Chapter 116: Digging Up Someone’s Ancestral Grave
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Gosh! Master, what are you doing? Quick, quick! Sit down quickly. Mistress has said that you can’t move around now.” Aunt Zhao quickly rushed into the house and helped Xiao Jin back to his wheelchair.
Xiao Jin looked at Aunt Zhao’s nervous expression and said helplessly, “I just want to try…”
“You can’t even try, Master. You should just wait a little longer. It’s already been so long. It doesn’t matter if you wait a little longer, right?”
Aunt Zhao was worried that Xiao Jin would make another bold attempt. After that, she almost never let Xiao Jin disappear from her sight.
Xiao Jin felt very helpless and could only temporarily give up on trying.
Meanwhile, Su Ying and Cheng Ming had already chosen a location to dig the fish pond.
Su Ying used a shovel to mark the area and then started digging. Cheng Ming called ten guys over to help.
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In order to finish digging the fish pond as soon as possible, Su Ying used the wristband of infinite power. With one dig of the shovel, the soil in her shovel was a lot more than that of other people’s shovels.
When Number One saw the mountain of dirt behind Su Ying’s back, he started to work harder.
Clang!
When Number One dug down with his shovel, he seemed to have hit something.
He scraped aside the soil below and his expression changed slightly. “Mistress, Mistress!”
Su Ying tossed the soil from the shovel and flung it behind her. She raised her head to look at Number One. “What’s wrong?”
“Mistress, 1 have dug out something strange.”
Something strange? Su Ying walked over and saw a black object the length of a forearm in the hole that Number One had dug.
Su Ying dug with her shovel and it made a loud “clang.”
“Mistress, this can’t be a coffin, can it?” Number One said doubtfully.
Su Ying’s eyebrows twitched. She dug a little and soon, half of the coffin lid was revealed.
It really was a coffin!
Su Ying didn’t expect that she would end up digging into someone’s grave when she was just digging a fish pond.
“Mistress, do you want to continue digging?”
In the past, Number One’s hands had been stained with a lot of blood, so he didn’t mind such things. To him, they were just dead people, so there was nothing to be afraid of. He only felt a little unlucky.
Although Su Ying didn’t believe in spirits and gods, she still believed in the principle of first come, first served. Since the other party had already occupied this spot first with a grave, it was indeed not very proper for her to dig out someone’s coffin for the sake of digging a fish pond.
“Bury it back and move further to the front to dig.”
Since Su Ying had given the order, Number One and the rest had nothing to say.
“You guys have some nerve! You actually dug up my family’s ancestral grave. Aren’t you afraid of shortening your lifespan!”
Just as Number One was about to re-bury the coffin, he saw a middle-aged woman rush to the side of the coffin, slapping her thigh and wailing loudly.
Su Ying heard the commotion and walked back.
“This is your family’s grave?”
The woman glared at Su Ying angrily. “That’s right. It’s the ancestral grave of my husband’s family. You guys actually dug it out. Aren’t you afraid of being punished by the heavens?”
“When we were digging, we didn’t see any gravestone at the side, so we didn’t know there was a grave below,” Su Ying said.
“You are full of goddamn bullshit! We’ve erected that gravestone right next to it. You’re blind to not see it.” That woman pointed at Su Ying and scolded her viciously.
Su Ying took a deep breath and suppressed her throbbing temples.
“We were indeed in the wrong in this matter. We will now fill the soil back.”
“You think you can settle this by re-burying? Dream on. I’m telling you now. When this ancestral grave was buried, we selected an auspicious time. Now that you’ve dug it out and exposed the coffin to light, it’s inauspicious. Our family is going to get bad luck. I’m telling you. This matter is not over yet!”
The intense argument quickly attracted the attention of the people who were farming on the side.
This plot of land was not completely uninhabited in the past. To make the land easier to manage, Su Ying paid some money to get the people who had been farming here to move their plots to a place outside of the boundaries they had set.
With the compensation of silver and grain seeds, no one had any complaints.
At this point, those people who were working in the field heard the dispute over here and came over to gawk curiously.
“Then what do you want?” Su Ying asked patiently.
‘Too taels of silver. Give us 100 taels of silver as compensation, or else this matter will not end!” the woman said arrogantly.
Su Ying admitted that it was their fault for accidentally digging up the other party’s ancestral grave, but asking for a hundred taels of silver was too much for her!
“I’ll repair your ancestral grave and give you five catties of rice as compensation. If you want it, I’ll get someone to bring you the rice right now. If you don’t want it, 1 will still repair your ancestral grave.”
“You want to get rid of me with just five catties of rice? Let me tell you now. No way! If you don’t hand over loo taels of silver today, 1’11 stay here and not leave. Don’t even think about continuing with your work!” the woman said as she sat down at the head of the grave. She looked as if she was going to fight Su Ying to the end.
“With this kind of attitude, I’m afraid Madam Li won’t give up until she has extorted some silver.”
“When her man comes over later, he’ll probably kick up a fuss. It’ll be difficult.”
Su Ying said to Number One and the others, “All of you, move to the front and dig. Just leave two people here to cover the soil back.”
“Yes, Ma’am.”
Su Ying ignored Madam Li and continued to instruct her men to work.
When she saw that Su Ying was ignoring her, Madam Li became even angrier. “1 don’t know where this slut came from. She’s serving so many men all by herself, yet she still has the energy to work in the fields. How come she didn’t screw herself to death?”
Pow!
“Argh!”
Madam Li’s entire body flew off the coffin lid, and her face hit the ground heavily.
Su Ying’s face clouded over as she flicked her hands. “If you don’t know how to talk, then don’t open your mouth. Otherwise, you won’t even know when you get beaten up.”
Madam Li was in so much pain that she almost fainted. She propped her body up and raised her head from the ground. Wah! She spat out a few loose teeth from her mouth.
“You whore… I will fight you to the death…” Madam Li propped herself to stand up and pounced on Su Ying in a vicious lunge.
Su Ying dodged it with one step.
However, Madam Li did not let up. She grabbed some dirt from the ground and threw it at Su Ying.
Su Ying felt as if her last bit of patience had run out. She grabbed Madam Li by her lapels with one hand and threw her out.
“Argh!”
Madam Li cried out in alarm as her body crashed heavily into the ground.
The soil on the ground had just been plowed over, so it was still soft. However, even so, Madam Li’s fall still left a crater hole.
Madam Li was both angry and afraid. “You… you just wait!” With that, she got up, turned around, and ran off.
Su Ying didn’t bother with her anymore. She got someone to bury the coffin back and made a marking. She searched around nearby, but she couldn’t find the so-called gravestone.
Just as everyone was about to leave, thinking that this little interlude was over, Su Ying turned around and saw quite a few men holding sickles and hoes as they walked toward her in a ferocious manner..