‘Yes, it must be! Her son had been doing just fine before that little brat Shitou was sent to the academy. Yu Hai’s whole family is conniving, they must have done something to transfer her son’s fate to Little Shitou. They must have!’ 

If that little brat did not exist, the person who would have been accepted into Rongxuan Academy and given special treatment by the principal of the academy would definitely have been her son! The person who became a county official and had gotten the government grain allowance would also be her son! 

The more Madam Zhang thought about it, the more fixated she became. The next day, she went to create a fuss in front of the old residence of the Yu Family, saying things like how Yu Hai was evil and used black magic to switch the fate of his son. She also claimed that everything Yu Hai’s family owned should have belonged to her, and Little Shitou’s county official title was also supposed to be Yu Bo’s. She cried as well, threatening to hang herself in front of the old residence in an effort to force Yu Hai to switch the two families’ fortune back. 

The villagers of Dongshan Village surrounded her and watched her like a circus show. No one stopped her even as she pretended to take off her belt and acted as if she wanted to hang herself in front of the Yu Residence doors. Old Yu was so mad he trembled,...