Pampered By All In Different Planes

Chapter 107: Chapter 107: After Raising a Child and Becoming Rich in That Era, the Delicate Beauty Was Spoiled 27 Times

The person who stepped out was a big livestock breeder from the neighboring village, famous in the small town and its surroundings. Their farm’s chickens and ducks had always been the best within a hundred miles, and anyone not living under a rock would generally know of him.

“I heard everything you were saying just now,” the old man said with a bland expression, standing with his hands behind his back, his eyes coldly sweeping over the widow, Su Caixia, and the old granny, revealing a disdainful look in his gaze, “You claim that the young Su girl’s family is selling dead, diseased chicken meat. Well, I, an old man, must ask you, did you see it with your own eyes? Or did you have it tested?”

“Hah, everyone knows that Su Zhiruan gets her stock from factories, those chickens from that kind of place—” The widow retorted with her hands on her hips, confronting the old man. She had always lived in Su Family Village and seldom came to town, and her recent visits were all about trying to sabotage Zhiruan’s business.

As Su Caixia saw the old man’s face getting darker and noticed that the surrounding villagers were showing an interest in the commotion, she began to desperately recall, and in a flash of insight, she realized—she had seen this old man before!

Previously, when she was out learning with her school, she had seen the headmaster speaking with this old man from afar, and judging by the present circumstances, he might not be as simple as he seemed.

She directly tugged at the widow’s collar, whispering nervously, “Mom, wait a sec, he talked with our headmaster, seems like he’s no ordinary man.”

The widow’s voice came to an abrupt halt.

“Who are you?” The old granny behind her sensed something amiss and started looking around.

Zhiruan came over to the old man’s side, smiling warmly, “Grandpa Xu, you’re here! Sorry to trouble you again.”

“I was actually planning to support your business today and didn’t intend to speak up, but to my surprise, I really encountered troublemakers,” Grandpa Xu said coldly, glancing at the widow and others, “Today’s matter, this old man will settle. I’ve been raising livestock my whole life, and no one has ever dared to say my chickens and ducks were problematic or sick. Today I must demand an explanation.”

“Otherwise, the reputation I, Xu, have built over half a lifetime might be ruined by these three,” Grandpa Xu’s tone slowed down substantially, laced with irony.

It was only then that the surrounding crowd finally understood the whole situation.

The whispers among the onlookers grew louder, reaching the ears of Su Caixia, the widow, and the old granny.

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Suddenly, their faces turned green then red.

“My God, this chicken meat is from Grandpa Xu’s farm; his family’s chicken is always good and well raised.”

“Isn’t this plain slander and harm? These three people, tsk tsk, honestly, they look like they’re from one family, never would have thought they’d be this vile.”

“Like the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, sabotaging business right at someone’s storefront, so cruel at such a young age. If my son married a woman like that, I would never let her step foot in my house.”

Su Caixia had always cared a lot about her image, even if she hurt others, she would always plot behind the scenes, but she never thought that this time she would be punished publicly, making her feel utterly humiliated.

If there had been a hole on the ground, she probably would have crawled into it by now.

At this moment, her resentment toward Zhiruan had reached its peak.

Who would have thought that the previously thoughtless and loud Su who only knew how to make a fuss would suddenly transform and become so dazzling.

She hadn’t only changed her name, but also led her entire family to wealth and success.

She felt her resentment towards Su Zhiruan grow even more in her heart.

As a widow, she felt she couldn’t save face, and after a cold laugh, her voice, betraying her guilt, grew much louder. With her hands on her hips, she snorted, “Hmph! You all believe the words of a young girl, but who knows? She might just claim she uses good ingredients, but in reality, she could be using diseased chicken behind our backs.”

“If you insist on making a scene, or on spreading rumors without discerning right from wrong, the police will be here soon. Then you can tell them that all our raw materials come from unscrupulous factories and see if anyone believes that,” Su Zhiruan said, all the while observing Su Caixia.

The widow, not to be feared, had greatly improved the living standards of her family with her late husband’s money, but in essence, she was nothing but a firecracker.

She wasn’t to be feared, but those stoking the flames behind her were the real issue.

Su Caixia was only a year older than her, a seventeen-year-old high school student whose scheming far surpassed that of her peers. Girls of this age would either be studying in high school, helping out at home, or preparing for marriage.

In those days, especially in their remote area, such situations were quite normal.

But Su Caixia’s scheming was far too deep.

In the original plot, Su Caixia’s machinations ruined the life of the original character, and not a single member of the original character’s family met with a good end.

While Su Caihua’s mother stole the original character’s father, Su Caixia herself took Li Jian for herself, living a very good life in the end.

“Do you have anything else to say?” Su Zhiruan looked at the three people with varying expressions and finally placed her gaze on Su Caixia in the middle. She tilted her chin up and looked at her leisurely, “Sister Caixia, now that it’s come to this, what are your thoughts?”

“Me?” Su Caixia, currently full of conspiracies, was caught off guard by the question. She looked up at Su Zhiruan, a venomous look flash in her eyes, which quickly transformed into an innocent expression. She took a step forward.

The widow, worried about what Su Zhiruan might do to her daughter, quickly reached out and tugged at her arm, “Caixia!”

“Mother, don’t worry,” Su Caixia put on a pitiful look, hanging her head as tears threatened to fall. She quietly wiped her eyes and when she looked up, her eyes were swimming with tears, “Sister Zhiruan wouldn’t bully me, after all, we are… family, even though… she doesn’t want to acknowledge us…”

Su Zhiruan had known all along.

Su Caixia played her cards too well, bending and flexing as necessary. With just those few sentences, the gossip-hungry crowd around them was set ablaze.

“Sister, that move might be a bit outdated,” Su Zhiruan clapped her hands and smiled with narrowed eyes, “If you truly regarded us as family, then where were you when we were about to freeze and starve, when we were being bullied and humiliated by debt collectors? I didn’t see a penny from you, and now that we’ve barely survived and thought to open a shop to provide for our younger siblings’ education, to my surprise, on the very first day, your family comes looking for trouble.”

“If this is how you treat family, then I have nothing more to say.”

After Su Zhiruan finished, the onlookers’ gazes towards her and Li Meihua turned sympathetic.

Who would have thought they had gone through such hardships.

Su Caixia had never expected Su Zhiruan to be so logical, item by item, directly causing her embarrassment.

Her speech perfectly refuted Su Caixia’s, and now, even her current crying looked like nothing but a joke.