Rebirth: Solely Cherished by the Devoted Commander novel Chapter 610

When he was gone, the widow said, "We can't let that bastard get away with this! Think of a way to handle it!"

"Heh, letting us farm for him? That's just a dream!"

"But if he tells your wife later, we're done for!" the widow said anxiously. She actually had several lovers, and if one of them found out, they'd all think they were the widow's only man. They'd be deceived and stop giving money and gifts. What then? So, she was very worried.

Old Liu was worried too. Old Liu's wife was like a bandit, practically a battle-hardened shrew!

"Have you thought of a solution?"

"Hmm, heh, what if we just burn his crops? I'm not the one at fault here; it would be an unfortunate fire, eh heh." Old Liu sneered. The widow thought, that's right, it would save her the trouble.

Old Liu went to the front of the field ridge, Sun Chan had no way to get close, so she just drifted in the direction of Zhou Jinzhu, but she saw the moment the flames ignited.

Sun Chan couldn't stop it, she could only watch as the flames leapt up over the crops. Before long, the wind picked up, and after a moment of silence, more flames sprung up. It even burned down Zhao Xiuxia's crops nearby. Everyone got up, screaming, hurriedly fetching water to put out the fire. Fortunately, aside from Zhao Xiuxia's and Zhou Jinzhu's crops, nothing worse happened.

Other families suffered no losses. Luckily, those two were in the corner, and the wind direction was opposite. If not, the whole village's crops would have been at risk. Sun Chan thought, I never imagined things would be like this after I died.

Zhao Xiuxia went crazy the next day when she saw her crops burned to nothing! She knelt on the ground and cried out loudly.

"What should I do now!"

Zhou Jinzhu was stunned too when he came: "What happened here? Zhao Xiuxia! Your house caught fire and burned my crops? You compensate me!"

"Compensate you? Look at the wind direction! Clearly it was your house's fire that spread, you pay up!"

"Why should I compensate you!"

Zhou Jinzhu started playing dumb, no way he was going to pay. He did nothing wrong! 𝘧𝑟𝑒𝑒𝘸𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝘷𝑒𝓁.𝘤𝘰𝓂

Zhao Xiuxia, mad as anything, charged at him to start a brawl: "Beast, you ruined our crops. I'll fight you! I worked so hard to grow them; why did they all burn?"

"You worked hard? Did you ever set foot on the field? It was all my wife! Without Sun Chan, your family would have starved to death long ago! My wife's crops were burnt by your fire, and you still want to blame me!"

The two continued to fight and curse, several people couldn't separate them. Zhao Xiuxia thought of the debt she owed and her daughter's indifference, and felt all hope was lost. She fainted right on the spot. Zhou Jinzhu was also shocked and saw everyone hurriedly taking Zhao Xiuxia to the village clinic, fearing they'd be held accountable, and he ran off.

Sun Lijuan sneered, "We're in a new society! I've never heard of kids having to pay the debts of their parents! How would I know why my mother borrowed money, go sue in court if you're unhappy, my mom's like this now, and you still want money, shameless!" With that, she walked off. Indeed, barren mountains and unruly folks breed villains! Trying to trap me?

The creditors, furious, went to Sun Lijuan's home and took whatever they could. Later, the village head handled it by selling her family house to repay the debts. Sun Lijuan didn't return when she heard, whatever, she didn't want to return to that dump anyway.

Because there was no one looking after her, Zhao Xiuxia wasn't cared for properly, just given a bag of soybean milk a day to keep her from starving. Clearing excrement would be too much trouble otherwise.

Zhao Xiuxia lay in bed thinking about her current outcome, it was karma, if she hadn't treated Sun Chan that way back then, it wouldn't have come back to her like this. It was all her own doing! Less than a month later, she died, with bedsores all over her body, suffering immense pain.

Before she died, Zhao Xiuxia saw Sun Chan by her side, reaching out her hand as if wanting to hold Sun Chan's hand.

Sun Chan coldly stepped back a few steps, avoiding her touch.

Zhao Xiuxia said, "I'm sorry, I was wrong... if you were alive, you wouldn't treat me like this, at least I could have a peaceful old age."

Sun Chan replied, "You're only saying this because things went bad for you; if life was good, your daughter dutiful, you wouldn't care about my death at all. I don't forgive you, not in this life or the next. It's all your own doing, serves you right."

Zhao Xiuxia chuckled a few bitter laughs, "Yes, yes, I deserve it..." And she died with her eyes open.