Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 120 - 118: Trying Hard to Gain Some Advantage [555 votes+]

Chapter 120: Chapter 118: Trying Hard to Gain Some Advantage [555 votes+]

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Zhang Shanni heard it first, but she didn’t make a sound.

Because right beside her was that little girl who had run to tip someone off.

She had seen both of them before, on the day of her wedding banquet with her husband. Both had come with their parents, and with her strong spiritual power and good memory, she remembered about eighty percent of what she saw after just one glance; moreover, these two girls were following her little aunt at the time, and for that reason, she took a closer look.

And now she remembered both: Wang Xiuzhen, Wang Chunmei.

Wang Chunmei had been standing on the periphery and hurriedly ran off earlier, because Shanni had been constantly focused on her mother-in-law, she didn’t really get a clear look at her.

Now that she had come back with Wang Xiuzhen, Shanni took a quick look and immediately recognized her.

"That, elder..." Wang Xiuzhen saw that the situation was not going her way, and if the villagers continued their gossip, her reputation would be ruined!

Watching as the noise drowned out her own voice, Wang Xiuzhen had no choice but to rush over to the person involved, crying as she said, "Mr. Xie, listen to me, the name on the letter was signed by me—"

"What? It was you! Wang Xiuzhen you, you, what do you mean by this? How dare you harm my family like this!"

Zhou Xiuhua was originally sitting with Xie Tiesheng, and when she saw the young one rushing over and heard her words, her head buzzed with a ’whoom’, and she immediately pointed at her and started accusing.

"Old lady, don’t get angry, don’t get angry! Let’s talk things through, getting angry won’t solve anything, it will only make things more complicated. Don’t be upset—"

Xie Tiesheng, seeing his wife getting angry again, his face darkened as if coated with pot soot, his tone rough and repressed as he growled:

"You are in your fifties already, and you get upset over such small things, how are you going to live the rest of your days? Even if you don’t consider yourself, think about San’er! If he knew you got upset several times just because of his letter, would he still write to you?"

Wang Xiuzhen was frightened by Xie Tiesheng’s grim expression, just like in her dream, it made her chest painfully tight! She forcefully bit her lip to pull herself back to her senses.

"I..." Zhou Xiuhua, with pain gripping her chest, saw her husband staring at her with his eyes wide in intimidation, but she felt her heart gradually calming down. Zhang Shanni saw her mother-in-law becoming calmer and immediately stepped in front of her, icily confronting Wang Xiuzhen:

"Comrade Wang Xiuzhen, what is it that you can’t discuss with us properly, but instead resort to stealing our family’s letters for revenge against the Xie Family?"

As soon as she opened her mouth, Zhang Shanni coldly slapped the other with two big accusations: stealing, revenge.

"No, no, I didn’t. I really didn’t! I just happened to—"

Wang Xiuzhen shook her head, refusing to admit the accusations against her.

Wang Xiuzhen was anxious to explain her actions, but clearly, someone was even more anxious than her. And that person clearly did not want to give her time to explain, but instead loudly cut her off:

"Hello, ’Comrade Zhou Xiuhua’, I just want to know, where did you put that family letter? Don’t you know that it’s a family letter sent by the Rong Department? Where is your conscience? Where’s your morality? Look how upset you’ve made the old lady and the old master?"

The postman, upon seeing one of the persons involved, Wang Xiuzhen, finally appear on the scene, recognized her at a glance. He saw her without a hint of surprise, but instead filled with anger.

This woman, with a heart so foul, even lied to him claiming she was a village official, tch!

"No, no, that’s not how it was. Listen to me!" Wang Xiuzhen, overwhelmed by the accusations from everyone around her, lashed out at the postman with a loud cry.

Seeing that everyone had quieted down, she hurriedly explained loudly: "That day, I was just receiving the mail on Auntie’s behalf, so of course, the name on it was Auntie’s! Besides, besides, I really didn’t take that letter; it’s still at the village committee!"

"Heh, what a ’staying at the village committee,’ what a proxy receipt!" Zhang Shan Ni narrowed her apricot eyes as she sneered at Wang Xiuzhen’s guilty-looking face, her expression growing even more hostile as she spoke with indignant delicacy:

"I would like to know, it’s been six days since you signed for it, may I ask why you didn’t report it to the village officials in a timely manner?"

Wang Xiuzhen was so choked up by her righteous questioning that she could not find her voice.

But Zhang Shan Ni didn’t give her time to think carefully and continued to interrogate: "If we hadn’t run into the comrade postman today, were you planning to let this letter disappear without a trace? After a long time, who would even remember this letter?"

Wang Xiuzhen shook her head, kept shaking her head. It was her first time being cross-examined so embarrassingly, and since she was tongue-tied and not articulate, she had lost her opportunity to make the most advantageous rebuttal.

She did not know how to refute. In her nearly twenty years of life experience, she had always been a delicate and pampered young lady, never having argued with anyone before.

She was accustomed to holding her head high with cold detachment, looking down on the villagers, but this time she was put in an awkward position by Zhang Shan Ni, the dark and ugly village girl. Normally, Wang Chunmei, who was relatively friendly with her, wanted to say a few words in her defense. But she was helpless at the moment, being pulled by her mother to hide in the back, for fear that her daughter would be implicated by Wang Xiuzhen and thus her own daughter’s reputation would be tarnished!

"Wang Xiuzhen, no matter what you’re thinking, as long as you don’t provoke our Xie Family, I have no time for you. But if you ever stand against me, I will not be merciful! You, watch yourself!"

Zhang Shan Ni looked at the anxious Wang Xiuzhen, after sighing deeply, she spoke with dramatic flair.

However, Wang Xiuzhen was startled by Zhang Shan Ni’s last glance, shuddering and staring wide-eyed in horror at the ’benevolent’ Zhang Shan Ni.

"No, this is not right. Such behavior must be punished, otherwise if someone is targeted like this again, how can the village ever be peaceful?"

Zhang Shan Ni might be generous enough to let it go, but the villagers who had watched from beginning to end were not having it, especially those little village girls who had been covertly bullied by Wang Xiuzhen before, all of them eagerly clamoring from behind.

"You, you~~" Wang Xiuzhen looked pitifully at Zhang Shan Ni who had risen to a high seat, her heart softening as she tried to spit out some harsh words, but each time her gaze met Zhang Shan Ni’s, she was scared by the murderous look in her eyes, making her want to flee!

The person involved didn’t care anymore, yet these idle bystanders, why are they stirring up trouble! Wang Xiuzhen, with her head hung low, was inwardly annoyed and indignant.

"Village chief, if a mistake is made, there must be a penalty, otherwise we won’t accept it!"

No wonder Wang Xiuzhen was angry, after all, she always put her own desires first.

But you can’t blame the villagers for kicking someone while they’re down, this was something Wang Xiuzhen’s family had always taken delight in doing.

Her father was supposed to be the only legitimate barefoot doctor in Qingfeng Village, and there should’ve been some filial piety, but the Wang Family’s behavior was too appalling, causing resentment to bubble up in the hearts of the villagers.

There you have it, a rare opportunity to give the Wang Family girl a hard time, and no one wanted to waste this golden chance, especially now when the Wang matriarchs were not around, why not take full advantage!

Seeing that the other party was at a disadvantage, now we can rest assured and feel at ease—this mindset exists everywhere~