"Ouch, someone's been hit! This is outrageous! They're just bullying an old woman like me!"
“How could she do that to my grandson who is so young? She wanted to kill him.”
"She beats up the young and then the old; she doesn't respect discipline and doesn't care about the hard work of the People's Liberation Army soldiers."
“My son has sacrificed so much for the country and the people, yet his own mother and son are beaten like this. It’s outrageous!”
"Alright, stop trying to call your soul back. Don't you know why you got beaten?"
“Zhang Tong, you can’t bully this old woman just because your husband has a high position. My son is a battalion commander and a hero who has made great contributions.”
"She's an idiot. I didn't say anything wrong. Why should she hit my grandson and then hit me?"
“This is not over. I must report this and have the leaders kick her out of the family compound.”
"With such violent elements in the family compound, the safety of the families cannot be guaranteed. How can the soldiers fight on the front lines to protect their country?"
When Xie Lin arrived, he overheard Zhao Xiao'e blaming Zhou Shi, and his expression immediately turned cold.
Although I don't know all about unruly kids, I do know them to a certain extent.
She is playful, but she won't act without reason.
Having just arrived at the family compound, she couldn't possibly know Zhao Xiao'e.
She treats people who are unrelated to her as if they are invisible.
For her to take action, it's likely that the other party has provoked her.
"Aunt Zhao, tell me how violent my Shishi is."
A cool, clear voice came from the crowd, and a path automatically appeared.
A tall, burly man walked into the crowd and helped the little girl who was sitting on the ground up.
Her little face was puffed up with anger; she was clearly unhappy.
News of Xie Lin's marriage has already spread in the family compound.
He was young, held a high position, and was one of the top members of the special operations team personally trained by Commander Xiao.
He has a bright future ahead of him and is good-looking, so many family members want to introduce him to their nieces or sisters.
But Xie Lin always refused decisively, making it clear that he did not want to get married.
And because of his sharp tongue, he made many young girls cry, and gradually, those military wives gave up their intentions.
They were all very confused when they learned that he had married a mentally challenged woman.
Fan Rou is the daughter of Zhao Xiao'e's younger sister. By chance, she got a job in the army's canteen.
Before she joined the army, her mother said that she should find a man with a good future, preferably an officer, so that she could have a good life.
Taking advantage of her job, she inquired with the canteen staff about several officers who seemed promising, but most of them were already married.
It wasn't until she met Xie Lin that she was told he was a top soldier in the army and unmarried, that she immediately became interested in him.
Even after hearing that Xie Lin didn't want to get married, they still held onto a sliver of hope.
When Zhao Xiao'e learned of her niece's feelings, she put on the airs of an elder and proposed marriage to her, even guaranteeing that she could make the matter happen.
As expected, things went awry.
Later, they turned their attention to Lu Fan and smashed his clothes as well.
Zhao Xiao'e blamed Xie Lin for this, believing that he was the one who prevented Lu Fan from being with her niece, and that she always treated him with disdain whenever she saw him.
Upon hearing that he had married, she was both angry and disdainful.
A man's words are deceitful; no matter how great he is, he can't resist the desires of a man with flesh.
She couldn't even appreciate her niece, yet she married a fool. She must be blind.
Tian Gang's house was the first one in this row of courtyards.
His wife is very hardworking; they grow a lot of vegetables in their backyard.
Zhao Xiao'e felt that there weren't enough varieties of plants in the backyard, so she set her sights on the second yard.
In her eyes, since no one lives in the house anyway, it's just a little land, so she might as well plant some crops.
Xiao Dan called people to clean Xie Lin's house, and Zhang Tong brought his furry friend over to familiarize himself with the place.
Coincidentally, Zhao Xiao'e was picking cucumbers when they arrived.
So Zhang Tong told her not to plant vegetables in this yard anymore, and to clear all the vegetables from the field, because this yard now had an owner.
It was just a normal sentence, but I don't know what switch Zhao Xiao'e was flipped, she just blurted it out, completely disregarding Zhang Tong, the wife of a high-ranking official.
Zhang Tong doesn't like to establish his authority or bully others. He's usually very friendly to the military spouses in the family compound, so he treats them as equals.
He starts spewing a string of profanities, saying things like, "Only an idiot would grow vegetables; leaving the land barren is disrespectful to food, and he'll be drowned in spittle," and so on.
As for why she knew she was mentally challenged, it was because she saw Xiao Dan leading her with a stick yesterday.
The person was dirty and looked dazed; who would believe he wasn't a fool?
After eavesdropping a few more times, she confirmed that Zhou Shi was indeed an idiot.
Rumors circulated in the family compound that Xie Lin had chosen to marry a mentally challenged woman instead of a beautiful one—this was the message she had spread.
It's his own fault for not marrying his own niece.
Where there are many people, there is a world of its own; in the family compound, there are countless idle and nosy people.
Not to mention overnight, the news could spread throughout the entire compound in just one hour.
Zhao Xiao'e was simply taking her anger out on Zhou Shi, which is why she kept calling him an idiot.
When her grandson Tian Hu heard that Zhou Shi was an idiot, he got close and started making faces and spitting at her, calling her "idiot" repeatedly.
Okay, even if he called her an idiot, Shishi wouldn't understand, so she completely ignored him.
An invisible person; she can't see him.
Being ignored, Tian Hu suddenly became angry.
While Zhou Shi was squatting by the wall watching ants move their nest, someone kicked her in the back.
She lost her balance and bumped her forehead against the wall.
The bump that had finally gone down has swelled up again, and the skin has been rubbed raw.
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