberately lowered her hoarse voice, afraid of alerting the guards in front.

The voice carried seven parts terror and three parts pleading.

It was even more tragic than mourning.

"I'm kowtowing to you, ma'am!"

As she spoke, she kowtowed three times on the icy ground.

A red mark instantly appeared on my forehead.

"I was so blind and foolish before!"

"I shouldn't have taken your coal briquettes!"

While crying, Jia Zhangshi pointed to the cart behind her.

"Little fairy, look, I've taken the ones I had before, and the ration we just bought this month."

"I pushed them all back to you! I didn't dare keep a single one!"

"With interest, the return will be doubled!"

If the neighbors in the courtyard who had suffered at the hands of the Jia family saw this scene, they would probably burst out laughing on the spot.

Back in the day, when Madam Jia Zhang was throwing a tantrum and threatening to die in this courtyard, how arrogant and domineering she was!

They snatch houses, hurl insults, and throw tantrums—even Yi Zhonghai would have to back down from them.

What now?

For a few dozen yuan worthless honeycomb briquettes, he would run to someone's window in the middle of the night and kowtow and beg for mercy.

This is absolutely ridiculous!

Cause and effect are cyclical, and retribution is inevitable.

This is what it means to defeat magic with magic, to crush a rogue with absolute power!

"Please, little deity, accept this token of our goodwill, have mercy, and let the Jia family go without a second thought!"

"We will absolutely behave ourselves from now on and will never dare to have any bad intentions again!"

Qin Huairu, standing beside her, also wiped away her tears and said sadly, "Huaimin, your aunt is old and doesn't understand things. Please forgive her this time."

inside the house.

Zhang Huaimin stood behind the curtains, quietly watching this farce unfold.

A mocking sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.

What does it mean to bully the weak and fear the strong?

This is the most vivid illustration.

He neither opened the window nor responded to Jia Zhangshi's cries.

This is the kind of beast who would do anything to survive.

The best punishment is to ignore her.

She was left to live in perpetual fear and anxiety, never knowing when the sword of Damocles hanging over her head would fall.

"Brother Chen."

Zhang Huaimin turned around and called out softly to Chen Bing outside the door.

There are two stray cats outside the back window, calling out in mating mode. It's too noisy. Chase them away.

Chen Bing, standing outside the door, immediately understood.

"Yes, Consultant Zhang!"

Followed by.

A heavy, cold sound of military boots followed by the click of a rifle bolt being pulled back.

They quickly moved to flank the area towards the rear window.

outside the window.

Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu heard those familiar yet terrifying footsteps.

Terrified out of their wits.

"My God! The soldiers are here!"

Jia Zhangshi ignored the injury on her forehead and the coal briquettes that had been painstakingly pushed over.

Like a fat cat with its fur standing on end, she sprang up from the ground, grabbed Qin Huairu, and ran.

"Run! Run!"

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law stumbled and crawled back to the central courtyard in the darkness.

With a "bang," they slammed their own door shut.

I was hiding in the house, trembling with fear.

Listening to the chaotic footsteps fading away outside.

Zhang Huaimin ignored the cart of coal briquettes.

He sat back down on the kang (a heated brick bed) cross-legged.

Consciousness once again sank into the system space.

In the center of that panel that emitted a faint blue light.

A strange rune that emitted terrifying spatial fluctuations and seemed to distort the surrounding light.

It was quietly suspended there.

[Spatial Gravity Forbidden Zone Characteristics (To be integrated)]

"It's time to give this little courtyard one last security upgrade."

Zhang Huaimin looked at the rune, a slight smile playing on his lips.