Jiang Shichen slowly raised his head, "Grandma, ever since we started school, they have ganged up to bully us every day. At first, we tried to keep quiet, but they became even more aggressive. Today, they put a big spider in Qianqian's paper roll. How terrible!"

"Spider? Where did it come from?" Although Xu Yuehuai and Jiang Shichen did not get along, she knew that this little guy was a true gentleman and would not lie.

She squatted down in front of the three little ones.

"So, they're the ones who bullied you?"

Xu Yuehuai had thought from beginning to end that they were the ones who had bullied someone. Hearing this now, she couldn't help but feel unlucky. The three of them nodded in unison, and Xu Yuehuai understood from their synchronized state and expression.

The fact that things have come to this point is inextricably linked to her own actions.

She took the wooden basins one by one, stood up and said, "Come with me." The three of them followed behind Xu Yuehuai.

"You really were the ones bullying us today!" Xu Yuehuai said firmly.

Third Sister is deeply devoted to her child and cannot tolerate any injustice.

Regardless of who was right or wrong, Third Sister was always on the side of her own people. When she saw people pointing fingers at the three little ones and using foul language to say things like that Xu Yuehuai, the widow, had no manners and was a burden, she was immediately furious.

"Who are you calling a burden? You can't expect anything good to come out of your dog mouth!"

Third Sister was naturally feisty.

He had often argued with thugs and ruffians while running his shop, which had honed his sharp tongue.

Seeing their husbands looking pale and defeated after being thoroughly scolded by Third Sister, the concubine and Madam Lin approached arrogantly. Third Sister pointed at the concubine and said, "It's common knowledge that your master favors his concubine over his wife. Who do you think you are? You're just a courtesan singing in a brothel, and you dare to talk to me about social classes? Who do you think you are?"

The concubine's birth and her entry into the household were indeed dishonorable, and now that the Third Sister had repeatedly exposed her sores, she felt utterly ashamed.

She pointed at Third Sister, but after a long pause, she couldn't make sense of it.

"As for you, Madam, people are defecating and urinating on your head, and you're completely oblivious. You're even getting along with them. You're blind. You deserve to be invisible now."

"You...you, you're certainly sharp-tongued."

"Yeah, I'm also incredibly eloquent, so what?"

Third Sister is skilled at dealing with these down-and-out individuals, leaving them utterly defeated and in a state of chaos.

Old Master Lin stamped his foot in exasperation, "Quiet down! Can someone tell me what's going on? You outsiders are really something, so arrogant! This is my home."

"Are we here to freeload? You keep calling yourself an outsider, making it sound like you're some kind of noble person. Don't you have any sense of how you made your fortune? Don't expect me to say anything nice about you."

Third Sister went berserk and approached Master Lin, banging her head against his chest.

"Everyone, listen carefully. Lin Wentang is a lecherous bastard. Last December, he... he... he... luckily my husband found out early..."

She started sobbing and complaining, and everyone who listened immediately sensed that there was more to the story.

The lady and the concubine exchanged glances. The lady glared at Master Lin with fury: "Master, you've been philandering for years, and I've always turned a blind eye. But now you've gone even further. I really underestimated you. When did you start having an affair with her?"

“I am innocent. She is the one who is spreading rumors and slandering me. Madam, please don’t believe everything you hear.”

"My lord, you have wronged me." That concubine was not someone to be trifled with.

At that moment, he stretched out his Nine Yin White Bone Claw and scratched at him. Poor Master Lin couldn't even explain himself before he was tormented and left half-dead.

Zhou Wan looked at the old master.

“Sir, you are truly remarkable. You are well-versed in Confucianism and Mencius and know the hierarchy of people. Are our children not children too? Why can’t you treat them equally? Are we short of your tuition fees? I will complain to the magistrate right now. Your Honor, this old scholar is bullying my widow and my orphan! Waaah!”

Zhou Wan pretended to cry.

The commotion inside the deep courtyard spread out, and soon all the neighbors arrived, pointing and whispering, with some trying to mediate.

"It's better to resolve conflicts than to let them fester, sir. You've been philandering for quite some time now. You and Xiao Taohong from Zuichunlou exchange glances every day. Do you think I didn't know?"

The neighbor embellished the story, and the concubine stared in disbelief, pointing at Master Lin.

"Fine, Master, you always said you only loved me, but now it seems you were just talking nonsense. I'm not done with you!" The concubine, in a fit of anger, stepped forward and shoved him.

Mr. Lin lost his balance and immediately fell into the pond.

As for Zhou Wan, she pressed on relentlessly.

"You spout platitudes about benevolence and morality, but in reality you harbor ulterior motives. You are a hypocritical and sycophantic villain."

The old scholar was completely bewildered. "Don't talk nonsense! It's an insult to scholarship, a real insult to scholarship!"

Zhou Wan noticed that more and more people were watching the commotion. She deliberately moved closer and then shouted in a panic, "You molested me! You're old but your heart isn't young! You molested me!"

The old scholar was at a loss.

"Who molested you? It was clearly you..."

"Fellow villagers, you all saw it clearly, sob sob sob."

Zhou Wan began to sob sadly, her cries rising and falling, tears streaming down her face. Anyone could tell at a glance that it was this old scholar who was bullying Zhou Wan.

Meanwhile, Xu Yuehuai had already figured out the whole story.

Looking at the purplish-blue marks on Jiang Qianqian's wrist, she angrily said, "We're always the ones bullying others, how can we let others bully us?"

“I…” Jiang Qianqian looked at her with tears in her eyes and sobbed, “I’m holding it in.”

Xu Yuehuai sighed, "How could you possibly understand the treacherous nature of people, the saying that a kind person is easily bullied and a good horse is easily ridden?"

"That……"

Ah Qi clenched his fist.

He wished he could break the old man's nose. "Others help those who are reasonable, not their own. But what about him? He just stands behind this bunch of crazy kids. We were planning to study hard, but we just can't do anything about it."

"Mother, tell me, what should we do now?"

Jiang Shichen looked at Xu Yuehuai.

Xu Yuehuai was about to throw a tantrum.

But then I thought, this is too easy on them.

"We, like this..."

A moment later, Xu Yuehuai and the three little ones walked up to the crowd.

People continued to point and whisper, with one muttering, "There's always trouble around a widow's door. Look at her, raising so many children in the capital these days is really difficult."

"People are strangers in a strange land. Isn't that exactly the same as you and me? Outsiders are always easily looked down upon and bullied in local areas."

"Alas, people are cheap when they leave their hometown."

Everyone looked at Xu Yuehuai.