After reincarnation, attack as a female imp!

"Eh!"

Qin Zhixin hurried to the nearby fruit shop and bought a bunch of grapes. She couldn't bear to buy imported grapes; they were expensive, had hard skin, and, while they might look better, offered no value for money. As the saying goes, they were like donkey dung eggs with a shiny surface. She bought local Hongsong Village grapes. It was mid-September, the perfect time for local grapes to ripen, and they were large and sweet.

She had no idea what kind of grapes they were. Hongsong Village seemed to sell all sorts of grapes, and they were all incredibly cheap. A bunch weighing over two pounds was only a little over five yuan, and the owner generously gave her the change. The purple-black grapes were plump like gemstones. Holding the bag of grapes, she couldn't help but salivate at the thought of their sweet and sour flavor.

Qin Zhixin went to buy two more steamed buns for a total of thirty yuan. The Laojiao steamed buns were fifty cents each, too big to hold in one hand. The dough was slightly yellow, and it tasted faintly of alcohol. She decided to slice them up and stuff them into pig ears tonight.

Yang Qichao also bought some cooked food: a serving of Fuqi Feipian (Five-Hearted Lung Slices) and a whole roast goose, totaling over a hundred yuan. Qin Zhixin went to Old Gao to get some ears and edamame, and Yang Qichao just happened to come out with two large boxes of cooked food.

Qin Zhixin got into the car with a smile and helped carry the things like a lackey.

After returning home, Qin Zhixin hurried to the sink to look at the crabs without even having time to change her clothes.

A large red bucket sat in the sink, and as soon as I approached it, the stench of hairy crabs filled it with twelve crabs, all six taels (150g) female, their shells dark blue, still bubbling. They were all tied up with fine red hemp rope.

These were all delivered by my uncle Tang Longlong this afternoon. He said these are real Yangcheng Lake hairy crabs, not fake ones like washed crabs.

Tang Yuyu told me on WeChat that she was only allowed to eat two crabs at night and not to overeat. Crabs are cold in nature, and eating too many at once can easily cause stomachaches.

Tang Yuyu still won’t come back tonight.

Even though Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon, Tang Yuyu still can't let go of her shop, and the late-night snack shop will not close until tomorrow.

During the day at school, Qin Zhixin wanted to eat hairy crabs just by hearing the word "hairy crab".

I was about to leave school when I saw the WeChat message which was good news.

My uncle said they were Yangcheng Lake crabs, so they were definitely Yangcheng Lake crabs. Tang Longlong was working at the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, generally responsible for aquatic disease prevention. Who would lie to the officials in charge? Even if an old man was too long to live, this wasn't the way to end his life.

The roe of ordinary hairy crabs is already delicious enough, but Yangcheng Lake is well-known, and the hairy crabs there are so delicious that they will make you drop your jaw.

Seeing the twelve crabs in the bucket, Qin Zhixin was so greedy that her mouth was watering.

This is only the first night of the holiday, and there will be big dinners tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. She will eat so much that her belly will be full this Mid-Autumn Festival.

Qin Zhixin was the type who felt unfazed by favoritism. Other girls wouldn't dare indulge in eating like her. If they really wanted to emulate her eating habits, a BMI over 25 would probably be just the beginning. She first used her chopsticks to tease the bubbling crab for a while. The bucket was a bit high, so she reached in and took one out.

She poked its eyes with chopsticks, watching them shrink inwards. She giggled happily, threw the chopsticks into the sink, and took out another crab from the bucket. She weighed the crabs in each hand, hesitating for a moment. She had originally thought of eating only two, but then she felt that two was a little too little.

She felt that she could eat at least six, but Tang Yuyu said that she could only eat two at a time.

Licking her rosy lips, she decided to catch two more crabs to reconcile her opinion with her mother's.

[Girl, just eat two for your own good measure. You won't feel anything when you eat this, but after you eat it, you'll definitely have a stomachache later in the night.]

Qin Zhixin was also unhappy when she heard this, and her lips pouted.

[Don't talk nonsense, I've never had a stomachache! ]

The system was amused. What was the point of this damn girl arguing with him without even considering the facts?

[Okay, you're being stubborn, huh? Earlier this year, in April, you craved scallops and ate over a pound in one sitting. I told you to eat less, but you wouldn't listen. That night, you had a stomachache and had to go to the hospital. You were on an IV for two days. During the Lunar New Year holidays, you stole the tribute fruit and milk from the incense stand at the Qinde Temple in my hometown. I told you the milk was expired, but you wouldn't listen. And...]

[Stop talking, just eat two, it's okay if I don't take more! ]

Qin Zhixin was also furious when she heard this, her face flushed with shame. Although this damn girl only remembered to eat but not to be beaten, she would still be embarrassed when these things were revealed.

Let me remind you first, we're having big meals tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You have a choice now: either eat four crabs tonight and then go to the hospital with a stomachache in the middle of the night, and then you'll miss two days of big meals. Or, be obedient and only eat two crabs, and then have big meals tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. You don't want to be in the hospital on an IV, do you?

Qin Zhixin avoided her gaze.

After all, the system has watched her grow up, and it knows this girl's temperament very well. Threats to her about food, drink and entertainment are always the most effective.

Qin Zhixin first put the two hairy crabs back into the bucket, but after thinking about it, she felt uneasy and put another one back. She decided to eat only one hairy crab today, after all, there was also a cold dish.

【Hehe, I listen to you! 】

The girl's expression was so erratic that she could change at any moment. She had just been stubborn, and now she was acting like a lackey. Qin Zhixin took the steamer to boil water, happily cut a piece of ginger, turned the crab upside down, and covered the crab's back with the ginger slices.

While the crabs were steaming, she washed the grapes and put them in a large soup bowl.

She decided to overturn her previous decision to eat out the previous night, which hadn't been "mature" enough. Tonight, she decided to eat only a pig's ear, a bunch of grapes, a plate of edamame, and a hairy crab. She washed the grapes and pig's ear and brought them to her computer desk. The crab would take a while to steam, so she turned on her computer first.

When Qin Zhixin saw Mu Zigou, who was using the account of "Hunyuan Dachu", she saw him asking how to deal with a dead pig weighing 150 kilograms.

Chapter 33: Destroying the Corpse

September 17, 2013, near Tangshan, Jiangning District, Nanling City.

The sky was overcast, the air pressure was low, and the heat was so stuffy that it made people feel uncomfortable.

Tangshan has long been largely undeveloped, with two intercity highways running through it, and more of it a maze of sparse dirt roads. A few years ago, there were rumors of wild men living here. While the wild man story was certainly false, there were other rumors, such as one about an elderly person in someone's family losing their mind, wandering into the wilds near Tangshan, and never returning.

Li Feifei did not comment on this rumor. It may be true or false. If the elderly person suddenly disappeared, who can tell whether he died on his own or at the hands of his family?

There is also a mountain next to his hometown of Qindao in Shandong Province, but it is a lonely one with a bare top like a mound. During holidays, a group of people playing off-road vehicles always gather there. They play in a dirt pit for a whole day, and those who can't climb up have to be pulled out of the mud pit with a trailer.

It's impossible for such a rotten mountain to produce rumors of elderly people or children getting lost. The most likely thing is that someone broke the axle of a car while playing in it and was laughed at by others.

Fei-Fei Li has always believed that she is a good person in the traditional sense.

Although he frequently browsed inappropriate content and enjoyed making jokes about regional discrimination, he firmly believed he was a traditional man. Born into a small merchant family, he had served in the military, had a respectable education, and was not bad looking—a typical handsome young man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He had a master's degree and passed the civil service exam on his first try. Next month, he would report to the Nanling City Agriculture and Forestry Bureau, promising a stable job.

Being a "good person" does not necessarily mean that he has never done anything illegal. If he thinks that what he is doing is good, then even if it is illegal, it is still a good thing. As the old saying goes, it is better to judge by deeds than by heart. Fei-Fei Li's understanding of this is that if you think it is right, just do it.

Just like today.

Li Feifei wore a mask, a very ordinary T-shirt and jeans, and carried a small knife and a neatly folded nylon fishing net in his backpack. He got into the van only after confirming that it was Liu Wantong's car at the intersection.

The driver's seat was already occupied. As Li Feifei got in, Liu Wantong, who was sitting in the driver's seat, shuddered. After confirming it was Li Feifei, he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. He tossed Li Feifei a bottle of water. Li Feifei caught the water, closed the door, and peered into the back seat of the van.

There was a dead person sitting in the back seat. According to Liu Wantong, he was dead, and Li Feifei also thought he was dead.

"Feizi, I've changed his clothes. I checked his teeth and found dentures. I pulled both his real and fake teeth, smashed them, and flushed them down the toilet. I also cut the skin off his fingers. There are no scars on his body, so he probably hasn't had any surgery. The pacemaker, artificial bones, or joints you mentioned probably aren't there. This guy must have more money in his card, but I don't dare to withdraw it. There's 130,000 yuan in his bag. I've counted it and I'll give you all of it, plus an extra 100,000."

Liu Wantong was trembling as he spoke. He put a full bag at his feet on Li Feifei and drove towards the depths of Tangshan.

He knew the dead man in the back row. He was a Korean. Two years ago, he was doing business in Suzhou and said he was going to build a canned food processing factory in Nanling. Liu Wantong's father believed him and invested a lot of money in this Korean, but he took the money and ran away. At that time, he only bought the land, and his family's savings were all swindled out of him. But luck and good fortune happened. After the housing prices in Nanling rose, his family's investment was recouped because of the land price. Not only did it recoup its investment, but it also increased significantly.

So this guy came again and wanted to get a piece of the pie, and then this guy accidentally ran out of gas and is now sitting in the back row.

Liu Wantong was Li Feifei's old squad leader when he was serving in the army's motor vehicle company. Li Feifei and Liu Wantong shared a truck, so he was also the person he played with the most in the army.

This was Li Feifei's first year in the army, and Liu Wantong's eleventh year. They both retired about a month apart. Although this guy was a veteran, he was not arrogant. When the two were alone in the car, they chatted about all kinds of nonsense. Even though there was almost a generation difference in age between them, they got along very well.

Unlike Fei-Fei Li's typical "city dweller," Liu Wantong wasn't a top student; he only attended a junior college. Unable to find the job he wanted after graduation, he simply enlisted as a technical soldier. Later, through some fluke, he earned a third-class merit, effectively completing his twelve years of service. Because he completed twelve years, the state gave him a position at the Nanling State Taxation Bureau. As he puts it, military service was incredibly lucrative, and coupled with his father's thriving barbecue restaurant in Suzhou, he lived a fulfilling life.

Liu Wantong, a native of Arxan, Inner Mongolia, was still herding sheep until he was ten. His father opened a barbecue restaurant in Gusu, Jiangsu Province, and that's when he left the frontier.

China is so vast. The frontier, the interior, and the coast are three completely different worlds, and the southern and northern parts of the frontier are also two different worlds. The northern frontier is vast and wild. Liu Wantong learned to drink very early. As a child, he didn't wear underwear, just a sheepskin robe wrapped around him. He would spend more time wrestling with sheep than in class.

As the car turned off the intercity highway, it began to rain, dripping onto the roof in sheets. The van had little sound insulation, and the sound of the rain irritated Li Feifei.

"Brother, I asked the people in Nanling, and they said that people die every year in Tangshan. Their bodies are swept into the Qixiang River and flow into Anji Lake, where they are eaten clean by fish that have lived there for who knows how many years. By the time they emerge from the lake and flow downstream, they are just bones."

Liu Wantong swallowed.

"What the hell are you asking? It doesn't sound plausible, does it? The lake is full of piranhas. A body would turn to bones after floating for a few kilometers. Are you sure no one will report us? My son was just born. Damn it! I should have just beaten this idiot. I want to get all his money back, not kill him."

"He's dead, so why are you so anxious? Didn't you brag to me in the army that killing people on the border of Inner Mongolia was just a matter of throwing them in the wild?"

"That was during my grandfather's time. There were Soviet soldiers in Mongolia at that time. What the hell!"

Li Feifei was breathing rapidly and felt a little dizzy. He pressed his tongue against his front teeth and bit the tip of his tongue with the tips of his teeth to make himself more awake.

"Think about how your grandfather killed people. Didn't you say that your grandfather got your dog and binoculars by killing a lone Soviet soldier? Your mother and father are so powerful, and you're so hesitant."

"Could it be the same then as now? My grandpa was thirteen or fourteen when my grandma got married. How old was my dad? How old was I? Back then, they would take off their fur coats by the campfire and start making things. How could it be the same now?"

Liu Wantong was a little frantic. He turned off the dirt road. There was no road ahead, so he had to walk a little further in the wilderness. Another half mile would lead to the lower end of the Qixiang River. It was already completely dark. There were no streetlights in this desolate wilderness, and it was still raining, making it inexplicably creepy.

Li Feifei put on a raincoat and rain boots, carried a bag on her back, and moved the body of Bangzi and two sacks of rice from the back row. She piled them on a cart and walked to Liu Wantong with a flashlight.

"Do you know about the rumors of wild men here?"

"Don't f*cking scare me!"

"If you're even afraid of this kind of nonsense used to trick children, how dare you kill someone?"

Liu Wantong's face turned pale and he hesitated.

"How could I have thought he would die? I just covered his mouth. I really didn't want him to die."

Li Feifei shrugged.

"My hometown is very close to South Korea. When I was a kid, it was just after the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea. These guys came to invest. No, they said they invested, but not many of them had money. Most of them came to cheat for subsidies. They talked to the government about building a factory, and when the local government gave them subsidies, these bastards would slip away and go to another place to cheat for subsidies."

"It's the same in Suzhou. If South Korea weren't full of scammers, only big companies would cooperate with it. If land prices hadn't risen, my family would probably still be paying off debts."

"It's the same with the Koreans up north. When a train goes through, these poor bastards just let the passengers go and seize the wagons, the locomotive, and the cargo, without even paying. If you do business with the Koreans, you have to be very polite and make them kneel down to do business with you. If they dare to show their teeth, you'll beat them to death. These guys are all over the world anyway."

"Fuck, Feizi, how did you know this?"

"I know a guy from Dandong. He told me that whenever he had free time, he would set up a telescope by the Yalu River and look across. He said it was more beautiful than the Monkey Mountain in the zoo."

Liu Wantong's face looked bitter.

"What the hell, I'm going to kill people now. Next time I do business with the Koreans, I'll call you along. Can't you just beat them with a stick?"

"If he hadn't come, you wouldn't have killed him. No, Brother Liu, you can't think like that. He came here to seek death."

Li Feifei was half-hearted, half-hiding. The flashlight and rain splashed on his face, and he calmed down. As the cart crossed a small pothole, the body nearly fell off.

"What do you mean? Send someone to die a thousand miles away?"

"Look, you're from Gusu, and he's from South Korea. There shouldn't be any connection between you two. He bought the land for your father, and now the land's value has appreciated. Logically, he should have gotten a share of the money, but he committed suicide in front of you. Now, no matter what the price is, the land belongs to your family."

"What suicide? I accidentally suffocated him."

"Don't think like that. Can you be blamed for him not breathing? Okay, he suddenly disappeared in front of you. Do you feel better now?"

"Feizi, you know how to comfort people."

"You have to think about it. You are not from Nanling, and neither is he. He disappeared on a hot and rainy day in Nanling. Nanling has so many rivers and so many mountains. On rainy days, the rivers flow fast. He chose this time to disappear."

Liu Wantong shuddered when he heard this, not knowing whether it was from the cold or fear.

"When I was little, I didn't dare to use the knife when my father and I slaughtered sheep. I never thought I would do something that my father had never done."

"Your father didn't do much. You think your grandfather was impressive for killing a lone Soviet soldier, but think about it: if your father had seized the opportunity in the 1990s to sell fake liquor to the Russians, he might have been able to cripple hundreds of high-ranking Russians in the city by himself."

Liu Wantong was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

"Then why don't you talk about those Chinese people who were caught selling counterfeit goods by the Russians and were hanged? The Soviet Union is gone, and the average life expectancy of the Russians has dropped a lot, okay? How is that different from the end of the world?"

"So, it's just killing one person. Isn't society like you kill me and I kill you? What are you worried about? Your grandfather had to kill a Soviet soldier to get a scoundrel and a telescope. Now it's your turn. You want that piece of land in Nanling. Sell it and become rich. So you made your choice. If you really regretted it, you wouldn't let this guy die, right?"

"Don't make up stories about me. I really didn't mean it! If I had intended to kill him from the beginning, how could I have let him have money in his card?"

"Alright, brother, I believe you. Do you hear the sound of water? Qixiang River."

Li Feifei pushed the cart forward, and the body and the bag of rice rolled out of the truck bed onto the ground. Liu Wantong walked to the river and shone his flashlight into it. It was pitch black, and he couldn't see the bottom at all.

"Oh my god, this is scary! Why is there no bank on this river?"

"Nanling has many trees, so there's not much land loss. It rains a lot, and the water flows quickly, so it's normal that there's no sedimentation on the edge."

Li Feifei covered the corpse and rice with a thick fishing net. With a knife, she scraped the corpse's face until it was tattered. She also cut a large triangular slit into the stomach, inserting the knife so deep that the intestines came out. Afterward, she cut several more slits in the fishing net and untied the corners of a bag of rice.

"Brother Liu, come here. I have everything ready. His death will be absolutely silent."

Chapter 34: The Difference Between Heaven and Earth

On the night of September 16, 2013, Lianhu District, Nanling City.

The crabs were already steamed, and Qin Zhixin used tongs to remove them from the pot and let them cool. While they were cooling, she hurried to make the dipping sauce to go with them.

Qin Zhixin first used a kitchen knife to smash a piece of old ginger into ginger paste, then cut it into ginger shreds, spread the ginger shreds evenly on a deep small dish, and poured three spoonfuls of vinegar and a spoonful of light soy sauce on it. The girl hurriedly added white sugar, white pepper and a little sesame oil, as if she wanted to add all kinds of bottles and jars, just like an Indian cooking.

She had almost added the "side dishes" and quickly mixed them with her chopsticks. Seeing the dipping sauce was well-mixed, Qin Zhixin took a sip. The astringency of the aged vinegar was tempered by the sugar and minced ginger, leaving only a refreshing sourness. The super-fresh soy sauce added a touch of salty umami, and the white peppercorns gave the dipping sauce a suitable spicy kick.

The small portion of dipping sauce contained all five flavors of sour, sweet, spicy, salty and fresh. Qin Zhixin smacked her lips with satisfaction.

The system saw that she only ate one crab, but used half a bowl of dipping sauce. It wanted to complain about her wasteful behavior, but held back.

Feeling that she hadn't tasted much from her first chopstick bite, Qin Zhixin leaned forward to take another sip, but she didn't grasp the angle well and swallowed a bit too much. The vinegar juice sat in her mouth, and the sourness of the aged vinegar made her tongue and palate sting.

She felt uncomfortable and wanted to spit out the sauce, but it had already entered her mouth, so there was no reason for her to spit it out.

Qin Zhixin swallowed it anyway.

The sour smell of old vinegar hit her nose, and her pretty facial features were wrinkled by the sourness, and tears flowed out of her eyes due to the irritation.

She stuck out her tongue and exhaled repeatedly, as if this would lessen the pain of the sour taste. She now regretted swallowing the sauce. But the sauce was already down, and she couldn't spit it out. Qin Zhixin quickly opened the refrigerator door and pulled out a can of yogurt. She bit open the bottle and drank a few mouthfuls. Only then did the sour taste subside.

She took a dish from the cupboard and found a pair of scissors on the table.

First cut the rope that ties the crab, break off the two crab claws, and then remove the crab shell.