PDLP Chapter 16: Bloodshed Will Surely Occur Within 3 Days
Chapter 16: Bloodshed Will Surely Occur Within 3 Days
The neighbors who had been watching the commotion were silenced by the sudden drop in air pressure.
It's strange. Jiang Xinlan's husband doesn't look that scary, so why does he have such a strong aura?
Who exactly is he?
Shen Yu ignored the awe and curiosity in the eyes of those around him. As a former Tribulation Transcending Realm expert, the Qi Observation Technique was as simple as eating and drinking for him.
His gaze lingered on Li Juan's face for only two seconds before he understood the whole story and spoke coldly:
"Li Juan, your cheekbones are prominent, and your tongue is cracked; you're already a source of trouble and misfortune. If you don't leave today and continue to speak recklessly, within three days you will surely suffer bloodshed, and your family will be destroyed—believe it or not!"
"Pah! Who do you think you are? Do you really think you're some kind of fortune teller? Believe me or not, I'll call the police..."
Li Juan's first reaction was disbelief, and she was about to say she was going to call the police when the man in front of her continued speaking.
"If I'm not mistaken, your husband, Zhang Laosan, embezzled all the funds from your family's community supermarket last month to gamble. He even lost the money he had to buy the goods. Now it's just an empty shell and won't last more than half a month before it has to close down."
"Moreover, he owes 830,000 yuan in high-interest loans, and the compounding interest keeps you up at night, but you don't dare to say a word about it. Instead, you're thinking about getting money from your parents' home to cover his debts, right?"
As soon as she finished speaking, Li Juan's eyes widened in disbelief.
These were all her deepest secrets, things she had kept hidden in her heart, things she had never even told her closest sisters.
How could this man, whom she had just met, have calculated with such precision how much her husband owed in loan sharking?
Looking into Shen Yu's eyes, which seemed to see through everything, Li Juan felt a sense of dread, as if she had been stripped naked and left to rot in the sun.
Could it be that she has encountered a master?
"What's even more ridiculous is that it was clearly your gambling-addicted husband who harassed Xinlan three or four times and was rejected."
And yet you shamelessly turn the tables, spreading rumors that Xinlan is a vixen? Do you really think everyone is like you, coveting that pile of stinking dog shit?
Li Juan was a little scared. She originally wanted to beg for mercy, but when she heard Shen Yu say bad things about her husband, anger instantly overwhelmed her fear.
Like a cat whose tail has been stepped on, she screamed shrilly, all her remaining rationality burned away:
"You're talking nonsense! My husband isn't that kind of person! It's this woman who's a slut! She seduced my man first! A widow with two illegitimate children, always up to no good, flirting with other women all the time, so what if I scold her? I'll tear her face to shreds!"
With red eyes, Li Juan completely lost her mind. She pushed aside the onlookers, trying to bypass Shen Yu, and lunged at Jiang Xinlan and the two children.
The onlookers gasped in unison.
Jiang Xinlan's face turned pale, and she instinctively pulled the two children into her arms.
But the next second, Shen Yu moved.
He stood protectively in front of Jiang Xinlan and her two children. With a slight twitch of his fingertips hanging at his side, a spiritual force, imperceptible to the naked eye, precisely struck the soft tendon in the back of Li Juan's knee as she lunged forward.
Just a second ago, Li Juan was lunging forward with her arms outstretched, but suddenly her knee went numb, and all the strength in her leg seemed to be instantly drained away, causing her to lose all control of her forward momentum.
He lost his balance and fell straight forward, landing face-first in the dirt. His forehead was cut by a pebble on the ground, and blood was flowing down his forehead, making him look extremely disheveled.
The onlookers were stunned, followed by gasps and murmurs.
No one saw what Shen Yu did; they all assumed that Li Juan had fallen because she was too emotional and thought she deserved it.
"He charged forward like a madman; if he didn't throw her, who would he throw!"
"She was just taking good care of her child, and then she came up and tried to hit her. She got what she deserved!"
Li Juan covered her bleeding forehead, groaning in pain. With great difficulty, she propped herself up on her arms and lifted her head. As soon as she opened her eyes, she met Shen Yu's gaze.
There was no anger, no hostility, not even any extra emotions, only a bottomless coldness. Just that one glance made Li Juan feel as if all the blood in her body had turned to ice instantly.
"I gave you a chance to get out, but you didn't appreciate it."
"In that case, from this day forward, all the negative karma you create through your speech will come back to haunt you. Within three days, there will be bloodshed; within a month, your household will be in turmoil; and within three months, everything you currently possess will vanish."
"I'm giving you one last chance. Take your child and get out of here right now. If I see you within ten meters of Xinlan and the children again, all of this will come back to haunt you."
The moment the words left her lips, Li Juan felt as if an invisible hand had gripped her throat. She opened her mouth to retort, but her teeth bit down hard on her tongue, her mouth filled with the taste of blood, and she couldn't utter a single swear word.
Her son, Zhuangzhuang, burst into tears, and the neighbors who had gathered around all gasped in shock.
"My God, I just said there would be bloodshed, and it came true right there!"
"Serves her right! She's just taking good care of her child, and she comes up here and hurls such nasty insults. Isn't she just courting death?"
"This young man is amazing! He completely subdued her with just a few words!"
Li Juan was finally scared.
The moment the man determined her fate, it came true on the spot. He was no ordinary person; he was clearly a master who could predict life and death!
She dared not linger for even half a second longer. She grabbed Zhuangzhuang, who was crying incessantly, and staggered home without looking back, forgetting even to pick up the shopping bag that had fallen to the ground.
Li Juan's nightmare officially began the moment she ran out of the small park.
Every word Shen Yu said came true for her without fail.
That day, she first went to the community clinic to bandage her forehead and treat the wound on her tongue. Just cleaning the wound and getting medicine cost her several hundred dollars of change that she had prepared to use to restock the supermarket.
As soon as she got home, she ran into debt collectors blocking the supermarket entrance, demanding gambling debts from her husband, Zhang Laosan. She managed to persuade them to leave, but then she started arguing with Zhang Laosan.
Zhang Laosan not only didn't care about her injury, but also resented her for causing trouble. In a fit of anger, he shoved her hard, causing her back to hit the edge of the shelf hard, leaving a large bruise on the spot. She was in so much pain that she couldn't straighten up for a long time.
This perfectly illustrates the saying that bloodshed and disaster will continue.
In the days that followed, misfortune struck again, leaving no room for respite.
First, her words backfired every time, and whenever she wanted to gossip about Jiang Xinlan to the neighbors, she would say a bad word about her.
Opening your mouth inevitably leads to biting your tongue, which can cause minor abrasions or even result in a mouth full of blood, recurring oral ulcers, and making even eating painful.
Once, she secretly spread rumors about someone downstairs. She was only halfway through her sentence when a passing neighbor confronted her, leaving her speechless. Soon after, the whole neighborhood knew that she was incorrigible. Even the people who used to gossip with her found her unlucky and stopped associating with her.
Then came domestic turmoil, with one distressing event after another weighing heavily on her.
Zhang Laosan's gambling addiction grew worse and worse, and the debts she owed accumulated with interest. Debt collectors came to her door every day to throw paint and block her keyholes. People in the neighborhood avoided her supermarket, and her business plummeted.
She had painstakingly scraped together the money to buy the goods, but in the middle of the night, thieves broke into the warehouse, emptied half of it, and couldn't recover the stolen goods even after calling the police.
The water pipe in my house burst in the middle of the night, flooding two households downstairs. The compensation alone cost tens of thousands of yuan.
My son Zhuangzhuang got into a fight at kindergarten and broke his chin. He had to go to the hospital and get three stitches, which cost a lot of money.
Just as the two-week deadline Shen Yu mentioned arrived, her family's supermarket couldn't hold on any longer and had to close down.
In less than three months, Zhang Laosan had completely exhausted the last bit of his family's savings and secretly mortgaged the house to loan sharks.
He absconded with the last bit of emergency money her family had left her, leaving her with a mountain of gambling debts.
Li Juan sat in her empty rented room, holding her son, looking at the debt collection notice, and finally became completely terrified.
But it was already too late.
By then, Shen Yu and Jiang Xinlan were no longer people she could get close to.
He could only live the rest of his life in regret.
Of course, these are all things to follow.
After Li Juan ran away, the onlookers, having lost interest in the spectacle, gradually dispersed. However, the look they gave Shen Yu before leaving was filled with undisguised awe.
They used to think that Jiang Xinlan was pitiful for being pregnant out of wedlock and raising two children, and that she had encountered such a heartless and ungrateful scumbag.
Unexpectedly, the man returned without a word, and he turned out to be a tough guy who could tell a person's fate at a glance. He was fiercely protective of his wife and children, and anyone who messed with him was doomed.
They'd better be careful when they associate with Jiang Xinlan in the future, or they might suffer the same fate as Li Juan.
Shen Yu didn't care at all what they were thinking.
After everyone had left, he first squatted down and patted the two children's heads to make sure they weren't frightened before standing up and looking at Jiang Xinlan.
"I'm sorry, Xinlan, I've made you and the child suffer."
Jiang Xinlan looked at him, her nose suddenly stung, and her eyes instantly welled up with tears.
For the past six years, every time she has encountered such unwarranted malice, she has gritted her teeth and endured it all alone, arming herself with thorns in order to protect her two children.
No one has ever stood so steadily in front of her, shielding her from all the storms and protecting her and her child without her having to say a word.
She sniffed, shook her head vigorously, and spoke softly, with a hint of weakness she herself didn't realize:
"I'm fine. Thank you, Shen Yu."
"Don't be so polite with me, it's only right. Let's go, take Niannian and Guigui to play."
Jiang Xinlan looked at the man in front of her, who was holding a child in each hand. After thinking for a moment, she couldn't help but ask.
"Shen Yu, how could your fortune-telling skills and what you said just now be so accurate? Just how many other skills do you have that I don't know about?"