Chapter 20: Lin Ruihu Causes a Ruckus in the Family Compound

Tongtong’s cheerful smile collapsed. She turned her head and stared at him expressionlessly, her round eyes dark and deep.

“You called me?”

Lin Ruihu smirked smugly and reached out to pull the small pigtail on Tongtong’s head. He even spat on the ground.

“You little bitch! Your mother bullied my mom, so I’ll beat you to death!”

“Kneel down and eat my spit, and I’ll go easy on you today!”

Malice flickered in his eyes as he tried to press down on the little girl’s head.

However, the next moment—

Before he could even touch Tongtong, she tripped him with a neat leg sweep.

Her small body shot forward like a cannonball, landing on top of him as her little fists rained down a flurry of blows!

“Your mom didn’t teach you how to speak properly, so this aunty will!”

“Ah—”

Lin Ruihu was in despair.

A series of miserable screams, accompanied by the thud of fists hitting flesh, rang out.

It was the second time this had happened, and the little fatty’s already sore injuries hurt even more, with a faint hint that a bone might have fractured.

Watching from a short distance away, Si Muchen and the System couldn’t help but shrink back.

Too… too brutal.

Ten minutes later, Lin Ruihu was tossed onto the ground like a dirty rag.

He lay there, feeling pain everywhere, as if he were about to die.

“Wah—”

He spat out a mouthful of blood to the side, and a tooth came with it.

Terrified, his face turned deathly pale, and he cried even more wretchedly, squealing like a pig being slaughtered.

Tongtong walked forward with a wooden expression, cupped his chin with her small hand, and with a crisp “crack,” dislocated his jaw.

“Too noisy.”

Lin Ruihu: “…”

Sob, sob, sob… This is too much!

Tears streamed down his face, but he truly couldn’t make a single sound.

Tongtong took out a pitch-black pill with her small hand and tossed it into his mouth.

She threatened him with a fierce yet adorable tone, “Eat it, or I’ll beat you to death!”

Terrified, Lin Ruihu swallowed it without a second thought. Soon after, his entire body began to itch uncontrollably, and he scratched his skin until it was red.

He was in a complete panic.

“Ahhh! So itchy! What did you give me?!” he screamed in a breakdown.

With her hands on her little hips and a serious expression, Tongtong said ominously, “This is the enhanced version of the Super Duper Itching Pill. If you don’t take the antidote soon, your whole body will itch, you’ll scratch yourself into a bloody mess, and your guts will rupture and you’ll die, you know!”

In her past life, Mother used to bluff people just like this.

The System had learned it to a T.

It secretly gave itself a thumbs-up in her mind. Hee hee!

As expected, Lin Ruihu was about to pee his pants in fear. “The antidote! Quick, give me the antidote!”

Tongtong rubbed her round little chin and tapped her forehead, pretending to think.

“…Hmm, you really want the antidote?”

Lin Ruihu nodded his head so vigorously it was like a chick pecking at rice.

He felt like he was going to die from the itching.

“Please, sob sob sob… I don’t want to die.”

He was only a six-year-old child, what did he know? The thought of dying made his heart pound with fear.

Tongtong said with a grin, “Then you have to promise me one thing.”

“Tell me!”

Tongtong leaned in and whispered, “I’ll tell you. You go to the compound, stand on the tallest stool in the yard, and then…”

Lin Ruihu’s eyes grew wider and wider as he listened, and he swallowed hard.

Although he was a scoundrel, he had never been this much of a scoundrel.

“My mom will beat me to death…” he said, his face streaked with tears.

Tongtong stood up with a deadpan expression. “Oh, then you can just itch to death here. I’m leaving.”

Lin Ruihu: “…”

Seeing her turn to leave, he grew scared. After a three-second internal struggle, he tearfully agreed, “I’ll do what you say, sob sob sob…”

Tongtong gave him a pill that temporarily suppressed the itching.

Lin Ruihu’s whole body relaxed.

He couldn’t wait to rush to the compound. He scrambled onto the tallest stool in the yard in one breath, looked at the bustling crowd of people sitting around, closed his eyes, steeled his heart, and yelled at the top of his lungs.

“Aunties, look over here! I have something to say!”

The sudden shout startled the aunties and ladies who were sitting together and chatting.

“What’s going on?” Zhang Yanfang was off duty today and asked with a smile.

When Lin Ruihu saw her, he instinctively flinched, but he still mustered his courage and shouted, “Aunty Zhang, my mom said you love smelling men’s stinky feet! All those uncles’ smelly shoes that went missing in the compound before, you were the one who picked them up to sniff in secret!”

The smile on Zhang Yanfang’s face cracked.

“You little brat! What nonsense are you spouting!” She wanted to tear Lin Ruihu’s mouth off.

Lin Ruihu shrieked in fear, jumping and dodging as he yelled, “I’m not talking nonsense! You still have those stinky shoes in your house right now, and you sniff them every night when you can’t sleep! My mom told me all this!”

Zhang Yanfang was about to go crazy and rushed over to grab him.

But she was blocked by Li Xue, who had a gloating look in her eyes. “Aiya! Big Sister Zhang, why are you getting worked up over a child!”

But in the next moment, Lin Ruihu jumped up and said, “My mom also said that Aunty Li Xue acts all proper on the surface, but she actually loves taking petty advantages and is a bit of a kleptomaniac. The person who’s always stealing things in the compound is you! She said your hands are so sticky, you can’t help but steal anything nice you see!”

Li Xue: “!”

Her face turned green, and she stared at Lin Ruihu as if she wanted to eat him alive. Her voice cracked.

“You’re lying!”

Zhang Yanfang, on the other hand, had calmed down. She crossed her arms and sneered, “Oh? Weren’t you just telling me not to get worked up over a child?”

But it wasn’t over yet.

Lin Ruihu jumped and shouted, “And! Not only are you a petty thief yourself, but you also make your daughter steal things! She steals chalk and notebooks at school, she steals everything! Your whole family is a bunch of thieves!”

Li Xue’s vision went black.

“You little brat! I’ll fight you!”

“Ah! Help!” Lin Ruihu shrieked in terror, but he hadn’t finished saying what Lin Tongtong had told him to.

He kept talking as he ran.

“My mom also said that Big-Foot Liu’s eldest son likes to peek at women bathing. The peeping tom they caught in the compound before was him!”

“And Wang Qiang likes to steal women’s underwear. My mom had a lace bra that was stolen by him!”

“And Chen Xiaofen, she likes to sneak into the men’s restroom…”

The more Lin Ruihu spoke, the more excited he became, spilling all the gossip about the entire compound.

This was all what Lin Tongtong had taught him.

The women in the yard erupted in an uproar. Almost every family had been gossiped about.

Furious, they all grabbed whatever was at hand and started chasing him.

In an instant, the yard was in chaos, with chickens flying and dogs jumping—a complete mess.

Lin Ruihu’s shrieks could be heard from time to time.

But his mouth still didn’t stop.

Tongtong hid in a corner, covering her mouth and giggling secretly.

She hadn’t expected this Lin Ruihu to be so truly reckless!

When Shen Wei returned that afternoon and learned what had happened, her world came crashing down!

Everyone in the compound was giving her hostile looks.

Her two cronies, Zhang Yanfang and Li Xue, in particular, had turned on her completely.

“Well, well, Shen Wei! We treated you like a good sister, and you were badmouthing us like this behind our backs!”

“Exactly! Aren’t you afraid of your black heart rotting and being struck by lightning! I’m done with you!”

“Shen Wei! You have to give us an explanation today!”