How I Survived in Transmigration with My Ghost Hubby

8. An Early-Morning Farce

Translator: Annsmiley

Ji Ran spent the first day in this family feeling absolutely confused and frightened. Lu Zhen made the meals, so he didn’t have to go and eat with the big family. As for the fact that the other family members weren’t friendly to him and tried to avoid him, he didn’t take it to heart. Anyway, he was the master of his own life. And as a man, he wouldn’t give up so easily.

However, Ji Ran didn’t expect that just because he didn’t show up during meals, he would end up getting in trouble. Just like what people always said, whether it was a blessing or a disaster, when it was doomed to happen, one would never be able to avoid it. Even if you were sitting at home, a disaster would come upon you.

The disaster came upon Ji Ran quite unexpectedly. Yesterday, he stayed in the wedding room all day and seldom talked to anyone. And inexplicably, He was accused of stealing.

Early in the morning when first ray of sunlight just appeared in the sky, the old woman, namely Granny Lu, came to his door aggressively. And she made a loud noise when she knocked on the door.

Being woken up so early in the morning, Ji Ran was naturally not in a good mood. He opened the door unhappily, and was almost poked in the nose by Granny Lu.

“It’s still early and what is this about?” Based on what happened yesterday and what Lu Zhen told him, Ji Ran naturally didn’t have a good impression of the Lu Family. Now that the old woman knocked on his door early in the morning again, and she even almost poked him in his nose with her finger, of course, he wouldn’t look very happy.

“You know what? You stayed in your room the whole day yesterday and you didn’t even show up during meals. I was worried that you might be hungry. And what? You’re not hungry at all, because you stole food from us!” With her hands on her hips, Granny Lu didn’t sound or look any less aggressive when she saw Ji Ran. “I’ve saved twenty eggs for almost half a year, and this morning when I counted them, there were two eggs missing! I intend to give those eggs to Changgeng’s wife after she gives birth so that she can recover sooner. But you! You stole them! Aren’t you afraid that Karma will come back to bite you in the butt? And the flour! One kilogram of it is missing this morning. Do you think that now that you’re married into our family, so you can steal whatever you want? In your dreams! I’m telling you, if you don’t give the two eggs and the one kilogram of flour back to me, I’ll make you regret it!”

All this time the old woman was talking, she pointed at Ji Ran’s nose with one of her fingers and was spitting all over Ji Ran’s face. Ji Ran felt like swearing right now.

“What makes you think that I’m the one who stole your eggs and flour? Do I even know where you hid your eggs and flour? You can’t say that I stole it just because you think I did. You need the evidence!” Ji Ran wiped his face with his hand, and he felt like that he was about to explode as his anger built.

“You don’t know where I put the eggs and flour? That doesn’t mean you didn’t go out and look for them! The house is just so small! Yesterday, only Changgeng’s wife, Changqing’s son and you were at home. They couldn’t possibly do something like that. Only you would do it!” Granny Lu did not believe that Ji Ran was wrongly accused. In her eyes, they were all family members, except for Ji Ran, who was an outsider, “Nothing has ever gone missing in our house before. But now that you’re here, my eggs and flour are missing. Ji Ran, it must be you! It can’t be anyone else!”

“You’re being unreasonable. Whether you believe it or not, I didn’t stole your eggs and flour!” Ji Ran felt that this was giving him a headache. They would never settle this matter by merely talking about it. And as a man, he didn’t want to waste his time arguing with an old woman.

However, although he didn’t want to argue with her, it didn’t mean that she would let him go so easily.

Seeing that Ji Ran was going to close the door, Granny Lu grabbed his arm. And before Ji Ran could do anything about it, she sat on the ground, still grabbing Ji Ran’s arm with one hand while patting her thigh with the other hand.

“Gosh, life has been so unfair to me! Everything I did, I did it for this family, but the food I’ve saved was stolen by a thief! Oh, this is just so unfair! My son is dead and that isn’t enough. He has to marry a man even though he is no longer alive. Unlike women, the man can’t give birth and he is lazy. Now we have one more family member who doesn’t work and who steals from the family. Why is this happening to me?!”

The truth was, Ji Ran also grew up in the countryside, so he had seen old and unreasonable old women before. But what Granny Lu did still left him stunned. What the hell was she trying to do?

While he was still confused, a large group of people came over.

“How dare you! As her ‘daughter-in-law’, not only do you show no respect for her, you also pushed her to the ground. Today, as the patriarch in this family, I’ll teach you a lesson!” A hunchbacked old man, who was standing ahead of everyone else, rushed towards Ji Ran with a rattan strip. And before he came over, the rattan strip was up and falling towards Ji Ran’s face.

Ji Ran was not stupid. Of course, he couldn’t stand there and let himself get whipped, so he ran like hell, but he was caught by Lu Changgeng and Lu Changqing who knew that Ji Ran would try to escape.

Lu Changgeng’s wife, whose name was Leng Xianglian and who had a big pregnant belly, also wanted to have a part in it. Seeing that Ji Ran was going to be punished, she ran over to open the courtyard door. People always told others not to wash their dirty linen in public, but she kept the door wide open so that the outsiders could see what was happening to Ji Ran and that they could make fun of him later. She thought that she was doing the right thing as those two eggs that went missing should have belonged to her. Obviously, she also believed that Ji Ran had stolen the eggs and she was unhappy about it.

Lu Changqing’s wife Gao Hui was also there, but she had always been introverted and silent. So she didn’t add fuel to the flames. Instead, she stayed aside and kept an eye on her son.

Meanwhile, due to year-round malnutrition, Ji Ran was both skinny and weak, so he didn’t have much strength in him. Now that he was caught by Lu Changgeng and Lu Changqing, he found himself unable to break free. Seeing that the rattan strip was going to fall on his face, he knew that he couldn’t run away from it, so he turned his head to one side and closed his eyes.

And he was shouting silently: F*ck you, you lunatics!

And with his eyes closed, Ji Ran waited, but he didn’t feel the pain that he expected. However, the two brothers, who were holding him, suddenly let him go. The rattan strip fell on Ji Ran’s body, but he felt no pain. Instead, the two brothers were screaming and rolling on the ground in pain.

This unexpected twist and turn of the situation shocked everyone.

Their wives were the first to react. They rushed to stop the old man as they called “father”, but the old man seemed to have gained momentum. He swang the rattan strip dexterously, and he was agile and fast, so his daughter-in-laws were unable to stop him. Compared to Leng Xianglian, who, due to her pregnancy, could do nothing about it even though she was anxious, Gao Hui was accidentally hit by the rattan strip when she tried to stop him.

“Gosh, father! What are you doing? The thief is over there! Are you so old that you can’t even recognize who your sons are?” Seeing that her husband was wailing as he got whipped, Leng Xianglian was extremely anxious. Then she thought of her mother-in-law who was sitting on the ground like a fool, so she quickly tugged at her clothes, “Mother, you can’t just sit here and do nothing. If Father keeps whipping them like that, he will kill them!”

Granny Lu came to her senses and hurriedly stood up to join everyone else. She meant to stop her husband, but she also got whipped. The old man didn’t even recognize her. Whoever tried to stop him would get whipped.

After a while, Granny Lu’s face started to bleed. And on the face of it, she had even more injuries than her two son did.

‘F*ck, what’s going on?!’

Ji Ran came to his senses and was shocked by the chaos in front of him.

“Meow!”

At this moment, a black cat jumped from the wall to the roof. The rattan strip in the old man’s hand fell to the ground, and the old man collapsed. The whole family was dumbfounded, so when he fell, no one reacted fast enough to hold him, and he fell directly onto the ground.