Chapter 377: Quibbling, Closing the School
"No, no, sir, I didn't!"
Chen is not stupid. Village Chief Zhao and Shen Xiangwan are all here. How could she possibly admit it?
"roll!"
"Snap..."
"ah!"
The black man slapped her hard in the face with his backhand. Chen staggered several steps to the side, and her face became swollen. The people around her couldn't help but point fingers at them again, but there were also a few people who looked at Shen Xiangwan and the Wei family with ambiguous expressions. It was obvious that they were suspicious of something, but they didn't dare to say it in front of her. After all, their children were still studying in the Wei family school.
"I can testify that everything Xiao Zhou said is true."
"We can too!"
Seeing that the woman was still trying to deny it, Wu Lixiu stepped forward first, followed by Zhou Changyun and others. Zhao Dashan's face was extremely ugly. "Fourth Uncle, this matter was caused by your granddaughter-in-law. What do you think we should do?"
"this···"
The man he called Fourth Uncle looked to be in his sixties or seventies, with wrinkles all over his face and a hunched back. He didn't know what to do for a moment and kept looking at Shen Xiangwan and his wife.
"You jinx, you think you can steal the things of the Wei family's children? Boss, beat me up. If you kill me, I'll find you a new wife."
A woman in her forties suddenly jumped out, pointing at Chen and cursing furiously, wishing she could skin her alive. Were the Wei family someone they could mess with? Who had given her the guts to steal something from a Wei child? And she even dared to slander the Wei family. Did she want to destroy them all?
"No, mother, I was wrong, I know I was wrong, Goudan, please help me beg your milk!"
Hearing this, Chen ignored the pain in her cheek and crawled over to her knees, hugging the woman's legs. Before this, she really didn't expect the matter to become so serious. In the past, she had relied on throwing tantrums to gain advantages in the village. Under such circumstances, she subconsciously thought that as long as she made a fuss, she would definitely get a lot of benefits. But she never dreamed that before the Wei family had even said anything, her mother-in-law would speak first, and even asked her husband to beat her to death and then marry another one. How could this be possible? They were living a good life now, and she didn't want to be beaten to death.
"Milk···"
"Shut up, I really love you for nothing."
Gou'er was about to open his mouth, but the woman glared back at him fiercely. She was not stupid. If she didn't give the Wei family an explanation, how could they let it go?
"Village Chief Zhao, is there anyone in their family helping me?"
Too lazy to watch their big show, Shen Xiangwan turned directly to Zhao Dashan without even calling him Uncle Zhao, obviously wanting to get serious.
"Yes, two are in the sorghum wine workshop, and one is in the papermaking workshop."
Zhao Dashan frowned barely noticeably and couldn't help but sigh deeply. He really didn't expect that they would actually make trouble in front of Shen Xiangwan.
"Yuan Ying, ask their names later and let them pay and leave."
"yes."
Shen Xiangwan made the decision without much thought. Yuan Ying bowed and accepted the order. The people from the Zhao family looked up in disbelief. The old man who Zhao Dashan had previously called Fourth Uncle said hurriedly, "No, Madam Wei, it's all Chen's fault. I will have the eldest brother and his family divorce her. Please don't implicate anyone else."
"No, I don't mean to force you to divorce your wife."
Looking up into his eyes, Shen Xiangwan's tone was unexpectedly calm. After finishing her words, she scanned the crowd one by one, "Uncle Yi, starting today, the school will be closed indefinitely. I've invested money and effort in it. Even if I can't cultivate any great talents, at least it should be upright and honest. But now, there's someone who openly robbed others and unreasonably bit the victim. I don't think this school needs to continue."
"What?!"
As soon as Shen Xiangwan finished speaking, everyone, including Wei Chengyi, Wei Jingyi, Zhao Yuping and others, couldn't help but widen their eyes. Was she going to knock everyone down with one blow?
The Zhao family suddenly felt as if the world was dark and gloomy. Shen Xiangwan's move was undoubtedly targeting them. When those people realized that it was their family that caused their children to have no education, wouldn't they be blamed to death? How would they go out and see people in the future?
"Not Wanwan..."
"Uncle Yi, I have made up my mind!"
Wei Jingyi was about to admonish her, but Shen Xiangwan didn't give him a chance to finish. Her tone seemed calm, but her attitude was extremely tough. With her keen eyes, how could she not see that many people present had been provoked and had formed some opinions about the Wei family? Since they hated the rich and believed that the Wei family was hypocritical and bullying, if she didn't confirm it, wouldn't it be a great disappointment to their expectations?
At the same time, this can be regarded as killing the chicken to scare the monkey, so that others will not really think that the Wei family is easy to bully. If all kinds of cats and dogs come to make trouble, she does not have so much time to argue with them.
No one had expected that Shen Xiangwan would close the entire school just because of a shrew's crying. After the news spread, not only Yong'an Village, but also several nearby villages were shocked. Some people with more flexible brains had guessed that Shen Xiangwan closed the school not only because of Chen's mother and son, but more people still blamed everything on them.
Suddenly she became the target of public criticism, and her family members were fired. That was a job that paid one or two taels of silver per person per month. Zhao Si's family was so angry that they wanted to divorce Chen, but Chen dragged her son with her to cry and refused to leave. The family was in chaos. The Chen family, who had always supported her, kept silent this time because they also had children studying in school.
"Wanwan, do we really have to keep the school closed?"
After lunch, Wei Jingyi and Wei Jinghan found Shen Xiangwan. They still felt something was wrong. The one who made the mistake was Chen's mother and son, and it had nothing to do with others. It seemed a bit too much to blame everyone for the mistake.
"How can it really be shut down forever? Uncle Yi, Uncle Han, don't be anxious, let me explain it to you slowly."
Knowing they would definitely come, Shen Xiangwan invited them to sit down and personally poured them a cup of cold tea. "You saw what happened earlier. Those onlookers, don't they know that Chen is wrong? Do they know, have they ever said a fair word? I don't think I have done anything wrong to my fellow villagers. Even the children from other villages only receive a symbolic twenty coins every month for writing materials. How do they repay my kindness? I don't need them to flatter me everywhere, but at least they shouldn't stand by and watch the show, or even develop the same hatred of the rich as Chen, thinking that I am just a hypocrite."
At this point, Shen Xiangwan paused. Closing the school wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, but rather the result of careful consideration. Would any other wealthy family dare to be so blatantly hostile to the rich? Ultimately, she was being too merciful. There were some tactics she didn't necessarily have to use, but they were necessary. This time, she'd teach them a lesson. Otherwise, there would be plenty of brainless people like the Chen family popping up in the future. How would she have the time to argue with them one by one?
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