Chapter 025 Purpose
Relying on the cover of darkness, Gao Cuifen boldly stuck her head out to take a look.
The man who came was a tall, thin man. He was hunched over, looking around like a thief. Gao Cuifen recognized him immediately; this man was the one she had seen last night!
She turned around and nodded to the three people behind the low wall, and rushed out without caring whether they saw her actions or not.
Although Gao Cuifen was already in her fifties or sixties, she was still strong and agile, just as a young man in his twenties. With a single somersault, she leaped over the half-man-high wall and pounced on the man.
She rode on the man and slapped him hard: "Tell me, what's your last name, where are you from, what are you doing here, are you trying to steal something, tell me!"
“Wuwuwu…”
The man was stunned by Gao Cuifen who fell from the sky. He wanted to speak and explain, but Gao Cuifen's slap in the face didn't give him a chance to speak.
Gao Cuifen: "You bastard, you still won't confess, okay? Fine, I'll teach you a lesson!"
"Pa pa pa"
Another round of slaps like a violent storm came down.
“Woo woo woo! Woo woo woo! Woo woo woo…”
The man shook his body vigorously, trying desperately to break free, but he didn't know how the old lady Gao Cuifen was so strong. Her legs seemed to be made of iron, clamping him tightly. He couldn't open his mouth and could only make whimpering sounds in his throat to beg for mercy.
"Lao Gao, stop it and let them talk!" Yao Dazui, who came out from behind the low wall, saw this scene and hurriedly stopped Gao Cuifen's actions.
"Wow, wow, wow..." Tears of gratitude welled up in the man's eyes.
Oh my God, finally someone came out to stop this crazy old lady!
"Ah? Oh." Gao Cuifen let go of her hand.
She stood aside, swinging her arms. Even though she was the one hitting others, she wasn't having an easy time either!
He slapped her repeatedly just now, and her hands must have hurt!
The man being beaten: Wuuuuu, wuuuuuu, you still feel the pain?
Yao Dazui walked forward with a flashlight, wanting to ask the man what he was doing there, but as soon as she got closer, before she could even ask, she gasped.
“Oh my god!”
The man had messy hair, his cheeks were swollen on both sides, and were covered with red palm prints. His facial features were wrinkled in grievance, he was crying and snotting, and he looked extremely miserable.
Yao Dazui subconsciously took a step back and glared at Gao Cuifen beside him.
This damn old woman was so cruel that she was shocked.
Gao Cuifen looked indifferent.
Anyway, this man is sneaky and definitely not a good person. She beat him to punish evil and promote good. What's the point of beating him?
Yao Dazui's mouth twitched, and he turned his head helplessly and shifted his gaze back to the man.
"Ahem, now that you can speak, tell me. What's your name? Where do you live? And why are you sneaking into our alley so late at night?"
The man stammered, "Wuwu, my name is Song Chunsheng, I live next door, in the next alley, I come, I come... I come here to use the toilet..."
Gao Cuifen retorted, "Are you kidding me? Is it really necessary to look around like that when going to the bathroom? Besides, we ran into you last night and the night before. You can't say that you only came here to use the bathroom the other two days ago, right?"
Song Chunsheng: "I, I just came to the toilet..."
Gao Cuifen: "What's going on? You guys can't use the alley toilets anymore?"
She snorted coldly: "You'd better tell me the truth while I'm still talking to you in a nice tone, otherwise..."
She took advantage of the situation and pulled Shi Yue, who had just emerged from the restroom, saying, "You work at the machinery factory, too, right? Do you know who this is? The deputy chief of the security department! If you don't tell the truth, I'll have him arrest you and take you to the security department!"
Shi Yue:......?
"Don't, don't take me away, wuwuwu, I'll confess, I'll confess, wuwuwu..."
Song Chunsheng was a coward. When the word "Security Department" came out, he was frightened and started crying. He quickly begged for mercy: "I, I came to the toilet just to find a place to cry, sob, sob, sob..."
"What the hell?" Gao Cuifen was confused.
Song Chunsheng had been crying for most of the day, and she was already upset. When she heard this, her anger suddenly rose. She put her hands on her hips and glared, "Are you kidding me?"
She said, "Did you think I was joking when I said I'd arrest you? And you're still looking for a place to cry? You want to cry, but you can't cry at home, so you have to go out to the public toilet to cry? And you have to go to the toilet in our alley to cry?"
Seeing that she didn't believe him, Song Chunsheng cried even louder.
He wailed in grievance, "I'm not lying! I came out just to find a place to cry! Because my tigress wouldn't let me cry at home, she found the sound of my crying annoying! Whenever I cried, she would pick up a stick and beat me! She beat me until my body was covered in bruises and not a single spot was left unharmed!"
He became sadder and sadder as he spoke, tears streaming down his face. "Wow, I'm afraid of being discovered and laughed at by others. I don't even dare to go to the bathhouse. It's so hot now, so I don't dare to wear short sleeves. Wow..."
Well......
Everyone present was silent. They were just wondering why Song Chunsheng was still wearing a long-sleeved coat that wrapped himself up tightly in May. So it was because of this...
Song Chunsheng continued to cry: "Wuwuwu, it's not easy for me. The tigress won't let me cry at home, so I can only come out and hide in the men's bathroom to cry. As a result, people heard it, wuwuwu, and said that the men's bathroom is haunted, wuwuwu, but I'm not a ghost! Wuwuwu, they also said that they would catch the ghost in the men's bathroom, so I was scared and had to run out to your bathroom. As a result, the result..."
Gao Cuifen curled her lips. "Well, you're afraid the people in your alley will find out you're playing tricks, so you came to our alley? Ha, the people in our alley deserve to be in trouble with you, don't they?"
Song Chunsheng stiffened his pig-like face with tears on it.
Then he defended himself unconvincedly, "I just cried in the bathroom for a while, how can that be considered a nuisance?"
Yao Dazui: "Didn't everyone in your alley get scared by you and think the toilet was haunted?"
A few days ago, she heard people in the next alley whispering about ghost stories. The stories were so weird that the people in that alley were so scared that they didn't dare to go to the toilet at night!
Yao Dazui glanced at Song Chunsheng with disdain. Who could have thought that such a weird ghost story could be the result of a misunderstanding by such a coward!
Not to mention Yao Dazui, there was no one present who didn't dislike Song Chunsheng.
Gao Cuifen disliked Song Chunsheng because he wasn't a thief, and catching him wouldn't count as a meritorious service. Li Xiuying despised him because he didn't dare to speak when his wife was around, and called her a tigress behind her back. Shi Yue disliked him because he felt his tears and snot were embarrassing for his fellow men. Shi Qiushui simply disliked the man for wiping his tears and snot on himself when he cried, saying it was too shameful.
Everyone looked at Song Chunsheng with disgust, but Song Chunsheng seemed not to feel it and continued to sob.
"What's going on?" A voice that did not belong to anyone present suddenly sounded.
Shi Qiu Shui shuddered all over and was startled. She turned around and saw that it was Ma Yulan.
Although they were at the entrance of the alley, Song Chunsheng made so much noise that several nearby courtyards were alarmed. Ma Yulan, the responsible courtyard manager, hurried out to check the situation.
Shi Qiushui looked at Ma Yulan's puzzled face and said with a complicated expression: "Grandma Ma, we caught that mysterious man."
She pointed at Song Chunsheng, "That's him! But he's not a thief, he came..."
Ma Yulan was indeed well-informed. After hearing Qiu Shui's explanation of the whole story, she was only surprised for a moment.
Then she said with a serious expression: "Let me see the injuries on your body. They were caused by your wife beating you."
When Song Chunsheng heard this, he subconsciously folded his hands over his chest and shuddered, "What do you want to do?"
Ma Yulan rolled her eyes speechlessly, "What can I do? Can I take advantage of you?"
She was too lazy to talk nonsense with Song Chunsheng, so she just ripped open his collar. Maybe because he was too hot, Song Chunsheng was not wearing anything else under his coat, so she could see at a glance the scars of all sizes, both new and old on Song Chunsheng's body.
"hiss--"
She took a breath and asked, "You were beaten so badly, why didn't you ask the Women's Federation for help?"
"Women's Federation?" Song Chunsheng: "Why would a grown man like me go to the Women's Federation?"
Ma Yulan: "Regardless of gender, anyone who is experiencing domestic violence can seek intervention from the Women's Federation."
Last month, the Women’s Federation specifically mentioned this matter during its presentation at the street office. How come Song Chunsheng doesn’t know about it?
It seems that the street’s publicity is still not enough. She will have to talk to Director Wang of the street office about this matter tomorrow.
Ma Yulan sighed and said, "No matter who's behind it, or what the means are, as long as it's domestic violence, the Women's Federation will intervene. Go to the Women's Federation tomorrow, and they'll definitely help you teach your wife a lesson."
Song Chunsheng was as still as a log for a moment, then he shook his head frantically: "No, no, I can't go to the Women's Federation, I can't go!"
He resisted and said, "If others knew that a grown man like me was beaten like this by my wife, they would definitely laugh at me! It's too embarrassing. I don't want anyone to know!"
When these words came out, not only Ma Yulan, but also Gao Cuifen was speechless. She rolled her eyes and said, "Is your life more important, or your face? You have been beaten into such a state by your wife, and you still..."
"No, I'm not going to the Women's Federation, I'm not going to!" Song Chunsheng got up from the ground and said, "I won't bother with you about hitting me tonight, and you guys should stay out of my business!"
He said this and hurried to the next alley, disappearing in a flash.
Gao Cuifen muttered unconvincedly: "Hey, could it be that he originally wanted to get into a fight with me about me hitting him? I hit him because..."
"Okay, okay, Gao Cuifen, stop nagging." Li Xiuying said impatiently.
Gao Cuifen turned her head and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Li Xiuying: "How dare you ask me what happened? Tell me what you did tonight. You said you were catching a thief, but... "
Gao Cuifen said aggrievedly: "No, I didn't know it was like this before..."
"Alright, alright, stop talking. In my opinion, you're all wrong." Ma Yulan said seriously, "Didn't I tell you before that I would report this to the neighborhood committee office? What's the point of you still taking action without telling me?"
She warned earnestly, "Don't do this again next time. This time you just made a mistake, so it's okay, but what if next time you run into a really bad guy? What if he gets pushed into a corner and hurts you? You guys are all either old or young, and you're all women. You're really not afraid of getting into trouble, are you?"
Shi Yue:......?
Just ignored him, right?
Okay, okay, that’s great.
Ma Yulan kept nagging them for nearly twenty minutes before letting them go. When Shi Qiu Shui returned home, he still felt a buzzing in his ears.
First I listened to Song Chunsheng howling for half an hour, and then I listened to Ma Yulan chattering for another half an hour. How could it not be buzzing?
Shi Yue looked at the miserable Shi Qiu Shui, raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "So? Do you want to join in the fun next time?"
Shi Qiushui shook his head fiercely: "No, no, I won't join in the fun again."
Shi Yue tapped Shi Qiushui on the forehead: "You'd better do what you say."
How could he not understand his daughter? The biggest characteristic of his daughter is that she only remembers to eat and not to be beaten. Even though Shi Qiu Shui promised today, it will only last for three days at most. Once the three days are up, she will still join in the fun.
He shook his head and thought, forget it, it would be nice to let Shi Qiu Shui have three days of peace.
What Shi Yue didn't expect was that Shi Qiu Shui couldn't stay in peace for three days this time. On the second day, he followed Yao Dazui to join in the fun.
At that time, Shi Yue, who had just finished get off work, was bringing Shi Qiu Shui back from kindergarten. As soon as they entered the compound, they saw Yao Dazui running back in a hurry, shouting as he ran: "Lao Gao, Lao Li, go to the next alley to see what's going on. There's a commotion at Song Chunsheng's house!" She shouted as she entered the door, and quickly ran to the next alley again.
When Shi Qiushui heard this, he let go of Shi Yue's hand and ran after him on his short legs: "Grandma Yao, Grandma Yao, why is there a commotion at Song Chunsheng's house?"
Yao Dazui: "Because the Women's Federation just passed by!"
"ah?"
Shi Qiu Shui poked his cheek in confusion.
How could the Women's Federation get there?
Didn’t Song Chunsheng say that he wouldn’t contact the Women’s Federation?
Yao Dazui explained: "It was Lao Ma who came over."
"Oh oh oh." Shi Qiu Shui understood.
Grandma Ma is worthy of being the one in charge of the hospital. She is very responsible.
Shi Qiu Shui and Yao Dazui walked very quickly and soon arrived at the gate of the courtyard where Song Chunsheng lived in the next alley. Song Chunsheng's courtyard was much larger than Courtyard No. 28 where Shi Qiu Shui lived, but the courtyard was already full of people.
Yao Dazui, with great neighborly kindness, took Shi Qiu Shui into the crowd and, taking advantage of the age advantage of the old lady and the child, successfully squeezed into the front row.
She explained to Shi Qiushui, "So many people came here today because Old Ma called the police, the neighborhood committee office, and the Women's Federation here."
Shi Qiushui nodded: "Oh oh oh."
No wonder, she said there shouldn't be so many people normally.
The door of Song Chunsheng's house was wide open. In fact, this was not what the Song family wanted to keep open. The main reason was that the Song family's house was not big. There were seven or eight people from the Women's Federation of the Public Security Street Office, and together with the original few people in the Song family, there was no room for them in the house.
However, the open door made it convenient for those onlookers outside to come in. Shi Qiu Shui tiptoed to look inside, and the first person he saw was Song Chunsheng with a dark face and an old lady pulling Song Chunsheng's shoulders.
Shi Qiushui tugged at Yao Dazui's clothes and said, "Grandma Yao, who is that person?"
Yao Dazui took a look and said, "Oh, that's Song Chunsheng's mother, Old Mrs. Ding." She curled her lips and said, "She's not a good person. And that Song Chunsheng, he's not a good person either."
Shi Qiushui asked curiously, "Ah, what's going on?"
Yao Dazui said, "I was bored today and came here to ask around. Song Chunsheng and his mother favored sons over daughters, and it was a particularly serious case of son preference. That old woman Ding gave birth to four daughters. Except for the eldest daughter, who she kept, the other three were either sold or killed shortly after giving birth. And the eldest daughter, even though she kept her, she didn't have a good life either. From the age of three, she was treated like a babysitter. When she grew up, she married her off to the countryside. She asked for a four-digit betrothal gift. It was said to be a marriage, but in fact, it was no different from selling her."
She curled her lips and said, "And that Song Chunsheng, he's just as cruel as his mother. Isn't it the family planning policy that only allows one child? When his wife gave birth to his daughter, he saw that it was a girl and immediately wanted to kill the child. Fortunately, the nurse on the ward rounds discovered him and stopped him."
Shi Qiu Shui cast an angry look at the Song family, feeling deeply ashamed for having pitied Song Chunsheng last night!
People like this deserve to be beaten!
If she had a husband like this, she would beat him severely!
"Son! That little bitch beat you up like this, why didn't you tell me?"
A shrill roar was heard. Shi Qiu Shui looked curiously and found that the person who shouted was the old lady Ding in the house.
She frowned in confusion. Hey, doesn’t Old Mrs. Ding know that her son is being abused by her daughter-in-law?
It's normal for outsiders not to know about this, but it's a bit unreasonable that even Mrs. Ding, who lives under the same roof, doesn't know about this, right?
Is it that Mrs. Ding doesn't care enough about her son, or is it that Song Chunsheng is particularly good at covering it up?
Well, probably not the former.
The heartache on Old Mrs. Ding's face didn't seem fake.
"Hey." Shi Qiushui noticed the cold woman standing across from Old Mrs. Ding and Song Chunsheng, and asked curiously, "Grandma Yao, is that Song Chunsheng's wife?"
Yao Dazui nodded: "Yes, it's her."
Shi Qiushui shook his head: "It really doesn't look like it."
She said it didn't seem like that because the woman's expression was extremely cold. Whether she was facing Song Chunsheng or Old Mrs. Ding, she seemed like a bystander rather than a family member.
Moreover, the woman was thin and petite, with not a trace of extra fat on her face. She looked like she had not had enough to eat for years, and did not look like someone who could domestic abuse a grown man like Song Chunsheng.
Not only Shi Qiu Shui thought so, but everyone present, including the police and Women's Federation staff who came to investigate, thought so.
Just when everyone was wondering if there was any hidden secret, Old Lady Ding made a move and pounced on Song Chunsheng's wife, Li Juan, with her teeth and claws bared.
"You shameless little slut, you lowly bitch, how dare you lay hands on my son! I let you do it! Today I must let you know how powerful I am! Damn..."
Old Mrs. Ding was very foul-mouthed and her curses were extremely harsh. She was also very cruel. She slapped Li Juan with her shriveled hand, and then punched Li Juan hard on the chest.
The female comrades present all frowned. It was painful enough just to watch. This old woman was so cruel!
However, Li Juan is not the type of person who waits to be beaten.
"Pa——" She slapped Old Mrs. Ding in the face with her backhand.
Old Mrs. Ding was stunned by the beating. Li Juan seized the opportunity, gritted her teeth and pounced on her to fight with her.
After seeing how she beat him, the people present finally understood why a thin woman like Li Juan could beat Song Chunsheng so badly.
Because Li Juan really doesn't care about her life when fighting!
She pounced on Old Mrs. Ding without any rules or moves. She hit wherever she saw and wherever she could hit, whether it was her hands, feet, arms or legs, she used everything she could, and beat Old Mrs. Ding with a hammer whenever she caught her.
Even though Old Mrs. Ding had finally reacted and grabbed her hair, she didn't care and just kept beating Old Mrs. Ding.
"You, let go, let me go..."
At first, Old Mrs. Ding could still speak arrogantly, but as Li Juan's fists continued to fall, her voice became smaller and smaller, and in the end, only a weak plea for mercy remained: "Juan'er, please stop hitting me, I, I beg you, please stop hitting me, please, Juan'er..."
Seeing Li Juan's eyes red with anger, the police officers present couldn't just ignore it. They quickly stepped forward to stop the fight: "Stop it, stop it! Comrade Li Juan, calm down!"
People from the Women's Federation, the Street Office, and the neighbors in this courtyard are also trying to persuade us.
"Li Juan, stop hitting me! If you keep going, someone will die!"
"Juan'er, if you really beat your mother-in-law to death, you will be the one in trouble!"
"That's right, it's not worth it to sacrifice my whole life for such an old hag!"
"Yes, Juan'er, think about your daughter. If you beat your mother-in-law to death and sent her to jail, wouldn't Song Nan be left without a mother?"
When she heard her daughter's name, the madness in Li Juan's eyes gradually subsided, and she calmed down a lot. She finally let go of Old Mrs. Ding.
Old Mrs. Ding was freed and immediately escaped using her hands and feet.
Damn it, she had no idea that Li Juan could fight so fiercely before. She was really scared.
She staggered to the side of the public security officer who made her feel the safest, hugged his thigh and started to howl: "Public security comrades, you all saw it just now, Li Juan hit me, look at what she did to me, my arms, my legs, my back..."
She was not ashamed at all. She directly ripped open her clothes, pointed here and there and said, "Comrades of the Public Security Bureau, you have to take charge for me. You have to arrest Li Juan, the crazy woman who beat people. You have to..."
Shi Qiu Shui didn't like this old woman and deliberately tried to sabotage her.
"But, wasn't it you, grandma, who hit Auntie first?"
Shi Qiu Shui's crisp voice interrupted Old Mrs. Ding's pity talk. When Old Mrs. Ding heard this, she looked at Shi Qiu Shui fiercely with her triangular eyes.
Shi Qiu Shui looked back fearlessly with her belly bulging.
"Hmph!" Old Mrs. Ding snorted coldly and turned to look at the police officer. "But Li Juan also beat my son! My son never beat her!"
She pointed at the people gathered in the yard and said, "Comrades, if you don't believe me, you can ask the people in our yard. They can all prove that my son never hit Li Juan!"
Shi Qiu Shui complained in his heart: You live with your daughter-in-law, but you don’t even know that your daughter-in-law beats your son. How can outsiders know whether your son has beaten your daughter-in-law?
It's a pity that Old Mrs. Ding couldn't hear what was going on in Shi Qiushui's heart. She was still muttering, "Look at all the bruises on my son's body. I don't know why he didn't satisfy Li Juan, but Li Juan beat him like this. It's really pitiful. As a mother, I feel heartbroken just watching..."
"Oh, I beat him because he deserved it!"
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