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nHe Cheung has been going around the village telling everyone how Yu Dong has been making things difficult for him and his wife, even when Yu Dong didn’t say anything about his actions, it wasn’t that she had no idea what was going on in the head of that mer, she knew that he was trying to make her reputation even worse than it was before such that she wouldn’t have any chance of getting back up or be selected as the village head by the officers.

nShe knew what He Cheung was doing and she also knew that even if village head Gu acted as if she was trying to stop her husband, it was clear that she was only doing it for the sake of her face, she wasn’t serious and neither did she want He Cheung to stop spreading such rumours.

nIf the two of them have only made trouble with her then she wouldn’t have said anything but these two made it hard for even Fang Chi to leave the house, though her husband said nothing to her, she knew that he was being bullied by the villagers or else he wouldn’t have refused to go on his daily walks as he did before.

nNow that she has finally gotten an opportunity to teach these two overinflated balloons a lesson, she was going to use it as much as possible!

nImmediately the glares of the indignant villagers turned to He Cheung, that’s right! How can they forget this person? Back then when Yu Dong warned them that there was a flood coming, it was He Cheung who told them off and asked them not to listen to her nonsense. In fact, it would not be far-fetched to say that he more or less threatened them that in case he saw them going after Yu Dong then he would make things difficult for them, that was why they all stayed put in their house and did nothing. They didn’t even dare to waste their money to buy the extra ration but now… they had nothing on them! Those who were lucky were able to fetch their money but those who hid their money under the ground instead of their pillows, they had no way left to know what happened to their money!

nHow could they not be angry at He Cheung? If not for him making things difficult for them deliberately, they wouldn’t have been left behind in such a lurch. Now they had no money, no food ——nothing! Who knows how long this disaster was going to last what are they going to do now?

n” Yu Dong is right, He Cheung! You are the one who told us that she was lying if not for the sake of protecting your face, would we have stayed in our house doing nothing, it’s because of you that we had no other choice but to stay at home and follow your words, that we are in this situation! Now you tell us what are we supposed to do?” One of the village women immediately spoke up, she has been thinking of saving some rations but after seeing that He Cheung was not so subtly threatening everyone she could only follow what everyone else was doing.

nAnd what was more nothing happened for so many days, so she thought that maybe Yu Dong was indeed lying but now that the situation has come to this, she realised that it was He Cheung who spoke without even checking the facts!

nNo sooner did one of them spoke other villagers too started to question He Cheung. They were doing what he asked him to do, and now that Yu Dong was not helping them, he has to come up with a reasonable solution! Either he has to make Yu Dong help them or he has to take care of them, it’s either of the two things. End of the story!

nHe Cheung saw that everyone was turning on him and his face could not help but turn red as his cheeks puffed out and he glared at the villagers who were lording him like he was the one who did the wrong. Though he may or may not have somewhat made things difficult for them, it wasn’t as if he had put them under surveillance!

n” What do you mean? Did I stop you from stocking up on the grains or did I stop you from following Yu Dong? I simply shared my suspicions and told you guys, it’s not my fault that you all wanted to follow me, isn’t it because you all didn’t have enough trust in Yu Dong?” He Cheung was used to giving out orders, his family had a good background and he was also the official husband of Village head Guo, thus when he saw that others were looking at him with those blaming glares, he couldn’t help but snap. ” Did I tell you that neither one of you can follow Yu Dong? Did I tell you that you all have to listen to me? Or did I say that you all need to stay put at your house and do nothing? You all choose to do that all by yourself!”

nEven though He Cheung was a mer, he was apt in dealing with the husbands of his wife. If he was a fool then there would have been no way he would have been able to lord over them, thus he was smarter than saying everything out loud!

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