Chapter 51: Mother Zhang’s Swift Retribution

Chapter 51: Mother Zhang Gets Her Comeuppance, and Fast

Jiang Yingxue's business was doing well, while the Huilong Rice Ball stall next door was struggling.

Huilong Rice Ball's taste was never that great to start with. Compared to Xuehe Rice Ball, their rice balls were even less appealing. Students who had tried their rice balls were happy to shell out an extra couple bucks to buy from Xuehe Rice Ball. Coupled with Mother Zhang's crazy move of forcibly dragging a customer against their will today, it made people even more turned off.

Word got around fast about what went down at the school gate. Those who knew about the incident would not choose to go to Huilong Rice Ball. For a while, the Huilong Rice Ball stall was so idle they could have played cards or swatted flies.

Zhang Weilong shot his mother a resentful look and said, "Mom, you shouldn't have stirred up trouble."

Mother Zhang hadn't exactly won in the incident and was already in a bad mood. Now, being blamed by her son made her even more displeased. She pulled a long face. "You say I caused trouble? How dare you, you little brat, blame your own mother? I know you like the back of my hand. You were probably hoping I'd go over and poach all the customers. Oh, now that there are no customers, you blame your mother? I think you're the one who's crazy!"

She pointed at Zhang Weilong's head and launched into a tirade. It was at that moment that a metal plate fell down on her.

A "crack" sound echoed—the sound of a wrist bone breaking.

Accompanying the "crack" was Mother Zhang's scream of agony. Not only was the bone in her wrist broken, but it was also cut by the sharp edge of the metal plate, and it was bleeding heavily.

Long Ting's injured hand was the same side as Mother Zhang's, but Mother Zhang's condition was much more severe.

Everyone was drawn by Mother Zhang's scream and turned to look. A brief, stunned silence fell over the scene.

A faint, cold smile played on Jiang Yingxue's lips as she looked directly into Mother Zhang's eyes and said, "What goes around comes around."

Jiang Yingxue said it loud enough for everyone to hear.

Mother Zhang was furious. She wanted to step forward and teach Jiang Yingxue a lesson, but unfortunately, the injury on her wrist kept her in such pain that she was in too much pain to deal with Jiang Yingxue.

Zhang Shude put down the bag in her hand, hurried across the street to her mother's side, and asked, worried, "Mom, are you okay?"

The next second, she glared angrily at Jiang Yingxue, their eyes meeting. "You..."

Before she could finish, Jiang Yingxue continued, "That's what you said earlier, right?"

She curled her lips, a faint chill in her eyes. "Retribution comes so quickly." Of course, she had a hand in it, but who among those present would know? So, it was fate. Heaven has eyes.

Zhang Shude wanted to say more, but she was quickly distracted by her mother's cries of pain. She pressed on her mother's bleeding wrist and said to her brother, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and drive Mom to the hospital!"

He hesitated. "Sis, I'm still manning the stall. Why don't you take Mom?"

Zhang Shude felt disappointed. "At a time like this, and you're still thinking about the stall? Your business isn't good today anyway. Hurry up."

Perhaps the phrase "business isn't good" struck a nerve with Zhang Weilong. He refused Zhang Shude's request to pack up the stall and drive their mother to the hospital, saying, "Sis, you and brother-in-law are both here. You take Mom."

The business at Zhang Shude's stir-fried rice noodle stall was still decent. If she took her mother to the hospital, she was worried her husband couldn't handle it alone. Her brother's business was poor today; he should be the one to take their mother to the hospital.

"Mom was injured by a metal plate falling from the car. By all accounts, it should be you!"

"This was an accident. I didn't want this either, sis. You have two people at your stall. Can't you go?" Zhang Weilong was very irritable. Business was bad today, and his mother was injured by a metal plate he himself had welded on. The problem was, since he welded the plate himself, he couldn't blame the car shop. He could only pay for it himself, a bitter pill he had to swallow.

For a moment, the brother and sister were at an impasse. Then, Zhang Shude's husband, Li Changlong, stepped forward and said, "I'll take Mom."

Zhang Shude frowned. "If you go, what about the stall..."

Li Changlong said, "I called my mom. She'll be here in five minutes." Li Changlong's family lived two streets away. He called his mother and explained that his mother-in-law was injured, and she quickly came over.

"Alright then."

Meanwhile, Jiang Yingxue said gently to Long Ting and the others, "You two, the bad person who bullied you has already gotten what was coming to them. Next time you encounter a bad person, just steer clear, alright?"

She took out two blue candies and handed them to the girls, signaling them to eat them. Long Ting and Lin Jiayi didn't ask what they were and popped them right in their mouths.

"Sister, what kind of candy is this? It's sweet and delicious!"

"Blue Butterfly Flower candy. Sweet is right. So, do you feel a little better now?" Blue Butterfly Flower is a Spiritual Flower with the effect of forewarning danger. These two candies were made purely from Blue Butterfly Flowers. She hoped that after eating them, they would be more alert to danger and stay safe their whole lives.

The two girls said in unison, "Yes, thank you, sister!"

After finishing the complimentary rice balls, Long Ting and the others said goodbye to Jiang Yingxue and left.

Long Ting said to Lin Jiayi, "That old woman today was so scary. The expression on her face when she was pulling me gave me the creeps."

Lin Jiayi remembered Mother Zhang's ferocious expression when she grabbed Long Ting's hand and refused to let go. She felt a pang of fear. She had been scared too at the time, but thinking of Long Ting being grabbed, she bravely stepped forward to try and pry Mother Zhang's hand off, though she couldn't. "I was almost scared to death too. By the way, how's your hand? Let me see if it's better."

Long Ting raised her hand and moved it. "Huh? I don't feel any pain anymore, and it's not red either."

"I remember the sister applied some ointment on your hand."

"Yeah! Yeah! Sister is really super nice! I like her so much!" Because her emotions hadn't completely settled down at the time, Long Ting had been worried before eating the rice ball. It must be said, the shrimp and seaweed rice ball truly lived up to being a secret recipe. Her nervous and fearful mood gradually eased as she ate the rice ball.

Lin Jiayi said, "I like her too! The rice balls she makes are also delicious!"

"Exactly! Let's quickly taste the freshly squeezed Qiong Peach Juice." Previously, they had always bought the 20-yuan cup of Qiong Peach Juice. Today, because of the dragging incident in the line, the sister gave them the most expensive rice balls and juice from the stall. The sister was really kind and generous.

"Wow~" The two little girls looked at each other and said in unison, "It's especially delicious!"

Their fear melted away with the delicious rice balls, the sweet candies, and the tasty Qiong Peach Juice.

On the other side, Jiang Yingxue's stall welcomed over a dozen elementary school students and a few middle-aged people.

Liu Minmin brought her classmates and friends of the same age to the front of the stall and consciously lined up to buy.

Liu Minmin said, "Sister, I'm back again. I want two fish balls, two shrimp balls, and a 20-yuan cup of Qiong Peach Juice."