Husband, please lend me your virtues

On May 16, 1962, in Mojiazhuang Brigade, far away from where the villagers gathered, there was a house standing alone by the river that looked much better than any other house in the village.

The old lady who was walking around the house with a limp had a sad face and felt very guilty towards her granddaughter in front of her.

"Zijin, it's all because of grandma that you two got into trouble."

Those people are a bunch of beasts. They are going to force the three generations of the family into a dead end!

Not only did he covet the yard where they lived, he also wanted to sell her granddaughter to get the matchmaker's money. He might even have his eyes on her granddaughter's betrothal gift.

"Grandma, what are you talking about? You are the one who has implicated us. If you and Grandpa hadn't earned this house when you were young, my sister and I would have been adopted by that family."

When Mo Zijin talked about that family, she couldn't hide the anger in her eyes. She and her eldest sister Mo Zipei's father were brothers. Both brothers were capable and had built houses in the village.

However, when Mo Zijin was three years old, during the turbulent times and before the founding of New China, her parents, uncle and aunt were killed by bandits one after another.

Only she and Mo Zipei managed to hide in the cellar and survived.

The original Mojiazhuang Brigade was still just Mojiazhuang, and all village affairs were decided by the clan.

She and Mo Zipei were both girls, and the clan elder who was in charge at the time believed that girls could not inherit the family line.

The two houses that their parents had saved up were divided among Mo's father's cousins, on the condition that their two families would raise the two children and provide for Grandma Mo's retirement in the future.

If Grandma Mo had not argued with the elders at that time and taken the sisters to live with her, she, a lame old lady, would have worked hard to raise the two granddaughters.

Mo Zijin and Mo Zipei were snatched back by Old Lady Mo, but the house that Mo's father and uncle had worked so hard to earn was occupied by those two shameless people and they were not going to return it.

Mo Zipei, who was five years old at the time, took Mo Zijin, who could just walk, and burned the two rooms down to the ground.

Mo Zijin, who still had her memory at that time, saw that her elder sister was so bold and stood up for her.

Her sister is the future heroine, a scientist. In the original book, her sister was left with a permanent black mark because of the arson incident.

This time she was trying to stop her sister from burning down the house next door, and was caught in the act.

She filled a small bucket with water that she could lift, and while Mo Zipei was preparing the kerosene for ignition, she sprinkled water around the house to wet the ground to prevent the neighbor's house from being burned.

Of course, she, a three-year-old kid, couldn't accomplish all of this by herself. She wanted to use this as a reminder to her sister that it would be better to dig a long pit or something to form a buffer zone to prevent tragedy from happening again.

Mo Zipei really noticed Meimei's abnormal behavior. She put down the kerosene that her father had brought back not long ago and planned to use for a whole year, walked to Mo Zijin, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with Jinjin?"

"Sister, there is grass on the ground. If our house is burned, other people's houses will be set on fire. Jinjin is watering the grass. Don't let it burn other people's houses or they will scold us."

Mo Zipei understood. She let go of her uncontrollable anger and began to reflect on her impulsive behavior.

She hugged little Mo Zijin and kissed her on the face, "Then let's not set the fire, okay?"

"Then do we have to give our home to others?" Mo Zijin was anxious. She didn't want those two disgusting people to live in the house that her father and uncle had worked so hard to build.

"No, why should the house that Dad and Uncle worked so hard to build be given to those two families cheaper just because they have a son?"

It's ridiculous that she wouldn't let them have their way.

It was too risky to burn the supporting beams or chop them with a knife. Mo Zijin suddenly remembered the news in his previous life that termites could destroy the main structure of a house.

It is impossible for termites alone to destroy a home in a short period of time, but what if human factors are involved?

She pulled Mo Zipei's sleeve and said, "Sister, termites! Dad said there are termites in the cellar at home. They are not good things and can bite down the house!"

First, destroy the main body of the house with farm tools, and then cover it up with termites, leading the termites to the place they have destroyed to cover up the traces.

Even if these two houses collapse within a few days, the villagers will only think that the quality is poor. Some superstitious people may even think that it is the appearance of Father Mo and Uncle Mo in heaven, and they are unwilling to let these shameless people occupy their houses.

Mo Zipei obviously understood what Mo Zijin meant. When she came to the cellar and saw the nest of termites, she came up with an idea.

She first chopped a few beams with a knife, then chopped them in some important places to create bumpy openings, and then placed termites in them to create the illusion that they were gnawing on them.

In less than half a month, the two families who had chosen a good day to force their way in were dumbfounded, because the auspicious day they had chosen was a month later.

They haven’t moved in yet!

The house collapsed, and the two families were happy for nothing. They were already unhappy, and then they heard some rumors in the village, which frightened them so much that they became suspicious, as they were already superstitious. The guilty consciences of the few people who were in charge of the project even frightened them sick.

It was said that their actions angered Father Mo and Uncle Mo in heaven, who seized their property but ignored their elderly mother and young daughter.

This is why the house collapsed for no reason. The workmanship of the house was obvious to all of them. Even half of the people had been hired by Mo's father and uncle to work on it.

They firmly believed that even a house made of mud and wood would not collapse so quickly.