A piece of Japanese incense

Yuyi poked my elbow gently. I looked in the direction of her finger and saw Yutuan sticking his head out of the courtyard gate and making an "OK" gesture to me.

After receiving the signal, I winked at Yutuan and smiled slyly at Yuyi, and she responded with a sly pout and nod.

I immediately lay down on the ground, shouting, "Please, Sister Fang, please be kind to me. Please have mercy. I won't dare to do it again. Please don't take it. If you take it away, how can I live?"

I pretended to cry while crawling towards Fang Juexia. I touched the edge of her skirt and carefully took out the "itching powder" from my boots and sprinkled it on her skirt.

She jumped up and screamed, and I was thrown aside. I lay on the ground and pretended to scream in pain.

Yuyi shouted and supported me: "Girl! Are you okay?" I closed the lid of the bamboo tube and stuffed it into my sleeve.

She stood up and tried to hug Fang Juexia's thighs again. She took a few steps back and shouted angrily, "Zhi Yihe! Are you infected with some kind of crazy disease? Don't infect me!"

I saw a crowd of people in front of the courtyard gate, all of them looking over here, so I stood up in a hurry, hugged Ye Shi's neck tightly, and pleaded, "Sister Ye, can't I just not say anything? Please take whatever you want and don't bother me anymore."

Ye Shi was frightened by my sudden action. She screamed and twisted her body hard to try to break free from me.

While calling "Sister Ye", he covered her neck with his sleeves, opened the bamboo tube, and poured some itching powder into her neck.

After applying the ointment to her, Ye Shi saw that my hand strength had weakened a little, and immediately pushed me out with both hands. I pretended to stumble and sat down on the stone road.

"Wanlian! Help me see! Why is my neck so itchy! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

Wan Lian hurriedly checked her neck: "Girl, there is also it on her hands, could it be... Ah! Girl! Why are my hands itching too!" Wan Lian scratched her hands frantically. Ye Shi couldn't hold it in and burst into tears: "Zhi Yihe! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

(Hey! No! Are you crying now? What's there to cry about?)

Here, Fang Juexia was also rubbing her calves, shouting in panic: "Xiaohan! Xiaohan! There are so many bugs crawling on my legs! Help me swat them away!"

Everyone present put down their objects, became restless, and scratched their heads. Even Ye Siqi stood up from his seat and checked everything.

Only Xiaohan walked to Fang Juexia calmly, lifted up her skirt and took a look, then patted her skirt a few times, saying calmly, "Don't worry, young lady, this kind of insect is not contagious. Look! There is nothing here. If it was really a stink bug, it would have left black spots."

Yuyi and I looked at each other and then turned our gazes to Xiaohan.

Fang Juexia was still rubbing her legs unyieldingly, Xiaohan leaned over to comfort her: "Girl, as long as you don't pay attention to it, it won't itch anymore. I was just lying to you."

Yuyi stood up and asked tentatively, "How did Miss Xiaohan know that it wouldn't itch?"

Xiao Han lowered his head and patted Fang Juexia's dress, and replied without raising his head: "When I was a child, I saw it very often in the fields at home. Because it only appeared in spring, we called it 'spring insect'. It died within two days."

Fang Juexia screamed madly and painfully: "Then why am I still so itchy! Ah! Ahhhh!"

Xiao Han squatted down and pulled open Fang Juexia's skirt: "Look, girl, there's really nothing. You just feel itchy because you're thinking about it."

Everyone stopped scratching, as if they realized that it wasn't that itchy anymore.

Yuyi paused for a moment and then asked, "Then the rash on our girl's body can't be fake, right?"

Xiao Han turned his gaze to Yu Yi and said calmly to Fang Jue Xia: "When spring insects are threatened, they will release a scent. Miss, you can smell whether there is a fresh and sweet fragrance on your body. If not, then Miss Zhi is deceiving everyone. Don't be afraid."

Everyone sniffed the scent on their bodies.

At this time, Xiaohan's eyes fell on me, and he said meaningfully: "The rash on Miss Zhi's body may really be caused by spring insects, but she may have made up this lie just to prevent us from taking the items in her house."

"You..." Yuyi's face turned red quickly.

"What? Real or fake?"

“I don’t think I taste anything.”

"I don't think so either. Maybe they are really lying to us."

……

For a time, there were different opinions.

My throat was dry, so I cleared it and spoke slowly, with clear pronunciation and a somewhat drawn-out tone: "Miss Xiaohan also touched Sister Fang with her hand. Wasn't she infected? Didn't your hand itch?"

Everyone's eyes were focused on Xiaohan. Xiaohan's body was trembling slightly. He clenched his hands tightly and rubbed his fingers unnaturally. He lowered his head and did not look me in the eye. His voice was trembling a little: "No!"

Fang Juexia stood up straight abruptly, her face livid, and her voice suddenly rose, "Okay, you dare to play tricks on me!"

With a "pa" sound, the crisp sound of a slap, as sharp as a blade, pierced through the silence around.

Fang Juexia's sudden slap caught us off guard. Yu Yi didn't move or dodge, and was hit hard. Finger marks appeared on her cheeks, and her fair skin turned red. Yu Yi covered her face and couldn't help shaking.

"Fang Juexia!" I roared, feeling my ears burning, my chest rising and falling rapidly, breathing heavily, and my anger burning to my throat: "Why did you hit her!"

"Yuyi!" Yutuan ran in and protected Yuyi with his body.

Xiaohan whispered something to Fang Juexia. Fang Juexia looked back and saw that the door was full of people, talking and whispering. She immediately suppressed her temper and said with gritted teeth: "Zhi Yihe! Remember this! If this girl is safe, it's fine. If not, the next slap will fall on your face! You, your mother who is not presentable, and everyone in your family! No one can stay out of this, no one can have peace, no one can have a good life!"

Before he finished speaking, he stormed out of the yard.

"Miss...are you still taking these?" Wan Lian asked timidly.

"What are you taking? Just take it if you don't mind it being dirty!" Ye Shi scratched his neck irritably and quickly caught up with Fang Juexia.

Everyone put down the items in their hands and followed.

Yu Tuan was very angry, her face was full of anger, her eyes were spitting fire. She pointed her finger in the direction they left and yelled: "Girl! You just let them go like this?!"

I pursed my lips tightly, suppressing the anger in my heart.

"Girl, I'm fine." Yu Yi's tears were welling up in her eyes, but she tried hard not to let them fall.

Yutuan's body was shaking, his anger like an active volcano on the verge of erupting.