Chapter 9 - Jumping into the Pond (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Ye Jian apologized repeatedly. “I’m sorry, Uncle Hai. I don’t know why my aunt said that I would jump into the pond. Young as I am, I know that it would have killed me if I did jump. This is not a joke.”

“Hey, after your fall, you have become smarter, which is a good thing.” The middle-aged man laughed and raised his hand to rub Ye Jian’s head. “Don’t be like your aunt. She’s going to kill me with her fussing sooner or later.”

Beneath the bank of the pond, Sun Dongqing ran towards them and yelled, “Jian, don’t drag me down with you. Can’t you just behave? You have been silent after that incident. And now, you are jumping into the pond to kill yourself. You will be in relief if you die. But people will blame and judge me for my whole life.”

“Which b.a.s.t.a.r.d taught you to commit such an evil thing? You wicked girl, how dare you jump into the pond? If you are bold enough to die, why can’t you be brave and leave this episode behind you?”

Ye Jian could see these words sputtering from her mouth, accompanied by her exaggerated movements.

To make her worry seem more convincing, Sun Dongqing intentionally missed a step by sticking one foot into the paddy field. After pulling out her foot, she found that her leather shoe was still in the mud. She then pulled it out, put it onto her foot, and started running again.

Within two steps, she fell again. But she didn’t dust off the dirt on her, just to make it seem like she was really in a hurry.

Thanks to her loud voice and the seriousness of the things that she said, the villagers, both at home or farming, all gathered around.

They didn’t know what had happened. But they believed in Sun Dongqing’s yells and thought that Ye Jian had done something so disgraceful that she wanted to kill herself by jumping into the pond!

“What’s going on? What happened?”

“Jian wants to jump into the pond? What happened to that little girl?”